BBC BiteSize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education BBC BiteSize has small, useful clips and info about curriculum topics. There’s quite wide coverage, but the clips are quite short. This is a useful top-up to other learning, not an education programme by itself. Also, some of the clips can feel a little patronizing. But overall, this has great visualisation tools to…
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TableTop
WARNING: Not all episodes suitable for children, watch them first!!! Link: http://geekandsundry.com/shows/tabletop/ TableTop is a web series about board games. It does include some bad language, but it’s mostly bleeped. The series includes ‘TableTop After Dark’ episodes which are very much *not* suitable for children, including games like Cards Against Humanity. So watch first, before showing…
LingLing Learn Spanish (Android app)
LingLing Learn Spanish: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hepilabs.lingling.spanish Good for: fun word-learning app for primary age children. We’ve tried several apps for learning Spanish, as well as one website. They all have different strengths and weaknesses, but this one ended up as our favourite. (Well, my son’s favourite. I didn’t really get a say). The characters are fun, and you…
Crash Course World History – curriculum
Crash Course make great videos. World History was one of their earlier courses, and my son has watched it all the way through. Some of it shot over his head, some he really got, all of it he enjoyed. Now Crash Course have branched out a little and created a curriculum to go with the…
Crash Course (General)
Crash Course is a YouTube channel which creates video courses covering a wide range of topics – World History, US Government, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Ecology, Literature, Philosophy and more. The courses are being actively developed, so the range is expanding all the time. There are more detailed notes of specific courses elsewhere on this site. For…
Big History Project
The Big History Project is at https://school.bighistoryproject.com/. The project covers history from the Big Bang to the present day. There are different sample curricula provided, depending on whether you want to focus on human history, cover the full timespan equally, and so forth. There is a shorter, six-hour version for the just-interested, or a full programme…
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