Resources by Subject

Art

Sculptiris - create 3d sculptures
Sumo Paint - Image editing and painting tools with social media integration
Inkscape - Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.


Business Studies





3DTin  3D Design in you web browser
Photosynth:  Stitch photos


Yenka Yenka Basic Circuits is a free, cut-down version of Yenka Electronics, which lets you build circuits using a set of basic electrical components. Simple but useful.
Inkscape - Inkscape is an Open Source vector graphics editor, with capabilities similar to Illustrator, Freehand, CorelDraw, or Xara X using the W3C standard Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) file format. Supported SVG features include shapes, paths, text, markers, clones, alpha blending, transforms, gradients, patterns, and grouping. Inkscape also supports Creative Commons meta-data, node editing, layers, complex path operations, bitmap tracing, text-on-path, flowed text, direct XML editing, and more. It imports formats such as JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and others and exports PNG as well as multiple vector-based formats.


English


  • Wordnik Is an online dictionary with a difference.  It not only gives a definition but also includes examples of the word in use, how often it's been used in the last year, recent Tweets using the word, thesaurus, web based images and even its scrabble score!


  • Vocabulary   Fun games to build vocabulary for all ages 
  • "Free Teaching Resources is a gateway that brings together interesting teaching resources for key stages 1 to 4. Resources listed come from a range of interesting organisations including PETA and The British Heart Foundation."  (source: www.vital.ac.uk )
  • "The eRiding site is run by the education authority of East Riding of Yorkshire. It’s a great collection of resources, tools and ‘best-practice’ teaching & learning materials. It covers poetry, classics, Shakespeare and more at Key stages 3 to 5."  (source: www.vital.ac.uk )
    "Poetryclass is a great site designed to help teachers bring poetry alive in the classroom. It includes poetry lessons, teaching resources, interviews with poets as well links to a great selection of pupil poetry sites." (source:www.vital.ac.uk )
  • "This is a really fun games-based site designed to help improve pupil spelling. There are lots of games to try, including brilliant head to head challenges. It all culminates in the Spelling Bee Championship in March 2011."  (source: www.vital.ac.uk )
  • My ebook  Allows you to publish novels, comics, magazines etc. for free

Geography




History


Museumbox  'This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.'



Time Glider Create, share and publish interactive timelines.
Today in History  Gives key historical events for each day




Maths

Free maths and numeracy multiplayer games. Pupils can complete against others in their class, or with pupils worldwide. Track progress over 100 topics, in 10 levels. An excellent example of using game-play to enthuse learners.
A wealth of maths teaching resources for Key stages 3 to 5. A mixture of electronic and paper materials plus a huge range designed to work with Autograph and Geometer’s Sketchpad.
A really interesting set of resources using Google Maps to help teach concepts such as measuring, shape and data handling. It’s a really nice way to focus the power of this tool.
  • www.mmlsoft.com
    An old favourite! Formulator Tarsia is a brilliant tool that makes creating jigsaws, loop card or just about any card sorting activity really simple. A huge library of activities has already been created for Key stages 3, 4 and 5.
  • www.nrich.maths.org/
    A huge site with a wealth of rich maths resources for all levels. Projects, games, investigations, problem solving – it’s all here.
    An excellent resource for developing problem solving and reasoning skills.
  • www.gapminder.org
    A truly brilliant resource for bringing statistics to life, using them in a fascinating array of contexts.. Powerful, visual and with lots of teacher resources ready-prepared.
  • www.smarttech.com
    SMART Notebook Maths Tools (free upgrade for SMART board users). It includes equation editing, handwriting recognition for mathematical terms, new shape tools, graph generation and a launcher for Texas Instruments
  • www.subtangent.com
    A nice section of games, resources and investigations. A bit of a mixed bag, but it contains some real gems. Has a nice selection of starter puzzles and thinkers – great to just pop up on the interactive whiteboard.
  • www.nuffieldfoundation.org
    20 resources designed to support the teaching of key mathematical processes at KS3/4. Includes practical investigations and explorations set in realistic contexts, many of which are ideal for group work.
  • www.mathopenref.com
    A geometry reference tool featuring animated and interactive drawings to demonstrate plane, coordinate and solid geometry terms. Also included is a nice linear, quadratic and cubic function explorer. Great for visual learners.
  • Maths Study Jams
  • http://maths-it.org.uk/
  • Maths and ICT


MFL


 www.transparent.com - Games   'German language learners can have a great time with these educational German games online! As you play with these fun activities, you'll be learning German vocabulary and honing all your German language skills, including grammar and spelling.'
My ebook  Allows you to publish novels, comics, magazines etc. for free
Issuu:  Convert any document into a book
Zooburst    This is so much fun - it allows you to create virtual pop-up books and by using a webcam you can even be in the book (augmented reality) .
www.voki.com 
- Allows you to create your own speaking avatar.
-You get English Scrabble, French Scrabble, German Scrabble, Italian Scrabble, Greek Scrabble, Latin Scrabble, Dutch Scrabble, Swahili Scrabble, Spanish Scrabble, Russian Scrabble, Ukranian Scrabble, Swedish Scrabble, Icelandic Scrabble, Norwegian Scrabble, Finnish Scrabble, Brazillian-Portuguese Scrabble, Arabic Scrabble, Hindi Scrabble, Turkish Scrabble, Czech Scrabble, Kurdish Scrabble, Hungarian Scrabble and more, all in one application!
Learn ICT - Modern languages  - Loads of links to useful langauges websites
MFL and ICT - Links to software and blogs

Performing Arts

Musescore  Compose your own music
Mixxx  - DJ software

REAL






Science

Science and ICT - Lots of good ideas and link for using ICT in Scienc teaching
The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions.
Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy.
All movement in Celestia is seamless; the exponential zoom feature lets you explore space across a huge range of scales, from galaxy clusters down to spacecraft only a few meters across. A 'point-and-goto' interface makes it simple to navigate through the universe to the object you want to visit.
Celestia is expandable. Celestia comes with a large catalog of stars, galaxies, planets, moons, asteroids, comets, and spacecraft. If that's not enough, you can download dozens of easy to install add-ons with more objects.
Stellarium: Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go.
Practical Chemistry Lab Skills Practical Chemistry LabSkills is a set of engaging ICT resources designed to help students and teachers get the most out of practical chemistry lessons.
Studyjams   A nice collection of animations, videos, slides and reference articles exploring a wide range of topics. It is a US product, but clearly relevant to the UK too. Lots of real-world examples keep the content interesting.
Moonbase AlphaMoonbase Alpha is a very popular resource from NASA for cooperative game-based learning. Pupils assume the roles of astronauts trying to maintain life support on moon settlement. Great for improving problem solving skills.
Planet-scicast A truly brilliant site containing hundreds of videos of creative science experiments carried out by schools across the UK. They are really inspiring – whether just to watch or to recreate with your own classes.
Nobelprize A fascinating collection of games and simulations, based on Nobel-prize winning achievements. Each online resource comes with Nobel background information and a range of downloadable goodies.
Scienceshare A great site for Science teachers to share resources with each other and discuss interesting ideas. It’s still in beta-phase, but there are already over 700 teachers sharing some inspiring materials.
www.bp.com Science Skills (from BP) is a nice set of resources for KS3/4, set in real-life contexts designed to develop scientific enquiry skills. There are ample opportunities for planning, fair testing, pattern seeking and concluding.
Periodicvideos A great resource from the University of Nottingham. A periodic table with videos of experiments and stories linked to every element. They are now also adding videos for a range of molecules and compounds.
History of vaccines A really interesting project from the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. The Educators section contains various online activities and lesson plans about all aspects of vaccinations. There are great resources on the main site area too.


SEN
These sites were kindly shared with me by Mira Cooke from a Special school in Woking.  The notes on how they can be used are hers.
www.jacksonpollock.org 
- simple 'drip painting' creater. Great with touch screen as it responds to speed of movement & changes colour when contact is broken & resumed. I use it frequently to teach cause & effect.
thisissand.com
- a drawing creater of sorts, used with touch screen. A lot of our students like the sound which goes with the falling sand, which is good for encouraging them to begin intereacting with screens.
bomomo.com
- another favourite drawing creater. More intense patterns, which some students find too much but others love.
www.purplemash.com 
- Site by '2simple' - a company who produce software aimed at SEN users. Lots of different resources & interactive activities, very visual - often pictoral rather than 
text. Can use some programmes with a switch (we use large switches via adapters for students whose motor skills do not allow them to use a mouse or keyboard) 
Ranges from very simple programmes to basic 3d design tool.
www.symbolworld.org 
- Symbol resources (we use symbols alongside text to assist reading for many of our more able students) - not a huge amount, but the monthly 'eLive' magazine is popular with our older students.
www.gamesforthebrain.com 
- fairly simple interactive games, good for large touchscreen. 'Soundory' is popular with my more able students. I use some of the games whilst teaching turn taking & social interaction skills.
www.petewells.co.uk 
- Sensory stories: our students access texts through word & symbols, visuals, and sensory experiences. This site has various stories written or adapted by Pete Wells for SLD/ PMLD students (particularly older students) - each comes with a powerpoint slideshow, text and sensory props list. I have adapted a couple for my classes, and create similar resources for other texts we study.
www.helpkidzlearn.com 
- Site by Interactive Technologies, who provide acessable ICT equipment and resources, and training for ICT use in SEN settings. Various games, stories & activities, most are switch adaptable. Some support curriculum teaching, some teach basic cause & effect, hand eye co-ordination & choice making skills.
www.voki.com 
- Allows you to create your own speaking avatar. Have found these useful for engaging students who have little interest in computers/ screen (an animated figure saying their name can get them looking to see what happens next!. Have a friend who uses this regularly in secondary MFL teaching. 
Creating the avitars can get quite addictive though!
discoverybox.e2bn.org
- Allows you to create collections of images around a theme/ debate. Good as a prompt tool for discussion work, or for our students to prompt communication about a collection of images they have chosen.

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