What is an Insect?
What is an insect? is an interactive e-book explores the amazing world of insects while showing the characteristics and diversity of insects. It has beautiful photos.
The Great Pyramid
Explore inside the pyramid of Khufu in Egypt. Excellent photographs illustrate this virtual tour.
Saint Patrick's Journey
Find out all about Patrick the patron saint of Ireland. Explore all about his life and mission.
Number Rack
A fantastic abacus type resource of moveable, coloured beads that encourage learners to think in groups of fives and tens. It can help children to explore a variety of addition and subtraction strategies. Great IWB teaching tool.
Discovering the Arctic
Explore the Arctic region and how it is changing with the help of the people who live and work there.
The Royal Mint Teaching Resources
Explore the world of coins, their history, design and manufactures. Each lesson pack, designed for classrooms in England and Wales, comes complete with teachers’ notes, lesson plans, fact files, worksheets and whiteboard resource.
Seeing with Sound
Explore questions about sound properties and how sound travels as a wave through diagrams and simulations. For example, identify the effects of compression waves on the vibration speed of particles.
William Wilberforce
Explore the life and political and social achievements of William Wilberforce, the Hull MP, who was instrumental in the campaign to abolish British involvement in the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Interact with these Minibeasts
An interactive where you explore the body of a ladybird, an ant and a bee. You can rotate and zoom in on the minibeasts and click on hotspots which explain interesting facts about bees, ants and ladybirds. Brilliant in full-screen mode on an IWB.
National Poetry Day
Although suitable for any time of year, you can explore this site for ideas to celebrate National Poetry Day with poetry in school. It features Toolkit for Schools and downloadable teaching resources.
