Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Show Me

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Show Me provide links to lots of activties found in British Museums and Art Galleries and puts them all in one place. There are sections on Ancient Civilisations (such as Egypt), Romans, Tudors, Greeks, Victorians, 20th Century Britain, Saxons and others including Science & Technology, and Art & Design.

Show Me is a one-stop-shop for all the best online games, interactive activities and teaching resources for KS1 and 2, generated by museums, galleries, science centres and heritage sites across Britain. The site is entirely free to use and non-commercial.

There are lots of ideas for great days out and things to do as well.

Espresso

Saturday, July 1st, 2006

Espresso aims to stimulate children´s learning through providing a rich cross-curricular resource to help teachers plan and create exciting lessons that meet National Curriculum objectives and cover QCA Schemes of Work. Espresso looks and works like a website but you won´t find it on the Web. It lives on a computer at your school, which means you can access it quickly and reliably whenever you want. What´s more, you get instant access to high-quality full screen video as well as sophisticated multimedia activities that would take forever to download across the Internet.

New resources are automatically added every week to ensure content is always topical. In addition there is also a huge archive of print based resources. Espresso is a self-contained site - there´s no links to the World Wide Web which means safe surfing is guaranteed. Espresso is the proud winner of two BETT 2004 awards for Best Online Learning Resource and Best Primary software. Espresso web site.