Primary resources

Burns Night
An online interactive guide to celebrating Burns Night, with performances of a couple of the poems, information about Robert Burns and menus for Burns Night, including modern recipes with Scottish ingredients.

Celebrating Burns - an enterprising approach
A range of enterprising ideas and activities to help you celebrate Robert Burns's birthday in your school.

Channel 4 - Lost Generation
A website packed with information about the First World War including a database of the names of those who died.. The website is aimed at pupils aged between 11-16 years old and offers a tour of a typical trench, timelines of events including the Somme and reflections by contemporary teenagers.

Channel 4 modern languages - Chez Mimi and Hennings Haus
Link to Chez Mimi and Hennings Haus, interactive games and fun for learners. There are also teachers' notes and useful vocabulary lists.

Checking Information
As information detectives, pupil's will learn how to tell the difference between primary and secondary sources and how to check that the information is reliable. Notes for parents and teachers are included.

CIA World Factbook
Up-to-date information and maps for every country in the world. Includes facts on population, economy, government, transport and communications.

Community Food and Health (Scotland)
Community Food and Health (Scotland) aims to enhance the impact and influence of local activity on the national effort to promote social inclusion and tackle health inequalities through improved food access. The website has information and advice as well as a discussion forum, a searchable database of community food initiatives and featured case studies of community food initiatives. Community Food and Health (Scotland) is the new name of the Scottish Community Diet Project.

Confucius Classrooms
An ‘online hub’ for the Confucius Classrooms programme with information, resources and examples of current practice in Scottish schools.

Count On
A wide range of numeracy games and activites suitable for primary stages, resources for teachers and general maths investigations. The Count On website is a continuation project of Maths Year 2000, which finished in April 2001.

Create-A-Scape
Designed to help teachers and students create mediascapes as easily as possible and to find all the resources they need to make them in one place. Has everything you need to create mediascapes, including all of the software, step-by-step guides, and inspiration to get you started in using them in school.