Flash animations for teaching science. They also include a tool kit that you can use to create your own animations. Covers:

Biology, Chemistry and Physics for senior seondary science.

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“PhET Interactive Simulations is an ongoing effort to provide an extensive suite of simulations to improve the way that physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math are taught and learned. The simulations are interactive tools that enable students to make connections between real life phenomena and the underlying science which explains such phenomena. Our team of scientists, software engineers and science educators use a research-based approach – incorporating findings from prior research and our own testing – to create simulations that support student engagement with and understanding of scientific concepts. ”

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A site with an interactive periodic table. You click on the elements to see a short video about it. Created by the University of Nottingham UK.

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“This site offers a growing bank of imaginative, highly visual teaching-aids developed for use with interactive whiteboards in 11-18 Schools.
The resources are designed to be used as rich sources of visually stimulating material, making use of both animations and drag and drop interactivity. The appropriate Key Stage is indicated for each resource. It is hoped that the resources will help students to make sense of some of the more challenging concepts they encounter.”

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A website with some very easy to use and pupil friendly interactive activities for reading, maths and more! Also contains some inspiring videos for educators!

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These are great fun. I use them with classes that need short, sharp tasks and then a reward. To break the lessons up into manageable 10 minute chunks my students sometimes get rewarded with a choice of one of these silly videos. It all helps with behaviour management

The site’s creators come from the teaching expertise of a special school so these videos are actually intended to help children to understand and generalise cause and effect (the action / reaction bond), one of the foundation stones for early learning. All of the videos can be played online or downloaded for use on a PC or Macintosh computer.

They are also links to interactive talking story books and other useful interactive activities.

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Smart Kiddies.com.au is an Australian maths resources for primary school teachers.  It allows teachers to set tasks for pupils who can log on and complete them, it has video resources as well as interactive games and worksheets and it’s all totally FREE!  Very impressive. The site follows the strands in the primary curriculum and makes it really easy to find resources.   Just sign up and off you go!

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Classtools.net allows you to create free educational games, activities and diagrams in a Flash! Host them on your own blog, website or intranet! No signup, no passwords, no charge! Perfect for virtual learning environments and IWBs.

My favorite tool is the “Random Name Picker” fruit machine.  My students never argue over who goes first if the fruit machine chooses them!

resources also include:

• Diamond 9
• Fish Bone (Fishy Bob!!)
• Venn Diagram
• Time line
• Priority Targets
• Interactive Hamburger Diagram….  (perfect for essay writing?? )
• An interactive accelerated learning cycle
• A Jigsaw diagram
• A priority Chart

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2Simple is baed in  Australia founded by ex-teachers and IT professionals. They create interactive resources for early years and primary pupils.  They have won many prestigious awards, the latest being the BETT 2009 ICT Company of the Year. They have also won the BETT 2008 award for Best Creative Tools (2Paint a Picture), BETT 2007 award for Best Early Years Software (Simple City) and BETT 2006 award for Best Primary Software (2Create a Story). They have 20 Australian specific programs which are all available on a 30 day trial.
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The BBC’s website is full of brilliant resources that can be used on interactive whiteboards. This secondary site covers most subjects taught in Secondary schools and has some great interactive games as well as useful research based activities for students.
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