Do you need a guide that will take you through a design and make process step-by-step?
Would you like an interactive CD-ROM that takes you and your students on a virtual tour?
Could you use a ready-made working model so that you don't have to make it yourself?
Resources
Plus produces educational material for all school ages.
The material
ranges from simple working models for use with 5-7 year-olds
to interactive CD-ROMs for A Level Physics and AVCE Business Studies
students.
Publications, kits and models produced by Resources Plus are listed below.
All prices are quoted inclusive of VAT.
Postage and packing is quoted for within the UK.
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Payment is strictly with order, unless an official purchase order is provided.
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SUPPLY TEACHING: THE ESSENTIAL GUIDE
Target audience: supply teachers, school cover co-ordinators,
cover supervisors, supply agencies and
local education authorities
Subjects: all subjects
Format: 160-page book
Price: £14.99 plus £2.75
Supply Teachers
Have you ever walked into a class to find no work has been provided?
no register? no information about school rewards or sanctions?
Supply Teaching: The Essential Guide is packed with practical suggestions designed to make your supply experience easier and more enjoyable. It contains advice on everything you need to know to help you to be an efficient, effective and, most importantly, employed supply teacher
This
160-page book covers legal, professional and educational
issues relating to every aspect of supply teaching. It is divided into
four sections, including one for supply agencies and one for schools.
For many teachers, one of the most valuable parts of The Guide
will be the Emergency Activities section. Here you will find hundreds
of primary
and secondary school activities for over 20 curriculum subjects. They
need no preparation, special equipment or specialist knowledge, so are
ideal for those times where no work has been set and it's down to you to deliver a lesson that is
educational, appropriate and interesting.
The Supply Teachers
section covers everything from how to maximise your chance for getting
bookings, effective classroom-management strategies, and how to choose
the right agency. It also includes checklists and templates that
can be copied and used when starting at a new school.
Specific issues include:
- How to become a supply teacher
- How to find work
- Application forms and documentation
- The law
- Timetables
- Registration
- Class discipline
- People who become supply teachers
- What you need to become a supply teacher
- GTC
- Information you need from your agency
- Cover work
- Essential equipment
- Newly qualified teachers
- Pros and cons
- Choosing your agency
- Pay and pensions
- Getting ready for the day
- Class lists
- Rewards and sanctions
- CRB checks
- Your contract
- Unions
- Getting a booking
- Problems at school
- Talking to the staff
- School and classroom etiquette
- Teachers from abroad
School Cover Co-ordinators
Are you responsible for organising cover lessons?
Supply Teaching: The Essential Guide can help make your life easier!
The guide provides information, advice, ideas and activities designed to help you.
It
is full of practical suggestions designed to make the supply experience
easier, more effective and enjoyable for everyone involved - you, your
supply teachers, cover supervisors and most importantly, your pupils.
It
contains advice on everything you need to know to be an effective cover
/ supply co-ordinator - including legal, professional and educational
issues relating to every aspect of supply teaching.
This 160-page book is divided into 4 sections.
For many, one of the most valuable parts of the guide will
be the Emergency Activities section. Here you will find hundreds
of primary and secondary school activities for over 20 curriculum
subjects. They need no preparation, special equipment or
specialist knowledge, so are ideal for those lessons where no cover
work has been set and it's down to you to organise a lesson that is
educational, appropriate and interesting.
The
section for the School cover/supply co-ordinator includes everything
you need to know about organising cover lessons, employing supply
teachers and cover supervisors, and working with outside agencies.
Specific issues include:
- reasons to hire supply teachers
- where to find supply teachers
- helping your supply teacher to help you
- what makes a good cover co-ordinator
- working with agencies and the LEA
- working with teachers from abraod
- dealing with problems
- the law
- teachers' checks
- briefing your supply teachers
- supply teachers' handbook
- cover work
- cover sheet
- cover supervisors
Supply Agencies
Supply Teaching: The Essential Guide is an invaluable source of information, advice, ideas and activities
for everyone involved in providing cover in primary and secondary schools.
The guide provides
practical guidance on legal, professional and educational
issues relating to every aspect of supply teaching. As such it
can serve as a valuable training aid for both staff placing teachers in
schools and for the teachers themselves.
This
160-page book is divided into four sections, one each for supply
teachers, school cover-co-ordinators and supply agencies. There
is also a section of Emergency Activities for teachers to use in classes where work has not been left.
Specific issues covered in the Supply Agency section include:
- What is a supply agency
- Pros and cons of recruiting for the education sector
- The Recruitment and Employment Confederation
- Maintaining standards
- Attracting teachers to your agency
- Checks on supply teachers
- Sample application form
- Teachers from outside the UK
- Contract for services
- Terms of business
- Teachers' pay
- Information to give to supply teachers
- Timesheets
- Supporting your supply teachers
- Dealing with problems
- Attracting schools to your agency
- What a school expects from a supply agency
- Information to give to schools
- Feedback form
- Charges
- Permanent contracts
- The law
- Criminal Records Bureau Disclosure requirements
- Government Department lists
 
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PRIMARY SCHOOL RESOURCES
CAMS
An Introduction to Cams (Guide)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology
Format: 16-page booklet
Price: £3.00 plus £1.50 p&p
Description: Easy-to-follow booklet describing what cams are, how they work, the different types and their purpose.
Also includes tips on
making demonstration models and simple models. Includes a useful section on avoiding and dealing with common pitfalls.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops for activities, including Clown's Car using cams
An Introduction to Cams
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology
Format: Kit*
Price: £4.15 plus £1.75 p&p
Description: Everything you need to make a simple demonstration model, showing three different types of cams
and their movement.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops for activities, including Clown's Car
An Introduction to Cams (Model - B)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology
Format: Model*
Price: £5.15 plus £2.25 p&p
Description: A model demonstrating the use of a double rise cam.
Please note that all our models are hand made using the same basic equipment and materials available in a typical classroom.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops for courses and workshops, including Clown's Car
An Introduction to Cams (Model - A)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology
Format: Model*
Price: £4.15 plus £2.25 p&p
Description: A simple model demonstrating the use of a single rise cam.
Please note that all our models are hand made using the same basic equipment and materials available in a typical classroom.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops for courses and workshops, including Clown's Car
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CONTROLLABLE MOTORISED VEHICLES
Design and Make a Controllable Motorised Vehicle (Guide)
Target Age: 7-11
Subjects: Primary Science,Primary Design and Technology
Format: 20-page guide to making model vehicles
Price: £3.50 plus £1.50 p&p
Description:An
easy-to-follow, step-by-step guide on how to make a range of
vehicles. The guide tells you how to make simple models with
moving
axles and fixed wheels; vehicles
with fixed axles and moving wheels;
vehicles with motors and simple switches and controllable
motorised
vehicles with fixed wheels, moving axles, a motor and battery,
controlled using a switch that
moves it forwards and backwards.
The
booklet is based on practical experience gained through making these
models with Key Stage 1 and
2 pupils in pupil workshops and on Science
and Technology days. It includes simple line drawings and a
list of
recommended equipment and materials. These models are ideal as
emergency vehicles, trucks and
vans, as well as cars.
See
also: Design and make controllable motorised vehicles kits and models
below, and INSET Courses and Pupil
Workshops on making
simple, motorised and controllable vehicles.
Controllable Motorised Vehicle (Kit)
Target Age: 7-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology (QCA unit 6D)
Format: Kit* (guide not included)
Price: £4.70 plus £1.75 p&p
Description: All the materials needed to make the vehicle described in the Guide
described above (except the box; laundry tablet boxes are ideal)
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paper
dowel, wooden wheels, pulley wheel, rubber band, motor, motor
pulley,
battery and holder, wire, paper fasteners and card for switches.
Class sets available - please email for price
See
also:
INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on
making simple, motorised and controllable vehicles.
Controllable motorised
vehicle guide (described above) and Controllable Motorised Vehicle
model (below).
Controllable Motorised Vehicle (Model)
Target age:
7-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology (QCA unit 6D)
Format: Model vehicle. Body approximately 14 cm x 9cm x 10 cm
Price: £8.25 plus £2.75 p&p
Description:
This model vehicle has fixed wheels, moving axles, a motor and a
battery and is controlled using a
reversible switch.
It is
an example
of a tried and tested model.
For details of the step-by-step guide explaining how to make it,
see above.
Please note that all
our models are hand made using the same basic equipment and materials
available in a typical classroom.
See also:
INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops for courses and
workshops on making simple, motorised and
controllable vehicles
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ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM
Introducing Electricity and Magnetism (Guide)
 Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Science, Design and Technology
Format: 46-page book
Price: £5.00 plus £1.50
Description: Introducing Electricity and Magnetism is packed full of activity ideas, background information, and photocopiable pupil
pages. It covers batteries, wires, bulbs, buzzers, motors and magnets.
Activities vary in difficulty so there is something for everyone, whatever their age, ability or previous experience.
Problems that pupils might experience when working with electricity are outlined and solutions suggested.
Contents include:
| Electricity |
Making Magnets |
Bells and Buzzers |
Magnetism |
| Circuits |
Switches |
Electrical Symbols |
Insulators and Resistors |
| Bulbs |
Lightning |
Electric Motors |
Electromagnetism |
| Batteries |
Conductors |
Static Electricity |
Series Circuits |
| Wires |
Famous People |
Magnetic Poles |
Parallel Circuits |
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GEARS
An Introduction to Gears (Guide)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology (QCA unit 2C and 6C)
Format: 16-page booklet
Price: £3.00 plus £1.50
Description: Easy-to-follow booklet describing gears: what they are, how they work, their purpose, types, ratios,
and useful hints
and tips on how to make demonstration gears and simple models.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on gears and Fairgrounds.
An Introduction to Gears (Kit)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Design and Technology (QCA unit 2C and 6C)
Format: Kit*
Price: £7.65 plus £1.50 p&p
Description: All the materials you need to make a pair of interlocking model gears:
gear jig, lolly sticks, card circles and spatulas. (Guide not included)
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on gears, including Fairgrounds.
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LEVERS
An Introduction to Levers (Guide and Kit)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology (QCA unit 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3C, 4B and 6D)
Format: Instruction sheet on the principles of levers, plus five photocopiable templates
Price: £2.00 plus £1.50 p&p
Description: Easy-to-understand instruction sheet describing what a lever is, how it
works, its purpose,
different types of levers, plus useful hints and
tips on making levers.
The kit includes five photocopiable paper
templates: a cat/pig with moving legs, an owl/clown with
moving wings
or hair, a man with moving arms and legs, and two faces that use
sliders to move the
eyes up and down and from side to side.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on levers and linkages.
An Introduction to Levers (Guide, Kit and Models)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Design and Technology (QCA unit 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3C, 4B and 6D)
Format: Instruction sheet on the principles of levers, five photocopiable templates and six made up models.
Price: £5.25 plus £1.75 p&p
Description: Easy-to-understand instruction sheet describing what a lever is, how it
works, its purpose, different
types of levers, plus useful hints and
tips on making. The kit includes five photocopiable paper
templates and
six made-up models: a cat with moving legs, a pig with moving legs, an
owl/clown with
moving wings or hair, a man with moving arms and legs, a
face that uses a slider to move the eyes up
and down and a face that
uses a slider to move the eyes from side to side. The models are
provided
undecorated.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on levers and linkages.
An Introduction to Levers (Guide, Kit, Models and Templates)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Design and Technology (QCA unit 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B, 3C, 4B and 6D)
Format:
Instruction sheet on the principles of levers, five photocopiable
templates, six made up models and four simple demonstration cards
showing different types of levers.
Price: £7.65 plus £2.00 p&p
Description: As above, with four A5 size demonstration cards. Each showing a
different type of lever.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops on levers and linkages.
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PULLEYS
Introduction to Pulleys (Guide)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Primary Design and Technology, Primary Science
Format: 16-page booklet
Price: £3.00 plus £1.50 p&p
Description:
Easy-to-follow 16-page guide describing what a pulley is, how it works,
its purpose, types of pulley
systems, plus useful hints and tips on
making a simple demonstration board and demonstration
models. It also
includes a step-by-step guide on
adding a motor to a pulley system.
See also: INSET Courses and Pupil Workshops using pulleys, e.g. Fairgrounds.
Pulleys Board (Demonstration Board)
Target age: 5-11
Subjects: Design and Technology and Science
Format: Demonstration board showing 5 sets of pulleys (approx 25 x 28 cm).
Price: £7.95 plus £1.75 p&p
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