Thursday, 28 January 2021

Online Resources for leisure

 

Virtual tours

  • Future Learn - Explore the architecture and history of Rome, walking around a 3D digital model of the ancient city, with this free online course.
  • Virtual Tours  - Virtual online tours - including zoos, landmarks in foreign countries, etc.
  • Aquarium – Georgia aquarium allowing you to tour under the sea

Online learning

  • University of Alabama - Free online archaeology and Egyptology Uni courses (create an account to log on)
  • Open Learn - Free, online courses, Open university 
  • Royal institute - Christmas lectures. A series of lectures presenting scientific subjects to a general audience in an entertaining manner.

 Geography and nature

  • Tutorful - Top Geography websites, YouTube videos, and resources 
  • Project Noah – Global site where you can view and share wildlife
  • Seterra - Free world geography, online quizzes 

 Music 

*Check the location/time zones of live-streamed concerts to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator
  • Free Opera  - Dates confirmed until the end of March. Check the website via the link for future dates to be added

Arts and culture

  • Walter's Museum - houses the highest artistic achievements from nearly every corner of the world. View some of the past, present, and future exhibitions

 Literature online

  • Gutenburg - Download free books, e.g. Shakespear, Edgar Allen Poe, Frankenstein, etc. 
  • Solomon Kingsnorth - Books in PDF, Word and audiobook format - Alice in Wonderland / Wind in the Willows / The Railway Children / The Jungle Book / Peter Pan / Black Beauty


  •  Listening books.org - For people with Parkinson's Disease, visual impairment, fibromyalgia, ME/CFS, mental health difficulty or learning difficulty such as Dyslexia, which impacts the ability to read or hold a book

Entertainment

  • Expeditions App- Free virtual Reality Augmentation app for all ages, to take virtual trips around the world to hundreds of destinations.

Miscellaneous 

  • UK parliament  - Politics, history, citizenship, etc. Written for children and young people, but lots of very interesting information, including how laws are made. 
  • Latest free stuff - UK site (if you are outside of the UK, google 'latest free stuff' and add your location)

Prayer resources

*Check the location/time zones of live-streamed masses to calculate the UK start time. Time Zone calculator


English/Literacy

  • Stuart Prike - ‘Remains’ in Word/PDF format - 5 booklets for 5 of the poems plus guiding students on how to compare in an essay
  • Online Gruffalo workshop, and lots more. Plus stories read by Tony Ross, author - 7 stories, Facebook 


    • Elamentari - Write and code interactive stories - free access during school closure

    Virtual tours, and live webcams

    • Future Learn - Explore the architecture and history of Rome, walking around a 3D digital model of the ancient city, with this free online course.
              Hoopla - Public library online

      Learn a new skill or develop a current one!

      • A tutorial resource guide to photography and editing - Adobe
      • Tai-Chi - the moves and the method - BrightEducation
      • Craft projects - Sew, Knit, Crotchet, quilt, and fun for the family too!

      Video Lecture on RFID