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Pair-based activities for primary school
Product: Book
Trim size in cm: 21x29,7cm
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9788859042518
Publication date: 01/01/2026
Suitable for: Primary 2nd level (ages 8-10)
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A teaching workbook designed to be used in pairs, containing 39 activities in Italian language, history and geography developed according to the principles of cooperative learning. The worksheets are completed by two pupils sitting opposite each other. Each pair works on the same activity with two different tasks: Worksheet A, more advanced, and Worksheet B, simplified. The two versions complement each other, encouraging individual responsibility and positive interdependence.
Each worksheet is enriched with a visual key and a table that gradually guides the learning path, combining subject-specific and socio-emotional objectives.
Introduction
What is cooperative learning?
TANDEM: what it looks like
TANDEM: how to use it
Self-assessment
Italian / Language
• Worksheet 1A – Realistic narrative text
• Worksheet 1B – Fantasy narrative text
• Worksheet 2A/B – Descriptive text
• Worksheet 3A/B – Poetic text
• Worksheet 4A – Informative text
• Worksheet 4B – Instructional text
• Worksheet 5A/B – The letter
• Worksheet 6A/B – The diary
• Worksheet 7A/B – Introduction to summarising: the summary
• Worksheet 8A/B – Use of the letter “H”
• Worksheet 9A/B – The verbs to be and to have
• Worksheet 10A/B – The indicative mood
• Worksheet 11A/B – Phrases
• Worksheet 12A/B – Verbal and nominal predicates
• Worksheet 13A/B – Direct and indirect speech
History
• Worksheet 1A/B – Historical sources
• Worksheet 2A/B – The historian’s helpers
• Worksheet 3A/B – The birth of the Earth: the Big Bang
• Worksheet 4A/B – Fossils
• Worksheet 5A/B – Dinosaurs
• Worksheet 6A/B – Australopithecus
• Worksheet 7A/B – The Palaeolithic
• Worksheet 8A/B – Homo habilis
• Worksheet 9A/B – Homo erectus and Homo sapiens
• Worksheet 10A/B – Homo neanderthalensis
• Worksheet 11A/B – Homo sapiens
• Worksheet 12A/B – The Neolithic
• Worksheet 13A/B – The invention of writing
Geography
• Worksheet 1A/B – The geographer and their helpers
• Worksheet 2A/B – Environments: physical and human features
• Worksheet 3A/B – Reference points and cardinal directions
• Worksheet 4A/B – Introduction to scale reduction
• Worksheet 5A/B – Maps and charts
• Worksheet 6A/B – Mountains
• Worksheet 7A/B – Volcanoes
• Worksheet 8A/B – Hills
• Worksheet 9A/B – Plains
• Worksheet 10A/B – The city
• Worksheet 11A/B – The river
• Worksheet 12A/B – The lake
• Worksheet 13A/B – The sea
Worksheet A - More advanced
Worksheet B - Simplified
HOW WORKSHEETS ARE STRUCTURED:
Each activity has two objectives: one curricular and one socio-emotional. The objectives are shown at the beginning of each page through a set of icons:
Active listening
Taking turns
Respecting other’s opinions
Expressing one’s own opinion
Asking for help
Offering help
Recognising other’s strenghts
Reaching an agreement
A helmet-shaped label to write the pupil’s name on
Each worksheet contains between 2 and 4 activities, indicated by asymbol
At the end of each page, there is a small space dedicated to each child’s self-assessment.
THE WORKBOOKS
THE AUTHORS
Benedetta Zagni. Developmental and Educational Psychologist. Trainer and doctoral student in Psychological Sciences (DPSS – University of Padua) in collaboration with the Erickson Study Center. She deals with emotional well-being at school, cooperative learning, recognition and valorization of differences in the class. Annamaria Benzi. Expert in formative assessment, she has always used active and innovative teaching methodologies. She is an e-teacher educator and a trainer for Scuola di Robotica and AssoEpict, specialising in digital education and educational robotics. Eugenia Cognigni. Primary school teacher, with a degree in Primary Education Sciences and a specialisation in learning support from the University of Macerata.
