Blast Off
Blast Off is a mental maths game for 5 to 8 year olds which can help you to know your two digit numbers and help with addition and subtraction skills. It covers different vocabulary such as more than, less than, count on and count back.
Points of View Newspaper Report
Witnesses to accidents can see different things. Read and listen to two witness reports of a skateboarding accident, and learn about how journalists structure newspaper reports and use verbs, adverbial phrases and pronouns to create an effect.
Symmetry Painter
A painting tool where you paint a symmetrical pattern. Use either brushes or stamps to create your picture. You can even design a pizza with two lines of symmetry.
Wonderful Words, Creative Stories about Space
improve two simple sentences by adding descriptive words. Observe how your choices affect the animated images. Use your sentences as inspiration for a story about space. A good site for demonstrating how to write more interesting sentences.
Violet's Vowel Suffix
A spelling game with two parts: a demonstration mode and a game mode. It teaches important suffixes such as ing, ed, ey and er. It is great for teaching when to double consonants when adding suffixes.
The Guardian University Guide
Thinking about going to university? Check out this useful guide which is a one-stop guide offering details of courses, rankings and advice on applying.
Pexels
One million plus of royalty free photos which can be used freely in educational projects. You need to check the terms and conditions if publishing to the Web.
Geogebra
GeoGebra is free dynamic mathematics software that brings together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package. Use with Google Chrome for English translation.
The Coin Cruncher
There are two parts to this money game which features UK money and Euros. In the first game you need to select coins to make an amount and in the second game you need to count a set of coins. There are different levels of difficulty.
Piacademy
Picademy is the Raspberry Pi Foundation’s flagship free teacher-training initiative. It’s a two-day course that allows educators to experience what can be achieved with a little help and lots of imagination.
