Students often have difficulties doing plans for assignments. This lesson shows students 4 types of planning. Venn Diagrams, Lists, MindMaps and Free Text. Surprised that my year 12's really needed this and figured that it needs to be taught from KS2 onwards. (The PDF is provided for Mac users and is the same as the Publisher file)

This Excel Spreadsheet just helps students to remember the items in the circular flow of income. The sheet is protected, but there is no password if you want to change the formulae. Ideal as a Starter or quick Plenary.

Fun little tutorial to teach all the things pupils want to do in Scratch, move, baddies and directional lasers. The videos are silent and the link is to the finished game on the Scratch Website. However most importantly it gives students the basic code to do their own ideas...

This is a complete Web Design module that can be used in Keystage 3 or as a refresher in Keystage 4. It uses the free software, Kompozer which is a WYSIWYG designer but enables you to see the code at a glance. In the module students design a Web Safety site, helping them to understand how to use the web safely. There are links to the software, the sample site and the planning lesson. (Videos are silent) Please be warned that students have made Internet safety disclosures during these lessons. Be prepared.

This guide accompanies the first episode of the series with exercises for students to do, before, during and after watching the video. It also provides a timeline, so that you can split the video appropriately. (You will need a copy of the episode for this resource to be useful)

This PowerPoint enables you to set a timeline for a story. You can either print the timeline or use the interactive version.

A spinner that enables you to assign plots at random. Also included is a print out version and a handout with plot summaries.

Due to popular demand, here is a copy of the 'comprehensive' lesson plan I used during my PGCE. It is a blank plan designed to be very comprehensive and it ensured that I covered as many of the standards as possible. With the template, each lesson took about 15 minutes to make. Of course feel free to take a Pick and Mix approach. I&'ve also included a link to my page on seating layouts for those who are interested, which includes a zipped set of WMF drawing files for use in Microsoft Office.

This lesson encourages students to design their own magazine cover and think about what is required to make something that is attractive enough to buy.

Simple set of matching cards to help students understand demand and supply graph shifts. (Simply cut them up and get the students to work out how they go together.) Hope they save somebody ten minutes work.

This is a crossword for the technical terms my students forget. I hope it's useful. I&'ve also included a link to Eclipse Crossword, which is the free app I used to create it.

This is a printable ICT GCSE Glossary to help students with the Edexcel GCSE in ICT. Annoyingly there is not one in the back of the students book, so I’ve tried to create this one for students folders. I’ve also included an Excel version, which can be used for resource development and on-screen viewing. Please let me know if there are any words missing.

This is a simple glossary for the Edexcel GCSE ICT. It can be used as a lookup tool for students, to ensure that students have the appropriate vocabulary and to create other resources. Please let me know if there are important words missing or words you would like including. This version is not intended for printing, but for on-screen use.

Creating role-playing cards

A lot of students don't know why spreadsheets are important and this little set of cut out cards shows how spreadsheets can be helpful to people.

Nice little activity to encourage students to use Formulae more carefully. Ideal for G&T year 8s, year 9s and 10s. I hope the students enjoy working it out. (Answers are provided)

This Slideshow teaches students to use Master Slides and backgrounds effectively.

This lesson shows students how to do effective slide builds for presentations. This is an important skill when presenting slide shows to slowly reveal information and keep the audience interested. This could also be used in English as part of their Speaking tasks.

This game is great as Plenary to the Data Protection Act or as a starter to remind students of the act. Hope you enjoy it.

I used to teach this a lot when I was an ESOL teacher and it never ceased to amaze me how creative my students could be, even the ones who barely had the vocabulary to describe their room at home came up with inspiring ideas. The idea is simple, show them