Themes
Ask Eric - interdisciplinary Lesson Plans
http://ericir.syr.edu/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Interdisciplinary
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Huge theme site with all year levels and KLAs. Students
could choose their own level/interest.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/a-z/
School History Site
[British]- but there is a lot more than that here!
The diagram
facility is an excellent idea!
History Games
http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/games/
Surfing the Net with Kids wide variety of games - a personal
favourite of mine
http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/
Puzzle Playground - for the most part for using away from the
computer.
http://www.puzzles.com/PuzzlePlayground/WelcomeToPuzzlePlayground.htm
Class Brain - some games
http://www.classbrain.com/cb_games/cb_gms.htm
Make
your own with free software:
Hot Potatoes (highly recommended)
http://www.halfbakedsoftware.com/
Using Tasmanian know-how - making
a quiz online
http://cybil.tafe.tas.edu.au/~capsticm/quizman/qmhome.html
Crossword Maker - download. Excellent but only PC.
http://www.greeneclipsesoftware.com/eclipsecrossword/
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Character
Theme |
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=5399
Bullying Online
http://www.bullying.co.uk/
Character Counts
http://www.charactercounts.org/howto/teaching-tools.htm
Character Education Resources
http://www.uen.org/utahlink/activities/view_activity.cgi?activity_id=5399
Cultural Debates Online
http://www.teachtsp2.com/cdonline/
Giraffe Project - for those who stick their neck out for the
better good
of others -
http://www.giraffe.org/k12_3.html
Character Education
http://www.character.org/resources/links/
It's My life -
http://pbskids.org/itsmylife/
Kids Philosophy Slam - http://www.philosophyslam.org/
Teaching Tolerance -
http://www.splcenter.org/teachingtolerance/tt-index.html
Decisions Online - http://ddonline.tomsnyder.com/
World Team Sports -
http://worldteamsports.org/cgi-bin/EventHandler/EventHandler.plaction=entryform&filename=download&id=wts
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Search
Tools
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We have a page called 'Search Tools for Young
Users' that may be helpful:
http://www.eddept.wa.edu.au/cmis/eval/search/search2.htm
http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm
which allows you to search various kids search engines.
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Online
Chat 4 Teachers
TAPPED INª is the online workplace of an international community
of education professionals. K-12 teachers and librarians,
professional development staff, teacher education faculty and
students, and researchers engage in professional development
For those interested in joining an international chat group on a
range of educational issues or setting up their own room for
others to visit go to
http://www.tappedin.org/
There you can register, and then join a wide range of groups
depending on your particular interests.
No spam mail will eventuate.
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World
Maps
http://www.worldatlas.com/aatlas/world.htm
This page has a few downloadable versions
http://www.atlapedia.com/online/mapresources.htm
For related map stuff try these
http://www.maps.com/explore/atlas/political/ÊÊand
http://www.maps.com/explore/downloads/
National Geographic Map Machine Online
http://plasma.nationalgeographic.com/mapmachine/
or a downloadable version for kids
http://www.kidsdomain.com/down/mac/natgeomaps.html
This site has BLM of maps of the world and lots or related
resources in
the left frame
http://geography.about.com/library/blank/blxindex.htm
Try these
http://www.geographyiq.com/
http://www.atlapedia.com/
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Health
And Body System
Alfy's Picks For the Human body - includes games activities,
lesson plans etc
http://www.alfy.com/teachers/teach/thematic_units/Human_Body/HB_1.asp
Human Anatomy Online - mouse over images of each of the body
systems
http://www.innerbody.com/htm/body.html
Human Body Systems - links to activities and resources on WWW:
http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/body.htm
Human Body Teaching Theme - includes clipart,
resource
materials, downloads,
Webquests, worksheets, interactive sites etc.
http://teachers.teach-nology.com/themes/science/humanb/
Human Body Unit - links to human body sites
http://www.northcanton.sparcc.org/~greentown/human.htm
Brainpop - short animated movies on each of the body systems
http://www.brainpop.com/health/seeall.weml
Webquest - The Body Mission
http://www.cap.nsw.edu.au/bb_site_intro/stage3_Modules/body/the_body_mission.htm
Have a look at this virtual tour of the heart from the Franklin
Institute ... http://sln.fi.edu/biosci/heart.html
Also
http://198.66.36.48/uci/ssi2001/blood-heart.html
http://cwis.livjm.ac.uk/psd/DigitalResources/Heart.htm
lots of online resources
http://www.lhs.liverpool.k12.ny.us/lhslib/projects/cardio/cvsdocumentupdate.html
- online web challenge
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| General
- Great Sites
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| Fantastic Site for R-3 Teachers
http://ginaotto.com/k3teachers.html
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Fantastic Useful Site with lots of
useful materials
http://www.webpages4teachers.com/
The teacher tools are particularly interesting
http://www.webpages4teachers.com/
Another fantastic site with great links called Picadome!
Funny name, great site!
A site with the most amazing online
resources including Button Designs, Placemats, Posters, all in
colour and VERY useful!
A page full of excellent links for teachers. So much here. Thanks
to "Mrs
Jones" !
Huge resource here. All topics and sections. Tooter4kids.
Wow! Another
huge resource - not easy to follow though!
Bob's
educational resources - a huge resource |
| The brilliant "Bean
Files" - a great activity for upper primary. Australian!
Another Australian
Site IT links
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