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Interactive whiteboard resources – Magnet

Fun, flexible fridge magnets

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A free sample Magnet activity - Can you make a sentence?

You can use our onscreen Magnets just like the ones on your fridge door - move them around, play with letters and words, or sort them into different groups. But being digital, our magnets can also be edited, coloured, stacked, and even flipped - again and again ... !

Our classroom-ready activities will show you some of the possibilities - and in no time at all you'll be making your own. Magnet tiles can have just a single letter, or a word, or a whole phrase - it's up to you.

Magnet basics

  1. Drag the tiles to move them around the screen.
  2. Magnet tiles are ... magnetic! To join them together, simply move them side by side. To separate them, drag them apart again.
  3. There's a tool bar at the bottom of the screen. It's hidden from view most of the time, but click on the SHOW tab at the bottom right and it'll pop up!

Try more classroom-ready Magnet activities | Ready for some Magnet DIY?

> Launch Magnet
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Ready for some Magnet DIY?

You can do marvellous things with Magnet:

  • move tiles around your screen to assemble words, phrases or even lines of verse
  • explore word formation and spelling by joining letter tiles together
  • experiment with vocabulary choices by 'flipping' the tiles
  • group words into different categories
  • make your own sequencing activities
  • play 'pelmanism' or 'pairs'...

... and more! (Got an idea? Tell us about it... !)

Magnet Download our mugs' guide to Magnet - simple instructions for creating your own activities
Magn Feeling more adventurous? Try our advanced user guide.

 

Some classroom-ready Magnet activities

On-screen activity
4.6 k
Percentage work-out (29/07/2010)
Related resources: Number work
Can you work out these percentages? Double-click on the tiles to flip them over and see the answers. A great lesson starter.
Y5 | Y6
PDF document
79.0 k
Word document
45.1 k
On-screen activity
3.6 k
Creating compound words game (06/05/2010)
Related resources: Skills | Games (KS2)
Children working in pairs or small groups compete to be the first to use all of their word beginnings and word endings to form compound words. The html and Flash files are interactive versions (Magnet and Snap) of the game.
Y4 | Y5
On-screen activity
6.8 k
Spot the pattern (13/11/2008)
Related resources: Poetry | Nursery rhymes | Poems - rhythm and rhyme (KS2)
This Magnet activity features a series of nursery rhymes that have similar openings. The task is to spot the pattern and to find out about any of the rhymes that are unfamiliar.
Y3 | Y4
On-screen activity
1.6 k
Changing Jack and Jill (20/06/2008)
Related resources: Poetry | Poems - rhythm and rhyme (KS1)
A Magnet activity for your interactive whiteboard - double-click on the shaded words and choose from the alternatives. Which do you like best and why? Can you think of other alternative words?
Y1 | Y2
On-screen activity
1.7 k
Changing Georgie Porgie (20/06/2008)
Related resources: Poetry | Nursery rhymes | Poems - rhythm and rhyme (KS2)
A Magnet activity for your interactive whiteboard - double-click on the shaded tiles and choose from the different alternatives. Which combinations work best and why?
Y4
On-screen activity
1.5 k
Rhyming words (20/06/2008)
Related resources: Poetry | Poems - rhythm and rhyme (KS2)
A Magnet activity for your interactive whiteboard - sort these tiles into groups of rhyming words.
Y3 | Y4
On-screen activity
1.3 k
Can you make a sentence? (20/06/2008)
Related resources: Skills | Sentence level work (F)
A Magnet activity for your interactive whiteboard - arrange some of these high frequency words into sentences.
R
On-screen activity
1.7 k
Changing The Gruffalo (20/06/2008)

Related resources: Narrative | Monsters, myths and legends | The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
A Magnet activity for your interactive whiteboard. Double-click on the shaded tiles and choose from the alternative words. Which combinations work best? Which are least good? Why?
Y1 | Y2
On-screen activity
1.3 k
CVC rhyming words (20/06/2008)Favourite (Literacy)

Related resources: Skills | Phonics (F)
A Magnet activity for interactive whiteboards - sort the tiles into groups of rhyming words.
R