An effortless way of producing worksheets and other documents in simulated handwriting with correct letter shapes and joins. Simply enter your text and click on convert. Create new documents or convert existing texts. Choose your preferred letter shapes, add lead-in strokes if required, and the program automatically adds the correct letter joins to produce consistent, accurate results every time.
Version 3 has an improved word processor with support for tables and graphics, own spell checker, faster rendering and text conversion and ten additional fully cursive handwriting fonts.
Upgrades from version 2.1 are available.

Introduction
Children from Africa to the Americas explain in their own words what school life is like for them. Find out how some things are just the same as at your school, and how others are very different.

Did you know that in Japan, children have lunch in their classrooms? Or that in Peru children say prayers in the classroom every day?

Meet kids from all over the world, visit their families, friends and teachers, see what school life is like throughout the day in each country and find out what lessons they like (and which ones they don’t!).

Features & Benefits
Paddington Bear: First Steps in History is full of captivating activities designed to introduce young learners to the fascinating world of history. Children can explore Paddington’s passport, read through his diary, investigate the contents of different people’s suitcases and much more!
With the help and support of Paddington Bear, children will learn about famous people from recent history, develop an understanding of their own and their family’s history, become aware of the differences and similarities between past and present, and begin to use historical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007

Features & Benefits
Help Paddington Bear to locate his missing marmalade pots, write postcards to Aunt Lucy and pick an outfit – you can even read all about the places he has visited in his scrapbook.
Paddington Bear: First Steps in Geography is an engaging resource full of activities that will inspire young learners to develop a greater understanding of the world around them – both near and far! Children will also develop their basic mapping skills and explore the natural wonders of the Earth, whilst developing key geographical vocabulary.

© P&Co Ltd 2007

Features & Benefits
In this delightful program the lovable Big Ted and Little Ted introduce your early learners to the creative and absorbing world of computer tools. Teddy Bear Tools uses a bright, engaging interface with jolly, colourful graphics and is differentiated at two levels. The content of Little Ted’s level is clearly presented and suitable for 3-4 year olds. Big Ted’s level is more challenging and starts to take on the look of more traditional computer tools. Work can be saved to a picture gallery and then viewed via a slideshow, nurturing a sense of pride and promoting self-esteem. In addition, this program is perfect for building confidence as there are no right or wrong answers – everyone can succeed in expressing their ideas.


Contents
Four tools: Writing, Painting, Moving and Stamping
Two levels
Links familiar Early Years themes with computer tools
Work can be saved and viewed as a slideshow

Features & Benefits
Bamboozled will develop pupil’s problem solving skills and logical thinking. Alphonso, the wicked wizard, has six styles of grid-based puzzles, each with between 12 and 20 levels. Starting at ‘Easy’ level, as each puzzle is successfully solved the frustrated wizard presents another further level, moving towards ‘Bamboozling’. Can pupils correctly pitch the tents, return the lambs to their mothers, reveal the dangerous dragon’s eggs, snakes and mystical pictures, and complete our very own Sherdoku puzzles? An accompanying work book provides a series of teaching notes to support the development of logical thinking in the classroom.


Contents
Six styles of grid-based puzzles
Between 12 and 20 difficulty levels for each puzzle
Supporting book of teaching notes and photocopiable worksheets

Standard Crazy Talk.

Barcode: 4718731000775
Stockcode: rlcrazytalk5pro


Features

· Facetrix, Image fitting Wizard for Photo Animation

· Expressix, Lip-sync for Talking Characters

· (NEW) 9 Face Profile Styles for Character Definition

· (NEW) Real-time Face Puppet Animation

· (NEW) Timeline Editor for Commanding Performance

· (NEW) Motion Clips for Recording Real-time Facial Puppeteering

· Blazing Visual Experience including Special effects, Text Bubble SFX with comic captions, and Dual-layered Special Effects.

· Flexible Media Output: Video export including MPEG-4, NTSC, PAL and HD size, new Flash FLV video with standby motion, and Mobile supported export formats such as 3GP and MP4.



CrazyTalk5 PRO interfaces facial animation with revolutionary real-time puppeteering controls empowering you with command performance over character facial expressions. The program provides the advanced functions and productivity with the most innovative and accessible features allowing you to command and control facial performances like never before.

Features & Benefits
RiFF is a powerful music creation tool, designed to make composing music as easy as possible. Compositions are created, bar by bar, using a simple grid view, and are also displayed and printed using full musical notation. RiFF supports up to seven simultaneous tracks of music and an additional percussion track. Each track can be assigned an instrument from the large selection available. Many additional features are provided to help with the composition process, such as the powerful auto-accompany which automatically generates backing tracks. A large range of examples are provided to get all budding composers started.


Contents
Easy-to-use editing grid
Support for musical notation
Print all or part of the score
Control tempo, time signature and key signature
Record from a MIDI keyboard in step and real-time
Export as MIDI files for use in other programs
Includes example files and lesson plans

This CD provides a wealth of challenges and opportunities in activities where creativity is the key! Designed to inspire the creativity of both children and staff, the CD contains three different focus weeks, which include activities for all years:
Colour in autumn, Birds and beasts and Travellers.
The LCP Art & Design Focus Weeks CD includes activities that give children the opportunity to experience a wide range of materials, from observational drawings and paintings to working with clay and weaving into a variety of frames, such as bicycle wheels.

The LCP Geography Focus Weeks CD is a subject-focused, cross-curricular resource that helps teachers to run creative and inspiring focus weeks for children from Reception to Year 6.
The CD offers children the opportunity to engage in whole-school activities that develop a range of geographical skills and relevant subject knowledge. Each of the special weeks takes an enquiry-based learning approach, which is ideal for developing thinking skills. The wealth of customisable resources for each week includes:
Comprehensive planning timetables for the co-ordinator
Draft timetables for each week
Launch assemblies (including full-colour PowerPoint presentations)
Full-colour PowerPoint presentations for INSET
Background information on all investigations including links to the NC
Lesson plans, prompt sheets, pupil self-assessment sheets
Stimulating full-colour photographs that can be projected onto an interactive whiteboard
Pro formas (e.g. letter templates)

The complete toolbox for primary schools includes several exciting new programs as well as updated versions of old favourites, including: PawPrints - DTP, SlideShow - presentation, Decisions 3 - Branching database , Write Away! - Wordprocessor, Fresco - Graphics, BlackCat LOGO, NumberBox 2 - Spreadsheet, Information Workshop 2000 - Database.

The suite consists of Granda Toolkit v2 and all the additional tools that have been developed to complement the suite.
Individual Toolkit V2 components:

Granada Writer - a talking word processor and desktop publisher
Granada Colours - a creative and easy-to-use art package
Granada Database - a fully-featured data-handling package
Granada Spreadsheet - a powerful spreadsheet package
Internet Odyssey 2 - an imaginative multimedia presentation creator and organiser
Bank Manager - a media bank creator and editor for teachers
Toolkit Launcher - a password protected management tool for teachers
This intuitive and powerful suite of software provides:
Tools and resource banks, which include over 16,000 pieces of clip art and a fully integrated and configurable set of tools
A user-friendly interface with a consistent 'look and feel'

With over 120 exercises to teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, time, length, weight, percentages, negative numbers, geometry and fractions this is ideal for younger learners. Pupils can practice mental arithmetic methods like counting, addition of hundreds, tens and ones and reverse calculations. Other exercises promote understanding of whole numbers and decimals. Teachers can use MathsWiz 1 to create individual learning programs and to record each pupil`s results. They can also create additional questions and exercises.

Developed in conjunction with Bracknell Forest LEA, this CD uses fun and funky musical raps to convey key mathematical vocabulary ideas in a way that particularly appeals to 9-11 year old children. It includes rhythms, lyrics and video footage. Get the class singing along to them or have individual children perform them. Uses visual, auditory and kinaesthetic imagery.

This drawing program is specifically designed to produce simple line diagrams of scientific apparatus and experiments, which can be printed or pasted into word processing documents.
Developed to save time for teaching staff and students, this is the perfect application for producing concise, accurate teaching aids, exam papers, and course work presentations. There are over 200 pre-drawn, fully scalable pictures in the default image library, coupled with easily edited text, allowing the production of top quality annotated diagrams in minutes. A comprehensive palette of drawing tools enables the user to personalise the picture libraries and tailor the graphics to match individual teaching requirements.

This book will help you take a confident and inspired approach to meeting the Early Learning Goals. The stories are rich in mathematical content. Enact them with the accompanying soft toys and bring maths to life in your class. Children will be thinking about numbers, shape and space, measures and more as they delight in stories about going to the moon, bath time ducks and teddy's scarf. The flipbook format means children see the illustrated page while you see the story and suggestions for developing the play.

Includes:

A3 flipbook
13 stories with illustrations, suggestions, simplifications and challenges
6 soft toys

A fantastic blend of classic and new verse from Scotland - the ideal accompaniment to any Burns Night celebrations!

'In SCOTTISH POEMS John Rice takes us on an exhilarating whistle-stop tour, the poets of his choice a refreshing and stimulating mix of the familiar and the unexpected. The vitality and diversity of their voices (English, Scots and Gaelic, from the Borders to Shetland and the Western Isles) reflect that of the land they live in, and whet the appetite for more.'

Stewart Conn, poet and playwright.


My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;

My heart's in the Highlands, a-chasing the deer;

A-chasing the wild-deer and following the roe,

My heart's in the Highlands, wherever I go.

Robert Burns

You might like to use the poster with straight letter shapes. Another great reference point for whole class work on letter shapes, sounds, alphabetical order and linking capital and lower case letter shapes. Includes long vowels. Size A2 / 16.5”x23.4
T30

A comprehensive collection of 15,000 royalty free images selected for Education.

15,000 Educational Images contains a vibrant variety of colour photographs, raster illustrations, Photo-Objects® and vector clip-art. Covering categories such as dinosaurs, flags, geography, the human body, natural history, music, science and nature - this program is perfect for illustrating any homework or school project.

Select your image from a category or keyword, then drag and drop it into any open application, it's as easy that! Alternatively use the "Export Wizard" to guide you step by step through the export process. Resize, flip or crop your image before exporting it into your word processing, spreadsheet, desktop publishing, painting or drawing program.

Works with all popular software and printers including:
Word Processor, spreadsheet etc., presentation software, Web authoring tools or other similar software, graphics applications that support 32bit images and popular image editing software. Exports into 14 different file formats: .gif, .tif, .tga, .ras, .jpg, .png, .bmp, .pcx, .fpx, .psd, .wpg, .pct, .wmf, and .emf.


Features



Buildings and Architecture

Costumes and Clothes

Currency

Dinosaurs

Flags

Food and Drink

Geography

History

Holidays and Special Occasions

Human Body

In the Classroom

Maths

Military

Music

Natural History

Nature

Religion

Science and Technology

Space

Sport

Transportation

Wildlife and Animals

If you want to add impact to a school or college project, produce eye-catching documents or simply create fun letters and notes, then this stunning collection of high-quality images is just what you need.

20 Categories of images including Nature, Holidays and Special Occasions.



Key Features:

Covers a wide range of school-related subjects, activities and events.
Perfect to help you find everything you need to make any coursework or project more professional-looking and exciting.
Organise into clear categories to make finding the right image quick and easy.
Provides all the tools you need to search, edit and export your image.
Allows you to change the background of the image to blend in with the background of your document, web page or email.

Strumbie Island resources are ideal to help support and encourage the development of emotional literacy in young children. Highly engaging and interactive, Strumbie Island has been written to help children recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express their own and other people's emotions and behaviour.
Using this interactive CD-ROM and workbook, children can enjoy Billy as he travels to the mysterious Strumbie Island. The Strumbies are a secretive race of people, known to love sweet things, like chocolate. They are generally good-natured and like to have fun. Due to their small size however, they can only have one feeling at a time. Discover how Billy gets on when he meets Dol, Mimi, Stomp, Brag, Patience, Cheeri, Grump, Misty and the others.

Supported by teaching plans and resources, the ten chapters of Strumbie Island can be used as a ten-week programme covering such themes as:

Getting on and falling out
Saying no to bullying
Goal setting
Self-esteem
Relationships

Bounce Back 7 provides additional practice for those pupils struggling with secondary mathematics.
The software can be used by individuals, small groups or as a class teaching resource using an interactive whiteboard. There are fifteen units altogether, with each unit providing step-by-step demonstrations, lesson activities, tests, homework sheets and teacher`s notes.
Each of the lesson activities provides an initial animated demonstration of the mathematical concepts. Followed by interactive practice activities, supported by instant feedback. If necessary the pupil can repeat the practice activities before proceeding onto the tests. Once the test section has been completed the software will automatically mark their answers. If required there is a facility to print off the test results for record keeping purposes.

You asked for mini geared clocks - well here they are! This set includes a teacher demonstration clock and 24 geared clocks for pupils. Teacher's clock 330mm tall, pupil's clock 100mm tall.

Individual mini clocks also available.

Supporting the music curriculum for both Primary and Secondary education, Compose World 2 is an ideal resource for music exploration, composition and performance.
It extends the ideas of Compose World to provide a versatile musical composition toolbox. For example, in Compose World Junior only one line of music, or track, can be created. In Compose World 2 Multi-tracks can be created and played at the same time.
Using the available phrases a tune is made by sequencing the phrases in the tracks. Melody, harmony and rhythm can be mixed to form a complex tune. Phrases can be created and edited in the Compose World 2 grid editor. If a MIDI interface and musical keyboard are connected then the notes can be entered using the MIDI keyboard in both real-time and step-time.
The program is supplied with a wealth of phrases, rhythms, instrument sets and rests which can be used to build a wide variety of musical compositions.

Numeracy Activity Builder is the second in a series of new teacher tools from BlackCat. This ground-breaking resource has been designed to make it easy to create high quality, ICT-based activities to support numeracy lessons.
Using the familiar wizard-style templates, you can enter your own content with ease into any of the nine activity frameworks. Each framework has been created to support all areas of the National Numeracy Strategy and are completely flexible, so that you can adapt resources to fit your learners' needs.

Within the CD-ROM there are 300 sample activities and 14 tutorial videos to help you get started. There is even a huge bank of clip art and an assortment of themes to choose from and ensure that the potential for diversification of materials is enormous!

Choose from 9 templates:

Fractions, Decimals and Percentages
Matching
Snap
Money
Time
Venn and Carroll Sorting
Multiple-Choice
Number Grid
Sequencing

Additional features are:

The option to personalise the reward messages for individual pupils
The flexibility to enter your own content in another language e.g. French

Letterland Living Code Cards is a new teaching resource for focusing on phonic structure, language development, word building, and spelling in a child-friendly way. With this software you can display a-z and over 40 digraphs and trigraphs. Listen and watch as the Letterland characters animate stories that explain the sounds you hear in words, making learning memorable and fun.

Create your own revision/consolidation support with the ‘Quick Dash’ facility to develop mastery of all the phonemes. Then start blending sounds together, with and without pictogram support, in the ‘Word Building’ facility.
Ideal for use on a whiteboard or with a smaller group around a computer.

A unique educational and reference package combining graphic animation, video clips, striking graphics and a soundtrack by Asian Dub Foundation.
The program is designed for use at home, in schools and youth clubs to enable young people, black and white, to discover for themselves the history of the black presence in Britain, the extent of contemporary racism and the struggles against it. It will connect black history in Britain to that of related communities around the world, including Europe, the USA and Africa, and covers slavery, colonialism and imperialism.
This version complete with a study/resource pack.

A versatile ICT resource that provides schools with the tools they need to deliver the modern Music Curriculum effectively. The package centres around Making Waves award-winning music creation software and includes access to the MFS online community providing additional resources; lesson plans and safe
forums for teachers and students to communicate. Unrivalled product support ensures that teachers can focus on the needs of their students. A Music for Schools license allows you to install as many copies as you need on any computer in your school and all your students are entitled to install the software and resources at home.

A flexible, innovative and generic resource for GCSE Drama, suitable for all specifications, plus mapping to AQA and Edexcel and material on improving written work.
Readership: GCSE (14-16); Drama

Description

Generic resource for use with all specifications, while also mapped to AQA and Edexcel.
Support for the written aspects of the course with writing frames, portfolio templates, and coursework project ideas.
Dedicated chapters offering ideas for devising frameworks, thematic and script-based workshops.
Themes and scripts using a variety of theatrical conventions and techniques.
Extra teaching support including material tailored to the AQA and Edexcel specifications, plus thought-provoking stimulus material, context sheets, glossary of drama terms, customizable worksheets, and evaluation sheets on CD-ROM.

GCSE Drama is a resource which combines exciting ideas for lessons, exceptional stimulus material and excellent support. The Teacher's File is generic and can be used with all GCSE specifications, and yet the contents are also mapped both to AQA and to Edexcel - the two biggest Awarding Bodies for GCSE Drama. Contents includes 4 script-based workshops, 4 theme-based workshops and 4 devising frameworks, as well as a unit dedicated to offering advice on how to improve written work, complete with students' work and examiner comments. Extensive support material can be found on the accompanying CD and comprises: student context sheets, transcripts, extracts, short accounts, poems, audio tracks, images, development frames, evaluation sheets, etc. Also featured are an Overview of GCSE Drama and a Glossary of Drama Terms.

Bounce Back 7 provides additional practice for those pupils struggling with secondary mathematics.
The software can be used by individuals, small groups or as a class teaching resource using an interactive whiteboard. There are fifteen units altogether, with each unit providing step-by-step demonstrations, lesson activities, tests, homework sheets and teacher`s notes.
Each of the lesson activities provides an initial animated demonstration of the mathematical concepts. Followed by interactive practice activities, supported by instant feedback. If necessary the pupil can repeat the practice activities before proceeding onto the tests. Once the test section has been completed the software will automatically mark their answers. If required there is a facility to print off the test results for record keeping purposes.

Biz Wiz is ideal for school use as a small business simulator and can be used for introducing Computer Concepts, Commerce, Business Studies, Computing Studies, Mathematics plus Design and Technology.
Students will: interact with the bank; use an employment agency and market analyst; hire and fire staff; advertise and purchase parts. They will also have to set a keen market price for their products to ensure they remain competitive in the PC market. Students will make decisions and evaluate their performance throughout. Biz Wiz integrates game play with meaningful computer activities; showing how technology is used in a competitive commercial working situation.
Concepts Covered: Computer terminology; Computer hardware; Small business concepts; Artificial intelligence; E-commerce; Spreadsheets; Databases; Computer careers; Computer programming; Problem solving; Consumer arithmetic; Internet concepts

500 Primary Classroom Activities is the answer to that perennial question of “What on earth am I going to do with my class tomorrow?”. Aimed at teachers of children between the ages of 3 – 12, this book is a lively, varied compendium of ideas and classroom activities.

Key Features:
• A wide-ranging resource of activities which are easy to set up and do not require a lot of additional materials.
• Up-to-date approach covers current approaches in teaching children including content-based learning.
• Ideal for all primary-focused teachers, including those on teacher training courses such as the Cambridge CELTYL.
• Designed to be flexible to supplement a wide range of syllabus-types (story-based, grammatical, etc.).

500 Activities for the Primary Classroom - 9781405099073

Features & Benefits
School's Out has been designed exclusively for extra curricular school clubs. Children can watch themed movies, take part in quizzes, play a range of interactive single and multi-player games or just catch up on the latest news - and with content changing daily, there's always something new to see.


Contents
Seven stimulating zones across the site
Opportunities for schools to send in stories
Great competitions for schools to enter
Content updated regularly
Engaging games which are single or multi-player

One in seven school children have asthma, but if treatments are taken properly and regularly, most children can expect to lead a normal life. Fighting Asthma Together, a guide for schools by the National Asthma Campaign, takes a positive look at asthma. It will help teachers to understand the condition better, learn what to do in an asthma attack or emergency situation and help you feel more confident in helping children with asthma in your school.

Features & Benefits
This magical resource is an exciting way to reinforce and extend children’s knowledge of spreadsheets. Alphonso is back challenging apprentices to solve a range of problems using his magical spreadsheets.
Alphonso’s Magical Spreadsheet contains eight activities that focus on different spreadsheet functions and learning objectives. There are three levels for each activity, allowing access to a range of abilities and age groups. The accompanying workbook provides teaching notes and photocopiable worksheets that can be used in conjunction with the onscreen activities.



Contents
Eight focused spreadsheet activities
Two spreadsheet games
Comprehensive supporting workbook
Enter data and formulae into cells to solve problems
Uses SUM, Autosum and Average functions

This systematic introduction to topics and artists concentrates on the images needed to understand and appreciate the richness of our diverse cultural heritage.
Contains pictures of flowers, animals, insects and scenery, images of Mother and Child in art with examples by Henry Moore, Leonardo da Vinci, Mary Cassatt and in icons. Incorporates animals and plants in different times and cultures.
Includes the human face by artists down the ages; discovers ways in which artists as different as Constable and Pissarro have depicted English landscapes, the way in which subjects are illustrated in Egyptian wall painting, Greek vases and Assyrian relief panels and how nature is represented in Impressionist painting. All text, can be enlarged to your chosen size, can also be read out by the computer. These two features, together with the highly stimulating visual richness of the program make it ideal for Special Needs use.

Features & Benefits
This CD-ROM collection of clip art has been designed with the secondary school curriculum in mind. It contains over 3,500 specially chosen high quality educational images and an easy to use browser, which makes finding the right image very straight forward.


Contents
Key Stage 3 and 4
Comes with an easy-to-use browser
Images can be loaded into any major word processor or DTP package
Pack includes free site licence

Features & Benefits
The Foundations in ICT scheme of work provides a broad and balanced guide to teaching ICT skills across the curriculum, using nine bestselling Early Years and KS1 software titles. Beginning with 'Meeting the Mouse', each of the six units has been carefully designed to meet the requirements for ICT in the Foundation Stage. With 170 pages packed full of detailed plans for whole-class and focused group work and review and assessment projects, this book caters for everyone – from the ICT expert to the technophobe! Also including a range of photocopiable worksheets, flashcards and additional ICT themes and lesson ideas, this book provides a wealth of support to help your pupils take their first steps in using ICT.

Features & Benefits
This collection of four CDs, each focusing on a different time period, aims to develop your pupils’ historical skills and knowledge – encouraging them to really start thinking like historians. Each CD contains a series of activity-based topics, a bank of supporting photographs and illustrations, plus a clip art library and glossary. Suitable for both independent use and whole-class work on an interactive whiteboard, each program allows pupils to explore scenes from the past and develop a broad understanding of these fascinating periods of history.


Contents
Four or five units on each CD
Image banks containing up to six photographs or artworks
A timeline detailing all historical periods covered in the series
Each unit provides: an investigative introduction, an engaging activity and an extension activity
4 CDs: Egyptians & Ancient Greeks; Romans, Anglo-Saxons and Vikings; Tudors; and Victorians and 20th Century Britain

Features & Benefits
Virtual Geography is an interactive CD-ROM that offers a complete solution for delivering the geography QCA Scheme of Work at Key Stage 2. The 18 topics cover environmental, human and physical geography and each include an introductory exercise, an interactive activity and extension ideas. The program is perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard as a whole-class teaching tool and can also be used effectively to support paired or individual work. Virtual Geography is the ideal resource to bring key geographical concepts to life, without having to leave the classroom.


Contents
18 engaging geographical topics
Three themes: Weather and landscapes; People and places; Environmental issues
Extensive KS2 Geography curriculum coverage
Extensive geographical image bank
Includes drill-down maps of the United Kingdom, Europe and the World

Features & Benefits
Virtual Experiments 1 is an interactive teaching tool that allows classes to repeat and change conditions of experiments with no mess or fuss!
The CD-ROM contains simulations of 12 experiments taken from the QCA Schemes of Work. Simulations are accompanied by sets of questions which can be used as a starting point for discussion and a ‘Voting Option’ allows class predictions to be recorded and then compared with actual results. Whether used in a whole-class setting with an interactive whiteboard or for focused independent work, Virtual Experiments 1 provides the perfect tool for using ICT to add value to teaching science at Key Stage 1.



Contents
Directly linked to the QCA Schemes of Work
Key vocabulary lists
Models fair testing
Introduces collecting data
Perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard

Features & Benefits
Virtual Geography is an interactive CD-ROM that offers a complete solution for delivering the geography QCA Scheme of Work at Key Stage 2. The 18 topics cover environmental, human and physical geography and each include an introductory exercise, an interactive activity and extension ideas. The program is perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard as a whole-class teaching tool and can also be used effectively to support paired or individual work. Virtual Geography is the ideal resource to bring key geographical concepts to life, without having to leave the classroom.


Contents
18 engaging geographical topics
Three themes: Weather and landscapes; People and places; Environmental issues
Extensive KS2 Geography curriculum coverage
Extensive geographical image bank
Includes drill-down maps of the United Kingdom, Europe and the World

Science Directions is an up-to-date whole-school scheme for everyone who teaches Primary Science.

• Science Directions Virtual Experiments Years 3 and 4 is a new whole-class interactive teaching aid which allows you to repeat, slow down and change the conditions of key experiments with no mess or fuss.
• Each experiment contains an introduction, main activity and an extension activity.
• The software is easy to use, with no gimmicks or complications.

Science Directions Virtual Experiments Years 5 and 6 is a new whole-class interactive teaching aid which allows you to repeat, slow down and change the conditions of key experiments with no mess or fuss.
• Each experiment contains an introduction, main activity and an extension activity.
• All the experiments also provide an excellent revision of key concepts covered in Science for the KS2 SATs.
• The software is easy to use, with no gimmicks or complications and a full user guide to aid the user throughout.

world of geography is just a mouse click away!
Lively material and interactive activities ensure your students enjoy geograpy. Contains material to support every chapter of geog.123. All purchases give you FREE access to the geog.world website, making it a flexible resource to use in school or at home.

"...an excellent resource which allows pupils to access information interactively that stimulates their learning." Schoolzone evaluation

HIGHLIGHTS

Interactive lessons provide animated photos and clips that introduce and explain concepts and process

Topic scrapbooks containing artworks and photos from geog.123 to download for project work

Wealth of teacher support including topic summary sheets, themed glossaries and skills summary sheets

Suitable for whole-class use via an interactive whiteboard and Smart Board Approved, it will also work on a projector, so you can integrate ICT into your lessons

NRICH forms part of the Millennium Mathematics Project based at Cambridge University. Virtual Image and NRICH have worked together to produce Exploring Squares, an innovative CD built around a collection of 25 mathematical posters on the theme of `squares`. Each poster is presented with Teachers` Notes and a series of questions designed to generate discussions of mathematical concepts. The posters are ideal for lesson starters and will help to develop investigative and problem-solving skills.Islamic Squares
Tiling Squares
Chomping
Growing Squares
Overlapping Squares
Not Quite
Fibbing Spiral
Translating Squares
Van Doesburg`s Squares
Factor Squares
Square Legs
Square Parts
Fractalising Squares
Piero
Baravelle Spirals
Sunflower
Squiris
Birte`s Squares
B?rge`s Squares
Squares Getting Bigger
Pascal in Twos
Whirling Squares
Squares as Kolams
Cloned Square Turning
Polysquares
Square Parts
Fractalising Squares

GridClub Science is divided into three modules each containing between seven and nine highly interactive and motivating teaching activities. All 25 modules in the QCA Scheme of Work for KS2 are covered. Developed with teachers to meet the requirements of the KS2 curriculum and teach key concepts in Science.
Simple to use and designed for classroom teaching (whiteboard), individual use and revision, GridClub Science series combines fun and pupils` imagination with the serious task of learning.
GridClub is a BAFTA and BETT award winning provider of highly effective curriculum linked resources for schools and homes.

An invaluable resource bank of practical demonstrations that teachers often find difficult to carry out. Viewers are presented with a clear, close-up view of experimental procedure through 3D graphic explanations. The experiments have a successful outcome each time and their application in real life is clearly illustrated.
Topics covered:
1. Raw Materials
2. Electrochemistry
3. Patterns and Reactivity
4. Motion of Particles
5. Waves
6. Electromagnetic Spectrum
7. Electricity and Magnetism
8. Biological Reactions
9. Cells and Tissues
10. Energy and Cycles in Nature

and many more

Each CD features five complete mental maths tests reflecting the style of mental maths tests that KS3 students are given in Year 7. Single level tests are optional for this age group but most schools do them. These Mental maths tests are entirely on a CD which contains both audio files for the spoken element and printable pdfs for the write-on test sheets. The teacher can then simply print out the required number of pupil sheets and play the CD on a computer or CD player.
The audio is a particularly important element of this product because:
- it provides a different voice to reflect true test conditions
- the tests involve very specific time requirements between questions for children to do their working and this allows the teacher to work with the pupils without having to worry about the timing element

After the test the question sheets can be displayed on a whiteboard for discussion or the answer sheet can be displayed for students to mark their own work.

Each CD features five complete mental maths tests reflecting the style of mental maths tests that KS3 students are given in Year 8. Single level tests are optional for this age group but most schools do them. These Mental maths tests are entirely on a CD which contains both audio files for the spoken element and printable pdfs for the write-on test sheets. The teacher can then simply print out the required number of pupil sheets and play the CD on a computer or CD player.

The audio is a particularly important element of this product because:
- it provides a different voice to reflect true test conditions
- the tests involve very specific time requirements between questions for children to do their working and this allows the teacher to work with the pupils without having to worry about the timing element

After the test the question sheets can be displayed on a whiteboard for discussion or the answer sheet can be displayed for students to mark their own work.

Mult-e-Maths Toolbox gives you the power to create and enhance your maths lessons on the interactive whiteboard. Tools for numbers, fractions, place value, calculations, measures, shape, space and data handling make it easy for you to create all of the interactive maths tools you could want at the click of a button.
Teachers Guidel also available at an additional cost of £4.95.

Features & Benefits
A collection of seven engaging activities to reinforce pupils’ understanding of clocks and telling the time.
Featuring the ever-popular Mr Wolf character, this energetic resource is ideal for use on an interactive whiteboard as a start of lesson warm up or end of lesson cool down. Pupils will also enjoy playing the activities on individual computers as a reward or during free time.

The program also includes a Teacher’s Toolkit area complete with ‘real time’ synchronised analogue and digital clocks and a range of other features to create a number of different interactive activities.



Contents
Seven motivational activities
Teacher’s Toolkit containing a range of imagery and shapes for the creation of further activities
‘Real time’ and demonstrational analogue and digital clocks
Pen and rubber annotation tools

This fully customisable CD is suitable for individual and small group work, or for whole class teaching using an interactive whiteboard. The 6 onscreen lessons (3 for KS2) each comprise an explanation of the topic with illustrations and animations, plus a test. Topics include: Food chains; Food webs; Trophic levels; Energy use; Efficiency of energy transfer; Pyramids of numbers; Inverted pyramids of numbers; Pyramids of biomass; Predicting effects of changes in the ecosystem; Effect of toxic chemicals in food chains. The tests use real-life examples where possible, such as the Minimata Bay poisoning, mercury in tuna and DDT in birds of prey.

Global Warning is an authoritative and visually stunning book, unique in its approach. While most of the current literature on the subject is highly scientific, this book’s aim is to educate the public at large. Graphics and maps, hard-hitting text, and powerful pictures show the plight the world is already facing. The tone is serious, but ultimately positive and outlines what we all need to do to safeguard our future. It provides an honest appraisal of a critical situation, and some practical advice about solutions — whether making small adjustments in everyday life, or raising public awareness across the globe.

The book is an invaluable tool to inform business leaders and the public alike of the consequences and opportunities associated with the ongoing increase in atmospheric carbon dioxide, and the repercussions of continuing “business as usual”. It is clear about the problems which we face, but positive about the possibilities of averting the worst.

An ideal test preparation pack for Year 6 teachers, this series of DVD Plus Packs give high quality reproduction of all the programmes, with clear menus to take you straight to your chosen topic. The teacher`s activity book includes a collection of teacher`s activities, photocopiable sheets and practice tests. It also covers the areas where pupils typically under perform, raising them to the next level.

An ideal test preparation pack for Year 6 teachers, this series of DVD Plus Packs give high quality reproduction of all the programmes, with clear menus to take you straight to your chosen topic. The teacher`s activity book includes a collection of teacher`s activities, photocopiable sheets and practice tests. It also covers the areas where pupils typically under perform, raising them to the next level.

An ideal test preparation pack for Year 6 teachers, this series of DVD Plus Packs give high quality reproduction of all the programmes, with clear menus to take you straight to your chosen topic. The teacher`s activity book includes a collection of teacher`s activities, photocopiable sheets and practice tests. It also covers the areas where pupils typically under perform, raising them to the next level.

Revelation Natural Art can easily be configured to meet any learner’s specific needs. You can add or reduce the number of tools available to make the program as powerful or as simple to use as you wish.

The fully customisable interface constructor allows you to:

Add or remove tools to meet any user’s abilities
Increase/decrease tool button sizes
Add or remove any menu options
Move tools around; lock or undock toolbars
Create completely new toolbars with new behaviours
Save and load your own customised settings for future use

Three pre-configured interfaces tailor the software to the needs of a young KS1 learner, a KS2 learner and a confident KS3/4 user.
The rich range of super realistic natural media effects allows all users to work intuitively with the same tools on the computer that they have already used in their real life Art and Design work:

Crayons
Oil Pastels
Pencils
Charcoal
Felt pens
Chalks
Acrylic paints
Poster paints
Watercolour paints
Airbrush sprays

What is Revelation Sight & Sound?

The digital video companion to Revelation Natural Art provides an incredibly versatile tool with which you will be able to create radio programmes, slideshows, rostrum camera documentaries, and even high quality video feature films. The software comes with a wealth of resources and many activities can be completed just with access to an ordinary digital camera.

What can it do?

Revelation Sight & Sound supports the teaching of the literacy of moving images. The extensive Activity Guide teaches how to communicate in a variety of forms and genres. It helps pupils learn communication skills and techniques, which they will be able to use throughout their lives. And for you, as a teacher, it puts the world of film-making at your fingertips, in an easily managed and accessible classroom format.
You can easily mix text, graphics, sound and digital video. The configurable interface helps children of all ages and abilities to quickly understand the process of visual communication using the moving image.
The drag and drop, easy to understand effects can quickly be used to modify the appearance and behaviour of your video.

Revelation Sight & Sound allows you to explore exciting Rostrum Camera techniques to create video from still photographs, using panning and zooming combined with music, sound effects and narration.

Revelation Sight & Sound comes with a comprehensive set of audio resources including sample narrations, a sound effects library and a versatile collection of background music to add mood and atmosphere to your work.

How can it be used in the classroom?

Literacy is the art of communicating and, in the modern world, moving image media are as much a part of literacy as traditional printed materials. Now the materials used in your literacy lessons need not be restricted to printed words, they can include images and sounds as well.

The carefully selected sample video clips, sounds, music and images will help your pupils develop their literacy skills using multimedia elements, without any need to purchase specialist photography or film-making equipment.

Pupils can produce powerful and persuasive documentaries and video projects using nothing more than a microphone and the still images produced from a simple, low cost digital camera.

***Powerpoint Presentation also available in YR8/YR9.

Readership: Teachers of KS3 Pupils, KS3 pupils

Description

Helps students to meet appropriate, challenging expectations
Ensures paced progression from KS2 through KS3
Encourages students' engagement with science
Brings about a transformation of the teaching and learning experience

This CD-ROM provides a set of PowerPoint slides to complement the Key Stage 3 Framework for teaching science and all the QCA Scheme of Work units for Year 7.

Each presentation contains a variety of material from easy-to-follow bullet points to interactive activities and engaging animations (in PowerPoint or Flash) that will interest and stimulate all ability levels.

This material is primarily designed for use with a data projector and an interactive whiteboard to help generate whole-class discussion about particular science concepts.


Contents
7A
Cells
7B
Reproduction
7C
Environment and feeding relationships
7D
Variation and classification
7E
Acids and alkalis
7F
Simple chemical reactions
7G
Particle model of solids, liquids and gases
7H
Solutions
7I
Energy resources
7J
Electrical circuits
7K
Forces and their effects
7L
The Solar System and beyond

This handbook and video pack combines theory and practical teaching strategies to engage children in criticial thinking on issues of citizenship such as fairness, friendship and responsibility. Included are notes and advice on whole school policies for subject co-ordinators and school heads.

A guide aimed at primary school teachers who want to use a range of three-dimensional materials with young children. The materials covered include: wood, plaster of Paris, clay, cardboard, plastics and wire. In the course of the book the author talks about equipment, storage considerations, making methods, glazes and safety measures.