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Links

Education Links For Teachers

Becta's Learning & Teaching section Ideas for using ICT to support the curriculum.

DfES

Primary National Strategy

DfES Standards Site Schemes of work etc. can be downloaded from this site.

The National Curriculum online

Teachernet DfES site to support the education profession. It includes a database of over 2000 lesson plans and resources.

BBC Schools

General Resources

BBC Learning Zone Clips Short videos which have been selected to match the curriculum.

Schools Wikipedia

Crickweb Interactive resources for Maths, Literacy, Science, History, Geography, R.E., D.T., French and Spanish.

Easiteach Ready-made resources for all subjects.

Textease Resources matching the new framework for literacy and mathematics.

SEN Teacher Special needs teaching resources

NAACE Primary Classroom Activities, including a Big Book Maker and 19th century census database.

Filmstreet Moving image education? Making films with children? This is the place to go!

Kids' Vid Movie making for kids

Me and My Movie CBBC

Brainboxx Multiple intelligences, learning styles, aspects of learning, G&T, brain gym, science investigations, puzzles, plays and many more resources.

The Big Brown Envelope Resources to support the use of ICT in all curriculum areas.

ICTeachers Support and resources

Teachers' Library

Teacher Resource Exchange

Teaching Ideas for UK Primary Teachers

Educate the Children Lesson plans and worksheets for primary teachers.

Gareth Pitchford's Primary Resources

Puzzlemaker A puzzle and games generation tool.

Teacher Tools An American site with many useful resources.

Funbrain.com A quiz lab where you can set up your own online quizzes or use any that are already there.

Topmarks A useful educational portal for finding links to other educational sites.

Teacher Xpress Links to almost anything you can think of to do with education!

Click Teaching Downloadable worksheets and teaching ideas covering all subjects.

Teaching Pets Worksheets, lesson plans and assemblies.

Primary Games Arena A huge collection of games for children mapped to different curriculum areas

Finding Partner Schools

The SOCRATES partner finding tool for European projects

European Schoolnet

ePals Classroom Exchange

Windows on the World A database for schools looking for partner schools to develop international education projects.

Literacy

The Highwayman

ICTGames Interactive literacy activities for KS1.

The Poetry Archive Poetry resources including lesson plans and classroom activities linked to the poems in the Children's section (linked below)

Children's Poetry Archive Listen to poets reading ther own poems!

Potty Poets

Fizzy Funny Fuzzy Fun poetry for kids.

Poetry Class Poetry lessons linked to key stage requirements.

Stories from the Web Stories, poems and author interviews

Children's online dictionary

Read Write Think A large selection of interactive literacy activities to help with various aspects of the writing process.

Literactive Phonics activities

Ambleside School's interactive literacy resources

Literacy resources in Textease format

Interactive literacy resources

Ideas and resources for the teaching of literacy, including writing frames.

Literacy Time A site to help teachers implement the National Literacy Strategy.

Creative Writing 4 Kids Author, Antony Lishak's site where children's writing can be published and shared.

The British Library This site has some excellent materials and activites.

The Museum of Myth and Fable's Web Site Myths from around the world.

Mythweb A site devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology.

Pegasus' Paradise

Myths and Legends E2BN's own resource, including tools to help pupils create their own stories.

Project Gutenberg An amazing site where you can download whole books as a text file. Many of the classics can be found there, including works by Dickens, Lear, Aesop and the complete works of Shakespeare!

Aesop's Fables

Animated Aesop's Fables

Lots of links for Mythology and Folklore

Children's Literature Web Guide

Kids On The Net A site which aims to publish children's work from all over the world.

Word Pool A good site about literacy and numeracy, but the highlight is the section of author profiles and links to authors' home pages on the Internet.

John Mallam - Children's Author Describes the making of a non-fiction book.

Children's Literature Web Guide Authors and Illustrators on the Web

The Official Narnia Page A super site for anything to do with the Narnia Chronicles, including the first chapter of each book and online quizes.

Bectan Sands - an online literacy project.

Ambleside School - an excellent set of interactive literacy activities.

Making Words Work Storytelling site with lots of ideas for literacy.

Links to online texts for literacy

Picture Dictionary

The Official Roald Dahl website

Scholastic Books

Numeracy

Easter mathematics programmes

Planning for the New Framework Cumbria Grid for Learning. Complete set of adaptable plans and resources.

Textease Resources for the New Framework for every year group.

ICTGames Interactive numeracy activities for KS1.

Subtangent.com A site with lots of investigations, games and resources suitable for upper key stage 2 and G&T.

Times Tables Grid game

Activity identifying properties of 3D shapes.

Activity about line and bar line graphs

Numeracy resources in Textease format

Homework Help sheets for parents and lots of other useful numeracy stuff!

Number Gym Interactive maths resources.

Toftwood Infant School Interactive maths resources.

Lesson starter ideas (Birmingham City Council)

More mental oral starter ideas (Staffordshire Learning Net)

NRICH - the Primary Online Maths Club

The Math Forum

New Zealand Maths A site packed full of problem solving/maths investigation activities.

Count On AAA Math

Mathszone Links to excellent interactive games and teaching activities for teaching Numeracy.

Ambleside School Interactive activities for numeracy.

Science

Active Science interactive resources including simulations.

Engineering Interact Super interactive resources for Light, Sound, Forces & Motion, Earth & Beyond and Electricity.

BBC KS2 Bitesize Science Interactive science activities.

BBC Science and Nature

Insight into Eyesight

Animation to show how light enters the eye

Yahooligans Animal Fact Files

Planet Arkive Information, images and sounds of creatures and their habitats.

Arkive Education Resources for teachers.

The Fruit Pages Everything you want to know about fruit!

Dole 5 A Day site Lesson plans on fruit :-)

Enchanted Learning A site with lots of good resources. Well worth dipping into.

Dataloggerama

The Theatre of Electricity

The Bug Club - includes an insect identification key.

Earthlife Web

ThinkQuest - Plants and Our Environment

Animal Pictures

Butterfly Website

NASA StarChild NASA's child-friendly site.

Solar System TourNASA's images of the solar system.

Solar System and Planet Views A solar system simulator. View any planet or satellite from anywhere in the solar system at any time.

Microbe Zoo

The BBC Weather Centre

AstraZeneca Science Teaching Trust Thinking Frames approach and other useful CPD sections

QCA section on teaching pupils gifted in science.

Haringey LA science links: Key stage 1

Haringey LA science links: Key stage 2

ICT

Starz The ICT service's children's webmail site.

Cybercafe at the THINKUKNOW site. To teach children about Internet safety.

Welcome to the Web Some online lessons on using the Internet, including SMART rules!

Wise Kids Internet Challenge Game A web site which aims to promote positive and safe internet use.

Windows Vista parental controls

Mac OS X 10.4 parental controls

Windows Live Controlling a child's contact list

ICT service list Further links for advice on Internet Safety

QUICK Quality Information Checklist

Save the Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Clever Colin's Coffee Conundrum - a simulation.

BBC Iron Age Celts simulation

Active Science population growth - rabbits simulation.

Active Science population growth - rabbits and hunters simulation.

FlashMeeting E2BN's secure video conferencing tool

ICT in the Early Years E2BN's Early Years resources

Big Day Out Foundation and KS1 modelling, control and simulation activities

Progression in ICT Capability Materials Main Menu

Dancemat Typing Fun way to practise keyboard skills

History

Headline History Super interactive setting of a newspaper (interview witnesses, read and write articles) to learn about the Romans, Tudors, Victorians and World War II.

The Day After Project to support history and literacy. Videos of "eye witness" accounts of historical events

National Archives Learning Curve Educational features and activities for Key Stage 2 based on visual sources from the National Archive

Object Lessons An online display of objects from Islington Artefacts Library. High quality images and information on each object.

National Maritime Museum

History World The History of the World (by Bamber Gascoigne) with some useful timelines of KS2 history topics.

Schoolhistory.co.uk Is building up its Primary section.

Romans

BBC Education: Romans

The Roman Empire

Who Were The Romans?

The Roman Empire Children's section

Romans in Sussex

The Romans at Nettlesworth Primary School

History on the Net The Romans

Daily Life in Ancient Rome

Boudicca's Revolt

Virtual Dig

Aztecs

The Aztecs/Mexicas A site with lots of links.

Snaith Primary School's Aztec page

Nettlesworth Primary School's Aztec pages

Aztecs

World War Two

What was life like in the second world war? The Imperial War Museum's site for children

War Witness E2BN's resources on World War 2

The Chatback Trust Older people with experience of WWII have written their memories and published them here. Many of the authors are willing to correspond with readers by email.Granny's Kitchen is also on the Chatback site - food shortages and rationing are dealt with and recipes of the time are given for children to try.

The Anne Frank Site This site features the house, diary extracts, information and articles about Anne Frank.

The Home Front

The National Archives Learning Curve - Home Front

The Home Front NW Grid's site of activities including recordings of interviews with veterans.

Children of World War 2

Women at War The role of women in World War II

Air Raid Shelters

Air Raid Shelters World War 2 ex-RAF site

War Witness E2BN resources including eye witness accounts

Tudors

Film clips about Tudor Life

The Tudors

The Mary Rose Museum

Exploring The Mary Rose

Tudor Exploration at the National Maritime Museum

Henry VIII and The Tudors

Tudors History on the Net

The Tudors A great interactive web site by The V & A

The Tudors at Nettlesworth Primary School

The Tudors at Snaith Primary

Tudor Houses at Heritage4Schools

Tudor Houses at Woodlands Junior School

Show Me a list of web links on the Tudors

Victorians

The Victorian Web

Web Directory Victorian web sites

Cadbury Learning Zone History Website A look at Victorian Bournville

Sainsbury's Virtual Museum A good resource for work on Victorians and World War II.

BBC - Children in Victorian Britain

Channel 4 Victorian Children

Virtual Victorian School Blists Hill

Virtual Victorians

Victorian Christmas

Greenfield Road Census Database

Ancient Greeks

Ancient Greece The British Museum's exciting interactive educational web site.

The Olympic Games

Herakles

Pegasus' Paradise Meet mythological Greek animals, heros, heroines, villains and gods.

Mythweb Includes an encyclopedia of Greek mythology.

Ancient Greece for kids

The Ancient Greek World

BBC: Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece

Ancient Greece for Kids (Woodland Junior School)

Who were the Ancient Greeks? 4Learning

Anglia Campus: Ancient Greeks

Archimedes

Geography

Mapzone Ordnance Survey's children's site

Mapping Our World Interactive globe

VTC Cymru's geography resources - super interactive activities.

Infomapper

Climate Choices Children's Voices

Climate Change for Kids

Cool Kids for a Cool Climate

Climate Change

River Ribble: from Source to Sea

Rivers Cyberhunt

BBC Landmarks Rivers and Coasts

Investigating Rivers

The River Trent

More river links

Unlocking the Archives Learning resources about Antarctica

Glacier - a site about Antarctica

British Antarctic Survey Team

Rainforest Concern An animated guided tour of a rainforest.

Rainforest Heroes Site for children

Rainforest web quest

Multimap Online maps of anywhere in Great Britain and also (less detailed) of the world.

World Geography Kidport Reference Library

A Village in India Online Activity

Design and Technology

Nuffield Primary Design and Technology

D&T Online Offers free access to materials, resources and software. Mostly for Key stage 3-4, with some possibilities for Key stage 2.

The Flour and Grain Education Programme

Warburtons Resources for QCA units 3B (sandwiches)and 5B (bread).

The British Nutrition Foundation

Cookit! E2BN's recipe sharing site

Art

World Wide Arts Resources - The largest gateway to the arts in the world.

The Artchive - A superb collection of art and art history resources.

Art History Resources on the Web

Artcyclopedia The Guide to Museum-Quality Art on the Internet

The Tate gallery

The Museum of Modern Art

William Morris Gallery

Music

Music Education at DataDragon Hear musical instruments, learn to read music and learn about different genres.

The New York Philharmonic Kidzone Super site with Composers' Gallery, invent an instrument, look at and listen to instruments, composers' workshop etc.

BBC: Onion Street Music Room - the place to make, talk and listen to music.

Arts Alive - Music Lesson plans, instruments to examine, online activities, composers' biographies, music to listen to, videos to watch.

Audio Network Hundreds of music tracks for free (only accessible from school)

Religious Education

RE:Quest A web site for teaching about Christianity suitable for Key stage 1 and 2.

Christian Festivals

The RE site

BBC Religions and Ethics

Cafod schools page

School Assembly site Your turn for assembly? Download and submit assembly ideas and scripts.

The Assemblies Website Primary school assemblies for every season.

Cracking RE with ideas for PSHE, citizenship and assemblies.