- Tuesday 26 March 2024
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With Easter just around the corner, you might be wondering how to incorporate Easter learning into your classroom.
There are two simple ways to approach this — thematic teaching and individual activities. In today’s article, we’re sharing how you can teach using both approaches.
Thematic teaching
Like many seasonal holidays and global topics of interest, Easter is a fantastic opportunity to incorporate thematic teaching into the classroom.
Thematic teaching involves using one theme across cross-curricular activities for a duration of time. For example, you might implement a ‘travel’ theme for four weeks, and incorporate activities that focus on travel for each subject area.
Themes are beneficial for many reasons:
- Relevance and engagement – by choosing topics that are relevant and interesting to students, you increase student engagement, motivation, and connection to the material.
- Cross-curricular learning – themes allow students to explore topics from multiple perspectives, encouraging a more comprehensive and interdisciplinary approach to learning and exposing them to broader context.
- Increased learning retention – learning within a thematic framework helps students anchor more information into their memory, since it’s all connected to a central theme.
- Simpler lesson planning – by connecting every subject to one theme, it makes it easier to decide what you’re going to be focusing on for the next duration of time and align activities accordingly.
Easter resources to support thematic teaching:
Quick themes – Easter
This book contains a variety of exciting activities such as Easter recipes, Easter maths games, word fun, and Easter art and craft.
It also covers many areas of the curriculum such as English, mathematics, science, as well as health and physical education, providing a variety of cross-curricular learning opportunities.
The big book of Easter
This book includes a range of fun activities and worksheets (including puppet making, masks, cards, word sleuths, word study, and more) all designed to teach fundamental skills while staying on the topic of Easter!
Cross-curricular learning areas include language, mathematics, as well as art and craft.
Individual worksheets
If you’d rather focus on individualised learning experience to bring the magic of Easter into your classroom, you can still incorporate the topic using individual activities.
There’s lots of creative ways to use individual activities to teach a subject area:
- Personalised learning – individual activities allow students to progress at their own pace and caters to diverse learning styles and abilities.
- Increased engagement – lots of individual activities can include hands-on tasks, projects, research and crafts, and therefore encourage active participation in learning.
- Differentiation – teachers can easily differentiate instruction to meet the varied needs of students by tailoring tasks and materials based on students’ readiness levels and learning profiles.
Easter resources to support individual activities:
Easter Bilby - An Australian Easter
Designed to meet the need for truly Australian Easter materials, this boldline master will help you introduce the concept of an Easter Bilby to students and incorporate activities across various curriculum areas.
Included are hands-on activities, educational worksheets, mazes, word searches, and more.
An Aussie Easter – A celebration down-under
On the topic of truly Australian Easter materials, these two teacher resource books continue the mission by including Easter activities with a uniquely Australian focus.
Included are cross-curricular, ‘Aussie’ Easter traditions, customs, symbols, songs and poems, as well as recipes, decorations, stories, and more.
Bring Easter learning into your classroom – shop our Easter resource range!