Excellent resource for teaching anything related to elements or the Periodic Table. Students can learn the symbols for elements by guessing the names of elements in order to try and find the battleships underneath. You can also use it to get students using groups and periods to guess the elements. You might even ask them to tell you how many occupied shells and element has, how many valence electrons it has, an elements likely charge as an ion or even its electron configuration (in terms of orbitals with A-level students). Very simple to use. Make sure your speakers are on and simply start the slideshow. Students select the square they would like to aim at by giving you the piece of information you want e.g. sodium, Na or sodium group 1 period 3 or sodium +1 etc, you click on the element they selected and find out whether they have hit one of the 3 ships. There are extra slides so you can play multiple times or you could easily modify one of the slides to make your own alternative positions/ships/games. Suitable with KS3 - elements KS4 - all specifications - structure of the periodic table KS5 - all specifications - electron configuarations, charges of ions, common oxidation states. Possible learning outcomes: Describe the structure of the periodic table. Recall the symbols of the first 20 elements. Describe an element's position in the table using groups and periods. Deduce the number of valence electrons an element has from its position in the periodic table. Deduce the number of occupied shells an element has from its position in the periodic table.

ALL SUBJECTS ALL LEVELS Use this powerpoint to make quizes and revision more interesting and competitive. When groups get questions correct, they can add an item to their castle. The best castle at the end of the game wins. Watch out though, some of the items you add to the castle can be used to attack other teams' castles. Play this in any number of ways, from simply allowing your students to build the best castle to having different rounds with rules for each character/item that enable your castle to defend against attacks from other castles or attack multiple castles at once. You might even allow the students to come up with their own rules if you are brave!

ALL SUBJECTS ALL LEVELS Make your revision activities fun and competitive using this boat race themed score board. Give each boat a name if you wish and start the powerpoint. All that remains then is to click on the boats when a team gets a question correct and they gradually move along the screen. Great for revision activities or making answering questions in teams competitive. Screen shot shows the boats playing for house points but you could change this for raffle tickets, stickers, reward points of another kind, sweets - whatever motivates your students! The powerpoint is set up so that you can have 5, 10 or 15 teams but this can easily be edited to have a different number.

Suitable for ALL AGES Suitable for all CURRICULA Use this powerpoint to make quizes and revision more interesting and competitive. When groups get questions correct, they can add a decoration to their christmas tree. The best tree at the end of the game wins.