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Humanities

http://www.brims.co.uk/tudors/

All you could ever wish to know about the Tudors – check the Wives of Henry VIII page – run your mouse over their portraits and wonder!

http://www.j-sainsbury.co.uk/museum/museum.htm

Although, obviously, focusing on the well-known Supermarket they have a lot of good information on here and ideas for activities. Concentrates on WWII and Victorian Britain

http://web-jpn.org/kidsweb/index.html

A colourful site for those students who need to find out more about Japan.

http://www.cadburylearningzone.co.uk/history/

Comprehensive site which gives the students information on Victorian Britain and then tests them (if only it was always that easy!). Some excellent classroom Teaching Resources too linking into the website or Excel Files provided free of charge! You can also download a Virtual Village Tour and activities for use in School – says it’s for KS2 but hey, who’s counting?

http://www.nwlg.org/pages/resources/mapgames/geog.html

UK, European and World Maps - Test your students' knowledge of the wider picture - helpful for putting everything in its place!

http://www.activehistory.co.uk/sample_activities.htm

WOW!! This is a superb site which covers an enormous amount of history! Worksheets and Teachers' Notes to accompany the on-line activities - unfortunately only some are now free - quite a few though!

http://www.u.arizona.edu/ic/kmartin/School/activiti.htm

Site on Native Americans with information and plenty of fun activities for students

http://www.historyglobe.com/websites.html#a2

This site caters for Native American History topics and Geography - Settlements - brilliant Jamestown Flash Adventure (takes a while to load but worth it) and an interactive map.

http://www.ideers.bris.ac.uk/earth/earth_home.html

Some good information here on everything you need to know about earthquakes. The information is in short chunks which would be helpful to those of us who have problems taking in massive amounts of info at once.

http://tofino.ex.ac.uk/virvic/etoys/home.htm

While away the hours playing with these virtual Victorian toys (the site also has lots of information on Victorian life.

http://www.bellmuseum.org/distancelearning/prairie/build/index.html

Build a prairie - learn about the plants which will survive, and those which won't!

www.kingtutone.com/kids/

Rather nice ancient Egyptian site here

http://www.studyworksonline.com/cda/content/explorations/0,1600,NAV2-95_SEP1645,00.shtml

Solve the mystery of the Pharoah's Tomb here and learn your hieroglyphics as you go!

http://www.studyworksonline.com/cda/content/worksheet/0,,EXP1548_NAV2-77_SWK1552,00.shtml

Virtual Dinosaur dig - follow the instructions, get your grant from Shale University, buy your tickets and off you go!!!

http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/mummies/activity/main.html

Learn about mummification and then make your way through the underworld

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/west/index.html

Useful for History and Geography, this trip across the Wild, Wild, West! Lots of decisions to be made - will you make it through?

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/j1.html

Oh dear, once on these pages it's hard to get off again - live the experiences of a slave in this one!

http://www.christiananswers.net/kids/jeep/home.html

Build your own jungle jeep to explore the rainforest!

http://www.christiananswers.net/kids/canoe/home.html

From the same site - navigate your canoe down the Amazon!

http://www.show.me.uk/hosted/pro/act.htm

War-rationing game where you buy enough rations for the week whilst answering questions!

http://www.ltmuseum.co.uk/play/adventures/index.html

Travel round London on this site, learn how to read the map of the Tube etc!

http://www.twmuseums.org.uk/games/segedunum.php

How did the Romans fight? Play this game to find out!

http://www.historyonthenet.com/Lessons/anachronism/anachronismspot.htm

What is an anachronism and why do they occur? Click here to find out!

http://www.biography.com/search/index.jsp

You may already know of this site - invaluable for research - have added it, just in case it has passed you by!

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/penaltyshootout/

A whole selection of Historical quizzes here presented in an excellent format - well worth a look!

http://www2.sptimes.com/Treasures/Default.html

A rather nice look at all things Romanov - you can even take a crash course in Russian!

http://www.neferchichi.com/

A comprehensive Ancient Egyptian site - lots of things to see and do

http://www.childrensmuseum.org/geomysteries/mysteries.html

Learn all about rocks with Rex the Dino Detective!

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/castles/enter.html

Yet another good National Geographic activity - this time on the layout of your very own Castle!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/coasts/whatis_coast/ and

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/riversandcoasts/coasts/change_coast/

Summer is here (well for a while) introduce your child to "coasts" and "rivers"!

http://www.headlinehistory.co.uk/online/London%20and%20South%20East/eraChooser.htm

This site gives you the option to select one of four eras. You then choose a story from that time, "interview" witnesses and write your own version of the story on a template prepared by the site. Excellent!!!

http://teacher.scholastic.com/histmyst/index.asp

Somewhere for students to investigate and get clues about a specific event or era. Some European events and history/geography, although much of it is American.