69 slides of the most popular hand tools, power hand tools, machines and work areas in Design & Technology.
The slides have two sets of the same tool on each page.
1 to be placed on a display board or turned into as booklet.
1 to be placed in tool cupboard or on machine,
This is used to enforce literacy in D&T.
Prompts to use in the construction area that prompt children of different physical landmarks across the United Kingdom.
Each landmark includes:
title
photo
location (country located on UK map and relevant flag)
height in meters
material it is built from
Location links to geography objectives focusing on the UK, Height links to year 1 maths curriculum and materials link to the materials taught in the year 1 curriculum.
22 landmarks include:
London Eye, St. Paul’s Cathedral, Buckingham Palace, Big Ben, Cardiff Castle, Edinburgh Castle, Titanic Museum
There is a blank page to that children can complete or be used to create your own.
These booklets support GCSE, English Language teachers in delivering sessions on how to write PEEL paragraphs for the GCSE, English Language Exam: Fiction. It can be used for all English Language exam boards. There are two booklets - content detailed below.
*Responding to Conflict in GCSE, Fictional Texts *
This booklet provides GCSE English Language teachers with a structured resource for teaching students how to analyze and respond to conflict in fictional texts. Through carefully crafted short extracts, students are introduced to the PEEL (Point, Evidence, Explanation, Link) method, enabling them to develop clear, focused, and detailed responses to exam-style questions.
The booklet includes:
Three short fictional extracts showcasing different types of conflict: sibling arguments, teacher-student confrontations, and relationship disagreements.
Exam-style questions designed to guide students in identifying and analyzing language techniques.
Model PEEL responses for each extract, providing clear examples of how to structure answers effectively.
Extension exercises encouraging deeper engagement with themes of conflict, tension, and emotional dynamics.
This resource is perfect for teachers looking to improve students’ ability to interpret language, explore character relationships, and construct coherent analytical paragraphs.
Exploring Psychological Narratives with PEEL
This booklet focuses on developing students’ analytical writing skills through psychological narratives. Designed to engage students with complex emotional and mental themes, it includes extracts and exercises aligned with GCSE English Language exam criteria.
Additional Resource! A further reading response unit has been added. It includes and extract from My Antonia by Willa Cather, a quotation activity and a model paragraph.
Key features include:
Short, rich extracts that explore anxiety, unease, and suspense, giving students an opportunity to analyze subtle language techniques.
Exam-style comprehension questions targeting skills such as interpreting metaphor, personification, and sensory imagery.
A model PEEL paragraph for each extract, showcasing how to structure responses to achieve higher marks.
Step-by-step guidance on writing effective topic sentences, selecting precise evidence, and linking ideas back to the question.
This booklet provides GCSE English Language teachers with a versatile tool to challenge students’ critical thinking and help them refine their analytical writing!
Construction Challenge Cards
Made using duplo and wooden bricks.
i.e. Can you make a dinosaur? Can you make a castle? Can you make a repeating pattern?
Create an engaging and inspiring construction area with this EYFS Construction Area Display Pack. This resource includes clear, child-friendly photos of key construction equipment and machinery such as excavators and cranes, designed to spark curiosity, imaginative play and meaningful talk.
Carefully chosen vocabulary cards introduce words such as design, build and construct, helping to develop early language skills and support role play, mark making and collaborative play. Ideal for continuous provision, this resource encourages children to explore how things are made while building confidence with new words linked to real-world experiences.
This project focuses on building and construction. The majority of children will be aware of buildings such as roads, bridges and houses in their local environment. They may have seen, for example, frameworks, trenches, scaffolding and a variety of tools and equipment linked to this activity. They may be familiar will construction kits either at home or in school, and free play should be encouraged to familiarise them with the parts and joining these in different ways.
The resources in this pack include two PowerPoint presentations with picture and questions on building roles, materials the use of tools, a vocabulary and full details of how the activities might be realised and fitted into themes in your school and to meet the requirements of the statutory framework.
Also included is updated guidance on using construction kits effectively with full advice on using, auditing and the value of kits in learning and teaching.
A full set of revision cards for the Educas Construction & the Built Environment specification (2025).
Includes 97 slides of questions and answers for pupils to use as a revision tool.
I have included both a PDF and a PP version (please open in slides to match fonts).
Use this assessment tool to establish a baseline and track the progress of EAL / ESL Learners with this Comprehensive Assessment Pack. Are you looking for a robust and reliable way to assess newly arrived English as an Additional Language (EAL) students in your setting? This meticulously designed EAL Assessment Pack, aligned with the widely recognized Proficiency in English (PiE) scale, provides everything you need to accurately assess proficiency across all key language skills.
This all-in-one resource covers the four core language skills:
Writing Assessment
Alphabet Recognition & Formation: A clear task to assess a student’s ability to write the alphabet in lowercase.
Vocabulary from Picture: An engaging activity where students list visible items from a detailed street scene.
Sentence Construction: Tasks for writing general sentences about a picture and sentences using specific openers.
Storyboard Recount: A visual sequence of six panels prompts students to write a coherent narrative, assessing their ability to recount events logically.
Reading Assessment
Alphabet Reading: Assess recognition of lowercase letters.
Graded Single Word Reading: From CVC words to more challenging multi-syllable words, this activity assesses decoding and recognition.
Fluency & Comprehension: A classic fable, “The Lion and the Mouse,” is provided for reading aloud, followed by differentiated comprehension questions ranging from simple recall to extended inference and opinion.
Speaking & Listening Assessment
Differentiated Questions: A carefully structured set of 15 questions, progressing from basic personal information (e.g., “What is your name?”) to more challenging hypothetical and reasoning questions (e.g., “Imagine you could travel anywhere…”). These questions are designed to encourage communication and investigate proficiency across tiers.
Why Choose the EAL / ESL Assessment Pack?
PiE Scale Alignment: Directly linked to the UK’s influential Proficiency in English (PiE) scale (Bands A-E).
Comprehensive Coverage: Assesses writing, speaking, listening, and reading elements in one convenient pack.
Graded Activities: Tasks are designed to progressively challenge students, suitable for various proficiency levels from “New to English” to “Developing Competence” and beyond.
Clear Mark Schemes & Rubrics: Includes detailed mark schemes for each section and a final comprehensive rubric to interpret overall scores against PiE bands.
Formative & Summative Use: Ideal for informing teaching and providing targeted support, as well as tracking progress.
Empower your EAL learners on their journey with accurate and insightful assessment!
A Diwali themed construction area enhancement. Can the children build a bridge for Rama and rescue Sita, you could add blue fabric for the water, Rama and Sita dolls or puppets. You could even set up as a busy fingers activity with pegs and lolly sticks. It comes with table sign and types of bridges visual discs
Visual poster, ideal for a reminder about what to expect to see in the construction area. Teachers and support staff can also use for prompting questions or to model the language used in the area.
Adopting the latest technology can be daunting for teams. But machine learning and artificial intelligence are helping make job sites more efficient and saving money in the process. AI solutions that have made an impact in other industries are beginning to emerge in the construction industry.
Robotics, AI, and the Internet of Things can reduce building costs by up to 20%. There are companies that are starting to offer self-driving construction machinery to perform repetitive tasks more efficiently than their human counterparts, such as pouring concrete, bricklaying, welding, and demolition.
Construction companies are starting to use AI and machine learning to better plan for distribution of labour and machinery across jobs.
The Adventure of Carcosa Guardian the AI Construction Anime, explores the beauty of Artificial Intelligent Construction Tool. In course of the story line, Carcosa girl, summons a Magical pen that will ask you to provide a side of the desire 2-D shape to sketch. You can enter any number between 50 and 150, due to the typical dimension configuration attribute in scratch programming; when the side of the Square to sketch is required from the user. Just follow the Mathemagic girl instruction and follow through the game; thereby, navigating through your Geometrical Dream World with the assistance of the Carcosa Guardian the Construction Genie Anime
Everything needed to set up an amazing construction area for children to build their own great walls! A great role play area for EYFS children, as well as brilliant for supporting the Chinese New Year topic in many year groups. Pack contains:
2 X ‘Super Builder’ Badges for children to wear
Chinese Flag colouring sheets
13 X task cards to stimulate talk between children as well as challenge them to build something a little more focussed
Huge bunting displaying ‘Great Wall of China Construction Area’ as well as the Chinese flag
12 X high quality photos of the Great Wall of China (can be printed multiple sizes)
‘What I need’ lists (lined and plain version), to encourage writing in role play
Wall design sheets
14 X fact cards displayed in speech bubbles to accompany the role play area and Chinese New Year topic in general
Have fun building, and Happy Chinese New Year!
The Teacher Traveller
After a year studying the impact of metacognition on academic results (and finding a really positive correlation)I put together a pack of 6 metacognitive tools for students to use in lesson.
The resource explains each tool and provides some example responses.
The tools are suitable for any subject and are easy to adapt for different abilities.
The PowerPoint also includes clear information on what metacognition is and why it is important.
This stafff presentation explains what metacognition is and why it is so important. It goes on to provide details of six different tools that can be used in the any classroom to develop students' meta-cognitive ability.
All the tools have been tried and tested with students from Year 7 to Year 13.
The presentation was developed on the back of a piece of academic research I condudcted into the effects of metacognition in the classroom.
This resource is a list of common carpentry and building handtools. The first worksheet lists the tool, has a description of what the tool is used for and has a picture. The second sheet is an activity for students to complete by filling in the description area.
This is useful for apprentices or those working in the construction industry that are new to NZ (worker from overseas) that need to get up to speed with names for tools and equipment within the industry
WJEC Construction breakdown of each Unit of the specification.
This is all the information and content needed for Units: 1, 2 & 3. The spreadsheet outlines all areas that need to be covered for the internal assessed content and the exam.
This is a great resource when used a RAG system with the exam content, it can also be used to assess each area and use as a marking tool.
Over 22 pages related to hand tools/ in the DT workshop environment.
Each page contains a different tool, description and image.
This resource is fully customisable and can be used as a teaching and learning resource and or a display.
Compatible with BTEC Construction. Specifically module 1 ‘Producing a timber product’ , criteria 1.1.
A major strand of science and technology studies in recent decades has related to the social construction of technology (SCOT) movement, whose adherents maintain that technological systems are determined just as much by social forces as by technological ones. Taking this SCOT notion as a starting point, and putting a focus on the user, this paper looks at some examples of the educational use of software tools that exploit the functionality of the software in ways far removed from the original design.
Construct the shapes Deputy Crimes needs for the tools he wants to aid his survival as well as cutting a couple of things in half using only a ruler and a protractor.
