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Teachers' Resources

Lesson plans cover: Careers / PHSE / Maths / English / Geography / History / Art

Welcome to the Teachers resources. We hope these are useful and can help little minds explore and think anything possible. For every story we have created a range of lesson plans and activity sheets to enable Teachers to provide fun educational lessons.

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Maritime lesson plans

Art & Design

by Loxie

Art has always played an important role in the maritime world, from

designing ships and navigational tools to creating logos, signage, and

promotional materials for trade and tourism.

Careers/PHSE

by BamBam

Through activities exploring job roles, skills development and businesses across the Liverpool City Region, pupils can make connections to understand local industry and commerce and their future opportunities, aspirations and next steps. 

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English

by Slo mo

 The Animates: River of Life provides opportunities for pupils to develop their English skills by engaging with the language and imagery connected to Merseyside’s maritime heritage. Its use of rhythm, rhyme, and metaphor offers a foundation for discussing different writing techniques and encourages pupils to reflect on how language can convey emotions.

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Geography

by Stretch

 he Animates: River of Life provides opportunities for pupils to develop their geography knowledge and understanding by exploring concepts linked to Merseyside’s maritime industry.  Through activities exploring their locational and place knowledge and physical geography, pupils can make connections between the maritime industries and other sectors.

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Introduction

by Sea Dog

This story celebrates our area’s rich heritage and the people who helped shape it, from shipbuilders and dock workers to sailors and innovators. The Animates: River of Life is a story about the maritime industry in the Liverpool City Region. 

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History

by Muse

 The Animates: River of Life provides opportunities for pupils to develop their history and heritage understanding by exploring concepts linked to Merseyside’s maritime industries and their heritage. Through activities exploring local historic events and places across the Liverpool City Region, pupils can make connections to understand how instrumental our maritime industries and sector have been in shaping the history and heritage of our city.

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Maths

by Coco

 The Animates: River of Life provides opportunities for pupils to develop their mathematical skills by exploring concepts linked to Merseyside’s maritime heritage. Through activities involving distances, weight and measures, time and data handling, pupils can make meaningful connections between maths and the real world, using the context of shipping, travel, and trade to apply their learning in practical and engaging ways.

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Activity sheets

Compass
worksheet

Cargo worksheet

Training shoe
colouring sheet

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Songs & videos

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The Animates theme tune

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The River of Life Shanty

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Liverpool reaction to
The Animates

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Book reading: Learning in Liverpool

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Virtual Workshops

Create your own Animates workshop

the animates crash land into the knowledge quarter liverpool and have amission to get back to space visitng all the science and technology organisations within the back to space visitng all the science and technology organisations within the kq  to help them

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Songs & videos

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The Animates theme tune

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The River of Life Shanty

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Liverpool reaction to
The Animates

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Book reading: Learning in Liverpool

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