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Middle School problem solving videos. Click Rollem'em to choose from the different episodes. Could be used for individual, small group and whole class problem-solving activities. Demonstrates the reasoning needed to solve the problem.

Excellent collection of online explorations for space/astronomy topics. Plenty of teacher_resources.

Select a mystery character from the Civil War. Then find the objects that hold the key to their identity. Are you up for a challenge?

http://www.learningcurve.gov.uk/index/exhibitions.htm This is an investigation into life on the home front during the Second World War. There are seven galleries: preparations for war,evacuation,,bombing of Britain,Empire home front,everyday life,women at war, spies Each gallery is broken into various topics with sources and questions. The visual material is accessible to all pupils with or without teacher input. There are worksheets, timelines and a glossary. There is also a diary facility so pupils can save, edit and access their work directly from the net. The gallery contains a video archive using clips from the Imperial War Museum on many of the topics. Some galleries have additional activities to play: Lights Out; Escape the Blitz; Shelter from the Blitz; Empire Home Front; Shopping in the War; Spy Catcher. More resources available from Great Britain's National Archive.

Interactive activities from Great Britain's National Archives. Learn about the Court of Henry VIII, tudor life, and jousting. Well done and informative. Includes teacher resources.

Blueberry Farm is a computer program that models a simple ecosystem. It was designed to be used as part of a sequence of science lessons aiming to help Yr7 pupils understand more about the use of chemical agents in farming and how these can affect ecosystems.

A thinking for learning activity to encourage group discussion and justification of decision making. 6 people are left on a liferaft, for the raft to stay afloat 2 people must be thrown off.Who will it be? Why? Is it fair? Who should go first? Are some lives less valuable than others?

The goals of Project Interactivate are the creation, collection, evaluation, and dissemination of interactive Java-based courseware for exploration in science and math.

Build towns and cities. It is similar to some of the old MyWorld screens and SIM City. This is a building tool only. Could be used to support other curriculum areas.

Animal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan

Construct your own robot from a range of different materials and components, and try it out in one of our treacherous Zones. If our Zones are not challenging enough, you can construct your own Zones to share, or download one of the hundreds already upload