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Climate Change - News - Environment (Australian Broadcasting Corporation)
This is a great interactive from the ABC that tracks back through history to look at a range of factors that may or may not play a part in climate change including human population, industrial landmarks and geological changes. As well as looking backward through time it also offers 4 scenarios for the future none of which are terribly optimistic.
Online Interactive ELearning Teaching Resource Library. View teaching resources online for free.
"Established in 2006, Curriculumbits.com offer free online access to a growing range of interactive multimedia elearning resources. The online resource library contains games, quizzes, animations and videos in a variety of subjects. Resources have been produced according to key stage 3 and 4 of the UK National Curriculum for students aged 11 to 16."
Though the learning objects are not downloadable they are eminently suited to using on an interactive whiteboard.
Phun - 2D physics sandbox - Home
Phun is a free game like 2D physics sandbox where you can play with physics like never before. The playful synergy of science and art is novel, and makes Phun as educational as it is entertaining.
Orisinal : Morning Sunshine Games
Nothing to do with Web 2.0, (they were developed way back in 2001), not a lot to do with traditional education but huge fun nonetheless this collection of flashed based games from Ferry Halim is the perfect way to while away time that should otherwise be devoted to work. See if you can figure out what each of the icons indicates before you play the games.
ReadWriteThink: Student Materials
The ReadWriteThink site maintained by the International Reading Association in conjunction with the US National Council for the Teachers of English offers,
"a collection of online Student Materials to support literacy learning in the K-12 classroom. These interactive tools can be used to supplement a variety of lessons and provide an opportunity for students to use technology while developing their literacy skills."
They include organisers, games, writing frameworks, creation tools amongst many others. Many are perfect for use on IWB's and laptops, netbooks and the like
Dfilm - is now Dvolver. Make your own movie with the MovieMaker
Dvolver is another online cartoon based movie making tool. Totally menu driven you select from pre-loaded backgrounds, skies, characters and plot line. You then add the speech bubbles before the movie is mixed. YOu can then elect to email the movie to a friend after which you are supplied with an embed code.
Interact | physics.org
Part of the larger Physics.org site this selection of interactive websites and games show a whole different side of physics. Here you can find a cartoon street where you can explore the physics of life or take a look at a selection fo videos demonstrating physics principles in real life or even perform your own colonoscopy, (teacher guidance required).
Museum Box Homepage
If you could put a number of items into a box that described your life, what would you include? What do you think would be included if you were a Victorian Servant or Queen Elizabeth I. If you lived during the English Civil War, what items would you include to make a case for, or against, the parliamentarians? And what if you were an abolitionist and wanted to show that slavery was wrong and unnecessary, how would you create your evidence.
So what does museumbox do?
museum box provides the tools for you to do just this. It allows you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box. You can display anything from a text file to a movie. You can also view the museum boxes submitted by other people and comment on the contents.
Engineering Interact - Interactive science & engineering for 9-11 year olds
Engineering Interact is a series of flash based games and accompanying resources, links and notes for primary school children aged 9 to 11 around a number of science and engineering based themes. They also contain information about real world applications.Though they are now a few years old most of the content is still very applicable and well suited to working either on the interactive whiteboard or on individual computers. The games come from the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering.
PEEP and the Big Wide World
Peep and the Big Wide World site contains a collection of science activities and resources suitable for Junior students. The site produced by WGBH Boston and 9 Story Entertainment in association with TVOntario and Discovery Kids features a daily online video. There is a Video guide at the side of the video area, which tells which video will be shown each day for a 2 week period. The site also has loads of other interactive games and activities that are suitable for use on the IWB as well as classroom computers.
Lemelson Center presents Invention at Play
This online exhibit from the Lemenson Center includes Invention Playhouse. The Tinker Ball game in particular is a great physics based interactive. The site also includes Inventors’ Stories and a section called Does Play Matter?
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Fantastic Contraption: A fun online physics puzzle game
A fun online physics puzzle game where participants build vehicles to move from place to place. Has different levels in the online version. You can also purchase off-line versions.
The Children?s University of Manchester
Welcome to The Children's University of Manchester
Interactive, online learning for key stage 2 from The University of Manchester. Choose a subject from the menu below to start learning now!
Kids Health Movie: The Digestive System
A neat animation from Kids Health showing the digestive system and how it functions.
Schlumberger Science Lab
14 flash based activities across
Fishing Game, Design your own universe, Buoyancy Explorer, Epicenters, Granular Mixture Explorer, The Doppler Train,The Doppler Game, Geologic History of the Earth, Geologic Histoy of the Earth, Viscosity Explorer , Fric
cyberbullying.info | raising awareness of cyber bullying and internet safety | for students, parents and teachers
This website is aimed at high school students, as it is at this age that most children are affected. Students direct themselves on an interactive journey through a detective’s office to learn more about cyberbullying. These young teenagers get to hunt and explore their way through a fun website uncovering clues and information about cyberbullying and how to recognise what to do.
Making the Modern World - Plastic
An interactive about plastics through the years from the UK Science Museum
UK Science Museum - Online Stuff
Links to the online resources from the UK Science Museum. Has lots of interactives arranged under headings.
The Whiteboard Blog
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My name is Danny Nicholson and I am a freelance educational consultant. My main speciality is the use of Interactive Whiteboards, but I am interested in lots of different bits of tech that are now being used in schools.
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