Secondary resources

History: Immigrants and Exiles

History: Wallace and Bruce
Part of the National Qualifications Curriculum Support series, this pack looks at the lives and actions of William Wallace and Robert Bruce. It examines their major successes and failures.

Illustrations and photos
Free illustrations and photographs for 5-14 education.You can download them, print them off or use them online. You can use these images for educational purposes without worrying about cost or copyright.

Images for schools
A collection of thousands of free images for teachers and pupils to download. Images include: photographs; cartoons; illustrations; paintings.

Information Literacy
An online service to support the development of information skills. Students can find resources to help with a range of learning including, using the Internet, recognising the reliability of information, reading the media and visual literacy.

Interactive Body
Try these interactive games from the BBC to learn more about the structure of the human body. See if you can put the bones, organs, muscles and senses in the right place! Each activity takes only 5-10 minutes and would work well on an interactive whiteboard. Activities would be suitable for Access 3 and Intermediate 1 Biology.

Interactive maths games
Four interactive games giving pupils an opportunity to learn aspects of numeracy such as cost, measuring, buying/selling and many more.

Kidnapped
Part of the Edinburgh, UNESCO City of Literature website which has information, downloadable teachers' and librarians' resources, and online and downloadable activities for pupils, all related to the novel 'Kidnapped' by Robert Louis Stevenson. 'Kidnapped' is the focus of a mass reading campaign in the city during February 2007.

Learn Listening Online
An interactive resource for teachers and students of National Qualifications in Music to improve their knowledge and listening skills. The resource has a range of examples from baroque, classical vocal and instrumental music through to twentieth century jazz and world music. The website also has an extensive audio dictionary of musical terms.

LearnNewsdesk@LTS
This online news service (in English and Gaelic) provides a real-life context for curriculum topics and helps to improve literacy by encouraging a daily reading habit.