Digital Tools

Starting a new post to aggregate useful digital tools. Hope to make a great repository for teachers to access the rich content available online. Click on the title to take you to the various websites.

Interactive Accessible Learning Activities
Doorway Online
Has a collection of free learning activities provided by the Scottish Borders Council. The suite comprises highly accessible educational activities that learners will find easy to use independently. Each exercise has range of accessibility and difficulty options. They are categorised into Literacy, Maths, Touch Typing and Memory and Matching.
Cool Tools For Schools
The title says it all. Tools are categorised based on utility.
Games and Mathematics
This a blog where you can find Mathematics Online Games categorised by topics.

Topic: Time
Doorway about Time
3 Activities to develop the concept of Time
A Timely Tale
A cool tool where user inputs information and a story in instantly created.
Elapsed Time: Minutes and Hours
An activity to assess user's understanding of duration of time. A printable worksheet is available.

Topic: Speed
Simulation
This is a java applet that simulates of two runners moving along a track. Students can control the speeds and starting points of the runners, watch the race, and examine a graph of the time-versus-distance relationship. The computer simulation uses a context familiar to students, and the technology allows them to analyze the relationships more deeply because of the ease of manipulating the environment and observing the changes that occur. Great visualisation tool for teaching P6 word problems.