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| 1053 and growing electronic resources free to download |
| This web link will take you to the relevant design and technology resources page at the Times Educational Supplement (TES) website. These resources are free to download and cover all focus areas of the subject. Keep an eye out for the resource of the week. |
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| 12 Primary Science Activities |
| Twelve KS2 Science Activities covering: Sound, Solar System, Light and Shadows, Magnets and Springs, Rocks and Soil, Solids and Liquids. |
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| Aston Hall for Kids |
| An interactive resource based on Aston Hall including fun activities including Tudor food i.e. make a heraldic tart, decorate a sugar paste plate and goblet and decorate a boar's head.
Flash player required. |
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| Bab.la quizzes |
| Online quizzes in 13 languages - English, German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Hindi, Punjabi, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Polish, Romanian, Russian and Turkish.
At three levels - easy, average or difficult.
The quizzes can be printed off for revision, and the resource can be used as a whole class activity too. |
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| Bedazzled |
| Want to know more about style, fashion and accessories from the past to the present? Then visit 'Bedazzled' the online and interactive magazine from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, with features about hair, bags, jewellery and much more.
Suitable for Key Stage 3 - 4. |
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| Bemused! |
| Bemused about Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery?
Well don't be. Be excited, be aware, be informed, be amused, don't just sit there...be involved.
Visit Bemused, a new website featuring videos, activities, gallery and a 'your say' topic areas. |
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| Birmingham Schools Census Project |
| The city council is trying to reach out to its residents in an effort to raise awareness of the importance of the upcoming census. One way it is doing this is by helping young people in school understand more about the census through a series of lessons. As a result of these lessons it is hoped young people will have an understanding of the intentions behind the census and some key points regarding issues such as confidentiality. |
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| Blakesley Hall for Kids |
| An interactive resource including 'The Building', Servants Room', Kitchen' and other interactive activities. Flash player required. |
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| BMAG Schools Website |
| This is the Schools website created by the Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery Schools Liaison Team, and includes learning support and interactive learning activities. |
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| Body Decoration and World Cultures |
| Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery has a rich collection of objects which tell the story of body decoration in diverse parts of the world. Using these objects and other images, you can explore different types of body decoration and how body decoration has changed through history. |
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| British Museum: Ancient Civilisations |
| This actoivity allows learners to study ancient ciovilisations from the viewpoint of six themes: cities, writing, buildings, trade, technology and religion. |
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| Christmas Around The World |
| A factual Christmas website with a collection of 30 countries and how they celebrate Christmas, particularly focusing on history and tradition.
The information is factual and presented as detailed text. It could be used as pupil research to produce reports or presentations using skills such as skimming and scanning, note making and a range of speaking and listening skills through presentations.
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| Clip Art for Language Teachers - Link 2 |
| A good collection of simple line-drawings to be used by MFL teachers. Some of the drawings are accomplished, others amusingly primitive, but most are very clear. They are designed to be as culturally and linguistically neutral as possible. As well as nouns on several topics (such as "things", "food and drink" and "places"), there are illustrations of key verbs, adjectives and pronouns as well as a good "medical" section. |
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| Colour Perception |
| Quite simply these are some of the most staggering optical effects I have ever seen. I guarantee you will not believe your eyes. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Coloured Text Mind Masher |
| Are you ready for your left brain to battle with your right brain. Sounds bizarre. Try this classy mind boggler if you're brave enough. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Control Resources |
| Resources are intended for use with interactive whiteboards and to enable (kinaesthetic) pupil interaction whilst promoting discussion. Several pages of increasing difficulty, are available and can be used as starters or in the plenary session. Principally aimed at Levels 3 and 4 they can be used as quick reminders when working at higher levels.
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| Create a Masterpiece |
| Fun interactive art activity - add some mystery symbols to a famous painting and find the hidden meanings! Flash player required. |
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| Curator Collection Game |
| Can you catch all the falling items without breaking any? A fun interactive game showing historical items from the Egyptian, Roman, Victorian and World War II periods. Flash player required. |
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| Curriculumbits.com |
| This is a free online library of e-learning resources in a growing range of Key Stage 3 and 4 subjects, currently including Art and Design, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, English, Mathematics, French, German, Geography, Physical Education, Performing Arts and Business
Studies.
All of the resources are developed by e-learning specialists in collaboration with teaching staff to ensure that each activity meets specific objectives of the National Curriculum. Video, audio,
animation and interactivity have been included for engagement of students and facilitation of learning. |
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| Digital Handsworth |
| An excellent website on the history and people of Handsworth. A main feature is the collection of Vanley Burke photographs on it. |
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| Diigo collaborative research tool |
| Diigo is a social bookmarking website which allows users to highlight any part of a webpage and attach sticky notes to specific highlights or to a whole page. They can then share it with others. It has great potential for collaborative research in the classroom. |
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| Dimple or Pimple |
| Pre-conceptions and assumptions are important...they even affect the way we see the world around us. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| European Commission language quiz |
| A free quiz about languages across Europe from the European Commission.
Each day a new multiple choice question is posted about one of the languages of the Commission. There's instant feedback with a second chance given before an explanation of the correct response is revealed.
A resource that is useful for general interest and knowledge as much as language learning. |
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| Exploiting the World Cup in MFL |
| Once more, the MFL Sunderland site provides a number of brilliant resources and ideas for using the World Cup in MFl teaching and learning.
Simple ideas suitable for all age groups - ready made and also ideas to spark your creativity! |
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| Exploring Perspective |
| This is a set of interactive scenes where you can play with differing perspectives and see the effects of size and scale. You can also explore how some famous artists have used perspective to give their paintings more realism. |
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| Extraordinary Earth |
| An interactive resource where you can investigate many objects from around the world and discover funny fascinating facts about the object! Flash player required. |
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| Find My Face |
| Try to find the five faces in the paintings as quickly as possible! |
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| Finger Spelling |
| This is an activity designed to familiarise students with a version of sign language called the British two-handed finger spelling alphabet. There are three different activities which test your knowledge of the alphabet. |
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| Food Stories - closed version |
| Where does food come from? Have you ever wondered, when you sit down to eat a meal, how many different stages your food has gone through before arriving on your plate? Well, now you can find out how one popular foodstuff is made. Have a go and see if you can identify all the stages of manufacture correctly. |
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| Food Stories - open ended version |
| Where does food come from? Have you ever wondered, when you sit down to eat a meal, how many different stages your food has gone through before arriving on your plate? Well, now you can find out how one popular foodstuff is made. Have a go and see if you can identify all the stages of manufacture correctly. |
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| Freemind |
| Freemind, a free mindmapping tool. |
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| German Football Game: Torwand |
| Get ready for the 2006 World Cup by playing the web version of German TV's goal-scoring game Torwand. Play solo, against an opponent by e-mail or against another person sitting at the same computer. Teachers: the Goethe Institut could bring a real Torwand to your school - for more info go to this URL: http://www.goethe.de/ins/gb/lon/lhr/akt/ftb/de388902.htm |
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| Google Earth creates time machine to visit Ancient Rome |
| Google Earth has reconstructed a virtual ancient Rome in its popular 3D map tool.
An awe-inspiring simulation tool which allows users to recreate a sense of the original unspoilt buildings of Rome, visit Julius Caesar's Forum, stand in the centre of the Colosseum or swoop over the Basilica. |
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| Herakles |
| The story of Herakles and his Twelve Labours is one of the most exciting and famous of all the Greek myths. You get the chance to read this exciting story and then complete the 12 tasks. Perfect opportunity to combine literacy skills with history in this cross curricular website.
An Etymological Dictionary of words and their Greek origins has also been provided to enhance the children’s understanding of language.
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| Identification Keys |
| Introduce your class to ID keys with this lovely whiteboard activity. The resource also includes printed materials for pupils to devise their own keys. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Language of the Month |
| This website offers free language programs, audio files and other resources to promote language awareness at different key stages in schools. The project has recently won a European Award for Languages from CILT. |
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| Learn about Landscapes |
| A fun interactive activity where you can discover useful tips about drawing landscapes including perspective and much more. Flash player required. |
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| Make Beliefs Comix |
| This is a free online tool for creating comic strips, which could be used by pupils to support a wide range of curriculum areas, especially literacy, EAL, community languages, communication skills-based learning and special education needs such as autism or emotional difficulties. Because the resource offers a choice of emotions which can be portrayed by the comic characters, a particularly relevant use could also for the development of emotional intelligence, behaviour and PSHE issues best represented by examples in contexts. |
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| Message in a Portrait |
| Discover the hidden coded messages and clues within the portraits. Flash player required. |
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| MFL Games |
| Online language fun for French, Spanish and German. Online games making language-learning enjoyable. Excellent section with content specifically for interactive whiteboard use. |
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| MFL Resources Site |
| A treasure-house of free teacher-contributed resources of all kinds (worksheets, PowerPoints, games, OHTs) for and by UK language teachers, this excellent web site is associated with a Yahoo group of similar name. Please note that the actual Yahoo group is on the US Yahoo site, not the UK one. Join up and contribute! |
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| Mind42 collaboration tool |
| Mind42 is a great online resource which allows users to work together collaboratively and to share ideas and resources. It is free to use. |
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| Moonlander Game |
| Use your thrusters to overcome the effects of gravity and bring the moonlander safely down to earth. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Moving Here |
| There is a lot on this site but it does not appear overwhelming to the user due to the organisation of material and design. As the title of the website suggests the subject of 2000 years of migration to England is central. There is a vast amount of information about various communities including; Caribbean, Irish, Jewish and South Asian Communities. Although the website is useful for those communities it is by no means exclusive. Anyone may use and enjoy the facilities on this site. It is accessible to all and incredibly user friendly. |
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| MP for a week |
| MP For A Week aims to help 11-16 year olds develop their political literacy, though it’s suitable for older students as well. The game has been designed with teachers in mind, and we hope you will find it an engaging and useful resource that forms a basis for discussing the democratic process.
Step into the shoes of an MP. Decide on laws, debate with other MPs, deal with the media, make a speech in the House of Commons Chamber and meet ministers and your constituents. Can you keep your party and your voters happy to survive the week? |
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| Mr Jolly Espanol |
| For use with the SMART Board Interactive Whiteboard. This activity allows pupils to reconstruct the story of Mr Jolly using words and pictures in Spanish. The downloadable file has been compressed in WinZip. |
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| Music for Diwali |
| As the online resources for digital media continue to grow, a wealth of material can be found spanning virtually every taste, interest and occasion. With the Hindu festival of Diwali approaching it is worth taking a look at the music resources available in video format. Both YouTube and GoogleVideo have some excellent sitar recitals available for Diwali. The link here gives a taster of the delights available. Click on the link to see and hear a Sitar Diwali Celebration filmed at Washington University. |
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| Myths |
| This is a fantastic site for myths. There are interactive presentations on myths from Norway, Babylon, China, Maori, Yorruba, Egyptian, Inca, Mayan and Inuit. For more you could purchase the CD ROM. There is also great support material on cooperative learning. |
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| nPower education games |
| 2 games from nPower
Climate Cops – The Earth is in danger and needs your help – have you got what it takes to become a Climate Cop? Complete the 3 missions to gain entry into the Climate Cop Academy
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Complete the missions
Help our friendly npower orbs find all the good ways and all the bad ways of using energy around the homes of the Silly’s and the Electra’s
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| Partition Remembered DVD-Rom |
| School Effectiveness Division has just released an exciting oral history DVD-Rom on the subject of the Partition of India and Pakistan.
The Partition Remembered DVD-ROM includes:
* video clips of 19 unique oral testimonies with transcripts
* primary source material including contemporary film footage
* a scheme of work and lesson plans
* engaging and motivating ideas for practical classroom activities
* support with undertaking an oral history project. |
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| Places Of Worship |
| Videos of tours/visits to places of worship. Listen to people talking about worship in their tradition and its place/importance in their life. It is a useful site to visit to support you when planning a trip to place of worship. It contains resources, activities and questions to aid your planning. |
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| Planet Earth 3D Virtual Globe |
| This beautiful resource gives you a huge photographic globe of the earth. Click on the arrows to rotate it clockwise or anti-clockwise. A gorgeous whole class resource. Unless you're on broadband this resource may take a minute to download. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Play Music |
| This is a really useful site for teaching about orchestral instruments. It is bright and colourful, suitable for Key Stage 1 through to Key Stage 3. There are lots of different aspects to it, some suiting older and some suiting younger children. The website covers all of the sections of the orchestra, giving well written information about each of the instruments. It gives examples of music played by most instruments and has an interactive game for each section of the orchestra. Explore and have fun! |
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| Pollen Park |
| Pollen Park has been specifically developed for children studying Key Stage 2 of the National Curriculum, Unit 5b, Lifecycles. The website can provide your class with valuable learning support, offering both education and entertainment.
Pollen Park endeavours to explain the complex process of plant reproduction in a straight forward manner; information is presented clearly and logically separated into obvious sections, enabling users to navigate freely, making their own relaxed decisions and discoveries.
It is a superb site built by Christina Handford. |
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| Pro/Desktop Tutorials |
| A valuable resource produced by the Warren Comprehensive school. Animated Pro/Desktop tutorials. The tutorials use a series of flash movies with annotations to take students from how to set up the page through to assembly drawings. They cover KS3, GCSE and A level. |
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| Pseudo Motion Images |
| These amazing patterns confound your brain into imagining a rotating motion that just isn't there...utterly amazing (if a little unnerving). This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Quality Curriculum Support Online |
| There are tons of free learning activities on this subscription-based website. It is also cross-referenced and offers a catalogue of websites covering all curriculum areas from Foundation to KS3.
The website is also speech-enabled. |
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| RE Video Resources |
| Video resources on the Cumbria and Lancashire Education Online website. Includes demonstrations of Muslim wudu and prayer, infant and immersion baptism, and various rituals around the Guru Granth Sahib, amongst many others. |
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| Ready 2 Learn |
| A KS2/3 resource providing a year's set of mini-lessons suitable for class assembly, PSHE, citizenship, RE, ... |
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| Rotating Gears |
| As you move your eyes around the image you'll see the pseudo motion of the gears rotating in the periphery of your vision. Very macabre. WARNING: don't look at this for too long...you'll start to feel sick. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra for kids! |
| This is a website for children, provided by the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra. It is fun to look at and easy to navigate. You can listen to the sound of all the instruments found within the Symphony Orchestra, as well as viewing the instrument from a variety of angles. There is also a very well crafted ?composerizer?, which would make an excellent introductory activity. There are loads of other, well thought out activities. The only thing to beware of is the American vocabulary, for example, ?measures? instead of ?bars?. |
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| Sarehole Mill for Kids |
| A fun interactive resource including 'How the Mill Works', 'The Garner', 'The Mill Pond and Rivers' and more. Flash player required. |
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| Schools Wikipedia |
| This site, based on Wikipedia (albeit 2008-2009), is a subset of the online encyclopaedia organised along the subject divisions of the National Curriculum. In addition to accessing the site online it is available as a free download – ideal for use with laptops where network connections can sometimes be problematical. You also can avoid the problems of pupils surfing off-site if the material is local and not on-line. |
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| Scratch |
| Scratch is a graphic animation and prgramming tool developed as part of the 'Lifelong Kindergarden' project. Pupils can simply aminate images and sequence instructions. |
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| Scribblar collaboration tool |
| Scribblar is a new online collaboration tool that features live audio, chat, whiteboard and image sharing capabilities. Registration is required but is free. |
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| Signs and Symbols |
| Find out more about signs and symbols in art, colour and its meaning and take the fun quizzes. |
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| Soho House for Kids |
| A fun interactive resource about Soho House, it includes 'The Lunar Society', 'Steam Engine Builder', 'The Herb Garden' and more. Flash player required. |
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| Spiral Pinwheel Illusion |
| Stare at the centre of the pinwheel for about 30 seconds then look at the back of your hand. You should see a scary flesh creep effect. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Stykz |
| A free animation system that is based on and builds upon the stick figure animations you may have seen. The site also includes a gallery of completed animations that could inspire pupils, or you may want to upload your own! |
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| Survival Guide |
| This is a simple multi-lingual resource, supported by audio, which helps non-English speaking recent arrivals to gain basic communication skills. |
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| Teach-ICT |
| Probably the ONE site you need if you teach ICT at KS3 or KS4! Here you can find everything from Video training for popular software to schemes of work, games and workbooks for virtually every course in ICT you can think of. Cannot recommend it too highly. |
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| Templates - An Interactive Whiteboard Resource |
| Open ended resources without content that can be used from Foundation to KS5. Titles: 10 linked pages, Blank Shopping, Cycle 4, Euro Shopping, Multiple Word Bank, One Word Bank, Presentation 6, Romans, Shopping Veg 2. |
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| TES Teaching Resources |
| Over 89,000 free teaching resources uploaded, reviewed and rated by members of the teaching profession. Free access to downloadable teaching resources, lesson plans, classroom activities, revision guides, whiteboard resources and access to Teachers TV. |
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| The Breathing Shapes Illusion |
| When our view of reality is obscured it isn't always easy to see the wood for the trees. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| The National Archive: Black Presence |
| The National Archive charts the Black presence in British history. An extremely informative website with original pictures and documents. It also gives you further reading. |
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| The National Maritime Museum website |
| It is divided into five main sections: Triangular Trade, Oppression and Survival, Resistance, Abolition and Impact. The site encourages young people to create their own exhibition about the Transatlantic Slave Trade. |
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| The Pre-Raph Pack |
| This website provides a wide range of information about the Pre-Raphaelite artists, the techniques they used and the context in which they worked. The new resource also includes a timeline spanning one hundred years and a large range of images and information from the collections at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.
Suitable for Key Stage 3-5. |
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| Timer |
| A huge timer for you to start and stop as you please. The time is given in Hours, minutes, seconds and hundredths of a second. Handy for timed tests, exams and activities. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Trees |
| A whiteboard activity to revise the names and functions of the parts of a plant and to say what each part does. |
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| Understanding Slavery |
| Originally created for the 2007 Citizen Resource launch, this website connects the transatlantic slave trade to the meaning of citizenship, by relfecting on the issues around the slave trade during world history and natue of citizenship. Provided by Understanding Slavery, group of five museums (NMM, BECM, NML, BCMGA and HMAG). |
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| Virtual House |
| This is a virtual tour of a house aimed at supporting EAL speakers. The resource is available in a number of community languages. |
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| Virtual Keyboard |
| Try your hand at composition or play along to the drum beats with the Virtual Keyboard. This activity supports the 'composing and appraising skills' aspect of the Music Programme of Study. The sounds created by the keyboard have been sampled to provide realistic representations of the different instruments. |
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| Virtual Learning |
| Virtual Learning is a web site aimed at supporting and providing information to educational and vocational establishments about new digital technologies. With links to Research and Evaluation papers and examples of usage of interactive whiteboards, CPD opportunities, accreditation routes and LMS examples, this is a good starting point for anyone looking at education for the future. |
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| Virtual Orchestra |
| This site is provided by the Northumberland Grid for Learning, and features teachers from their county music service. It covers a large range of orchestra instruments, each of which you can see in close-up and listen to. The sounds are not synthesised, but are recordings of the actual instruments, which is a great bonus |
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| Virtual Ripple Tank |
| This beautiful resource allows you to demonstrate such wave phenomena as interference, diffraction (single slit, double slit, etc.), refraction, resonance, and the Doppler effect. A wonderfully visual teaching aid for the interactive whiteboard. (requires a java enabled browser) This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Virtual Studio Sequencer |
| A powerful studio sequencer. Click and drag sounds to the studio tracks, then click 'play' to hear the results. Lots of options to change the sounds and the music dynamics. There is also a save and load function. |
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| Wave Laboratory |
| Simply the best way to show you pupils what transverse and longitudinal waves really are. The application allows you to explore progressive and standing waves as well as reflection and interference. An outstanding whole-class teaching resource. This resource has been generously donated by eChalk Ltd. |
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| Weoley Castle for Kids |
| Weoley Castle was once a Medieval manor house with an interesting history. Discover more about the castle through the interactive timeline and see what the castle used to look like.
A fun and interactive website for children at Key Stage 1-2. |
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| What is the Hajj- Virtual Tour |
| If you are not able to go to Hajj then experience the next best thing, the Virtual Hajj.
From arriving in Jeddah to the plains of Arafat and the Grand
Kaíaba, experience the Hajj online. |
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| What Rock am I? |
| To understand that rocks can be grouped according to observable characteristics. |
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| Where in the World? |
| Can you match the all the objects to their correct country with this quiz? From Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. |
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| Word it out! |
| "Word it out" is a fantastic online tool which allows you to create word clouds. You can enter words manually or even use an entire document. Excellent for classroom display on different topics. NOTE; EMAIL ADDRESS REQUIRED. |
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| World of Teaching |
| Microsoft Power point presentations on science (and other subjects) that are free to download and use. |
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| www.Uptoten.com |
| A brilliant language website - bilingual French/English for free with the option to pay for other languages.
Especially good for quirky songs by Boowa et Kwala, and for games and activities.
As it is completely bilingual, you can check the song in English before finding the French equivalent. |
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| Yom Kippur resource page |
| A portal page with a number of different activites including wordsearch, lesson plans and a comic strip |
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