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I only share my very best work - creative, tried and tested resources. I have been teaching Science for more than fifteen years. Director of Science at Burnham Grammar School.
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Matching Pairs Interactive Game Creator
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. 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.
Updated April 2015 to contain a one player timer and improved feedback to responses.
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
The Science of Seeing Colours Assembly/ Starter
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.
Warm The Brain: Fun Logical Problem Solving Starters
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.
Matching Pairs Interactive Game Creator
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. 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.
Updated April 2015 to contain a one player timer and improved feedback to responses.
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
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Mental Maths Indices Higher
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.
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Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Maths Bundle of Five
A FREE exemplar Four in a Row game on Mental Maths is available to try before you buy.
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.
Five games are available. They are designed primarily for use at GCSE level. The questions are fully editable.
Four Pictures One Word - Science, Biology, Chemistry, Physics Literacy Quiz
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
Updated and expanded 18-08-2017
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Mental Maths GCSE Foundation 1
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 the foundation level GCSE exam. The questions are adapted from AQA non-calculator exam papers. A pen and paper may help some students at times.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Mental Maths GCSE Foundation 2
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 reduced price.
The level of challenge is aimed at the foundation level GCSE exam. The questions are adapted from AQA non-calculator exam papers. A pen and paper may help some students at times. This resource is the same as the free version described above but is unlocked for you to modify the questions.
Partial Solar Eclipse 20 March 2015
A partial solar eclipse will be visible from the UK from 0830 to 1030 on Friday 20 March 2015 - a school day! It will be at maximum at 0930. I have used this animated presentation to preview the event to my classes.
More than 80% of the Sun will be covered by the Moon. A total solar eclipse will be visible from The Faroe Islands and Svalbard.
The next time a decent partial eclipse will be visible from the UK of this magnitude will be 12 Aug 2026. After that the next total solar eclipse for the UK will be 23 Sept 2090. The previous one was the very cloudy day of 11 Aug 1999.
To observe safely you will need glasses or to project the Sun onto card through a telescope.
Never look directly at the Sun, especially through a telescope or binoculars, your eyes will be damaged.
Presentation updated 31-01-15
Please take a look at my other resources.
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Standard Units of Measure (AQA G14)
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 foundation ability level GCSE students. Typical questions are; 0.077m = 7.7cm, 4 hours = 240 minutes, 36m² square = 6m x 6m
The Science of Seeing Colours Assembly/ Starter
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.
Fuses lesson interactive
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.
1) Interactive plug parts recap
2) Fuses notes & calculations
3) Fuse wire practical
4) Dangerous appliance diagrams
5) Exam questions
Atomic emission & absorption spectra (AQA Trilogy 4.4.1.1) JHudson TES
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.
Two Team IWB Quiz Game Creator
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
Four in a Row Interactive Quiz Game: Factorising Quadratics
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 but it will serve as a useful starter at A-level. As an indication of the difficulty, the hardest expressions to factorise are;
x² + 2x - 35 = (x + 7)(x -5)
2x² + 7x + 3 = (2x + 1)(x + 3)
Pixels and Resolution AS Physics
An A-level lesson on pixel resolution. Originally used for OCR Advancing Physics Unit 1. Contains an animated zooming 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.
Balancing Equations
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.
Physics A2 A-level Revision Matching Pairs Games
Five interactive competitive games on A2 Physics topics of Astro, Capacitors, Gravity, Space and Thermophysics. 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
How to use your Brain - making your memory work for revision
Students learn a visual technique to remembering lists of words. Testing before and after learning the technique will reveal a massive improvement. The brain is much better at remembering images than words alone - examples of applying this to academic subject matter are given. The presentation links to a video clip of a world memory champion describing his technique.
This resource would be excellent for a whole year group activity or PSHE lesson.
Nuclear Fusion and Fission Animated
An animated presentation on fusion and fission. Suitable for use with GCSE or A-level Physics. Updated and extended April 2017
Circular Motion A-level Physics: Presentation, Worksheets and Game
A really strong collection of resources for teaching circular motion at A-level. I think even teachers who have been presenting this topic for decades will find some exciting ideas here.
The main presentation is animated with full notes and also contains links to film clips. It contains a careful derivation of the loop the loop treatment.
There are two documents with exam-style questions both written and multiple choice. These contain fully worked answers.
The “quickfire game” is an engaging recap race using questions on slips of paper.
Distance-Time & Speed-Time Graph Bingo
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.
Radioactive Half Lives
An animated presentation on radioactive half lives. The PowerPoint includes a differentiated starter quiz and graded plenary. Differentiated calculation worksheets with answers and also a crossword are contained as embedded files. Mainly tailored to GCSE higher level but could serve as a recap at A-level.