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useful links to ideas for blogging with your class as well as links to class and subject blogs.

civilization is a popular series of strategy games where players must build empires, trade and wage war. This free downloadable version  could be useful in many areas of the curriculum, including money and area in maths and learning about cultures from the past. 

"Schools Global Footprint is a teaching resource that helps you to explore and to reduce the environmental effect your school has on the planet. The global footprint calculator is a great tool for helping you reduce your schools' ecological footprint by taking action on six topic areas including: energy, transport, food, waste, water and buildings."

"Welcome to this Wikipedia Selection. This 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection 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). "

"One of the take aways from the Curriculum Mapping Institute this past week was that it brought an upgrade to THE trusted KWL (Know, What to Know and Learned) Chart to the forefront. It seems a no brainer…one of those things… "I should have thought about it"… So what is this upgrade all about?"

Create differentiated learning intentions with a click of a button. Based on Blooms revised taxonomy.

Free Interactive teaching resources by category/subject

"A Questioning Toolkit"