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Websites of the Week 2009 Click here to recommend a site to Mandy The links on this page are to external websites. All the links have been checked, but we cannot accept responsibility for the content on, or links from these sites. Please evaluate any websites fully before you use them with your students. Children should always be supervised by a responsible adult when using the Internet.
Past Winners
Heritage Explorer is an image-based resource for teaching history, citizenship and many more subjects. Teachers can access classroom-ready materials at the click of a button. Choose from over 360,000 pictures, including historic views of daily life, aerial photography, and modern shots of listed buildings. Images are accompanied by accessible information and a range of teaching ideas. A range of case studies and 'How to' guides provide useful information on how to get the most out of Heritage Explorer and tailor the resources to suit specific teaching and learning needs. All of the images are copyright cleared and free to use for educational purposes. They can be copied or saved. For further information please see Terms and Conditions. Why not search images by theme or take a look at the ready made interactive whiteboard resources.
The resources are structured to follow precisely the learning objectives of the renewed framework. For ease of navigation the resources are also listed by topic. The clips are being offered free of charge to all schools during the development phase. You need to register (free)to have full access to the resources.
The resources are in split into seven sections:
When visitors complete the challenge, they are able to print a personalised certificate to show their competence in using the Internet.
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis has a website with some very fun games and activities. Play Games Our favourite is - Bones: An exhibit inside you. There is also a good webquest on dinosaurs - Dinosphere Who's your Mummy? Castles Create your own Coat of Arms To see all the other games and activities visit www.childrensmuseum.org/games Our Collection online - Artifacts
Soungle is a free site, developed by Southern Codes, for finding all kind of sound FX and musical instruments samples from their mega online library. As different from most of similar sites, Soungle is NOT a Web search engine. It only searches in their growing monster database. Our goals are to keep it simple to use (search, preview and download) and to keep it free. All sounds their sound effects and samples are royalty free for downloading. Keyword searches are performed by entering any word or phrase in a search box. The retrieved results of a keyword search are displayed ten to a page. Clicking on play icon allows you to preview a file. Download button instantly downloads the sound effect or musical instrument sample file. A short description of the sound appears on top of every sound , followed by the frame rate, duration and bit rate.
The Teaching Ideas website is run by Mark Warner, a teacher at The Downs Primary School in east Kent. Mark runs the website as a hobby and started it when he was at university as a way to share his own teaching resources with others. It now also contains resources shared by teachers all round the world. The ideas, activities and worksheets on the website are organised according to a number of subjects (those covered in the English National Curriculum). Mark also runs other websites too in his spare time (what spare time?):
It feels great to share :) If you find Mark's website useful, why not share a resource? The majority of the ideas and resources on Mark's websites have been contributed by teachers from all around the world. If you would like to help other teachers by contributing your ideas, please see the Share Your Ideas page.
Have you seen? Day and Night - new resource Funky Mummy - hugely popular Multi Bounce - times table
Priory Woods is special school in Middlesbrough with some very good resources including talking big books, curriculum policies and entertaining videos.
Join Winnie the Pooh and his two friends, Berty Beaver and Percy Penguin, as they travel down the River Severn. Ideal for learning about the different features of a river. This is a sequel to Pooh's trip down the River Thames. Follow this link to read about their journey down the River Severn.
Follow this link for an overview of the resources they have on the website
'Ideas to Inspire' is a collection of collaborative presentations, which offer a large number of ideas for engaging lesson activities. They are the result of the collaboration of teachers from all around the world.
With thans to Jo Rickards for recommending it for Website of the Week. Jo is one of the brains behind Kent's highly popular www.sebastianswan.org.uk
A literacy website aimed at Key Stage 1 children and teachers
More than 2,000 clips from BBC programmes on Learning Zone Broadband ready to play in your classroom. See also: Britain From Above Science & Nature plus many more resources
Super Action Comic Maker Super Action Comic Maker is part of the Artisan Cam website. Using a range of backgrounds and characters, each with a different pose, pupils can create an A4 action hero comic book page. On the same theme The Hero Factory is great activity for creating your own Superhero which can then be downloaded as a .jpg or printed directly from the site. Ideal to support character/story writing. Cool! www.cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/
An exciting new digital comic called, Selenia, has been created by Emma Weitkamp of the Science Communication Unit at the University of the West of England to help primary school children learn about scientific enquiry and changing materials. The comic, which is in digital format can be used on a whiteboard in the classroom. The comic and resources are all free. In the stories, Selenia, the schoolgirl heroine travels from her alien planet to Earth where she makes two friends. Through her adventures, children develop an understanding of the properties of materials – such as the difference between gases, solids and liquids. The teaching resources, which accompany the comics, are designed to build children's understanding of scientific processes. The stories are full of action, magic and fun and are designed to give children the opportunity to explore science in unconventional ways. The comic can be downloaded free from: www.sciencecomics.uwe.ac.uk
The National Grid for Learning (NGfL) Cymru’s website is full of lots of great lessons that are perfect for use on an interactive whiteboard. They have created lots of new resources which are a must to see inclusing a manthly calendar containing very cleverly made powerpoints. Register for free
Go-Givers complements and extends the SEAL and Healthy Schools programmes into the wider context of society and addresses Community Cohesion. The ‘Go-Givers’ cartoon characters, who represent children from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, have inspired the stories for younger children. For older children there are modules on challenging topics such as Rights & Responsibilities and immigration. The lessons consist of downloadable PPT presentations, and ‘Learning Activities’ in pdf format. The site also includes a motivational electronic ‘Kindness Kit’ and a collection of innovative web tools, for example the Ballot Box, the Time Line and a Decision Making Tool.
Chinese New Year Teaching Resources
ICT Themes
Send a robot deep into an ancient Egyptian pyramid to find hidden hieroglyphs—and uncover a secret chamber! The main website is also worth exploring too
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