Website of the week - Heritage Explorer
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Monday, September 01, 2008 1:40 PM
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kent-teachers
Heritage Explorer
www.heritageexplorer.org.uk
Heritage Explorer provides classroom resources and accessible information to create a one-stop shop for teachers seeking to inspire classes at Key Stages 1, 2 and 3. All the information can be downloaded and used for free.
Heritage Explorer provides image-based resources for teaching history, citizenship and many more subjects. With over 360,000 pictures, including historic views of daily life, aerial photography, and modern shots of listed buildings, it combines a wealth of inspirational images with accessible information and a range of teaching ideas.
Heritage Explorer incorporates four main facilities for teachers:
Teaching Activities
This area of the website takes specific images and associates them with a teaching idea to provide a starting point for a lesson plan. Each image has a ‘Key Question’ attached to create a starting point for lessons, supported by activities, worksheets and interactive white board downloads. These can be used ‘off the peg’, or adapted by teachers according to their own lesson requirements.
Images by Theme
These are selections of images grouped into curriculum-based themes. They include Victorian and Edwardian life, WWI, WWII, Women and Children at Work, Slavery, Tudor Buildings and many more. This is a fantastic facility both for teachers preparing lessons, and pupils carrying out their own research.
Interactives
Heritage Explorer hosts a variety of downloads that can be used by teachers on interactive white boards, or by individual pupils at their own computers. These include resources such as interactive time lines that give an overview of a topic; and ‘Tell and Test’ activities. ‘Tell and Test’ interactives give pupils information about a topic and include an activity designed to test and reinforce their knowledge.
Search
Teachers can also use Heritage Explorer to search for and download images of landscapes, buildings or historic scenes to be used to support a host of classroom activities. The search facility also allows teachers to seek out images from the local area, supporting any local community heritage classroom projects.
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http://www.kented.org.uk/ngfl/siteoftheweek/index.htm