We have a new guide of how to create a treasure chest in PowerPoint. This simple to use guide gives you step-by-step instructions of how to create this Computing lesson. This guide also has the introduction of the different cursor styles that can be taught to your children. If you like our guides, follow us on Facebook and Instagram with our tag @martingouldendigitalresources for more ideas of how to teach Computing in your classrooms!

Have you been teaching Computing and you have come across lots of terms you are unsure of? Want to know which vocabulary the children should be learning alongside Computing? We have put together a short list of some go to vocabulary that will be useful for both teachers and children to learn alongside their Computing lessons. This free resource can be shared on screen or printed off for children to be easily access.

Struggling to come up with how to teach your children how to be safe online? This resource comes with instructions of how to embed e-safety into your general day to day teaching of Computing. Included in the files are: -Instructions of how to use it in your lessons Traffic light system to support the rating of e-safety Check out our Instagram page @martingouldendigitalresources of more ways to teach the children about online safety.

A document designed to help support the children when creating Newspaper reports on the computer. It separates key skills into the different year groups, that shows progression of key skills. Tutorial on our Instagram page, explaining how we create the layout. @martingouldendigitalresources

Ever made a resource on PowerPoint, but when you come to print it half of it is missing? Well this step by step guide is just for you! It explains with clear images, how to change the page set up to portrait/landscape and to change the paper size to A4/A3. This means you can make and print your resources without missing anything off! More helpful tutorials coming soon.

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.

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.

“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…

A step by step picture guide of how to build the Arc De Triomphe in Sketchup. Ideal for beginners as young as year 3!

“You arrive at three ancient doors. Which door do you choose?” Write your own adventure stories where you, the reader, choose your own path - like authors such as Ian Livingstone. Differentiated through 10,7 or 5 paragraphs, write them on the PowerPoint files provided and the hyperlink buttons will take you to the next part of the story. There are two sets of immersive PowerPoint files that each give you starting/linking sentences - provided are 1st person and 3rd person files. Perfect for practicing setting descriptions and creating writing with suspense! *Included are some images from a computer game called Legend of Grimrock. Please note that these images are readily available via their website and are simply added in this package for convenience, not profit.

Using the FREE program Sculptris, create this unique Ancient Egyptian Death Mask! This step-by-step picture guide will take you through the whole process - even if you haven't used the program before. Also included is a download link for the 3D model at various stages of sculpting. The models can be 3D printed or screenshots can be taken for displays/books.

Creating posters can be a relatively easy thing to do. Sometimes, we want to delve a little deeper and create dramatic looking posters. This involves teaching the children vital Computing/ICT skills across not just one program but several. Use this step-by-step picture guide to create WW2 Propaganda posters. This activity uses tools from across two software programs: PowerPoint and Artrage (A free art program). The download link for Artrage is attached. If you aren’t able to use Artrage, then you can use the 10 painted backgrounds that are included in this purchase.

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*

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 super straight forward, step-by-step picture guides to show you how to write simple formulae, create graphs/charts, sort, format conditionally etc.

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

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!

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*

Super quick and easy, whole class Computing activity. Drag and drop leaves, rocks and sticks into patterns and shaped using this PowerPoint file. Easily printed for displays or to go into books.