Animated Alphabet

An interactive resource which details the letters of the alphabet and includes letter names as well as their sounds. There are illustrations using each letter in turn as the initial letter of a familiar object. Writing is addressed by animations showing the correct letter formation.

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Eponyms

An excellent online activity for use with a whole class on an interactive whiteboard or for individual use in your schools computer suite.

An eponym is a word which has borrowed its name from a person - for instance a sandwich takes its name from John Montagu the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Students are posed a series of questions and asked to click select an appropriate artifact which derived its name from the given person.

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Night and Day

This excellent interactive, online resource for Key Stage 2 science enables students to view the Earth rotting on its axis in both plan view and side elevation. In this way the students can easily grasp the mechanism involved in the creation of night and day. there is also a quiz attached to check students understanding of the facts and concepts.
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Micro Organisms : Interactive Resource

This online interactive resource explains the different types of good and bad micro-organisms.

it allows students to explore a virtual environment and explains what kinds of micro organisms can be found in a variety of locations, and the efect that they have. Students can collate information and classify micro organisms into the provided tableThe activity is concluded with a quiz

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Nouns : Interactive Resource

This interactive resource for literacy in the primary classroom explains about the various kinds of nouns a student might encounter including common nouns, proper nouns, concrete and abstract nouns and collective nouns. there is also a quiz and a game.

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Probability : Online Activity

An online teaching resource for Key Stage 2 which allows students to consider and predict the probability of the selection of a single color from a variety of different coloured balls. There is also an online quiz which will allow students to test their knowledge. Worksheets are available

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Skeletons

An interactive primary school resource for teachers to use on a whiteboard of for individual pupils in an ICT suite. Students are required to sort a variety of piles of dinosaur bones into the correct places for a number of different creatures.

The activity is available at a variety of different levels of difficulty

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Habitats : All About Animals

This is a a pictorial database designed by Northumberland Grid for Learning

The database can be used to support the teaching of the use of ICT to find information.

It is also a useful non - fiction resource for use in Literacy.

There are currently records on 65 animals, grouped according to habitat and listed in alphabetical order in the index.

It can be explored in three ways: search using menus, search using the index, search using key words

For each animal in the database there is a simple description with a large image.

Clicking on the 'Find Out More' button gives access to more detailed information.

All the images and fact files about the animals are available as Word files which can be printed out or adapted as necessary by the teacher.

This is a a pictorial database designed by Northumberland Grid for Learning

The database can be used to support the teaching of the use of ICT to find information.

It is also a useful non - fiction resource for use in Literacy.

There are currently records on 65 animals, grouped according to habitat and listed in alphabetical order in the index.

It can be explored in three ways: search using menus, search using the index, search using key words

For each animal in the database there is a simple description with a large image.

Clicking on the 'Find Out More' button gives access to more detailed information.

All the images and fact files about the animals are available as Word files which can be printed out or adapted as necessary by the teacher.

An animation that demonstrates how the Earth orbits the Sun and the way its axis tilts resulting in the seasons. Plan view and oblique views are available as are labels to show the months of the year

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Online Worksheet Creator

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You are able to manipulate a number of parameters

• how many numbers in the sum, the range of the numbers you wish to use
• the number of decimal places, the number of sums in a row
• the number of rows.

All in all a very flexible resource for busy teachers, ideal for homework activities.

Human Skeleton : Interactive Labels

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This activity is ideal for use with whole classes on an interactive whiteboard or for individual use in an ICT suite. There are two differnt versions.

The first version will work on any computer and consists of an image of a human skeleton with numbered labels. Students select the appropriate bone from numbered drop down menus.

The second version allows students to drag the names of the different bones to label the diagram.