A range of examples for use with a digital projector to help engage and focus pupils the moment they first enter the room. This will occupy them while waiting for all the pupils to arrive and minimise opportunities for distraction and disruption.

What do you think is happening here?

Which layer of the rainforest does

this creature live and why??

If you saw this twister heading your way what might you say to yourself?

?

Who is this?

What are they doing?

They must be mad!!

?

What do you think the sign says?

?

What is the cartoonists trying to say about world development?

Explain the link

between our current topic and

the cartoon.

‘The weather seems to have taken a turn for the better’

Did you know that there are more insects in a

100m² of Tropical rainforest than there are

human beings on the planet.

             

   

                

The Go-Go frog of South America is the only known animal that regularly eats parts of its own body. When food is in short supply it is quite common for this small amphibian to eat three of its legs in a day. The legs usually grown back again within 4 or 5 hours.

•If the population of China walked past you in single file, the line would never end because of the rate of reproduction There are more

telephones on the island of Manhattan than there are on the African continent.