The Great Fire of London

A first class learning site about the Great Fire of London. There is an interactive, animated story and excellent background information at different levels of detail. The site has excellent teacher resources.

Design a Victorian Room

Choose from a selection of floors, lighting, wall coverings and furniture to furnish a Victorian drawing room. You can print out your room if you like.

Heritage England Teaching Resources

Historic England offer a wide range of readymade free online learning resources for teachers. You can also search over 10,000 Educational Images, specially selected and re-captioned from their archive.

Florence Nightingale

A wonderful animated, narrated story about Florence Nightingale.

How to Speak Like an Ancient Roman

A short video from the excellent DK Findout children's encyclopaedia which has some latin words which were used by the Romans. This is ideal as part of a topic on Romans.

Object Lessons

An online display of artefacts with information from Islington Artefacts Library. Great for topics on Victorians and the Second World War. The text is difficult for Key Stage 1 children but the images are excellent.

How Toys have changed

Interactive activities where children learn about dolls, teddy bears and cars and how they have changed over the years. This could be used as a non-fiction text. The site has printable worksheets.

Toys

A useful collection of images of toys from the Victoria and Albert museum if you are working on a topic related to toys or forces.

The Kitchen Past and Present

This website compares kitchens, their layout and utensils, from Celtic, Victorian and modern times. Cooking and washing are examined in detail. There are downloadable worksheets.

Toys of the Past

A scheme of work with accompanying interactive and other resources on 'Toys'. There are good photographs of old and new toys and some elements work well on a large screen display.