Aliens have landed on Earth and Agent Lucy from the British Alien Invasion Team (BAIT) needs your help. Your students need to defeat the Aliens by taking over the school, one room at a time using only their brains. This is a delightful PPT introducing a long running game for your students. It explains the idea behind the game and has one example challenge (Create a team logo, following the specifications) This is a great way to keep kids motivated. Spend the week teaching them and then finish off the week with a challenge based on what they've learned. Excellent for formative assessment. Easily update the powerpoint with your own challenges and photos of the winning team.

Communicative or individual activity including 3 different sheets of Alien code, the answer key, and a key to help students with the decoding. 3 sets of Alien code with a key. Leave the code or messages in a 'space ship' for students to find and let them find the other part elsewhere or simply explain that you 'found these strange messages at home'. Students either communicate to decode the messages or work individually, depending what you want them to do the activity for. Sheet 1 are motivational 'fortune cookie' style messages. Sheet 2 include a treasure hunt based on 5 clues. Sufficiently generic to work in any school. Sheet 3 is a letter from the aliens requesting help. Students decode the message and then the teacher produces a list of whatever the students need to do in order to help them (for example, complete their maths homework, or find the answer to a difficult question.). The children (grades 2-8) I've done this activity with have loved it!

Integrate peer observation into your professional development programme with this ready-to-go pack. Type the names of 30 teachers into the spreadsheet and you have your observations planned for the year. Have your teachers fill in the observation form and provide face to face feedback - you'll find this a popular, easy to run programme with effective results. Spreadsheet and document have been left in editable formats to be adjusted to your own needs. The spreadsheet is designed to work for 30 teachers. The observation sheet is great for language teachers but may need some minor editing for other subjects. Decide for yourself!

A very simple spreadsheet to assess students on their progress while working in teams. The teacher inputs the student and team names on the left and the criteria across the top. The teacher then assigns each student a score out of five. The spreadsheet; - colour codes each student. Green for 4 or more, Orange for 3 and Red for 2 or less -Calculates the total team scores, highlighting the winning team(s). -Presents the data on a bar chart, to be printed off and shown to teams if the teacher wishes.

A fantastic card game for Halloween. Just print out one set of cards for every set of 6-8 students. Suitable for US/UK Players work in a team of 2 and play in a group of 8. Cards are laid out in 2 piles - Action cards and Ghoul cards. On your team's turn, take one card from each pack and follow the instructions [eg...Sculpt a witch with a blindfold, Act a vampire with a puppet (one player is the puppet master, the other the puppet)] The other teams guess. The first team to guess your ghoul correctly gets a point and you get a point. The team with the most points when the game ends is the winner. 2 versions depending on the size of cards you want. Either print out version 1 and cut the cards out, or use the full page version and adjust your printer settings to make half page cards etc.

A lovely Alien message decoding activity setting a task for students to do on the topic of racism. They must first decode the message, which tells them that racism, prejudice and discrimination are problems. They then have to find the meaning of these words and do a show or a poster introducing the topic and how these problems can be addressed. This Alien code activity works well with the Racism, discrimination and prejudice introductory PPT

A carefully prepared unit on Rosa Parks and the bus boycott, a great part of a wider civil rights or black history unit. The sequence takes students through the bus boycott story to the writing of a diary from the perspective of Rosa and/or James Blake. Lesson step outline included, story sequencing cards, Images, 3 different levels of text, 2 different scaffolding sheets on perspectives and 2 diary writing pages.

If you are a head of department, you assess a lot of teachers and you need to save some time providing your feedback. Use this tool to save you hours. Simply add in the most common comments that you make (eg ' This was a very teacher oriented class. I'd like to see some more student-student interaction'), add the names of the teachers and assign which comments you want to appear in the appraisal for which teachers. Then, print. Job done! This tool works up to a maximum of 30 teachers and 30 of your comments. If you need more teachers or more comments, simply save a second version of the tool.

When you are assessing student work, whether it's writing, group presentations, speeches or any other aspect of their school performance, there's a good chance that you have some comments which apply to multiple students. Use this tool to save you hours. Simply add in the most common comments that you make (eg ' You worked very hard on this speech, but it was very difficult to hear you.'), add the names of the students and assign which comments you want to appear in the feedback for which students. Then, print. Job done! This tool works up to a maximum of 30 students and now up to 100 of your comments. If you need more student names or more comments, simply save a second version of the tool.

A selection of 11 beautiful hand-drawn pictures for colouring. Look at the thumbnail to see which images are available and whether they are suitable for the children you want to give them to. I expect these will be used for colouring, but they could also be used to make documents look nicer, or for budding artists to try to copy. Pictures by Elle.

No dice? No problem. Just occasionally, you may want to roll a die but have no dice to hand. Maybe you want to have a fun way to select which team does an activity first, maybe you want to see who in the class can add all the numbers the fastest. There are countless reasons to use dice in your class, but there are also many reasons why they may not be practical or available SO.... Introducing the dice roller. Choose one die up to five dice. Roll them on screen by pressing f9, which generates random numbers on every die. Add fun by having students 'roll the dice' by holding f9 down for a few seconds with their eyes covered. Great way to play a dice game with no actual dice!

Create messages for your students written in alien code and print them out instantly. Alien message decoding can be a fantastic activity to engage students with a topic, or to introduce a task. This tool will allow you to type in any message in any (roman alphabet) language, and print out the message in alien code, along with a key. I love to leave these messages for students to find and watch the children's excitement as they try and decode.

A nice little generator for creating cards to hand out to students with, for example, their role for the class or the task their team needs to complete. Just type the text - header/subtext - and print from the next tab. I've included a set of library task cards as well as a generic set of role cards to start you off, but you can create whatever cards you like, with whatever text. No formatting required, you just need to adjust the cell boundaries if you type too much (a simple double click), or the page break boundaries (a drag and drop). This tool will create and print 8 cards with no trouble. If you need more cards, just print one set and edit the list.

A simple editable PPT for any interactive whiteboard/screen based multi choice game. Simply add your questions and edit the button text. Students choose a number, answer the question based on colour and get directed to a YES or a NO slide.