Energising Futures Primary Resources
The Energising Futures programme is designed to specifically increase young people’s understanding and enjoyment of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths. Lots of great free primary school resources!
Google Earth
A truly amazing download which combines satellite imagery, maps and terrain to let you view the world's geography at the click of a mouse. Fly to your address or now you can even view the night sky. It can help children understand what a map view is.
Owl and Mouse Interactive Maps
Free good quality maps, to print out, of countries and every continent of the world. Excellent interactive maps where you roll over the countries to see country names and capital cities.
Volcanoes
A useful explanation about volcanoes from BBC Bitesize. It includes footage of erupting volcanoes and animations with explanatory information.
Toporopa
Super interactive maps on the Eurozone: European countries, capitals, flags, regions, metropolitan areas, monarchies, battles, mountains, lakes, seas, rivers, islands, peninsulas, ports, straits and volcanoes. IWB friendly.
Mapzone
This six-lesson unit on map skills designed so that one lesson will be taught in each year group from years one to six.
Practical Action Schools
Free STEM resources for teachers include lesson plans, PowerPoints, activities, posters, challenges, images, videos and games all set around global issues including energy, climate change and disaster risk reduction.
Better World Detectives
Better World Detectives uses the theme of travel and holidays to engage children from 7-11 years in the role we can all play to protect the environment. Includes flexible lesson plans and a range of free multimedia resources and worksheets.
Rivers
Support materials and lesson plans about rivers and their journey to the sea from the Royal Geographical Society.
A River's Journey
The journey of a river can be divided into three sections: upper, middle and lower. This site features video footage of rivers in the three stages and explains what happens in each stage.
