The Literacy Shed
The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.
Make a Snake Mobile
We show you how to make a simple snake mobile. This activity fits in well with a Chinese New Year topic as the snake is one of the zodiac animals.
UK Space Education Office
Quality resources to improve the teaching of STEM subjects in schools and inspire children through enrichment activities using space as a context for teaching. From ESERO UK, the UK space education office.
Fraction Fiddle
A fraction game where you need to meet orders in a cake shop. Match customer orders written as fractions to cakes that have been cut into segments.
The Array
Create and solve easy multiplications such as 9 x 3. Examine relationships between rows, columns and areas in arrays. A useful teaching resource to demonstrate multiplications on an IWB.
CBeebies Nursery Rhymes
A collection of nursery rhymes from the BBC such as The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Old MacDonald Had a Farm and more.
Virtual Unifix
This is a manipulative which has virtual Unifix which can be snapped together. Useful as a teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard.
Position and Location
Here is a fun, maths game that will help young learners practise classifying objects by position and location using terms such as under, inside, outside, below and more.
Grover's Winter Games
This game is probably suitable more for use at home than at school. It has three parts. The first has number to 15 number recognition activities, the second has shape patterns to complete and the third tests a child's ability to follow instructions.
The Treasure Map
An animated story about children who find a treasure map. Great as a story or it could be used as a story writing idea. Good also for following directions. Best in full screen mode.
