7 Essential Lessons on Social Media Awareness for Young Teens, Parents & Teachers
The Internet is great. Like, really great. There is so much to see, share and laugh about. It is your best friend when doing research and completing homework.
Resources
Move over Comic Sans – Best Fonts to Use for Learners & Beginner Writers
Comic Sans the rounded, sans serif font, with a single storey ‘a’ and a simplified ‘g’ has often been the go-to choice for teachers looking to create teaching and learning materials.
The Best Stop-motion Animation Kits for Kids
Do you have a burgeoning film maker in your house? Does he or she have a big imagination and love movies? Well, best to capture that talent while they are interested and their creative juices are flowing!
Hack Your Learning: The 16 Best Books on Learning and Achieving Academically
I have always been a firm believer that each of our brains are highly individual; that we each have highly personalised skills and abilities that more suited for some fields of study and expertise compared to others.
TED Talks to Inspire Students to Maths
For many students, the mere mention of Math brings a shadow of dread, the boring, unyielding, uncompromising need to work at numbers in it’s abstract forms, from algebra to imaginary numbers.
For the Love of Math – Fascinating TED Talks on Math
For the majority of us, Math or Maths is this rather dreary, arbitrary, very abstract subject that we occasionally apply when we’re out shopping.
The Best Build-Your-Own Programmable Robot Kits for Learning at Home and in Schools
Despite the sometimes sinister perspectives of robots taking over our world, as portrayed in numerous films, the reality of robotics is here to stay.
Mini Maglev Train Demonstration – Superconductors, magnetic fields, liquid Nitrogen and a whole load of fun!
The first Maglev (magnetic levitation) patent was filed and awarded in 1905 by a German inventor,Alfred Zehden in the United States. Since then, a few working maglev transports have come and gone with more than a few in the pipeline.
Mark Harden’s Artchive
Artchive belongs to Mark Hayden. The site carries content for educational purposes. Here you can find more than 2000 fine art scans from over 200 different artists. Browse by artist name or by art movement and category.
Artcyclopedia
Artcyclopedia carries information on over 9000 artists and 2900 art sites indexed with plenty of other resources. Use the worldwide art museums directory to find the art galleries near you or list the different artists by art movements, medium, subject, nationality and women artists.
A Kid’s Guide to Forest Fires
Here is a list page with links to resources regarding Forest Fires for kids. The links on the page will help you learn more about the causes of forest fires, how they can be prevented and how some fires can benefit a forest ecosystem.
Amazing Board Games for Learning Serious Science
Almost everyone remembers family evenings gathered around a board game of Monopoly or Cluedo, trading, planning, calculating… in so many ways, board games make up an essential part of childhood with most associated memories being fun, fun and more fun.
Coursera – Online Course
With Coursera, education is free, open, online – and now mobile! Coursera connects students, professionals, and lifelong learners everywhere with free online courses from over 100 top-tier global universities and institutions.
BrainPOP Featured Movie
A little nostalgic when writing a review for an app that I personally installed on my iPad 1 so my little girl can learn a thing or two from it.
Excellent Free Online Maths Resource
Move over Khan Academy, here is a brand new online maths resource website from a teacher in action. Mr Corbett’s Maths Page is an education blog barely a year old but has consistently been updated almost on a weekly basis since it’s inception in February 2012. Corbett’s Maths Page The site offers free and easy […]
Khan Academy and What it Means for Education
Contrary to what Salman Khan originally thought, when he first started working on building content for the now famous Khan Academy, and trying to fund it’s survival, he has actually made it to Forbes without the profit-driven orientation, typical of most Forbes subjects and coverage. Congratulations, Mr Khan! In this very constructive and optimistic article, […]