September’s interactive websites – Secondary

Secondary 

Name: MIT – Open courseware 
Address: http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm 
Description: MIT OpenCourseWare is a free publication of MIT course materials that reflects almost all the undergraduate and graduate subjects taught at MIT 

Languages 

Name: Live Mocha 
Address: http://www.livemocha.com/ 
Description: Livemocha is the world’s largest online language learning community 

Name: Word2Word 
Address: http://www.word2word.com/course.html 
Description: Free online language courses 

Name: Maori.org 
Address: http://www.maori.org.nz/kotereo/ 
Description: An online Maori language course and listings of resources. 

English 

Name: Read Print 
Address: http://www.readprint.com/ 
Description: Free online books library for students, teachers, and the classic enthusiast. 

Science 

Name: Cells alive 
Address: http://www.cellsalive.com/cells/cell_model.htm 
Description: All about cells 

Name: The life cycle of plants 
Address:http://www2.bgfl.org/bgfl2/custom/resources_ftp/client_ftp/ks2/science/plants_pt2/index.htm#
Description: Activities around the life cycle of a plant 

Name: make your own weather forecast 
Address: http://www.watbot.co.uk/ria/wxforecast/
Description: Fully interactive map and tools that allow students to present their own weather forecast. 

History 

Name: How to be a Retronaut 
Address: http://www.howtobearetronaut.com 
Description: Interesting take on learning history 


Exercise 

Name: Walk jog run 
Address: http://www.walkjogrun.net/
Description: Exercise mapping 

Name: Map my run 
Address: http://www.mapmyrun.com/ 
Description: Exercise mapping 

General 

Name: Rainforest SOS 
Address: schools.rainforestsos.org/ 
Description: Range of teacher made resources all based around saving the rainforest. 

Name: Snag Learning 
Address: http://learning.snagfilms.com/ 
Description: SnagFilms is dedicated to bringing high quality, award-winning documentaries to an online audience around the world — all for free. From the beginning, teachers have championed our films’ potential to engage their students and supplement their learning.