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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Food chains are very simple explanations of how plants and animals areinterdependant. In the real world animals can eat a variety of different foods in order to survive and a food web tries to reflect this. This is an excellent resource by Harcourt for use with a whole class and an interactive whiteboard.
Real notes made by a real Y6 pupil to help with Science Revision. Diagrams show the sun as an energy source, green plants as the 'producer' and animals as consumers and as predators or prey, sometimes both. There are examples of food chains from the Arctic and from the jungle
This resource by Ecokids is ideal for use with an interactive whiteboard and a class group. It covers herbivores, carnivores and omnivores at a basic level before explaining that all the energy comes from the sun which is converted to food by plants. Some animals eat the plants to get energy but some animals eat the other animals. Students get the opportunity to construct two differing foodchains - one for the noerthern arctic region and one for a jungle. They also have the opportunity to investigate what happens if any of the elements of a food chain is removed. Very useful.
A set of 5 basic worksheets by Teaching Ideas. From simple recognition of a variety of 2D shapes students progress to recognising each shape and its properties, sides, corners, etc
An excellent tool by Crickweb which enables teachers to demonstrate the use of a protractor using an interactive whiteboard and also provides agreat resource for students to practise estimation of angles up to 180°, providing instant feedback.
A useful revision aid to remind students about the properties of quadrilaterals including square, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium and kite.
This excellent suite of online resources by the BBCdeals comprehensively with 2D and 3D shape. There is an interactive online activity in which students are required to sort shapes by a number of criteria based on their properties. In addition there is a revision section covering triangles., quadrilaterals, circles, polygons, perimeter, area, stmmetry, 3D shapes and nets of 3D shapes. There is a quiz provided in two formats suitable for interactive whiteboard or individual completion by students
A primary objective of this lesson is to allow students to investigate the effects of gravity on a comet's trajectory by changing the angle of approach, the speed, and the masses of the large and small bodies. In the assessment activities, students will use their knowledge to crash a comet into Jupiter or make a comet fly past the planet without colliding with it. Students can work through "Planet Impact!" independently or in groups. The lesson is designed to be user-friendly for all levels of computer accessibility. Teachers Notes and Lesson Plans are available as well as a selection of downloadable resources.
This interactive resource is suitable for use with a whole class on an interactive whiteboard or individual use bt students in a computer suite. It looks at forces in the context of a theme park and covers gravity, friction, stretching, compression, magnetism, balanced and unbalanced forces. The activity has questions and feedback all the way through as students gather facts about force. At the end they are asked to apply what they have learned to recognise where rides are unsafe. The activity provides a printable certificate then gives examples of the application of knowledge abour forces is relevant in the real world. This is an the best resource I have seen on forces for students aged 9 - 11.
A suite of web pages covering all aspects of the Festive season. suitable for children aged 6 - 11 years. Including the Nativity Story, Christmas facts about Advent, Christmas Day, Boxing Day and Epiphany, Christmas customs such as carols, cards, pudding, trees and mistletoe, and a selection of printable colouring and puzzle activities for the primary classroom.
Read about a real life Victorian mill owner from Armley in Leeds.Benjamin Gott was a model of entrepreneurial skill. By taking risks and experimenting with new ways of doing things, he managed to hit the cash jackpot and become a powerful businessman. Can you solve business problems and make money by taking risks?
The ‘Children in Victorian Britain’ website by the BBClooks at the lives of children in the age of Queen Victoria. the tree sections cover children ar work, at school and at play. The site has the option to view as a standard web page or as an interactive flash movie. Both have their relative merits in the classroom depending upon the situation. There is also a series of worksheets and a number of games.
This suite of pages provides a comprehensive resource for teaching about frces at Key Stage 2. As well as text explaining Gravity, Mass and Weight, balanced and unbalanced forces there is a virtual experiment in which students can record their resulrs and a quiz suitable for assessment purposes.
Everything you wanted to know about area and perimeter - includes explanation, examples and exercises (rectangles and triangles).
This activity by Learning Sciences is specially designed for use by whole groups, individuals, pairs or three. Learning Circuits has been designed to support units 4F and 6G of the UK National Curriculum Key Stage Two Science. The students wotrk through a series of activities covering the basics, simple circuits, circuit diagrams, switches, changing circuits, insulators and conductors. There is a quiz, the resource prints a certificate and there is a circuit building activity
A suite of resources by the BBC useful to explain the collection and interpretation of data including tables, tally charts, frequency tables, bar charts, pictograms, pie charts and line graphs.
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This worksheet creator is different every time.
This animation by the BBC explains how vibrations travelling through the air move the eardrum and are transformed into electrical signals our brains perceive as sound.
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An interactive colouring and matching activity. Useful for developing the language of colour and pattern as well as visual discrimination skills. Students are offered a series of coloured images and required to use a virtual paintbrush to select colours and place them in the correct place on their blank canvas. Students get immediate feedback and can have multiple tries.
A suite of information and activities frim the BBC. four Factsheets are great for teachers and pupils alike to gain an understanding of what prefixes are and how thet work. There are two Worksheets and a quiz to enable students to test their knowledge.
This interactive resource introduces us to Ben. Ben needs water, food, exercise and rest to keep him healthy. The students job is to monitor Ben's levels and provide him with more of each of the above when necessary. There is also a revision sheet and a quiz associated with this activity.
This Alphabetical order activity by Crickweb is a simple to use word ordering exercise. Words are simply dragged from the left hand side of the screen to their correct place in the word order list on the right hand side.The activity has four levels. and is supplied with a lesson outline in Word
This activity provided learning resources and information to support the KS2 science curriculum and the requirements of the QCA primary Science Unit 4: 4a Moving and growing, Suitable for pupins in Year 3 and Year 4.
This excellent online resource explaind the relationship between producers and consumers, predators and prey, It offers the opportunity to create food chains for three different habitats; woodland, river and seashore. Students are given instant feedback upon placing each element of the food chain in the correct position. Suitable for use by a teacher with a whole class on an interactive whiteboard or individual use by students.
This online science experiment enables teachers and students to investigate reversible and irreversible changes and dissolving without all the mess. A great educational resource for the classroom whiteboard, It won't take the place of real exoperiments but as a revision tool this is great. Sand and salt can be retrieved from the virtual water by filtering and evaporation respectively. Water can have its state changed by application of heat and/or freezing.
A traditional game of battleships in which students play the computer, the difference is that each time a student clicks a sector containing a ship he is offered a multiple choice question asking him to select the correct spelling for that situation. The game has three levels
An interactive resource which details the letters of the alphabet and includes letter names as well as their sounds. There are illustrations using each letter in turn as the initial letter of a familiar object. Writing is addressed by animations showing the correct letter formation.
An excellent online activity for use with a whole class on an interactive whiteboard or for individual use in your schools computer suite. An eponym is a word which has borrowed its name from a person - for instance a sandwich takes its name from John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich.
Students are posed a series of questions and asked to click select an appropriate artifact which derived its name from the given person.
This excellent interactive, online resource for Key Stage 2 science enables students to view the Earth rotting on its axis in both plan view and side elevation. In this way the students can easily grasp the mechanism involved in the creation of night and day. there is also a quiz attached to check students understanding of the facts and concepts.
This online interactive resource explains the different types of good and bad micro-organisms. it allows students to explore a virtual environment and explains what kinds of micro organisms can be found in a variety of locations, and the efect that they have. Students can collate information and classify micro organisms into the provided tableThe activity is concluded with a quiz
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An online teaching resource for Key Stage 2 which allows students to consider and predict the probability of the selection of a single color from a variety of different coloured balls. There is also an online quiz which will allow students to test their knowledge. Worksheets are available
An interactive primary school resource for teachers to use on a whiteboard of for individual pupils in an ICT suite. Students are required to sort a variety of piles of dinosaur bones into the correct places for a number of different creatures. The activity is available at a variety of different levels of difficulty
