Great Teaching Resources Hunt

SmileBeHappy

Dont no why i bother.... :rolleyes:

rocky2008

I ended up with 24x7guru.com which is online assessment tool for school kids of class 3 to 10 and a good one to improve the grades. Subscribe and have a chance to visit NASA through Destination NASA Contest.

pipkin71

Excellent thread for resources. Here's some I have come across and a few I use, although many have probably already been mentioned.

http://www.starfall.com/

http://www.uptoten.com/

http://www.muddlepuddle.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.firstschoolyears.com/

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy/index.htm

http://www.parentscentre.gov.uk/educationandlearning/whatchildrenlearn/learningathomeoutsideschool/electivehomeeducation/

http://www.janemoran-science-storybooks.co.uk/

http://www.motherwise.co.uk/Family Learning/homed.htm

http://www.eduref.org/

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/artists/time/early.shtml

http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk/funhistory.shtml#egypt

http://www.sfa.cg.catholic.edu.au/students/year3/ancientegypt.html

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/

http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/curriculum/homework/homelearning.htm

http://www.peterrabbit.com/

http://www.teachingtables.co.uk/

http://www.bootslearningstore.com/ks2/sunfun.htm

http://www.magickeys.com/books/

http://www.flyingpigs.org.uk/craft_index.shtml

http://www.ollierecycles.com/uk/html/teachers.html

http://www.squiglysplayhouse.com/index.html

http://www.dltk-kids.com/

http://www.topicbox.co.uk/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/art/activities/wyps/index.shtml

http://www.funbrain.com/brain/SweepsBrain/Games/Game.html?GameName=Triviatronic&Brain=kidsandparents&Grade=0&GameNumber=2&Color=530189

http://www.sciencemadesimple.com/

http://www.kidzone.ws/

http://disney.go.com/characters/mickey/html/zone/gigglebks.html

http://www.billybear4kids.com/Learn2Draw/Learn2Draw.html

http://www.melvyn.greenyer.eggconnect.net/

http://www.freedomforchildrentogrow.org/index.htm

http://sandradodd.com/BoredNoMore.html

http://homeschooling.gomilpitas.com/methods/Montessori.htm

http://www.artistshelpingchildren.org/

http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/teacher/science.html

http://www.hiveaction.co.uk/

http://juniors.reonline.org.uk/

http://www.teacherprintables.net/index.html

http://www.teachingandlearningresources.co.uk

http://ahed.pbwiki.com/Why-Home-Educate#WhataboutSocialisation

http://www.primarygames.co.uk

http://www.learning-connections.co.uk/curric/cur_pri/h_body/hands.html

Since coming out of school, the progress my DDs have made is amazing and home edding certainly works for us.

I'm now preparing my educational philosophy, as we have been contacted by the LEA and will make a list of some of these resources in there.

Pipkin xxxx

pipkin71

SmileBeHappy wrote: »

Hello there

This is an 18 page list of words that should be known for the KS2 sats... year 6

http://rossa.blogs.com/weblog/files/sats_spelling_practise.pdf

It is in a great format for helping her... good luck

Thanks for those SBH - they will be a useful tool for DD2.

Pipkin xxxx

SWMBO

One of my favourite forums for home education topics (besides here, obviously) is http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/

On a particularly MSE theme, they have a free curriculum thread at http://www.welltrainedmind.com/forums/showthread.php?t=109114 :money:, but the rest of the forums also have lots of useful information.

Cinders2001

So nice to see other doing the same!

Cinders2001

Don't forget to book for National Schools Film Week chaps!

As Home Schoolers you are just as entitled to the Free Film as the mainstream schools.
Go to http://www.nsfw.org/index.php for details and click on Booking at the bottom.

Confuzzled

hello everyone! i was directed to this thread after asking for a HE dedicated area so i'm hoping we can revive this a wee bit as i'm seeing more and more people stating that they HE and we can certainly all use the help with resources

i'm going to go through my links and catagorise them then post them here soon (promise!) however right now while it's on my mind i thought i'd let you know that quite a few HE families are trying to start a 'trend' on twitter right now to raise awareness and support for HE.

if you post on twitter about anything remotely HE if you add the tag #WeLoveHomeEd (must include the hashmark) then that helps the 'movement' plus if you then click on that tag in your tweet you can see all the other tweets and there are already some useful urls posted so it could be good for everyone. http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23WeLoveHomeEd will show you the recent tweets with this tag. this has just started very recently but it's already doing well!
also if you want to add a twibbon to your avatar in support of HE you can click on this url http://twibbon.com/join/WeLoveHomeEd and get one

Confuzzled

PHEW! I've been busy sifting through hundreds of bookmarks, checking links and categorising them to provide all the HE families here with some more resources.

Some of these I may have found via MSE, some I've just stumbled upon myself and others via resource link sites. Regardless of how or where they were found I consider all of the links very useful so I'm thrilled to be sharing them with anyone interested in boosting childrens knowledge and love of learning.

To make these a little less daunting I'm going to post for each subject matter. All of the links have at least a little information to give you an idea of what they are about, some have a fair amount of information depending on how much I've used/liked them etc.

Keep in mind that I'm in Scotland so I've provided some Scottish resources because of that, I'm not discriminating against anywhere else! Also, most sites provided have some appeal to the 7-11 year old range because my daughter is nearly 8 however I have shared sites for younger kids, older kids and adults too!

I will probably add to each section as I the months move along, I'm an avid bookmark collector as I know I'll usually never be able to find these little gems again if I don't save them right then and there.

Anyway let me get started now with:

Art

For both primary and high school level students. Some of the games here are very educational and a my wee one had a lot of fun playing them http://www.alifetimeofcolor.com/main.taf?p=4

Art history, games etc. I highly recommend the A Pintura Art Detective Also contains links to many more art sites http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/lessons/middle/for-kids.htm

Inside Art – An Art History Game great game, interesting to children (and adults!) of varying ages http://www.eduweb.com/insideart/

Tate Kids – The Tate Modern presents this kid oriented website full of art activities, films and more all about art. My daughter loves this site and loves submitting her artwork to the gallery. They used to send a magnetic photo frame when you joined them, not sure if they still do or not but it was nice so maybe you’ll get lucky and get one too! This one is not to be missed, and the street art section will even appeal to older children http://kids.tate.org.uk/

and the related:

Crafts


Hershey has provided some Halloween templates for craft projects including making Halloween costumes and colouring pages Check the other resources section at the bottom of the page for links to colourful themed pdf forms for a word search, word games and other educational goodies http://www.hersheys.com/trickortreats/activities/

Paper Folding (Origami) website http://foldingtrees.com/2009/07/tutorial-review-lotus-blossom-card/

Crafts Forum freebies list offers links to loads of free craft items always worth checking a few times a week http://craftville.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=3.0

Realistic drawings of animals done in pdf form to print out for colouring pages http://www.janbrett.com/mural_hhl/honey_honey_lion_mural.htm

Potato printing with video as well as written instructions http://www.storyboxbooks.com/potatoprinting.php


Has free printables for making cards, stationary, craft projects, colouring pages as well as some games http://www.magicalkingdom.co.uk/index.htm

Big selection of themed scrapbook printables http://www.scrapbookscrapbook.com/themes.html

Scrapbook project ideas http://www.allcrafts.net/scrapbook.htm#freeprojects

Easy to Print, Useful Templates for Free. Calendars, Greeting Cards, Signs, Flyers, Forms, Gift Wrap, Decorations, and more. Print your own ink conservative items for pennies and save time and gas while you're at it. http://www.printfree.com/

[FONT=&quot]Many of Moms Break free printables cards and invitations can be personalize before printing which is a big time saver. Games, crafts, educational material etc http://www.momsbreak.com/printable/index.shtml[/FONT]

Free printables, craft ideas and more http://sassyprintsandcrafts.blogspot.com/

FREE digital scrapbooking kits http://www.shabbyprincess.com/

Craft ideas aimed specifically at home educators http://www.homeschooling-ideas.com/home-school-crafts.html

Music

Rockfords Rock Opera This is a unique adventure in sound for adults and children. With narration, sound effects, songs and videos, it's a totally new kind of musical experience.The story is in 3 parts (each part is about 50 minutes long, split into 10 min chapters) Part One (52 minutes) is available to Download, Podcast and Stream FREE! http://www.rockfordsrockopera.com/home/

Confuzzled

Health


NHS 5 a Day resources http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Publichealth/Healthimprovement/FiveADay/index.htm

Dole Super Kids offers a selection of nutrition based games and information http://www.dole.com/SuperKids/Educators/tabid/744/Default.aspx

Nutrition Caf! offers up several games based on healthy eating http://exhibits.pacsci.org/nutrition/noflash_nutrition.html

Nourish Interactive – large resource of information, games and lessons on healthy eating http://www.nourishinteractive.com/

Kids Health offers pages designed for parents, kids and teens on a variety of subjects http://kidshealth.org/kid/