A wide range of Primary classroom activities, reviews and resources has been developed and published over the years originally by MAPE and, more recently since the merger in 2004, by Naace.

The Direct2U service was a weekly email service produced by Becta in partnership with Naace. The service was for primary teachers and offered lesson plans featuring ICT in activities based on six subject strands. The service is discontinued but you can view the lesson plans in this archive.

Naace have been successful in securing a TDA bid won by Steven Coombes based at Bath Spa University and being delivered as a 'Visual Learning Course' by Christina Preston and John Cuthell at MirandaNet (based at The Institute of Education, London).

This article explains how children can develop a sense of chronology and an awareness of the work of archaeologists by studying the contents of a bin!

Embedding ICT in history teaching: blogs, wiki's and podcasts

In the summer term 2006 I set myself the challenge of mastering blog's, wiki's and podcasting. Why? I was intrigued by these emerging on-line communication tools and wanted to incorporate them into the way I taught Year 6 history.

Jonathan Wells describes how 'Time Maps' software can help to develop children's understanding of chronology.

Last summer Gillian set herself the challenge of mastering blogs, wikis and podcasting. Intrigued by these Internet communication tools she wanted to incorporate them into her teaching stratgy for Year 6 history. The article demonstrates what can be done with blogs, wikis and podcasts and as she says, 'it is amazing!'

Steve Bunce describes some uses of voting pads in the priamry classroom.

Kar2ouche is a commercially produced program that allows students to create imaginative animations with a full range of templates. Students can to add backgrounds, characters, voices and objects to support their multimedia projects.

In this Article, Christy outlines how ICT may be used to help teachers ensure that lessons on 'world writing' are successful. It provides a review of the range of resources available from BBC Active designed for use on a whiteboard, supporting whole-class teaching.