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The ARKive project has unique access to the very best of the world's wildlife films and photographs, with more than 3,500 of the world's leading filmmakers and photographers actively contributing to the project, and giving ARKive unprecedented access to their materials.

Links to science museums and virtual labs, like the heart, bicrobial zoo, and British Museum of Natural History

"as we contemplate 2020, I'm certain that there won't be one model, one benchmark, one standard, one curriculum, or one teacher training program that ultimately helps us reach our educational goals. But I strongly believe that a decade from now we'll be able to look back and know that we made learning more interesting for each and every child in our country"

How to make learning interesting for everybody.

Virtual Open Heart Surgery

A great site from the Open University. See evolution in action... slowly, with snails from across the world. You can submit your own data. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A beautifully made science site with pages of colourful facts and activities on topics across the science curriculum. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

A beautfully made science resource for exploring the different parts of animal, plants and bacterial cells. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science

A clicking 'Guess Who' game where you have to select the correct creatures for the characteristic. ictmagic.wikispaces.com/science

The Encyclopedia of Life (EoL), a free and collaborative website, said on Monday it now has pages for each of 750,000 species, meaning more than one-third of all the planet's 1.9m species are now covered. "EoL is the ultimate online field guide for citizen scientists," said Jennifer Preece, dean of the College of Information Studies at the University of Maryland. "There are many online sites dedicated to specific groups of species such as insects, birds or mammals. Not since Noah, however, has there been an effort like this to bring all the world's species together." The site uses content from 180 partners to bring together images, videos and scientific information, including 35m pages of scanned literature created by the Biodiversity Heritage Library. The new site allows members to create their own collection of species. "The virtual collections put life into meaningful contexts from scholarly ones such as Invasive Insects of North America or Endangered Birds of Ecuador to personal collections such as A Checklist of Trees in My Backyard. Only imagination and energy limit the possibilities," said Jesse Ausubel, vice president of the Alfred P Sloan Foundation which helps fund the EoL.

A superb science site with an online activity resource for learning about genetics. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Incredible 3D Anatomy site

A useful collection of science videos to use with your class on topics including about the Structure of the Earth and what is DNA. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Teacher resources and more

"Worried about your impact on the environment? The way we use the planet's resources makes up our ecological footprint. Measuring yours takes less than 5 minutes and could set you on a life-changing journey... "

Here is a neat animated interactive as a preview for an actual owl pellet dissection.

Explore the wildþfflife in your own backyard with UK Safari. Great child-friendly profile pages on animals and plants around the UK. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science

Watch great science animations and other resource which have been especially designed for children. http://ictmagic.wikispaces.com/Science