Key Stage 3 Resources
Lots of support here to help you to teach the kids to learn with embedded learning. Let your kids imagination run wild with Build a Bus (they can even print their creations off to take home), get them to make a virtual representations of themselves to take around DingDing and look at stereotyping (Citizenship) with 'Who's the Driver'.
We've developed a series of educational modules that you can use individually or in various combinations as you require. You can view the teachers overview, notes, kids worksheets and online and offline activities by downloading the PDF's.
To read or print documents in PDF format, you may need to download Adobe Reader from www.adobe.com (off-site link)
Mathematics / Mathematics & ICT / Human and physical geography / Science / Chemistry
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Little Planet
- Little Planet (PDF: 180k)
How many elephants does it take to get you to school? It's amazing, but out of the 3.2 million secondary school children in England, a staggering 24% are driven an average of 3.5 miles to school. So in total, that's a whopping (erm… gets out calculator…)
24% of 3,200,000 students = 768,000 students x 3.5 miles = 2,688,000 school miles EVERY. SINGLE. DAY!
To find out just how big your carbon footprints are, and to discover what small steps you could take to save our little planet, visit littleplanet.org.uk - or just click on the link in the DingDing town.
Art & Design / ICT
See also the Ticketing special resources
ICT
- What Can You See? (PDF: 81k)
Citizenship
Citizenship helps pupils develop knowledge and understanding about becoming informed citizens, develop skills of enquiry and communication and encourages participation and responsible action.
- Overview / Scheme of Work (PDF: 81k)
- How DingDing Relates to the Curriculum (PDF: 68k)
- Public Transport in the UK (PDF: 199k)
- Public Transport in your Region (PDF: 813k)
- Transport and the Population (PDF: 315k)
- Respect (PDF: 290k)
- The Transport Debate (PDF: 101k)
- The Future of Public Transport (PDF: 220k)
- A2B (PDF: 81k)
- Certificate (PDF: 55k)
Transport History
- No Anorak Required (script) (PDF: 131k)
- No Anorak Required (history) (PDF: 1.9MB)