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| BBC Bitesize Revision There are some great activities here. Some may be too easy for yr 3/4 but then you can try out the KS2 version which is linked to from this page. |
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BBC Index for KS2 Click on a subject area under the Key Stage 2 heading to see every resource on the BBC website that match that topic at the appropriate key stage level. |
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| Fact Monster A kid friendly encyclopedia. Some of it has an emphasis on the US but is still very useful. |
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Woodlands Interactives for Children This school site has collected interactive activities from around the web and catergorised them for you. |
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| Primary Level Games and Activities from BGfL A number of very useful activities organised by curriculum area and designed for primary aged children. |
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Coxhoe Durham School Website Links Excellent resource with a huge number of activities linked to. Click on a curriculum area to see the links. KS1 is for up to 7 year olds. KS2 is for 7 to 11 year olds. |
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| CrickWorld Activiites that can be completed on a dataprojector or on classroom computers. There are also a great set of links to activities on other sites. |
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Te Ara Encyclopedia of New Zealand - an excellent classroom resource. Find out about the people, the places and the environments in New Zealand. |
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| Adrian Bruce This is the site of an internationally recognised Australian teacher who has made a huge amount of resources available for you to use. |
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Gertie Grumbles Free Stuff This is a site by a Year 6 teacher who has posted resources and literacy activities that he has created for you to download for free. |
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| TES Teacher Resources by Teachers Teachers have uploaded useful digital resources that they have made to this Time Educational Supplement site where you can then download them from. |
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Buzzin A site designed for children aged 10 to 14 with information and links to other sites in English, Maths, Science, ICT and other subjects. There is a teacher section with links as well. |
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| The Famous Five Learning Network Five schools have pooled resources on to one website. Organised by year level. Flip chart resources can only be used with interactive whiteboard software. |
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Julia's Free Files Another teacher that has made her resources available for download. |
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| TeachIt A large library of downloadable resources and some online |
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| Guess My Number You are given clues in order to figure out numbers. eg You add 2 to me and you get 50. Guess my number. |
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Rainforest Maths Great interactive activites organised into year levels. |
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| Illuminations 103 online activities for developing mathematics skills. |
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Interactive Teaching Programs These would be brilliant for whole class teaching with a data projector. |
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| Grade 6 Mathematics Lessons A useful Canadian resource with clear explanations and visualisations. |
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Learn Alberta Maths High quality explanations and visualistions of concepts as well as built in quizzes in each section. There are also supporting worksheets to print and use. |
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| Junior High Math Interactives These are really high quality interactives and activities - I enjoyed the fractions smoothie making activity. |
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KS2 Bitesize Maths From the BBC - designed for up to 11 year olds in the UK. |
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| Interactivate Maths Activities A HUGE bank of maths activities organised by topic. |
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Division Tips and Tricks A useful list of tricks to help you divide better. |
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| Factors Game I lost in a big way against the computer. This requires a HUGE amount of strategy. |
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WickEd Maths Interactives Designed for Upper Primary aged children. |
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| Math Playground The games index on this comprehensive resource site. |
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Skillwise - Numbers Designed by the BBC for adults but still some really useful content. |
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| MathZone A problem solving adventure where the two main characters have to solve a number of maths problems to escape from kidnappers. |
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The Interactive Maths Classroom A site that indexes great interactive maths content from around the world. Another huge index of content from other sites is MathZone.co.uk |
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| Math Magician Try out your basic facts using these drill games. |
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The Maths File Games Show Play games and do activities with hosts from the ancient world - a BBC site. |
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| Maths is Fun Both online activities and printable worksheets for the classroom. |
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Placevalue Charts Practice different making different numbers by expanding out numbers. |
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| Woodland School Maths Activities Aimed at 7 to 11 year olds with a huge number of resources |
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Clock Start from the current time or any other time and ask students what it will be in, for example, 20 minutes time. Then use the 'Add 10' button to add on twenty and see what it will look like. |
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| Multiplication.com A LOT of resources for the teaching of basic fact including printables and really engaging interactive games. Highly recommended. |
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| ReadWriteThink English Interactives accompanied with comprehensive lesson plans to support them. |
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Wordsmith A dictionary site that is integrated with a thesaurus and also helps you to generate vocabulary sheets and quizes. |
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| Authors Index from Scholatic Find out about almost any author for children from this database. |
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Stories from the Web Designed for 7-11 yr olds. Read stories and poems online and do other literacy related activities. The site was created for a library. |
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| Children's Poetry Archive A very well presented site with a large bank of poems. There is also some information about poets. |
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The Spellits From the BBC and designed for seven to 10 year olds. |
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| Woodlands School Literacy Activities Again there are a huge number of resources in this section. |
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Read to Feed Part of an organisation where children can participate in readathon type events to help buy animals for people in third world countries. This link leads you to games and activities on their website as well as real stories of the children helped by the project. |
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| Into the Book An awesome resource that explores eight reading strategies for children to use. Very engaging and with a great teacher section as well. |
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Writing with Writers A site by Scholastic on how to write in various genres with advice from real authors. |
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| Faiground Spells A site built around a Fairground theme where childen can practise their English skills. |
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Scholastic Games A large number of aciivities for kids. Many are based around specific texts from Scholastic but they can often stand alone as a good activity. |
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| Communicating your Ideas with Newspapers, Comics and Posters An excellent site with great interactive activities to help children learn about features of each of these texts and have a go at designing their own. |
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Using Similes to Enhance Writing Scroll down to the interactive links at the bottom of the page - excellent quality lesson resource. |
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| Writing Fun Find out about ever genre of writing and use the text organisers (which you can print) to organise your ideas. An excellent resource for the teaching of writing!! |
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BookBox Find out about authors, get tips from them on how to write, read some stories and texts online, and play some word games. |
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| Visuwords This free online tool enables you to enter a word and see all a visual map of associated words and concepts. It also shows you parts of speech and the types of lines connecting ideas show you the type of connection. |
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Literacy Matters Year Three Unit Plans for Literacy. Year 4 plans can be reached using the navigation bar to the left of the page. |
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