- Some resources produced using
standard packages (MS Word, Excel,
PowerPoint)
- An illustration of how one topic,
moments, might be taught using a
combination of these resources
- Web resources produced using a
software package called Hot Potatoes
- Advice on producing web pages
and an example of a site produced
by a teacher.
Explore these, but also look at the
DATALOGGING
and EARTH
SCIENCES sections of this CD ROM
for further ideas.
A moment to learn PowerPoint
presentations to start and review
the concept of moments, interactive
worksheets including calculations,
pupil support, guidance on how to
make your own interactive worksheets
and teacher notes.
Hot Potatoes A collection
of six applications that enable you
to create interactive multiple-choice,
short answer, jumbled sentence, crossword,
matching/ordering and gap-fill exercises
for your pupils on the Internet.
A Radioactive Web Guidance
on producing web pages and an example
of what can be done; a web-based exercise
covering key concepts of radioactivity
using interactive worksheets with
pupil support information.
Making Waves An interactive
Excel spread sheet that helps pupils
understand the quantities associated
with waves.
Excellent Tests Detailed instructions
on how to produce a self-assessment
test using Excel, and two post-16
examples of self tests.
Drag n Drop A series of interactive
worksheets based on the winning entry
from ASE's Creative Sparks
competition for ITT students.
This selection of four activities
aims to develop pupils' understanding
of the concept of moments. Suggestions
for use are given in the teacher notes.
The interactive worksheet in this
resource has been produced in MS Word
using a feature called 'drop-down
menus'. This allows you to give pupils
lists to select answers from. This
useful feature is not difficult to
master, and an introduction to it
is given in the information sheet
Making drop-down lists in MS Word.
The Italian job A mental starter
PowerPoint presentation to introduce
the concept of balancing forces.
Just a moment An interactive
worksheet that guides pupils through
a series of activities to develop
their understanding. The worksheet
includes a link to a simple web-based
balancing simulation that allows pupils
to check their answers if they need
support.
A big moment An additional
PowerPoint presentation to review
and extend pupils' understanding.
The last moment A plenary
PowerPoint that draws the key concepts
together and allows pupils to review
their original predictions from The
Italian job.
Hot Potatoes is available
free of charge for non-profit educational
users who make their pages available
to others on the Internet. By contributing
in this way you and your pupils get
access to a wide range of materials
already produced by others! It does
not matter if you cannot always get
Internet access in lessons. Your ICT
technician will be able to save the
activity pages you want for a particular
lesson on your computers or network.
On this CD ROM we have included some
teacher notes explaining what Hot
Potatoes are, an introduction
to Hot Potatoes, plus some
sample resources to get you started.
The resources include the web pages
that are the output and the Hot
Potato file that produced them.
The latter is included so that you
can alter the questions or change
the appearance of the web page if
you want to. Please note that you
will need to download and register
the Hot Potatoes programme
to do this. You will see that some
of the Hot Potatoes can produce
the same questions in different forms.
Where this is the case we have included
both to illustrate the difference.
The activities are:
- A multiple-choice quiz on forces
- A short answer quiz on basic chemistry
- A jumbled sentence exercise on
the order of the planets
- A matching statement exercise
on nutrition
- An organising exercise on digestion
- A crossword on states of matter
- A fill in the blanks exercise
on photosynthesis
You can download Hot Potatoes
from http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/,
where there is an excellent tutorial
programme to guide you through using
the programme. This will require a
little studying time, but it is a
worthwhile investment.
Hot Potatoes was created by
the Research and Development team
at the University of Victoria Humanities,
Computing and Media Centre.
You must have the Hot Potatoes
software to use the following files.
You can download Hot Potatoes
from http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/hotpot/.
This resource has some hints and
suggestions on developing your own
online learning resource including
advice on some of the technical issues
and the design of web pages. The advice
is accompanied by a website that was
developed to help students understand
the concept of radioactivity through
a variety of online learning techniques.
This activity can be located at:
http://www.sheffcol.ac.uk/projects/access_online/Health_Science_Access/Chemistry_1/Radioactivity/home.htm
Making Waves is an simple
interactive spreadsheet designed to
help pupils understand what is meant
by the terms frequency, wavelength
and amplitude. As well as being able
to change the shape of a wave by adjusting
its amplitude and frequency, pupils
can do short self-assessments to test
their understanding of the terms.
This would make an effective introduction
or revision to wave properties. In
addition to the Excel spreadsheet
there is a pupil sheet and teachers
notes.
You might combine this resource with
a computer-based oscilloscope that
could be used with a microphone to
represent sound waves on the computer.
You can download a free oscilloscope
programme from http://polly.phys.msu.su/~zeld/oscill.html.
Excellent Tests shows how
you can develop self-testing exercises
using an Excel spreadsheet. The resource
contains all you need to know to produce
your own self-test resource, plus
some that we made earlier for post-16
work on chemical energetics and wave
properties.
Earlier this year ASE ran Creative
Sparks, a competition for ITT
students to produce novel resources
for schools. The winners, Liz Lisowski
and Emily Griffiths from Birmingham
University, produced a selection of
simple, yet very effective, matching
exercise Word documents. We are pleased
to be able to publish their winning
entry here, together with other materials
produced using the same method.
These resources use Word Art to stylise
words and phrases. This also means
that it is easy for students to move
the words and phrases around the sheet,
dragging and dropping them in the
correct position.
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