Clickteaching:
Free downloads of worksheets, lesson plans, activity ideas and teaching
resources for primary schools, teachers and parents.
Snaith
Primary School: The website is primarily designed for classroom
use. Many of the units available loosely follow the structure of QCA
schemes of work, with humour and interactivity added. You will find
1500 pages of classroom resources, worksheets and lesson plans for
Key Stage 1 & 2. This includes Myths & Legends, Aztecs, Ancient
Greeks and Egyptians, Vikings, Victorians, World War 2 and much more.
Literacy
Lessons: Joy Simpson's website dedicated to literacy planning
for years 8 to 11. Each year group is divided into terms and planning
relating to the range for the term is listed covering fiction, non-fiction,
poetry and plays. Each block of work is planned according to the latest
ideas from the National Literacy Strategy and the DfES and shows the
ways in which literacy teaching can be creative and fun for pupils.
If you would like to reduce the amount of time you spend planning
on a Sunday evening then visit the site and download the free lessons
and resources.
Sciencezone:
Contains interactive information pages designed to complement the
national curriculum. Each page also contains an online quiz or other
activity to aid assessment. Primarily aimed at year 5, though new
materials are being developed.
Online
Ideas: A free site where primary teachers and trainee teachers
can find teaching resources and links to recommended web sites for
every curriculum subject.
Stories
from Rainbow's Edge:
Designed to brighten KS2 Literacy Hour, Rainbow's Edge is a small
village which contains most of the Nursery Rhyme characters that you
have heard about. They spend their time wandering through the village
telling their stories. But these stories are not their usual stories.
They try to answer some unasked questions and are designed to make
you think!
Infant
Explorer: An excellent website for Key Stage 1 produced by teachers
working with the Canterbury Environment Education Centre. Every term
a new story designed to be used within the literacy hour is added
and so far The Swan Story, In the Autumn and Sebastian's Waddle are
available from the site. Each story encourages the children to explore
seasonal changes in the environment and includes NLS keywords, photographs,
moving graphics and sounds. The story contains interactive sections
which encourages the use of email and provides opportunities for the
children's work to be published on the site.
Gareth
Pitchford's Primary Resources: Illustrated by humorous cartoons,
Pitchford has provided a wide range of lesson ideas and resources
for primary teachers. This includes a good section on Literacy Hour
Resources such as 'Nouns and Adjectives Game', 'Lego Instructions',
'Types of Sentences', 'Conjunctions' and 'Thesaurus Work'. Pitchford,
who teaches at Edleston Primary School, also provides materials for
Maths, Science and Art and numerous links, including one to Paul Cockcroft's
Literacy Hour Resources.
Loopy
Land: As the title of this website suggests, Loopy Land provides
a less traditional approach to delivering the National Curriculum.
Lara Savory has made the material that she has been using with her
Y6 group available to the Internet community. This includes, Liquorice
Hour (new ideas for teaching the literacy hour), Loopy Learning Discussion
(on-line debate), Left to Write (tips for teaching left-handed children)
and Loopy Star Sites (ratings, with links, of other educational sites).
Children's
Storybooks: This websites provides a collection of illustrated
stories for young children to read online. Titles include Round Bird
Can't Fly, Kitty Wants a Box, Buzzy Bee, The Counting Story, Alphabet,
Animals Can See at the Zoo and Farm Animals. Some of the stories have
linking activities such as Riddles, Maze and Colouring Book. The website
also includes online stories for older children and young adults.
Zuzu:
On this website Beck Underwood's artwork provides a stimulus for creative
writing. Children can submit their work for possible online publication.
Subject categories includes science-fiction, holidays and animals.
The website also contains sections on Mysterious Stories, Poetry,
Courageous Kids, Neighborhood Reports, Virtual Vacations, Interviews
and Broadway Reviews.
Kids'
Space: Launched in May 1995, Kids' Space was established to break
down cultural, religious, ethnic and racial barriers between children
of the world by promoting cross-cultural collaboration in creative
projects. The site now features creative writing from more than 150
countries. The website also includes Kids' Space Communication for
communication activities, such as penpals.
Under5s is the site for everyone
involved in pre-school education and childcare; teachers, nursery
nurses, students, child minders, nannies, and of course, parents.
The creators of this website believe that preschool is the most important
stage for learning; positive experiences provided at this time having
a lifelong influence. The authors also believe that education should
be fun, and actively encourage learning through play. The site has
free information and resources, including - topic webs, lesson plans,
worksheets, colouring pages, activities and more. It is also an interactive
site with message boards, feedback forms and polls.
The
Standards Site:
The Standards Site is managed by the Department for Education and
Employment's Standards and Effectiveness Unit (SEU). The main objective
of the site is to supply teachers with "guidance and tools to
help schools improve effectiveness, raise standards and reduce workload".
This includes providing literacy materials and schemes of work. There
is also a detailed section on 'The National Literacy Strategy' which
contains material under headings such as 'What is Literacy?', 'About
the Framework for Teaching', 'Resource Area', 'What is the Literacy
Hour' and 'What should literate children be able to do.'
Little
Animals Activity Centre: Another excellent website produced by
the BBC for young children. Characters featured include Micky Maker,
Digby Mole, Foxy Dancer, Count Hoot, Puzzlesnuff and Storybear. Each
one has a set of activities for children including word and music
games, riddles, mazes, math activities, treasure trials and interactive
games.
Reading-Now
has resources for building early word recognition skills. These teacher
created materials provide the necessary practice to help students
succeed in decoding and sight word recognition skills. The practice
is done in context along with game cards, flash cards, and certificates
for achieving success at each level. The veteran teacher-author enables
students to practice with varied reinforcement activities.
History
Ideas: A collection of twenty history activities for students
aged between 5 and 11. Titles include Creative History, The Greek
Alphabet, Perseus Role-Play, Boudicca's Revolt, Roman Invasions, Poor
Tudors, Looking at Historical Objects, Greek Theatre, Our Roman Roads
and Roman Britain.
Technology
in the Classroom
is a class website aimed at reaching two important objectives - giving
children the opportunity to feel proud of their work as they see it
appreciated by people not only from their own country but from all
over the world and also that of encouraging teachers, through concrete
examples, to look at ICT as an important teaching and learning tool.
On this website children can have a look at their own work and that
of others, they can play online educational games and search for information
about sports, historical events etc.
Toftwood
Infant School Resources: Click on the 'Resources' link to select
from over 40 free games for use with Infant School children. Suitable
for both home and school use, each game is listed with the corresponding
learning objective, mostly Numeracy and Literacy. You will need to
download the free Flash Player plug-in to play these games.
Solutions
to Problems: A teacher designed site which seeks to share teaching
ideas, lesson plans and resources to help busy teachers both in and
out of the classroom. The site contains a number of pages linking
to information, lesson ideas and homework guides relating to the different
Key Stages and also an area where other teachers can share their own
information, ideas and general solutions to everyday classroom problems.
Time
to Teach is a site designed for teachers, parents and home-schoolers.
It contains over 100 free, interactive and fun complete primary maths
lessons. Eighty of these lessons closely follow the lesson plans issued
from the British department of education and aimed at helping to teach
children aged between 5 and 12. The lessons are sorted into year groups,
and subdivided into which term to teach a particular lesson. This
unique site only specializes in providing PowerPoint lessons for primary
maths. The webmaster on the site is happy to consider primary maths
PowerPoint lessons written by other teachers for inclusion on the
site. If you send 10 or more complete lessons which are used, you
get a free CD to say thank-you.
GlassForever:
This web site is an online learning resource that promotes the benefits
of glass recycling to a Key Stage 2 audience. GlassForever compares
the journey of glass that is not recycled, looking at it’s negative
environmental impact, against the journey of glass that is recycled
and the benefits that recycling offers. The site employs a mixture
of animation, video and interactive activities to cover the following
areas: Why should we recycle glass? Why is glass useful? Where can
we recycle our glass? How is glass recycled? How is glass made? What
are bottles and jars used for? Why choose glass packaging? Additional
features include games and a quiz for pupils, printable worksheets
and planning documents for teachers.
SEN
Teacher is a developing resources site, targeting parents and
teachers of children with severe, profound or complex learning difficulties.
Just over 30Mb of Windows freeware and printed materials are available,
as well as links to other sources of SEN information and resources.
The author splits his time 50:50 between teaching learning disabled
and autistic teenagers and working as a consultant to the Learning
Disabilities and Multimedia Research Project at the University of
East London.
Indus
Valley Civilisation:
This website for teachers created by Ilona Aronovsky co-author of
QCA recommended teaching materials, provide resourcing and teaching
ideas, curriculum planning links, publications, and replica artefacts
for sale. There are 100's of photos, tables of Indus ideograms and
essays, all provided by leading archaeologists and scholars.
First
School Years provides free educational resources for parents and
teachers of young children. As well as worksheets, flashcards and
teaching ideas, First School Years also includes: A search which enables
visitors to choose any day during the year and find out historical
events which occurred on that day and which may be of interest to
the 4 to 8 age range. A 'Word List' section which allows educators
to find lists of words containing a particular phoneme or grapheme
or are related to a particular grammatical concept. A growing educational
directory. A list of recommended books and publications categorised
by subject. First School Years is continuously "under construction"
with new worksheets and other resources being added on a weekly basis.
Story
Street: A free companion website from Longman to accompany Story
Street, the fiction strand of the new reading programme Literacy Land.
However, this website is ideal for practising Literacy and ICT skills
even if you don't use the Story Street books. You can take a virtual
tour of Story Street, find out about and email the authors including
Jeremy Strong or send a postcard to a friend. The Story Street School
Magazine is updated termly with new articles, jokes and news and schools
are invited to send in their own magazines for publication on the
website. The website offers a registration facility to notify you
when new materials and special offers of interest are added to the
website.
Numeracy
Software: This website is for primary school teachers who would
like to make better use of ICT in their mathematics teaching. There
are sections containing Numeracy News and Numeracy Links but the most
valuable feature is probably the Free Downloads. Here you will find
free resources to download, including pre-written spreadsheets, logo
procedure files, My World screens, data files, PowerPoint Presentations
etc. These cover all areas of mathematics and are suitable for a wide
range of pupils.
Little
Explorers: This website provides 1,885 illustrated dictionary
entries. Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most
entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined
word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a great web
site related to it. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to
hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world.
Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum
of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids can use
Little Explorers as a school reference. This is the English version;
just click to use the English-French, English-German, English-Italian,
English-Portuguese, or the English-Spanish version.
Redbridge
Literacy Website: This website is for all primary and secondary
teachers of literacy, both within English and beyond. The site features
downloadable lesson plans and resources, ideas to support literacy
work in schools and relevant news and updates from official bodies,
such as QCA, the National Literacy Strategy and OFSTED. The Key Stage
1 and 2 areas of the site are well established, and offer particular
support to English Co-ordinators working in primary, whilst the Key
Stage 3 area offers a whole range of Year 7 and 8 units of work in
medium and short term planning formats, along with Literacy Across
the Curriculum resources. The website also features details of all
INSET courses, primary and secondary, run by the London Borough of
Redbridge; these courses are open to teachers from all areas.
Tooter4kids:
This website is for primary school teachers who would like to use
the Internet for lots of information. This site was produced and maintained
by Mrs. Susan Stein. You can use the Teacher Resource Page for 100's
of links to poetry, language, science, social studies, writing, etc.
Themes On Line offers many themes that you could use in the classroom.
It is unique because it offers graphics, introductions, vocabulary
explanations, poetry, quizzes, and word searches. Writing4Kids is
a page where kids can submit their writing and have it published online
for all to see. The kids also have a Kids Literacy Page, Homework
Helpers, Kids Friendly LInks, and Favorite Links, along with Math,
and Language links that are a safe surf. Teachers can also enjoy the
use of the Back to School Page and Enjoying Literacy.
KidsMAPE:
MAPE (Micros and Primary Education) is an organization that has played
a pioneering role in using ICT in Britain. The KidsMAPE section of
the website includes Greenfield Road (a 19th century database with
differentiated activities), History Photo Quiz (dating photographs)
and History Treasure Trials (Greece, Roman Empire, Tudors, Victorians
and World War II).
Boggles
World: The website is maintained by four teachers, two in Korea
and one in each of Canada and the United States. Boggle's World is
is a resource site for teachers who teach elementary and middle school
English, ESL and EFL to children. The site hosts original materials
that teachers download to supplement classroom activities. Worksheets
include crosswords, word searches, worksheets, science activities,
and lesson plans. There are also extensive flashcards exploring themes
such as animal habitats and outer space. All materials have been teacher
tested in EFL and ESL environments.
Mr.
Jennings' Website: Graham Jennings is a teacher at Westdale Junior
School in Mapperley. The purpose of his website is to share teaching
resources with junior school colleagues. It also allows him to share
his termly and weekly curriculum planning with pupils, parents and
colleagues. Currently, the main teachers' resources are an index to
the National Literacy Strategy Framework document and Science self-assessment/RoA
sheets linked to the QCA Scheme of Work for Science at Key Stage 2.
Literacy
Matters: The site specializes in providing free literacy lesson
plans and resources for Early Years to Y7 teachers. The Medium term
and weekly lesson plans are based on good texts and are cross referenced
to the National Literacy Strategy Framework for Teaching objectives.
The plans are written by former teachers who continue to try out these
ideas in the classroom. The site also contains an 'Ask the Expert'
section, a discussion forum and has many useful links.
Schoolsnet
was launched in November 1999 to offer "parents, pupils and teachers
an indispensable educational resource." Its primary section includes
materials on Art, Design & Technology, Geography, History, ICT,
Literacy, Music, Numeracy, Physical Education, Religious Education
and Science.
Teaching
Ideas Science: Teaching Ideas is a website for teachers who teach
primary-age children (i.e. ages 5 to 11). The material is produced
by Mark Warner, a teacher in a primary school in Kent. Although it
has been designed with UK teachers in mind, all ideas can of course
be used by teachers around the world. The science section includes
activities entitled Wicked Science, Watching Snails, Moving and Growing,
Habitats, Investigating Teeth, Conductors and Insulators, Friction
and Transparency Experiment.
Activity
Village attempts to entertain and educate the under-10s. It provides
colouring pages, puzzles, printable crafts and games, worksheets and
wallpaper! It also publishes a free newsletters that gives updates
and new ideas. The people behind the website claim: "We believe
that busy kids are happy kids and do our best to provide things for
them to do! Visit here regularly, and your children need never be
bored again."
Education
Place: This website, created by the publisher, Houghton Mifflin,
provides resources for teachers, students, and parents. Subjects covered
includes Reading/Language Arts, Math, Science, Social Studies, Intervention,
Professional Development, activities, games, and textbook support.
Artist
Toolkit Encyclopedia is an in-depth guide to learning more about
the building blocks of composition. Here you will see many examples
of works of art that illustrate the visual elements and principles.
Subjects covered include Line, Shape, Colour, Space, Texture, Balance,
Emphasis, Movement and Rhythm.
BrainPOP
is the leading producer of educational animated movies for students.
The company creates original animated movies to explain concepts in
a voice and visual style that is accessible, educational and entertaining
for both children and adults. BrainPOP movies attempt to demystify
Math, Science, Health, Technology and English topics.
FunBrain:
A collection of online educational games. Most popular games at the
moment include Math Baseball, Stay Afloat, Tic Tac Toe Squares, Grammar
Gorillas, Fun March, Dare to be a Square, MathCar Racing, Where is
That?, Connect the Dots and One False Move.
Learn
for Life: This website by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust contains
downloadable lesson plans, data sets, factfiles and images about water,
wetlands and wetland life. Designed for primary school children, it
is aimed at learning in both school and home and is linked closely
to the English National Curriculum but adaptable for children living
in other countries. There is also a Kid's Zone with a large collection
of online games.
Juniorszone:
This website provides online primary school education. This includes
literacy and numeracy strategy material based on the national curriculum.
Areas include e-learning, educational games, interactive learning,
brain teasers, homework help, free online tutorial. Juniorszone assists
parents, teachers to help kids learn at home and school.
Kid's
Review: This website has been developed by parents who noticed
first hand how easy it is to motivate children to use computers but
how difficult it can be to motivate the same children to pick up and
read a book. They also recognise how important other children's views
are in book choice. Kids' Review enables children to share their own
book reviews within a protected environment. A new Teacher Review
section allows teachers to share their views on how these books can
be used successfully with children.
EPSA:
The European Primary Schools Association (EPSA) was created by four
primary school teachers, (2 UK, 1 Italy,
1 Netherlands). The association's website provides free resources,
ideas and information for any primary
school teaching about Europe. There is a large selection of maps,
flags, crests, and other images to download, including outline masters.
There is a large section giving details about how to make links in
Europe - and what to do once the links have been created. There are
also some outline details of primary level education across Europe.
Primary
School History: How did we get here? Where do we come from? History
helps shed light on these big questions. It introduces children to
an unfamiliar but important world - the past. Piecing together the
picture of the past is a bit like detective work. Children use different
kinds of evidence to find out about people's lives and events and
how things have changed. Learning how to weigh up evidence and reach
conclusions are just some of the skills children develop through studying
the history of Britain and the wider world. As they do this, they
begin to understand and remember a framework of significant events
and people. This website produced by the Parent Centre explains how
and why schools in Britain teach history.
SymbolWorld
is a non-commercial website, providing safe, fun and easy to use on-line
resources for symbol users. The ideas on the site have come from people
with learning difficulties, their teachers and carers. The main section
has a range of stories, both fiction and non-fiction, which are suitable
for symbol users across the age range. There is a special section
of stories which are designed especially for older readers with learning
difficulties. The Learning section has a number of subject or topic
categories with nonfiction material supporting formal and informal
learning.
Nicky's
Nursery Rhymes: Nicola Geier is a Nursery Nurse at a Nursery and
Infants school. On her entertaining website you will find a collection
of Nursery Rhymes, Poems and Songs, some modern and some traditional.
You will also find a selection of drawings to download that children
can colour in. Nicky's Nursery Rhymes is 'child safe' and free from
banners, drop downs, or any other form of advertising. New items are
being added on a daily basis. At the bottom of each page are common
links to most of the sites areas. According to Nicola "within
15 minutes practice - most very young children are able to move around
the site quite successfully on their own".
Aunty
Math: The mission of the DuPage Children's Museum is to stimulate
curiosity, creativity, thinking and problem solving among young children.
Children's familiar experiences are expanded through self-directed,
interactive exhibits and programs focusing on the integration of the
arts and sciences. Its Aunty Math website is for infants and juniors
and provides fortnightly challenges.
KidStory:
Established in Sweden, KidStory works with children, educators, and
researchers from various disciplines in the development process by
building an interdisciplinary, intergenerational, international design
team. KidStory develops the currently available technology to inherently
support social learning experiences while concurrently developing
novel technologies that can be used in the learning environments of
tomorrow. The third year of the project is now completed.
Through
The Glass Wall: Popular culture offers little outside-of-school
support for children's mathematical learning. Computer games are a
potential exception. These games exert a tremendous pull on some children.
While many games purport to be educational and even to promote children's
mathematical learning, there is little research to support these claims.
Researchers are beginning to get a handle on the conditions under
which students learn mathematics in school, yet almost nothing is
known about how computer game-playing can support and extend children's
knowledge of mathematics. For many girls, the computer's screen seems
to be a kind of glass wall. They are allowed to glimpse its worlds
from a distance, but are not invited inside. This issue is explored
in this research being carried out by TERC in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
All
About Animals: This is a pictorial database designed for pupils
in Key Stage One. The database can be used to support the teaching
of ICT, particularly Unit 2C of the QCA Scheme of Work: Finding Information.
It is also a useful non-fiction resource for use in Literacy. There
are currently records on 65 animals, grouped according to habitat
and listed in alphabetical order in the index. For each animal in
the database there is a simple description with a large image. Clicking
on the 'Find Out More' button gives access to more detailed information,
while the Back button allows the user to retrace their steps. All
the images and fact files about the animals are available as Word
files which can be printed out or adapted as necessary by the teacher.
Big
Sums: Another excellent resource from the Northumberland Grid
for Learning. These two maths programs are aimed at using with projectors
and whole class teaching. They can however be used with small groups
around a standard monitor. The screens start with the maximum numbers
set to 10 but this can be altered by the user. The main screen allows
the user to hide or show the first, second or answer digits. Numbers
can also be changed whilst they are hidden. The resources on this
website are freely available for use in education establishments but
must not be used for commercial purposes or distributed on other websites.
Phonmena:
A simple computer program that teaches children to distinguish between
sounds can dramatically boost their listening skills. It can allow
them to progress by the equivalent of two years in just a few weeks,
the game's creator claims. The game, called Phonomena, was devised
by David Moore of the University of Oxford, UK, as an aid for children
with language problems, but he says his latest trials also show that
it can help any child. Other experts, however, are reserving judgement
until independent tests are carried out. Phonomena is designed to
improve children's ability to distinguish between different phonemes,
the basic sounds that form the building blocks of language. Up to
a fifth of all children are thought to have problems hearing the differences
between some sounds, says Moore, who heads the UK Medical Research
Council's Institute of Hearing Research.
Mighty
Jungulator: Futurelab, the research centre based in Bristol, works
with partners on projects that put prototype ICT packages. It does
not develop commercial products. Instead, it attempts to test the
educational potential of new technologies. For example, they have
recently worked with Nathan Hughes, a professional sound and animation
expert, to help children from Bristol's Luckwell primary school produce
an animated advent calendar. The project used a prototype 3D animating
program called Virtual Puppeteers alongside the Mighty Jungulation
music manipulation tool.
Home
Education Advisory Service: HEAS is a national home education
charity based in the United Kingdom. It is dedicated to the provision
of advice and practical support for families who wish to educate their
children at home in preference to sending them to school. Interest
in home education is increasing and HEAS recognises that reliable
information should be available for everyone. HEAS offers information
for home educators including advice about educational materials, resources,
GCSE examinations, special educational needs, information technology,
legal matters and curriculum design. HEAS produces a range of leaflets
and the Home Education Handbook. In addition HEAS subscribers receive
the quarterly HEAS Bulletin, access to the Advice Line, contacts with
other subscribers and the HEAS registration card (for home educating
families) which gives free or reduced rates of admission to certain
museums and sites of interest.
Home
Education: Since 1870 the state has increasingly usurped parents
rights and responsibilities as educators of our 5 to 16 year old children
using the argument that this is in children's best interests. However,
some argue that in reality state education has always been in the
best interests of state and industry. This website is a celebration
of families as providers, of education and parenting. The law in the
UK is quite clear, parents rightly remain responsible for the education
of their children regardless of whether they are in school or out
of it. The state reserves the right to make enquiries should they
believe that this responsibility is not being met and to offer an
alternative educational environment to the home to those who wish
to use it.
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