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Links to useful online resources that might be interesting lesson sources

These materials are not specifically for language teaching, but they raise interesting ideas that might be good sources for classes.

First, some sites related to excursion destinations. Students will find this motivating not only in preparation for the excursions, but also when they visit the destinations, as they will be better informed about what is there, and what to look out for.

24 Hour Museum is the UK's official guide to over 3,000 museums, galleries, exhibitions and heritage attractions. 24 Hour Museum offers daily arts news, exhibition reviews, listings and in-depth online trails, as well as having a comprehensive, full searchable, database of over 3,000 cultural institutions.

Micheal Culture Website. The aim is to offer you simle and quick access to the rich variety of digital materials from UK museums, libraries and archives. The online catalogue describes digital collections and associated services or multimedia productions (such as websites, electronic learning resources and CDs). Whether you are interested in Fine Art or History, the Middle Ages or the Victorians, your local area of the collections that have been digitised by your local cultural institutions, MICHEAL-UK can help you to find out what is available and how to see it.

http://www.tate.org.uk/learning/schools/: Tate Galleries (Tate Britain and Tate Modern) in London, with all sorts of stuff designed for schools.
Also, have a look here for links to a part of the Tate Britain site which allow you to create your own mini tour of selected highlights, which will provide students with a real reason for visiting and touring the galleries, to follow their own tour.

http://www.nhm.ac.uk: The Natural History Museum in London

http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/: The Science Museum in London

http://www.londoneye.com/: The London Eye

Next, some sites related to other topics.

http://www.bp.com/carbonfootprint: This is all about how much energy we use (based around an average household) and ways in which we can improve (i.e. reduce) our Carbon Footprints.
You could also try http://www.bbc.co.uk/climate/adaptation/jack.shtml, which is a site giving a sort of game about Jack's life and the choices he makes at each stage, with points awarded according to the choices you make for Jack. This is also a reasonable activity to try in class, as it gives quite a lot of language rationale for each choice, and is a good jumping off point to discuss life choices and modifying our behaviour in general to be more environmentally aware at all times.

http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx is a simple calculation of our Carbon Footprints.

You may also want to refer to ideas about what we do at Education aBc to manage our Carbon Footprint.

Please check and test these sites before you set up your class on different activities. These sites do not practice particular grammatical points, but they raise subjects which should be interesting and stimulating jumping off points for further discussion, as well as raising issues for discussion.

As with everything, it is fine to be controversial and to challenge students existing expectations about the world, and we are confident in our teaching staff to be able to handly this sensitively and appropriately. We know that you will bear in mind that it can sometimes be counterproductive to be too confrontational, and that you will be sensitive to the way that students are responding to topics in class discussion.

If you have any comments or notes to make about the materials you have used, please pass them to Andrew Brown, and he will add them to this area, so that we can gradually build up a fuller, annotated list of sites to use.

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