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Big Picture

Big Picture, from the Wellcome Trust, is aimed at post-16 biology teachers and students has a fantastic array of free online resources including activities, animations, videos, lesson plans, articles, images, and more.

16-18 year olds
Pupils

Oxford Owl

Oxford Owl is a free website built to help parents with their child’s reading. This is an excellent resource packed with free ebooks from the Oxford Reading Tree reading scheme, games and activities.

3-7 year olds
Teachers, Pupils, Parents

Education Group

Education Group is a provider of Music, Dance, African Drumming, Science and Art workshops, school assemblies and after-school activities for primary schools across England and Wales.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Teaching English

Free classroom materials including short activities to full lesson plans, for teaching kids and adults. There are also articles on teaching English, and free teacher development and teacher training materials.

5-16 year olds
Teachers

Reservoir Safety Teacher's Guide

A water safety teacher's guide which links to videos that can be used to deliver key messages around water safety, together with suggested additional activities to aid learning around the topic.

7-16 year olds
Teachers, Pupils

Crystal Crash

An addictive find fractions of numbers game where you throw the pickaxe at the correct answer. Different levels including find half of up to 20, 40 or 100, find unit fractions of number, or multiples of 1/10 of numbers. Super homework activity.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

El Salvador Geography Pack

Free KS2 El Salvador Geography pack including photo cards, classroom activities and an illustrated map and a free KS1 Bangladesh geography pack.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Science Sparkles

At Science Sparks they are passionate about making science fun for kids and they have devised lots of easy science activities using equipment and materials commonly found around the home.

3-11 year olds
Teachers, Parents

Practical Action Schools Resources

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.

5-18 year olds
Teachers

Beating Bacteria

A site which explains the difficulties drug companies have in producing new antibiotics including an explanation of how bacteria become drug resistant. On-line research into bacteria and antibiotics is an optional activity.

14-16 year olds
Pupils
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