The Complete 5 Minute Construction Theory Starter Activity Department Pack

Give your whole construction team access to 800 ready-to-use theory starter activities across five trade areas, all in editable PowerPoint format.

This complete department pack is designed to save lecturers planning time, make theory lessons more active and give your team a consistent bank of short, practical activities they can use throughout the year.

Instead of individual lecturers repeatedly creating starters from scratch, your department gets five complete PowerPoint decks containing 160 activities each.

That’s 800 construction theory activities ready to display, teach and adapt.

What’s included?

You’ll receive the complete 160-activity PowerPoint deck for:

• Brickwork
• Carpentry and Joinery
• Painting and Decorating
• Plastering
• Plumbing

Each activity is designed to take around 5 minutes and focuses on applying trade theory through questions, decisions, scenarios and problems that students may encounter in the workplace.

More than just starter activities

Although they were created as quick lesson starters, you can also use the activities for:

• Retrieval practice
• Lesson recaps
• Formative assessment
• Discussion tasks
• Revision
• Entry activities
• Plenary activities
• Cover lessons
• Small-group work
• Checking understanding before moving on
• Building activities into longer theory sessions

That gives your lecturers a flexible bank of activities they can draw on whenever they need one.

Designed for busy construction lecturers

Every deck has been created to reduce preparation time without reducing the quality of the activity.

The PowerPoint format means lecturers can:

• Display activities immediately
• Edit or adapt slides for their own groups
• Add slides to existing lesson presentations
• Select activities to match the topic being taught
• Reuse activities with different groups
• Build their own lesson sequences from the deck

There’s no need to work through the activities in order. Lecturers can simply choose the activity that fits the lesson.

Practical construction theory, not generic classroom questions

The activities focus on applying knowledge rather than simply recalling facts.

Students might need to:

• Diagnose a problem
• Choose the correct material or tool
• Identify what has gone wrong
• Explain the safest course of action
• Compare different approaches
• Make a decision based on a realistic job scenario
• Spot a common mistake
• Explain what they would do next

This helps lecturers connect classroom theory with the decisions students will eventually need to make on site or in the workshop.

800 activities. Five trades. One department resource.

Buying the five PowerPoint decks individually would cost £135.

The Complete 5 Minute Construction Theory Starter Activity Department Pack gives your construction department all five collections together under a department licence, that means your teaching team can share and use the resources across the department without purchasing separate copies for every lecturer.

Who is this for?

This pack is ideal for:

• Construction curriculum managers
• Heads of department
• Construction teaching teams
• FE colleges
• Training providers
• Apprenticeship teams
• Departments looking to create greater consistency across theory lessons

If your lecturers regularly teach construction theory, this gives them a substantial bank of activities they can start using immediately.

Five complete PowerPoint decks. 800 ready-to-use construction theory activities. One resource for your whole department.