Educational Freeware

This site, based in Sweden, finds and reviews high-quality free educational software, including learning games, and websites - mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups. There are 53 free Windows educational downloads and 112 websites listed, plus 11 reference sites, and links to other similar sites. Categories include Art, K-12, Languages, Maths, Music, Science, Social Studies and Videos. See here for details.

UK Charity resources

Free Teaching Resources lists reviewed resources, lesson plans and worksheets produced by top UK charities, museums & more. From KS1-4, and all school subjects (Art & Design to Work related learning), the site links to hundreds of reviewed free lesson plans and resources such as resource packs, worksheets, assembly ideas, school visits, project ideas, videos and images. See here for details.

The Student Room

This is a massive site to support all students from KS3 to University, including a revision wiki here, and KS3 to A level help with academic work here.

Lots of practical information as well on study and student life generally, especially beyond A Level, and careers advice.

Video sites for School

There are now a huge number of videos on the Interweb that are suitable for classroom use, even assuming that your school blocks YouTube.
Here are a few I have found:
Open Video - University of North Carolina collection (4000+) - search by genre, duration or collection, and includes NASA films
5 min - Education (4312), History (1324), Languages (367), Science (2651) in Knowledge category. Arts include Dance, Design, Filmmaking, Drawing & Painting, and Software tutorials, and other general categories include Fitness, Food, Health, Spiritual, Sports and Travel. There are also many music tutorials
WatchKnow - Art (1301), Science (3712), Maths (2512), Eng Language (1931), Literature (1168), History (2449), Social Studies incl Geog (1192), Languages (851), PE & Health (415), The Arts (1302), Philosophy, Religion & Ethics (728) and others
NeoK12 - Thousands of vetted videos, games & puzzles for schools by subject, excluding languages, from many sources
My Learning Tube - Reviewed educational videos by subject (795)
TeacherTube - Videos (118,100), some indexed via Channels, plus Documents (2064), Audio (2304), Photos (3776) and Educational blogs (670)
SchoolTube - Moderated school, teacher & pupil video sharing website for pupils by subject

Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) Resources

A number of sites offer specialised Interactive Whiteboard resources, beyond normal interactive websites which can often be used with a board:
Delicious feed - lots of links (1112), regularly updated
Fife Education - Notebook files from Smart by subject
Schoolzone - Maths, English, Science and Other links
Whiteboardblog - Blog with lots of ideas and sites
Topmarks - Maths (28), Literacy (6), Biology (3), RE (3), Art (7) & Music (1) links for KS3/4 boards

Learning Resource Exchange (LRE)

The LRE, from European Schoolnet, enables schools across Europe to find free educational content from many different countries and providers, from Austria to Sweden.
You must register first, and obviously the resources are in a variety of languages, but you can search by language, subject, keyword or age range. 39,482 Resources are currently available, 11,463 solely in English.
See http://lreforschools.eun.org for full details.

Wikipedia Selection for Schools

Did you know that there is a Wikipedia for Schools? The 2008/9 Wikipedia DVD Selection is a free, hand-checked, non-commercial selection from Wikipedia, targeted around the UK National Curriculum. It has about 5500 articles (as much as can be fitted on a DVD with good size images) and is about the size of a twenty volume encyclopaedia (34,000 images and 20 million words). It can also be downloaded, and was produced with the SOS Children charity. See http://schools-wikipedia.org for details. Navigation is by subject, by the first two letters of the topic word (a system which seems to work very well) or via 36 portals for major topics.

Teachers TV

Teachers TV, a UK based TV station & website founded in 2005, is a mine of information. For example, there are videos specifically designed for the classroom at www.teachers.tv/resource
(103 KS1, 191 KS2, 337 KS3 & 411 KS4), and all can be browsed by subject, topic or key stage. In addition, there are 35 groups you can join to discuss everything from Cover Supervision to Working in SEN. These groups include Learning Platforms, Personalised Learning and Web 2.0 Resources. See www.teachers.tv/groups for details.

Common Sense Media

Common Sense is a San Francisco based site that reviews
and rates websites suitable for pupils (plus books, TV, games, music and films).
770 websites are reviewed by age range, and each review rates sites by many criteria, including sex, violence, consumerism and educational content. There is an overall rating, colour coding for ages, and advice for parents. 196 sites are categorised as educational, and there are many recommended sites for each age group and type of interest.
Try www.commonsensemedia.org for details.

E L Easton

This US site started out as an English language learning site, and can be used for teaching both native speakers and those whose first language is not English. It also covers other curriculum subjects, including many Foreign Languages. Links to suitable sites, plus quizzes and audio sites, are provided. See http://eleaston.com for details.