Primary literacy
Can you make an accurate drawing of the criminal from a description given by a witness? This lovely application provides a gentle introduction to basic comprehension and following instructions.
Learn to spell and have fun at the same time with these great games involving a fly and a frog. One mistake and the frog gets lunch. NOTE: some of these resources feature audio and would benefit from a speaker system.
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A beautiful game to help your pupils recognise the high frequency words for reception year (as compiled by the National Literacy Strategy). Answer the questions as fast as you can but try not to get any penalties. At the end of the game you will be shown your score and awarded a prize monster. NOTE: This resource features audio and benefits from a speaker system.
A word recognition game to help your pupils remember the high frequency words for years 1 and 2 (as compiled by the National Literacy Strategy). NOTE: This resource features audio and benefits from a speaker system.
A classroom version of this classic game. What's the longest word you can make?
Practise your proofreading with this lovely resource. Correctly punctuate the text by inserting full stops and capital letters.
Can you correctly punctuate these sentences with capital letters, question marks and exclamation marks?
One use of an apostrophe is to indicate the omission of letters. All the sentences in this exercise are missing an apostrophe or two. It's your job to put them in the right place.
A quiz to help your pupils learn when to use apostrophes and where to put them. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking.
A high energy quiz that requires coordination as well as knowledge. Ideal for the interactive whiteboard. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking.
NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player.
Another helping of homophones. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking.
Learn to identify common and proper nouns with this fun game. Stop the balloons carrying proper nouns from floating away by popping them with a pin. Sounds like fun? You bet!
Get to grips with alphabetical order with these moonlander games. Land your spaceship on the pads in alphabetical order.
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See how many new words you can make by adding prefixes and suffixes to the root word.
A lovely game to help you discriminate syllables. Count the syllables in each falling word and guide it into the correct flowerpot.
A slightly tougher game in which you must discriminate the number of syllables in a word. Count the syllables in each falling word and guide it into the correct flowerpot.
A fun way to help your pupils learn and identify nouns, verbs and adjectives.
A lovely game to help you discriminate between different word types. Is the word an adjective, noun, verb or adverb? Guide it into the correct flowerpot.
A whole class activity to help your pupils understand sentence structure.
Sort out how the different '-ough' words should be pronounced. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking.
If you get confused about whether to use ITS or IT'S then this could be the activity for you.
Practise your German colours through word association!
NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player.
Teach your pupils to say their colours in french with this fast moving quiz. This resource also includes a printable worksheet and a separate activity to help the teacher with marking.
Numeracy
Introduce your pupils to circles, squares, rectangles and triangles with this painting activity.
A lovely resource where pupils must colour spots on the other side of a fold line in order to make a symmetric pattern.
A simple (but powerful) interactive tool to help your pupils get to grips with basic addition.
Play this beautiful game as often as you can and you'll soon know your times tables inside out. Answer the questions as fast as you can but try not to get any penalties. At the end of the game you will be shown your score and awarded a prize monster.
Learn how to tell the time using these interactive, full-screen analogue and digital clocks.
At the top of the screen you will be shown a time in words. All you have to do is work out where the minute hand would be pointing and click on that number on the clock. For example if the time shown is 'quarter to five' you should click the number 'nine' on the clock. It's not as easy as you might think.
Polygon tool
A wonderful tool for investigating regular or irregular polygons. Use the virtual protractor to measure internal and external angles (the line extension function makes this easy). The polygon vertices can be dragged and snapped to your choice of background grid.
This software is also ideal for exploring Pythagoras' theorem, triangles in general or the relationship between area and perimeter of shapes.
Part one of a truly outstanding suite of three resources commissioned by the NGfL-Cymru (and developed by eChalk) to help with the teaching of enlargements. This resource helps you introduce the basic concepts of enlargement and scale factors. Why not visit NGfL Cymru's virtual teaching centre...it's a great resource.
A lovely whole class resource which is ideal for use with the interactive whiteboard. Pupils are shown a shape which they must redraw at a given scale factor. They construct their shape using a flexible polygon which can then be compared to the correct enlargement.
Angle Estimator: Everything you need to teach estimation and measurement of angles.
This open-ended resource allows you to create a fraction and display it in several ways (e.g. with cakes, sweets or lollipops). You can also set up simple problems by hiding the numerator and denominator and asking the class to work them out.
Improve your ability to recognise the picture equivalent of a fraction with this resource.
This open-ended resource allows you to create different visual representations of two fractions and display them side by side. By comparing the images pupils can decide whether the fractions are equivalent.
Improve your ability to recognise equivalent fractions.
This is a truly versatile whole-class resource. In this game you must drag fractions from the fraction bank and place them in the correct order on the fraction tower. You can test two fractions to see which is bigger by showing a visual representation of the fraction.
An open-ended tool to help you explore the relationship between improper and mixed fractions.
Identify equivalent fractions and percentages.
Identify equivalent fractions and decimals.
A tool to help your pupils visualise fractions. Ideal for teaching pupils how to identify equivalent fractions.
A tool to help your pupils visualise fractions. Ideal for teaching pupils addition and subtraction of fractions. Also useful for illustrating how to represent fractions in their simplest form.
Identify equivalent decimals and percentages.
Flip between a 0 to 99, 0 to 100, multiplication or blank grid. The squares can be painted in the colour of your choice. Great for illustrating mental arithmetic techniques or how Eratosthenes' sieve works.
Brush up on the concepts of place value and inter-planetary flight as you land your space craft on the moon pads in the correct order.
An interactive and highly visual resource to help entrench the concept of units.
Use your knowledge of algebra to gently land your spaceship on the pads in the correct order.
A high energy quiz that requires coordination as well as knowledge. Pupils are given a number and must choose the expression that would give the highest value. This resource includes a printable worksheet. NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player.
Students are shown an equation and must choose a solution from several numbers bouncing around the screen. This resource includes a printable worksheet.
NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player.
A versatile resource that allows you to create your own pie chart in seconds. This powerful application has a host of features including a protractor and the ability to view your graph in 3D.
Learn how to interpret pie charts with this interactive resource. The finished pie chart can be shown in 2D or 3D and you have a handy protractor tool to help you figure out what colour to paint each sector.
Learn how to interpret pie charts with this interactive resource. The finished pie chart can be shown in 2D or 3D and you have a handy protractor tool to help you figure out what colour to paint each sector.
Venn diagrams: A selection of mathematical activities to introduce your pupils to Venn diagrams
Brush up on factors, multiples and prime numbers with this selection of Venn diagram activities. This resource also contains a printable worksheet.
Venn diagram: multiples of 3, 4 and 5
The title says it all really!
A whole class activity to teach pupils to accurately draw, measure and estimate a three figure bearing.
A whole class activity to teach pupils to accurately estimate a three figure bearing.
Could you estimate the height of a giant if you knew how long his arm was? In this activity you must estimate the height of three giants based on the length of different body parts.
In this investigation you must discover a method to find all the different ways that eggs can be packed in an egg box. If your pupils find this one easy they can move onto 'Eggstreme maths' for a more in-depth study.
An in-depth investigation in which you must find the number ways in which eggs can be packed in different sized egg boxes. When you've found all the combinations a surprising result is revealed which allows you to predict the number of permutations for any sized egg box and any number of eggs.
This powerful application is simple to use and allows you to create any four quadrant graph, grid or isometric paper. Print out your tailor-made graph paper for classwork or use it as a background for the interactive whiteboard. Brilliant.
Science
Four timeline activities where you must sequence the pictures of a young child growing into an adult into the correct order.
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A beautiful sequence of animations that illustrate the life cycle of a flowering plant.
Learn the parts of a flower with this colourful drag and drop activity. (worksheet)
Learn to identify all the reproductive parts of a flower with this labelling exercise.
Do you know what the different reproductive parts inside a flower are responsible for? Use this activity and find out!
A little starter activity to check whether you know the names of the parts of the body. This matching pairs game requires a good memory as well as a knowledge of punctuation.
The same as the first pairs game but now the body parts are a little more obscure.
You have full control over the image ... colour it in and add or remove labels and arrows at the touch of a button. Simply click on individual labels and arrows to toggle them on or off (in this way the diagram can be simplified to suit any age group).
Same as the diagram above except for the fact that it is an ear!
The human skeleton
Learn the names of the different bones in the human skeleton with this drag 'n' drop labelling exercise (includes a worksheet). This is a simplified diagram using common terms for bones. For a more detailed diagram of the human skeleton please see the main biology page in the science section of this site.
An animation that shows how the arm muscles work in pairs in order to flex and straighten the arm.
Learn to identify the position, shape and function of the different tooth groups in the human mouth.
Learn to identify all the different kinds of teeth in the human mouth with this labelling activity.
Learn about the structure of a tooth with this labelling exercise.
Introduce your class to ID keys with this lovely whiteboard activity. The resource also includes printed materials so pupils may devise their own keys.
A more advanced exercise from the one above to teach your pupils how to use branching keys to identify fish. The resource also includes printed materials so pupils may devise their own keys.
A gentle introduction to heredity. By looking at pictures of famous actors the pupils must determine which child belongs to which parent.
A quick quiz to test your knowledge of the key words in this subject area.
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A beautiful resource that illustrates how carbon cycles from one carbon store to another. You have full control over the animation and can isolate different processes (e.g. respiration or photosynthesis).
This beautiful whole-class resource gives you a huge photographic globe of the Earth. Click on the arrows to rotate the globe clockwise or anti-clockwise. If you're not on broadband this resource may take a minute to download.
Show your class the dark side of the moon with this spectacular 3D photographic moon globe. Click on the arrows to rotate the globe clockwise or anti-clockwise.
How well do you know the solar system? This resource contains whiteboard activities to order and name the planets correctly in addition to a database where you can compare the planet's vital statistics.
Use your knowledge of the planets of the solar system to land your spaceship on the moon pads in the correct order.
This lovely animation from Sumanas Inc shows the moon as it travels on its orbit around the earth. It also shows what the moon looks like from the earth.
(External site)
Not all materials conduct heat at the same rate. This simulation replicates the classic demonstration where pins are fixed to copper, aluminium and cast iron rods by blobs of wax: as the wax melts the pins fall. Note: this resource is no substitute for actually doing the experiment yourself in the lab!
Illustrate the magnetic field surrounding a bar magnet with this interactive resource. Drag compasses around the screen to view the field direction at any point. You can decide whether to display iron filings or field lines or both. What more do you want?
An interactive model that allows the teacher to demonstrate that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection (also contains some student notes).
Students use their knowledge of reflection to position a balloon so that a laser beam reflected off a mirror will destroy it.
A lovely, interactive model to show how a virtual image is created with a plane mirror.
General resources & fun stuff
If you're playing a game or a quiz and you need to keep score for several teams then this is the tool for you. Choose between a number of themes: 'Alien abduction', 'In your face' and 'Snail race'.
An addictive reaction test with loads of uses for practical work. I guarantee the kids will love it.
NOTE: This resource requires the latest Flash Player.
This classic memory game has been converted for use on an interactive whiteboard.
A quaint version of the classic memory game 'Simon'.
Class minder: A digital assistant that keeps an eye on your class on those rare occasions when you have to pop out.
