Enrich your curriculum during uncertain times. As part of a global experience as we return to school, open your classroom door. Can’t plan for trips at the moment but virtual visits offer all sorts of possibilities. Use the resource to find place to visit. Build these trips into your curriculum. In the future you can use them to do pre-visit preparations. A number of the places listed have teacher resources available. Suitable for students of all ages and schools across the world.

Can’t use the labs because of lockdown and distance learning? There are lots of interesting and exciting websites that offer science learning experiences – virtual biology labs, animations, videos, simulations. This is part of a series of virtual labs - chemistry, physics, general science. Involve your students in REAL science through citizen science experiences. Citizen science biology Citizen science chemistry Citizen science physics Citizen science bundle

Departmental game-changer! Lead the way in meet Gatsby Benchmarks by writing careers into every unit taught. Give teachers a tool to do just this. The resource it a spreadsheet which shows a list of physics modules in one column and a whole range of possible careers in the other. For teachers to add to their SOW. For every lesson it is possible to mention a careers relating to the module being taught. This helps the teacher comply with the government requirement to address careers in the curriculum to meet the Gatsby Benchmarks. Or given to students to help make a link with study and careers options. The link between a subject and a career is relevant to all schools, curricula , standards and specifications.

This simple worksheet explains to students (and possibly their teachers) how to make a creative word cloud using text relevant to a topic, 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. Suitable for all curricula e.g. UK, USA, IB Word clouds can be used for displays, section dividers in folders. Images can be simple clouds or a whole range of shapes which are seasonal, topical or just attractive.

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 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 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.

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.