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“Welcome to Wikipedia for Schools! This selection of articles from Wikipedia matches the UK National Curriculum and can be used by school children around the world. 6000 articles, 26 million words and 50,000 images make Wikipedia for Schools bigger than Harry Potter, the Lord of the Rings and the Chronicles of Narnia put together!
Wikipedia is great, but it wasn’t designed with the National Curriculum in mind. And because anyone can edit it, articles sometimes get vandalised. That’s why we’ve put together this special collection to make learning as easy and safe as it can be. Here at SOS Children, we’ve checked all the articles, tidied them up a bit, and put them together by school subject.
SOS Children ( www.soschildrensvillages.org.uk) is a charity which works around the world to help children in need. As well as Wikipedia articles, we’ve collected pages from the SOS Children website, so you can learn more about the work we do in 125 countries around the world.
We would like to say thank you to the Wikimedia Foundation, the people who made the Wikipedia site. We would also like to thank the many people who have come together over the years to make Wikipedia what it is today.”
Hi Dianne, I enjoyed your post, and I’m very excited to be able to depend on wikipedia again as a reliable source. I remember doing projects using only wikipedia while I was in primary school and then suddenly, every teacher instructed us not to use it as a source because of the editing issue. I’m currently studying at USA to be an elementary school teacher and I look forward to using Wikipedia For Schools with the students because I do believe it can be such a wonderful source and it’s so easy to navigate. Here’s a link to my blog for my EDM310 class if you’d like to check it out, http://spiccianijustineedm310.blogspot.com/2015/01/practice-blog-post-1.html
Justine Spicciani