Yr+7and8+Links



Here we can share great internet links suitable for Year 7/8.

Access the digital learning objects here. ||= || [|NZ maths learning objects portal] Maths learning objects from the Digistore in an easy to find format. ||= || Places to locate ready made assessment materials in English, Maths and Science. ||= || [|NEMP Project] Tasks designed for testing NZ children during NEMP are then made available here to use in classrooms ||= || Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics website with step by step videos and animations to explain concepts as well as activities. ||= || [|BBC Index for KS2] Click on a subject area under the Key Stage 2 heading to see every resource on the BBC website that match that topic at the appropriate key stage level. ||= || A kid friendly encyclopedia. Some of it has an emphasis on the US but is still very useful. ||= || [|Woodlands Interactives for Children] This school site has collected interactive activities from around the web and catergorised them for you. ||= || From the BBC with activities, quizzes and fact sheets. There is also the [|KS3 Bitesize sites]. || || [|NGfL - Cymru] A Welsh site with games and activities organised by Key Stage || || A number of very useful activities organised by curriculum area and designed for primary aged children. ||= || [|Coxhoe Durham School Website Links] Excellent resource with a huge number of activities linked to. Click on a curriculum area to see the links. KS1 is for up to 7 year olds. KS2 is for 7 to 11 year olds. ||= || Activiites that can be completed on a dataprojector or on classroom computers. There are also a great set of links to activities on other sites. ||= || [|Te Ara] Encyclopedia of New Zealand - an excellent classroom resource. Find out about the people, the places and the environments in New Zealand. ||= || This is the site of an internationally recognised Australian teacher who has made a huge amount of resources available for you to use. ||= || [|Special Needs Links] Links for working with ESOL, specific special needs and gifted children from suzieslinks.com ||= || Teachers have uploaded useful digital resources that they have made to this Time Educational Supplement site where you can then download them from. ||= || [|Footee] A site based around a football theme. Play games to develop skills and understanding in English, Maths, Science, PE (football!), Design Tech and Geometry. You can also enter your own 'virtual team' into a soccer league to play against other entered teams. ||= || On this website, students can run themselves through some Maths, English and Science tests and then compare their results to world averages. This could be good for those competitive types. || || [|Project Central] This site gives you a variety of ICT tasks to complete based around a theme. || || A site that gives advice such as how to set goals, manage time and a variety of other topics. || || [|Buzzin] A site designed for children aged 10 to 14 with information and links to other sites in English, Maths, Science, ICT and other subjects. There is a teacher section with links as well. || || Five schools have pooled resources on to one website. Organised by year level. Flip chart resources can only be used with interactive whiteboard software. || ||   ||   || You are given clues in order to figure out numbers. eg You add 2 to me and you get 50. Guess my number. ||= || [|Rainforest Maths] Great interactive activites organised into year levels. ||= || 103 online activities for developing mathematics skills. ||= || [|Interactive Teaching Programs] These would be brilliant for whole class teaching with a data projector. || || A useful Canadian resource with clear explanations and visualisations. ||= || [|Learn Alberta Maths] High quality explanations and visualistions of concepts as well as built in quizzes in each section. There are also supporting worksheets to print and use. || || These are really high quality interactives and activities - I enjoyed the fractions smoothie making activity. ||= || [|KS2 Bitesize Maths] From the BBC - designed for up to 11 year olds in the UK. || || A HUGE bank of maths activities organised by topic. ||= || [|Division Tips and Tricks] A useful list of tricks to help you divide better. || || I lost in a big way against the computer. This requires a HUGE amount of strategy. ||= || [|WickEd Maths Interactives] Designed for Upper Primary aged children. || || The games index on this comprehensive resource site. ||= || [|Skillwise - Numbers] Designed by the BBC for adults but still some really useful content. || || A problem solving adventure where the two main characters have to solve a number of maths problems to escape from kidnappers. ||= || [|The Interactive Maths Classroom] A site that indexes great interactive maths content from around the world. Another huge index of content from other sites is [|MathZone.co.uk] || || Try out your basic facts using these drill games. ||= || [|The Maths File Games Show] Play games and do activities with hosts from the ancient world - a BBC site. || || Both online activities and printable worksheets for the classroom. ||= || [|Placevalue Charts] Practice different making different numbers by expanding out numbers. ||= || Aimed at 7 to 11 year olds with a huge number of resources ||=  || [|Clock] Start from the current time or any other time and ask students what it will be in, for example, 20 minutes time. Then use the 'Add 10' button to add on twenty and see what it will look like. ||= || Monthly maths problems for children to try and solve. Solutions are posted the next month. || ||   ||   || English Interactives accompanied with comprehensive lesson plans to support them. ||= || [|Wordsmith] A dictionary site that is integrated with a thesaurus and also helps you to generate vocabulary sheets and quizes. ||= || Find out about almost any author for children from this database. ||= || [|BBC Blast] A website with writing tips and sharing areas for teenagers. ||= || A very well presented site with a large bank of poems. There is also some information about poets. ||= || [|The Spellits] From the BBC and designed for seven to 10 year olds. ||= || Again there are a huge number of resources in this section. ||= || [|Read to Feed] Part of an organisation where children can participate in readathon type events to help buy animals for people in third world countries. This link leads you to games and activities on their website as well as real stories of the children helped by the project. ||= || An awesome resource that explores eight reading strategies for children to use. Very engaging and with a great teacher section as well. ||= || [|Writing with Writers] A site by Scholastic on how to write in various genres with advice from real authors. ||= || A site built around a Fairground theme where childen can practise their English skills. ||= || [|Scholastic Games] A large number of aciivities for kids. Many are based around specific texts from Scholastic but they can often stand alone as a good activity. ||= || An excellent site with great interactive activities to help children learn about features of each of these texts and have a go at designing their own. ||= || [|Using Similes to Enhance Writing] Scroll down to the interactive links at the bottom of the page - excellent quality lesson resource. ||= || Find out about ever genre of writing and use the text organisers (which you can print) to organise your ideas. An excellent resource for the teaching of writing!! ||= || [|BookBox] Find out about authors, get tips from them on how to write, read some stories and texts online, and play some word games. || || This free online tool enables you to enter a word and see all a visual map of associated words and concepts. It also shows you parts of speech and the types of lines connecting ideas show you the type of connection. ||= || [|Writers' Window] Publish the writing of your children using this online space. A great way to share the work of your kids and read the work of other children. || || A site of book reviews from 10 - 15 yr olds written by 10 - 15yr olds. || || [|Way With Words] A place for language and literature to come alive. There are various genres to explore with a range of texts. Poetry, Prose, Drama, Non-fiction and a Language section with games at word and sentence level || || A large bank of downloadable resources and some online activities. || || [|The Big Myth] 25 creation mths from around the world. || || Choose a layout and and the text. Print it off and stick on a picture to match the stories. || || [|Making a Speech] Tips and strategies for making a great speech. || || There are many links for a wide variety of subjects on my website. ||= || [|Dole Superkids] A host of great activities and games to teach children about eating fruit and vegetables. ||= || A brilliant site with lesson plans and online resources for science topics. ||= || [|The Essentials] A range of great resources and worksheets on Science, History and Geography topics. || || A site for kids on almost every aspect of health written in an engaging way eg 'Going with the flow of nosebleeds' ||=  || [|BAM - Body and Mind] Find out about nutrition, diseases, physical activity, saftely, your life and your body topics. || || A range of activities and printable resources to help children better understand the way other people live around the world. || ||   ||   || Make your own customised printable resources for use in your classroom in almost any situation. ||= || [|Primary Resources] A huge number of printable resources posted by teachers as well as powerpoints and other resources on different topics. ||= || Make gorgeous looking certificates to print. You need to sign up (for free) to make them. ||= || [|Instant Display Teaching Resources] These are freebie downloads of various displays to print and use in the classroom. On the right, there are pages of other display sets which cost two English pounds each and could save you hours. ||= || From National Geographic. Create printable maps of any country with or without place name details. ||= || [|Topic Box] A very easy to navigate interface for finding resources on the web. || || A UK site that also offers printable classroom displays with some for free and others you have to pay for. ||= || [|Education World - Worksheet Library] A huge bank of worksheets for you to download and print for free. ||= || Year Three Unit Plans for Literacy. Year 4 plans can be reached using the navigation bar to the left of the page. ||= || [|TeachIt] A large library of downloadable resources and some online ||= || This is a site by a Year 6 teacher who has posted resources and literacy activities that he has created for you to download for free. ||= No pictures on the site! || [|Julia's Free Files] Another teacher that has made her resources available for download. || || Ready made worksheets for teachers. You need to pay for a lot of them but there are still some freebies on the site. ||= ||   ||   || A search engine that will lead you to only high quality educational resources. ||= || [| Suzieslinks.com] The links on this page are just a starting selection taken mostly from my website. There is a lot more in here - come and check it out. ||= || A HUGE list of topics with internet links provided for each one. You're bound to find something useful this way. ||= ||   ||=   || A large range of ideas and resources. ||= Powerpoint Resources include a 'bad' powerpoint eg to prompt discussion || Wikis Learn how to make a similar site to this one for your own class and see egs from other classes. ||= Digital Photography Learn how to take good photos. ||
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 * [|Skoool]
 * [|Fact Monster]
 * [|Bitesize Revision - Maths, English and Science]
 * [|Primary Level Games and Activities from BGfL]
 * [|CrickWorld]
 * [|Adrian Bruce]
 * [|TES Teacher Resources by Teachers]
 * [|Get Smarter]
 * [|How to Study]
 * [|The Famous Five Learning Network]
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 * [|Guess My Number]
 * [|Illuminations]
 * [|Grade 6 Mathematics Lessons]
 * [|Junior High Math Interactives]
 * [|Interactivate Maths Activities]
 * [|Factors Game]
 * [|Math Playground]
 * [|MathZone]
 * [|Math Magician]
 * [|Maths is Fun]
 * [|Woodland School Maths Activities]
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 * [|ReadWriteThink]
 * [|Authors Index from Scholatic]
 * [|Children's Poetry Archive]
 * [|Woodlands School Literacy Activities]
 * [|Into the Book]
 * [|Faiground Spells]
 * [|Communicating your Ideas with Newspapers, Comics and Posters]
 * [|Writing Fun]
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 * [|CoolReads]
 * [|Teachit]
 * [|Create Your Own Newspaper]
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 * [|Oxfam Resources]
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 * [|Sen Teacher Printables]
 * [|Crayola Certificates]
 * [|Atlas - Xpeditions]
 * [|Sparkle Box - KS2]
 * [|Literacy Matters]
 * [|Gertie Grumbles Free Stuff]
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[|Skillwise - Grammar] Designed by the BBC for adults but still some really useful content.

[|Fairground Spells] Improve spelling skills in this interactive activity.

[|Illuminations] 99 online activities for developing mathematics skills.
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[|Rainforest Maths] Great activities for every level of maths ability.

[|Interactive Teaching Programs] These would be brilliant for whole class teaching with a data projector.

[|Grade 6 Mathematics Lessons] A useful Canadian resource with clear explanations and visualisations.

[|Learn Alberta Maths] High quality explanations and visualistions of concepts as well as built in quizzes in each section.

[|Junior High Math Interactives] These are really high quality interactives and activities - I enjoyed the fractions smoothie making activity.

[|KS2 Bitesize Maths] From the BBC - designed for up to 11 year olds in the UK. There is also the [|KS3 maths site] for 11-14 yr olds.

[|Interactivate Maths Activities] A HUGE bank of maths activities organised by topic.

[|Division Tips and Tricks] A useful list of tricks to help you divide better.

[|Factors Game] I lost in a big way against the computer. This requires a HUGE amount of strategy.

[|WickEd Maths Interactives] Designed for Upper Primary aged children.

[|Math Playground] The games index on this comprehensive resource site.

[|Skillwise - Numbers] Designed by the BBC for adults but still some really useful content.

[|MathZone] A problem solving adventure where the two main characters have to solve a number of maths problems to escape from kidnappers.

[|The Interactive Maths Classroom] A site that indexes great interactive maths content from around the world. Another huge index of content from other sites is [|MathZone.co.uk]

[|Math Magician] Try out your basic facts using these drill games.

[|The Maths File Games Show] Play games and do activities with hosts from the ancient world - a BBC site.

[|Cut the Knot] An interesting site with a mix of maths and logic puzzles designed by a philosopher/ mathematician.

[|The Essentials] A range of great resources and worksheets on Science, History and Geography topics.
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[|Yheart] A UK site for teenagers about keeping their heart healthy. Does include info on illegal drugs so may need to be used with caution.

[|ArtsEdge] A very comprehensive site with 'how to' sections as well as information on art works and artists.

[|Its My Life] A site for teenagers on how to deal with day to day issues.

[|National Geographic - Kids] Videos and information on the natural world and other cultures.

[|Ology] - a science site for kids from 7 to 12 dealing in archaeology, astronomy, biodiversity, genetics, marine biology, paleontology, and physical science.

[|Channel 4 History Resources] Resources and information on a range of commonly studied history topics.

[|BAM - Body and Mind] Find out about nutrition, diseases, physical activity, safety, your life and your body topics.

[|Fiery - Maths Printables] This site generates problems for children to solve for a variety of maths topics.
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[|Sparkle Box - KS2] A UK site that also offers printable classroom displays with some for free and others you have to pay for.

[|Atlas - Xpeditions] From National Geographic. Create printable maps of any country with or without place name details.

[|Sen Teacher Printables] Make your own customised printable resources for use in your classroom in almost any situation.

[|Primary Resources] A huge number of printable resources posted by teachers as well as powerpoints and other resources on different topic.s

[|Crayola Certificates] Make gorgeous looking certificates to print. You need to sign up (for free) to make them.

[|Gertie Grumbles Free Stuff] This is a site by a Year 6 teacher who has posted resources and literacy activities that he has created for you to download for free.

[|Julia's Free Files] Another teacher that has made her resources available for download.

[|TopMarks] A search engine that will lead you to only high quality educational resources.

[|10Ticks] Ready made worksheets for teachers. You need to pay for a lot of them but there are still some freebies on the site.

[| Suzieslinks.com] The links on this page are just a starting selection taken mostly from my website. There is a lot more in here - come and check it out.

[|Instant Display Teaching Resources] These are freebie downloads of various displays to print and use in the classroom. On the right, there are pages of other display sets which cost two English pounds each and could save you hours.

[|Sparkle Box - KS2] A UK site that also offers printable classroom displays with some for free and others you have to pay for.

[|eThemes] A HUGE list of topics with internet links provided for each one. You're bound to find something useful this way.

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