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Alien Adventures - Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery
A fun website all about Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery - find games, activities, puzzles and fun facts. Learn how to create landscapes, find hidden messages in portraits and more. Flash player required.
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.
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.
Blakesley Hall for Kids
An interactive resource including 'The Building', Servants Room', Kitchen' and other interactive activities. Flash player required.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Film Education - film-related resources
This website offers a variety of film-related resources and ideas for teaching through film including screen adaptations of novels (such as The Kite Runner, Beowulf and The Polar Express) There are specific resources for both primary and secondary pupils.
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.
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.
Hurricane Hits England
An annotated Powerpoint presentation of the poem by Grace Nichols. The poem includes annotations raising teaching points to help with the deconstruction of the poem. This is a simple, clear and effective whiteboard resource. Kindly submitted by Michelle Tovey.
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.
Message in a Portrait
Discover the hidden coded messages and clues within the portraits. Flash player required.
Not My Business
A Powerpoint presentation of the poem "Not My Business" by Nivi Osundare with annotated teaching points.
Poetry Archive
Ever needed a certain poem and just can’t lay your hands on it? Well look no further. The Children’s Poetry Archive has a huge bank of poems online for your convenience. Many of these poems have been read specially for the site by famous poets like Allan Ahlberg and Michael Rose to really bring this poetry to life.
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.
R2L - Support Documents
Delivering an INSET as part of the R2L teaching resource
Ready 2 Learn
A KS2/3 resource providing a year's set of mini-lessons suitable for class assembly, PSHE, citizenship, RE, ...
Signs and Symbols
Find out more about signs and symbols in art, colour and its meaning and take the fun quizzes.
Survival Guide
This is a simple multi-lingual resource, supported by audio, which helps non-English speaking recent arrivals to gain basic communication skills.
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.
This Room
A Powerpoint presentation of the poem by Imtiaz Dharker. This poem has been annotated with teaching points, and is kindly donated by Michelle Tovey.
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.
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.
World of Teaching
Microsoft Power point presentations on science (and other subjects) that are free to download and use.
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