Learn about new stuff

Janet at Potterhanworth School recommends this site, Topic Box.

It’s great for links to themes within subject areas and there’s lots to click on and use.

Take a look, the site says it can save you time. Which is a good thing on our book!

An intriguing title, don’t you think?

We’re lucky at Learn New Stuff that we have made friends with the people at Film Education and Matt, who works there, has asked us to put as request on the blog.

Matt would like some pupils to have a go at this activity, Inventions for Hotel for Dogs.

Please have a try and then scan your inventions so that you can put them online, it looks like great fun and you could win some books for the school.

Google has launched a new layer in Google Earth that allows users to explore highly detailed images of fourteen of the Spanish Prado Museum’s masterpieces.

The Prado layer sees the Prado Museum in Madrid becoming the first art gallery in the world to provide access to and navigation of its collection in Google Earth.

The paintings have been photographed in very high resolution and contain as many as 14,000 million pixels (14 gigapixels).

Google says: “Using Google Earth, art historians, students and tourists everywhere can zoom in on and explore the finer details of the artist’s brushwork that can be easily missed at first glance”.

Take a look it’s stunning stuff.

To view the layer, select 3D buildings from the left panel and type “Prado” in the “fly to” search box.

For those of you looking at mountains there’s some great stuff on the Discovery Channel website:

Everest – Experience the Razors Edge – interactive game
Everest – Beyond the Limit – North Side
Everest – Beyond the limit – South Side

Very interactive and a great way of finding out about the problems that the climbers face on this inhospitable mountain.

The folks at Ikea have created a site that allows children to design their own room, but obviously based on Ikea furniture.

Great for simulation and design. Have a go: Ikea Space Maker