Fractions, Decimals and Percentages Make Sense
This resource from SMILE contains two books at different levels with activities focusing on fractions, decimals and percentages. Each activity is accompanied by teachers' notes. The notes give advice on appropriate ways of using the activity and any additional equipment required. Many of the activities are suitable for whole…
Unit 6D Controllable Vehicles
From the Nuffield foundation this resource looks at control systems, their design and uses. Developed from the QCA scheme of work, children design and make a control system for an electric vehicle. In the activity, children are challenged to produce a vehicle, powered by an electric motor, that can go in forward and reverse directions…
Primary School Activity Booklet
This booklet, produced by Dr. Lucie Green, from the Mullard Space Science Laboratory, and funded by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), contains four simple activities to enrich the teaching of Solar system science and beyond. The activities are: Keeping Safe in the Sun – learning about UV and sun cream;…
Primary Science with ICT: Pupils' Entitlement to ICT in Primary Science
Produced by Becta, this teacher guidance booklet looks at the use of ICT in primary school science. It describes a range of ICT-based activities for Key Stages One and Two. These include: • Plant growth • Plants and animals in their environment • Moving and growing • Light • Sound • Data handling •…
Practice Book 6b
These materials, produced by the Centre for Innovation in Mathematics Teaching (CIMT) for the primary extension of the Mathematics Enhancement Programme, include the pages from Practice Book 6b with detailed lesson plans and all necessary resources to accompany them. It follows on from Practice Book 6a. Students learn to convert…
Visiting a Water Mill
This programme from Teachers TV follows Year Three class teacher Clare James, from Canterbury Cross Primary in Birmingham, and Jane Turner from the Science Learning Centre on their way to Sarehole Mill in Hall Green. The purpose of their visit is to see if the water mill might be a suitable location for a Key Stage Two science lesson…
Moonsaics
This collection of five Moonsaics have been created by the National Schools' Observatory, they consist of five different images of the Moon, separated into multiple picture panels per image, much like a "giant jigsaw puzzle". Students are challenged to assemble the completed images, offering them the opportunity to…
Using Assessment to Raise Achievement in Mathematics
This guidance booklet, from the National Strategies collection, was inspired by the documents Inside the black box (Black & Wiliam, 1998) and Assessment for Learning, beyond the black box (Assessment Reform Group, 1999) and outlines how assessment for learning can raise achievement in school. Evidence suggests that using good…
Interactive Teaching Programs 4
Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs) are an ICT-based tool developed by the National Strategies to support the teaching of key concepts in mathematics. Where available, manuals which describe how the ITP works and could be used are posted as separate files. This section includes: *Number spinners generates random numbers using…
Bridging Units in Mathematics
This resource from Qualifications and Curriculum Development Agency is designed to help schools and local education authorities provide curricular continuity in mathematics between Year Six and Year Seven. They help to develop a shared understanding of standards, as well as providing suitable experiences for students at the end…
Storing Our Stuff
In this resource from Teachers TV, children from Brecknock School in North London work on an aspect of school improvement with a designer William Warren. The idea for this project comes from The Sorrell Foundation and is called the Joinedupdesignforschools project. Children look at the problem they have storing their belongings…
Numeracy - Interpreting Data
This Teachers TV programme follows on from the programme Numeracy - Handling Data where Year Four teacher Simon Mills taught three lessons on data handling using Excel in the ICT suite. Professors Rosamund Sutherland and Jan Winter of the University of Bristol discuss the benefits of using ICT to teach data handling at Key Stage…
Interactive Teaching Programs 5
Interactive Teaching Programs (ITPs) are an ICT-based tool developed by the National Strategies to support the teaching of key concepts in mathematics. Where available, manuals which describe how the ITP works and could be used are posted as separate files. *Ruler displays an on-screen ruler which can be used to measure lines…
Sliding Objects
This video from Teachers TV introduces Year Four children to the forces behind sliding objects, using a game of tug-of-war. This starter clip demonstrates friction and sliding objects and could be used to prompt discussion when introducing friction at Key Stage Two.
As Easy as CPD 2
This programme from Teachers TV follows Claire Duncan and Sukhbinder Bachra, who as part of their continuing professional development met with primary science consultant Rosemary Feasey. Acting upon the advice given to them they planned and taught lessons using a more creative approach. Claire’s Year three class investigated…
Learning with Scarlet: Lesson Review
In this Teachers TV programme Jane Turner, deputy director of the East of England Science Learning Centre, visits St Mary's Primary School in Birmingham to review and discuss the Learning with Scarlet science programme. Jane joins Veronica Knight who taught a lesson on 'the parts of plants we can eat' to her Year…
Hands-on Universe
Produced by the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC), Hands-on Universe is a space curriculum pack for students aged 7 to 11. The resource pack consists of six information and activity cards, each of which investigates a specific area of astronomy. The activities cover the Earth and solar system, telescopes, forces and…
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Worksheets - Number
These worksheets from Subtangent have outline frames for the grid method of multiplication, halving and doubling, fraction pies and a selection of worksheets for arithmetic practice.
Kites
Kites, an ASE SYCD: Science Year Primary resource, explores the variety of kite designs around the world, together with the scientific principles that keep kites aloft. It provides a fun way of exploring some types of forces. There is a strong multi-cultural element through looking at kites around the world. There are also strong…
Primary Environment
From Teachers TV, this video shows four examples of day visits that look at the environment and are suitable for primary school children. Part of the Great Lesson Ideas series, the visits it shows are: The Eden Project giving children the chance to find out about the geography and science of tropics and the desert. The Blue…
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Two Clocks
This practical NRICH maths activity can help children understand that the analogue clock is really two scales superimposed on each other. This is what makes it so difficult for children to read. Focusing on the hands separately will help children understand what each one indicates. The novel context of this problem could provide…
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Design and Technology: National Curriculum for England 2004
This Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) document contains the 2004 revision of the Design and Technology National Curriculum. As with previous documents, there were no substantial revisions, and none at all to the Attainment Target statements. The role of CAD-CAM and new materials continued to be emphasised. Sustainability…
Deep Progress in Mathematics: the Improving Attainment in Mathematics Project
This resource, provided by Anne Watson, Els De Geest and Stephanie Prestage, describes how a group of ten teachers taught low attaining groups in secondary school, and what features were seen to be important. The teachers had a shared commitment to improving the attainment of their lowest attaining students by building on the belief…
Colour by Numbers - Image representation
Computers store drawings, photographs and other pictures using only numbers. The following activity demonstrates how they can do this. This resource includes ideas teachers can use to introduce the topic in order to develop understanding of image representation followed by two activities to be used as reinforcement; Kid fax and…
Top Ten Reasons Why Renewable Energy is Cool!
This poster from Practical Action has ten interesting and, in some cases, amusing facts that will appeal to students. The poster is high resolution and can be used for display.
General Number
This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles number in a variety of ways. Number grid generator has three spreadsheets and a guidance file. They allow numbers to be generated, by choosing a start number and a step, that can be used in a variety of ways to spot…
Continuing Professional Development for Teacher of Mathematics
Provided by the Advisory Committee on Mathematics Education (ACME), this resource was written in 2002. It includes recommendations on the steps to be taken, at that time, to raise the quality of mathematical provision in schools. Concerns regarding the poor uptake of students continuing to study mathematics at Post 16, the reduced…
Earth Observation from Space
This short video clip from Our Space shows Richard Garriott during his mission to the International Space Station, and what the Earth looks like when viewed from space. He takes a photograph of the stunning Palm Island development in Dubai, an example of the sort of information-gathering which can be done from space and used to study…
Data, Graphs, Charts, Measures and Money
This selection of spreadsheets, designed by the Primary National Strategies to aid teaching and learning, tackles data, graphs, charts, measures and money, in a variety of ways. Carroll diagram allows either shapes or numbers to be dragged into an either one or two criteria table. The criteria can be selected and the results…
Count the Dots - Binary Numbers
Data in computers is stored and transmitted as a series of zeros and ones. In this activity students explore how words and numbers can be represented using just these two symbols. This resource includes ideas teachers can use to introduce the topic in order to develop understanding of the binary system followed by six activities…
Recycling on the International Space Station
This clip, from NASA, joins engineers at NASA and astronauts on board the International Space Station to learn about the importance of recycling. Find out how NASA is solving the challenge of giving astronauts water to use without wasting any with the new Water Recovery System.
Easy PEAsy Seed Germination
From the Biotechnology and Biological Science Research Council (BBSRC), this investigation has students looking at the conditions needed for seeds to germinate and grow. It is suitable for Key Stage Two students investigating the growth and reproduction of plants and gives teachers suggestions for questions to ask, approaches for…
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