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Hunter Adair's Guide to the Countryside 
By A D Thomson

Hunter Adair, a countryman living and farming in Hexham, Northumberland, has written a series of 8 books about the countryside. He has agreed to allow the books to be published on The Country Trust’s website at  so that schools up and down the country can access and download the books to teach children about the countryside.  Click here to view these resources.  Download the 'Information Sheet'.

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The Learning Zone 
By Susie MacIntyre
The Learning Zone provides rich audio-visual material for use in primary, secondary schools and colleges. These short videos have been selected to match the curriculum; they can be used in many ways, from the stimulation and engagement of students to the delivery of very specific learning points.

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The Learning Wall 
By Emily Reynolds

The Learning Wall is an interactive display that is developed throughout a unit of work and involves pupils in the planning and assessment of their learning.

 

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Discover Antarctica 
By Susie MacIntyre

Antarctica is the world?s highest, driest, coldest and windiest continent.

Take a journey through this site to learn about this frozen wilderness. Each section features activities, video clips and factsheets.

MapZone® is a totally free, bright and lively web site produced by Ordnance Survey that aims to teach children, between 7 and 16 years, mapping skills in a fun way. This free resource offers interactive play with stimulating questions and answers together with animations and games to make the structured learning process a joy to come back to.

Geograph is an on-line photo library. All the images on the site can be used freely within the classroom and for personal use.  You can also upload you own photos for any grid square in the British Isles. If yours is the first picture for a particular grid square you will have ‘bagged’ this square and you picture will be the first that visitors see. Currently there are over 100,000 images available to view and download form the site. In the near future Ordnance Survey will be adding 1:50,000 mapping and developing teaching resources to use in conjunction with the site.

'The Blitz on Clydeside' website includes memories, documents and photographs of the people and places of Clydeside during the Second World War.

Find out what happened in Scotland’s worst bombed town and browse through images of wartime.

'Kidipede' covers a very wide variety of historical topics and is ideally suited for children's personal research. Investigate art, architecture religion, science, politics, food, clothing and the environment. This site also allows you to construct timelines and has examples of practical activities, teaching ideas and projects.

Use your detective skills to discover top secrets during the Second World War.

This website is a valuable resource for any project on World War 2.   Visit site.