The Materials Briefcases are useful tools for teachers who decide to engage children through teaching with play. In fact, school play is a powerful and effective tool for strengthening children’s cognitive functions, for their socialization and for building skills.
All children enjoy having time to play without having to worry about being evaluated by the teacher. Play is a pleasant and self-motivating activity which, if proposed in an organized and conscientious way, becomes an inclusive educational tool that values the specific diversity present in the classroom.
All of The Materials Briefcases include tools, colored papers, illustrated cards, games and game boards to be used in primary school classes to create workshops and activities which facilitate learning and promote the well-being of all students.
The briefcases help to tackle various topics: Italian, mathematics, logic and observation, narration of stories and legends, geography, acceptance and inclusion, token economy and social relations.
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The Cloudmaker’s Briefcase
The Cloudmaker’s Briefcase offers interdisciplinary activities (Mathematics, history, science, art, technology, literature) to be carried out with primary school children, with the aim of transforming daily teaching into innovative lessons through the use of artistic and visual techniques, and thanks to the use of technology.
Created by: Centro Zaffiria, Alessandra Falconi
The Artist’s Briefcase
Born from the collaboration between Hervé Tullet and Alessandra Falconi, is the ideal tool for designing graphic-visual play experiences to be offered in the classroom and cultivating the artist present in every child!
Created by: Centro Zaffiria, Alessandra Falconi, Hervé Tullet
Inspector Numbers’ Briefcase
The games are intended to integrate the didactics of primary school mathematics teaching in a playful and engaging way. The narrative context favours communication and cooperation between classmates who must try to solve the mysterious cases together.
Created by: Silvana Poli, Daniela Lucangeli, Adriana Molin, Nicoletta Perini
The Guess What Briefcase
The Guess What Briefcase contains a series of games in which students challenge each other on observation, logic skills, mathematical and linguistic knowledge. The activities, designed for second and third grades of primary school, involve a large number of players.
Created by: Flavio Fogarolo
The Narrator’s Briefcase
The Narrator’s Briefcase aims to stimulate the ability to create stories and build narrations, thanks to a collection of materials inspired by decorations and ornaments from cultures from all over the world.
Created by: Centro Zaffiria
The Geographer’s Briefcase
A collection of useful materials for guiding primary school children though a series of activities for exploring geography. The Geographer’s Briefcase is designed to raise children’s awareness of the characteristics of the landscape in terms of environmental education and responsible citizenship.
Created by: Centro Zaffiria
The Briefcase for Starting Off First Grade
The Briefcase for Starting Off…First Grade helps students to serenely start the first few months of primary school, thanks to a series of workshops that encourage cooperation and emotional awareness.
Created by: Desirèe Rossi and Anna Marinelli
The Briefcase for starting off… right
The briefcase for starting off…right contains everything teachers need for starting the school year off right. The materials contained in the briefcase stimulate the social skills and motivation of students in 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th grades of primary school.
Created by: Desirèe Rossi and Anna Marinelli
The Rewards Briefcase
Based on the principles of the token economy, The Rewards Briefcase helps teachers to better structure the intervention in the classroom, encouraging and assisting children to improve their behaviour.
Created by: Fabio Celi and Jonathan Lisci
Teacher Larissa’s English Briefcase
This briefcase comes with fun games of varying difficulty levels to allow primary school children to acquire, consolidate and improve their English language skills, both in groups or autonomously.
Created by: Lara Carnovali
Teacher Larissa’s Briefcase
The different activities included in Teacher Larissas’s briefcase offer a fun and stimulating approach to the world of reading and writing, covering some of the main teaching objectives in language for years one and two of primary school.
Created by: Lara Carnovali
Teacher Larissa’s Mathematics Briefcase
Dedicated to children in first and second year of primary school, Teacher Larissa’s Mathematics Briefcase offers many games and activities which aim to engage and entertain while dealing with mathematical concepts.
Created by: Lara Carnovali