My Learning September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History, Various Subjects , add a commenthttp://www.mylearning.org/
This is a great site from the museums, libraries and archives in Yorkshire. There’s a great ‘design a super bug’ interactive activity (where you can create all manner of weird bugs and print out a “Top Trumps” style card for your monster) and an interesting Victorian millionaire challenge.
As well as fun interactive games the site contains a large number of photo resources such as one that follows a trip through India and Pakistan, one on 20th Century artists and one on Saxon artifacts.
Collect Britain September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History, Various Subjects , add a commenthttp://www.collectbritain.co.uk/
The Collect Britain website contains over 90,000 images and sounds from the collection of the British Library. Quite a few of the different exhibits will be of interest to primary teachers. There’s a large collection of Victorian photographs, a great batch of sound clips to illustrate regional accents and dialects and a lovely selection of religious manuscripts. The search engine is very interesting. Not only can you search by keyword but you can also find items of local interest by searching using a UK postcode.
Ancient Civilisations September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.ancientcivilizations.co.uk
Students can explore and compare civilisations from the ancient world using this site from the British Museum. It’s packed with objects, photographs and information on the themes of writing, buildings, cities, religion, trade and technology. The interface can be a little tricky to follow at times so the site would be best used with upper KS2 or in teacher led sessions with younger children.
Moving History September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.movinghistory.ac.uk/
This website showcases some of the films that form part of the UK’s twelve public film archives. The movies (some amateur, other professional) date from the birth of film (1895) to the present day. There’s several films that will be useful for primary teachers in general (including one of a school air raid practice) and many will be of interest to schools in particular areas due to their local history links.
Historical Maps on Google Earth September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : Geography, History , add a commenthttp://earth.google.com/
The brilliant Google Earth is now even more useful! The team at Google have just added a selection of historical maps that are available as featured content layers. They come from the David Rumsey Collection and UK teachers will find the 1790 World Globe and the 1790 England & Wales maps particularly interesting. The maps have been pasted to the Google Earth globe so you can type in a modern day place name and fly to the appropriate part on the historical map. It’s great to see which towns and cities were important enough to be on the map back then and also amusing to see the change in spellings (e.g. “Leverpool“).
BM&AG for Kids September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.schoolsliaison.org.uk/kids/preload.htm
Part of the Birmingham Museums & Art Gallery site, these pages contain some fun activities based on different periods of history as well as games based on specific Birmingham museums. Activities include an Egyptian mummy quiz, dressing the Roman soldier and designing a greek pot. Each history section also features an nicely illustrated interactive timeline. A second site, Alien Adventures contains more history and art activities.
English Heritage Kids Zone September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.1579
English Heritage’s Kids Zone contains some fun online games for students including a game where you have to prepare your castle for a visit of Elizabeth I and several activities looking at the life of a monk.
The rest of the kids zone is slightly disappointing with the ‘To print’ and ‘Visit’ links merely taking you to more adult orientated sections of the main English Heritage website. The downloadable resources search (in the ‘to print’ section) wasn’t working this morning so unfortunately I wasn’t able to view any of the worksheets.
English Heritage allow free entry for educational groups to over 400 historic properties across the country so it’s well worth visiting their website to see what’s in your local area.
Gunpowder, Treason & Plot September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.show.me.uk/gunpowderplot/
There’s been a few updates to the Parliamentary Archives Gunpowder Plot website that many of you may have used last year around the 5th of November. The KS1 & 2 site now features a simplified interactive timeline similar to that found on the KS3 version of the site. They’ve also made the timeline available as a poster and a factsheet.
Virtual Victorians September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://www.victorians.org.uk/
This great museum site has lots of interesting material for covering the Victorians topic in history. The day in the life section takes you through a typical week as a Victorian. There’s a whole gallery of objects on different themes such as childhood, factory life, Brunel and leisure. You can read a Victorian newspaper, compare photographs of now and then, flick through a factory log book and even play online with Victorian toys and games. Excellent stuff.
Tudor Portraits September 7, 2007
Posted by Gareth in : History , add a commenthttp://tudorhistory.org/files/galleryindex.html
This page (from tudorhistory.org) contains links to a large collection of portraits and other images from the Tudor period.
