File Share: Four pages of online resources

Learn about languages around the globe with Langscape (langscape.umd. edu). With nearly 7,000 listed, zoom to any spot on the globe and see what languages are natively spoken there. Click on the name to display basic information about the language and its speakers, including sounds and recordings, references, and texts. The Biology Corner (biologycorner. com) contains lessons, quizzes, worksheets, labs, webquests, and information for all levels on various biology subjects. Explore anatomy, cell biology, evolution, ecology, and more. Search by keyword and topic, or simply browse the lessons on the homepage.

The United Nation’s website section Children (un.org/en/global-issues/ children) explores global issues from a young person’s perspective. From Human Rights and Ending Poverty to Refugees and Water, there are resources, information and links on a range of issues and challenges for children worldwide.

As well as being one of the world most recognisable buildings, the Sydney

Opera House’s Schools

(sydneyoperahouse.com/learn/schools. html) offers a range of fun digital teaching activities. Check out a video that uncovers the mathematical concepts behind the building’s design or a podcast on developing kids’ musical understanding. For all things science try Science Buddies (sciencebuddies.org). This site is jam-packed with resources covering classic and innovative STEM-related learning. These include videos, activities, experiments, lesson plans, science fair tools, and classroom kits. Search by project, topic or age grade.

Smudge’s Early Science

(stormeducational.co.uk/prev/science/) is a selection of interactive lessons on simple science concepts. Categories include ‘Animals and Plants’, ‘Properties of Materials’, and ‘About Sound’. Select the one you want and click to play. Each activity comes with instructions, options and reporting.

Whether it’s explaining facilitated diffusion or catching criminals with gel electrophoresis, BioMan Biology (youtube.com/c/BioManBiology) is a YouTube channel that has engaging videos and animations for learning about biology. It’s an extension of the BioMan Biology learning games and simulations website (biomanbio.com).

Why are bees important? What can you do to help look after these precious pollinators? The Bee Cause Project (thebeecause.org) has created digital resources for educators to teach about how to support and protect honeybees, and even set up your own hive. These include videos, guides, lesson plans, and virtual field trips. From Seacoast Science Center, Your Learning Connection (bit.ly/ yourlearningconnection) has a library of lesson packs. There are currently 27. Each explore four themes – Get Outside!, Our Ocean, STEM Activities, and Art & Nature – and comes with downloadable materials, interactives, and links.

How did the borders of countries and cultures develop over time? Historic Borders (historicborders.app) is a visually engaging interactive that allows you to see borders of countries, groups, and empires throughout history. From 123,000 BC onwards, move along the timeline to see the changes.

Google recently unveiled a new feature called A Brief History Of Vaccination (bit.ly/vaccinationhistory). Part of its Arts & Culture project, the site has a wide selection of information, images, interactives, and videos about the development of vaccine science and how vaccines work. For easy and simple vector editing try Method Draw (method.ac). To start, pick from several activities to practise using the drawing pen, creating shapes and colours, and understand how it all works. Then, use the link to open a workspace to create your very own designs using the same tools.

Snapstouch Painting (snapstouch.com/ Painting.aspx) lets you convert photographs into images that look like paintings. Upload your photo, select from two painting options, each with a different look, and a couple of editing options, like outlines and brush size. When you’re happy, convert and download. From ‘Who wants a cheap Rhinoceros’ to ‘Don’t Bump the Glump!’, find out about the unique poems and books of Shel Silverstein (shelsilverstein.com). The site has lesson plans, event kits and activities, videos, printables, drawing booklets, and wallpapers to enjoy, download and share.

Teach Living Poets (teachlivingpoets. com) is a collection of resources for helping students to share and enjoy the works of contemporary poetry. Search poets, check out reviews and information, and explore a virtual library, with links to websites, social media profiles, videos, and more.

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Across the world and throughout history, different peoples have developed various ways to deal with human waste. From the SciShow, 6

Toilets From History, and What They

Taught Us (bit.ly/6toilets) showcases half a dozen examples of the development of sanitation systems. Teach and learn how to draw with Drawspace (drawspace.com). Choose from ‘Guided Learning’, which provides a structured course with weekly assignments, or ‘Self-Directed Learning’, where you set your own goals from a portfolio of more than 500 lessons. Sign up to receive updates. Poetry 180 (bit.ly/poetry180) is on a mission. Designed by Billy Collins, a former US Poet Laureate, it lists 180 poems from the Library of Congress archive for students to read – roughly one for every day of the school year. Each comes with information about the poet, as well as additional poetry resources available on the site.

Annotate webpages with Spade (spade. tools). Mark up a page as if it were on paper, using a digital pen, highlighter, and textboxes. Everything’s saved online. Manage and organise your notes and ideas via a dashboard. You can also download and share your annotated pages.

EasySub (easyssub.com) offers a simple way to generate, edit and translate subtitles on videos. It also provides basic online video editing functions, including free video clips, adding watermarks, and modifying background colour and resolution, as well as video export and download. For a simple, online whiteboard tool try Weje (weje.io/online-education). Communicate and collaborate with students and colleagues, plus create and manage class notes, assignments, lesson plans, reading lists, and to-do lists. Sign up is free. Easily save, store and manage your information.

Generate funny animated GIFs from text in just minutes thanks to Viphy (viphy.typestudio.co). Simply type in your text – two or more sentences give the best results – and the site will automatically create the short video. You can correct if needed, then download and share the result.

Create posters, cards, flyers and similar artwork with Posterilove (posterilove. com). Choose a template (which include events, calendars, and certificates) add images, text and a QR code, if you wish. Adjust the size and crop as required. You need to sign in to save. Otherwise, simply download and share. Add some fun to a class project with Fake Tweet Generator (bit.ly/ faketweetgenerator), which does exactly as the name suggests. Create a tweet by adding a profile pic, name, username, message, time, date, likes, retweets, and so on, all the things that a regular tweet would contain. Save and download. You’ll have heard of Wordle but how about Worlde (worldle.teuteuf.fr)? Similar to the popular word game, this geography-based activity challenges players to identify a country by its outline within six guesses – with hints for each wrong answer. You can change the settings and add difficulty, such as rotating the outline.

Test your logic and spatial skills with Shikaku Madness (maths-resources. com/shikaku/). The aim is to cover the grid by tapping and dragging to create rectangles that don’t overlap and contain the number of squares in the clue. Choose from four levels of difficulty when attempting puzzles.

From Google, Interland (bit.ly/ interlandgame) is a game for kids to learn how to become safe, confident explorers of the online world . There are four areas to explore – Kind Kingdom (It’s cool to be kind), Reality River (Don’t fall for a fake), Mindful Mountain (Share with care), and Tower of Treasure (Secure your secrets).

Metadata 2 Go (metadata2go.com) lets you access the hidden metadata of your files, such as where a photo was taken, copyright information, and technical details, like camera type and settings. Just drag and drop or upload an image, document, video, audio or even e-book file. It will show you all metadata hidden inside the file.

Look deeper at image files with EXIFdata (exifdata.com). EXIF – or Exchangeable Image File – is a format for storing data in digital images. Learn about shutter speed, exposure, resolution, F number, flash, ISO number, and the date and time the image was taken. Some images may even store GPS information As the name suggests, you can make crosswords with My Crossword Maker (mycrosswordmaker.com). Enter your words and add the clue. When you have enough, hit ‘arrange’ and see your puzzle created. Change the grid size and move the text as needed. You’ll need an account to save and print.

Easily create crosswords online with web-based Crossword Labs (crosswordlabs.com). The process is very simple:typeinyourcrosswordtitle,enter words, addspaces and come up with clues … and you’re done. Set a passcode and click ‘Generate’.SaveasaWordfileorPDF,or share the url for others to try to solve it.

Upload any photo image to Jimpl (jimpl. com) to uncover its metadata, like date and time, camera settings, geolocation coordinates, and so on. In addition, you can also use the site to remove parts of this data from an image, in order to protect privacy and personal information, as well as reduce the photo file size. Eclipse Crossword (eclipsecrossword. com) is very quick and easy to use. Download the app from the Windows store. Now all you have to do is come up with the words and clues, which it will turn into a custom crossword puzzle. Once you’re finished, print it out or share your puzzle online. Do you like a laugh? Scratch Garden (youtube.com/c/ScratchGardenLand/) certainly does and creates fun, educational videos, each with their own catchy songs. Subjects include English, art and science. There are also amusing ‘brain break’ videos in the form of nursery rhymes, camp songs, and more.

The Juicebox Jukebox (youtube.com/c/ TheJuiceboxJukebox) is on a mission to enrich children’s lives through fun, positive, and educational music and videos. The focus is on core subjects (art and maths) and character-building themes, like ‘The one and only you’ and ‘Kindness’ and ‘Thoughtful’.

From facts about Albert Einstein and Walt Disney to learning the planets of the Solar Systems and Times Tables, Mr DeMaio (youtube.com/c/MrDeMaio7) offers fun, engaging and quirky videos that’ll liven up any lesson. Whatever your class is working on, there’s (probably) a video to complement it.