Secondary resources

Administration: Advanced Practical Support for ITFM
These materials and practical activities for IT for Management (ITFM) for students give detailed instructions on using advanced MS Word, Excel and Access. The learner files referenced in the materials are included in the zip files.

Administration: IT for Management Course Materials
These materials for teachers and students are based on a motoring group run by Buster Throttle and involve the use of an Access database, Excel spreadsheets and Word documents.

Administration: Practical Support Materials for Intermediate 1
These materials and practical activities support the Intermediate 1 units Information Technology for Administrators (ITFA) and Presenting and Communicating Information (PCI). They give detailed instructions to students on using a variety of features of software applications including creating and manipulating databases, spreadsheets, letters and reports using MS Access, Excel and Word.

Animating Learning with PowerPoint
Bring learning to life using the animation facility of PowerPoint to develop pupils' creativity and ICT skills. Have a look at the kind of animation that you will be able to create as a result of this tutorial

AplusMath for primary schools
This website was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively. Within the site you can visit a game room, use and create flashcards, design your own worksheets and use the homework helper.

ArtisanCam
ArtisanCam is a free interactive website which introduces young people to the world of contemporary visual art. The Artists Zone contains a variety of classroom-based activities, whilst the Activity Zone hosts numerous games and fun interactive activities, designed to encourage children to continue their learning at home.

BBC - Education Scotland - Bitesize revision
The website produces manageable 'bitesize' pages on key topics, concentrating on material which students find particularly difficult. The material is written by examiners and teachers and reflects key areas of the examination syllabus.

BBC - The Maths File Game Show
Website has 12 interactive games for children to play, at three different levels, covering Number, Algebra, Shape, Space and Measure and Datahandling. Printable worksheets also included.

Becoming Human
This site, from the Institute of Human Origins, tells the story of human evolution through an interactive documentary. It also provides a number of resources and links to relevant websites.

Book Maze
The Book Maze database has been designed to help teachers and librarians gather together accurate and detailed information on suitable personal study books. It aims to provide honest reviews of the modern books that pupils may wish to use for the specialist study in the English curriculum.