Tessellation Creator
A useful resource for making tessellation patterns using regular polygons. What kind of tessellations can you make out of regular polygons?
Romans
Why did the Romans invade Britain and what did the Romans do for us? These are two of the questions that are considered here. It also looks at life for women in Roman Britain and there is an audio drama of the Boudiccan Rebellion.
Geometric Solids
A teaching tool, which works well on an interactive whiteboard, which is good for learning about solid shapes and their properties. Explore the number of faces, edges and vertices. There are lesson plans which demonstrate how the tool can be used.
Acids, Bases and Salts
Test your understanding of acids, alkalis, bases and salts in this quiz. Find out the difference between alkalis and bases, how acids and alkalis react with one another, how neutralisation can produce salts and the relevance of pH values.
Diwali
An animation where a boy explains why Diwali is his favourite time of the year. Afterwards you can make your own firework display!
Spelling Bee
The spelling activities on this US site are for children aged 5 in September (Grade 1) up to age 17 in September (Grade 10). The primary age activities are good exercises for KS1 and KS2 spelling SATs in England as they follow a similar format.
Andy Goldsworthy
Andy Goldsworthy has three Timelapse clips showing the development of the stone domes, clay wall and the chestnut screen works made at Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
Rock Cycle
Learn about different types of rocks and how they change over time.
Arrow Cards
Build a two or three digit number using the cards. Click the button to see how it is written. This site can help children understand place value. It is suitable for use on an interactive whiteboard.
Paint the Squares
There are various sized interactive grids up to 120, all of which are configurable. They include a regular 100 square, a negative numbers grid, decimal numbers and puzzles. Ideal for starter or plenary activity.
