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
This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving equations with unknowns on both sides to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving equations. x could be negative or positive and some questions also require students to expand a single bracket before solving. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each)
See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills.
If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.
This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving one step equations to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving one step equations. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each)
See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills.
If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.
This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in solving 2 step equations to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice solving equations. x could be negative or positive and some questions also require students to expand a single bracket before solving. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each)
See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills.
If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.
This Halloween maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables, a great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween.
Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal a halloween picture. This particular picture reveals a pumpkin. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers. Fun Halloween clip art border included that students can also colour in.
Want more halloween multiplication activities?
Click here for multiplcation mazes.
Click here for multiplication treasure hunts.
Click here for Halloween times tables bingo
If you would like more Halloween themed maths activities please click here.
This Christmas maths code breaker uses skills learnt in finding the mean, median, mode and range to reveal a Christmas joke. Make your students feel like a spy trying to crack a code in a fun and novel way for students to practice finding averages.All the answers are integers. The sheet contains awesome Holiday clip art to help engage your learners at Christmas. Answers are included.
Students need to answer the questions and find each corresponding letters in order to reveal a Christmas joke. Great for starters or to give to early finishers.
Suggestions for use:
Give to students to do by themselves
Give for homework
Use as a collaborative task - (pairs/3s work out a row each)
See here for a FREE Christmas code breaker that uses timestables skills.
If you would like more Christmas themed math activities please click here.
Gymnastics lesson plan - rotations. This is a comprehensive lesson plan on rotations in gymnastics. This lesson is most suitable for students on their first unit of gymnastics (year 7). The lesson includes:
Warm up
Prior learning
The 3 axis of rotations and examples
Independent/teacher led tasks
AFL
Objectives and levels
Organisational points
See here for a SOW for year 7
This lesson was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little gymnastics 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.
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 assessment levels, diagrams, differentiation , clear teaching points, clear task explanations and afl opportunities. This lesson should provide enough tasks for lessons of 40 minutes and above.
It follows on from my gymnastics lesson 1- basic shapes(free) . Which you can also use to assess the quality of my work.
I also have task cards for rotations which will go really well with this lesson and can be purchased as a bundle here and a free variations in rolls task card here.
Check out my other gymnastics resources here
A treasure hunt for students to complete in class. Answers and student record sheet included.
They have to describe the following types of transformations:
-enlargements
-rotations
-reflections
-translations
This netball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for footwork and pivoting in netball for beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 netball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability.
If you want to assess the quality of my work check out a free lesson on passing and receiving in netball (year 7) here.
This lesson is the 3rd in my year 7 series. Find lesson 2 on receiving the ball on the move here and the SOW/set of lesson plans for year 7 here.
This was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no netball 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.
Each lesson has assessment levels, clear teaching points, afl opportunities, video links and 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.
The assessment levels are old national curriculum levels but the levels can be easily changed to reflect your own schools assessment models.
Click here for other Netball lesson plans
Adding fractions with uncommon denominators. A set of no frills worksheet, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions.
Hard difficulty on adding fractions. Both denominators are different.
4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total.
Find more fractions worksheets here
Want something a bit different? Click here for adding fractions with uncommon denominators mazes
This indices BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising index laws. Skills are most appropriate for foundation GCSE and include multiplying, dividing and raising a power to a power (brackets).
Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering!
This product includes:
★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions
★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing)
★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing)
★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers!
This indices maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson.
Click here for more indices activities, including worksheets and a foldable revision guide.
This netball lesson is a comprehensive lesson plan for footwork and pivoting in netball for beginners. It will be most appropriate for year 7 netball lessons OR for year 8 lower ability. The lesson includes: learning the names and areas of the position, how to make decisions when passing, game play, AFL quiz quiz trade cards, instructional cards for positions and for centre pass set up (which could also be used as display posters).
If you want to assess the quality of my work check out a free lesson on passing and receiving in netball (year 7) here.
This lesson is the 4th in my year 7 series. Find lesson 3 on footwork and pivoting here and the SOW/set of lesson plans for year 7 here.
This was created to save time for busy teachers and is made so teachers with little/no netball 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.
This lesson has assessment levels, clear teaching points, afl opportunities, a set of instructional cards, a set of plenary cards and 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.
The assessment levels are old national curriculum levels but the levels can be easily changed to reflect your own schools assessment models.
Click here for other Netball lesson plans
These Christmas maths multiplication mazes will give students lots of practice of their times tables and multiplication 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 practise and consolidate multiplication without using a traditional worksheet. 2 mazes work on timestables up to 12 and the other works on multiplying numbers between 2 and 12 by 2 digits.
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 product includes 3 unique mazes with solutions and some great Christmas clipart.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
Find more Christmas maths activities here.
This negative numbers BINGO activity is a really fun way of practising multiplying and dividing with negative numbers. Skills include multiplying with numbers between -12 and 12 and dividing with numbers that are multiples of -12 to 12.
Show the questions on a Smart Board or projector. Your students will love it and won’t realise how many questions they are answering!
This product includes:
★ A PowerPoint display with instructions, student choice bingo numbers and 40 questions
★All 40 numbers on screen for students to make their own 4 by 4 grid and pick their own numbers (saves on printing)
★32 unique student cards (4 per page of paper to save on printing)
★ Answers for the teacher to check if students have crossed off the right numbers!
This negative numbers maths bingo is useful for revision, prior learning checks, assessment for learning activities, a starter, a plenary or just a fun activity at the end of the lesson.
Click here for more negative numbers activities, including mazes and worksheets.
A fun 10 card treasure hunts for a function machines lesson. Skills covered are: finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations. Student record card and solutions included. Use as a starter for a lesson on solving equations or as AFL/ a plenary for a lesson on finding the input of a function machine.
Difficulties include
★ Gold (medium) - Finding the input of a function machine by using inverse operations
Students need to start on any random card and note down the letter on their recording card (first page). 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
See here for more function machines resources, including lessons and other treasure hunts.
A dividing decimals worksheet that is scaffolded with lots of questions of the same time for lower ability learners who need repetition.
Answers included on a separate sheet.
3 Adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators mazes. This is a more engaging and fun way to practice adding and subtracting fractions without the use of a traditional worksheet. Great for consolidation in an adding and subtracting fractions lesson.
This product includes 3 unique mazes with full solutions.
If you have students that need practise with just adding or subtracting please see the links below for more mazes that focus on just adding or subtracting with common denominators.
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.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question. This activity is colour coded blue (easy).
Need more?
Adding fractions mazes
Subtracting fractions mazes
Adding and subtracting fractions treasure hunt
These Halloween maths multiplication mazes will give students lots of practice of their times tables and multiplication skills. A great seasonal activity to engage students this halloween.Great for a starter or early finishers near halloween. Especially if you want students to practise and consolidate multiplication without using a traditional worksheet. 1 maze works on timestables up to 12 and the other works on multiplying 1 digit by 2 digits.
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 product includes 2 unique mazes with solutions and some great halloween clipart.
Students work their way through the maze, colouring the correct answers and following the path to the next question.
See here for more halloween themed activities.
This Easter maths colour by number fun activity is sure to give students lots of practice of their times tables. A great seasonal activity to engage students this Easter, and better still they are actually doing work!
Students need to answer the questions and find which colour corresponds to the answer s in order to reveal an Easter picture. This particular picture reveals a chick popping out of an egg. Great starter for lessons or to give to early finishers.
Want more Easter multiplication activities?
Click here for a multiplication codebreaker.
If you would like more Easter themed maths activities please click here.
This laws of indices foldable reference guide is a exciting way of students displaying information and revision materials for indices in their book. Great for use in a lesson on indices. Laws covered are multiplying indices, dividing indices, power of 0, raising a power to a power, fractional indices and negative indices. Students will find using this laws of indices foldable fun and they could even personalise it!
This laws of indices foldable comes in 3 different versions so you can personalise for each class.
With front cover, a general explanation and examples
With front cover, a general explanation and including space on the inside for students to draw examples
With front cover and a blank inside for complete freedom
Text instructions for use are included in the resource.
Click herefor a laws on indices differentiated worksheet that will go great with this foldable!
Adding fractions with common denominators. A set of no frills worksheets, good for students that need lots of practice with adding fractions.
4 x sets of worksheets each with 20 questions on and an answers sheet included. 80 questions in total.
Find more fractions worksheets here