Believe it or not but MFI have some great free online design tools that allow bathrooms, bedrooms and kitchens to be designed.
Set out the room how you want, choose from a range of items then simply drag and drop into place, in 2D. Remarkably it also shows the designs in 3D.
Great stuff.
If you’re having trouble with introducing the concept of timelines to pupils then take a look at this one from Time Magazine.
It’s a timeline of Games Consoles! (up to 2006)
Click on the next console button on each page to move to the next from that year or the next on the timeline (oh and don’t get caught out with clicking on Press Start to Begin - it’s a reference to all those games that had the phrase on the opening screen!)
There’s some advertising so just scroll the window down to hide it.
Learn with Museums is a major initiative to develop museum and archive education further across the East Midlands.
The website aims to support East Midlands teachers in their use of museums for teaching and learning.
Use the Learn with Museums website to locate:
Teaching and learning packages searchable by Key Stages and National Curriculum subject
Free downloadable resources searchable by subject, resource type and location
Information to support planning a visit
Details of individual museums’ services for schools.
Interactives for a Pupil Zone are under production, as are generic ‘How to Guides’ about working with museums.
Health warning! The website is currently under development!
There’s a new Screenonline education zone, which is a free resource to help all subject teachers get the most out of moving image in the classroom.
There, you’ll find subject-specific, curriculum-relevant resources, including starters, plenaries, detailed lesson suggestions and worksheets, linked to films, TV programmes and extracts featured on Screenonline.
The zone will be rapidly expanding over the months ahead, so if you don’t find what you’re looking for please go back to visit or, better yet, get in touch with your ideas!
Apparently the pupils at Foundation Stage know who Stanley is (he’s on the Disney Channel).
Here’s a great, simple music game from Stanley called Rock n Roar.
Simply click on each of the things in the Rock n Roar window to get them to play. Make music with different sounds. Add them all or just a few to change how the music sounds.
You may need to install a newer version of Flash.
Collect Britain is a website which showcases thousands of items from the British Library. You can browse the collections, tours and exhibitions, or search the site in many different ways. Register or log-in to enjoy more features.
Check out the UK Map Search to find out more about stuff in the Library that’s linked to where you live.
