Thursday, December 13, 2007

Coordinates Game

A game using coordinates in four quadrants with both x and y axes ranging from -5 th +5. The sutdents are offered a point on the grid and have to type in its coordinates. Feedback is instant. A great resource for teachers to use with a whole class and an interactive whiteboard

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Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Solids, Liquids and Gases

This series of cartoon animations by the The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (APBI) clearly explains the properties of solids, liquids and gases, It is ideal for classroom use with a full group and an interactive whiteboard. Topics covered include changing solids to liquids, dissolving, solid to liquid to gas changing states of water, eversible and non-reversible changes, and glossary. A host of different printable sheets and worksheets are also available in PDF format.

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Tuesday, December 11, 2007

Alien Punctuation

An interactive resource fby the BBC or the interactive whiteboard or for individual use by students. The activity requires that the user clicks to select the correct punctuation for a number of situations. There are three levels of difficulty covering, capital letters, full stops, inverted commas and exclamation marks.

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Classroom Labels

This fantastic resource by SEN Teacher enables you to print a number of different styles of classroom labels. You have the ability to alter the style, font image, label size, text, borders and print out exactly what you have designed to an A4 shheet. A great time saver for busy teachers. The generator prints book labels,sign and other classroom notices. A range of borders, images and fonts are available. Labels can be made in two sizes, the smaller labels are sized for box folders and exercise book covers.

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Sunday, December 09, 2007

Rivers and Coasts

An excellent resource for the primary classroom by the BBC. this suite of pages . As well as having a number of accompanying worksheets students are provided with animations that eaplain a number of the different processes taking place on rivers and at the coast; errosion of river beds, formation of valleys, nature of the flow of the river, the water cycle, a number of features of coastal errosion., longshore drift, etc. Both physical and human aspects of river and coastal life are covered.

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Area of Rectangles : Worksheets

A comprehensive suite of pages by the BBC which explains how to calculate the area of rectangles and goes on to give students the opportunity to practice using both diagramatical and real world examples.

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Thursday, December 06, 2007

Christmas Resources on the Internet

Many thanks wo Woodlands Junior school in Kent for compiling an exhaustive list of Christmas stuff online. there are calendars, activities to print and to do online, music, clipart, notes on Christmas traditions from round the world , lessons, facts, quizzes the list is endless.

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Wednesday, December 05, 2007

Islam for Children

Part of the RE Agreed Syllabus for most LEAs in the UK is to learn about a selection of World religions. Carol Rainbow has written this information for children between the ages of seven and eleven. It is therefore simplistic. The author prefaces her work stating that she hopes that nobody has reason to find anything within offensive, but goes on to say that if what she has written offends she apologises and asks that she be contacted with a view to making changes.

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Monday, December 03, 2007

The Digestive System : Printable Worksheet

Straightforward, old fashioned information by lessontutor.com about the human digestive system. Includes a printable outline diagram for students to label and a table detailing each element of the digestive tract and its function. Very useful.

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Using There, Their and They're Correctly

This resource by Wisconsin On-line is suitable for individual use or for deployment as a teaching tool on an interactive whiteboard. The use of each of the homophones is explained and exemplified and there is a 20 question quiz which is ideal for testing knowledge or to stimulate discussion or practice working out which spelling to choose.

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Sunday, December 02, 2007

Problem Solving

A page full of worksheets hosted by Teaching Ideas, many of them differentiated, based around solving problems with numbers, measures, time...

... the list goes on and on.

Most of these resources are printable .pdf files.

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