Early Years
Educational websites
Browse our selection of links to high-quality educational websites.
Communication And Language | Emotional, Personal And Social Development | Expressive And Aesthetic Development | Knowledge And Understanding Of The World |
Website of the month
Mama Lisa's World
Find the lyrics to children's songs from around the world. Some songs also have MP3 and Midi music files and sheet music. The collection includes some traditional songs from Scotland and the UK.
Latest websites added:
1. Birmingham Grid for Learning: Teddy's Day OutAn interactive activity that asks children to match world religions to associated artefacts. Includes early years activities related to Buddhism, Judaism, Hinduism, Sikhism, Islam and Christianity.
2. Scottish Government Education and Training
Information about Education and Training from the Scottish Government, which is responsible for administering policy on pre-school and school education, children and young people.
3. Digi-Infant
Digi-Infant is a new member of the family of Digi-websites. Their aim is to help teachers give their pupils the very best they can offer. The objective is to make this the number one community for teachers and aspiring teachers in early years education.
4. Mama Lisa's World
Mama Lisa's World, said to be home of the internet's largest collection of children's songs and nursery rhymes from around the world. Whatever the culture a child belongs to, whatever the flag he or she lives under, this is the place to find the lyrics to children's songs, in English and in the original languages! Some songs include mp3s and Midi music.
5. BBC Scotland: Explore some more
BBC Scotland has just launched its first early years website, supporting active play and containing interesting concepts and areas for the very young to explore. What's going on in the dark room? Find a torch and light up some dark spaces. Look closer through a telescope or magnifying glass. Make the puppets dance to suit their mood, play with bubbles, listen to a story or find things to do on a wet day. After each small activity children are encouraged to leave the computer and Explore Some More by engaging in some activity inspired by what they've seen and heard.
6. Arkive
A website that aims to create an audio-visual record of life on earth.
7. FreeFoto.com
Over 86,000 images covering a wide variety of subjects are available on this website.
8. Who is this?
Use the mouse to drag and drop pieces of a jigsaw to create pictures of the Hoobs.
9. Scottish Government - Curriculum for Excellence: Ministerial Response
Response by Peter Peacock, Minister for Education and Young People and Euan Robson, Deputy Minister for Education and Young People, to the Curriculum for Excellence project.
10. Assemblies Website
The Assemblies Website aims to provide high-quality, instant access primary and secondary school assemblies for teachers and others leading collective worship.
Disclaimer
It should be noted that the inclusion of these web links does not in any way represent endorsement by Learning and Teaching Scotland. We are not responsible for the content of these external websites or for any subsequent links.