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The resource is in response to the current Coronavirus issue. It is a WORD CLOUD that can be printed out, laminated and put on notice boards. The wording of the World Health Organisation webpage was used to produce the word cloud. There is also an instruction sheet to enable teachers and students to make their own images with different topics, colours and shapes.

Free resource! This is a PowerPoint presentation comprising 21 slides of which 8 are pictures showing 14 recent uses of solar energy by various countries across the world. In a rapidly changing world this presentation gives teachers and their students up-to-date knowledge. • Up to date information about the uses of solar cells including: • An engaging and visually attractive PowerPoint • Class practical instructions • A quiz for average ability • teacher guidance • SEN adaptation • differentiation opportunities • use of new technologies • health and safety • enrichment • extension homework Could be used in conjunction with Independent Research Project template and teacher guidance - differentiation tool- solar Can be used as part of an energy lesson, or a STEM day project.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government’s Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students (this one) • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government’s Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital foundation skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills for teachers • Digital Foundation skills for students • Digital Communication skills for teachers • Digital Communication skills for students • Digital Handling Information and content for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content for students • Digital Transaction skills for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills for students (this one) • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills for teachers (this one) • Digital Handling Information and Content skills for students • Digital Transaction audit skills for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers (this one) • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills for students (this one) The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content skills audit for students • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills for audit students • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers (this one) • [Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students](Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students) The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

After lockdown, when people return to school, suddenly digital literacy has become really important for both students and their teachers. As education is catapulted into the 21 century digital skills are at a premium and are developing rapidly. This resource provides a series of audits for schools derived from the UK government Essential digital skills framework which defines the digital skills adults need to safely benefit from, participate in and contribute to the digital world. There are 12 FREE documents in the series: • Digital Foundation skills audit for teachers • Digital Foundation skills audit for students • Digital Communication skills audit for teachers • Digital Communication skills audit for students • Digital Handling Information and Content audit for teachers • Digital Handling Information and Content audit for students (this one) • Digital Transaction skills audit for teachers • Digital Transaction skills audit for students • Digital Problem-Solving audit skills for teachers • Digital Problem-Solving skills audit for students • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for teachers • Digital Being Safe and Legal Online skills audit for students The wording for teachers, as the adults, is taken directly from the framework and turned into a checklist for schools to use. In the students’ checklists the wording has been slightly modified and the changes, made by the author, shown in red. The documents are in Word format to allow teachers to easily simplify and modify for their settings. Also available is detailed teacher guidance about how these documents can be used in schools, including strategies to develop skills gaps found through the audits and ideas about comparing and addresses mismatches between teachers and students’ digital skills.

This document gives advice to parents having to home school their children during the corona virus pandemic. The information is in two sections. There are ideas for free activities that engage young people such as on-line art, CAD, cartoon design, game design, music and painting. There is also a list of places to find resources.

Ideal for catch up post pandemic. Also a differentiation tool. NOW WITH ADDED TEACHERS’ GUIDE. This is ONE of a family of 14 resources aimed to encourage independent research skills for more able students. There is a blank template and example topics including: batteries (hyperlink) , electromagnetism, graphene, industrial processes, magnetism, making electricity, manufacture of polymers, metals, nanotechnology, newest elements ( atomic numbers over 100), rocks, solar energy, wind generation, This a one of many differentiation tools available to teachers. Research topics can be done in class, with books, in libraries, in rooms with computers or tablets. These topics would make an ideal cover lesson. Research could be published in a school newsletter, the school website or blog or in student publication magazines and blogs. Duration: This depends on the age and ability of the students. For youngest students it could be for a week’s homework. As students get older the tasks could be set for half a term, even a whole term, could be linked with a science fair, STEM activity, open evening, assembly or business or commerce event.

A word cloud creative activity on the topic of solar energy. This simple worksheet explains to students (and possibly their teachers) how to make a creative word cloud using text relevant to a lesson or series of lessons. It can be used as a differentiated activity for a whole range of students. More able can import text from an essay, a Scheme of Work, a curriculum document. Suitable for all curricula e.g. UK, USA, IB Word clouds can be used in books, folders and on notice boards.

Differentiation made easy! This resource provides differentiated practicals and quizzes for the FREE solar lesson. The higher level practical develops students investigative and team working skills; their report writing skills and prepares them for the world of work. These differentiated resources not only saves teachers time but provides Professional Development for newer teachers with ideas and strategies to help them improve their teaching skills. A strategy to stretch the more able students is a resource which aims to encourage independent research skills. There is a blank template and teacher guidance https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/independent-research-project-advanced-12192493 Another approach is ‘If this is the answer - what is the question (WITQ) in a word and visual form. The resource consists of a PowerPoint slide with a series of ‘answers’ relating to Solar Energy. Students are asked to create questions that would give these answers. The technique develops thinking skills as there are NO RIGHT QUESTIONS. The visual example is particularly appealing to students with dyslexia to students with Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and those with reading difficulties; lower ability students and a range of Special Educational Needs (especially if you allow them to speak their answer – not write it! Try using a digital recorder or voice to text for example); The blank template provided allow teachers to design their own resources. Word clouds appeal to a students’ creativity. The simple worksheet explains to students (and possibly their teachers) how to make a creative word cloud using text relevant to a lesson or series of lessons. It can be used as a differentiated activity for a whole range of students. More able can import text from an essay, a SOW, a curriculum document. Can also be used on display boards or in folders or exercise books… https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/solar-12272012

These are magnetism and electromagnetism wordsearches adapted to lower ability students and visually impaired students. Letters are larger and there are only 15 words in the lower ability sheet with the simplest words. Wordsearches are an excellent tool to develop and improve scientific vocabulary. Students should be encouraged to work together and say the words aloud to ensure they are internalised, The sheet suitable for students with visual impairment (SEND) has good contrast colours (black and yellow), recommended font ARIAL size of 14. They are suitable for students aged from 7 -15 for all curriculum