Learn something new

Canva: free online design tool which is great for designing posters, instagram posts and more. Miss Gould has a personal Premium account that can be used upon request. 

Digital Photography School: daily tips, resources and free tutorials that will help you get the most out your camera and create stunning photos.  

Smithsonian Open Access: free images from the Smithsonian Archives for use in digital projects and school projects.  

Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) : fun activities for everyone to explore, question and celebrate architecture. 

More resources under Galleries and Museums on this page

Starter High: Learn how to launch a business as a teenager with this free online course.

BBC Teach Careers Playlist: videos about different careers and tips for interviews and CVs. 

Career Sound Bites: series of videos exploring the career journeys of different employers, entrepreneurs and business owners. 

MyWoW: explore potential careers, create and update your CV ... (the MyWow ambassadors can assist)

Nat Geo Kids: discover and explore facts about animals and geography, science, nature and history.

National Library of Scotland Learning Zone: discover, explore and learn with the National Library of Scotland. The website covers everything from literature and creativity to science and technology, politics and exploration.

The kids should see this: browse videos about pretty much everything for fun and study.  

Europa: official website of the European Union with lots of resources to help you learn more.

Learn and Live (UK Parliament): online learning sessions from the UK Parliament on different aspects of government and democracy.

Scottish Parliament: learn about the Scottish Parliament with a variety of learning resources.

United Nations (UN): General information about the UN and their work and learning materials for pupils. 

BFI Screenonline: the definitive guide to Britain's film and TV history.

IMDB: the international movie database is a great place to look up everything to do with films and tv including trailers, trivia, cast lists, celebrity news, film release dates ... 

Drama Online: National Theatre collection of programmes. Ask for access. 

Higher Music Journey: Higher and Advanced Higher music help

My Music Online: music concepts, flashcards and quizzes.

No Sweat Shakespeare - discover the man, the plays and a lot more on this fully accessible website. 

Old Vic Education Hub: explore behind the scenes at the Old Vic in London and get insight into the world of theatre with guides, careers advice and workshops. 

One World, Together at Home: all the performances from the One World, Together at Home event. 

Royal Shakespeare Company: Learn all about Shakespeare with live lessons and more. 

Scottish Opera: discover the world of opera with online learning resources.

Shakespeare's Birthplace Trust: explore a whole range of resources and find information about Shakespeare and his plays.  

Ten pieces: get creative with Classical music

Blockly games: these games teach the fundamentals of computer programming.

Born to be an engineer: videos,  learning resources and career advice on becoming an engineer. 

How it's made: videos about how different things from mascara to drag race tyres to food stuffs. 

iDEA (The Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award): international programme that helps you develop digital, enterprise and employability skills for free.

Internet Legends Interland: think you know how to stay safe online? Play the game to find out and maybe learn something new. 

Scratch: program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community.

Tinkercad: learn how to design 3D models online for 3D printing etc. 

Technology Student: numerous information sheets and exercises to enhance the study, understanding of design, technology and engineering. 

Aberdeen Art Gallery: virtual tours, podcasts etc.

Dundee Contemporary Arts: online art activities and activity sheets

V&A Museum YouTube : art, design and fashion.

The Louvre - Online Tours: explore the Louvre's collections online. 

National Galleries of Scotland: explore the art collections online, competitions 

National Portrait Gallery: explore the collections and research artists from the academy 

Royal Academy of Arts: research artists from the academy

TATE Galleries:  play, learn and create with TATE, activities, tours and more. 

Websites

Geography Realm: contains lots of information about physical and human geography as well as guides for learning about geography and developing a career in geography.

NASA Climate Kids: full of games, activities and articles about climate science.

Royal Geographical Society: content from the RGS including a special section for schools where you can search their award winning resources by topic  and curriculum stage (look at KS3 and above)

World Geography Games: map games to improve your geographical knowledge.

YouTube Channels

Geography Now:  fun videos introducing countries which are good research starters. They are attempting to profile every country in the world. 

MinuteEarth: a fun channel with humourous, informative and highly visual videos related to planet earth. Animal behaviour to the weather is covered. 

National Geographic: great for topic research covering a wide range of geographical topics.

More Geography resources can be found on  the articles page

Aberdeen City Libraries Local Studies: research Local History with these webpages and resources from ACL including The Silver City Vault, historical newspapers and pamphlets to research beyond our city. The Silver City Vault is an amazing local resource. Some AGS pupil volunteers have even contributed to uploading and digitising items for it. 

Anne Frank House - Secret Annex: explore Anne Frank's house online. 

John Johnson collection: provides a unique insight into everyday life in eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth century Britain through digitised printed ephemera. Topics include 19th century entertainment, the book trade, popular prints, crimes, murders and executions, and advertising.  [Available with membership of Aberdeen City Libraries join here]

KS3 History Games: Quizzes and games topics include The Norman Conquest, The Crusades, King John & Magna Carta, The Black Death Plague, The Hundred Years War, The War of The Roses, Henry VIII and The Reformation and The English Civil War.

NLS Map Images website provides free access to a collection of digitised historic maps, with a wide coverage, including Aberdeen City, the United Kingdom and some foreign countries. Access from anywhere.

SCRAN: historical and cultural documents, images, movies and sounds from museums, galleries, archives and the media. [Access via Glow]

Scotland on Screen: contains hundreds of films to watch, talk about and use as inspiration for your own projects. [Access via Glow]

Timeline: YouTube channel with lots of documentaries from sources such as the BBC on different periods of history. 

English and Creative Writing

Classroom Cereal: spot the grammatical errors in these free downloadable stories that are published every month. 

English File: Practice your grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, listening, and reading, and have some fun too.

Fun English Games: games to improve your English and grammar. 

Make Belief Comix: find writing tips, prompts and comic strips to edit and complete. 

Writing tips : visit the creative writing of this website for more inspiration. 

Young Writers:  Website with resources to support for teenage writers & illustrators in Scotland. 

Modern Languages

1jour1actu: practice reading and listening to French with this news website designed for young people.

Bonjour: magazine full of articles in French with linked audio, video, audio online activities. You will need to register the first time using the student code and your email.  Student codes

¿Qué tal?: magazine full of articles in Spanish with  linked audio, video, audio online activities. You will need to register the first time using the student code and your email.  Student codes

Duolingo: learn languages for free with this online learning course.

Languages Online: revision exercises for language vocabulary and grammar.

Quizlet: Flashcards for language learning.

TypeIt : Tool for easy typing accents for  French, Spanish and other languages. 

EAL Learners

Click: magazine with articles at  level A1 beginners. You will need to register the first time using the student code and your email.  Student codes

Crown: magazine with articles at level A2 Pre-intermediate. You will need to register the first time using the student code and your email.  Student codes

Literacy Reference Resources

Collins: online dictionary, foreign language dictionaries (including French and Spanish), thesaurus, translator and grammar. 

Word Reference: online foreign language dictionaries and grammar tools searches its own dictionaries and Collins. 

CREST Awards: lots of ideas for completing STEM projects at home. Each of these projects takes about ten - thirty hours to complete.

Crowd Science: Podcast from the BBC where listeners from around the world pose a science related questions for them to answer. 

Glasgow Science Centre: videos and ideas bringing the museum to you at home. 

Inside the Perimeter: learning materials and articles from the Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

NASA: STEM activities and more from NASA

NRich: develop your mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills with these resources and activities.

Mathigon: interactive "textbook" full of learning, activities and interactive material to make maths come alive and support your learning.

MathsAppeal: a podcast which features discussions about key maths topics, maths puzzles and interviews with maths champions from the worlds of tech, entertainment, comedy and education. Presented by Bobby Seagull and and Susan Okereke.

Periodic videos: interactive periodic table with videos for each element.

Royal Institute of Science: watch the Christmas lectures, masterclasses, experiments in the family section and more. 

Science Kidz: science games, quizzes, videos and more..

Science Museum: lots of resources and learning activities from the Science Museum, Science and Industry Museum, National Science and Media Museum, National Railway Museum and Locomotion 

Scientific Calculator: forgotten/ lost  your calculator? This online tool has just about all you should need. 

Topmarks Maths: free maths games  covering numbers, algebra, money, geometry ...

Transum Mathematics: maths games to help with learning. 

Quizlet: Flashcards for learning and exploring key concepts

Wireless Philosophy: 130+ animated videos about philosophy created by professors from Yale, Stanford, Oxford, MIT, and more! 

Matters of Life and Death: explore ethics with these videos from the BBC.