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Play Nine Men’s Morris! Board games were very popular with the Romans. We know this from archaeological finds from all over the Roman World. Nearly every Roman site in Britain has provided evidence in the form of counters and boards. Hadrian's Wall is no exception and a fine example of a board and pieces found at Segedunum can be seen displayed in the Roman Gallery.
Play the ancient game of Senet! Board games were very common in ancient Egypt and people from all levels of society played them. Many game boards from ancient Egypt have been found by archaeologists. However, the rules explaining how to play these games have not survived. By studying game boards and other evidence, experts have made some educated guesses about how these games were played.
Play the Royal Game of Ur! Board games were popular in Mesopotamia. Different types of boards and game pieces have been found by archaeologists. The remains of this board were found by Leonard Woolley in a grave at Ur.
History KS2/3 – A Local Study of South Shields during WW2. The teaching programme is focused through a fictional story set over 3 generations.
Downloadable activities and teacher resources all about shoes!
Browse through shoes from across the world and throughout the ages!
Find out more about the history and design of shoes throughout the ages and across the world!
The Audio Network Education Licence has been developed to provide Schools with world-class music recordings over the National Education Network and the UK's national education broadband networks. It is hosted at London Grid for Learning and delivered to schools throughout the UK over the NEN.
Schools have FREE access to the same high-quality music resource that is used by professional film, television and media producers. Just right for ICT and digital video projects across the curriculum. Works for Primary, Secondary and FE. Ideal for vocational courses and developing a sense of the world of work.
The service enables the FREE download of Audio Network music files for use in school and college projects including ‘synchronisation’ use in audio-visual productions together with general guidance on music copyright.
Summary of benefits 
Ease of use: digital and on-line over the education broadband networks. Standard file type.
Free: school and connected college users do not have to pay.
Choice: huge range of types of music.
Quality: industry quality recordings.
Clean: no viruses...non pop-up advertising.
Legal: all rights cleared for education use in school/college.
Creative Licence: resources can be used creatively.
Restrictions: can’t be distributed or performed outside school/college or on the WWW without additional licences...but...
Additional licences: provide a one-step process for public performance/distribution.
Curriculum relevance: meets the needs of e-learning and 'Harnessing the Technology' and supports many areas of the curriculum in Primary, Secondary, Further and Higher Education.
Examinations: meets requriements of examinations and the new generation of e-assessment.
World of work: uses industry procedures and supports of vocational courses.
Teachers from all Key Stages in Hounslow schools have developed a series of exemplar lessons on using Audio Network across the curriculum - not only Music but also Literacy, Personal and Social Education and ICT, as well as looking at the use of AN files for classroom and behaviour management.
Videos, worksheets and lots of good creative ideas
This is a colourful interactive resource containing curriculum-linked activities for children in Reception and Year 1 classes .
Old Vic, New Voices
Under Kevin Spacey’s direction, the Old Vic Education section has employed professional directors, writers and actors to work with pupils and students from South London schools on a variety of projects to encourage them to think about the creative use of drama in other subjects. The first project was a joint collaboration with the Imperial War Museum around the theme of the first day of the battle of the Somme in 1916.
The topics covered include Signing up, Women at Home, Training, the Battle, Back Home and Consequences.
the web-site includes six easy to followlesson plans for 13 to 18 year olds. the emphasis is on using drama techniques to encourage debate. Each lesson plan focuses on key issues relating to the battle of the Somme and contains scenes filmed during the performance. all of the learning materials are designed to encourage teachers to replicate the project as a Drama in History project in their own school.
A national, interactive history resource to deliver the KS1 History topic on 'Toys' in an interesting and engaging way
Visit and explore a virtual version of the National Museum of Childhood in Bethnal Green.
Lots of online activities to support individual and whole class work.
Celebrating Language has a number of aims:
- To use e-learning to raise awareness of and celebrate the diversity of language and cultures in this region.
- To promote an appreciation of language in both written and spoken forms.
- To exploit broadband and multimedia technologies so that learners can share a rich set of resources from across the region.
- To provide a unique resource for schools that links with many aspects of the curriculum - RE, Geography, PSHE, Art, MFL, English.
- To provide a database of language, including words common to many languages , accessible through ICT tools.
Northern Grid for Learning, in partnership with the Friends of Chopwell Wood, has developed a new interactive educational resource for KS2/3. This features 18 locations around the Heritage Lottery funded forest trail.
Educational questions, activities and projects that supplement the interactive activities, cover aspects of Numeracy, Literacy, History, Geography, Science, Design Technology and ICT curriculum areas.
The Digital Storytelling site is a place where learners can publish video and animations. It is similar to YouTube. However, all videos and animations and any comments added to published materials are viewed by an administrator before publication thus ensuring that the site is free from inappropriate material.
CookIt is more than an online recipe book. Learners can submit their own recipes, watch short videocast programmes, find out about food in the past and link recipes to festivals and seasons.
One hundred and thirty pupils from twenty-six Kent primary schools took part in the Crabble Mill Writing Project in October 2007. The mill is a delightful living museum in Dover which became the inspiration and source of research material for this innovative broadband communications project.
Planned and managed by Advisory Service Kent staff, Leading ICT Teachers and South-East Grid for Learning Project Officers the project involved pupils using a wide range of web based technologies to support story writing. Applications used included video conferencing, blogging, Podcasting and “On-line” Publishing.
This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. What items, for example, would you put in a box to describe your life; the life of a Victorian Servant or Roman soldier; or to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary? You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view and comment on the museum boxes submitted by others.
The “Dover Bronze Age Boat Project” was a five week writing project involving a hundred Key Stage 2 Kent pupils. It provided pupils with the opportunity to use new technologies and digital resources to improve their writing skills. Set the challenge to write about the world famous “Bronze Age Boat” the project report examines how effectively the pupils used web conferencing, blogging and other ICT resources to inform their planning and later to edit their work.
To assess the impact of new technologies, the pupils’ comments will be of interest to all primary teachers who strive to use ICT to plan meaningful writing activities for young learners. Almost all the pupils believed that the web conference sessions helped them to plan their stories and half felt that the voice recorders were of benefit, whilst less than a third commented so positively about the blog.
To view the pupils’ work, more analysis of their comments, and all the project resources click on the link below
Downloadable resources to support work in the Foundation Stage including worksheets, activities, photographs and videos. Includes ICT scheme of work for foundation stage.
Resources produced by Northern Grid to support the Folk Archive Resource North East music archive.
Films for Learning is a resource for extending and developing film making, supporting children as they reflect on the activity, the filming and their learning. Pupils can comment on each others films and exchange ideas in the forum area. There are teacher support materials and high quality examples of films from learners.
Films for Learning is a project led and moderated by Mark Richardson and Peter Roe from the Thomas Hardye School in Dorchester. The project is supported by Microsoft and it is entirely advert free. It scores highly for e-safety. Mark and Peter also very keen that students are taught the importance of copyright and they give support to those who have added copyrighted commercial music sound tracks. Sign up and join the community.
Search and browse the excellent examples including a student's clip on how to upload. Films for Learning is an excellent way for all teachers and learners develop their curriculum ideas with film making.
FlashMeeting is an application based on the Adobe Flash 'plug in' and Flash Media Server. Running in a standard web browser window, it allows a dispersed group of people to meet from anywhere in the world with an internet connection. Typically a meeting is pre-booked by a registered user and a url, containing a unique password for the meeting, is returned by the FlashMeeting server. The 'booker' passes this on to the people they wish to participate, who simply click on the link to enter into the meeting at the arranged time.
During the meeting one person speaks (i.e. broadcasts) at a time. Other people can simultaneously contribute using text chat, the whiteboard, or emoticons etc. while waiting for their turn to speak. This way the meeting is ordered, controlled and easy to follow. A replay of the meeting is instantly available, to those with the 'unique' replay url.
FlashMeeting users belong to one of three account types; Guest, Sign In and Booker.
You are able to watch the animated story of Grace Darling and see how she rescued the crew men from the steamer SS Forfarshire near the shores of Northumberland.
KS2 Lesson Plan - Grace Darling lesson plan to write a diary account.
Grace Darling themed lesson plan to exploit language and structure of sentences to create effect.
A comprehensive education pack featuring pre and post visit (to the Grace Darling Museum) lesson plans with accompanying resources, worksheets for use at the museum and all necessary visit information for teachers.
Here you are able to read and print the story of Grace Darling's famous rescue.
Literacy whiteboard activity. Encourages you to exploit language and structure of sentences to create effect.
Lesson plans to develop and extend vocabulary according to age and ability using a range of strategies and linguistic techniques.
Kill or Cure? Become a Tudor Doctor! You’re an apprentice to a Tudor doctor named Dr Kyrssope. The Doctor turned a funny colour suddenly this morning- and died! You’ll have to treat his patients! Read the notes about Tudor treatments and ask the patients questions to find the right diagnosis to save them!
You won't find Batman here, nor the Incredible Hulk. But you'll find people who really did exist - people who made their mark on history.
But what sort of people were they? Did they have incredible powers, like Batman and Superman? Or were they more like you and me?
Find out about Alan Turin, Elizabeth Fry, Nelson, Cromwell and others and decide for your self whether they deserve to be call 'hero'.
Explore Imagine, a website showcasing 15,000 images of objects and paintings celebrating North East culture.
An original dairy from World War One, made available by Tyne and Wear Archives. The resource includes the diary, transcripts, support materials and activities.
An online service to support the development of information skills. Students can find resources to help with a range of learning including, using the Internet, recognising the reliability of information, reading the media and visual literacy.
In addition to lesson plans for teachers of Key Stage 1, Key Stage 2 and Key Stage 3 there is a range of whiteboard activities for each Key Stage which are regularly expanded.
Helping young people to become successful learners is one of the key aims of Curriculum for Excellence in Scotland.
Our knowledge about learning is continually changing in the light of research and there is still much that we do not know. This site provides an overview of current thinking on how people learn.
Football themed resources providing stimulus for whole class introductions, individual short tasks to be completed at the computer and longer tasks to be completed away from the computer.
A feature on the new film Water Horse.This resource gives more information about Loch Ness and its monster and about the movie, how it was made and fun activities connected to the story.
Making the News 2 (MTN2) is a website designed to introduce students to the world of online media publishing and broadcasting for the 21st century. Teachers may register, doing so will create a homepage on MTN for their school. The teacher may then create student accounts.
Students can then login and create articles and programmes which will be submitted to the teacher and if approved published on the school homepage. Well rated articles will be added to the National MTN2 site.
Articles may be text and images or they may be video, audio or a sequence of images.
Students can use any media editing tools you wish to create and upload video/audio articles, or use the tools embedded in the MTN2 website.
This is an E2BN project that has been jointly funded by: CLEO, EMBC, LGfL, NorthernGrid, SEGfL, SWGfL, and YHGfL. Teachers at schools in these RBCs may become registered users without charge. Teachers in schools in other RBCs, in schools outside the NEN, private and overseas maybe subject to a subscripton fee of £250 per school per year.
A set of matching activities in the form of an interactive game of “Snap” where pupils are required to match: pictures, shapes and colours.
This resource can also be accessed by switch users via a switch interface which emulates the enter key. Suitable for older pupils with SEN.
A set of matching activities in the form of an interactive game of “Snap” where pupils are required to match: lower case letters, upper case letters, lower and upper case letters, high frequency words.
This resource can also be accessed by switch users via a switch interface which emulates the enter key.
Memorynet is a collection of oral histories, photographs and images exploring the lives of communities linked with the sea in the North East of England.
The NEN is proud to announce the launch of the brand new 2011 National Theatre production Hamlet teacher resources. LGfL has worked in partnership with the National Theatre to bring these outstanding collection of teacher resources featuring high quality video and interactive whiteboard resources and teacher guidance material.
The resource explores the theme ‘Minds Under Stress’ focusing on five key moments in the play:
1) Act 1 scene 2 – Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘O that this too solid flesh would melt’
2) Act 2 scene 2 – Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘O, what a rogue and peasant slave am I!’
3) Act 3 scene 1 – Hamlet’s soliloquy ‘To be, or not to be – that is the question;’
4) Act 3 scene 1 – Ophelia’s speech ‘O, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!’
5) Act 4 scene 5 – Ophelia’s mad scene.
The resource is aimed at A-Level students in the UK. It has been constructed to offer a platform for discussion and language analysis for teachers and students exploring Hamlet.
Morecambe and Back...
contains all the Mitchell and Kenyon footage shot in Morecambe in 1902.
Two of the film clips, the exterior of the Winter Gardens and the congregation leaving the Parish Church are also available as ‘then and now’ parallel videos.
Another ‘raw’ resource is an online comparison of the front and back pages from1903 and 2008 editions of the ‘Morecambe Visitor’ newspaper.
The module also records the spectacular way Morecambe Bay Community Primary School used the footage as the base for a term-long cross-curricular theme covering; Music, Dance, Drama, History, Art, Geography and Speaking and Listening.
The project was supported by the British Film Institute, Lancashire Sinfonietta, Ludus Dance and the Lancashire Public Records office.
Myths and Legends is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends. Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable.
A collection of high quality images, sound and video files that can be repurposed by teachers and students. All materials can be used for educational, not for profit activities.
Registered users can also upload images, sound and video files to the Gallery for use by other members of the educational community.
The resource offers exclusive performance extracts from the National Theatre’s production of Twelfth Night, directed by Sir Peter Hall.
The National Theatre's Twelfth Night teaching resource has been constructed to offer a platform for discussion and language analysis for teachers and students exploring the recent South Bank production theme of ‘love’ in the play.
This resource is designed to support A-Level English Classes approaching the AQA A2 exam.
Specifically focusing on the AQA Unit 3 ‘Love through the Ages’; all discussion questions primarily focus on this area as well as examining the wider themes of the play as a whole. Questions relate to having an informed response to the text, understanding how form, structure and language shape meaning and understanding the significance of contexts.
LGfL Content Manager Bob Usher said ‘We are delighted to be able to offer this unique resource in partnership with the National Theatre. This resource follows on from the January 2011 launch of the National Theatre Hamlet resource – which hasve seen consistent growing use across London schools in the lead up to the examination season. The simple format, presenting relevant resources with outstanding video excerpts is a winning combination and we look forward to working with the National Theatre to develop further resources for LGfL NEN connected schools.’
Links:
www.twelfthnight.lgfl.net
http://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/digitalclassroom
C Day Lewis' 1936 poem read over contemporary newsreel footage.
Produced to show the potential of the Pathe archive to support understanding of the interplay between 20th century arts and news-media. Also provides insight into public attitudes during the build up to WWII.
Contains a useful article on copyright issues.
OLOT is resources to support excluded 13-17 year olds from various ethnic backgrounds.
The OLOT website brings a wide range of dynamic learning resources appropriate to the needs of the age group, with an emphasis on literacy, numeracy and music. It was developed by 3T in collaboration with the London Grid for Learning
This tool allows you to use your own pictures and audio to build a presentation or demonstration. A simple zoom tool allows you to focus in on the items in a picture you are talking about, as you outline information you can zoom and pan around an image.
Burns Night on 25 January is celebrated all over the world with thousands of people attending Burns Suppers to eat haggis and to toast the Immortal Memory of Scottish poet Robert Burns.
This area has a selection of teaching and learning resources about Scots literature and language, modern Scottish poetry, Scottish song and traditional Scottish music, the historical context in which Burns was writing and the continuing role of literature and language in shaping Scottish identity.
These illustrations and photographs are free for any kind of educational use - whether you are a teacher creating topic worksheets or looking for ideas to spark creative writing, or a pupil who needs illustrations for a presentation or website.
You can download them, print them off or use them online.
A mixture of drawings, photos and images of the world around us. The collection includes pictures of seasons, landscapes and natural habitats. Other images concentrate on man-made environments including buildings and famous landmarks.
Animals are always a winner! We have images (including some photos) of wild animals and birds from Britain and abroad, pets, farm animals, dinosaurs, prehistoric creatures and minibeasts.
A wide variety of images of people, from illustrations of babies, children's faces showing different emotions and people working in a variety of jobs, to anatomical drawings of the human body and fine art portraits.
Many coloured and black and white illustrations of people in the past - Egyptians, Celts, Picts, Vikings, Greeks, Romans and medieval Scots as well as scenes from the two World Wars. Also have a look at the visual primary sources, such as 19th-century photos, medieval manuscripts, and portraits since 1780.
Great images of Scottish fine art from the Royal Scottish Academy and illustrations of musical instruments are available to download here, as well as information on how to use pictures and text from a beautiful medieval manuscript.
Activities and items for leisure - from musical instruments to cultural events, children interacting, photos of foreign holidays and paintings of holiday-makers in earlier times.
The prehistoric world
Scenes, people and animals from the prehistoric world including crannogs, standing stones, woolly mammoths and sabre-toothed cats.
Illustrations, photos and paintings of food and drink - some healthy and some not so healthy! Plus photos of restaurants and pictures of birthday cakes.
Resources for helping pupils to develop language and number skills, including modern foreign languages. The images include colourful pictures of numbers, safety signs, notices for the classroom and photos from continental Europe which feature signs and notices in French and German.
Coloured and black and white illustrations of clothes, including children's shoes, different outfits for different types of weather and working clothes and uniforms such as those worn by police officers and firefighters.
Photos and drawings of different types of transport, from around the world. Fancy taking the camel to school?
Ensure the digital natives are up to speed with today's technology from video cameras to tablet PCs, with these coloured and outline illustrations of gadgets and equipment.
This website contains a captivating collection of activities for children aged 5-8 years. The site is based on popular children's stories by authors Scoular Anderson, Debi Gliori, Mairi Hedderwick and Frank Rodgers.
Activities for becoming an effective learner and managing your own learning. The site is divided into three age groups: 5-9, 10-14 and 15-18-year-olds; and four headings - Get, Understand, Remember and Do. Includes notes for teachers, parents/carers and students.
Archive photographic material released by Durham County Records Office. How and why did the Holocaust happen? KS3 Citizenship, QCA Unit 3 Human rights and QCA Unit 16 Celebrating human rights.
Imagine a search engine designed for KS2 children… What would it look like? It would be easy to use, allow safe internet searches and filter inappropriate results to give KS2 relevant, child-friendly online resources, helping children to find valuable sites with an appropriate educational focus. It would also ensure that children don’t interpret the search as ‘boring’ or ‘restrictive’. It becomes in short an ideal place from which children can explore the web.
A drag and drop literacy activity. This resource is for KS1 children with severe learning difficulties.
Town trail is an online village with different places for the children to visit and explore, with activities aligned with early learning goals.
Six Harrow Schools from Key Stage 1 and 2 completed an exciting multimedia project
using digital video cameras to express the visual literacy ideas of the students in their schools.
The topics vovered included Poetry, Fairy Tales, the Romans and Circuits.
All ctopics ome with full lesson plans and examples od children's work
War witness is a new and developing project that aims to provide a rich repository of digital resources including images, video and eye witness accounts from World War 2 and more recent conflicts.
The NEN weather stations site, with live and archived online data from weather stations across the country
This website covers various areas related to the West Somerset Railway. Sections include: Let's investigate, the railway trail, evacuation, interactive requirements, activities, and a brief history of West Somerset Railway.
A number of interactive resources looking at the creation of CVC, Onset and Rime and Long Vowel words.
This unit introduces children to the conventions of a myth through the story of Dwynwen. They are then challenged to write their own Welsh myth by choosing character and problem cards as stimulus for their writing.
Xeno (providing on-line learning and support for young people and those caring for them)
Xeno is a co-operative venture for members of SEGfL and Uniservity. We are building a ‘virtual learning community’ of professionals and young people that enables resources to be jointly developed and encourages co-operative learning.
‘Personalised learning’ will put the learner at the centre of provision and give every child access to online tools. Xeno is an online environment that will act as a virtual school for children who are disconnected from normal schooling. Schools and local authorities generally struggle to maintain levels of achievement with these groups and research recommends catch-up support and independent/individual learning opportunities out of school. SEGfL proposes to facilitate the combination of local authority efforts so that resources can be jointly developed or procured, good practice can be shared and children can store and retrieve their work and learning records
Xeno will become a focal point of opportunity for pupils going in and out of mainstream education and an opportunity for local authorities to support their own pupils but also to contribute towards the whole in terms of content, materials and staffing. It will be of particular interest to staff and children in pupil referral units, hospital and home tuition services, young offenders’ institutions, teenage parents’ units, young carers’ organisations, home education organisations and looked after children’s services as it will create a virtual community for these, often isolated, professionals. It could also be used by schools to support pupils that are temporarily excluded.
Through its partnership with Uniservity and using the cLc, Xeno will work closely with the relevant professionals to provide:
• Learning Platform functionality with secure, remote access and online storage.
• Links to a wide range of resources to provide curriculum materials, including the internet.
• Links to schemes of work that can guide students through a variety of curriculum objectives.
• Provision of an e-Portfolio that can be stored, updated and retrieved.
• Personal space for students to store and retrieve their work.
• Interaction with tutors (issue tasks, hand-in work, feedback grades and comments).
• Dialogue with tutors (leave questions and get answers).
• Dialogue with other students (a virtual school community).
• All in a safe, secure, on-line environment.
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