{"title":"Home page","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"target-1000-pockets","title":"Target 1000 pockets","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e*Price excludes GST. GST will be added at checkout. Free shipping within Australia.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBack in 2003 my mum helped me sew the pockets together for the ‘prototype’ for what is now known as the ‘Target 1000 pockets’. I trialled this resources in my own classroom over 5 years and every year it successfully helped my students to gain a deep understanding of place value.  \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEver since I have been sharing the ‘Target 1000 pockets’ idea with teachers through my PD sessions. Every time I share it, teachers ask if I could save the ‘sewing’ time and create a version that they could buy, so after 21 years… it is finally here!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e‘Target 1000’ centres around you setting the challenge for your class to collect 1000 bottle tops so as to help reduce the amount of landfill in Australia (and as an added bonus have a daily review of counting and place value!). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eDid you know that often items smaller than a credit card (for example bottle top lids) cannot be recycled in Australia and therefore become landfill?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThe Target 1000 pockets enable your class to organise and display the bottle tops they collect over the year. Students are encouraged to recycle bottle tops- HPPE #2 or HPPE #5 yoghurt lids from their house and bring them into the classroom. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEach day, usually just before the end of the day bell, I would ask my students to bring out the bottle tops they had collected and we would use the ‘Target 1000’ pockets to count them. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eFirst we would fill the blue ‘ones’ pockets. Then when we filled 10 ‘ones’ pockets we would rename them as ‘1 ten’ and place them in a red ‘tens’ pocket. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eEach day we would update the number flip chat (included with the product) to represent the number of lids. The following day we would repeat the process. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOnce we filled 10 red ‘tens’ pockets we would then transfer them to the individual ‘1 ten’ pockets and place them in the yellow ‘hundred’ pocket. Placing the ten full ‘1 ten’ pockets in the ‘hundred’ pocket was a great visual reminder that within 1 hundred there are 10 tens and within each ten there are 10 ones. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis was a brilliant way to create a concrete representation for the notoriously abstract idea of renaming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eOver the year we built our collection and eventually reached our target of 1000 bottle tops.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eA couple of my classes were so enthusiastic they wanted to keep going beyond 1000! \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBack in the day I placed all 1000 lids in a photocopy paper box marked ‘1 thousand’ but you can use the bag provided to house the 1000 lids. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eThis product allows you to run a practical, simple, visual daily review of critical place value ideas in your classroom. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003ePS: If you are wondering what to do with the bottle tops once you have finished collecting them, in Australia we have a wonderful initiative called the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/banish.com.au\/blogs\/how-to\/what-brad-does-and-doesnt-accept\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBanish Recycling And Disposal Program\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003e (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eBRAD) which happily collects and recycles HPPE #2,#4 and #5 lids. You can simply send the lids in a photocopy paper box to BRAD and they will recycle the lids and turn them into amazing plastic items such as plates, bowls and pens!\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions: 216cm x 60 cm (pockets)\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eIncludes: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400;\"\u003eNylon Carry Bag, 100 x ‘1 ten pockets’ (16cm x 8cm), 4 x reinforced eyehook holes, 4 x sticky hooks 1 x place value column flip chart\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Numeracy Teachers Academy","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402875248943,"sku":"TARGET1000","price":274.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0877\/0466\/6415\/files\/NTA_043_copy.jpg?v=1744745436"}],"url":"https:\/\/numeracyteachersacademy.myshopify.com\/collections\/frontpage.oembed","provider":"Numeracy Teachers Academy","version":"1.0","type":"link"}