A collection of links for teaching in Primary schools
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Count Us In Games
Count Us In Games. Games designed to help children understand basic number concepts.
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YAKiToMe! – Free Text To Speech
YAKiToMe! – Free Text To Speech TTS – YAKiToMe!. Free text to speech. Uses the world’s best text to speech (TTS) software. Upload documents, cut and paste text or link to feeds. Text reader converts text to speech automatically. Download audio and podcasts. It’s fast and easy to use. Get started right away! No software…
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Jog The Web
Jog The Web. Create structured tours with commentary,around interesting/useful web content using Jog the Web. Its step by step approach of taking viewers through web sites allowing the author to annotate and ask guiding questions for each page is unique.
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Fuel the Brain Educational Games | Play Bathtub Battle
Fuel the Brain Educational Games | Play Bathtub Battle. A well designed maths game where two jellies battle it out. Practise probability, more/less than and size comparison questions.
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Funbrain.com – Place Value Puzzler
Funbrain.com – Place Value Puzzler. Funbrain displays a number – either click on the digit in the number whose position is shown, or correctly type in the rounded version of the number. A nice, simple game to consolidate number rounding.
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Everyday Mathematics – eToolkit
Everyday Mathematics – eToolkit. A wonderful site with many excellent tools to consolidate maths concepts. Most ideas are customisable to fit in with your style of teaching.
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19 Great Online Graphing Calculators for Teachers and Students | Tech the Plunge
19 Great Online Graphing Calculators for Teachers and Students | Tech the Plunge. A comprehensive list of online graphic tools. May be a little advanced for Primary schools, but could be useful!
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My Library
My Library. A place for children to read and write book reviews online. A fabulous idea, which could be shared and used by many more people!
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Home : Succeeding With Science
Home : Succeeding With Science. This is a nice selection of free science resources searchable by age groups 4-7, 7-11, 11-14, 14-16 and 16+. There is also a teachers section with professional development videos and online magazines. Some of the IWB resources are really good and will make excellent additions to science topics, others are…
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Infant Encyclopedia by Mr Haughton
Infant Encyclopedia by Mr Haughton. Covering a huge set of topics, this site helps the teaching of Infant children. Castles Superheroes Florence Nightingale Plants Seaside Great Fire Of London Minibeasts Environment Scottish Islands Nocturnal Animals Bonfire Night Remembrance Day Mary Seacole Australia Rainforests Autumn Harvests Human Body Home Materials Spring Toys Towns Victorians
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Junior ICT Companion by Mr S Haughton
Junior ICT Companion by Mr S Haughton. Covers a wide range of ICT ideas – useful for new learning for both children and adults!
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Primary School History Encyclopedia
Primary School History Encyclopedia An Online Encyclopedia of British History for Children by Mr Haughton. Extensive range of History topics covered.
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NASA – Apollo40
NASA – Apollo40. The interactive feature that celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Apollo missions. Contains short animated comics of the missions, as well as some wonderful contemporary footage (although I found the videos easier to watch with subtitles on).
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SHOW®/WORLD – A New Way To Look At The World
SHOW®/WORLD – A New Way To Look At The World. Select a subject from the top menu and watch the countries on the map change their size. Instead of land mass, the size of each country will represent the data for that subject – both its share of the total and absolute value.
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Be a paper mathemagician! | motivate.maths.org
Be a paper mathemagician! | motivate.maths.org. Paper folding is a favourite pastime for both children and adults. However paper folding is more than a creative hobby. It can be used as an entertaining way to learn mathematics, particularly it’s geometric aspects. Contains some pull up net templates too.
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Interactive 3D Nets
Interactive 3D Nets. A fabulous set of 3D nets showing the shape building up from its net. Move the slider to make the animation happen.
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DinoPass – Simple password generator for kids
DinoPass – Simple password generator for kids. Good site to generate child friendly passwords for children. Has 2 complexity levels
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Maths Charts by Jenny Eather
Maths Charts by Jenny Eather. A wonderful selection of posters to print on a huge range of subjects.
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Interactive Pie Charts
Pie Charts Great interactive flash presentation how making & reading pie charts.
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