Friday 27 November 2009

The Universe general links from Richmond

Some interesting links about different aspects of the universe.

Matter more links from Richmond

This links us up to Richmond's web links for matter.

Tuesday 10 November 2009

e-learning for kids

A fab link set out in learning areas and age groups: English, science, health, reading and other things we will find useful.

Body Parts

Another great place to look at the skeleton.

Lunar Cycle 4th Primary

The phases of the moon and why the moon looks different every night.

All about Matter for 5th Primary

A simple way to explain matter.

Tuesday 3 November 2009

Aquatic videos

Short videos of ocean animals

Friday 30 October 2009

The Five Senses powerpoints

There are seveal ppts here all for primary.

Thursday 29 October 2009

WEBCAMS

Do you want to see penguins, ants, beetles or otters in real time?

Friday 23 October 2009

Life Cycle of a Plant Interactive

An interactive activity for learning about the life cycle of a plant.

Interactive Label the Plant

Great for young learners there are a lot more free games on this link.

Interactive Label the Plant

Great for young learners there are a lot more free games on this link.

Wednesday 21 October 2009

Musculoskeletal System and Skeleton explained in a Video

This is from the great site Laura found it's just right for 3rd/4th primary.

Sunday 18 October 2009

Literacy games for primary

In this website you will find spelling games and literacy games suitable for primary children.

Monday 12 October 2009

EDUCATIONAL MOVIES

This is a website with different educational movies for Science topics.

Saturday 10 October 2009

Lion Super Pride part 6

Part 6 of the documentary.

Lion Super Pride part 5

Part 5 of the documentary.

Lion Super Pride Part 4

Part 4 of documentary.

Lion "Super Pride" part 4

Part 4 of the documentary about a "Super Pride" of lions.

Lion Super Pride part 3

Part 3 of the documentary about a "Super Pride" of lions.

Lion Super Pride part 2

Second part of Lion "Super Pride" documentary.

Lion "Super Pride" part 1

A documentary about a pride of lions that is considered a "Super Pride" because it's got 22 members. This is part one of six. A good resource for ESO or a high level 6th grade science class. Very interesting! A great example of family life amongst animals.

Tuesday 6 October 2009

Spanish Geography 6th Primary

A guide to Spanish geography wildlife, nature and climate. This is a wonderful web for using with Essential Science Book 6 (Unit 8). Lots of good links for the class.

Saturday 3 October 2009

The Virtual Body

Hi,
The virtual body is waiting for your visit! This is a fantastic web to take a look at the inside of the human body.

Thursday 1 October 2009

Games, Games and more Games...

This website has great interactive games for everything from language arts, maths, science... You name it they've got it.

They also have a free printables areas with tons of worksheets, minibooks etc.

Clipart for making up worksheets

A free clipart web with a large selection of material.

Wednesday 30 September 2009

Kids National Geographic: People and Places

Hi everyone,
Just what we need to look at other cultures and countries around the world. Video and stories.

National Geographic Kids: Animals

Hi,
This web has great info as well as videos on lots of animals and the photos are fab too!

Tuesday 29 September 2009

how the body works

It has a video on how the digestive system works. I'm planning to use, then I'll tell you!!! Elisa

Sunday 27 September 2009

Animal Web Cams at the Smithsonian National Zoo

A wonderful way to see animals real time. The zoo has several web cams so we can drop in and visit any time. The selection of animal photos is also worth looking at. This will make a great addition to any animal class.

Thursday 24 September 2009

The Romans

More about the Romans, this is a very well explained web on the Romans it includes clothes as well as life style.

Droplet and the Water Cycle

A NASA educational link with a great information and an animated game explaining how a droplet of water travels.

Castles

All about castles, why, who, where, including the biggest!

Houses and Homes Thoughout History

The evolution of our houses and the different types of homes we have.

The Inner Body: Secondery

This is for secondary it's a fantastic web with clear diagrams and good explnations.

How the Body Works: Lots of systems and parts

Hi everyone,
Do take a good look at this one. There are lots of body parts all with video, vocab games and activities. This is the main page just click on the body part you want when it's in the centre, then chose an area, video ect. and have fun with the teacher and pupil. The graphics are very atractive too!

The Five Senses Lesson Plan

A full lesson plan on the senses incuding ptintables.

Biomes Lesson Plan

A science teaching lesson on biomes. Includes printable teaching worksheets.

The Circulatory System and The Heart

Detailed explination of how the circulatory system heart and lungs work.

Quiz on Materials

a great quiz to revise and learn about materials.

The Digestive System

Click on the parts and learn how the digestive system works.

The Human Skeleton

Make a skeleton and learn about the bones.

The Digestive System

Looking at how the intestines work, it includes a diagram similar to the one in the students' books.

The senses

All the senses explained including the sixthe sense

How ears work and parts of the ear

Explaining and understanding how the ear works with vocabulary explanations.

How eyes work & parts of the eye

A good explanation of how the eye works and comparing it to a camera. It also includes the parts of the eye.

echalk

Hi everyone,
You'll love this site! There are loads of activities and games to use with the interactive whiteboard. Suitable for primary and secondary. You need to subscribe, though.
If you don't want to pay you can still use the activities but you'll see "PREVIEW" on the screen.

Parts of the Eye

Suitable for younger primary learners to learn the parts of the eye.

Wednesday 16 September 2009

The Romans in Scotland

See how the Romans lived.

The Romans: Photos

30 plus photographs from Rome, Pompeii and Herculaneum.

River jigsaws

Seven photo jigsaws based on the topic of Rivers. Customise using the picture, style, number of pieces and rotation features.

Investigating Coasts

A simple three part activity comparing, annotating and labelling coastal features using photos and diagrams.

Teeth

Pupils can research information about teeth types, tooth structure and tooth decay.

Plant Life Cycle

There are two labelling activities and one sorting task to support work towards the end of the unit. The three sections are as follows: 1) Labelling a life cycle diagram of a flowering plant. 2) Sorting plants by method of seed dispersal. 3) Labelling the reproductive organs of a flower.

Food Groups

Taking a look at the 5 food groups fab for all of primary.

Light and Shadow

Suitable for 4th primary lower levels

Health and Growth

This is wonderful for 2nd and 3rd of primary. Food and growing

Saturday 12 September 2009

Science Topics in Powepoint Format

Loads and loads of powerpoints for your Science classes!
You can download them and save them on your PC or USB and take them with you.
Laura

Video Resources for Science Teachers

Scroll down the page and you'll find videos for your Science classes (5th and 6th Grade).
Laura

Friday 11 September 2009

Class tools book maker

Make a book with turning pages, a very good tool.

Wednesday 9 September 2009

Label Fruit Vocabulary Game

Simple matching game

Label the veg IWB game

A wonderful link to lovely science games

This site has lots of different science games for all abilities. There is also fab stuff for English too.

Environmental Challenge

The environment is in danger we must look at the problems and save our planet.

Living Things

What when where? Fun for younger learners

Saturday 5 September 2009

A Virtual Zoo

This is a very interesting website about all types of animals. You will find lesson plans, a virtual zoo, animal profiles and online software to create new animals.
Very useful for 5th and 6th Grade.

Thursday 3 September 2009

The Middle Ages links for castles

A very interesting link for famous castles with lots of info on life at the time.

Science for primary

Dear Amanda,

I have found this wonderful website to use with the whiteboard. I am sure that our children will love it.

Tuesday 1 September 2009

cooltoolsforschools

This web has almost everything you could want to use and some you hadn't even thought of!

Sunday 30 August 2009

Delicious social bookmarking

Delicious is a wonderful place to keep all your bookmarks. You can work on it from any computer, there are many sites shared amongst members and the larger links are split with 'sub' tags into their respective parts when you do a search in delicious.

Saturday 29 August 2009

Quizlet: vocabulary games flashcards ready made and make your own

With this link you can make your own quizes and vocab games.

Richmond Science Book 6 Webquests

Although this wonderful Richmond site is for webquests there are lots of interesting areas and it can also be used in other ways as part of a science class.

Miss Laura's Workspace class wiki

Laura's wiki has areas for all our class needs for teaching EFL English. A fantastic place to sow seeds, this wiki will quickly grow if we all add as we go along.

Wednesday 26 August 2009

Fantastic link to Science Activities

Hi Amanda,
Here's the link to fantastic activities for your Science classes. Hope you'll like it!
Laura

Tuesday 11 August 2009

How fast plants grow

How plants grow

Animals and Plants

From Domingo:
Great for both animals and plants. Plenty of info for them to read

Plant Secrets lots of fun

From Domingo:
More plants. Very funny. Children help a detective find the secrets of plants.

Plants for different age groups

From Domingo:
Another one on plants. It´s BBC and divided into age groups.Also very interactive. Children get to grow plants if they know what they need to do so properly. They get points as in a quiz.

Life cycle of a plant .It´s got a whiteboard version and very visual and interactive.

Domingo uses this with 2nd Primary classes

Shenice's favourite Science Links

A large list of links to lots of lovely places Shenice uses for her science IWB classes

skrbl: easy to share online whiteboard

skrbl is very easy to use and can help you to get used to to using IWB at home alone or with others. A great tool.

Tuesday 4 August 2009

Recipes4Success

A very easy site to use to make your own rubrics (assessment sheets with objective criteria). If you use a title already known, some help is given to you and you can add/customise as you wish. It is simple to save the finished work to any file for future use.

Experiment assessment rubric

This is an assessment rubric which can be used by the teacher or the students to keep check on work in progress or a finished experiment.

Saturday 1 August 2009

European Matters


About polution for high level students

Wednesday 1 July 2009

Devil's Dictionary

The official in control of a court who decides how criminals should be punished
(from: Devil's Dictionary)

a person who says what will happen to you when someone else says you have done something wrong (Amanda)

Tuesday 23 June 2009

Wind Energy in Spain

http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/rea/news/article/2007/02/endesa-focuses-on-wind-farms-in-spain-and-italy-47528
This site is for searching for information on Spanish wind farms but it also has more on other renewable energy sources.

Science for Kids

http://www.sciencenewsforkids.org/articles/20050309/Feature1.asp
A site for all ages with a wide choice of subjects

Great place for the solarsystem

http://www.extremescience.com/solarsystem.htm

Great place for the solarsystem

All you want to know about the solar system

Sunday 21 June 2009

EFL Science


Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. (D.Carnegie)


The photo is a view of Peñiscola Castle. It is a medieval castle on a rock in the sea on the east coast of Spain. It was the home of the Moon Pope in the 12th century.

Welcome to my teacher's science blog. I am a primary EFL Science teacher and teach successfully in my classes, my students feel happy in the class and this facilitates learning.