Resources for Learning & Teaching

PicFindr

PicFindr searches the web* for stock photography that is completely free to use commercially.

National Education Network Resources

A booklet detailing resources available from all of the Regional Broadband Consortia as part of the National Education Network.

What2Learn

What2Learn, an interactive learning solution providing effective educational resources and revision games. The fun way to revise and prepare for success in your GCSEs, SATs and KS3 subjects.

uLearn

A free cross-curricular resource library providing access from one search box to every open free learning resource created by every Grid for Learning.

The GIMP 2.4

Free image editor with many capabilities. GIMP 2.4 can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, an image format converter, etc. (Also in Sound & Vision section)

Wavosaur

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing, processing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur has all the features to edit audio (cut, copy, paste, etc.) produce music loops, analyze, record, batch convert. (Also in Sound & Vision section)

Lego Designer 2

Plan amazing Lego creations. Free software which lets you design using no fewer than 763 different kinds of Lego bricks. (Also in Design & Technology resources)

Resources for Subjects

Links to the curriculum resources on this site.

English	Mathematics	Science	Art	Geography
History	MFL	Music	RE	PSHCE
ICT	Design & Technology	P.E.	Business Studies	Outdoor Education

In the YHGfL Foundation Website Resources section you will find a wealth of teaching and learning materials, from such sources as Pathe News Archive, Tuned In and much more besides.

Weather Stations with Webcams

View real-time data, forcasts and images from areas within North Yorkshire and other parts of the YHGfL region.

Tuned In

The YHGfL Foundation have renewed the license for schools to use Tuned-In if you are in the Yorkshire and Humber area.

All of the original resources are available, plus many more. To access some resources, you will now require a username and password which you can obtain from you Local Authority (LA)

Links to many websites which provide ideas, information and resources for teachers and pupils
- Highly recommended, Interactive Whiteboard Resources, E-mail resources, Resources for Subjects, Resources for FS/KS1 Practicioners, Sites for Children- FS/KS1, Sites for Children - KS2.

Online resources to support teaching and learning about the Solar System and beyond....

Loc8, Google Earth etc. Try Create-a-Scape for exciting ideas about using these resources.

Picasa, Audacity, Logitech ImageStudio, Windows Movie Maker etc - all you need for sound and video editing.

Google Docs & Spreadsheets

If you have ever struggled to keep track of different versions of spreadsheet or word processor files sent over email, Google Docs & Spreadsheets may be right for you.

Creative Archive Licence

Creative Archive Licence

The BBC, the bfi, Channel 4 and the Open University set up the Creative Archive Licence Group to make their content available for download under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence. The Creative Archive is an initiative to provide access to public service audio and video archives in such a way as to allow the British public to find, share, watch, listen and re-use the archive as a fuel for their own creative endeavours.

British Film Institute Archive

British Film Institute's site featuring video clips made available for free download to users in the United Kingdom under the innovative Creative Archive Licence - to stimulate creative re-use for non-commercial purposes.

Domesday Project

In 1086 King William I of England published the Domesday Book, hand written on vellum and now on display at The National Archives in London.
In 1986 the BBC published its Domesday Project on a pair of twelve inch laser discs with a laserdisc player and microcomputer.
In 2003 LongLife Data, supported by The National Archives, BBC and ATSF, created a Windows version of the 1986 Domesday Community data which is available to use at The National Archives.
In 2004 LongLife Data created this web version.

Unnetie

10,000 historical images of North Yorkshire available to view online.

Imagine York

10 000 historic photographs from the libraries and archives of York.

Leodis

A digitisation project delivered by Leeds Library & Information Service - almost 42,000 old and new pictures of Leeds.

'Twixt Aire and Calder'

Photographs, maps, memorabilia, prints, sound and video from the collections of Wakefield Metropolitan District Council (WMDC) Libraries and Information Services, local groups and individuals.

Secondary school chemistry and beyond. A free online interactive Periodic Table which can also be downloaded for offline reference. This Periodic Table covers most of the information about different elements that you are every likely to want!

The Crocodile ICT Player lets you create and modify sequences of flowchart instructions, which can control on-screen characters or animations.

Based on the programming and control software Crocodile ICT, it is free to download and use on either a whiteboard or individual computers.

teachers.tv

The website contains channel information, teaching resources, and full-length streaming video of thousands of education programmes.

learn.co.uk

On the website you will find lessons to support the national curriculum, resources for learners which build on the 200-year-old archive of the Guardian and the Observer and a unique range of online events.