Hi all! We teach Computing across different schools and often get asked for interactive resources - so that's what we make. Most resources you will find on here are interactive activities for the children to complete, either on their own device or as an interactive whiteboard activity! Please feel free to send requests or for variations of things found in our shop.
Hi all! We teach Computing across different schools and often get asked for interactive resources - so that's what we make. Most resources you will find on here are interactive activities for the children to complete, either on their own device or as an interactive whiteboard activity! Please feel free to send requests or for variations of things found in our shop.
A great Interactive Whiteboard Resource for learning about hobbies in French. Simply go into presentation mode, select a hobby, decide whether or not you like that hobby, (click the smiley face or sad face) read out the statement in French and then click the home button to choose another.
This is a super easy way to practice shading in fractions of shapes.
Click sections of the shapes to colour them in. Clicking them multiple times will rotate through 4 diffierent colours. Take on the challenge!
-Perfect for the Interactive Whiteboard or for individual use
-Over a 160 unique, editable questions
-5 levels of difficulty (self-differentiation)
-Special macros to create replay-ability and randomise questions.
*Note: You must enable macros on opening this PowerPoint file*
Use these two step-by-step picture guides to help you create digital graphs/charts. Print off the rainfall figures resources and teach you children how to enter information accurately into a database and then create a graph/chart from that data. Edit the titles, axes and colours. Perfect for honing Computing skills through Topic and Science!
Create brilliant pie, line and bar charts really easily using this resource pack. Including:
- Planning guide
- x2 step-by-step picture guides
- PowerPoint file: 3 sets of data ready to create graphs/charts
Get your children to create their very own creatures/animals with this fantastic resource. Learn about how 11 different animals on planet Earth have evolved, inherited and adapted to survive. Next, pick one of the strange planets included in this pack. Read about what life is like on this planet and then create your own creature/animal that that would survive there! You can do this in any way you like but, included in this resource, is a download link to some 3D animal templates!
Summary:
-11 attractive and annotated animal profiles that highlight how each creature has evolved, inherited and adapted to survive.
-7 strange planet profiles each with it’s own predators, prey and various weather conditions.
- 4 Scupltris 3D template files: 2-legged, 4-legged, bird and insect models. (download link included)
- Thank you note.
*Note, if you haven’t done any 3D sculpting before, click below to download a tutorial on how to use basic tools in Sculptris in order to make a head:
https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/guide-how-to-make-a-head-in-sculptris-3d-modelling-and-printing-11599345
A great Interactive Whiteboard Resource for learning about hobbies in Spanish. Simply go into presentation mode, select a hobby, decide whether or not you like that hobby, (click the smiley face or sad face) read out the statement in Spanish and then click the home button to choose another.
This is an interactive PowerPoint game for use in Spanish. It lets you choose an item of food and then you have to decide if you like that food or not. Selecting like/dislike will take you to another slide which contains the Spanish sentence. Clicking another button from here will take you back to the food select slide, ready to choose another food item.
Have yourself a Spanish Day! Gather your children around the interactive whiteboard for some interactive games that will teach them the Spanish names for animals, hobbies, food, numbers, days of the week and months of the year.
A variety of interactive whiteboard resources and Computing resources aimed at learning the basics in Spanish.
“Linn awoke, startled by a sudden jolt. As he slipped on his shoes he could sense that something wasn’t quite right…”
Write your own Titanic adventure stories where you, the reader and writer, get to choose your own path - just like Ian Livingstone the famous adventure book writer.
Differentiated 3 ways; on the computer, write 5,7 or 10 paragraphs describing a characters adventures through the sinking Titanic. These include cabins, steerage, upper deck, lower deck, first class lounge, grand staircase, bridge deck, boat deck, promenade deck and finally the lifeboats.
Once your paragraphs are written, play your PowerPoint as a slideshow from the beginning. Hyperlink buttons on each page will now present the reader with different options to take in order to complete their adventure. E.g. From your cabin, head towards steerage, the upper deck or the first class lounge.
Writing 1 or 2 paragraphs for each setting created dozens of teaching opportunities. Why not have each room be written for different effects? E.g. Suspense, setting description, senses, emotions…
The classic matching pairs game brought to your interactive whiteboard on a SMART notebook file. Choose from several different sizes of playing board depending on ability/activity length.
Please note: This resources will only work with the SMART Notebook software
Set sail across the seas in in a creaky, wooden ship destined for adventure, new lands or even treasure!
Included in this package:
A superb 12 minute video hook showing a 1st person experience of life as an adventurer. Check the map, raise the sail, steer the ship and dig for treasure where ‘X’ marks the spot!
A printable/editable instruction template to halp structure your writing.
Using the explorer video as a hook, get your children to write their instructions on ‘How to find treasure/land’ on the printable templates. Alternatively, tick off some Computing skills and get the children to type their instructions on the digital template.
If you want to make your own treasure maps, explorer hats or your own pirate pendants. Check out my other items on my TES shop HERE.
Pirates and Explorers
Choose from 5 different shaped hats and decorate them with a variety of items such as tassels, feathers, buttons and badges. The badges include all kinds of designs such as skull and bones, cross swords, flag, parrot, anchor and helm steering wheel.
A super simple to use PowerPoint file that allows you to drag and drop the items onto your hat. Rotate, resize and flip items to get the desired effect.
This resources is super great for teaching younger children how to manipulate objects on the screen and is perfect for individual use or group use on an interactive whiteboard.
Finally, with a couple of clicks, your hats can be printed out to create wonderful displays or look great in their books.
Using animals as part of your languages topic, but you don’t use French or Spanish? Then these editable animal flashcards are just what you need!
You will get 15 animal flashcards that you can add any language to, including English for any learners who have English as an additional language.
Why not check out our other language themed resources. Including a PowerPoint game using all of these animals. The PowerPoint can be found in our TES Shop HERE
Or by searching the TES resources for
‘Spanish-Interactive Whiteboard Game - Animal Names
A beautiful variety of space aliens to help count up to 30. Perfect for the interactive whiteboard as a teacher input/starter or as a continuous provision style activity.
Contains a whole bunch of unique aliens with a variety of features to explore and discuss. Each has a different number of colourful arms, legs, eyes, teeth, antennae and regular shaped mouths to identify.
This PowerPoint is set up to run like an interactive game, not just a dull slideshow. Run the PowerPoint and follow the instructions on screen. Simply count the red, blue, yellow or green aliens, as directed, and select the boxed number on screen. It will either chime to signal a correct answer or click and wiggle to tell you to try again. Choose from 5 different difficulty levels - higher difficulties have more aliens to count. The highest difficulty even asks you to count multiple colours of aliens.
Over 40 questions in total and includes a question randomiser to make it endlessly replayable!
Also, why not make some of your own aliens using an interactive, drag-and-drop activity?
It’s a perfect activity for the interactive whiteboard or for the children to work independently on the computer:
You can find the resource on TES at my shop:
www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/martinjgoulden
Or by searching the TES resources for
‘create your own alien’
And if you are looking for even more Space themed resources:
Click HERE to view the Wanted Posters
“I can’t drawwwww…”
Whilst drawing is a great skill to have, it sometimes gets in the way of what we need to do.
Using simple Computing skills, create awesome looking characters for your stories using this easy-to-use PowerPoint file. Drag, drop, copy and paste the different elements of the character, thinking carefully about each of your choices. Choose a skin tone, add hair, eyes, eyebrows, mouth, face paint, scars, jewelery and facial hair.
With a vast number of variations available in terms of colours, expressions, distinguishing features you can create hugely diverse characters from mean looking villains, withered old side characters to brave heroes and heroines!
On the final page, name your character and write a description.
Easily printable from PowerPoint to stick in books.
“I can’t drawwwww…”
Whilst drawing is a great skill to have, it sometimes gets in the way of what we need to do.
Using simple Computing skills, create awesome looking characters for your stories using this easy-to-use PowerPoint file. Drag, drop, copy and paste the different elements of the character, thinking carefully about each of your choices. Choose a face and then ready your adventurers by providing them with armour, jewellery, special equipment and weapons.
With a vast number of variations available, you can create hugely diverse set of characters from mean looking villains, withered old side characters to brave heroes and heroines!
On the final page, name your character and write a description.
Easily printable from PowerPoint to stick in books.
This resource is to follow on from our original Number Formation sheets. [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/number-formations-0-10-12346618]
Each sheet has the space to practice how to write the number as a digit and in words. It then has a variety of activities to use the number in context. Finding answers to sums, adding body parts to aliens and counting how many aliens.
The aliens used in this worksheet have been created using our ‘Alien Creator’ [https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/create-your-own-aliens-11395421]
Based on the retelling of Little Red Riding Hood by Martin Goulden this Microsoft PowerPoint document contains 3 drag and drop jigsaws to complete. Ideally suited to an Interactive Whiteboard activity as part of continuous provision. Each jigsaw contains 12 pieces. Each jigsaw portrays a scene from the story: 'Grandma's House', 'The Chase' and 'Happy Ever After'.
