Website of the Week, 2010
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Website of the Week:
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Past Winners
Word Magnets from triptico.co.uk [direct link]
Suitable for: KS1 & 2
This has been a favourite of mine for some time now. It cuts up a sentence for children to rearrange on the IWB.
You select 'Use the Resource', wait a few moments for the 'next' button to appear and then type a sentence. You are then offered a choice of backgrounds, (I never use these). Then choose 'next' and your sentence will be chopped up.
Top tip: type a finger space before punctuation to get them on separate magnets.
Words can be coloured (select the cross to stop changing the colours). You can add words as you go and remove them. The remove botton at the top right-hand-side deletes every magnet that you then click. So remember to switch it off when you have finished deleting words that you didn't want.
There is also a version of this resource available for purchase.
See more from this site at: www.triptico.co.uk
Ptolemy.co.uk [direct link]
Suitable for: KS2 & 3
Primitives is a beautiful demonstration tool, from the creator of the
At a push I think I could also use it to demonstrate division by grouping in Year 2. If you drag the numbers in the bar on the right-hand-side you can change the groups.
This is another resource that I only came across by using twitter, thanks to the superbly helpful
Furbles , Alec McEachran. It offers an unusual insight into the structure of numbers, in terms of their prime factors. Numbers are presented as nested sets of small black dots. Three is presented as a blue circle enclosing three dots; a ’set of three’. Six is presented as a set of three sets of two dots, or as a set of two sets of three dots.@tombarrett for highlighting this one.
BBC Class Clips [direct link]
Suitable for: Primary and Secondary
More than 6,000 video clips from BBC programmes on Learning Zone Broadband ready to play in the classroom.
e.g.
A day in the life of children in a Chinese school.
The meaning of the 5 Ks of Sikhism.
GeoGames [direct link]
Suitable for: KS2
This site lets spin a globe and build a map. You can time your efforts. The levels of difficulty include adding specific continents, countries and cities.
Think Draw [direct link]
Suitable for: FS / KS1 / KS2
This site lets you create collage pictures very much in the style of Archimboldo. It's a lovely little modelling activity.
Why not use this as a Modelling activity to create pictures in the style of Archimboldo or animals after you have read Where The Wild Things Are. (Don't forget that this site exists too: Build Your Wild Self )
As with any site which contains user generated content, the gallery carries a very small risk of pictures created which are intented to show something inappropriate.
Arkive [direct link]
Suitable for: FS / KS1 / KS2
This site is full of amazing photos and videos of wildlife. (The videos and photos can be dowloaded for use offline too).
The videos make a great starting point for writing.
Here are some of my favourites: (Try them in full screen on your IWB)
- Loggerhead turtle hatchling.
- Another Loggerhead turtle hatchling
- A Barn Owl in flight
There is also a specific site provided by Arkive for educators: Arkive Education
Chinese New Year [direct link]
Suitable for: FS / KS1 / KS2
Chinese New Year is fast approaching, 14th February, (the first weekend of the holiday). The Kent ICT Chinese New Year pages have been updated for 2010.
There are lots of information pages to download including Kanji script for writng in Chinese, a how to for holding Chop Sticks and a Hong Bow maker.
Scratch [direct link]
Suitable for: KS2
Scratch is a free to download piece of software enabling children to create interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art. Then to share those creations on the web.
Children create activities by slotting together program jigsaw pieces.
Links with Control at KS2.
Scratch is developed by the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab, with financial support from the National Science Foundation, Microsoft, Intel Foundation, Nokia, and MIT Media Lab research consortia.
Unlocking Arkives [direct link]
This week's WotW is from Andy Place (ICT Consultant).
Suitable for: KS2
Unlocking Archives provides the key to three of the world’s most extraordinary collections, complete with an ever expanding set of ready-to-teach activities, original sources and our unique ‘Mindshow’ tool that lets you create fantastic, interactive, media-rich mind-map presentations. By combining documents from The National Archives, film from the British Film Institute and photographs from English Heritage with the latest web technology through South East Grid for Learning, you have everything you need to explore, discover and present 1000 years of history.
eLive SymbolWorld [direct link]
This week's WotW is a great one from Carolyn Lewis (ICT Consultant, Mid Kent/East Kent).
Suitable for: KS2
SymbolWorld is a website created by Widgit Software, dedicated to people who use symbols. It has material for all ages and includes personal contributions, stories and learning materials.
SymbolWorld is designed to have clear easy navigation with large buttons for any links.
Updated Ready Register [direct link]
Suitable for: FS / KS1
The Ready Register has been around for a number of years now. It has proved really useful, but it did have flaws. One such flaw was the method of saving names. It was never very obvious how the names were saved. Also, RM networks did not always allow this register to store these names. With these things in mind Kent ICT has a new Ready Register.
Features:
- automatic alliterative name:image detection
robust and clear name saving - risk rocket for Plan Do and Review
- alternative background for mornings only children
- does not save attendance or send information anywhere, purely for classroom use
Literactive Interactive Big Books [direct link]
Suitable for: FS / KS1
This is a great site for interactive big books. To use them you must register first. Then follow the 3 Little Pigs link to the e- Picture Books. The books are organised into levels / stages and include some lovely animations.
Although you can click on individual words to hear them, it is awkward as they are segmented into an American phonics system. This system includes the consonant clusters(e.g. 'cl' as one sound ) rather than the adjacent consonants used in England (e.g. 'c' + 'l'). To get around this I click on each word and move the mouse pointer quickly to prevent them segmenting.