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All resources - Expressive arts


  • Quintura for Kids
    Quintura for Kids
    A visual search engine for children where you are presented with tag clouds and select the tag that most closely matches what you are looking for this causes the tag cloud to rearrange itself around that word. You flow though the search results this way until you reach the best results.

  • Scotland and the Slave Trade
    Scotland and the Slave Trade
    National Trust website with information and resources to introduce teachers and youth workers to using drama to learn about the slave trade.

  • Scottish Traditional Music: Teacher’s Resource
    Scottish Traditional Music: Teacher’s Resource
    This Learning and Teaching Scotland resource for National Qualifications consists of a set of three audio CDs with performances covering nine traditional instruments, plus a printed learning and teaching publication.

  • Scran
    Scran
    Searchable learning resource with 360,000 images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. It can be used as a superior form of clip art or for particular learning applications.

  • SFS Kids
    SFS Kids
    The San Francisco Symphony kids website provides a great way for people of all ages to hear, learn, and have fun with music. Has interactive sections on instruments, music genres and a music lab for children to experiment with.

  • Step by step
    Step by step
    To help young people achieve the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence they must have opportunities to solve problems in context. These numeracy resources can be used by primary teachers or teachers of maths or PE. Each lesson involves some physical activity.

  • Stitch it up
    Stitch it up
    Children of all ages can create their very own virtual duvet cover using a special interactive sewing machine. This visual art activity allows users to design their own patterns, cut and stitch shapes to make and even showcase their own online textile creation.

  • Study Skills
    Study Skills
    Activities for becoming an effective learner and managing your own learning. The site is divided into three age groups: 5-9, 10-14 and 15-18-year-olds; and four headings - Get, Understand, Remember and Do. Includes notes for teachers, parents/carers and students.

  • The Lighthouse website
    The Lighthouse website
    Information about events, exhibitions and projects being run by the Lighthouse. Includes a section devoted to education with a range of educational materials, ideas and case studies for use across the curriculum. The site also has a 'Digital Exhibition Collection' where past exhibitions are recreated online.

  • Virtual Drummer School
    Virtual Drummer School
    An online educational project with information and educational practices on drumming. It allows students to take master classes with musicians of diverse nationalities, tendencies and styles.