ABCTeach
A site crammed full of downloadable stuff with ideas for using them. Lots of subjects each
with its collections of useful printables. Go! See! You can't help but find it useful. The Educator's
Reference Desk
This is the American Educational Resources Information Centre, which is federally
funded. It contains a resource collection, a collection of lesson plans on a wide variety
of school subjects, a question answering service and question archive and a database of
abstracts of journal articles and documents. A to Z Teachers Stuff
An American site with a large number of ready-prepared lessons for
classes of all ages. Really useful Chalkface's
Free Worksheets Links page
A collection of links to freely available worksheets for a variety of subjects / ages. Clickteaching This is a resource bank. Search by subject. Looks good. If we haven't got it they
might have (Only you'll have to subscribe and pay an annual fee!). Discovery School
The homepage of the Discovery Channel School. Holds lesson plans on a wide range of
subjects linked to their programmes. Education 2000
A portal to education related sites aimed at school managers and administrators. Education and Government Sites
A useful collection of education and government weblinks. Education Index
A guide to education-related sites on the web. Easy to navigate. Federal Resources
for Educational Excellence
Hundreds of education resources supported by agencies across the U.S. Gareth Pitchford's Primary
Resources
Loads of useful information with an ever-increasing number of useable worksheets for all
levels and subjects. Well worth a visit. The Gateway.org
An American site. The key to one-stop, any-stop access to high quality lesson plans,
curriculum units and other education resources on the Internet! Graham & Lin Dean's
Homepage
Graham's resources are mainly for KS2 Geography and Literacy. There are links for teachers in both primary and secondary
education. Also photographs and other resources for
education
including photographs of the River Ribble - from source to sea, Bridges (illustrated
hypertext reference file) along with other bits and pieces.
Hamilton Trust (Save Our Sundays)
Access to preprepared lesson plans for English and Maths. Plans are
categorised by subject, year group and school term. This is a really
useful site. A few of the resources are available for free -
everything is available for members (individual membership costs £12
per year)
Interactive Learning
Lots of online lessons (mostly history and English, but some science
and music). Many of the lessons are similar in style to our own
cyberhunts)
The Lighthouse for Learning
Formerly the Lighthouse for Education this site is in the throes of
being reorganised. (There's still plenty of available content in the
meanwhile.
Belonging to NE Lincolnshire LEA, this site has advice for teachers, safe searching and
links lists. Worth a visit. PINAKES: A
Subject Launchpad
Website for Herriott Watt University. Information from the faculties and admissions and
lots of links to subject specific information. Most useful to upper secondary / tertiary
pupils. RHL School Worksheets
Another American site. The place on the Web to get an enormous supply of free quality
worksheets for teaching, reinforcement, and review. Looking for lesson plans? Many of
these worksheets can serve as the basis for lessons. Schoolzone
The UK's most comprehensive FREE information resource for schools: 30,000 urls chosen by
teachers, for teachers, students and parents.Also lesson plans, schemes of work, events
listings, school info, buy on line, info about suppliers, educational news digest and job
search. Sites for Teachers
A listing of more than 450 websites that teachers may find useful. Spolem.co.uk
This is a really slick links list, concentrating on scientific topics and including links
for KS2 up to A Level. Lots of useful links.
Teaching and Learning Resources
A beautifully presented site with lots of useful links and many
online resources. There is also a collection of fun activities for
children. Diane Hawkins, who's site it is, says, The purpose of
this site is to provide stimulating, interactive learning resources
to support the National Curriculum for England and Wales for
children in Key Stage 2. Teaching
Ideas for Primary Teachers
Just what it says - Resources and ideas. Highly recommended.
TeachersFirst
TeachersFirst is an American site offering a rich collection of
lessons, units, and web resources designed to save teachers time by
delivering just what they need in a practical, user-friendly, and
ad-free format. They have their own resources and lists of web
links. The Teachers' Resource Exchange
Run by BECTA, this site is a place where teachers can share their
good ideas / lesson plans / resources etc. You can submit resources
and ideas of your own and / or comment on / add to the ideas and
resources which have been submitted by others. Teacher Tools
This is well worth a visit. American-based but crammed full of useful goodies. Worksheets,
lessonplans, games and puzzles, free stuff to download and an excellent set of links
pages. Topmarks Education
A highly recommended site with an impressive list of links to sites covering many areas of
education in the UK. This site currently lists 840 sites and has an easy search facility.
The layout is simple and quick to use. Well worth a visit! WebQuest UK
An American idea tranferred to a UK NC context, each web quest is a task which requires
interent research to complete it. Each task is linked to one of the units in the QCA
scheme. "Each WebQuest is a self contained learning experience designed to
encourage pupils to reconstruct knowledge, thus learning more effectively." Well
worth a close look.
Wired-Gov
The UK govenment's own information service. Keep up to date with
what's going on.
Woodland Wide Web
This is the website of Woodland Grange Primary School in
Leicestershire. It is an excellent example of a school website,
providing a showcase for the school and its children and a great
collection of on-line educational activities (Oh - and some games
too!) World of
Teaching
A huge collection of MS PowerPoint presentations, produced by
teachers for teachers. Each
one is given a star rating and there is information about the
download size. They are free to download. This looks really useful.
Awesome Clipart for
Educators
Worth a visit if you want clip art for your pupils' computer work or for your school
website. (The menu system is a bit arcane). Cornwall Cam
Charles Winpenny updates his site almost daily with photographs that take your breath away
(well they do mine!)
Dorling Kindersley Clip Art
A great collection of free clip art from this well
known publisher. Mad About Mountains
Anne Bowker lives in the Lake District and is rather keen on elevated land. Her site
includes both photos and text. Some of the photos are of disappointingly low resolution -
but many of them are as sharp as you'd like. Anne doesn't limit her interest only to her
local mountains. There is lots of stuff here about mountains further afield, too. North York Moors Cam
Don Burluraux's site has details of (long) walks on the North York Moors around Cleveland.
The photos are stunning. 'Nuff said. Webshots
This is a collection of photographs for downloading. A rival to our own Photo Library.
And don't forget our own ICTeachers PhotoLibrary
Follow the Photo Resources link at the top of
this page!
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