Free learning resources

Thursday is M's long day with his online school, so is the day I can do my planning. This week I decided to gather together all the free resource links I've found to date and pop them in one place for easy reference in the future. We are unlikely to use them all this school year.

Free Home Education Resources

Parliament

Book a parliament loan box to learn about how government works http://www.parliament.uk/education/teaching-resources-lesson-plans/parliament-loan-box/

British legion

http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/remembrance/schools-and-learning/learning-pack

Farming, & food production

Grow your own potatoes

http://gyop.potato.org.uk/PreRegister.aspx?PageId=51

Grain Chain

We are using the map poster as our introduction to Geography this year. We start each week with a global breakfast on Monday mornings.

http://www.grainchain.com/Teachers/order-resources.html  In the spring we will grow our own grains in the garden (probably sweet corn, amaranth and quinoa ).

Design and technology

Dyson Project Loan Box

http://www.jamesdysonfoundation.co.uk/.../engineering-box/ for a dyson project

We also have the Dyson Challenge cards, which we will use once our electronics apprenticeship is complete.

The Environment & Conservation

Butterfly conservation project

http://www.butterfly-conservation.org/

Water

http://www.wateraid.org/uk/audience/schools/the-water-resource

Primary and secondary packs are available.

Habitats

http://www.britishecologicalsociety.org/education/teaching-resources/wallcharts/

Soil association

http://www.soilassociation.org/Search/tabid/38/Default.aspx?cx=009018360221032490705%3Aeoxc-qjqswo&cof=FORID%3A10&ie=UTF-8&q=activity+book

Links to several curriculum packs covering several topics

Biology 

The British Heart Foundation
http://www.bhf.org.uk/schools.aspx

Plants
http://www.saps.org.uk/

Science for a bit of fun on Fridays (meant for Primary but does it really matter?)
http://www.lovescience.co.uk/friday-freebie-blog/

General 

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/