Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Welcome to the Online Teaching Resources TES shop. Here you'll find hundreds of KS1, KS2, KS3 and KS4 teaching resources in the form of editable PowerPoints and worksheets for English, Maths, Science and History. All materials are made with the UK National Curriculum in mind and have been created to engage and enthuse learners. You can find out more and access hundreds more brilliant resources at our websites www.Teacher-of-Primary.com and www.Teacher-of-English.com.
Symmetry - Year 4
In 'Symmetry - Year 4' pupils will identify lines of symmetry in 2-D shapes and complete a simple symmetric shape. This is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering the Year 4 geometry curriculum objectives . Content includes:
1. A symmetry PowerPoint presentation.
2. Activities to support the teaching of these objectives and 4 accompanying worksheets.
3. One further worksheet with answers.
‘Symmetry - Year 4’ is editable so teachers can adapt the resource to meet their individual teaching needs.
Angles - Year 4
In 'Angles - Year 4' pupils focus on recognising and comparing and ordering right, acute and obtuse angles. This is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering the Year 4 geometry curriculum objectives. Content includes:
1. A PowerPoint lesson
2. Activities to support the teaching of these objectives
3. Two accompanying worksheets with answers
‘Angles - Year 4’ is ready to teach but it is also fully editable so teachers can adapt the resource to meet their individual teaching needs.
Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen
Our Dulce et Decorum Est teaching resource is made up of a 39-slide PowerPoint presentation with 4 worksheets. The resource includes a range of activities designed for teaching the poem at GCSE level and the materials can be used as a standalone lesson on Dulce et Decorum Est or incorporated into a wider unit of work on war poetry.
Contents include:
A brief biography of Wilfred Owen
The historical and social context of World War One, trench warfare, war propaganda and recruiting poetry - film footage included
An introduction to the poem, including a video reading of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
A copy of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Consolidation of understanding and comprehension tasks
Wilfred Owen's use of imagery in 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Owen's use of structure and poetic techniques in the poem
The theme and message of 'Dulce et Decorum Est'
Links to a video reading of Dulce et Decorum Est and relevant World War One history resources
To preview a selection of slides from 'Dulce et Decorum Est' please click on the images.
Comparing and Classifying Shapes - Year 4
In this Year 4 maths teaching resource, pupils compare and classify geometric shapes based on their properties and sizes. This lesson covers the year 4 curriculum objective in the maths programme of study (Geometry - properties of shapes). Content includes:
2-D shape recap
Regular and irregular polygon recap
Different types of triangles (right angled, equilateral, isosceles, scalene) explanation
Different types of quadrilaterals (square, rhombus, rectangle, parallelogram, trapezium) explanation
What are parallel sides explanation
Activities to support the teaching of this objective and 4 accompanying worksheets
1 further worksheet with answers
‘Comparing and Classifying Shapes - Year 4’ is fully editable so teachers can adapt the resource, if they wish, to suit the needs of each class they teach.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more Year 4 Geometry resources:
Angles - Year 4
Symmetry - Year 4
Year 4 Geometry (properties of shapes) Bundle
Coordinates - Year 4
Translations - Year 4
Drawing Shapes on a Grid - Year 4
Year 4 Geometry Bundle
The Highwayman - Unit of Work - Teaching Resources
120-slide PowerPoint Presentation
15 lessons
19 PDF Worksheets
PDF copy of the poem
PDF lesson overview
This engaging scheme of work explores the poem ‘The Highwayman’ verse by verse, analysing its narrative, characters, themes and language through a range of stimulating activities. These teaching resources can be used with either Year 6 (KS2) or Year 7/8 (KS3) depending on the ability of the students.
Our unit for The Highwayman includes planning (planning provided with a 15-lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 19 accompanying PDF worksheets. The resource can be used to teach a whole class text or as part of a guided reading programme.
To preview ‘The Highwayman’ unit of work in detail refer to the images. Click on an image and it will expand, allowing you to view each PowerPoint slide in the teaching resource.
Activities contained in the lessons include:
Engaging verse by verse activities to consolidate understanding as children read through the poem
Analysis of the characters of The Highwayman, Bess and Tim the ostler
Exploration of the poem’s key themes
Developing knowledge and understanding of poetic devices – similes, metaphors, building tension, tone and mood
Using Point/Evidence/Explain to write about the poem
Alfred Noyes’s ‘message’ – exploring the author’s purpose
Cloze and sequencing activities to consolidate understanding
Analysis of language in detail
Role play - hot-seating activities to aid understating of characters
Developing understanding of key characters through empathy writing activities
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The Lady of Shalott
Conflict Poetry
Christmas Poetry
Stone Cold - Unit of Work
(18-lesson, 203-slide PowerPoint-based unit of work with 49 worksheets)
Stone Cold is an 18-lesson teaching unit made up of a 203-slide editable PowerPoint presentation and a booklet of 49 worksheets.
This Year 9 unit explores every chapter of the novel in detail and covers:
Exploring attitudes to homelessness
Reading and comprehension questions
Developing understanding of implicit and explicit meaning
Developing deduction and other key reading skills
Exploring themes: homelessness, crime and punishment, family breakdown, the welfare state, poverty
Speaking and listening activities
Robert Swindells’ use of language in Stone Cold
Character profiles and analysis - Link, Shelter, Ginger, Gail, Vince
Empathy and descriptive writing
Non-fiction writing
And lots more!
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more resources for popular KS3 novels:
Boys Don’t Cry
Cirque Du Freak
Face
Holes
Noughts and Crosses
Skellig
The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night
The Demon Headmaster
The Silver Sword
The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant: KS2 Science Teaching Resource
This KS2 science teaching resource explores the part that flowers play in the life cycle of flowering plants, including pollination, seed formation and seed dispersal. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering the curriculum objectives in the year 3 science programme of study (Plants).
'The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant' is a colourful and engaging PowerPoint presentation with 5 accompanying worksheets. Content includes:
Link to an introductory video
What is the life cycle of a flowering plant (seed, germination, growing stage, pollination, fertilisation, seed dispersal)
The life cycle of a flowering plant worksheet
Link to a plant reproduction video
Plant reproduction, taking a closer look at pollination and fertilisation
Plant reproduction worksheet
Pollination quiz with accompanying worksheet
Pollination activity and accompanying worksheets
What is seed dispersal and the different methods (wind, animal, water, explosion)
Seed dispersal quiz with accompanying worksheet
Link to a seed dispersal video
'The Life Cycle of a Flowering Plant' is fully editable so teachers can adapt the resource to suit the needs of each class they teach.
Plants and Water - Year 3
In this science teaching resource pupils will learn about the importance of water to plant life and investigate the way in which water is transported within plants. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a lesson covering the year 3 science curriculum objective listed below:
- investigate the way in which water is transported within plants
'Plants and Water - Year 3' is an engaging PowerPoint presentation including:
Link to an introductory video
An explanation of how water is transported within plants
Science activity and accompanying worksheets
Water transportation in plants activity and worksheet with answers
'Plants and Water - Year 3' is fully editable so teachers can adapt the resource to suit their individual teaching requirements.
In this teaching resource pupils will be taught to identify and name the main parts of the circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood. It contains a 35 slide PowerPoint presentation and 2 worksheets. This science teaching resource is an ideal tool to use in a lesson covering the year 6 science curriculum objective below:
Year 6 science programme of study - Animals, including humans:
- identify and name the main parts of the human circulatory system, and describe the functions of the heart, blood vessels and blood
'The Circulatory System' is fully editable so teachers have the freedom to adapt the resource to meet the needs of each class they teach.
Skeletons - Year 3
KS2 Science Teaching Resource
PowerPoint presentation and seven accompanying worksheets.
In this science teaching resource pupils are taught about human and animal skeletons. ‘Skeletons - Year 3’ has been designed to use in a lesson covering the year 3 science curriculum objective:
Animals, including humans:
identify that humans and some other animals have skeletons and muscles for support, protection and movement
Content includes:
Link to an introductory video
A 3-D skeleton model teaching aid
Identifying some human bones activity and two accompanying worksheets
Identifying the main bones of the body and worksheet
Functions of the skeleton
Explanation of joints and ligaments (hinge joints and ball and socket joints)
Which bones protect which organs?
How to take care of bones
Animal skeletons and an explanation of vertebrates and invertebrates
Skeleton detective activity - match the skeleton to the animal and an accompanying worksheet
Animal skeleton sorting activity and accompanying worksheet
Skeleton quiz and accompanying worksheet
Useful links
Make your own skeleton cut out model
‘Skeletons - Year 3’ is completely editable so you have the freedom to adapt the resource to suit each class you teach.
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Nutrition - Year 3
Muscles - Year 3
TThe Digestive System - Year 4
In this science teaching resource pupils will learn about the simple functions of the basic parts of the human digestive system. 'The Digestive System' is an ideal teaching aid to use during a lesson covering the year 4 science curriculum objective listed below.
- describe the simple functions of the basic parts of the digestive system in humans
'The Digestive System' is a colourful and engaging PowerPoint presentation that includes:
A link to an introductory video
Definitions of digestion and the digestive system
Description of the journey of a hotdog as it makes it way through the parts of the digestive system (mouth, oesophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine)
Labelling the parts of the digestive system activity and accompanying differentiated worksheet
Placing the parts of the digestive system in the correct order activity and accompanying worksheet
Functions of the parts of the digestive system matching activity and accompanying worksheet
Digestive system quiz and worksheet
Tell your own story of the journey of your lunch activity and differentiated worksheet
Useful links
'The Digestive System' is fully editable so you can adapt the resource to suit the individual needs of each class you teach.
Teeth - KS2 Science Teaching Resource
PowerPoint presentation and 7 accompanying worksheets.
In this science teaching resource pupils are taught how to identify human teeth (incisors, canines, premolars, molars) and all about their simple functions. 'Teeth' has been designed to use in a lesson covering the year 4 science curriculum objective:
Animals, including humans
- identify the different types of teeth in humans and their simple functions
Content includes:
- explanation of why we need teeth
- types of human teeth
- functions of human teeth
- differences between carnivore and herbivore teeth in other animals and accompanying worksheet with answers
- human teeth labelling activity and worksheet
- identifying human teeth activity and accompanying worksheet
- teeth functions activity and worksheet
- teeth quiz and worksheet
- what is tooth decay? and its causes
- tooth decay class experiment and two worksheets
- tooth decay prevention
- tooth decay quiz and worksheet
- tooth decay worksheet to check understanding with answers
'Teeth' is completely editable so you have the freedom to adapt the resource to suit each class you teach.
Food Chains - Year 4
This science teaching resource has been designed to introduce pupils to food chains. It is an ideal teaching aid to use in a class covering the year 4 science curriculum objective below:
construct and interpret a variety of food chains, identifying producers, predators and prey
This engaging animated PowerPoint presentation includes:
What are producers, herbivores, carnivores, omnivores, predators and prey?
Herbivore and carnivore interactive activity and accompanying worksheet
Predator and prey interactive activity and accompanying worksheet
What are food chains?
Food chain sorting interactive activity and accompanying worksheet
Food chain quiz and accompanying worksheet
Create your own food chains activity and accompanying worksheet
An explanation of how a change in one part of the food chain can change the food chain as a whole
Mini food chain project and accompanying worksheet
Further worksheet to check understanding with answers
Useful links
‘Food Chains’ can be fully edited so that you are able to adapt the resource to suit each class you teach.
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Teeth
The Digestive System
This teaching resource includes a 198 slide PowerPoint, 27 printable worksheets and 21 step by step lessons to help teach one of English Literature’s most popular and enduring novels.
Every lesson in the unit of work is planned using the four part lesson format and all slides are fully editable.
This Lord of the Flies teaching resource contains the following activities:
A brief William Golding biography
The novel’s historical and social context
Activities to develop knowledge of the plot, characters and themes
Golding’s message and the role of setting, symbolism and language
Role playing and empathy activities
And much more!
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see more GCSE English Literature Prose resources:
A Christmas Carol
Animal Farm
Anita and Me
Boys Don’t Cry
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Of Mice and Men
Writing to Persuade - Unit of Work
(91-slide PowerPoint and 8 worksheets)
Writing to Persuade contains a series of lessons designed to help students learn how to write a piece of effective persuasive writing. The resource includes a variety of activities suitable for GCSE students of all abilities.
‘Writing to Persuade’ contents include
Defining writing to persuade.
Understanding the form and purpose of a text.
How audience affects the composition of a text.
How to plan, structure and organise a piece of persuasive writing.
How to use fact and opinion, emotive language and flattery to persuade.
Developing understanding of rhetorical techniques (rhetorical questions, the rule of 3, etc).
How to produce a piece of persuasive writing under exam conditions.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar resources:
Writing a Review
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Writing a Formal Letter - Year 5 and 6
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Writing Effective Story Openings
Descriptive Writing - Year 5/6
Writing to Entertain
Writing a Formal Letter - Year 7/8
Descriptive Writing - Year 7/8
Writing Fiction - Creating Characters - KS3
KS3 Speech Writing
GCSE Speech Writing
GCSE English Narrative Writing
GCSE English Writing Fiction - Descriptive Writing
Macbeth GCSE Unit of Work
Macbeth is a GCSE unit of work containing a 192-slide PowerPoint, 44 worksheets and lesson plans. This engaging scheme of work explores the play act by act and scene by scene, analysing its plot, characters, themes, language and historical context through a range of stimulating activities.
These GCSE Macbeth teaching resources include planning (lesson plans and a unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and twenty accompanying PDF worksheets and are designed to teach Macbeth at GCSE. The unit can be used if you are following the AQA, Eduqas, Edexcel or OCR GCSE course.
To preview our Macbeth GCSE unit of work click on the images. Clicked images will expand, allowing you to browse each PowerPoint slide in detail.
Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons.
- Historical / social / literary context - a biography of Shakespeare's life and the Elizabethan theatre
- Scene by scene activities to consolidate understanding
- Comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, context and themes
- Analysis of the characters of Macbeth, Lady Macbeth and Banquo
- Exploration of the key themes (ambition, betrayal, evil, the supernatural)
- The social and historical context of the play – witches, witchcraft and the play’s representation of women
- Developing key reading skills - inference and deduction
- Using P.E.T.E.R. Point/Evidence/Technique/Explain/Reader to write an effective GCSE exam response
- Close analysis of Shakespeare’s language, key quotes and Macbeth's key soliloquies and monologues
- Shakespeare's use of tension and suspense in Macbeth
- Role play - hot-seating activities
- Understanding key characters through empathy writing tasks – diaries and letters
- Video links to help the teaching and learning of key scenes
Romeo and Juliet - GCSE Unit of Work
‘Romeo and Juliet’ is a GCSE unit of work containing a 259-slide PowerPoint, 50 worksheets and a 32 lesson unit overview. This engaging unit explores the play act by act and scene by scene, analysing its plot, characters, themes, language and historical context through a range of learning activities.
These GCSE Romeo and Juliet teaching resources include planning (a 32 lesson unit of work overview), a fully editable PowerPoint teaching resource and 50 accompanying PDF worksheets.
Below are examples of the activities contained in the lessons.
Historical / social / literary context - a biography of Shakespeare’s life and the Elizabethan theatre.
Scene by scene activities to consolidate understanding.
Comprehension questions to assess students’ knowledge of plot, character, language, context and themes.
Close analysis of the characters of Romeo, Juliet, Mercutio and Tybalt.
Exploration of key themes - love, hate, fate, loyalty.
The social and historical context of Romeo and Juliet and the play’s representation of women.
Developing key reading skills - inference and deduction.
Using P.E.T.E.R. Point/Evidence/Technique/Explain/Reader to write an effective GCSE exam essay.
Detailed analysis of Shakespeare’s language, key quotes and Romeo and Juliet’s soliloquies and monologues.
How Shakespeare uses tension and suspense in Romeo and Juliet.
Role play - hot-seating activities.
Understanding key characters through empathy writing tasks.
Video links to help the teaching and learning of key scene.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below for more Romeo and Juliet resources and alternative GCSE English Literature drama materials:
Romeo and Juliet
An Inspector Calls
Blood Brothers
Macbeth
The Merchant of Venice
The History Boys
The Tempest
1 More and 1 Less - Year 1
In this Year 1 maths resource, pupils practise finding 1 more and 1 less of a given number as per the statutory requirements of the year 1 programme of study (Number - number and place value). Content includes:
interactive activities
4 accompanying worksheets
As with all our PowerPoint teaching resources, ‘1 More and 1 Less - Year 1’ is completely editable so that teachers can adapt, alter and revise it as much or as little as required.
Not quite what you’re looking for? Click below to see similar Year 1 place value resources:
Counting One More and One Less - Year 1
Year 1 Place Value Bundle – Numbers to Ten
GCSE WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry (PowerPoint and worksheets). This unit of work is designed to help pupils with the Unseen Poetry section of the WJEC GCSE English Literature Exam at GCSE. GCSE English Literature Teaching Resources: WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry is a complete lesson by lesson unit of work (includes detailed lessons and activities, a 53 slide PowerPoint and 4 accompanying worksheets).
If you are looking for a version of this resource made specifically for Higher Tier students go to /teaching-resource/resource-12831962
If you are looking for a version of this resource made for Foundation Tier students go to /teaching-resource/resource-12831779
GCSE English Literature Teaching Resources: WJEC Comparing Unseen Poetry includes a range of varied lessons and activities for pupils of all abilities.
- An introduction to the unseen poetry exam question
- Using the A HIT POEM mnemonic to approach the unseen poems
- How to write about the poems' content and context
- How to discuss imagery, poetic techniques, structure, tone and theme
- How to write a personal response
- How to compare the poems
- A model/exemplar answer for annotation and discussion
- 53 slide PowerPoint presentation
- 4 pages of worksheets
AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry
'AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry' is a two-lesson 75-slide PowerPoint presentation (with 12 accompanying worksheets) ideal for teaching approaches to the unseen poetry question on the AQA GCSE English Literature exam.
Contents include:
Example examination questions with example poems.
A mnemonic designed to give students a structured approach to answering the unseen poetry questions.
A step-by-step guide to writing about unseen poetry using the example questions and exemplar responses.
How to write about an unseen poem's content, imagery, poetic techniques, structure and theme.
How to compare two unseen poems.
Exemplar model answers.
To preview 'AQA GCSE English Literature Unseen Poetry', please click on the images from the PowerPoint lessons.