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resources update issue 11

Continuing our series of tasters of our digital resource evaluations, we bring you Science, Spanish and PE titles - PLUS: you can now comment on any of the evaluations or add you own opinions of the software if you have used it yourself.

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  • It´s Your Goal
  • It's GCSE Spanish
  • ClipBank: Seeing Science - Materials TV-ROM
  • Physical Education Primary Ltd
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It´s Your Goal
Indigo Multimedia

ClipBank: Seeing Science - Materials TV-ROM
4Learning

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This educational game promotes the value of healthy diet and exercise, by capitalising on children's interest in football.

The software is appealing, easy to use and informative. It operates very smoothly. The themes that it adopts are well matched to children's interests, and coupled with some well-designed graphics and sound effects produces a stimulating and somewhat addictive tool.

The learning objectives contained in each section are clear, and are presented in an interactive manner rather than being purely informative. High quality video mixes with fun participatory games and a drip-feed of useful facts.

The software successfully covers the key stage learning objectives and proves to be a valuable teaching aid for healthy eating, fitness and lifestyle. This is a highly entertaining and stimulating tool. It successfully addresses health and fitness issues at a level that can be easily contextualised by children

This resource includes a large number of short (no more that two minutes) high quality TV clips, photo images and reference material to support the teaching of the KS2 Science QCA Units of Work linked to materials and their properties. As a teacher I found this really useful to introduce or conclude lessons. But the material is equally useful for supporting individual pupil work. The main text based reference screens have an audio function to support less able readers.

The extensive glossary can be used by individual pupils by loading the software onto a laptop letting them browse it for support during the teaching of this Science area. The teachers' resources area of this TV-Rom is packed full of printable activities, which have good ideas for homework, and worksheets and there is also has a selection of background information articles.

Using Seeing Science Materials TV-Rom as a support, children are able to extend their thinking beyond the classroom context.

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It's GCSE Spanish
MMT Ltd

Physical Education Primary Ltd
Physical Education Primary Ltd

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This software offers an excellent opportunity to incorporate ICT into the GCSE Spanish Curriculum, using sound files to cover the listening elements. It encompasses several different types of activities and there are 600 questions to be answered.

Topics covered include 'Life at Home', 'Out There', 'Life Issues', 'After School' and 'Coping in Spain'. Students work their way through each section and the format of the questions becomes increasingly difficult. Initially, students are translating one word or a short phrase and then the format becomes more complex when whole paragraphs of vocabulary are presented and they are then working on whole text comprehension.

This is a very useful program, which ultimately will help students become more confident with their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. They will be encouraged to improve their performance and will enjoy a sense of achievement when they receive their certificates.

This website contains many important aspects required to teach physical education. It is aimed at teachers, primarily the non-specialist, however there is a whole section of the website directed towards co-ordinators of the subject as it contains policy and inspection advice.

The site provides inspiring and original lessons in the three main areas of P.E (gymnastics, dance and games). It also proposes that subscribing to the site will save primary teachers valuable time.

The lesson plans are an excellent timesaver and have some original ideas that have really appealed to the class I teach.

As this website links directly to the National Curriculum and QCA schemes of work it is an extremely valuable tool if new ideas and originality are being sought for the teaching of primary P.E.

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