Recommended sites for Maths, Science, MFL and Geography

Sorry for my recent lack of posts but here I hope get back up to date. ;)

Maths

Pearson active learn is a great resource for students to use outside of school. It means that students can access their textbooks, to get help with homework or to work on things they are struggling with. It is also useful for stretching yourself and having a go for those A* questions you didn't have time for.
It currently only has GCSE textbooks on there, so is very useful for years 10/11 but less so for younger years; although if you think you are ready for it go ahead!

www.pearsonactivelearn.com

Science

If you are interested in science or technology pick up a copy of focus magazine (available in the library). It features lots of interesting articles and is great if you want to know more. This month is about memory; how big is our brain's capacity?, Will our brain become full?, Can we implant false memories?

MFL

wordreference.com is a great website for translating between many languages, it provides an online dictionary so unlike Google translate it will show you all of the translations of a word and associated phrases, this means you will get a more natural and more correct translation. Hopefully you will find it useful!

Geography

The United States Geological Survey (USGS) is a great website to track natural disasters, earthquakes or other world events. It is great for extending your background knowledge and it may surprise you how many earthquakes are happening around the world every day, some even under your feet!

BBC bitesize review.

After finally having some spare time I was able to write a review as well as doing some revision.

The website I would like to recommend is BBC bite size, I find this website very useful especially when it comes to revising.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/ks3/science/

the different elements you can study are:

 

Organisms, behavior and health

Life processes, cells, health, variation and classification, feeding relationships

Chemical and material behavior

Solids, liquids and gases, periodic table, pH scale for acids, bases and alkalis

Energy, electricity and forces

Energy, forces, electric currents and magnetism

The environment, the Earth and the universe

Rock types, astronomy, and the environment

This is very useful if you are trying to revise these subjects BBC bite size is one of the best learning website on the internet.

-Heidi

A Great Collection of Science Websites

Despite the absence of Digital Leaders this week I feel obliged to write a blog post to sustain popularity and do what was meant to written today. So without further delays here is multiple scientific websites. For Periodic Table obsessives: I recommend webelements.com which shows the entire Periodic Table (including Actinoids and Lanthanoids) in which you discover extensive and key information about any element. For those of you want to learn and master the lyrics to Tom Lehrer's magnificent 'Elements' song to impress your friends here's a YouTube video (and it's accompanying lyrics). For space fanatics here's NASA's official site:  http://www.nasa.gov, which includes a educational and children's section for learning more about space and The Solar System.

For those who want science featuring famous intellectual masterminds I recommend, the previously recommended TED, which includes talks by Professor Stephen Hawking and Professor Brian Cox. For those who enjoy unconventional and oddly interesting science I recommend the also previously recommended awesome Vsauce (more details in my review here).

Hope you enjoyed this review! Look out for more science website recommendations by my fellow Digital Leaders.