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Some great royalty-free music - broken up in  early primary, primary. and secondary appropriate sounds!

Great blog post about using moodle in Primary Schools

Bio-Cube is a useful summarizing tool that helps students identify and list key elements about a person whose biography or autobiography they have just read. It can also be used as a prewriting activity for student autobiographies. Best for primary students.

This article has a roundup of some of the best music websites for primary school students. 

The support blog for the Primary Learning Technologies Network

"Get Smart Interactive Activities" Primary SMART notebook resources

Another great resource. I like the way it is sorted according to stage of learning for resources Eg senior primary etc

Some great Primary iPad/iPod Touch Apps

Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for primary school students. 

"The Physics Front provides high quality resources for the teaching of physics and physical sciences courses. The Physics Front is a free service provided by the American Association of Physics Teachers in partnership with the NSF/NSDL. " Excellent physics resources for teachers - including primary and middle school!

That's Not Cool is a website designed to teach young adults that online and mobile phone behavior is real behavior with real consequences. That's Not Cool has three primary features; videos, discussion forum, and call out cards. More suitable for Stage 4 and 5. I like the videos... not sure about the call out cards

Create your own books. Fantastic Free application for students to create their own characters and storyline. You can use existing characters and backgrounds or create them usingyour own images. you can also set up class accounts! Well worth a look Primary and secondary.

This is an Xtranormal movie created by a primary TL at SJV - this is a fantastic example of how to motivate and involve students in support the implementation of leaning technologies. This type of approach also builds teacher's confidence offering teachers support within classrooms as they introduce new tools to their students. This is also a great move towards generating enthusiasm and creating momentum within your school.

Some great science online resources for primary and high school classes

This is a great applications for downloading multiple creative commons images from flickr at once. It is an Adobe Air application that you download and install on your computer, you then search for a tag, and it allows you to select up to 50 photos to download to your desktop. Would be really useful for primary and infants classes. It saves you time as you do not need to download each image individually. 

Created by Sellafield Nuclear Power Station, the Succeeding with Science website contains many different interactive activities and downloadable resources. There are resources here for both primary and secondary (and post-16) teachers on a number of different topics such as electricity, states of matter, carbon footprints and radioactivity. 

I strongly recommend this read to all LT's - if this hasn't yet been a discussion at your school - I am sure it will be some time in the future. Recommend all primary and secondary staff to read this !

If you want some ideas for using Google Earth in upper primary/lower secondary classrooms- here are 50 worksheets. Only costs $4.90

"Welcome to Celestia ... The free space simulation that lets you explore our universe in three dimensions. Celestia runs on Windows, Linux, and Mac OS X. Unlike most planetarium software, Celestia doesn't confine you to the surface of the Earth. You can travel throughout the solar system, to any of over 100,000 stars, or even beyond the galaxy. "

http://www.stellarium.org/ check this out - we have both Stellarium and Celestia on the student image - "Stellarium is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope. It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go." both freeware

Awesome Nathan I didnt realise they worked so well together. Welcome to the group and thanks for your input.

An alternative to Wallwisher geared towards primary students - worth a look.