A website with some very easy to use and pupil friendly interactive activities for reading, maths and more! Also contains some inspiring videos for educators!
Resources Tagged With: English
Class Tools.net
Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Perfect for virtual learning environments and IWBs.
My favorite tool is the “Random Name Picker” fruit machine. My students never argue over who goes first if the fruit machine chooses them!
resources also include:
- Diamond 9
- Fish Bone (Fishy Bob!!)
- Venn Diagram
- Time line
- Priority Targets
- Interactive Hamburger Diagram…. (perfect for essay writing?? )
- An interactive accelerated learning cycle
- A Jigsaw diagram
- A priority Chart
Story Bird – Big books
Storybird is full of Big Books that you can use on your interactive whiteboard. All of the books are free because they are created by their readers. You could even have a go at creating your own class big books and sharing them with each other. Good fun!
“Storybirds are short, visual
stories that you make with
family and friends to share
and (soon) print.”
BBC Schools – Age 11-16
The BBC’s website is full of brilliant resources that can be used on interactive whiteboards. This secondary site covers most subjects taught in Secondary schools and has some great interactive games as well as useful research based activities for students.
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Teachit.co.uk – English Teaching Online
This is a great website which focuses mainly on English and Literacy. I’ve been a member for years. It has loads of brilliant lesson ideas for everyday teaching and now has it’s own section of “whizzythings” which are specifically designed to help you create resources for you IWB. You can use some of the content for free but it is well worth getting a subscription either as a single user or as a school. All of the resources are created for teachers by teachers.
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