What a Stretch
Investigate the unique physical features of giraffes and explore how they are represented in art. The site includes a story about differences. Create your own giraffe artwork.
The Royal Mint Teaching Resources
Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.
The Great Pyramid
Explore inside the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. Excellent photographs illustrate this virtual tour.
How We Make Stuff
The Ellen MacArthur Foundation has developed this website to explore how we can learn from living systems and rethink the way we design, make and use our stuff.
Find the Start Time
A maths game where you need to find the start time after a given time interval. Find the correct time on an analogue or digital clock. Lots of choice of level, including: subtracting 1 hour, multiples of 5, or 10 minutes and more.
Cool Antarctica
Simply the best website about Antarctica that we know of. It has stacks of free to use pictures and is bursting with facts about Antarctica and its animals. It also includes the history of exploration, the climate and environmental issues.
William Wilberforce
Explore the life and political and social achievements of William Wilberforce, the Hull MP, who was instrumental in the campaign to abolish British involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Discovering the Arctic
Explore the Arctic region and how it is changing with the help of the people who live and work there.
Seeing with Sound
Explore questions about sound properties and how sound travels as a wave through diagrams and simulations. For example, identify the effects of compression waves on the vibration speed of particles.
Elements of a Story
The "Elements of a Story" interactive is designed for children to do on their own, but the different online activities can also be adapted for classroom use. Taking the story of Cinderella it explores the different 'ingredients' that make up a story.
