Introduction

The Internet Resources

• cbc4kids - Children can create 'do-it-yourself' science experiments, comment on daily news stories etc.

• Fun Brain - Be sure to try Math Baseball, Grammar Gorillas and Fun Match. Click on age levels too.

• Seussville Games - Dr. Seuss Games. Requires Shockwave.

• Brainpop - Choose your movie topic on Health, Science and Technology. Answer the quiz. Print out the activity sheet. Check out the Experiment with Bob.

• The Learning Kingdom - Tell your class about the Cool Word or Cool Fact or Person of the Day—~ò10 equals http://www.funology.com/

• Brain Teasers - Problem solving for grades 3 to 7 and beyond

• Kidport - Select your grade level and subject area. You can even do a research project here

• Link to Learning - based on our Ontario curriculum - http://www.linktolearning.com/ Click on student links

• Personal Educational Press - Your teacher will ask you to create educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. Simply choose a word list and an output style.

• Mr. K's Student Links - Classified in 3 ways CLASS TIME, FREE TIME and REFERENCE

• Web Sites to Explore - A variety of sites from k to 6!

• Cool Sites for Students

• Gamequarium - Games to consolidate learning in all subject areas!

• OCDSB Student Resource Page - Send your students here for HOMEWORK/PROJECT/RESEARCH assistance.

• Creative Cartooning, Puzzles etc.

• Discovery Kids

• Our Page for Students

• Internet Public Library for Kids

• Back to School

• **** New Shifting puzzle - Shifting puzzle is an online jisaw puzzle game, where the pieces can only be shifted vertically or horizontally, column by column or row by row. It is however guaranteed that the solution exists in all the cases presented to you.

• A Game a Day - Great for Rainy Day Recesses!

• KIDS & the Internet (October Edition) - Welcome to my vision of what's wonderful on the Web. Greetings parents, kids, teens, grandparents, teachers, librarians and the incurably curious. I am an Occasional Teacher, Tech Trainer and Net surfer supreme (not listed in order of importance, of course) Here are my PICKS of the MONTH! I hope to provide updates periodically.

• The Grid Club - Proves that learning can be great fun! Really makes use of the web to offer a multitude of activities for 7 - 11 year olds.

• Tiny Planet - This children’s site has a rich combination of interactive content, animation and games. The judges felts the site had been very successfully targeted at young child with a simply but fun user interface and a range of engaging games and exercises featuring characters Bing and Bong.

• Angela Anaconda - on-Line - A website that immediately grabs yours attention and takes you on a ride through Angela's world. The movie-like interface add wide appeal across the target age groups.

• Herman's HomePage - Incredibly high production values and a technical sophistication helped this bright and colourful website standout. FOR EARLY LEARNERS!

Science

• Thinking Fountain - More ideas for science projects. For instance, build a model of spiders based on the book, Anansi the Spider. Or how about building square bubbles?? You can also make a spaghetti sculpture, or grow mold-- sure to be a favorite!

• Science Projects from Yes Mag - As everyone knows, Science is more fun if you get to do something! So here you go, print out the following projects and do them at home. Click on Kids at the bottom of the screen to find out what other kids are doing in Science.

• Cool Science for Curious Kids - Learn more about the the life cycle of the butterfly, plants, snakes, lizards, strange stuff in the air and a cool microscope project!

• National Geographic - National Geographic Magazine for Kids! Try out the COOL Bookmark Maker

• Living Things - From the Individual to families to Niegbourhoods to the Circle of Life

• How Stuff Works - Have you ever wondered how the engine in a car works or what makes the inside of your refrigerator cold? Then How Stuff Works is the place for you!

• Exworthy's Kid Sites - Here are fun and educational activities for kids of all ages!

• Hands on Science - Topics include Sound, Water, inertia, Gravity, Statistics and Work. Don't forget the songs and lyrics!

• Funology - The Science of Having Fun - Offers lots of fun, creative activities, games, jokes, and trivia.

• Science 4 Kids - Here's a great site with lots of fantastic ideas for science activities and experiments.

• Exploratorium's Science Explorer - Great for a Science Fair or Presentation

• Soda Play - The home of creative play! A spring loaded construction set. Explore and try building your own!! Sodaplay allows you to manipulate simple lines and dots to create sophisticated and witty 3D structures that act and look like living creatures. It also offers access to a virtual zoo of previously made models to play with and modify. The creatures walk and roll and slink across the screen in fluid, lifelike and often beautiful ways.

• Funology: 'Kick the Can Ice Cream' - It's Hot! Try 'Kick the Can Ice Cream' and other Boredom Busters

Language Arts

• Puzzlemaker - Are you studying a special unit! Prepare a word search puzzle using the particular vocabulary.

• Mystery Stories - Many mystery stories to solve and discuss.

• Daily Buzzword and Dictionary - Hear and Learn about the WORD OF THE DAY!

• Giggle Poetry - Be sure to check out FAVOURITE POEMS and click on 'surprise me again'.

• Quia ESL/Language/Grammar Quizzes

• Wacky Web Tales - Mad Libs for junior students - defines parts of speech

• Grammar Quizzes

• * Merriam-Webster Online - Use the built in dictionary and thesaurus. Explore the 'Word of the Day'.

• Crossword Puzzles and Fables

• News Zone - What is the lead story of the day!

• Aesop's Fables - Read one a day!

• NEW** Edu Place - K to 8 Kids Place

• Word Central - A student dictionary!

• Al Bunny's Typing Class

• Smack a Bug! Typing Game - Practice typing with Timon and Pumba - click the keys to get the bugs! (shockwave)

• *** NEW On-Line Fairy Tales - The Shoemaker and the Elves and other classic tales! Includes Word Search Games and Slider Puzzles!! Stories a read to you! Excellent expression and diction!!!

Math

• KidsClick Science and Math - Web Searching for Kids. Created by librarians. At the bottom of the screen you can limit the results of your search up to your grade level. Great for both students and teachers

• Pattern Blocks - Explore fractions and symmetry with shapes.

• Brain Teasers - Visit this site each Wednesday for a new mathematical challenge that you can complete individually or as a class.

• Free Math Crossword Puzzles - For Late Grade 2 and beyond.

• Figure This! Math Challenges - Great for creative problem solving, homework, family math and cooperative problem solving. Connection with real life math!

• FactMonster - Great research and homework helper page for junior students

• Base 10 Blocks: Exploring Whole Decimal Numbers

• Number Work Machine - BBC Online site

• Quia's Math Journey - Play Math Journey! Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and rounding.

• Quia Math Quizzes

Research & Homework

• ASK JEEVES for Kids SEARCH ENGINE - Great for student research. Children can ask questions using natural language.

• Explain the concept of searching on the web. - This is a tutorial you you can use yourself or with students to explain the world of web searching. So gather a group of students around the computer, use the lab or whatever. Set up like a slideshow presentation.

• Reference Sites - These links will take you to sites that will help you and your junior or intermediate students as you do research on the web.

• The Amazing Picture Machine - It's basically a search engine for pictures on the web. Do you need a picture for a project. You can find it here

• The BackPack - Homework and Research Tools - All the tools you need to keep you organized and on target! Impress your friends! Notepaper, WebTracks A Week@School Planner, Picture Dictionary Thesaurus Calculator Dictionnaire-English-French, Dictionary, English-French Translator, Measurement Conversion, National Atlas, Encyclopedia, Calendar

• Let's Go Around the World - A 'Culture' Site. Visit the Amazon Rain Forest, or the Canadian Arctic, or East Africa. Guess the weekly mystery animal, look at kids drawing from around the world and more.

• Search Tools for Students - Search engines and reference tools for research

• The Canadians Kid Page - Ask your teacher or parent about trying the Kid's Karaoke and Kid Kapers, an online publishing newspaper.

• Worlds of Web Searching - A multimediainteractive slide show style tutorial for kids of all ages! SUPER -10 lessons

• Encyclopedia Britannica - Encyclopedia Britannica is not only on the web in full, but it is free. *** GREAT RESOURCE

• Time Magazine for Kids - Have groups of students report on the top stories! Students can create their own magazine cover. A GREAT BACK TO SCHOOL ACTIVITY!

• PencilNews - Newspaper for Kids! Current Events for Kids- You might want to assign a team of 'reporters' for each day.

• Encyclopedia.com

• BJ Pinchbeck's Homwework Helper - One place to answer all your homework needs.

• 10 BEST HOMEWORK SITES - 10 GREAT homework sites for middle schoolers!

• Word Search Creator - Quickly create and print a word search for your projects or assignments

• CBC 4 Kids News Central - News stories for kids aged 7-14 with background Information, links, past features, and a place for feedback. ...

• Weekly Reader News Galaxy - Choose your grade level to begin and blast off into a brand-new Galaxy! Prekindergarten to grade 6 kids! .. Blast off into a brand-new Galaxy! Prekindergarten to grade 6 kids!Check out the Hot Off the Press: Daily news for kids, teachers, and parents ; the CyberWords Online Word Search; News Busters; topical Kid Poll and News Smarts which tests your knowledge of the news.

• Ivy's Search Engine Resources - Here you will find search forms for the major Internet search engines for kids.

• Kids Konnect ~***NEW - KidsKonnect has kids homework and educational help - a safe Internet gateway for kids created & maintained by educators.