Hi all! We teach Computing across different schools and often get asked for interactive resources - so that's what we make. Most resources you will find on here are interactive activities for the children to complete, either on their own device or as an interactive whiteboard activity! Please feel free to send requests or for variations of things found in our shop.
Hi all! We teach Computing across different schools and often get asked for interactive resources - so that's what we make. Most resources you will find on here are interactive activities for the children to complete, either on their own device or as an interactive whiteboard activity! Please feel free to send requests or for variations of things found in our shop.
Set sail across the seas in in a creaky, wooden ship destined for adventure, new lands or even treasure!
Included in this package:
A superb 12 minute video hook showing a 1st person experience of life as an adventurer. Check the map, raise the sail, steer the ship and dig for treasure where ‘X’ marks the spot!
A printable/editable instruction template to halp structure your writing.
Using the explorer video as a hook, get your children to write their instructions on ‘How to find treasure/land’ on the printable templates. Alternatively, tick off some Computing skills and get the children to type their instructions on the digital template.
If you want to make your own treasure maps, explorer hats or your own pirate pendants. Check out my other items on my TES shop HERE.
Create your very own Lowry style paintings in KS2 digitally. Copy and paste buildings that have been individually recreated in the Lowry style to create your city scene. Then populate your city with Lowry people. Teach yourself and your children more about layers and perspective by using PowerPoint's send backwards/forwards and resize tools. Finally, you can print out your paintings straight from this PowerPoint file on any size up to and including A3. A perfect activity to group model on the interactive whiteboard and then to be used on laptops/desktops as an individual digital art activity.
A simple drag and drop interactive whiteboard resource aimed at introducing data handling to Rec>Y3 aged children. 7 PowerPoint slides designed to approach Pictograms\Pictographs in 3 different ways. Subjects: Fruit, colour, transport, pets, cake and pizza.
Super quick and easy, whole class Computing activity. Drag and drop leaves, rocks and sticks into patterns and shaped using this PowerPoint file. Easily printed for displays or to go into books.
Create your very own Lowry style paintings in EYFS and KS1. Drag and drop buildings that have been individually recreated in the Lowry style to create your city scene. Then populate your city with drag and drop Lowry people. Finally, you can print out your paintings straight from this PowerPoint file on any size up to and including A3. Suitable for use on the interactive whiteboard as part of continuous provision or on laptops/desktops as an individual digital art activity.
“You arrive at three ancient doors. Which door do you choose?”
Write your own adventure stories where you, the reader, choose your own path - like authors such as Ian Livingstone. Differentiated through 10,7 or 5 paragraphs, write them on the PowerPoint files provided and the hyperlink buttons will take you to the next part of the story. There are two sets of immersive PowerPoint files that each give you starting/linking sentences - provided are 1st person and 3rd person files.
Perfect for practicing setting descriptions and creating writing with suspense!
*Included are some images from a computer game called Legend of Grimrock. Please note that these images are readily available via their website and are simply added in this package for convenience, not profit.
Creating posters can be a relatively easy thing to do. Sometimes, we want to delve a little deeper and create dramatic looking posters. This involves teaching the children vital Computing/ICT skills across not just one program but several.
Use this step-by-step picture guide to create WW2 Propaganda posters. This activity uses tools from across two software programs: PowerPoint and Artrage (A free art program). The download link for Artrage is attached. If you aren’t able to use Artrage, then you can use the 10 painted backgrounds that are included in this purchase.
Introducing our educational digital resource - Create your own Three Little Pigs' Houses! This interactive tool allows children to design and build their own versions of the famous houses from the beloved fairy tale. From straw and sticks to bricks and mortar, this resource can be linked to materials in Science, making it an ideal way for kids to engage with the subject in a fun and creative way. With easy-to-use features and colorful graphics, children can explore the concepts of building materials and construction while unleashing their creativity. Let's bring the story of the Three Little Pigs to life with this engaging and educational resource!
Using the FREE program Sculptris, create this unique Ancient Egyptian Death Mask!
This step-by-step picture guide will take you through the whole process - even if you haven't used the program before. Also included is a download link for the 3D model at various stages of sculpting. The models can be 3D printed or screenshots can be taken for displays/books.
Create brilliant pie, line and bar charts really easily using this resource pack. Including:
- Planning guide
- x2 step-by-step picture guides
- PowerPoint file: 3 sets of data ready to create graphs/charts
A step-by-step guide to creating a 3D printable Roman Amphitheatre in Sketchup - aimed at Primary School children. The resources also include download links for the 3D Sketchup models themselves.
A document designed to help support the children when creating Newspaper reports on the computer. It separates key skills into the different year groups, that shows progression of key skills.
Tutorial on our Instagram page, explaining how we create the layout.
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Struggling to come up with how to teach your children how to be safe online?
This resource comes with instructions of how to embed e-safety into your general day to day teaching of Computing.
Included in the files are:
-Instructions of how to use it in your lessons
Traffic light system to support the rating of e-safety
Check out our Instagram page @martingouldendigitalresources of more ways to teach the children about online safety.
Using these 9 Sculptris templates, 3D sculpt your very own dinosaurs. Choose either to edit basic models of heads and/or bodies or choose from rough models of Dilophosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Pachycephalosaurus and Triceratops to add fine details.
Included free in the download is also a warm-up Sculptris activity to get children used to manipulating the camera.
If you've never used Sculptris before look for "GUIDE How to make a head in Sculptris" in my shop for a step-by-step guide on the basics.
This step-by-step picture guide shows you how to make a 3D pirate coin in a FREE program called Sculptris. The guide, 3D template and 3D example is perfect for those with little or no experience in 3D modelling. This product has been trialed and tested with Year 1 children!
A 7 page slideshow to provide a 10-15 minute activity\assembly to allow children to create their own unique, online username in order to keep them safe.
A 6 lesson programming unit for year 3 that anybody can pick up and teach! Teach your children all about coding, algorithms and debugging in order to create their very own magic show cartoon. Included in this pack:
-6 step-by-step, picture guided lesson plans.
-Printable resources.
-Vocab guides.
-Links to additional resources including the scratch files themselves.
All of the year 3 unit is based on the use of free Scratch software. Please do NOT purchase this if you do not intend to use the free Scratch software.
An editable Word document of the Little Red Riding Hood story rewritten by Martin Goulden. Challenge your children to correct all of the spelling mistakes in the story using Word’s spell check. Be careful though, Word has missed some spelling mistakes and not all of the suggestions are correct. Challenge the children further by getting them to use the synonym finder to try and improve some of the boring adjectives within the story. A great way to introduce skills that can be applied during cross-curricular work on computers.
We have a new guide of how to create a treasure chest in PowerPoint.
This simple to use guide gives you step-by-step instructions of how to create this Computing lesson. This guide also has the introduction of the different cursor styles that can be taught to your children.
If you like our guides, follow us on Facebook and Instagram with our tag @martingouldendigitalresources for more ideas of how to teach Computing in your classrooms!
