Teaching Treasures

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Teaching Treasures™ brings to you thousands of unique teaching tools, interactive activities, educational online games, projects, printable worksheets and many other educational resources helping educators with their daily task of teaching students in the classroom. The exciting learning adventure in any classroom relies on useful teaching tools but more so on innovative teaching strategies therefore we believe in active learning (not passive learning), critical thinking, discussion strategies, and experiential learning.

Games, Experiments and Simulations are wonderful rich learning environments for students of all ages. Students today are growing up playing games and using interactive tools such as the Internet, mobile phones, iPod, iPad, Nintendo, xBox and many more devices. The idea of using games and simulations is for students to solve real-world problems in a safe environment and enjoy themselves while doing so. Make sure these activities are limited and don't consume critical study time in literacy and numeracy using the old fashion method of pen and paper.

Downloadable Printable Worksheets in the form of eBooks are available while the teaching training tools and teaching supplies have been designed to encourage enjoyment in general education, research skills, thought process, and collaborative and cooperative learning. Collaborative and cooperative learning are very much of an instructional approach in which students work together in small groups in order to accomplish a common learning goal. This strategy needs to be carefully planned and does not require permanently formed groups although some teachers have done so in the past. It will also assist learners who need extra help with reading or writing. Our materials will strongly assist educators to plan and implement their collaborative and cooperative learning strategy so why not enhance your current literacy and numeracy educational training program!

Printable Educational Tools (P.E.T) is an area much like the Teaching Tools area where you can view real examples of our products. In the Teaching Tools area you will find thousands of unique printable worksheets that come with helpful teacher notes, answers & extra suggested activities; note: some of the tools also refer to online interactive activities. The resources are listed in learning areas such as ages 5 to 13 or Years K-10. Also take a peek at our Learning Tool Concept. The above teaching strategies are just a few of many which educators can implement within the classroom. Feel free to browse through this site and discover many challenging ideas to enhance your teaching career.

A University Teaching Degree is sometimes just not enough to bring about that change required for your students to succeed. Sometimes teachers need a little help and hopefully you will find something useful on this web site. In addition to all the educational materials and teaching supplies that can be purchased from our web site, we provide link pages to other sites that provide many other helpful online resources, offer teaching courses or teaching degrees to improve or start your teaching career.

Educators and students should enjoy the many online interactive activities, projects, lesson plan ideas, worksheets and many other facets of our site. Please take your time and have a good look around as this site is very large and covers many key learning areas with fun learning supplies and educational games. There are many worksheets for Kindergarten, Primary and High School (public and private) students covering English, Health, Art, Maths, Science, Society and Environment, Languages other than English (LOTE) and Technology. Australian States are also covered with worksheets on the Garden State, First State, State of Excitement, Nation's Capital, Sunshine State, Festival State, Holiday Isle and Outback Australia. Australian State emblem web site links are provided to assist students. You will also find four great worksheets which complement our Solar Project for students ages 11-15.

Free Resources & Free Printable Worksheets are difficult to find these days and not everything is suitable so sometimes it is better to buy what you really want instead of searching for hours for more free stuff. Students with learning difficulties need experiential learning which is an approach to today's education focusing on "learning by doing," or what many call hands-on learning, the hands-on approach. The teaching strategy is for the educator to design "direct experiences" and should include preparatory and reflective exercises. Learn by doing such as playing educational games, experimenting with different materials or simulating a situation.