Extra freebies

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But we need you to sign up to access our free files and help our teacher contributors!  However, we have provided a list of  stuff which is free to use and download which you can use to build excellent lessons... and share them on Teachable.net.

Pictures

Relevant images always seem to take ages to find.  A good website is worth a thousand images... here are three of the best

A clever search engine for Flickr images; a large database of free-to-use material.  Particularly useful for natural history / biology images, as it recognises images that are of plants, insects etc (www.behold.cc/ )

A topically-arranged library of education-relevant images (/gallery.nen.gov.uk/)

  Over 150,000 clip art images for teachers to use.

Clear listing of the most popular open-source programs to use in schools.(freesoftwareforstudents.org.uk/)

Templates

On Teachable's main listings you find ready-to-go files; these are templates that could be adapted to any lesson with a bit of time. 

Catchphrase:  Simple starter based on a popular UK quiz show.  To adapt it you just need an image to hide behind the flashing squares (see above).  Ask a pupil to come up to the board and try to reveal a flashing square by touching it.  In Office 2003:  open the PowerPoint file, Click on VIEW, then MASTER, then SLIDE MASTER.  Select the current image, then Click on INSERT, then PICTURE, then FROM FILE and choose the picture you wish to insert.  Make the image bigger or smaller so it will fit behind the flashing tiles…you can check this by viewing the slideshow.  Contributed by Henry Cordy.


Bubble-splat:  An instant way to make a quiz or Q&A plenary a lot more fun.  Made for the interactive whiteboard, but could be played via a laptop and projector.  Ask a pupil to come up to the board and try to reveal a flashing square by touching it.  Pupils splat one of the cartoon characters in a bubble to reveal how many points the question is worth.  The teacher asks a question and the team gets the bubble points if they get it right.   Contributed by Henry Cordy.



Question of Sport Plenary  Make the plenary more fun by allowing the class to have a go at revising their learning.  Pick a pupil to start the round, they answer the question, and then nominate another classmate to have a go.  Contributed by Sharon Dalby.

Administrative Time-savers

Classroom time-savers.  Mainly for primary school.  30 pages of posters, templates, forms and certificates to print off and use in the classroom.
Kindly contributed by Timesaversforteachers.com.  The pack can be bought in book form here.

Reward stickers  Save money on pre-printed stickers with these customisable and reusable files (Dog & Mad Scientist graphics). Open the files in Word, then go to the Find and Replace function and replace 'Teacher' with your name. You can source cheap 8x3 label sheets from eBay. Contributed by Henry Cordy.