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Breathing

A simple animation to show muscle and diaphragm action for breathing in and out in the human body.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

Letter Formation

This site has excellent animations which provide a good model for learners starting to write letters. They indicate the starting points and proper strokes required. Works well on an interactive whiteboard.

3-7 year olds
Pupils

Make a Horse Puppet for Chinese New Year

How about making this cute hobby-horse puppet as the horse is one of the Chinese Zodiac animals? Fits in well with a Chinese New Year topic.

6-11 year olds
Pupils

Make a Rabbit Puppet

Here we show you how to make a simple rabbit puppet which could be an Easter bunny or would fit in well with a Chinese New Year topic as a rabbit is one of the zodiac animals.

5-11 year olds
Pupils

Paint

A simple paint website which includes adding graphics by stamping. There are different and background scenes themes such as minibeasts, clothes, transport, animals, people, underwater and body parts. Created pictures are printable.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

How Electricity Works

An animated guide to the science of electricity. It covers how it works, how it is measured, how it reaches our homes and green options.

14-18 year olds
Pupils

Middle School Chemistry

Some super chemistry lesson plans supported by multimedia resources. There are remote lessons filled with videos of experiments, animations, and questions to create virtual lessons you can do at home!

11-14 year olds
Teachers

States of Matter

An animation where you can watch how atoms and molecules behave when heated or cooled and compressed as they change between solid, liquid and gas phases.

11-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Cube Nets

See if you can predict which of these nets form into a cube. Make your prediction and then watch the animation to see if you were right.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Starfall - Learn to Read

A good learning to read site. There are good quality games and animated stories which children can interact with. The children can click on words to see what they say. Excellent for learning the sounds the letters make.

3-7 year olds
Pupils
Swallowtail Social - Social media training for small businesses