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Mapzone

Mapzone can help your map reading skills. There are games to play and map resources for teachers.

11-14 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Discovery Point

This is the website of Dundee's visitor attraction featuring the story of Captain Scott's ship Discovery. The site has information about Antarctica and also about Scott and his fated expedition to the South Pole.

11-18 year olds
Teachers

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.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Beginners' Guide to Using a Compass.

A step by step guide on how to use a compass with an Ordnance Survey map.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

Key Stage 3 Bitesize - Chemistry

Use the revision sections to brush up on your knowledge and then test yourself. Section headings include classifying materials, chemical reactions, metals and non-metals and acids and alkalis

11-14 year olds
Pupils

ITP Coordinates

This resource from Mathsframe allows you to use a marker to identify the coordinates of points on different grids. You can mark points and draw lines and shapes in either 1, 2 or 4 quadrants.

6-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Teaching Science through Stories

Looking for inspiration for science activities in the classroom? This site has some great ideas taking stories as a starting point. Well worth exploring.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Follow the Direction NSEW

Follow the directions to find the destination on the grid. This game can help you learn compass directions.

7-11 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Make a Rainforest Walking Track

A primary maths game where you mark the route for a walking track on a rainforest map by following instructions to choose sections on track based on distances, compass directions and coordinate references.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Feeling Better

A collection of clips presented from the BBC that explore a whole range of feelings and emotions, as well as providing talking points and tools to feel better.

4-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents
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