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Fairtrade schools
Did you know that schools can gain Fairtrade School status? This is an initiative run by the Fairtrade Foundation, similar to the Fairtrade Towns/City initiative. Edinburgh's first Fairtrade school, St Thomas of Aquin’s RC High School, received its Fairtrade School status in December 2008.
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The World United
An Approach to Cross-Curricular Learning
for Curriculum for Excellence
Click here to access the resources
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Learning Publications
Our educational publications are produced with the needs of learners, teachers and parents foremost, using resources developed by teachers and other practitioners. We offer high-quality books and teaching packs for sale at cost-effective prices, as well as providing materials for our own schools and centres.
Find out more at www.edinburgh.gov.uk/learningpublications
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Edinburgh Street Features
Picture Resources
A selection of images for use in road safety activities.
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A Reading database for pupils and staff , compiled by the reading groups of Information and Learning Resources. |
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The George Lucas Educational Foundation (GLEF) is a nonprofit operating foundation that documents and disseminates models of the most innovative practices in America's schools. They do this through the creation of media -- from films, books, and newsletters, to CD-ROMS. Their web site contains all the multimedia content published since 1997. |
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Interactive Body
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| ArtisanCam is an interactive website, commissioned by the Culture Online initiative, funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. It gives an insight into the lives of contemporary visual artists and their work, and is aimed primarily at pupils aged 10-14 and their teachers. Users can watch artists live in their studios or working on location, with video recordings of past sessions. Pupils and teachers can also learn by trying a classroom workshop led by an artist or an online activity. The website is at http://www.artisancam.org.uk |
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Problem Solving and Enquiry: 5 - 14
This website is part of the LT Scotland sites and covers all aspects of using problem Solving and Enquiry as a tool in learning and teaching. There are many video clips illustrating points being made, plus a challenge to work out the length of the Loch Ness Monster. |
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Google Earth – Explore, Search and Discover!
Want to know more about a specific location? Dive right in -- Google Earth combines satellite imagery, maps and the power of Google Search to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
Fly from space to your neighborhood. Type in an address and zoom right in.
The address is http://earth.google.com/
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Teachers' TV
Teachers' TV, the TV channel for everyone who works in schools, launched on 8th February 2005 along with its full website. It is running on Telewest Ch. 240, Sky Ch.592 and repeated overnight on Frreview Ch. 47. You can find out more at www.teachers.tv
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Holocaust Memorial Day
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Sound and Light Animations.
A set of animations to support learning in sound and light at levels D - F in the Scottish 5-14 National Guidelines for Science. They were created in a project funded by an ICT Enhancement Award from LT Scotland. The team was led by Robert Brice in the Physics Dept. at James Gillespies High School.
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A site for Science/Biology teachers with interactive activities for 4 areas of the body - the Brain, the Skeleton, the heart and the Digestive Tract. |
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Yahooligans Teachers Guide.
You have probably heard of Yahooligans, the Yahoo site for children, but did you know it also has a teacher's section with an enormous library of links to resources on the Web arranged by subject. Scroll down to Yahooligans Categories and pick your subject from the list! Its another site which is American focused but still has a great deal of very useful resources for teachers here.
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The National Priorities in Education
This site is being regularly added to and developed. One area of interest to Teachers is a library of video and audio clips of colleagues demonstrating and discussing how they have tackled aspects of the 5 priorities in their classrooms and schools. There are contributions from some Edinburgh schools. |
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Improving
Science Education 5-14
A site aimed mainly at Science teachers, but it does have the Revised 5-14 guidelines for all the Environmental Studies subjects in web format.
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Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. Although focussed towards the American system, it is nevertheless a superb source for teachers here as well. The fact that it is updated almost daily makes it worth revisiting frequently.
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