Resources

Get your class thinking and working creatively with our bank of teaching resources specifically aimed at developing thinking skills, motivating your pupils and stimulating creativity in your classroom.

Featured resources:

Internet inspiration...

'Sites for sore eyes' is a "How-to" guide to internet tools for primary and secondary teachers. Boost your ICT teaching with step-by-step instructions, online examples and a host of creative teaching ideas.

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Teaching word-problems...

Take the sting out of teaching word problems with our thinking skills pack designed to make everyday maths problems easier to understand.

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For thinking classrooms...

'Caution! Minds at work' is a collection of 25 printable posters to motivate your class.

Download your free sample here.

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Resource list:

Resources to develop thinking skills >>

365 things to make you go "Hmmm...": one big question, every day.

Think of a question: What sort of questions do your pupils ask? Also available as a downloadable Flash file (620kb).

Questions about questions: Get your class thinking about questions. Also available as a downloadable Flash file (533kb) or a print-friendly PDF (740kb).

Brain Awareness Week support pack for our question of the day (right-click here to save).

12 Days of Christmas: festive slideshow (also downloadable as Flash file (1.6MB) or Powerpoint (3.1MB) files) based on the traditional carol and our set of investigational maths worksheets (1.4MB) to accompany it.

Resources to motivate your pupils >>

Yesterday's News: anti-bullying resources.

'Caution! Minds at work': 25 motivational posters.

Resources to stimulate creativity in your classroom >>

Sites for sore eyes: lesson ideas and instructions for using the internet more creatively.

Ten-word stories: get your class writing extremely short stories. Includes downloadable worksheet.

Not just a story : which books mean something to you? Right-click to download the presentation (PPT 5.54MB) and accompanying worksheet (PDF 448KB).

Blank canvas: online sketching tool and plenty of inspiration!