Complete list of web sites
At 10 Ticks you can have fun with Maths, just click on the 'STUDENTS' tab to start. There are also bits to keep Teachers and Parents happy, as well.
123 Teach Me is a site selling Spanish Language Schools and Online Tutor services. BUT, there's also lots of free resources to help you learn Spanish. There are free online courses for all levels and games suitable for beginners.
The 21st Century Citizen site provides a stimulating and contemporary collection of online resources to support the Citizenship curriculum. The site's partners include the British Library (BL) and the National Archives.
This animated site from Channel4 explores what makes for good design and what makes designers tick?
Lots of ideas and activities for you to explore the world of the visual arts .
Explore Eygptian Life, Pharoahs, Gods and Mummies at this interactive site from the British Museum.
Art, Myth, Culture and War in Ancient Greece.
The website of the Anne Frank Trust. As well as extensive information about Anne herself there are also further extensive links to resources covering both the Holocaust specifically and Human Rights generally
Access books on art, design, architecture, garden design, landscape architecture and photography from Oxford University Press. You can get straight in on a Library PC or use your Library card number to login from home.
Feeling creative? Lots of ideas for fab art to make from CiTV, all with step-by-step instructions, plus competition and downloads. You can send in your pictures of the stuff you've made to this CiTV site.
Fact-filled and entertaining coverage of works of art, artists, and concepts, all "in just a minute."
Want to create a masterpiece with no mess to clean up? Art lets you create painting, frame them and add them to a gallery.All you need is to use your mouse as a paint brush.
Explore the different tools an artist uses to create a work of art. Line, colour, shape, balance, space are explored with animations and videos for primary children.
A scrapbook of illustrated examples of things that are hard to use because they do not follow human factors principles. Human factor principles are the ways we naturally use objects, otherwise known as ergonomics.
The Bad Science site seeks to expose the bad science and psuedo science which often finds its way into the news and media. This website is based on an archive of Guardian newspapers columns of the same name but with a forum and additional news and content.
Find out everything about the orchestra and its musical instruments. .
Hands on History is bringing history to life. Adventure back in time to find out all about Norman life and go Norman spotting where you live - there's a interactive map on find days out and walks in your area, activity packs to download, links to schools resources and BBC programmes.
Learn languages online with audio and video tuition in 14 languages and essential phrases for 36 languages. There is also assistance in finding a class near you or a course abroad.
This site covers revision for coursework, exams and tests from Keystage 2 to A/S levels. It is organised by subject and also gives general advice on studying and revision planning.
A much praised site with details on educational topics for the age groups from pre-school to 16+. It has resources for students, teachers and parents some of which are linked to the DfES Key Stages. Revision Guide for KS2 and KS3 tests and GCSE, Standard Grade, AS Level and Higher exams, including the Bitesize revision section.
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal that contains annotated links to over 1200 history web sites as well as links to hundreds of quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities, history games, history quizzes, and more.
Black History Month is held in October each year to celebrate the great contribution the presence of the afro-caribbean, african and asian communities has made to British culture over the last two thousand years. This link will take you to a number of websites providing information and resources on Black British history and Black History Month 2010.
It doesn't matter if you're 7 or 70, if you love reading children's books then this is the place for you. We'll be looking at, recommending, reviewing and talking about books in the younger fiction to young adult range. So from about 7 years upwards.
Learn to search the internet better.
Boolify is an educational search tool that illustrates the logic of searches and teaches useful search techniques that can be applied to other search engines such as Ask, Google and Yahoo.
A cool site for girls 11-17 from the Girls, Maths & Science partnership (US). Games & experiments, careers advice, biographies and science homework help.
The Encyclopaedia Britannica especially for Juniors. If you're 5 to 11, it should suit you. You can get straight in on a Library PC or use your Library card number to login from home. For a Guided Tour Click Here
The Encyclopaedia Britannica especially for Students in secondary or further education. You can get straight in on a Library PC or use your Library card number to login from home. For a Guided Tour Click Here
This site explores why standards are important in designing and manufacturing things. You can even design and test your own products. There lots to do for all ages from seven to higher education.
This website from BT useful links to free websites for learning at the primary and secondary levels.
What sort of bridge is best? which is the strongest? Have a go yourself at building the right sort of bridge for the right location.
An interactive site with games to improve language skills as well as vocabulary listings.
Cartoon Classroom is about this art form in an educational setting. It provides information for organisations who seek cartoonists to lecture and teach, advice and information to anyone wanting to study cartoon art, graphic novels or strip illustration, and to be a single access point across the UK for those studying in these areas.
The online catalogue of Lancashire Library where you can search our entire stock. Use the "My Account" link to login with your library card number and PIN. You can then save lists, reserve books, renew loans to avoid fines and manage your library account. We also now have eBooks and Audio to download, see our Digital Download page
Have you ever wondered "What comes next?" when you're reading a really good book? Children's Book Sequels is here to help you discover the right order of any series from Harry Potter to A Series of Unfortunate Events, from Alex Rider to Vampirates. There are lots of links to author's websites full of information, fun and games. If you know the series name, the author, the titles or the character, enter it into the search boxes. Or use the A-Z links.
This interactive, online learning site for key stage 2 has been created by the actual University of Manchester, and covers a wide range of science and technology topics.
The CIA Factbook is actually put together by the US's Central Intelligence Agency with up to date information on every country. It includes maps, brief recent histories and statistical and demographic information for the countries of the world. There is also a useful "Flags of the World" link.
Can't remember where you got your information from the internet? With a small sample of text, you can find where it is from almost immediately!
Facts, games and quizzes about music and composers. A weekly radio show and podcast, and even a section to help grownups.
The A to Z Climate Change Guide is a new, easy to use guide, packed full of helpful tips to limit you CO2 emissions. Also, it explains some of the jargon surrounding climate change with easy to understand definitions and explanations.
Can you multiply against the clock? This game uses the multiplication tables up to x12 or can feature mixed tables to make it tougher.
This site offers family friendly ratings and reviews on movies, TV, games, music, websites, and books. Includes ratings of potentially offensive content by category.
Confusing Words is a collection of 3210 words that are troublesome to readers and writers. Words are grouped according to the way they are most often confused or misused.
This site has loads of games and stuff to help you get to grips with maths.
Get all the fact about any country, its people and history, with audio and video clips from the BBC archive. Plus links to international organisations.
Cybersmart provides resources for teachers to equip their pupils for life in the digital age. Lesson plans and downloads are available on five key subjects: Safety and Security Online ~ Manners, Cyberbullying, and Ethics ~ Authentic Learning and Creativity ~ Research and Information Fluency ~ Twenty-First Century Challenges.
A growing resource with over 500 original pages including coursework help.
A website covering the following subjects electronics, packaging, environments, food, pneumatics, mechanisms and manufacturing projects.
This site is a guide to manufacturing including products, materials and processes.
Design and Technology information for school and college students. Includes news, podcasts and videocast, fun technology timewasters and lots of info and resources.
A website covering English, Maths and Science at Key Stage 1 and 2. Includes interactive stories for ages 4-11.
Created by Google and iKeepSafe, this set of tools for parents and teachers provides the basis for a short course on digital literacy for children. The three workshops consist of: 1.Detecting Lies & Staying True 2.Playing and Staying Safe Online 3.Steering Clear of Cyber Tricks
Digizen is concerned with building safe spaces and communities, understanding how to manage personal information, and about being internet savvy - using your online presence to grow and shape your world in a safe, creative way, and inspiring others to do the same. Includes sections on social networking and cyberbullying.
Interactive site using flash animation to explore aspects of Key Stage 1 and 2 of the National Curriculum. There are also separate Parents and Teachers Areas.
Useful site for teachers which also contains a Homework Help section.
Lots of sports ideas and activities for younger children for the Sports Council of Wales.
The British Association for Early Childhood Education (Early Education), founded in 1923, is the leading national voluntary organisation for early years practitioners and parents with members and branches in England, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The site includes useful resources.
Lots of books on earth sciences, geography, ecology, gardening, ships and the sea and the weather from Oxford Online. You can get straight in on a Library PC or use your Library card number to login from home.
This resource from EBSCO is free to Lancashire Library members. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card. The resources available are, GreenFILE - well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment; Library, Information Science and Technology Abstract (LISTA) which indexes more than 690 periodicals, plus books, research reports and proceedings and the Teacher Reference Centre.
Free activities, vocabulary and grammar tests for people learning of English as a second language
The Government in England wants every school to be a sustainable school by 2020.Eco-Schools is an international award programme that guides schools on their sustainable journey, providing a framework to help embed these principles into the heart of school life. Joining the Eco-Schools programme is free and it makes tackling sustainable issues manageable and easy for all schools.
The Eden Project was established as one of the landmark Millennium projects in the UK to mark the year 2000 and is structured as an educational charitable trust - it's aim is 'to promote the understanding and responsible management of the vital relationship between plants, people and resources leading to a sustainable future for all'.
Learn about simple and compound machines while you explore the House and Tool Shed! Lots of things to do to learn about Levers, Pulleys, Wedges, Screws, Wheels and Gears. Note: this site is supported by advertising and audio is required.
This online encyclopaedia of myth legend and folklore contains over 7000 entries on gods and goddesses, heroes, legendary creatures and beings from all over the world.
The Encyclopedia of Life is an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public. Their goal is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments or tags to EOL pages. Expert curators ensure quality of the core collection by authenticating materials submitted by diverse projects and individual contributors. The aim is to make EOL the best, most comprehensive source for biodiversity information.
Energy Chest has been developed for pupils aged 8-14 years as an aid to energy studies. The site includes basic information on energy and its use, curriculum activities, notes for teachers and a library of links to other energy and environmental sites.
Useful revision notes on English for GCSE students.
The Environment Agency is the main public body for protecting and improving the environment in England and Wales. The site includes data on various environmental issues as well as links to regional information.
This is the first website dedicated to helping victims of e-crime and online incidents. E-victims offers free, practical and easy to use advice on e-crime and online incidents. New advice is added daily in response to new threats that emerge.
A list of famous dead people. These are people throughout history who have advocated living life without God and religion. The list is in order of birth date from 551BCE to 1951CE (so far).
Presented by UC Berkeley, this is a useful tutorial on internet search and evaluation skills. Includes useful forms and handouts that can be downloaded.
Created for scottish schools, this site has lots of pictures and step by step instructions covering Cookery Equipment, Food Preparation Techniques, Cookery Processes, Heat Transfer, Dietary Targets and Food Labels.
This website has an A to Z list of substances explains appearance and use, effects, chances of getting hooked, health risks and UK law, it also offers free confidential drugs information and advice 24 hours a day.
The goal of this Microsoft DLC (Digital Literacy Curriculum)is to teach and assess basic computer concepts and skills so that people can use computer technology in everyday life. This free online course in five modules features screen shots and simulations from Windows Vista and the 2007 Microsoft Office system to illustrate and provide hands-on examples for students. The modules are also available separately from Alison.
Answer just three questions on the theme of spring from the Oxford Online resources for a chance to win either £50 worth of Oxford University Press books or an iPod shuffle. Your library subscribes to all the relevant Oxford Online resources. This means that you can have access to these Premier Choice sites, FREE of CHARGE, within the library or from home by logging in using your library card.
A site primarily aimed at students aged between 11 and 18 containing interactive listening, reading and writing exercises.
This website teaches kids about folk songs and folk singing using audio, video and animation. There's also a teachers' area with curriculum and classroom suggestions. A Heritage Lottery Project from the English Folk Dance and Song Society.
The site with everything for studying for your GCSEs in Maths. English, French, ICT and Physics.
Select a location on the interactive zoomable world map and GeoImpress will show a selection of photos taken near that place. Each can be viewed in a slideshow and you can visit the Flickr page that the photo comes from.
Global Link is a Development Education Centre (DEC) based in Lancaster. They run workshops, exhibitions, training and other events in schools, colleges and the wider community on global citizenship issues such as human rights, diversity, refugees, fair trade and sustainable development.
...or Why It's a Good Idea to Evaluate Web Sources. Most students prefer using the Internet for research and recreation. They will spend countless hours searching and surfing. However, they may not completely understand the Internet's strengths and weaknesses as both a research tool and as a general source of information. This US university tutorial offers assistance.
If you're wanting information about a topic rather than a quick answer or fact, a Web Directory may produce better results than a search engine, as they are arranged by categories and created by human experts rather than machines indexing the web. Google directory is produded from the Open Directory with additions from google search results.
Greenpeace is a non-profit organisation, with a presence in 40 countries across the world campaigning on global environmental issues.
Grove Art Online comprises the full text of The Dictionary of Art, edited by Jane Turner (1996, 34 vols) and The Oxford Companion to Western Art, edited by Hugh Brigstocke (2001). It is now part of the Oxford Art Online portal. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Grove Music Online comprises the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz. It is now part of the Oxford Music Online portal. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
The artist Keith Haring wanted children to have fun and learn with art. This site, created by his charitable foundation, continues his legacy with an online interactive colouring book. This safe and family friendly site includes colouring pages (to print or colour in on screen), screensavers, and e-cards. There are also lesson plans for teachers and parents. Bold, bright and cheerful, Haring’s art appeals to kids of all ages!
Online news reported by young people. Are you 16-25? Do you and your friends want to affect change in your local community? You can volunteer your time with Headliners to report on an issue that matters to you and use your story to challenge the decision makers in your area.
Hello is the website of the 2011 National Year of Communication. This is a campaign to increase understanding of how important it is for children and young people to develop good communication skills. Through this website you will find out about the monthly themes that have been devised for the year, free resources to help support children's communication development and find out about events that are happening in your area. The campaign is being run by The Communication Trust, a coalition of over 35 leading voluntary sector organisations with expertise in speech, language and communication.
Lancashire Library and Information Service students' guide to getting started with online research. How to search better, find the best and avoid the worst of the web and use specialist online resources. This is a Jog the Web interactive presentation, where you can try out the websites featured without leaving the presentation.
Historypin is the place where people come together to share their historical pictures and stories. Together we want to collect old photos to build up a igital history. Explore Google Maps through an extra dimension, time. Historypin is a like a digital time machine that allows people to view and share their personal history in a totally new way.
Historyworld’s aim is to make world history more easily accessible through interactive narratives and timelines. The site is searchable by themes and historical periods. The Ocean Index available from this site provides links to about 35,000 sites whose links and contents are regularly checked.
This is a website set up by the new coalition government where citizens can make suggestions about current legislation they would like to see repealed.
The Holocaust Educational Trust was established in 1988 with the aim to educate young people from every background about the Holocaust and the important lessons to be learned for today. The Trust works in schools, universities and in the community to raise awareness and understanding of the Holocaust, and has links to extensive resource material.
The website of the Holocaust Memorial Day Trust was established in 2005 to help ensure that the Holocaust and subsequent genocides are known and that victims are commemorated and lessons learnt are translated into contemporary action in the UK.
The HDMT is responsible for the annual, national commemoration of Holocaust Memorial Day and produce free advice and resouces for the hundreds of event organisers in the UK who hold events on or around 27 January each year.
Homework help at your fingertips! Home work elephant provides subject and essay assistance for all Key Stages. A good site that provides links to internet resources of use across the National Curriculum. There is also access to resources for teachers and schools.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students of English language and literature, aged 11-16.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students, aged 11-16, of Geography.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students, aged 11-16, of History.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students, aged 11-16, of French, German and Spanish.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students, aged 11-16, of Maths.
An interactive site from Channel 4 for students, aged 11-16, of Science.
Hotbits can provide genuine random numbers, generated by radioactive decay.
This is a Directgov video on YouTube
If you've ever wondered how things are made this site from Stanford University can help. It covers over 40 different products and manufacturing processes, and includes almost 4 hours of manufacturing video.
Ever wondered how search engines get their results? Knowing more about how they work can help you to search more effectively. This article from HowStuffWorks is a good introduction.
This web site covers a range of subject matter including gadgets, inventions and natural phenomena such as hurricanes. The material is covered in an accessible and informative way.
"If the past is a foreign country, this is your passport". Restronaut is a critically acclaimed site which enables you to browse or search and explore history through stunning photography.
Humanism is a non-religious approach to life, which the Government and QCA recommend be studied in schools as an example of a secular philosophy. This site includes Asembly Ideas, a Library of Video Clips, Worksheets and Prersentation, and Teaching Toolkits.
This site charts the contributions made to the history of the United Kingdom and Ireland from humanist and secularist perspectives, including famous people and places of interest.
"I Am An Artist" is full of ideas for art projects for primary kids, incuding full instructions and some inspirational videos to watch.
Useful revision notes on ICT for GCSE students.
Interactive site covering all aspects of the Roman world. Includes sections on religion, society, the army and extensive illustrations of costume. There is also a separate children's section.
Commoncraft are an american company who produce short instructional videos on a wide range of computer and internet related subjects, which explain complex and technical ideas in plain english without any jargon. All their videos plus transcripts can be viewed on this site.
Infocow connects young people with useful stuff to help take control of life - sites, stories, information and inspiration.It is ‘a social search for stuff that matters’. It’s made for and created by young people, aged around 14-19 . It links to hundreds of different websites and sources of information that can help you to make positive changes, whether that’s finding out what to do after you finish your GCSEs, or what the first steps are to leaving home.
Infomine is a virtual library of Internet resources relevant to students and researchers staff at college or university level. It contains useful Internet resources such as databases, electronic journals, electronic books, bulletin boards, mailing lists, online library card catalogs, articles, directories of researchers, and many other types of information which cannot be found using a search engine (e.g. google).
An interfaith debate in Burnley where a Christian, an Agnostic, a Muslim and an Atheist answer questions on faith and society.
Free Internet tutorial aimed mainly at college students, which helps you to learn to recognize the good, the bad and the ugly on the web for your online research. If you use the web for homework, this could make the difference between an A and an F!
This is a free site which was set up and is maintained by academics at American universities. There is only an A-Z index and no keyword search but the articles are detailed and attributed and contain an e mail link to the author. Most articles also have detailed bibliographies.
Would you like to learn how to use the Internet to find copyright cleared images for your work, quickly and efficiently? Use this free, interactive tutorial to improve your image searching skills.
A large archive of freely available online books about religion, mythology, folklore and the esoteric on the Internet. The site is dedicated to religious tolerance and scholarship, and covers all the main world religions, philosphies and sects.
The invisible web is the hidden area of the Internet that is not searched automatically by search engines. This page gives you an introduction on how to find and use it.
This site is a directory of searchable databases, organized by subject which cannot be searched using a search engine (e.g. google).
iSpot is a nature lovers' social network site. Learn more about wildlife, share your interest with a friendly community and get help identifying what you have seen.
This site almost does your homework for you! If you need info or facts, figures and arguments about contemporary issues facing our society and the world, this is the place to look. You can get immediate access on any library PC or logon from any PC using your membership number. Topics include: Crime and Justice, Drugs and Alcohol, Economics and Welfare, Environmental and Global Issues, Family and Relationships, Health and Wellbeing, Citizenship and Participation, The Media, Rights and Discrimination, Science and Health. There is also a guide to using Issues Online.
Test your soccer skills with over 100 different training drills and games for all ages.
Khan Academy is a site which has thousands of videos to help with your school and homework, particularly maths and science
Kidsclick is a web search and directory for children created by US school librarians. The sites featured are chosen by librarians for their safety, reliability and usefulness for children KS 1-3 and each site is age rated.
Know IT All is an award-winning site from Childnet, with a suite of education resources designed to help educate parents, teachers and young people about safe and positive use of the internet. Currently there are four sections for Parents and Carers, Secondary Schools, Primary Schools and Trainee Teachers and all four resources include content for young people. You can access all these here online for free, or order on CD-ROM.
The Lancashire Grid for Learning provides links and resources for the National Curriculum. Links to Lancashire School websites, useful links for pupils, parents and teachers, tips for starting secondary school and all the latest education news.
The Lancashire County Library and Information Service's collections of local photographs, postcards and other images held in libraries across the county.
The project is still in its early stages so there are many photographs and images still to be added.
Training and Support from the Lancashire Learning Excellence Early Years Team.
Part of the Lancashire Lantern network, an index to authors, first lines and titles of Lancashire poetry in books held within libraries in Lancashire. The index provides details of the book in which a particular poem may be found and also a link through to the library catalogue to give the locations of the required volume.
Lancashire libraries have opened a new branch...a virtual one. At our Download library, you can borrow eBooks and Audio books for free from our collection. The process is easy but will require you to download and install some software on to your computer. All these fiction and non-fiction titles are available for library members who have a Lancashire postcode to download at anytime.There are further details in our Download Library FAQ.
LangId is a free web service that allows you to identify in which language a piece text you need to analyze was written.
This site created by Newbury Park Primary School features video clips of children teaching their own languages and contains lots of information about languages from all around the world. It is also useful for citizenship and multi-cultural learning.
An interactive web resource for learning French, German, Spanish or Italian to GCSE level.
With hundreds of short music clips, this interactive resource for music students to improve their knowledge and listening skills. It includes an audio music dictionary.
Learn Peace is an educational site produced by the Peace Pledge Union to enable pupils, teachers and parents to explore the history of and issues surrounding human conflict. It has resources relating to the world wars, remembrance day, pacifism and genocide. The education process and its content are not value free and neither is the material available here. The value that underpins this site is the belief that nonviolence is better than violence; that building a culture of peace should be a priority and a part of this process is both to question and to challenge our easy acquiescence in a culture of violence.
Learning Curve is a free online teaching and learning resource, following the History National Curriculum from Key Stages 2 to 5. It is published by the National Archives.
An environmental education site for children KS1-3 which emphasises the need for and benefit of public and green transport and provide advice and resources for school travel.
Here’s where you can get the low down on Lancashire Constabulary. You can find out about Force facts: Our departments, Our vehicles, Our equipment and much more! Why not check out the ‘behind the scenes’ area where you can take a tour of real life cells or take up the police speak challenge and see how quickly you can say the whole police alphabet!
Loads of games and fun to improve children's literacy skills from ages 5-11.
For nearly ten years, Lancashire has worked with Credo Reference to offer library members free access to some of the best quality information sources on the internet. We are now introducing a whole new way of accessing all this information. Literati is a custom website where digital content from Lancashire’s library service and Credo Reference can be easily searched and cross referenced. Literati provides users with a multitude of resources, from non-fiction eBooks, images, and easily accessible Topic Pages on a large range of subjects. Literati offers the best path for Lancashire library’s members to access information that is both reliable and high in quality. It also gives tips on how to get the best out of your web searching.
With Literati’s multi-channel design you can personalize access through free registration and save or share all your discoveries. From its homepage there is also access to many other Library services.
Literati can be used to get the best facts for everything from serious research to quizzes and crosswords. It will also prove invaluable in homework help for students of all ages. See our quick introductory video You can access Literati for free from any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any computer using your Lancashire Library card number.
Manga High has lots of cool games, including Pyramid Panic and Save Our Dumb Planet, which you can play for free to test your maths knowledge.
Lancashire County Council's site containing local maps and aerial photographs for the whole county. Some historic maps for the region are also available on this site. This site also provides interactive information on administrative boundaries and local census and social statitistics.
Maths Goodies offers free interactive lessons, worksheets, games, puzzles and homework help for all the different areas of mathematics.
Hundreds of free photocopiable maths worksheets including fractions, time, shape and space.
A National Grid for Learning (NGFL) approved site containing links to free resources for Primary School level maths.
This site is designed, written and maintained by a modern languages teacher for students of languages aged from 6-18.
Use your mouse to move the monkey and listen to all the sounds he makes and dances he does. Also links to other mouse moving musical games. Useful for teaching music and mouse control to younger children.
Activities, puzzles, calculators and much more on this interactive site.
A music website with worksheets, quizzes and homework help for Years 7, 8, and 9, GCSE and A level.
Useful revision notes on Music for GCSE students.
Animated lessons and exercises in musical thoery.
This website, which popularizes science is created by researchers at Cambridge University. It features articles, experiments, and podcasts, plus news and reviews from the world of science.
Search or browse the online collection by artist, subject, theme or title.
At this site, produced by the famous american magazine, children can play and learn about their world, other people and wildlife through stories, photos and videos, activities and games.
Meet musicians and composers, play games, make up tunes and make your own instruments from everyday things. Note: some parts of this site require Adobe Shockwave.
A National Grid for Learning (NGFL) approved site with puzzles and resources for all levels of study.
Physical exercise is only part of the jigsaw puzzle of getting fit. To boost your athletic performance and enable yourself to train to the best of your abilities, you need to sort out your nutrition. This site from BUPA explains explains the connections.
The Original Official Site of the St. Lucia Tourist Board. Includes sections on the history and culture of the island, plus natural features. There are also photographs and maps.
The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors. If you're wanting information about a topic rather than a quick answer or fact, a Web Directory may produce better results than a search engine, as they are arranged by categories and created by human experts rather than machines indexing the web.
Search bilingual dictionaries from Oxford Reference, includes pocket, concise and business versions. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Access reference books on biology, plant sciences, zoology, ecology, genetics etc.from Oxford University Press. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
This section of Oxford Reference Online includes works on computing and the internet as well as a dictionary of weights and measures. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Search a range of titles from Oxford University Press including The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology, The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, A Dictionary of British History, The Oxford Companion to British History, The Kings and Queens of Britain, The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History, The Oxford Companion to Military History, The Oxford Companion to the History of Modern Science, A Dictionary of Political Biography, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, The Oxford Companion to World War II. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Reference books on astronomy, physics, mathematics, chemistry and statistics from Oxford University Press. There is also a dictionary of weights, measures and units. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Reference books on politics, sociology, geography, psychology etc. from Oxford University Press. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Reference Books on religion and philosophy from Oxford University Press. This includes dictionaries of Islam, Christianity, Judaism and Buddhism. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
A whole range of references works on science, technology, scientists and the environment from Oxford University Press. It includes the illustrated Encyclopedia of Mammals.
This is a big dictionary with illustrations for every subject (over 6,000 colour illustrations from 800 subjects across 14 themes). They go from astronomy and the human body to the arts. You can get straight in on a Library PC or use your Library card number to login from home.
Essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the long and fascinating history of black people in the British Isles, The Oxford Companion to Black British History explores the subject from its beginnings in Roman times to the present day. Part of Oxford Reference Online, free to access on any library PC or login using your library number at home.
The "OED", Oxford English Dictionary is the ultimate dictionary of English. In 'paper form', it has over 25,000 pages covering every word in the language and how it's been used over the centuries. This constantly updated online subscription version can be accessed from any Lancashire Library People's Network PC.
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium. Access is possible from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Oxford Reference Online is the online version of all the Oxford University Press "Dictionaries of" and "Companions to" and is fully cross-searchable. The complete Oxford English Dictionary and Dictionary of National Biography are found separately within the OnRL Premier Choices. This is a service that Lancashire Library subscribe to. Access is possible at any Lancashire Library People's Network PC or from any PC using the barcode from your Lancashire Library card.
Oye! features interactive activities for spanish learners. This site also links to Zut! (french) Gut! (German) and Sut! (Welsh). Note: these sites are subscription only within school hours (9-4 weekdays)but free at other times.
Useful revision notes on Physical Education for GCSE students.
Descriptions of Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism and Sikhism.
Games, activities and experiments for children and adults. A site that makes science fun with lots of interaction for children from pre-school to 16+.
Playaways are a new form of audiobook, only one that combines the content and player into one unit, a small MP3 style player. Playaways are very simple to operate, so virtually anyone – from kids to seniors – can use it to start listening immediately, just plug in headphones or speakers and play. Unlike other audiobooks it will also remembers where you left off – so there is no need to go back and find your spot in the story.There are a wide range of titles both for adults and children available to borrow from any Lancashire library.
On this website you'll find information about Nuffield Primary Design & Technology, examples of pupils' work, free classroom materials to download and other resources.
Bonjour! This interactive site helps you to start to speak and read in French.
Interactive site with stories, rhymes and activities teaching primary french, german, spanish and irish. From the Northern Irish Curriculum Board.
An introduction to British Life and Culture - part of Woodlands Junior School's British Life and Culture website. The website contains fascinating facts and information about England, Scotland and Wales (Britain), in a way that is easy to read and to understand for people of all ages and cultures.
Create your own puzzles including maths squares, cryptogram and number blocks (and word puzzles). These can be printed out for classroom or home use.
Part of the official UK recycling campaign, Recycle Now, this schools site provides help with recycling in schools, fun activities for 5-11 year olds, downloads of useful materials and teaching resources for KS3 citizenship.
This site comes from Wastewatch, a UK environmental charity promoting sustainable resource use. It is aimed at children, schools and teachers and provides advice on recycling at home, work and school.
REEP is a registered charity which provides unusual and thought-provoking resources for teachers and learners promoting the links between religions and the environment. Resources are free to schools via the website.
Currently in public beta, RefSeek is a web search engine for students and researchers that aims to make academic information easily accessible to everyone. RefSeek searches more than one billion documents, including web pages, books, encyclopedias, journals, and newspapers. RefSeek's unique approach offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine—increasing the visibility of academic information and compelling ideas that are often lost in a muddle of sponsored links and commercial results.
A religious education resource site covering ages 5 to 16+, which contains themes and topics concerning some of the worlds major religions. The RS implications of other belief systems (such as confucianism, agnosticism, atheism, paganism and animism) are not addressed.
A multifaith calendar listing events and holy days for the main religious faiths in Britain - Christian, Sikh, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist.
Reverso is a free online service including : translation, dictionary, conjugation, grammar, pronunciation and language learning.
Learn all about the Roman Baths in Bath. The site includes pictures and a children's area with quizzes.
Since its beginning in1824, the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals has worked to promote kindness and prevent cruelty to animals. Find information on current campaigns, pet care etc. from their website.
This is an independent site produced by Andrew Field, a history teacher from Cambridgeshire. It provides free access to a range of history resources which link in with the academic years and key stages.
This website contains free online resources which are geared to the National Curriculum up to the 16-18 age. The site was launched in 2002 by an independent group ISE (Industry Supports Education). All of the resources have been written by teacher authors and edited by the publisher.
2008/9 Wikipedia Selection for schools is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum and useful for much of the English speaking world. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). The content can be viewed online via a subject or word search and the entire selection (3.5GB) can be downloaded.
Science in the Nineteenth-Century Periodical is a free searchable electronic index to the science content of sixteen nineteenth-century general periodicals, which will help you understand how science was assimilated, debated and challenged in the 19th century.
S-cool is a UK revision website. Providing A-level and GCSE revision material totally FREE.
Tips and Tricks from ABC Science Online.
A good site for pre-school children with plenty of fun things to do (including interactive stories with all the Sesame Street characters) also tips and advice for parents.
Seussville is a new site from Random House Children's Books. It includes all you'd ever want to know about Dr. Seuss and his creations, and has games, characters and book extracts. Suitable for children from 5 years and all older lovers of Dr. Seuss.
Social bookmarking for teachers. Save links and access them from any computer anywhere. Discover links posted by other educators.Share links with students, co-workers, friends, family.
Simple English Wikipedia is a selection of subjects and articles from Wikipedia which have been written using simple English words and grammar. Writing in Simple English means that simple words are used, it does not mean that the information is simplified. This site is particularly useful for children, adults who are learning English and people who wish to avoid confusing jargon.
Hundreds of songs recordings and song sheets, lesson plans and activities, warm-ups and workouts, guides and tutorials. Downloads are free but require registration.
Skoool.co.uk is a website packed with interactive resources to help you learn Maths and Science at Key Stage 3 and 4
Skoool.co.uk is a website packed with interactive resources to help you learn Biology, Chemistry, Physics and Maths at Key Stage 3 and 4.
This site provides everything you'd need to stage a school musical called "Sleepover Planet" for children 7-11. From BBC Northern Ireland.
The website of Snaith Primary School in Yorkshire. An interactive website aimed at children with well illustrated resources for all areas of the primary curriculum. Some of the topics covered are the Tudors, Ancient Egypt, Romans, World War II, water and Europe.
This PDF booklet, produced by Lancashire Libraries and Record Office,gives useful advice on research and provides a guide to the available sources of information for your search and where to find them in Lancashire, around the world and on the internet.
After free registration, aspriring musicians can upload their music to this platform, which makes it easy to send, receive and distribute music for artists, record labels, other music professionals and music streaming sites.
Learn about the rules, equipment and jargon of all major sports. Find out how and where to get involved.
This site provides lots of links to information about PE and sports and fitness.
A guide to Saint Lucia with articles, photos, facts, maps, videos, and news. Compiled by National Geographic.
StoryVault brings oral history and traditional story telling into the digital age. Record and Share your memories and those of your friends and family, whether they are personal and communal or concern events of historical significance. You can view videos of the survivors of many events (World War veterans or Titanic survivors) or upload your own.
Streetplay is a guide to children's outdoor games from around the world.
This US website provides family and teacher orientated reviews, links and information about web content which is child friendly, safe and educational.
Communication is a vital skill that all children need to learn. Without it they will not reach their full potential. This site gives parents and carers the information they need to help their children develop these skills. If your child at any age from 0-17 has difficulties with speech, language and communication, you'll find lots of help and advice here including many activities. There are also separate specialist sections for young people themselves, early years practioners, teachers, health visitors, GP's and speecha and language therapists.
A large analogue or digital clock the can be adjusted to help children learn to tell the time.
An online service of the US Educational Technology Clearinghouse, this site aims to provide teachers practical solutions to classroom technology issues, includes useful video tutorials and PDF guides on a range of subjects.
This site is all about artists, with mini-biography and lists of where to find their work, plus pictures you can download. There's a bit of advertising on this site.
A really cool site with atmospheric videos music which tell the stories of creation myths from around the world aimed at children from 12-14. There is also stuff about the featured cultures. Why not Write Your Own Creation Myth? A password is required for full access.
Explore the oceans with sea news, aquarium resources,an image gallery, games and reviews.
Explore the universe with astronomy resources, sky news, an image gallery, games and reviews.
Get the inside information on staying safe while having fun online, with games and useful links. The education programme of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, it has separate areas for Age Groups 5-7, 8-10, 11-16, plus parents and teachers sections.
This interactive timeline will allow you to explore British Library collection items chronologically, from medieval times to the present day. It includes a diverse combination of texts: those that allow glimpses of everyday life (handbills, posters, letters, diaries), remnants of political events (charters, speeches, campaign leaflets), and the writings of some of our best known historical and literary figures.
The BBC Archive of the popular TV series. Beginning in 1965, the BBC's flagship science programme ran for nearly 40 years. Its mix of quirky film reports and live experiments examined the changing state of current technology and put new inventions to the test.
Try Science is full of stuff to try, projects and experiments plus guides to science, technology and science centres all around the world.
The Twitter Dictionary aka Twittonary provides explanations of various Twitter related words. You can search the entire Twitter Dictionary or by single word using their letter of the alphabet in the list.
A Directgov video on YouTube. This is Part One of Two, To view Part Two under5s - Early Years Education
unders5s provides lots of information, activities and resources supporting Early Years Education for Teachers and Parents.
This site features activities which help with number recognition and formation, writing and counting numbers 1 to 10.
This website from the RGS provides free learning resources for schools. It includes a whole range of resources that can be downloaded for use by pupils and teachers. Some of the resources are specifically linked to the key stages of the National Curriculum.
This award winning site has over a thousand interactive educational games and activities for children aged up to 10.
This website, produced by the East of England Learning grid, is an educational site all about Crime and Punishment in the UK in the 19th Century. It includes a prisoner database with actual prisoner records and case studies for a more in-depth view of the crimes and trials of some of the inmates. There is a teachers area containing resources for Key Stage 2 - 4.
Make up your own tunes and chords with this online keyboard. You choose accompanying beats and make it sound like anything from a piano to steel drums.
Make worksheets and puzzles from a word list. Enables you to make crosswords, word searches, matching, multiple choice, flashcards, word walls. Great for learning new vocabulary words or spelling for all subjects.
Find volcanoes from any region of the world with this web site from Oregon State University. Check out their location, history, last eruption and see great pictures.
A whole library of articles from Search Engine Watch providing tips on using search engines better. Don't like 'Boolian logic'?, try Power Searching!
Discover the Olympic sport that suits you, test your knowledge with online quizzes. Enter the virtual changing room and get ready to get active...
A site which teaches children about different aspects of the Internet including web browsing, safe searching and using the Web for research.
The Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) is the UK's only specialist wetland conservation charity with a national network of wetland visitor centres. WWT is a world leader for the protection of swans, geese, ducks and flamingos and the wetlands they inhabit. The site includes details on their activities including information about Martin Mere, the visitors' centre near Southport.
Part of the National Grid of Learning, Wise Kids provides help on internet safety, social networking and cyber-bullying, with separate sections for parents, children and teachers.
Who says girls can't be great scientists?! "I was wondering" is an intereactive website from the US National Acedemy of Science for girls aged 10+ which showcase the achievement of great women scientists, and includes answers to your science questions, games, biographies and a time travel line.
World Book Day was designated by UNESCO as a worldwide celebration of books and reading, and is marked in over 100 countries around the globe. It is a partnership of publishers, booksellers and interested parties who work together to promote books and reading for the personal enrichment and enjoyment of all. The website includes news, downloadable resources and extensive interactive online activities.
Part of the Woodlands Junior School website these pages have links to life in the war, the role of women, the blackout, the blitz, timelines and loads more.
The WWW Virtual Library (VL) is the oldest catalogue of the Web, started by Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of HTML and of the Web itself, in 1991 at CERN in Geneva. it is run by volunteers, who compile pages of key links for particular areas in which they are expert. The VL pages are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to sections of the web that search engines (e.g. google) can't reach.
This web site from the World Bank is aimed at Young People and attempts to raise awareness of issues such as AIDS, conflict, debt relief etc. Articles on these subjects are backed up with stories and links to other web sites.