Storynory is an online treasure trove of audio stories. The site contains a mixture of new stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories. They have published an audio story every week since November 2005 which are free to download and use. The stories are read by Natasha Gostwick and her clear story-telling voice [...]
Here are two new updates to the Smart website that teachers will find very useful. Smart Gallery Collections The new SMART Gallery collections is now live. These are themed compilations of copyright cleared objects which you can download and add to your Smart Notebook gallery. You can see the list of resources here. Finding Smart [...]
I’ve always been a fan of using songs to introduce science concepts, and there’s tonnes of possibilities to choose from. From proper “commercial” songs to stuff like Simple Science Videos. Two I liked to use include They Might Be Giants – Birdhouse in Your Soul (electricity/energy) and Particle Man. Well, it turns out that They [...]