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History resources - ancient civilisations and more

ancient greece - http://www.ancientgreece.com/s/Main_Page/
Medieval studies -[ http://labyrinth.georgetown.edu/ ]
Center for History and new media -[ http://chnm.gmu.edu/index.php ]
Digital History - [ http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/ ]
The History Lab - [ http://hlab.tielab.org/
Timelines -[ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineexplain.htm ]
Ancient Egypt timeline - [ http://www.historyonthenet.com/Chronology/timelineegyptian.htm
BBC history - Byte size - [ http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/ ]
BBC HIstory site -[ http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/index.shtml ]
National archives - [ http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/museum/ ]
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Global Awareness using Google Earth

I have long been a fan of Google Earth, its a brilliant tool that has a number of uses in the classroom.
For those of use who have had a play with this tool you will have encountered the Layers tab. This tab allows the user to overlay a variety of layers on the base map. [...]

Teaching resources

Educational Technology Clearinghouse
http://etc.usf.edu/
This is a interesting site that is worth a visit. It has a variety of resources and materials for a wide range of subjects These are further broken down into year levels:

Arts: Dance
Arts: Music
Arts: Theatre
Arts: Visual Art
Career & Technology
Foreign Language
Health
Language Arts
Mathematics
Physical Education
Science
Social Studies

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Auschwitz through the lens of the SS

USHMM is the the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
One of the latest resources they have is a video clip comprised of images of the SS who ran Auschwitz. The clip talks you through the life of the SS from their own images. These are striking and unique. You get a vision of people who happily [...]

SmartBoard Resources

This was twittered this recently by Helen Otway. Smart Board Resources in the classroom.
This is quite a neat site the page lists a series of smartboard resources for various subject areas. Its worth a visit and a forage through the selection. The resources range across the school spectrum from K to 13 and cover the [...]

Google Literature trips

http://www.googlelittrips.org/
This is an interesting approach to a virtual field trip. Using Google Earth, a browser and your internet connection you are able to take a literature trip on your favourite story (well from the selection they have available) .
This one is Homer’s Odyssey Submitted by Matthew Hart, Granada High School, Livermore, CA.
Here is what [...]

Google earth resources

http://digitalexplorer.co.uk/google-earth/
This is a useful site (Thanks Ewen) The site has resources for using Google Earth
Namely a manual (82 page PDF file) and a series of examples of virtual fieldwork using google earth
This is a very useful

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The World is Witness

 http://blogs.ushmm.org/WorldIsWitness/
This is a powerful blog - one worth visiting subscribing to and supporting.
If we look beyond the safety of our comfortable lives there is a frightening world out there. A world where violence, persecution, brutality, hunger, war and ignorance are commonplace. Sites like this and mediastorm give us insights into this world,  they show a [...]

Teacher TV - Antarctica Videos

Teacher TV has released a series of videos on antarctica. The videos for  Primary and  Secondary school students look at Geography and science teachers visiting Antarctic and the future of Antarctica itself.
These are professionally produced resources and well worth looking at.

Geo Teachers in the Freezer - http://www.teachers.tv/video/25270 
Sci Teachers in the Freezer - http://www.teachers.tv/video/25266
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Stonehenge

Just read an article on the BBC site on Stonehenge. Worth a read and it has a good animation of the history of the Stone rings in under 1.30.

 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7322134.stm
Here  are some further links and resources:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/wiltshire/moonraking/landscape_stonehenge.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3047469.stm
http://www.stonehenge.co.uk/
http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/

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