Social Subjects

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Social Subjects
Love Earth 
By Susie MacIntyre

How far do African elephants travel for food and water, where do Antarctic humpbacks go to breed and how do polar bears hunt on the Arctic pack-ice?

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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.

How well do you really know Europe? This is an activity mixing aspects of the game ‘Tetris’ and geography. Instead of positioning the typical Tetris blocks, position countries at their proper location. Try Africa, Europe, France, Netherlands, UK and France.

'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.

Let me introduce myself. My name is Shamus and I am from the Isle of Islay. I am going on a mission to New Zealand. Would you like to come along? Then, just click on me every week to see where I am and what I am doing.

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