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.
A very interesting blog designed to support an integrated unit of work (Secondary)
"Through The Eyes Of A Child.
Enduring Understanding
That literature helps us to actively explore the human experience and to respond to the changes and challenges in our own lives."
PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.
Fantastic for secondary English
This blog entry by the School Library Association of Victoria shares how Mooroopna Secondary College has been using Animoto to make book trailers, it also shares some hints on registering classes on the Animoto site to make videos. Could be useful for those who are participating in the Digital Literature Review Competition that is commencing soon!
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 !
Great way to have students engage with any web content. Will work in Flock and Firefox. Very interesting, it turns every webpage into a wiki. A great study tool especially for secondary students.
Healthline BodyMaps is an handy tool which provides a set of searchable body maps. It includes colored, interactive maps of everything from the pancreas to the digestive system to the body as a whole.
"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. "
Celestia is great - and it works in tandem with Stellarium - some more freeware - we started our students off with an examination of the Earth (Stellarium) and how it relates to the Solar System and then you can move on to Celestia - a chance to explore further out into space
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