A fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. An interactive whiteboard or two remote mice works best. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. Very strongly recommended for all ages. This template allows you to make your own interactive whiteboard games. Making your own game should take about five minutes. A bonus matching pairs pictures template is included so you can include pictures and diagrams in your games. Nineteen exemplar Matching Pairs Games are included with editing enabled to let you customise them. There are many free examples of Matching Pairs Games to try before you buy. Please visit my shop; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/shop/bennyjohn5 bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

Ninety questions based on the popular iPad quiz game. Gets students oddly competitive and excited about literacy in Science. 90x Science slides, 32x Biology slides, 34x Chemistry slides, 35x Physics slides bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

This lesson uses carefully chosen examples with picture representations as well as chemical formulae. There are two differentiated worksheets (embedded in in the ppt) with answers and a plenary quiz. Thoroughly tried, tested and recommended. Twitter @JohnnyBHudson

This is my favourite optical illusion and it’s not well known. Could be used as an interactive starter in Physics, Biology or Art. I have used this several times for Science Week assemblies - a hall full of students audibly stunned at how their own eyes work. Strongly recommended.

A tried and tested lesson on absorption and emission spectra. Contains a recapping starter, an identifying spectra task and consolidation exercises. By using energy numbers for the levels students engage with the concept much better. Suitable for AQA Combined Science Trilogy 4.4.1.1 or AQA GCSE Physics 6.4.1.1 or A level Chemistry or Physics.

Very competitive, fast paced and really fun - my students favourite type of quiz. An interactive whiteboard quiz for two players answering questions simultaneously on each side of the IWB. This is the “creator” template allowing you to make new games with your choice of questions. This quiz won a Microsoft innovation award. Below are links to four free examples to try before you buy. Please note that performance may vary on some types of whiteboard. Energy Cells Forces Digestive system

A carefully designed lesson on fuses. It is designed to follow on from a lesson on wiring plugs. All worksheets include careful answers and there are lots of opportunities for extension work. Interactive plug parts recap Fuses notes & calculations Fuse wire practical Dangerous appliance diagrams Exam questions

An exciting A-level lesson on pixel resolution. Originally used for OCR Advancing Physics Unit 1. Contains an animated introduction to resolution, a very carefully worked example, an introductory starter quiz and ten pages worth of differentiated exam questions with answers and explanations. Useful for computer science too.

Four in a Row is a game for your whiteboard. Nothing needs to be printed or prepared to play this game. The game-play is somewhere between noughts and crosses and blockbusters. Two teams alternate, competing to correctly answer questions on the grid. The board is interactive - clicking tiles changes the colours and also reveals answers. A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Mental Maths is available to try before you buy. Four in a Row games on five maths topics are available individually from my shop or as a bundle at a discounted price. The level of challenge is aimed at higher ability level GCSE students. The questions are adapted from AQA exam papers. A pen and paper may help some students at times.

An animated presentation on fusion and fission. A really interesting lesson with lots here to engage students. Suitable for use with GCSE or A-level Physics. Updated and extended July 2019

Five interactive competitive games on AS Physics topics of Mechanics, Particles, Photoelectric Effect, Waves and Young Modulus. These will make a very welcome break from other less thrilling means of revision. The Matching Pairs Game is a fun and competitive interactive whiteboard game in which two teams take it in turns to match tiles. The game automatically scores and has a built in timer in the event of a draw. Students really enjoy the competitiveness. This game won a Microsoft innovation award. An editor is separately available to make your own games; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resource/matching-pairs-interactive-game-creator-11063058 These five games are also available together in a discounted bundle of ten A-level Matching Pairs Games; https://www.tes.com/teaching-resources/bundler/11560439 bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

A bingo game designed to get the whole class using their brains to consolidate this topic. There are 22 graph-based questions, the answer and method is shown after each question. The questions are in difficulty order. Surprisingly competitive.

Updated 19 Feb with a new extra edition indicating the AQA 2022 exam topics Either in the classroom or remote at home this is a great lesson (and relaxing for the teacher) Students use this pdf file on iPads/ tablets/ laptops. The emphasis is on student independence. The file contains 357 hyperlinked pages with 90 questions. Email the file to your class and use Adobe Acrobat Reader on “single page view” to optimise. I’d recommend asking students to submit notes they make on key points and record any rewards they receive for completing sections. Track student progress with the reward pictures: Jacob’s Ladder - circuit components questions Lightning - circuit components sudden death (repeated) Van Der Graaf - circuits Tesla Coil - circuits extension questions correct Equations - Plasma Ball Fake rewards reached by cheaty scrolling: Theremin, Box, Munro (none of these involve big sparks) Other eBooks; GCSE Particles & Matter GCSE Electricity GCSE Radioactivity GCSE Energy Naked Eye Astronomy A level Adding Resistors A level Young Modulus A level Engineering Moments of Inertia A level Engineering Pressure-Volume graphs bennyjohn5@hotmail.com

Six splendid puzzles to display on your interactive whiteboard. These make great lesson starters and are an essential part of a teacher's toolkit. You probably already know the River Crossing puzzle. The puzzles are animated to make them very attention grabbing. No printing is needed; all the puzzles should be solvable without the need to write anything down. Very engaging and fun.

This presentation was designed for a very successful interview lesson. The diagrams are animated and there are lots of AfL questions. A series of graded question sheets with answers are embedded allowing differentiation. Very clear and strongly organised ideas - recommended. Updated and expanded May 2022

An animated presentation on radioactive half-lives. Lots of examples and attractive applications. The PowerPoint includes a differentiated starter quiz and graded plenary. Differentiated calculation worksheets with answers are included. Mainly tailored to GCSE higher level but serves as a useful recap at A-level. Updated May 2022

Thoroughly tried, tested and recommended. This lesson uses carefully chosen examples with picture representations as well as chemical formulae. There are two differentiated worksheets (embedded in in the PowerPoint) with answers and a plenary quiz. Twitter @JohnHud84566861

I used this to teach refraction at GCSE level, but could work as an introduction for A-level. Uses a tractor stuck in the mud analogy to aid students in working out which direction rays bend. This resource also includes a starter quiz, plenary and question sheets with answers plus a Snell’s law extension for gifted students. There is plenty of material here which could easily be cropped to tailor to your own class.

A carefully animated model for current and voltage. Current is represented by soldiers running along wires, voltage is the chocolate bars (energy) they transfer. The presentation contains an entertaining starter, a quiz and worksheets with answers to review learning. I have found the model to be very effective with a huge range of ability levels from year 7 to year 12.