Free online Educational resources for children

Children learning

Schools are back and we are currently battling with getting the children out of bed and making sure they eat enough breakfast to get them through the day.

But as you already know it doesn’t stop there.  Being a parent is a full-time, full-on job.  So whilst I always want to ensure the children are well fed – I also want to feed their brains.

Now I would like to say straight from the start that Schools do a great job.  I’m really happy with the teachers and the effort that goes into educating my kids.

But sometimes it can really help your child by tapping into some useful resources online.

History online

Interested in the Great fire of London?  The site was created by the Museum of London, in partnership with The National Archives, London Fire Brigade Museum, National Portrait Gallery and London Metropolitan Archives. Lovely

Not list would be complete without the a reference to the Encyclopaedia Britannica.  With over 1 Million pages, this American resource has more information that you could ever really need.

The History of Scotland

Not on the School Curriculum but an interesting site nonetheless.  Scotland’s History cover 5000 years of Scottish history.

English

The Times Spelling Bee is a visual feast.  Developed by the Times newspaper it’s simple purpose is to improve spelling.

The Bitesize School Radio is excellent.  For this children, and as an adult I include myself in this category, who prefer to hear rather than read from a page, this resource is packed with audio files.

BBC Starship is aimed at year 2 student at primary school and covers areas of Maths and English

The Solar System

Once again the BBC gets top marks for it’s quite incredible resource into our solar system.  There are pages and pages of engaging information on the topic.

GCSE help

First stop has to be the BBC Bitesize.  It’s a secondary school revision resource for students studying their GCSEs.  It includes written content, interactive content, audio, video and games.

Skool, is an interest site.  Not as well laid out as Bitesize it still has heaps of resources for Maths, Biology, Chemistry and Physics, for Key Stage 3 & 4.

Its aims are to provide students and and teachers with an innovative and exciting solution to support the learning, teaching and understanding of  Science and Maths.

Carroll Diagrams

I never knew what Carroll Diagrams were before I bumped into this site – I think I was of school this day.  But this is a simple and superb site.

If I have not covered a particular subject that interests you then I would recommend that you visit Top Marks.  It’s a Google for Education.

To Wiki or not to Wiki

Wikipedia is a fabulous resource and is cram-packed with lots of information.  However, it is self-edited, in that it’s the users that can change the facts.  So if you do use it, take care to verify the information afterwards.

A quick note about the BBC.  When compiling this list it really was quite difficult not to include the BBC website within every entry.  In not mentioning the BBC I thought it was only fair to give some other sites a fair chance.

At Simply Stick we are dedicated to helping making life a little easier.

Social Bookmarks