Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
Resources for busy teachers of Maths and PE. In most cases you can just download, print and teach! If you would like to purchase more than one product at a time and there is not a bundle for it email me for a custom bundle to get 15% off the total price at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
A gymnastics balances task card students can use to copy counter balance and counter tension balance. Perfect for a gymnastics lesson on balances, partner work or routines! A total of 9 different balances are included, 5 counter tension and 4 counter balance.
This product is a less comprehensive version of my differentiated counter tension and counter balance task cards which includes more counter tensions and balances to copy from which are arranged by difficulty.
Need other gymnastics balances? Click here
Please email me on pickupandgoresources@gmail.com if you would like a custom gymnastics product.
This Halloween maths codebreaker fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a halloween joke. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art pictures included.
More Halloween codebreakers available here
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This Christmas/Holiday maths one step equations maze will give students practice with their solving equations skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Christmas. Great for a starter or early finishers near Christmas. Especially if you want students to practice and consolidate solving equations without using a traditional worksheet. The maze uses positive values of x only.
This activity is great because students can check their own answers as they go through and most of the time, they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
This freebie includes 1 maze with solutions and some great Holiday clipart.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more Christmas themed activities.
These self-checking printable maze worksheets will give students a fun way to review Multiplying and Dividing Negative Numbers. Great for use in a lesson on negative numbers when you don’t want to use traditional worksheets. Skills include a mixture of multiplying and dividing negative numbers. This is a fun way for students to consolidate multiplying and dividing negative numbers.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
Included
★3 mazes (labeled at the bottom left)
★Answer Key for each maze
Features:
★Easy to use
★Self-checking
★At least 9 questions for students to answer
★Engaging
★Check answers at a glance
★Full solutions
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revison tool for students who have complete a unit on negative numbers
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning
This is a more engaging way of reviewing content. It is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realize they are answering multiple questions.
Students work through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Want more multiplying and dividing negative numbers activities? Check out my multiplying and dividing BINGO activity here
Click here for more negative number resources.
A cross word and word search for Algebra key words.
Best used for KS3 but could be used for KS2 and KS4. I have included a crossword and word search with definitions instead of just words to find as it can be a good way to check students understanding of vocabulary (plus they love a wordsearch!). For less able students there is a word search with the clues and a wordbank to help them find the answers.
This product includes:
1 cross word with 13 clues and answers
1 word search with 13 clues and answers
1 word search 13 key words to find
Need a geometry key words word search or crossword? Click here
Need a number key words word search or crossword? Click here
A SOW / set of 6 lesson plans for hockey covering the following skills:
Dribbling
Push and slap passing
Block tackling
Individual attacking skills (push and run, roll out, v drag, drag left and right, lift)
Penalty/short corners
Game play
Click here to see lesson 1 for FREE
This SOW was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no hockey experience can teach it just as well as those with lots. You should be able to teach a lesson with minimal preparation and I made these so in most cases they can be just picked up and taught.
There is an assesssment matrix included and all lessons have levelled outcomes. The levels are the old national curriculum levels 3-8 however they are easily editable and changeable to your own assessment levels.
Each lesson has diagrams, assessment levels, differentiation , clear teaching points, links to videos that show the skill and afl opportunities. As well as clear explanations of the tasks. There are no timings included as each school can vary in terms of lesson time. They should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above.
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I also have individual lesson plans and other SOWs available for hockey please click here to see them.
If you have an requests for custom products and have any comments about the product here please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com
4 Stations/task cards for individual gymnastics balances. Useful in a lesson on balance or routines and great for independent work.There is a standing balances station, a kneeling and sitting balances station, a inverted balances station and a support balances station. There are enough balances on each station card to cater to complete beginners and for experienced gymnasts.
Colour and black and white versions included (to save on ink).
Recommendations for use:
Set up 4 different stations around the room and give students set times on each station then move them on (think circuit)
Split the group into 4 and give each group a station card - swap them over as needed
Place the balances in a central position and get students to pick on balance from each station that they should link together into a short sequence
Give to a non doer for them to see if their peers are accurately replicating the balances
Need other gymnastics balances? Click here
A treasure hunt on finding the circumference of a circle when given the radius or diameter. Perfect for a lesson on circumference of circles.
This one is Blue (easy) - Find the circumference of a circle . Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card. They answer the question on that card then find another card that has the answer on (they then note down that letter and so on).
Suggestions for use:
Print them off on A4 and scatter them around the room (students love getting out of their seats!)
Print the cards off 4 to a page and give them to students individually to do on their desk
I also have 2 other treasure hunts for circumference of circles on find the radius or diameter when given the circumference here or on finding the arc length or perimeter of sectors here.
You can get all 3 together as a bundle here.
Need more on circumference of circles:
Circumference and parts of a circle whole lesson
This Easter maths codebreaker gives students lots of practice at their times tables which helps them to reveal a groan worthy Easter Joke. A fun maths starter or reward for early finishers in the run up to Easter.
UPDATED - swapped the m and t over.
Similar to my Halloween codebreaker freebie which is a “TES PICKS” resource.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal an Easter joke, fun Easter clip art pictures included.
If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.
Christmas maths - tessellations. Christmas themed tessellation activity for students to complete in class or for homework. A great consolidation activity that can engage students at Christmas. This could more than a whole lesson if you get the students to tessellate a design and then also colour it (great for displays!).
Includes:
Geometric christmas stocking (easy)
For this shape there is the following types of sheets:
An A4 portrait sheet with small squares and a small shape to start students off
An A4 portrait sheet with big squares and a big shape to start students off
A small template which is approx 1/8 of A4
A big template which are on their own A4 page
Examples of how to tessellate the shape/pre-made colouring pages for students that are really struggling to tessellate the shape correctly.
More Christmas tessellations are available here.
Click here for more Christmas maths resources
Rounding to the nearest 10, 100, 1000 and whole numbers. 1 maze with full solutions are included. This is a fun way for students to consolidate rounding to 10, 100, 1000 and whole numbers.
This activity is great because students can self-check the answers and most of the time they don’t realise they are answering multiple questions.
Recommended uses for this activity
★a revision tool for students who have complete a unit on rounding to whole numbers and the nearest 10 etc
★A task for quick finishers and more able students
★ A starter to check for prior learning for students that are going to move onto rounding to decimal places
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more mazes on rounding.
A set of differentiated treasure hunts. Answers included.
Please see here for a FREE version of the Blue treasure hunt.
The 3 levels of difficulty are:
• Blue (easy) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is 1. E.g.
10x + y = 4
8x + y = 25
•Gold (medium) - solve simultaneous equations where the coefficient of x OR y is a factor of the other x or y E.g.
4y + 7x = 117
2y + 2x = 40
•Red (harder) - solve simultaneous equations where x and y are random integers or decimals E.g.
4y - 3x = 34.5
6y + 5x = 56.5
Circumference of circles treasure hunts. 3 different difficulties for circumference of circles included with these treasure hunts. Skills included are: finding the circumference when given the radius or diameter, finding the diameter or radius when given the circumference and finding the arc length and perimeter of sectors.
Updated - Changed some of the gold answers so they show the radius rather than the diameter of the circle.
Answers and pupil record cards included.
Please see herefor a free version of the blue treasure hunt.
The 3 levels of difficulty are:
• Blue (easy) -Find the circumference of a circle
•Gold (medium) - Find the diameter or radius when given the circumference
•Red (harder) - Find the arc length and perimeter of sectors
My other resources for circumference of a circle:
Differentiated worksheet on Circumference of circles
Circumference and parts of a circle whole lesson (download, print and teach)
A lesson on translations for use in a secondary transformations lessons. Power point and work booklet for teaching rotations are included. Skills include translating a shape when given worded instructions, translating a shape using vectors and describing the transformation.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Translate given shapes on a square grid/coordinate grid
Gold:Use vector notation for translations
Red:Describe fully a translation
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach translations, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)
[Free Translations treasure hunt available here](https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/translations-treasure-hunt-11809584
Additional translations worksheets available here
Differentiated unit of work on transformations. Included are everything you need to teach tranformations topics including reflections, rotations, enlargements, translations and combinations of transformations. There are fully resourced lessons, extra worksheets that could be used as homework/starter for the next lesson and treasure hunts. Grades are set up for GCSE but could easily be used for KS3.
Click here for the overview document.
UPDATED:
24/6/18 - to included differentiated worksheets for revision with mixed transformations
27/5/18 to include the enlargements GCSE higher differentiated worksheets.
Includes powerpoint, differentiated workbook and differentiated worksheets for the following:
-Rotation
-Reflection (Free worksheet here)
-Translation
-Enlargements Free lesson here
-Combinations of transformations
There is also a translations differentiated treasure hunt and describing transformations treasure hunt.
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach a lesson, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The worksheets/workbooks are fully differentiated and come with answers.
A lesson on reflections for use in a secondary transformations unit(whoe unit available here). Power point and work booklet for teaching reflections are included. Skills covered are reflecting a shape in a line on a square grid, reflecting a shape across a straight line on a coordinate grid, describing the reflection.
Time saving resource for busy teachers! You should be able to teach a lesson with hardly any preparation (mainly printing!). Fully differentiated objectives:
Blue:Reflect given shapes on a grid.
Gold:Reflect given shapes on a coordinate grid using a line such as x = 2
Red:Describe fully a reflection.
This resource includes:
• A PowerPoint
• Differentiated Work booklet that includes self-assessment sections
The PowerPoint includes everything you need to teach reflections, including animated examples. The lessons use the following format:
• Objective and levels
• A “how to teaching portion” with animated examples
• An AfL miniwhiteboard quiz
• Answers to all the booklet questions
• Plenary (with answers)
The powerpoint and booklet are currently set up for GCSE maths grade, however you can edit the grades to reflect KS3 or your own schools assessment criteria. In the word booklet if you change any grade (e.g the blue section) it should automatically change the rest of that colour into the same grade.
This will take up a whole lesson (between 45mins to 1h 15 dependent on how many questions the students get through)
FREE reflections differentiated worksheet available here
A no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice.
4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and all answers included. 80 questions in total.
This gymnastics balances bundle contains different paired balance resources, perfect for a gymnastics lesson on partner work, balances or routines.
It includes:
A differentiated task card students can use to copy counter balance and counter tension balances from.
A task card with a random mix of counter balance and counter tension
A task card with approx 40 paired balances that are differentiated by colour - easiest to hardest: Green, Yellow, Red , Purple
Please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com if you would like a custom gymnastics product or a custom bundle.
This product is designed to help with the composition of gymnastics routines and more specifically relationships between partners (matching and mirroring & canon and unison).
Included:
2 A4 landscape pages showing illustrations of matching and mirroring balances. This could either be used as a display or as a help card.
An A4 scaffolded task card students can use to help them with creating a sequence
Practical application in a lesson:
Give the lower ability pairs the matching and mirroring display posters for them to accurately replicate the balances on there
Give the middle ability students the task card to work through
Give the higher ability studets a sheet of balances and tell them they have to include matching and mirroring & canon and unsion in a short sequence.
This takes up an entire lesson.
This product is great when used with the following products:
Matching and mirroring quiz quiz trade cards(free)
Gymnastics assessment Levels matrix for KS3(free)
Compositional aspects of gymnastics sequences/routines(free)
Individual gymnastic balances (premium)
Please email me at pickupandgoresources@gmail.com if you would like a custom gymnastics balances product.
See here for my other gymnastics products.
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