One of the units from the Nuffield Primary Solutions in Design and Technology. Students design and make a moving picture that tells a nursery rhyme or a simple story, using paper, card, found pictures, found materials and paper fasteners.

The activity allows students to produce the picture and it can be...

Produced by LSIS, this activity uses a hands-on approach to translate theory into practice. It helps students to construct and adopt a personal, systematic approach to safe checking of power tools whenever they start work. By handling real power tools and checking for faults in the session, students apply their...

The activities in this Core Maths resource look at percentage increase and decrease both individually, in combination and in reverse. The resource is based on the Level 2 ‘Financial calculations’ resource developed by the Nuffield Foundation for the FSMQs, which includes detailed teacher notes, student information...

This resource provides a lesson plan and high quality supporting resources that help Year 4 pupils to identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions. Through these resources children will learn the names and functions of different types of teeth, how to look after their teeth and the...

This resource supports the electricity requirement of the Year 6 national curriculum supporting pupils to associate the brightness of a lamp with the number and voltage of cells in a circuit, to use recognised symbols when representing a simple circuit in a diagram and to design and make a lighting circuit for a...

This resource, published by Schofield & Sims, is the fourth in the Beta Mathematics series of text books which were developed for use by students of junior and middle school age. It continues the theme of previous books and allows students to review and extend their...

Collected Experiments contains all the experiments used in the sample scheme together with many others. It is intended for the use of teachers, and its purpose is two-fold:

1. to provide alternative experiments in case those given for the sample scheme are not suited to the particular conditions under which...

This resource has been created for primary children in mixed year group classes, from seven to nine years of age. The two weekly plans support learning about number, place value, addition and subtraction and contain differentiated activities for the different year groups, guided tasks and details of resources...

In this activity students examine the Olympic 100m winning times from 1928 to 2012. Both men's and women's times show an improvement. The challenge is how to show that there is an improving trend and to show which times show the most improvement. Scatter graphs,...

A collection of teaching resources, provided by the National Centre for Excellence in the Teaching of Mathematics (NCETM), which were published in a series of online magazines covering early years, primary, secondary, and further education for teachers of mathematics....

Breakthrough was a termly resource for teachers published between 1999 and 2001. Each edition highlighted a number of discoveries and inventions and the people who made them. This edition was published in September 2000.

[b]Ordering units of weight:[/b] the objective of this activity is to assess prior knowledge of learners and their understanding of metric units. Students are presented with a set of cards on which are written metric weights in grams, kilograms and in words. Students are required to place the cards in order of...

These games, published by BEAM for teachers of primary mathematics, can be used to practise and consolidate students' early mathematical understanding. The games, with their mathematical content, are:

• Three in a line - addition up to 12
• Add or subtract - addition and subtraction to 12
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These resources, published by BEAM, are aimed at Key Stage Two and give students opportunities to practise and consolidate their mathematical knowledge through playing games.

The games and their mathematical content are :

*Shapes - counting sides of shapes

*20 or more - addition to 20

*...

This is one of the 14 Background Books published for Stage III of the Nuffield Chemistry Sample Scheme. The books were highly illustrated and designed to be attractive. This book describes applications of chemistry.

There are three parts to this book:
*Part 1: The properties of colloids
Covering...