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
The future in [...]
This is a neat little find. this is a directory of learning object repositories. It covers a variety of learning areas and ages. Well worth having a look and a forage… Its hosted by The University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee
Here are the links:
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_collections.html - Collections
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_global.html - Global Studies
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CIE/AOP/LO_other.html - Other Learning Objects
Some very useful links [...]
here are two visual resources that are worth having a look at
1. Visible Body - http://www.visiblebody.com
This is cool site for biologist and scientists, but it does have one limitation - It is only available in Internet explorer . However its worth a visit and is free to sign up
2. Visual geography - http://www.visualgeography.com/
A nice easy [...]
http://www.commoncraft.com/Twitter
Lee at commoncraft has done another video -this one is Twitter in plain english.
Keep it up. Its great to have these great resources available for education
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http://www.nasa.gov/
Its been a while since I have visited the Nasa website and I must admit to being pleasantly surprised this morning.
The site is easy to navigate and clean. There are links obvious and suitable. I like the sections for teachers and students. A really neat feature and one that teachers and students can [...]
http://www.history.com/genericContent.do?id=54499
This is a flash based interactive tour of the universe. Its got nice images and a good level of interactivity. The music becomes annoying after a few minutes but its easy to switch off.
The site allows you to manipulate the virtual objects - in this case the sun - and look from different perspectives zooms [...]
In an earlier post I highlighted the excellent video produced by Media Storm on the Rape of a nation and the plight of the Democratic republic of Congo.
I have watched an number of the videos on this site and another called Bloodline has stunned me with its quality and relevance.
This is not a comfortable video [...]
http://www.breathingearth.net/
I spotted this on one of Larry posts (nice work) and its well worth sharing.
This site is a interactive map, which as you hover over a country reports on the Birth and death rate, population and level of CO2 emissions. It is a simualtion and is based on current data. Its a powerful and [...]
Here are a selection of sites and resources from various sources that may be of interest
English
Website http://www.learner.org/interactives/story/
This is a site for students on how to write and structure a story - a good resource for English. Its flash based with Audio content.
It wanders through the writing process with interactives using the Cinderella story as the [...]
The Institute of enginnering and Technology IET has some resources available to teachers and school. These include a series of posters for science & electrict. The posters are for primary and secondary classes.
You can open a pdf version or email them to request A2 posters
http://www.theiet.org/education/teacherresources/posters/index.cfm
Circuits poster (277 [...]
