Cube For Teachers

Created by educators, Cube For Teachers is a free solution that fosters access to open educational resources. Educators can share links to resources from around the world, for all grades, subjects, interests, abilities and backgrounds.

More information on:

https://cubeforteachers.com/login 

AMAZE

AMAZE is a free online resource that teaches about puberty, reproduction, relationships, sex and sexuality.

https://amaze.org/

An Ocean of Books

An Ocean of Books is a big map of a sea of literature where each island represents a single author (there are more than 113,000), and each city represents a book. 

The distance among the authors has been calculated based on their complex relationship thanks to a machine learning technique called Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP).  

An island was assigned to each author, matching the island size with the author’s presence on the web

Visit An Ocean of Books on:

https://artsexperiments.withgoogle.com/ocean-of-books?latitude=-43.2000&longitude=-2.5000&zoom=4.40 

KidLit TV The World of Children’s Literature @KidLitTV_NYC

KidLitTV is a diverse group of parents, educators, librarians, kid lit creators, and award-winning filmmakers working together to create fun new ways to reinforce an appreciation of reading that children will carry with them for the rest of their lives. It is a good place to  discover great children’s books and connect with the people who create them. 

On their website you can find TV shows, a podcast, craft and activities, book trailers, and other educational, inspirational and entertaining resources. 

https://kidlit.tv/ 

SciShow Kids

Hosted by a scientist and her side-kick robot, SciShow Kids offers in a kid-friendly way great video lessons on a wide range of curious topics in science. 

Visit: 

https://www.youtube.com/c/scishowkids/featured 

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/scishowkids 

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction

Edited by John Clute, David Langford, Peter Nicholls (emeritus) and Graham Sleight (managing), The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction is an online digital publication whose aim is to provide a comprehensive, scholarly, and critical guide to science fiction in all its forms. 

All entries (more  than 18,000) are free online. You can find them via a search box or browse the  menu categories (Authors, Themes, Media, Culture, News...) 

Visit this resource on:

http://www.sf-encyclopedia.com/

Lexis Podcast

Fun and interesting insights into linguistics by linguistics enthusiasts. 

Find all the episodes on:

https://anchor.fm/lexispodcast 

But Why: A Podcast For Curious Kids

On this podcast children can find the answers to their questions.  On But Why, they tackle topics large and small, about nature, words, even the end of the world. 

https://www.vpr.org/programs/why-podcast-curious-kids#stream/0 

Some of the episodes have been illustrated by Vermont artists. Children can colour some printable pages about them while they are listening to the show.

https://www.vpr.org/post/introducing-printable-why-coloring-pages#stream/0 

MirArtIT de @Borjag18

Esta semana mi buceo en el proceloso océano de Twitter me ha llevado a una página que me ha llamado la atención por su estructura y planteamiento. MirArtIT nos aporta el trabajo de Borja González, profesor del Colegio Mirasur de Madrid. 

A través de este proyecto en forma de un conjunto de recursos educativos de arte en inglés para Educación Primaria podemos recorrer la historia del arte por medio de vídeos desde la prehistoria hasta la actualidad, de forma ordenada y accesible. 

Los contenidos también tocan el diseño desde el punto de vista publicitario, que os pueden resultar útiles incluso para otras etapas educativas.

Igual de interesante es la sección de Artists (artistas) con referencias de interés para el panorama actual del arte y la ilustración en muy diversas  facetas.

Podéis visitarlo en:

https://www.mirartit.com/

Toy Theater

Collection of interactive educational math, literacy, and art games for your elementary classrooom.

Founded in 2001 by Joel Gaspar, an artist and designer, it offers free accessible and high quality  activities that integrate the learning into the game play

Find Toy Theater on:

https://toytheater.com/ 

The David Rumsey Map Collection

The David Rumsey Map Collection contains more than 150,000 maps. and focuses on rare 16th through 21st century maps of North and South America, as well as maps of the World, Asia, Africa, Europe, and Oceania. The site is free and open to the public. 

The collection includes atlases, wall maps, globes, school geographies, pocket maps, books of exploration, maritime charts, and a variety of cartographic materials including pocket, wall, children's, and manuscript maps.

Digitization of the collection began in 1996 and there are now over 100,000 items online, with new additions added regularly. 

(Source https://www.davidrumsey.com/about) 

Visit The David Rumsey Map Collection on:

https://www.davidrumsey.com/ 

FlowingData @flowingdata

Run by Nathan Yau (PhD in statistics from UCLA), FlowingData is a blog that explores how we use analysis and visualization to understand data and ourselves. It is a free resource that highlights his own projects and other’s work.

It also offers tutorials to learn to visualize your data like an expert and self guided courses for members.

Find this amazing resource on:

https://flowingdata.com/ 

On Twitter:

https://twitter.com/flowingdata

TubeQuizard

TubeQuizard lets you create interactive listening quizzes based on subtitled Youtube videos.

It can help you understand real life pronunciation, and learn grammar and vocabulary. 

Visit:

http://www.tubequizard.com/

PhysicsCentral. Comics

Physics-based comic books that engage children.

Most of these comic books are a part of PhysicsQuest, story-based activities designed for middle school classrooms.

Visit:

https://physicscentral.com/explore/comics/ 

Writing Exercises

This site provides writing prompts and exercises to help you get started with creative writing and break through writing blocks. 

Writing Exercises uses random generators to create exercises based on subjects, names, prompts, characters and much more.

Visit:

https://writingexercises.co.uk/index.php 

VoiceTube

Inspiring and diversified high-quality video content based on life-like situations for your own personal learning You can learn English by watching subtitled videos, movies trailers, and music videos. 

You can also select levels and different varieties of English.

Visit

https://www.voicetube.com/ 

Download VoiceTube App on:

https://www.voicetube.com/mobile/?ref=vt_en_web_indexbtn&utm_source=vt_en_web_indexbtn

European Word Translator

This site is a personal project by James Trimble. You can enter one or two lower-case English words to see translations from Google Translate on a map of Europe.

Visiit:

https://ukdataexplorer.com/european-translator/

School Radio. Maths

Maths resources that provide a lively and entertaining way for pupils to develop and consolidate their skills. 

Video, audio and downloads for primary schools (Early Years, KS1 & KS2). 

Find School Radio Maths on: 

https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/school-radio/mathematics-maths-ks1-ks2-index/zv2992p 

Road to Grammar. Make a Sentence

This resource  can be useful if you want to challenge your students to make a sentence with a three random words generator. 

You can also include verb tenses.

http://www.roadtogrammar.com/makeasentence/ 

Learn English Today

Learn English Today is a website for those who are studying English as a second language (ESL) or a foreign language (EFL). 

On this website you will find English grammar rules explained with online exercises and word games, English idioms with an example of use, useful materials for all areas of business, phrasal verbs, useful words, phrases and expressions, quotations, online and printable word games, vocabulary activities from elementary to advanced level, and multiple resources for learners and teachers.

https://www.learn-english-today.com/index.html