My Square Mile was initiated by the Design Commission for Wales to encourage the use of the local built environment as an educational resource. It explores relationships between buildings, space and people to develop design awareness. It helps children understand how the environment is shaped and managed. It celebrates local distinctiveness and local identity. It nurtures emotional attachments and belonging-a sense of place. It raises issues about what the environment might be like in the future.

This interactive resource introduces pupils to shapes and patterns. There are a series of activities, all of which test pupils' ability to place shapes in a particular order. Pupils will also learn to differentiate between colours. The lesson can be simulated in the classroom using building blocks.

This resource pack revises the use of a thesaurus to choose appropriate synonyms and demonstrates how the choice of words can change the shade of meaning in poetry. Pupils can use the interactive activity to create their own concrete poem using a typical Welsh image as a background to build their poem upon and then print out the completed version. Alternatively the activity could be used for whole class demonstration before printing out backgrounds for the children to write their poem on.

A range of art videos and interactive activities based on the work of William Morgan. The resource includes interactive activities that allow pupils to create their tartan patterns, write letters, and mix colours.With thanks to UWIC Press for permission to use the Let's Look videos http://www.uwicpress.co.uk/primary-design-c-8.html

A comprehensive set of teaching plans and interactive resources using a thematic approach to skills based learning The unit is designed to be flexible to the teacher’s needs. Use the whole unit, following the plans or take individual activities to blend with your own resources based on healthy living.

This course aims at allowing primary school teachers who have little or no French at all to deliver effectively French lessons for year 5/6.

Activity designed for pupils to think about and investigate shelters using a set of 11 photographs.

Comparisons of buildings from Victorian to present day.

The unit is split into three sections giving information about the effects of waste on the environment and interactive games that allow pupils to learn how to minimise those effects. Section 1 introduces the pupils to the concepts of reducing, re-using and recycling waste to help overcome the negative effects on the environment. Section 2 has a timed interactive game where pupils need to decide whether different items of waste are suitable for reusing, reducing or recycling. Section 3 has an interactive game to teach pupils about the type of recycling bank different items should be placed in.

This pack consists of several activities that could be used to help pupils to examine sentences, look for key features and identify different sentence types. The activities will: allow the teacher to interactively demonstrate different types of sentences and allow pupils to sort sentences into the relevant groups. This pack contains: seven screens for use on the interactive, whiteboard , and three worksheets.

An animation shows the spelling of words with long a, e, i, o and u vowel sounds. Pupils see how split digraphs are used to spell these vowel sounds. Pupils are asked to make words using the Wordmaker machine. If the answer is correct the word is spoken and a picture appears. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.

A resource that investigates what constitutes a healthy balanced diet.

A series of resources looking at aspects of 'Our Bodies'.

This lesson contains activities designed to illustrate to pupils the main features of wheels and axles and how to make a simple vehicle. The first activity shows the effects of placing axles off centre. The second shows how two axles and a chassis can make a moving vehicle.

This resource pack is designed to teach the differences and similarities in working life between the past and the present over several lessons, or when needed. The pack is a visual stimulus to promote discussion and illustrates why jobs were different in the past. Clothing and tools are covered in more detail. In this pack pupils should learn to: * make comparisons about the way we live today and lived in the past * discuss what life must have been like in past times * describe the jobs needed in the past, and today

This resource provides teachers with a range of stimulus for developing lessons for Black History Week. Each activity includes a biography of the famous person with accompanying group and thinking skill activities.

A game testing children's addition and subtraction skills, reinforcing key food safety messages.

Performing and composing as a group with minibeasts making up the music. [Correct teacher notes now uploaded.]

The calendar is a collection of tasks and activities related to seasonal changes in the weather and how this in turn affects plants, animals, birds, food and farming. Key features in January and February : •Winter weather •Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2009 The project aims to encourage pupils to engage and observe nature and also to motivate them to produce their own digital calendar.

A range of art videos and interactive activities based on the work of Alison Mercer. The pack looks closely at colours and fruit and includes an interactive activity that allow pupils to create a wax resist painting. With thanks to UWIC Press for permission to use the Let's Look videos http://www.uwicpress.co.uk/primary-design-c-8.html