Early Years

Field to Fridge Choose from milk, bacon, potatoes, cereals & vegetables and follow its journey, in pictures from 'Field to Fridge'

Sammy Seagull Online 'Big Book', describing the coastal features and environs of Dover from the point of view of a seagull flying over them. Includes explanations of keywords.

Animals in the Jungle Explore the jungle and find some animals that live there.

Bug Hunt Find the beneficial bugs hidden in the three gardens.

Come Outside Farm Visit Come and visit a farm and find out what life is like there. Find out what sounds the animals make, how a cow is milked and much more.

Elmo's Weather Game In this interactive game, help Elmo decide what to wear in various weather conditions.

I Went to the Zoo Come on down to the zoo and check out all the fascinating animals.

Weather Nursery Rhymes An interactive website containing links to various nursery rhymes that refer to weather.

Weather Songs and Poems This website provides a wealth of poems and songs on a wide range of topics.

Earth Day Find out how you can help take care of the environment.

Lecky Goes Outdoors Teacher led activity - choose the correct clothes for Lecky to wear depending on different weather conditions. Flash required.

Plan View - Early Mapping Use images to explore objects from different perspectives.

Recycling Game An interactive game where Barnaby Bear asks us to place recyclables into the correct basket.

Snuffy's Safari Help Snuffy find animals in different environments.

Star Game An interactive game designed to help children use basic directions.

The Four Seasons The Four Seasons provides a pictorial overview of farming and the countryside The pictures are of a wide variety of farming activities across the months and seasons.

The Sky and the Wind Find out what's in the sky and what the wind does. Also contains many other items of interest aimed at infant level.

A Trip to Mars A fun trip to Mars to investigate what is there,passing the Sun, Moon and Stars along the way.

Weather Story An interactive weather game where the pupil will find out and explore various types of weather.

Foundation Stage

ABC of Environmental Care Alphabet activity giving 26 words to do with cleaning up the environment. Each letter has a printable sheet for illustration.

Homes Crossword. Presenting an interactive or printable crossword offering clues based on types of houses, rooms within the house and parts of a house.

Let's Visit Australia Interactive visit to Australia from BBC Schools. Explore some of the main sights and attractions of Australia in the company of Barnaby Bear.

Manmade Vs Natural Features Quiz Presenting a six question interactive quiz offering questions on local manmade and natural features.

Beside the Sea Part of Snaith Primary School site which acts as a very good starting point for a study of a place we all love to go to - the seaside. Lots to explore for the young geographer.

Booklet on the Earth A simple booklet containing 3 pages where the children can record their knowledge about the earth. (pdf form)

Environmental Awareness Colouring Book. Presenting a printable colouring book with twenty four pictures based on environmental awareness. Pictures are A4 size.

The Virtual Rocky Shore Interactive page allows the user to explore the fauna and flora of a rocky seashore habitat. A quiz tests the facts learned.

Weather Report Machine Generate your own weather report in to read and print from a given list of weather observations.

Weather Word Search An interactive site containing a wordsearch with weather related words. Also contains step by step oral guidelines to aid the user complete the wordsearch.

Space Tour On this tour, you will play a game, watch a video clip and take a quiz all about space.

Clean Up! An interactive game where the pupil must help clean up the environment by placing rubbish in the correct bin.

Discover Dublin Interactive map game from BBC Schools.Help Barnaby Bear find some palces of interest as he finds his way around Dublin.

Field to Fridge Choose from milk, bacon, potatoes, cereals & vegetables and follow its journey, in pictures from 'Field to Fridge'

Habitats An interactive study of the flora and fauna of different habitats in urban, farm, woodland and water environments. Flash required.

Image and Map Children will place animals at different locations on a picture and map of a garden

Matching Map Symbols An interactive game where the pupil must match the map symbol with the correct description.

Plan View - Early Mapping Use images to explore objects from different perspectives

Seasons in the Garden Lesson based on a set of photographs showing the garden during different seasons

Songs and Nursery Rhymes From Foreign Lands. Presenting songs and nursery rhymes from a variety of countries across the globe. All songs are complete with words and audio.

Weather Report A fun interactive weather game where the pupil places various weather symbols on a map.

Where is Barnaby Bear? Travel the world with Barnaby Bear and his friends.

Homes An interactive site with activities on various aspects of houses and homes. This site is completed with pictures, diagrams, cartoons and animation.

NatureGrid - Infant Big Books Colourful interactive books with sound files and photographs about animals, nature and the environment.

The Four Seasons Pictorial overview of farming and the countryside. The pictures are of a wide variety of farming activities across the months and seasons.

Key Stage 1

Junior Geography Quiz Geography Quiz - Come on and check out how well you know your stuff!

Let Me Tell You a Secret Let Me Tell You a Secret About the Environment is a children's story ( in pdf format) aimed at helping us all to understand how important it is that we think about our environment and think about ways of reducing the waste we are generating on a daily basis.

A Tour of the Solar System. Presenting an interactive site offering a tour of each planet including the sun with facts and pictures relevant to each planet. Peter and Paul, two cartoon characters travel with the user as he/she explores each planet.

All About Clouds Explores cloud formation, cloud types and how clouds impact on our lives and how clouds can cause chaos.

Ár dTír Féin - Éire Ceistiúcháin Tíreolaíochta idirghníomhach bunaithe ar tír eolas na hÉireann. Tá sé oiriúinach dos na meanranganna. Taispeáin dúinn cé chomh maith is atá tú ag an tíreolaíocht. Interactive Geography Quiz-Test your knowledge of the geography of Ireland.

Communications Quiz Presenting a six question quiz offering questions on various modes of communication from braille to An Post.

Interactive Map of Ireland Interactive exercise where county names must be placed correctly on a map of Ireland. Good fun.

Planets Sudoku Sudoko game based on the planets of the solar system. Flash required. Links to information and images on the various bodies in the Solar System.

Rivers Crossword. Presenting an interactive or printable quiz offering clues on the names of rivers as well as the parts of rivers.

The Water Cycle Illustrated page explaining the basics of the water cycle. Linked colouring sheets explain precipitation, condensation and evaporation.

Weather Activities. Presenting a range of weather activities from crosswords to anagrams and much more. Activities are printable and are complete with instructions and points of information.

Weather Forecast Make your own weather map by adding symbols and text. Printable materials downloaded as Zip file. Flash required.

Weatherdude Look at the funny aspects of weather and how it effects us. The site contains a meteorological A to Z, weather songs as well as a lot of activities.

Air and Water Explores the importance of air and water and how pollution can damage these resources. Requires flash for viewing.

Amazing Galapagos Islands Find out all about the Galapagos, how they came into existence and learn about the wildlife and plantlife to be found there.

Changing Buildings A lesson from the WOW4Water website aimed at allowing pupils to see how the use of buildings, and the buildings themselves have changed. The pdf download includes the relevant photographs and activity sheets.

Clean Air Kids Series of information sheets about air, acid rain, ozone layer and what we can do about them. Also some relevant games and puzzles.

Contour Lines Activities. Presenting a lesson plan detailing an experiment with the purpose of showing what contour lines represent and how to read them.

Dinosaur Dig This is a fun exercise in mapping co-ordinates.

Eco-explorer Series of illustrated information pages designed to show children how to care for their environment through acting responsibly. Relevant terms are explained. Some of the pages contain interractive content.

Endangered Species A video clip exploring endangered species in our world.

Field Trip: The Future Take a field trip and discover what will happen to the environment in twenty years time if we do/don't look after our world.

From India to Paris. Presenting an interactive site with case studise on various geographical topics, from countries to cities to water. Case studies contain simplified information slong with maps, pictures, photos and diagrams.

Garbage and Recycling Learn about what happens to a piece of thrash you might throw out. Flash site which explores the importance of recycling waste.

Global Warming - Snakes and Ladders Snakes and ladders type game to print showing how human activities affect global warming.

Hot Earth Tiki the Penguin teaches about greenhouse gasses and climate change

Interactive Map of Ireland - County Shapes Simple interactive exercise where county shapes must be dragged and dropped on their corresponding counties on a map of Ireland.

Ireland's Mountains An interactive geography section of St. Cronan's school site dealing with the mountain ranges of Ireland. Includes facts and photographs on each mountain range.

Measuring Precipitation Learn how to make a rain gauge and record weather information. PDF file.

Mission - Explore Interactive look at rocks and minerals. Explore an island for rock and mineral samples. Bring them back to the museum and classify them based on characteristics.

Modern Egypt Photopack Series of photographs under different headings illustrating everyday life in modern Egypt.

National Flags A site containing the national flags of almost all the countries of the world. Each flag is accompanied with a factfile containing some basic information based on that country.

Our Global Garden Explore the fauna of different environments - town, country, jungle, desert, ocean and ice. Flash required.

Powerpoint on Transport A powerpoint presentaion on a variety of transport systems throughout the world. This presentation is completed with photos, maps and intersteing facts.

Rivers An interactive site with presentations to assist with the teaching of many aspects of a river. This site is completed with pictures, photos and animations describing, for example, the water cylce, how a river flows, where the river meets the coast.

The Environment Explores a number of the major climatic regions of the world: The Tundra, Forest, Aquatic, Grasslands,Desert.

The Solar System Fact sheet, pdf worksheets and interractive activities on the Solar Sytem

The Virtual Rocky Shore Interactive page allows the user to explore the fauna and flora of a rocky seashore habitat. A quiz tests the facts learned.

Web Weather for Kids Science Activities A range of hands-on science activities designed to explore certain weather conditions we experience from time to time – Create fog in a jar and a portable cloud.

Around the World Part of the Yahooligans directory, it presents links on country facts, flags, languages and customs around the world.

Bengal Tiger In this interactive game help save the Bengal Tiger by rebuilding its habitat.

Blank Outline Maps From the About.com site, this geography resource contains blank outline maps in .jpg format, which can be used in workcards, websites or just printed out.

Build a Volcano Build a volcano, let it erupt and then build another!

Dinosaur Dig An interactive game, where the pupil uses a grid to find items connected to the dinosaur dig.

Disaster Watch Can you help villagers in Nicaragua survive floods, earthquakes and food shortages? Play it and find out!

Field to Fridge Choose from milk, bacon, potatoes, cereals & vegetables and follow its journey, in pictures from 'Field to Fridge'

Geograph British Isles Project View photographs of different areas from a project designed to collect photographs of every grid reference point in Ireland and UK.

Habitats An interactive study of the flora and fauna of different habitats in urban, farm, woodland and water environments. Flash required.

Hurricane: Storm Science: Child focused information on hurricanes. Students may contribute their own natural disaster stories to the Healing Quilt. You can also build a school Weather Station.

Incredible Kids Meet children who survived a tsunami, or who live in the Amazon or who try to prevent climate change.

Interactive Map of Ireland - Cities and Towns Interactive activity where students must drag and drop town names on a map of Ireland.

Kaboom!!! Energy Discover the effects of burning fossil fuels. Find out about alternative sources of energy.

Kids Astronomy Explore the solar system, join a virtual space exploration, read the latest astronomy news and enjoy some fun astronomy activities.You can also also visit the resource section which has a dictionary of astronomy terms and an ask the expert page.

Maps from Websters Atlas Information on every country in the world. Simply select a country or state from the pull-down menu and up pops a colourful up-to-date map. Very useful for all your project work.

Mapzone Games Large selection of interactive Flash games on maps, maps of Europe and the world. Some adventure (Treasure Hunt and Mystery Island) games test mapping skills.

Pictures of Places A photograph directory of places and features from around the world

Plan View - Early Mapping Use images to explore objects from different perspectives.

Planet 10 - An Interactive Model An interactive site allowing the user to move through the solar system making stops as necessary. Information provided along route. Audio also available

PlayKidsGames.com Loads of Flash interactive puzzles to solve (jigsaws, identify the continents, locate a country)

Powerpoint on Deserts A powerpoint presentation detailing location, features, and facts about deserts. This presentation contains pictures and maps of deserts.

Rainforest Family Forever Streamed video of rainforest (Quicktime required) showing fauna and flora and the benefits of the forest for all mankind. Links to activity and work sheets.

Stop! Life in Danger Find out endangered life and what you can do about it.

The Solar System Big Book Explore the Solar System in big book format. Find out about the planets that orbit the sun.

The Story of Tea Excellent factsheet describing the history of tea, where it comes from, and how it is produced.

Tiki Visits Peru Come and visit Peru. Find out about its physical geography and its fascinating past....and lots,lots more!

Volcano Model Instructions on making a simple model of a volcano.

Volcano World - Kids Door The resident guide Rocky presents VolcanoWorld - a terrific site, which tells you, all you want to know about volcanoes. Rocky leads you through adventures, legends, an art gallery, project ideas, games, quizzes and much, much more.

Water Cycle in Action See the water cycle in action.

Water Cycle Puzzle Jumble up the water cycle, and then put it back together. Can you take the challenge?

Weather Laboratory Simple experiments to illustrate evaporation, tornado, condensation, fog, ice and a rainbow.

Weather Lore Contains modern and old weather lore relevant to many types of weather. Also contained are links to lesson plans and tongue twisters.

Weather Underground See what the weather is like anywhere in the world.

Weather Wiz Kids Learn more about the fascinating world of weather. Try some of the weather games and weather experiments. Become a Weather Wiz Kid!

What is an Island? Match ordnance survey symbols to the correct locations on a map.

What's Wrong? Using a picture,find out how people can easily harm the environment-especially water.

All About Chocolate - Just For Kids An interactive exploration of the world of chocolate. Learn all the fun facts about chocolate and explore the cacao tree, which grows the seeds for chocolate. Follow the journey from seed to bar.

Amazing Animals Find out about some of earth's amazing animals. Learn about their habitats and the problems they face.

An Island Story This website promotes the importance of caring for the planet and all its resources.

Graphic Maps Gives access to atlases and guides, country flags, geography questions, quizzes, clip art, outline maps, world maps. Very good section on countries in the news.

Map Reading Made Easy Peasy A PDF Leaflet from the Ordnance Survey, which aims to explain the main things you need to understand about map reading, in particular ordnance, maps. This resource can be used in conjunction with Mapzone.

Mapping Our World Interactive Flash site showing how a globe becomes a map and what features of Earth are visible from space.

Rocks and Soils Tester Interactive site allowing users to compare and contrast the different characteristics of some rocks

Social Studies for Kids Highly interactive site requiring the most recent Flash plugin. The ‘Social Studies for Kids’ section has a variety of activites exploring amongst other topics, Neighbourhoods, Communities, World Cultures and Geography as well as western hemisphere and Europe.

The Four Seasons Pictorial overview of farming and the countryside. The pictures are of a wide variety of farming activities across the months and seasons.

Water Cycle An interactive aid where the pupil is shown the story of the Water Cycle.

What is the Weather? Interactive look at weather for the younger geographer. Explores wind direction, wind force, precipitation, temperature, sunshine visibility and cloud. It also looks at how people adapt to local weather conditions.

Key Stage 2

European Mosaic Games Interactive mapping activities based on countries in the EU. Place the country name on the correct country. Various types of maps available.

Kids Zone Environment Agency Interactive (Flash and Shockwave) fun and games to explore in the Kids section of the UK Environment Agency.You can view the facts and find out more about protecting your environment, play some environmental games and interact with the K-Zone animations.

On the Trail of the Missing Ozone Comic Strip (in PDF format) which provides an introduction into why we need the ozone layer, the causes of ozone depletion, and some of the actions the world is taking to correct the problem.

Water Conservation Quiz Presenting an interactive quiz containing 25 multiple choice questions relating to water conservation.

AA Auto Route By giving a starting location and a destination, children can plan a road journey and then follow it on a map or atlas. No actual maps are given but the route planner gives full details of the route, mileage and expected journey time. Lots of fun travelling around Ireland, Uk and Europe.

All About Oil Spills - Especially For Kids All About Oil Spills gives us information about oil spills, how they happen, how experts respond to such spills and how these spills affect the environment. Also describes experiments and projects you can do.

An tAontas Eorpach Ceistiúcháin Tíreolaíochta idirghníomhach bunaithe ar an Aontas Eorpach. Tá sé oiriúinach dos na hardranganna. Taispeáin dúinn cé chomh maith is atá tú ag an tír eolas. Interactive Geography Quiz-Test your knowledge of the EU.

BBC - 2Cities Explores how Belfast or Mexico City compare with where you live or a locality you know. You can take a city tour, listen to city life or explore the Fact File to find out more about the two locations.

Climate Change Animation showing how our activities affect the balance of greenhouse gasses leading to global warming.

Costal Features Powerpoint A powerpoint displaying some of our coast's natural features such as caves, stacks and arches. This presentation is complete with photos of the feature.

Emergency Management Lots of interactive games to play on this Federal Emergency Management Agency site for kids.Through these games the children familiarise themselves with the dangers associated with natural disasters.

Farming in Ireland Quiz How much do you know about farming in Ireland? Have a go and test your knowledge!

Fascinating Facts about Rocks and Minerals Interesting facts about rocks and minerals. Links to information on various areas such as rock formation, rock types and a number of rock related activities.

Find the Time Want to find the time in any country, province or state around the world. Then heres the site. No matter what time zone a country or city is located in, World Time Server will determine the time.

How Do Clouds Form? Presenting a detailed labeled coloured diagram accounting for the formation of clouds along with step by step guidelines detailing this formation.

Minearology 4 Kids Looks at the various mineral groups, their properties, minerals in your house or if you can't find what your looking for you can 'Ask-a-Mineralogist'. Finally you can test your knowledge by trying the mineral games.

Oilspills at Sea Information on and photographs of oil spills at sea and their effect on the environment.

Play N' Learn- Environmental Awareness Brush up on your knowledge of the environment by solving some of these online crosswords, puzzles, memory games and word searches. The activities explore air pollution, water, climate change, renewable sources of energy and many others.

Quick Quiz on Europe A quick A-Z quiz based on various locations throughout Europe, containing 5 questions. The printable quizes are in pdf format.

Rivers Shoot Out An interactive quiz encouraging the user to answer questions on river features. The user can get bonus points by scoring a penalty kick on a famous soccer player.

Rock Cycle Animation showing the rock cycle. Flash required

Rocks and Soils Crossword. How well do you know your rocks and soils? Test your knowledge!

Savage Earth Explains the science behind volcanoes, earthquakes, and tsunamis. There are animations that illustrate the action of these natural features.

Something Fishy-Fishing in Ireland Quiz How much do you know about fishing in Ireland? Have a go and test your knowledge!

The River Nile An interactive site containing information and activities on the river Nile. The site contains interetsing facts and photos from the region of the Nile valley.

The Toilet Paper Solar System Students make a distance-scale solar system model using toilet paper!

The Virtual Cave Explore the caves of the world from the comfort of your own desktop. The site tells the story of caves in words and pictures; what's in them and how they got there.

Trade and Development Quiz. How much do you know about world trade and developing countries? Clues refer to countries, modes of transport involved in trade and the products traded.

Trasher Basher Handbook A series of experiments on recycling. The resource is designed to provide an introduction to the concepts of 'reduce reuse and recycle'. From the 'Hands-on Technology Programme'.

Weatherdude Look at the funny aspects of weather and how it effects us. The site contains a meteorological A to Z, weather songs as well as a lot of activities.

World Geography Games Presenting educational games and quizzes based on identifying the world's continents and oceans. Various levels available to suit individual needs.