Quote for November

Work to live,

don't live to work!

An interactive human body

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/body/interactives/3djigsaw_02/index.shtml is a BBC site that is highly visual and interactive. The students choose between organs, muscles, the skeleton or nervous systems. Both the male and female bodies are available.

Various muscles, organs or bones in 3D need to be rotated and dragged to the correct position in the body. If the student gets stuck, helpful hints are given. User-friendly.

Periodic Table

Go to
http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/education/elements/index.html if you need a periodic table that is well layed-out. It is published by the National Research Council of Canada and is in full colour, with a PDF print option that can be used to provide students with their own copy. Each element has a hyperlink that takes you to a description.

Animation of the Heart

http://library.med.utah.edu/kw/pharm/hyper_heart1.html
is a great resource for biology teachers. Learners can see how the heart acts as a pump. It shows the systole and the diastole and the contraction of the ventricle. There are graphs showing pressure in different parts of the heart at different times, as well as a graph of an electrocardiogram and of the heart sounds. Fascinating!

Teaching Clock

This is the most fantastic interactive teaching tool. Used to teach children how to tell the time, it has both an anologue and a digital face. It will tell you if it is day time or night time. A twelve hour or twenty-four hour clock can be used. Just follow the easy to use buttons to show hours, minutes and seconds. Please try this one, its such fun.

http://www.wmnet.org.uk/wmnet/custom/files_uploaded/uploaded_resources/503/clock.swf

Alphabetical Order

This Alphabetical order application is a simple to use word ordering exercise. Words are simply dragged from the left hand side of the screen to their correct place in the word order list on the right hand side. When all words have been placed in the list the user clicks on the check button to get feedback on their selected order. If the list has been ordered correctly the user can either select to do it again (perhaps setting up ready for another pupil) or move onto the next level. There are four levels of difficulty altogether. http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=wordorder1a

Quote for June

Knowledge we can acquire,

wisdom comes from God.