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ABCTeach
A site crammed full of downloadable stuff with ideas for using them. Lots of subjects each
with its collections of useful printables. Go! See! You can't help but find it useful.
The Educator's
Reference Desk
This is the American Educational Resources Information Centre, which is federally
funded. It contains a resource collection, a collection of lesson plans on a wide variety
of school subjects, a question answering service and question archive and a database of
abstracts of journal articles and documents.
A to Z Teachers Stuff
An American site with a large number of ready-prepared lessons for classes of all ages.
Really useful.
Best
Teacher Resources on the Web
An uninspiring, but useful collection of educational links worldwide. Organised by subject
and area of interest.
Brynherbert Community Primary School
Our first website with pages in Welsh! A nice school site, mirrored
in English. Look in the Worksheets for Teachers Section for lots of
downloadable resources, especially if you are teaching in Welsh.
(Note, though, that although the resources are all named in
Welsh, many of them are actually in English or are bilingual).
Chalkface's
Free Worksheets Links page
A collection of links to freely available worksheets for a variety of subjects / ages.
Clickteaching
This is a resource bank. Search by subject. Looks good. If we haven't got it they
might have (Only you'll have to subscribe and pay an annual fee!).
Discovery School
The homepage of the Discovery Channel School. Holds lesson plans on a wide range of
subjects linked to their programmes.
Education 2000
A portal to education related sites aimed at school managers and administrators.
Education and Government Sites
A useful collection of education and government weblinks.
Education Index
A guide to education-related sites on the web. Easy to navigate.
Gareth Pitchford's Primary
Resources
Loads of useful information with an ever-increasing number of useable worksheets for all
levels and subjects. Well worth a visit.
The Gateway.org
An American site. The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans,
curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet!
Graham Dean's
Homepage
Graham's resources are mainly for KS2 Geography and Literacy. There are links for teachers in both primary and secondary
education. Also photographs and other resources for
education
including photographs of the River Ribble - from source to sea, Bridges (illustrated
hypertext reference file) along with other bits and pieces.
In The Classroom -
Timeplan's Virtual Teachers' Centre
A simple and easy to use site. Although it is called a teachers' centre it is actually an
excellent links collection. The site is well
structured, comprehensive and easy to use. There is a very useful section for beginner
teachers (which could be useful to us not so beginners, too!) Highly recommended!
The Lighthouse for Education
Belonging to NE Lincolnshire LEA, this site has advice for teachers, safe searching and
links lists. Worth a visit.
PINAKES: A
Subject Launchpad
Website for Herriott Watt University. Information from the faculties and admissions and
lots of links to subject specific information. Most useful to upper secondary / tertiary
pupils.
Resources for Educational Excellence
Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S.
RHL School Worksheets
Another American site. The place on the Web to get an enormous supply of free quality
worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of
these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons.
Schoolzone
The UK's most comprehensive FREE information resource for schools: 30,000 urls chosen by
teachers, for teachers, students and parents.Also lesson plans, schemes of work, events
listings, school info, buy on line, info about suppliers, educational news digest and job
search.
Sites for Teachers
A listing of more than 450 websites that teachers may find useful.
Spolem.co.uk
  
This is a really slick links list, concentrating on scientific topics and including links
for KS2 up to A Level. Lots of useful links.
Tag Teachernet
You need to join (it's totally free) to gain access to this site but once inside there are
Resources and Links (lots of them), News, a Teachers' Grapevine and a Job Search.
Recommended!
Teaching and Learning Resources
A beautifully presented site with lots of useful links and many
online resources. There is also a collection of fun activities for
children. Diane Hawkins, who's site it is, says, The purpose of
this site is to provide stimulating, interactive learning resources
to support the National Curriculum for England and Wales for
children in Key Stage 2.
TeacherXpress
Masses of links all on one page, from Logotron. No reviews so you take
pot luck but its
well worth a look.
Teaching
Ideas for Primary Teachers
Just what it says - Resources and ideas. Highly recommended.
The Teachers' Resource Exchange
Run by BECTA, this site is a place where teachers can share their
good ideas / lesson plans / resources etc. You can submit resources
and ideas of your own and / or comment on / add to the ideas and
resources which have been submitted by others.
Teacher Tools
This is well worth a visit. American-based but crammed full of useful goodies. Worksheets,
lessonplans, games and puzzles, free stuff to download and an excellent set of links
pages.
Tony Pickford's Resources
for Teaching and Learning
Resources, links, software and teacher support for Science, Geography, History and ICT are
all here. Tony runs the award-winning Chester College School of Education website. Tony is
interested in canals and also in the use of QuicktimeVR and has some fascinating stuff
about the use of QuicktimeVR movies to help children raise enquiry questions. (QuicktimeVR
is a system that you can download, which enables "3D" viewing by producing 360
degree panoramas on-screen which the user can explore using the mouse pointer - the view
can bemoved right and left, up and down as well as zooming in and out).
Topmarks Education
A highly recommended site with an impressive list of links to sites covering many areas of
education in the UK. This site currently lists 840 sites and has an easy search facility.
The layout is simple and quick to use. Well worth a visit!
WebQuest UK
An American idea tranferred to a UK NC context, each web quest is a task which requires
interent research to complete it. Each task is linked to one of the units in the QCA
scheme. "Each WebQuest is a self contained learning experience designed to
encourage pupils to reconstruct knowledge, thus learning more effectively." Well
worth a close look.
Woodland Wide Web
This is the website of Woodland Grange Primary School in
Leicestershire. It is an excellent example of a school website,
providing a showcase for the school and its children and a great
collection of on-line educational activities (Oh - and some games
too!)
World of
Teaching
A huge collection of MS PowerPoint presentations, produced by
teachers for teachers. Each
one is given a star rating and there is information about the
download size. They are free to download. This looks really useful. |
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Awesome Clipart for
Educators
Worth a visit if you want clip art for your pupils' computer work or for your school
website. (The menu system is a bit arcane).
Cornwall Cam
Charles Winpenny updates his site almost daily with photographs that take your breath away
(well they do mine!)
Mad About Mountains
Anne Bowker lives in the Lake District and is rather keen on elevated land. Her site
includes both photos and text. Some of the photos are of disappointingly low resolution -
but many of them are as sharp as you'd like. Anne doesn't limit her interest only to her
local mountains. There is lots of stuff here about mountains further afield, too.
North York Moors Cam
Don Burluraux's site has details of (long) walks on the North York Moors around Cleveland.
The photos are stunning. 'Nuff said.
Webshots
This is a collection of photographs for downloading. A rival to our own Photo Library. |
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