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Design & Technology

Institute of Food Science and Technology
Electronic Gourmet Guide
Woodworking Site.
Food and Nutrition Resources.
Tesco's
Sainsbury's
The Body Shop
Friends of the Earth
Puppet Projects - Interactive Canadian site with loads of activities to print off and do in class on puppet projects.
UK Schools Technology Section - A great list of technology sites: The Technology Education Index, DT Times Online, Doctronics, and loads more.

Mathematics

Mathematics on the web
Maths
Mega Mathematics the most colourful math of all.
The Geometry Centre is located at the University of Minnesota and it has much to offer.
Shell Centre for Mathematical Education.
Explorer Maths Resources Database.
Maths Resources around the world

English

Children's Literature Web Guide
IECC - Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections - Finding partner classrooms in the Intercultural E-Mail Classroom
The Comenius Group E-Mail Key Pal Connection
Internet Resources Related to Books for Children and Young Adults
OUP Oxford Reading Tree
Oxford English Dictionary
Roget's thesaurus
Shakespeare Web
Books On-Line - search tool for electronic book titles
Jane Austen Homepage - excellent site: text searching, links to hypertext versions of her novels
Gutenberg Electronic Books Project
Telegraph
CNN Cable News Network
NISS info gateway
Financial Times
mag.net VNU Computer magazine publishers
news Daily Record + Sunday Mail

Music

National Youth Music Theatre
Addicted to Noise
Music virtual library - WWW Virtual Music Library: References to a huge amount of material.
Richard Robinson's Tunebook - Traditional tunes from Ireland, England, Scotland and the Northern Isles.
The Classical Midi Archive
Music from the Andes
The Ultimate Band List
The Academy of Digital Music

Geography

Maps and Plans
What do Maps show? - lesson plans

Countries of the World
Africa Information Centre
UK Travel Guide
European Union Factbook

Villages, Towns and Cities
Paris
City of Cambridge
Bury St Edmunds
Lavenham, Suffolk
Greenwich 2000

Weather and Seasons
Satellite weather pages
Weather summary for the UK
WWW Virtual Library: Meteorology
The Four Seasons Project
Virtual Library of Meteorology

Other Places
Castles of the World
Castle on the Web
Volcanoes

Conservation
Groundwork
Friends of the Earth
Greenpeace
RainbowNet - environment, "cultural technology", green futures
World Conservation Monitoring Centre.

P.E.

Women's Sport Page
Sports Information Service
Carling Net - The web site of the Premier League.
Soccer Net - Another soccer site.
Arsenal World

History

General History Sites
Ann Wagstaff's excellent History page
HyperHistory Online - a fascinating and growing visual display of human history for the last 3000 years.
People Past and Present Part 1 - Sites for Children
Victoria and Albert Museum
The Natural History Museum
Castles of the World
Castle on the Web
The Ancient World. The Ultimate Index of All Things Ancient.

The Monarchs of England
Welford and Wickam School's "The Monarchs of England" page.

Aztecs
Welford and Wickham School's "Aztecs" page.

Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Artefacts Exhibit.
Ancient Egypt Home Page
Ancient Egypt Resources
Life in Ancient Egypt
Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Ancient Egypt- Lesson Ideas

Ancient Greeks
Ancient Greeks - British Museum Virtual Tour from All Souls school
The Ancient Greek World Introduction
The Ancient Greeks - the Athenians of ancient Greece.
Hercules

Romans

Saxons
Saxons
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon- Viking- Norman and British Living History 950-1066AD - Home Page

Vikings
Vikings
Vikings Homepage
Regia Anglorum - Anglo-Saxon- Viking- Norman and British Living History 950-1066AD - Home Page
The World of the Vikings- the definitive guide to Viking resources on the internet

Middle Ages 1272-1485

Tudors and Stuarts
Welford and Wickam School's "Tudors and Stuarts" page.
Mary Rose Museum.

Georgians 1714-1830

Victorians 1830-1901
The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 - Includes biographies of women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, and a database of written primary sources by or about these women and a collection of relevant images.

Modern times
Titanic: Departure Southampton - information on the fateful voyage of April 1912
Anne Frank Online
The Hangar - WWII Aircraft
Lancaster Aircraft
Spitfire Aircraft
The Mini Car
The International Internet Encyclopaedia of the First World War - being created by teachers and students from several different countries, including USA, Germany, France, Greece and Ireland. Currently over 300 pages of cross-referenced information.
The Emancipation of Women: 1860-1920 - Includes biographies of women who played a prominent part in the struggle for equality, and a database of written primary sources by or about these women and a collection of relevant images.
Investigating the Vietnam War - Includes a series of possible investigations, each with a list of websites student should consider visiting, and an Interview Area where where students can interview Vietnam Veterans, members of the Vietnam Peace Movement and the websites' resident historian, by email.

Local History

Tools to Search the Web

Woodside Primary School's search page (courtesy of Linkstar).

Yahooligans : a good search engine suitable for younger years.
Yahoo Search
Altavista
Altavista UK
Altavista UK text only advanced searching
Search Engine Tutorial at "Northern Webs" in Idaho, USA
Shareware Search Engine
Environmental Organisation WebDirectory
Lycos Search Form
Webcrawler Search
Euroferret from Muscat: allows you to choose the country you want to search in
Starting Point Search
WWW Pages MCP.COM the Macmillan Encyclopaedia of Computing
WWW Yellow Pages
InfoSeek Search
Mckinley
Pointcom
InfoSpace
WebCrawler
The UK Index

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