Great Teaching Resources Hunt

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Social Responsibility/ Life Skills


Tax Matters site is full of games, quizzes, videos and ‘case studies’ for older teens and young adults to help them on their journey into ‘the real world’ This site is very approachable and is also good for tax, national insurance and citizenship questions mum and dad might not know either! http://www.taxmatters.hmrc.gov.uk/

Action Aid educational resources http://www.actionaid.org.uk/index.asp?page_id=100006

Fire Safety games and information http://firekills.direct.gov.uk/game.html

BBC Raw covers a very large swathe of topics on Everyday Life and could be used for younger kids (with parental assistance) and would be very good for older kids ages 10-18 to use on their own to help them learn about life in ‘the real world’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/raw/

3M Streetwise Road Safety http://www.3m.co.uk/intl/uk/3MStreetwise2008/?WT.mc_id=www.3mstreetwise.co.uk/mirror

Bullies Out helps kids learn about approaches to dealing with bullying including issues of faith and cyberbullying http://www.bulliesout.com/

My Life is a FREE Citizenship and PSHE teaching resource for teachers of children aged 7 to 11, produced by The Children's Society in association with our Good Childhood® Inquiry. http://www.mylife4schools.org.uk/MyLife/home.aspx

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History


School History.co.uk Wonderful large resource http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/

BBC Primary History covers Ancient Greeks, Romans, Anglo Saxons, Vikings, Children of Victorian Britain, Children of WWII http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/

BBC Mining in Britain http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/mining/

Mining History links http://www.mining-memorabilia.co.uk/Links.htm

Coal mining history resource http://www.cmhrc.co.uk/site/home/

BBC the Victorians http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/victorians/

The Victorian period in England http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Victorian_index.htm

History of the Industrial Revolution http://www.historyworld.net/wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=aa37

History World – Excellent resource for historical information http://www.historyworld.net/default.asp?gtrack=orig

History of Cadbury’s! http://web.archive.org/web/20050108091309/http://www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk/history/

Spartacus Educational – Child Labour http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRchild.htm

National Digital Library of Scotland http://www.nls.uk/digitallibrary/index.html

BBC History for Kids http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/forkids/





Mythweb devoted to the heroes, gods and monsters of Greek mythology http://www.mythweb.com/

Greek Mythology quiz http://www.funtrivia.com/playquiz/quiz6534677dbf8.html

Winged Sandals Greek Mythology website – temporarily offline but says it’s coming back http://www.abc.net.au/arts/wingedsandals/

Greek Mythology : Terrific Trivia Game http://thinks.com/trivia/greek_myth.htm


List of 12 online activities concerning Greek Mythology http://library.thinkquest.org/CR0210200/ancient_greece/online_activities.htm

A selection of Greek Mythology resources http://www.cityofif.com/main_greek_myth.htm

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Maths

Currency worksheets in USD, Pounds Sterling and Euros http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/grade1/grade1money.html

Cool Math 4 Kids has lots of maths games to make learning more fun http://www.coolmath4kids.com/

Interactive maths games http://www.gamequarium.com/math.htm

Math Playground math videos, we found these very helpful in explaining complicated processes http://www.mathplayground.com/mathvideos.html

Math games http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html

Ambleweb tables tester is an online multiplication ‘game’ with easy, harder and megahard levels of play http://www.amblesideprimary.com/ambleweb/mentalmaths/testtest.html

Learning About Time isn’t just a young childs introduction to time but also provides a detailed history of time as well which could be useful for older children. http://arcytech.org/java/clock/

Just In Time offers a great selection of learning activities concerning telling and measuring time http://sln.fi.edu/time/Journey/JustInTime/contents.html


L’il Fingers learn about time for younger kids http://www.lil-fingers.com/games/time/

Digital Clocks vs Analogue Clocks in this time telling maths game http://www.apples4theteacher.com/clocks.html

MathSphere offers free resources for children age 5-11 http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/

Free printable graph paper http://www.mathsphere.co.uk/resources/MathSphereFreeGraphPaper.htm


Timez Attack free game download for PC & Mac Great 3D game that teaches multiplication in a way that I even enjoyed as an adult! The basic game is free to download. One thing to note, when you play the game it says you have to use W or S to move but I was able to use the arrow keys (which I find much easier) this worked on my PC I've not tried it on the Mac yet.http://www.bigbrainz.com/Download.html

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Science


The Accidental Scientist presents The Science of Cooking sure to be interesting for kids aged 6+ http://www.exploratorium.edu/cooking/index.html

The Exploratorium is a wonderfully rich resource for a variety of scientific information and games online http://www.exploratorium.edu/

Discovery Kids making science fun! http://kids.discovery.com/

How Stuff Works makes learning about science fun and very interesting! http://www.howstuffworks.com/

Kids Primary Science has lots of games and quizzes that make science fun http://www.netrover.com/~kingskid/science/science.htm

Kaboose offers interactive science games as well as covering many other subjects http://resources.kaboose.com/games/science.html

Kids Science Experiments offers you inspiration on things to try http://www.kids-science-experiments.com/

Dragonfly TV brought to you by PBS kids is a wonderfully interactive science site not to be missed http://pbskids.org/dragonflytv/

SpacePlace from NASA offers fun trivia, quizzes and games http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids/games.shtml

Nasa’s For Kids offers information, videos and links to other science related sites http://nasascience.nasa.gov/kids

ShowMeUK offers interactive science games as well as some on history and other subjects http://www.show.me.uk/games/games.html

ZOOM has some excellent science games online as well as experiments to try at home http://pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci/

BBC Science Fair projects and games to download http://www.kids-online-games.com/


[FONT=&quot]Science Kids provides games, quizzes, projects experiments and more http://www.sciencekids.co.nz/[/FONT]

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Philosophy/Logic


Thunks – questions that make your brain go ouch! Great for beginning a dialogue with children about the more philosophical aspects of life. This site could be used alone by older kids but would require help for children under the age of 10 http://www.thunks.co.uk/

Philosophy for Kids http://philosophyforkids.com/

Philosopher’s Net games and quizzes that should appeal to children from ages 7-18 including such topics as ‘Shakespeare vs Britney Speares’ & ‘So You Think You’re Logical’ http://www.philosophersnet.com/games/

Adventures of Philosophers Island http://www.portables2.ngfl.gov.uk/pmpercival/philosophy/page2.html

Hot Philosophy is the website specially for children and young people interested in philosophy. http://www.hotphilosophy.com/

Philosophy Class – accessible to older children or a precocious 9-10 year old, will probably require help from mum or dad http://www.philosophyclass.com/

A Timeline of Western Philosophers http://www.philosophypages.com/dy/zt.htm

*Jellie*

Brainpop.com has some great little video clips worth checking out but you need to subscribe to access them all.
Skoool has animated lessons and activities
http://www.skoool.co.uk/logon.aspx?ReturnUrl=%2findex.aspx
The teachers tv web site has tone of interesting and useful videos on topics.
GCSE and A level revision at
http://www.s-cool.co.uk/
Have tons more but wouldn't want to overload everyone. I think the best place to start is always google- just make sure you try putting 'school' 'GCSE' or the relevant key stage with your search term.

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*Jellie* wrote: »

Have tons more but wouldn't want to overload everyone. I think the best place to start is always google- just make sure you try putting 'school' 'GCSE' or the relevant key stage with your search term.

please DO 'overload' us, that's what this thread is for and for home educators we never have enough good links!

mummy_Jay

For those learning to write, I've found this worksheet site brilliant

http://www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/handwriting_practice_worksheet_maker.html

it has links to other useful worksheet pages on it for pre-school writing and crafts

http://www.kidssoup.com/products/ET_prewritingskillworkbook.html

and maths

http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/

oldMcDonald

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Wow!...just, wow!

Thank you for the links:)

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oldMcDonald wrote: »

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Wow!...just, wow!

Thank you for the links:)

you're quite welcome! always happy to share and this was actually quite good for me because i keep making folders and putting the bookmarks in then forgetting which one they are in etc and making new ones so i didn't even realise i had all of these links!

i'm actually going to use my list (put it in a word doc) to help me tidy up my google bookmarks :rotfl:

two of the sites i 'rediscovered' yesterday whilst going through all the links to check them first was the timez attack game and the show me page of games, all i can saw about both is WOW

my daughter loves the timez game and it's making multiplication so easy for her now and the show me has links to some truly superb games, i've even enjoyed playing quite a few!