Sunday, November 12, 2006

Human Body - Micro Organisms and Disease

Micro-organisms, or microbes, are tiny living things that can only be seen by using a microscope.

Viruses and bacteria are micro organisms.

Human Body - Micro Organisms and Disease


Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Human Body - Drugs

Text and images with basic facts about four main categories of legal and illegal drugs in the UK: tobacco, alcohol, class A drugs and solvents

Human Body - Drugs


Monday, October 02, 2006

Negative Number - Worksheets

This Excel spreadsheet will generate an unlimited number of worksheets.

Students are given thermometer readings within the range +30°C to -20°C and asked to calculate by how many degrees the temperature has risen or fallen.

Negative Numbers - Worksheets

Download the file and open it. Simply click in cell C1, type in a new sheet number and press return. Everything on the page changes and you have a new worksheet . Print as normal.

Decimal Addition - Worksheet Generator

This is an Excel spreadsheet that creates an unlimited number of worksheets for students to practice adding decimals with up to three decimal places. The sums are presented horizontally so that the student has to set them out and make dure that the columns and decimal points are lined up correctly.

Decimal Addition - Worksheet Generator

Downlad the file and open it. To create a new worksheet click in cell B1, change the number of the worksheet and press return or enter on your keyboard.

Sunday, September 17, 2006

Prefixes

Text giving examples of the use of prefixes in English.

Prefixes

A prefix is a letter or group of letters added to the beginning of a root word to make a new word

So the prefix un can be added to the root word happy to make a new word - unhappy.

In this example the prefix un means not so unhappy means not happy.

Here is a list of common and not so common prefixes for you to think about:

Fractions - Worksheet Generator

This is an Excel spreadsheet which will create an unlimited number of random worksheets with 18 questions on each.

Answers are provided on a separate sheet.

Downlad the file and open it. To create a new worksheet click in cell B1, change the number of the worksheet and press return or enter on your keyboard.

You can also change the maximum number of the denominator so that the sheet can be adapted and made easier or more difficult

Fractions - Worksheet Generator

Saturday, September 16, 2006

Inverse Operations - Addition and Subtraction - Worksheets

This is an Excel spreadsheet which will create an unlimited number of random worksheets with 30 questions on each.

Answers are provided on a separate sheet.

Three separate worksheets cover ranges within 20, 100 and 1000


Inverse Operations - Addition and Subtraction - Worksheets



Monday, September 11, 2006

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Assessment

An online quiz that tests the students ability to identify the different parts of the human skeleton.

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Assessment


Sunday, September 10, 2006

Percentages - Worksheet Generator

This Excel spreadsheet will create an unlimited number of percentage worksheets. Students are required to calculate percentages of numbers within 100 to 2 decimal places.

To download the file right click the link below and select Save Target As...

To create a new worksheet simply click in cell C3 on tne student sheet, type a new number and press return or enter on your keyboard. New worksheets will be created and are ready to print.

Percentages - Worksheet Generator


Mental Methods - Online Activity

This function machine by Ambleside School allows users to input numbers and apply a variety of different functions. Useful for mental practice at doubling and halving , multiplication, division , addition and subtraction. A random feature challenges students to identify the function applied to the original number to produce a given output.


Mental Methods - Online Activity

Inverse Operations - Worksheet Generator

This is an Excel spreadsheet which will create an unlimited number of random worksheets with 30 questions on each.

Answers are provided on a separate sheet. Downlad the file and open it. To create a new worksheet click in cell B1, change the number of the worksheet and press return or enter on your keyboard

Three separate worksheets cover ranges <10 x 10, <100 x 10 and <1000 x 100.

Inverse Operations - Worksheet Generator

Place Value - Whiteboard Activity

This excellent activity enables teachers to construct and deconstruct numbers up to 999 demonstrating the vaue of each digit in single units.

Place Value - Whiteboard Activity




Wednesday, September 06, 2006

Place Value - Whiteboard Activity

A wonderful interactive resource by G.Pitchford for your whiteboard hosted by PrimaryResources, an online number board lets you construct numbers up to 9999 showing. you can hide or show the number you make in words and construct the number by dragging place value cards.

Place Value - Whiteboard Activity

Triangles - Whiteboard Activity

This is a PiowerPoint Presentation and although designed for the teacher to use interactively in a session warmu, identifying and naming different types of triangle, it could easily be used as a revision document by individual students - gives definitions and instant feedback

Triangles - Whiteboard Activity

Sunday, September 03, 2006

Adjectives

Description and examples of the use of adjectives to describe nouns in English.

Adjectives

Adjectives
give the reader extra information about the nouns in the sentence:

The injured dog ran across the busy road.

Now we know a little more about the dog and the road....

Friday, September 01, 2006

Verbs - Tenses

Information and examples of the use of different tenses in English

Verbs - Tenses

The tense of the verb lets you know when the action takes place.

If the action has already happened it is in the past and the verb will be in the past tense

Yesterday we walked across the fields to have a picnic.

I was feeling a bit down last Wednesday so my brother took me to the pictures....

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Shape and Space - Angles - Online Activity

An excellent explanation of the different types of angles and the relationships that angles have to triangles and quadrilaterals and has links to a fact sheet and a quiz

Shape and Space - Angles - Online Activity


Friday, August 18, 2006

ICT 4C Branching Databases

Explains how to use a small group of studentst to explain how to create and use a branching database.

ICT 4C Branching Databases

Chose four students from the class as guinea pigs.

Ask the class to look at each individual and identify a unique aspect of his/her physical appearance or clothing, eg:

John is the only person with red hair
Sharon is the only person wearing a skirt
Paul is the only person wearing glasses
Thelma is the only person wearing a hair band

Explain to the students that this information can be used to solve problems involving these students......

ICT 3C Introduction to Databases

A comprehensive guide for class teachers showing how to utilise Microsoft Excel as a simple yet effective database which allows students to see how records are manipulated by the application.

ICT 3C Introduction to Databases

Stage 1

First look at the BBC web page Characteristics of Materials on your interactive whiteboard. What you have is a vitrual laboratory in which you can test six different materials metal, paper, fabric, rubber, glass, and plastic to see if they are waterproof, transparent, flexible and strong.

Demonstrate how to drag each material into the testing clamps then click each of the test buttons in turn. Observe what happens and explain how to decide if the material has the property of being waterproof, flexible, etc.

Demonstrate how to use the data capture sheet to record the findings using Y for yes and N for no.

Allow the students to log into their computers and complete the exercise testing each material for each property and recording the results.

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Place Value - Online Assessment

An online quiz to test students' understanding of place value


Place Value - Online Assessment

Multiplying numbers by 10, 100, 1000

Explanation and examples of how to manipulate place value to achieve the desired outcome


Multiplying numbers by 10, 100, 1000


Multiplying and dividing numbers by 10, 100 or 1000 is very easy, it is simply a matter of moving the digits to the left or right, for example......

Numeracy - Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000

Explanation and examples of how to round numbers up and down


Numeracy - Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000


Sometimes it is useful to round numbers up or down to the nearest 10, 100 or even 100 to make a calculation easier when absolute accuracy is not required or to make sure that a mistake has not been made when working out a carefully worked out answer.

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Addition - Online Worksheet Creator

Using this resource you will be able to create an unlimited number of random worksheets.

Addition - Online Worksheet Creator

You are able to manipulate a number of parameters:

- how many numbers in the sum, the range of the numbers you wish to use,
- the number of decimal places, the number of sums in a row
- the number of rows.

All in all a very flexible resource for busy teachers, ideal for homework activities...

Basic Operations Online Worksheet Creator

Using this resource at homeschoolmath.net you will be able to create an unlimited number of random worksheets to practice basic operations of integers and whole numbers, including operations in columns, long division, and division with remainder, missing addend/factor problems. you can control the number ranges easily.

Basic Operations Online Worksheet Creator

Monday, August 14, 2006

Shape and Space - Triangles

Explanation and examples of different kinds of triangles.

Shape and Space - Triangles

A 2D shape that has three straight sides is called a triangle, but triangles can be different sizes and shapes and some of these have special names:

Remember : the sum of the angles of a triangle is 180°

A triangle which contains a right angle is called a right angled triangle...

Shape and Space - Quadrilaterals

Explanation and examples of different kinds of quadrilaterals, their names and properties.

Shape and space Quadrilaterals

Any 2D shape that has four straight sides is called a quadrilateral. Below we have listed the special quadrilaterals that have their own name.

Remember : the sum of the angles of a quadrilateral is 360°

All the sides of a square are equal length and all the angles are right angles....

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Decimals - Online worksheet creator

Using this resource at homeschoolmath.net you will be able to create an unlimited number of random worksheets to practice operations of idecimals, including operations in columns, long division, and division with remainder, missing addend/factor problems. you can control the number ranges easily...

Decimals - Online worksheet creator

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Shape and Space - Measuring Angles

You will be able to demonstrate the use of a protractor,make and measure angles up to 180° and estimate the size of angle.

Shape and Space - Measuring Angles

Plants - Online Assessment

A quiz to test students knowledge of the parts and function of plants.

Plants - Online Assessment


Pronouns

Explanation and examples of the different pronouns and their use in English

Pronouns

Pronouns are words that we can put into sentences instead of nouns.

There are two kinds of pronouns:
  • Personal pronouns: I, you, he, she, it, we, they
  • Possessive pronouns : mine, yours, his, hers, ours, theirs.
They are often used to avoind having to repeat a noun that has previously been used:

Michael is a good boy. Every Saturday Michael gets out a bucket and a sponge and cleans the family cars. Michael's mum and dad are always very pleased when Michael cleans the cars. Michaels mum and dad give Michael £5 for each car that he washes. Michael saves his money all year round and uses it to go on holiday with his friend James. Michael and James like to go to the seaside. Michael and James go to Scarborough for a week every summer...

Numeracy - Place Value

Explanation and examples of the working of place value and how it affects the value of any given digit.

Numeracy - Place Value


We have ten digits in our numbering system

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9

These digits are like our alphabet and just as the letters of the alppabet can be combined to make different words so the digits can be combined to create an infinite variety of numbers

2 is a single digit number

465 is a three digit number

How much each digit is worth depends upon its place in the number...

Shape and Space - Lines and Angles

Explanation and examples of the different kinds of angles created when two straight lines meet

Shape and Space - Lines and Angles

When lines meet at a point or cross each other they create angles...

Saturday, August 05, 2006

Verbs

Explanation and examples of the use of verbs in English

Verbs

A verb is the action word in any sentence.

All sentences have a verb in them, a verb tells us what what a person or thing is doing or how they are

  • moving : run, trot, amble, gallop, skip
  • speak : shout, scream, whisper, yell,
  • feel : like, hate, love

Every day we take part in thousands of different actions we do, feel or talk about every day and each one of them has a verb so that we can communicate what is happening.

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Nouns

Explanation and example of the different kinds of nouns in the English Language

Nouns


There are several categories of nouns:

Common Nouns

The words that give names to the things all around us are common nouns.
  • The dog growled fiercely.
  • The television blew up.
  • The boys played our.
Of course sentences can have more than a single noun.
  • The dog ate all the biscuits that were in his bowl.
  • My sister spilt cola on her new dress.
  • Every day the milkman brings milk to our house...

Sentences

Explanation and examples of different kinds of sentences

Sentences


A sentence is a group of words that makes sense.

Every time that we speak or write we use sentences.

Sentences can be:

statements - giving someone information
  • The dog walked down the street
questions - asking someone something
  • Which street did the dog walk down?
commands - telling someone to do something
  • Walk the dog down the street......

Monday, July 31, 2006

Materials - States of Matter

Text and images explaining how all materials can be grouped into three categories - solid, liquid and gas.

Materials - States of Matter

Solid

Solids can be picked up and handled, they keep their shape unless you cut, slice or break bits off to make into new and different shapes. Solids can be picked up and handled, they keep their shape unless you cut, slice or break bits off to make into new and different shapes


Human Body - Balanced Diet

Text and images detailing the different food groupa and what constitutes a balanced diet

Human Body - Balanced Diet

Friday, July 28, 2006

Human Body - Life Cycle

Text and images detailing the lifecycle of humans.

Human Body - Life Cycle

Human Body - Teeth - Printable Activity

Printable diagram of the human mouth for students to label and annotate.

Human Body - Teeth - Printable Activity


Human Body - Teeth - Labelled Diagram

A printable diagram detailing the type and position of the teeth in the human mouth, in pdf format

Human Body - Teeth - Labelled Diagram


Human Body - Teeth

Text, images and diagrams detailing the different types of teeth and their functions.

Human Body - Teeth


Thursday, July 27, 2006

Human Body - Circulation - Animation

Animation showing the cycle from heart to lungs to heart to body and the way in which blood flows through veins and arteries.

Human Body - Circulation - Animation



Human Body - Beating Heart - Animation

An animation which demonstrates the pumping action of the heart.

Human Body - Beating Heart - Animation

Human Body - Blood and Circulation

Text and diagrams to explain the way in which the heart pumps the blood through arteries and weins in the human body.

Human Body - Blood and Circulation


Tuesday, July 25, 2006

ICT 4B Modelling Effects on Screen

A clear and concise guide to explain how to use an on screen turtle to model the effect of a floor turtle. Students draw simple geometric shapes.

ICT 4E Modelling Effects on Screen

Session 1

Students should open a browser and navigate online to the Turtle Logo Applet

The object of this is to move the ‘turtle’ round the screen to raw simple geometric shapes. The simple LOGO commands are listed at the top of the page. To draw a square, for example, the commands would be....

Monday, July 24, 2006

Green Plants Science KS2

Text and images designed for use on an interactive whiteboard or to be printed out for the use of Key Syage 2 teachers

Green Plants Science KS2

Flowers, leaves, stem, roots and photostnthesis are covered


Flowers
Flowers are used in the process of reproduction. They are usually brightly coloured and have a smell, both of which attract insects. Flowers produce pollen - the plants male sex cells. The pollen joins with the eggs - the plants female sex cells.....

Human Body - Lungs

Text and diagrams to eaplain the function of the lungs in the human body

Human Body - Lungs


Our lungs enable us to take in oxygen from the atmosphere and to dispose of the carbon dioxide, which our cells produce as a waste product.

To breath in your diaphragm (a large muscle below the lungs) contracts, your ribs are raised upwards and air is sucked into you r lungs. When you breath out your diaphragm and ribs relax and the air is forced out again......

Human Body - Joints - Printable Activity

A printable activity - students are required to label the parts of the knee joint and complete a piece of text by filling in the gaps.

Human Body - Joints - Printable Activity

Human Body - Joints and Muscles - Online Activity

An interactive online activity which clearly demonstrates the roles of muscles, tendons, cartilage and ligaments play in the articulation of the knee joint.

Human Body - Joints and Muscles - Online Activity

Human Body - Movement

Text and diagrams that explain the way that musckes contract and relax and produce movement in the joints of the human body.

Human Body - Movement

Movement

We can move our bodies into different positions because we have joints.

A joint is a place where two or more bones meet.

Muscles always work in pairs.

To move a joint one of the muscles in the pair contracts (gets shorter) and the other relaxes (gets longer).

Human Body - Skeleton - Printable Activity

A blank diagram of the bones in the human body for students to label and annotate

Human Body - Skeleton - Printable Activity

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Activity

An interactive online game by the BBC in which you identify organs, muscle groups, bones and parts of the nervous system and drag them into the appropriate place in the human form. Both genders are included and placej jigsaw style, the human form. Click on the image below to play the game

Human Body - Skeleton - Online Activity

Human Body - The Skeleton

Diagram and text naming the bones of the human skeleton and their functions

Human Body - The Skeleton

The Skeleton does three main jobs:

Protection - The skeleton protects your body parts from being damaged by impact:
  • SKULL - protects the brain
  • RIBS - protect the heart and lungs
  • SPINE - protects the spinal chord.....

Human Body - Major Organs - Printable Activity

A black and white diagram of the human organs for students to label and annotate, pdf format

Human Body - Major Organs - Printable Activity

Human Body - Organs - Online Activity

An interactive online game by the BBC in which you identify organs, muscle groups, bones and parts of the nervous system and drag them into the appropriate place in the human form. Both genders are included and placej jigsaw style, the human form. Click on the image below to play the game

Human Body - Organs - Online Activity

Human Body - Major Organs

Text and diagrams detailing the position and function of the major organs in the human body

Human Body - Major Organs

Major Organs

All organs are made up of specialised cells.

Each organ in the human body does a specific job or jobs.

These are the major organs......

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Life Processes and Living Things

Animals and plants are all alive - they are living organisms. They all look different but there is a number of things that they all do. They all have the same life processes.

Life Processes and Living Things

To remember the life processes just remember MRS NERG she'll help you.....
  • Movement - all living things move.
  • Respiration - all living things breathe.
  • Sensitivity - al living things have feelings and respond to their environment
  • Nutrition - all living things need food.
  • Excretion - all living things get rid of waste and toxins.
  • Reproduction - all living things produce copies of themselves.
  • Growth - all living things grow....