WJEC Free Digital Resources

WJEC is an organisation providing assessment, training and educational resources in England, Wales, Northern Ireland and elsewhere.

It provides a range of resources which can be used effectively as stand-alone lessons or incorporated into a larger scheme of work These free digital resources support the teaching and learning of subjects offered by WJEC.

http://resources.wjec.co.uk/Pages/SearchResources.aspx

Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers

The Center for the History of Women Philosophers and Scientists has developed a new site, the Encyclopedia of Concise Concepts by Women Philosophers, a joint project of Paderborn University’s Ruth Hagengruber and Cleveland State’s Mary Ellen Waithe.

This resource aims to introduce “women philosophers who mostly have been omitted from the philosophical canon despite their historical and philosophical influence.” The site has four main sections: Concepts, Keywords, Philosophers, and Contributors.

Visit the Encyclopedia on:

https://historyofwomenphilosophers.org/ecc/#hwps

Fun Summer Science!

Looking for some awesome summer science activities for kids? Fun outdoor science experiments explained by Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks on this video: making a kite, building a solar tower, blowing bubbles...

 

PHYSICS4KIDS.COM

Physics for kids and for everyone. Lots of information on motion, heat and thermodynamics, electricity and magnetism, light and modern physics topics. 

Visit: 

http://www.physics4kids.com/index.html 

Site map that covers all the contents: 

http://physics4kids.com/map.html

The History of the British Isles: Every Year by Ollie Bye

History helps you understand the backstory and context to what’s happening now. It also helps understand cultural values.

This video shows the entire history of the British Isles from the arrival of modern humans to 2016. An amazing resource to learn about the history of the British Isles.

#WorldOceansDay

World Oceans Day takes place every 8 June. It has been celebrated unofficially since its original proposal in 1992 by Canada's International Centre for Ocean Development (ICOD) and the Ocean Institute of Canada (OIC) at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

The conservation action theme for World Oceans Day 2018 has been "Preventing plastic pollution and encouraging solutions for a healthy ocean".

Some interesting educational resources in English language to celebrate World Oceans Day

http://www.worldoceansday.org/resources

https://www.twinkl.es/event/world-oceans-day-2018

https://www.tes.com/articles/world-oceans-day

http://www.worldoceansday.ca/education-resources/15-solutions-to-help-our-oceans

http://plasticoceans.uk/

The World Cup a Fair Game?

The 2018 FIFA World Cup will be the 21st FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial international football tournament contested by the men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA. It is scheduled to take place in Russia from 14 June to 15 July 2018.

The World Cup a Fair Game? is a cross-curricular resource for 9-14 year old users developed by Oxfam Education to engage learners critically with issues of fairness and equality. 

These materials are an updated version of their 2014 World Cup resource.

This educational resource is available on:

https://www.oxfam.org.uk/education/resources/the-world-cup-a-fair-game

#WorldEnvironmentDay #BeatPlasticPollution

First held in 1974, World Environment Day (WED) occurs on the 5th of June every year. WED is the UN's most important day for encouraging worldwide awareness and action for the protection of our environment. It is widely celebrated in over 100 countries.

Each World Environment Day is organized around a theme that focuses attention on a particularly pressing environmental concern. The theme for 2018 is beating plastic pollution. #BeatPlasticPollution.

Visit:

http://worldenvironmentday.global/en/

World Digital Library

The World Digital Library (WDL) is a project of the U.S. Library of Congress, carried out with the support of the United Nations Educational, Cultural and Scientific Organization (UNESCO), and in cooperation with libraries, archives, museums, educational institutions, and international organizations from around the world.

The WDL makes available on the Internet, free of charge and in multilingual format, significant primary materials from all countries and cultures.

(Source WDL)

Visit:

https://www.wdl.org/en/