Page for learners and teachers

This page is designed to provide links to key on-line resources for learners and teachers. Links to the content, much of which is available for free, are arranged by subject matter under the following headings:

About the Collective in your own language:

General education sites

• The BBC's site for schools
• The British Educational Communications and Technology Agency (Becta)
• Channel 4 learning
• The Association of Teachers' Websites (links to websites developed by teachers)
• e-Learning for Kids - aims to be the top site for childhood learning on the Internet
• High School Ace - a US homework site
• The Global Gateway - a UK site maintained by the British Council to support global educational partnerships
• Education World - a US education site
• Discovery Channel School
• S-Cool's site for school children
• Living Library resources for teachers and learners
• Education Networks.Org - facilitating online learning for developing nations
• James Atherton's Learning and Teaching site that explores learning and teaching in College, Adult and Professional Education
• The Times Online education site, with education news and reports
• Maria Jordano de la Torre's links on teacher professional development and ICT
• Eduteka Foundation - Spanish language resources for school teachers, including overviews on e-learning in Latin America
• Maestroteca - Spanish language portal for teachers, with educational websites sorted by subject. Financed through advertising.
• IECC - free service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges, established in 1992 by three professors from St. Olaf College in Minnesota
• ToolFactory - publishes and distributes software and educational resources in north America
• Digital Wish - helps schools in the USA gain technology access across all subject areas - and includs useful demos
• Curriki - an online environment created to support the development and free distribution of educational materials

Geography and History

• The People's Geography Project
• The Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers)
• The Geographical Association
• Internet Geography (UK's NGFL)
• KoolKidStuff Geography resources
• Staffordshire Learning Net Geography
• Geography all the Way by Richard Allaway at the International School of Toulouse

• SchoolHistory.co.uk
• The Open Directory's History site
• Schoolshistory.org.uk
• History on the Net

Art

• The National Gallery London
• The Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
• Museo del Prado
• Zeroland a web directory of arts and cultures of the world
• Art and Culture
• The @rt Room
• San Francisco Fine Arts Museum
• The Louvre
• The Getty Trust Education site
• Crayola's art site

Science

• The Exploratorium's Science Resource site
• The Science Museum in London
• Planet Science owned and run by the UK's National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts
• Questacon The Australian National Science and Technology Centre
• Open Directory Project Science Educational Resources
• Milan's National Museum of Science and Technology
• Mad Science Network
• sciZmic - the Science Discovery Clubs Network, run from the UK
• The Tiger Information Centre
• Exam.net for A' Level Biology revision
• Hunkin's Experiments - science experiments through cartoons by Tim Hunkin
• ScienceLine - although this closed in 2003, many articles and features about science are still available
• RedIRIS - Spanish National Research Network

Classics

• Cambridge School Classics Project

Religious education

• BBC's religion site
• Christian Aid Children's site
• Buddhanet site
• Hindu Org
• Islam Online
• Jewish Net
• Tear Fund

Mathematics

• The Millennium Mathematics Project at the University of Cambridge, launched in 1999, including
  • The nrich project - designed to enrich the mathematical experiences of all school students, from 5-19
  • +Plus - an online magazine aimed at ages 15+ featuring articles on mathematics and its applications to science, art and society
• Maths Net
• Collaborative Group for Research in Mathematics Education
• Catalogue of Mathematics websites maintained by M. Maheswaran at the University of Wisconsin Marathon County

Computer Science

• British Computer Society

Languages

• High School Ace English site
• Leo - includes excellent German-English-French-Spanish dictionaries - an online service provided by Informatik der Technischen Universität München

For learners of English as a foreign language:

• E.L. Easton English online
• Learn English with The British Council
• The BBC World Service's Learning English site

For teachers of English as a foreign language:

• E.L. Easton English online
• Learn English with The British Council
• IATEFL - The International Association of Teachers of English as a Foreign Language
• TESOL - Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages

Foreign languages for English speakers:

• Zut Org's French site
• French Revision

Sites for listening to videos in English (for non English learners):

• The BBC's Video Nation collection
• Japanese Institute of Global Communications
• Real English Online
• Online NewsHour's video search (US English)
• CNN's videos (US English)