Especially for KS1, and great for using with an interactive whiteboard, is the the BBC Northern Ireland schools website Musical Mysteries. You can have fun solving the musical mysteries on the site. Children can compose their own music and find out about different sounds, rhythms, moods and musical instruments. They also learn about the orchestra and each setcion has an interactive gane to focus what’s just been learnt.
I’ve used Planet 10 with my class and they really love the World Builder section.
The site has two sections to choose from:
Section 1: Explore the planets, comets and asteroids on an interactive virtual fly-through. Zoom in close on a particular planet or choose a different orbit view to see the whole system from afar. The data sheets let you discover more about some of the elements that make up our Solar System.
Section 2: World Builder Can your you create the perfect World? Here’s your chance to try. Choose from the sections on the creation screens, but make your choices wisely, only certain conditions will ensure your planet is a successful place for life to grow and evolve.
A great site telling the tell of Mr G Fawkes comes from the Parliamentary Archives. This website tells the story of Guy Fawkes using documents, objects and pictures dating back hundreds of years.
Click on the cards to follow the story and then click on another link, on the card itself, to get further info.
Eco schools is a site dedicated to informing you about how your school can become more environmentllay friendly and qualify for one of their awards. Once registered your school will be part of an international group of schools working towards education for sustainable development and a better quality of life for local and global communities.
The Eco-Schools project provides you with an opportunity to use real in-school issues to deliver cross-curricular themes, whilst also encouraging pupils to become involved in managing their own environment, where they will develop an increased sense of responsibility for their surroundings.
We will soon be busy looking at how we can be even greener at school at the moment and as we should all be trying to save the planet they’ll be lots of enviromentally friendly websites appearing on the blogroll.
Here’s the Environmental Intelligence Unit from BBC Scotland. A great online game to emphasise how green the pupils are and how green they can be.
Science and circuits is always a great one to do with your pupils and if you can test circuits safely it’s always a good thing. If you’ve never tried Crocodile Clips Elementary, a simple to use electric circuit creator and tester, then download it from Crocodile Clips .
It’s FREE!!
Fancy looking at tessellation and working with Victorian style Arts and Crafts? Try Arts and Crafts Tile Designer from the V&A museum. Choose from shapes, line, fill, and tile background colour plus you can alter the tessellation to try different effects.
If you’re busy trying to explain symmetry to your pupils then try Virtual Symmetry. It’s a simple to use online symmetry simulator, just try out all the different ways in which you can play with symmetry. Truly Kaleidescopic!
Films from the Home Front brings together a great collection illustrating of films that show what life was really like for the ordinary people of Britain during the Second World War.
The films themselves are amateur documentaries, newsreels, government films, and home movies.
Browse the Theme section to discover films illustrating how the home guard trained, how community and home life continued during the war, how women’s roles changed and many other subjects.
Think-u-know is a website is brought to you by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre and contains loads of information on internet safety and safe surfing for young people. All hot topics about online safety are covered – including mobiles, blogging and gaming sites – and pupils can even contact the site if they feel uncomfortable or worried about someone they’re chatting to online.
