Big Picture
Big Picture, from the Wellcome Trust, is aimed at post-16 biology teachers and students has a fantastic array of free online resources including activities, animations, videos, lesson plans, articles, images, and more.
TeacherLED
The site is specifically aimed at delivering free, high quality teaching resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. The content is mainly numeracy related and is well worth a look. It includes some plenary and starters ideas.
Owl and Mouse Interactive Maps
Free good quality maps, to print out, of countries and every continent of the world. Excellent interactive maps where you roll over the countries to see country names and capital cities.
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.
The French Experiment
Free online French lessons and children's stories in French. There are introductory French conversations, vocabulary and grammar lessons. They could be used with younger children with adult support.
Digital Dialects
Digital Dialects features free to use games for learning more than 80 languages. Within are games for learning phrases, numbers, vocabulary, spelling, verb conjugation and alphabets.
UK Parliament Education Service Resources
An IWB teaching resource which explains all aspects of the UK Parliament, what it does and who works there. Free downloads of teaching resources. Find out about organising a visit for your students.
PhonicsPlay.co.uk
Phonics reading games linked to the 'Letters and Sounds' programme in England. Some are free on this subscription site.
Words for Life
Words for Life’s aim is to inspire more people to read, more regularly, for both pleasure and personal advancement. Useful booklists especially chosen to appeal to less confident readers. Free resources matched to books.
Teach Your Monster to Read
A free game for young children to practise the first steps of reading. The game is built on the principles of synthetic phonics and follows the teaching sequence of the Letters and Sounds programme.
