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Peep and the Big Wide World

The animated series Peep and the Big Wide World has games aimed at teaching science and maths to preschoolers.

4-7 year olds
Pupils, Parents

20 Bead Rekenrek

A great teaching tool for helping young children to understand numbers and learn strategies for addition and subtraction, doubling and halving.

5-7 year olds
Pupils

100 Bead Rekenrek

A great teaching tool for helping children to understand two-digit numbers, place value, doubling, halving, counting in 5s and 10s, and more.

6-9 year olds
Pupils

Place Value Chart

A useful teaching tool to demonstrate place value in numbers up to millions. It includes an option for decimal numbers.

7-11 year olds
Teachers

The Periodic Table of Videos

Superb short videos about each element of the Periodic Table plus there are films about other areas of chemistry. A great teaching and learning aid.

11-16 year olds
Pupils

ReadWorks.org

An excellent American site with good lesson ideas and materials aimed at improving reading comprehension teaching throughout the primary age range. It is well worth registering.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Poetryclass

Poetryclass can help teachers wanting to bring poetry alive in the classroom. It has good ideas for teaching poetry.

7-16 year olds
Teachers

The Literacy Shed

The Literacy Shed is home to a wealth of visual resources with teaching ideas suitable for use in the primary classroom. There are some fabulous animations to use as stimulus for writing.

5-11 year olds
Teachers

Thinking of a Number

Use inverse operations to work backwards to find the missing number. Useful as a teaching aid on an interactive whiteboard.

7-11 year olds
Pupils

Images to Inspire

Looking for inspiration for creative writing? Look no further. This great site from Teaching Packs has evocative photographs with lots of ideas for the classroom.

7-11 year olds
Teachers
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