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Classroom
Internet Hunt Based around the Christmas holiday the hunt will show kids some exciting educational web
sites.
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The Space
Place The Space Place is full of great spacey things to make and do.
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Maths in the
Year 2000 A new approach to teaching using multimedia and interactivity as a way of stimulating children to create something
themselves.
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Y2Kids
Art Students create art work sharing what they were doing on January 1, 2000. It is then uploaded on to the The Hugging Hands website in a
special gallery where it will remain perpetually on display.
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A Christmas Carol Charles Dickens' story of Mr.
Scrooge.
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Healthy Kids
Keeping Lambeth's kids healthy.
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American Indians and the Natural World
Hosted by the Carnegie Museum of Natural History, this site is an exploration of four tribes of Native
Americans.
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An Online History Of The Millennium
A thousand years of history is neatly laid out on this UK newspaper site.
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BBC Online: Millennium Games
The BBC has compiled a neat little tribute to the millennium with quizzes, a maze, an interactive
timeline game, and a sliding picture puzzle.
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A Family Millennium
Celebrate the Millennium with Family Education!
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Maths Lessons That Are Fun! Fun! Fun!
A great site to find mathematics enrichment activities.
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Teletext CAMELL Expedition
An eco-educational IT orientated joint British Australian expedition aiming to make the first circumnavigation of Australia with camels.
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The Science of Having Fun
This colorful site is full of activities for young kids to learn how to make things, explore the world, and discover new skills.
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Gorilla Foundation This Web site is of gorillas, for gorillas, and even to some
extent, by gorillas (don't miss the paintings).
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Kids@NationalGeographic
Lots of colourful exciting resources for children of all ages.
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Christmas Around the World
Extensive listing of traditions from various countries.
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Christmas on the Net
Excellent overview of the history and traditions of Christmas.
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Santa Tracker
Give this site your e-mail address and receive regular updates on what is
going on at the North Pole; as the holidays get closer, you can visit the
site to see preparations and even watch Santa launch the sleigh on Christmas
Eve!
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Cool Science For Curious Kids
Activities developed by five Children's Museums. The site itself is hosted by the Howard Hughes Medical
Institute and covers animals, plants, life cycles and microscopic life.
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Kellog's Toucan
Everything from plants and animals to the people that live in the
rainforest. There are versions ion English and in French.
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Panda
Web Cam Video is fed from 14 cameras strategically positioned in Zoo Atlanta's panda
habitat 24 hours a day. A unique behind-the-scenes look at Lun Lun and Yang Yang, the two giant pandas that arrived in Atlanta from
China on November 5, 1999.
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Online Autumn
Online Autumn is complete and ready to be used as a resource for lower
primary students.
A+ Math A Maths site for
kids.
The Mighty m&m Math Project
Teaching fractions and percentages in a motivating and yummy way.
The Lord Mayor's Show
The venerable Corporation of London tells of its traditions dating back more than
800 years.
Mr. Bones
Put the bones back together in proper arrangement. (Requires Shockwave)
Absolutely Whootie
A warm and friendly children's story site that features folktales from around the world.
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Kayleigh's
Playground A fun, safe, and educational place for toddlers,
preschoolers, and young children.
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NASA Kids Now
children have their very own NASA website.
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The Pencil Pages These pages explain how pencils are made, give
the history of the eraser, describe graphite, and more.
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Math Goodies Math Goodies is a free educational site featuring interactive math
lessons.
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Ozone
Hole Tour Up to date presentation from Cambridge University which takes you on a
virtual tour of the depleting ozone layer over the Antarctic.
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Tortoise & the Hare
A lively, lengthy version of a very old story, adapted here to the Internet for the
young readers.
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Monster Exchange Project
Signup for this wonderful online project begins immediately and is only open to the first 500 schools!
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Mathematics Worksheet Factory
Get a free download of a great worksheet generation program at this site. The program allows you to easily create instant, customized
worksheets for the practice of arithmetic facts in addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
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AP Education
Contains free poems and teachers' notes linked to the National Literacy
Strategy and a 'Unique-in-the-UK' electronic writer in residence service.
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Seven Steps Toward Better Searching
An only activity from Professor Bernie Dodge at San Diego State University
containing seven useful searching tricks to try.
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eHow This
site offers a multitude of practical "How To's" on everything from
writing limericks to applying to medical school.
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Seussville
Share not only Dr. Seuss beloved books but also this fun, creative, and
highly interactive website!
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Math Stories A treasure trove of ready-to-print worksheets
filled with well-written math story problems.
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AT&T Virtual Classroom
open your classroom to the world!
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Animal Habitats A drawing of a zoo and an interactive map create a lively
environment for practicing Web skills, while learning how animals live in several
basic habitats.
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PuzzleMaker Generate a variety of puzzles for the children straight off the web.
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New York Times Learning Network
Eight lesson plans that feature Internet scavenger hunts.
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Monster
Motel Enter the creepy house at this address and be ready to scour the place
for monsters! Read about, create and write about monsters.
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The Puppetry Homepage If it's on the Internet
and about puppetry, you will probably find it indexed here.
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Kodak Picture Playground
The Kodak Picture Playground is a great place to let kids manipulate digital images.
Topmarks Sites are organised in age groups. Two such examples are Infant Explorer and Weather Teddy.
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Total
Eclipse A moving graphical demonstration of the forthcoming eclipse. The
language is French, but it is easy to understand.
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NASA's
Eclipse Site Much useful stuff and links to other sites. All you will
need on the eclipse.
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African On-Line Store African Online Shop for books etc.,
from Africa.
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Basket Math
Answer the questions to shoot the hoops.
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I Spy Here children can not only
play online, they can create their own I Spy puzzles.
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Sunshine Literacy Hour
New activities and lesson plans each month to support the Literacy Hour.
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Zeeks.com
Interactive games, chat rooms, free e-mail, search engines, and other great kids' stuff.
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Grand Canyon Explorer
A great way to visit one of America's most awe-inspiring natural treasures.
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ThinkMap An amazing tool that allows you to animate data so that you can interact
with it to conduct analyses, brainstorm, and generate ideas.
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Web66
Schools talking to schools. Features school websites in 83 countries.
Leonardo da Vinci
The Museum of Science in Boston has one of the best websites dedicated to Leonardo.
Multimedia presentations explain his life and his work.
Energy In The Air
Sounds From The Orchestra.
Schoolmaster A unique free programme
specially designed for schools, providing a secure and interactive Web based
communication facility for teachers, students and their families.
Sesame Street
Educational fun for Nursery/Kindergarten based on the popular series.
Pumpkins
Ideas for the Autumn for Nursery/Kindergarten using pumpkins.
Math Goodies
A free educational site featuring interactive math lessons.
Words
& Pictures A fun packed site for 5-7 year olds with poems, games
and activities to help with reading and writing
- Children's Creative Theatre A great
resource for teachers and students interested in creative dramatics and theatre.
- PBS Kids! Lots of fun stuff to do and find out
about.
- Pieces and Creases A Fun Guide to
Origami
- Educate the Children Provides free
lesson plans and electronic resources for primary school educators.
- Duck Family Site
Every year this school has a female duck (this year two) that starts her
family in the one of their courtyards. This year they've included their activities on our
school's web site.
- National Curriculum Review Download the
proposals for National Curriculum 2000.
- Art Safari The Museum of Modern Art
invites kids to explore and create paintings and sculptures based on an animal theme.
- The Wacky World of
Words A place to find words that are, well, kind of wacky. Included
are similes, oxymorons, anagrams, words-within-words, and lots more.
- The Como Project The
challenge of materials from the Science Museum.
- Create a
Cover Contest A first annual Create a Cover Contest. Winners of the contest will see
their works of art featured on the front cover of Bonus.com in September for children
around the world to enjoy.
- Cool Planet for
teachers Extracts from three excellent classroom resource packs from Oxfam UK.
- Power of the World Wide Web This tutorial
shows K-12 teachers how to harness the power of the World Wide Web for classroom use.
- teachers@work Over 2500 reviewed and
rated year 0-12 educationally orientated, internet sites
- Puzzle Centre This free utility,
designed with educators in mind, integrates the Internet into the classroom curriculum
- Literacy planning Literacy planning for Key
Stages 1 & 2.
- Picture This Each week a
new Tangram puzzle is featured for children to solve
- Owl Prowl This collaborative
Internet project was written by children for children.
- Primary Treasures
Primary Treasures for teachers.
- A Beginner's Guide to the
Balkans This ABC News Special Report provides an overview and context for current
events in the Balkans.
- Infant Explorer A website
designed for Key Stage 1 children and teachers.
- Tate Gallery Follow their links to the
Bankside Browser project.
- 4 Seasons Internet Project Integrates
the Internet as a resource, rather than a lesson on its own.
- Weather Designed by Dr.
Eric Flescher, "Weather" has been published on the Internet at the Annenburg
Weather and Climate website.
- Hunt For Famous Explorers
Game Who are the people that traveled into unknown places and discovered some of the
landmarks or founded the cities that became capitals?
- Windows on China Links and
resources about China.
- Hinduism A
recommended site to schools learning or doing projects about Hinduism.
- kids Palace
Agraphical user environment - in which kids can read, role-play and write stories. Part of
a research project.
- LearningKingdom Loads of ideas for
teachers on this educational site.
- Dinosaurs Alive! A
six-week, on-line investigation of the science behind dinosaurs.
- St. Patrick's Day in
CyberSpace All things relating to St. Patrick's Day!
- Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers
Ideas provided by UK teacher Mark Warner.
- The World of
Puppets The World of Puppets is a WebQuest on puppetry from Asian cultures.
- Y2K for Kids Y2K is shorthand for
Year 2000 and is most often used when people talk about the Year 2000 computer problem.
- Desktop
Videoconferencing Teacher Hazel Jobe offers readers an introduction to
videoconferencing technology.
- Snow Activities This
site includes snow art, snow food, and snow literature.
- Eric's Black Sun
Eclipse Website This site includes a question of the day, first-hand accounts of
eclipses,
information about the eclipse of August 1999, eclipse trivia, and photos.
- You've Got Mail Ten Nifty
Ways teachers can use E-Mail to Extend Kids' Learning.
- On-line
Course For Continuing Professional Development for teachers of Key Stage 1 and 2.
- Live from the Sun What's
guaranteed to be the "hottest" project in the entire solar system.
- Mrs. Glosser's Math Goodies A free
educational web site featuring interactive math lessons.
- Topmarks Education Welcome to Our A
continually updated database to help you find the best educational resources on the
Internet.
- The Globe Programme An environmental
project funded by the DfE.
- Valiant Technology Classroom
ideas and resources for the Roamer and other robots.
- Web Alphabet
The first grade students at Wiscasset Primary School created a web alphabet book with
pictures from the farm across the road.
- KidsPsych Interactive games
and activities that are designed to help young children master specific developmental
skills.
- Star
Tower Innovative online games from Xemplar UK.
- The African
Ed-Venture An actual journey of discovery, exploration, and mystery. An
educational adventure through the wilds of Africa.
- The Monster Motel An
exciting online collaborative writing project for kids everywhere. Visit
the spooky motel, sign the guestbook and tell them about YOUR monster.
- Math Activities
Offers loads of mathematics teaching materials based on aeronautical themes and NASA
projects.
- Word Dance Features a quarterly magazine
of children's writing, poetry, and artwork. Children will also enjoy the games and links
to other sites.
- Educational Web Adventures
Beautifully illustrated and highly interactive adventures that will take you all
over the curriculum world of this innovative company.
- Sainsbury's Museum a
'Virtual Museum' developed jointly by Sainsbury's Archives and the
IT Learning Exchange.
- Ask Jeeves for Teachers Type in
complete questions and receive hits on appropriate sites for lessons, projects, and
support materials.
- Teacher Tales True stories
from the classroom - you'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll wonder! You can also add your own
tales.
- Lissa's HTML
HTML help and web page resources for kids created by
a very talented 12-year-old girl.
- National
Geographic Society Xpeditions A wonderful site that includes an atlas, forums, an
Xpedition hall, and an archive of materials,
- Kid's Space A site to spark
kid's interest in space science.
- Star Child
Astronomy for young children.
- Argosphere Lots of innovative resources
for teachers.
- Holiday
Cards Don't miss our special holiday card section, where students can print,
colour and send greeting cards to friends and family.
- World Surfari Created by a 12 year old.
Take a virtual adventure to different countries around the globe!
- Cool Science for Curious Kids A fun
and interactive site that was created to help kids appreciate science.
- How Stuff Works This site dissects
some of the items found in our everyday lives, such as the refrigerator, television and
automobile engine explaining how they work.
- Look at
Yourselves - Look at Us! A primary project combining geography and weather by
corresponding with 5 and 6 year olds around the world. Runs from January - June 1999.
- Story Writing Project
January - February 1999, students in Grades 1 - 8 around the world will collaborate on
writing projects
- You Can Handle Them All This site
shares a step-by-step approach to handling misbehavior at home and in school.
- Innovative Teaching Try
their newsletter for innovative Internet teaching ideas.
- Mrs. Claus's
Workshop A new web activity about Christmas that has been created by students and
teachers at Loogootee Elementary West in Indiana.
- Santa's Hawaiian Home Email
Santa and get a reply within minutes. There are some fun educational links too.
- Father Christmas A UK site where
you can email Santa and check out some Christmas resources.
- Readers Theatre Is
becoming a very popular part of language learning from late primary to high school.
- Rock Hounds with Rocky Go
digging for some fun and facts about Rocks from this R-7, K-6 site.
- Author Online! Children's author Aaron
Shepard's home page.
- Educational Software Becta's
Educational Software database.
- Safe Surfing Sites
Trustworthy, fun and informative sites for children on the Internet.
- Literacy Trust Computer
Conference Leave messages and start discussions on all aspects of literacy in school
and beyond.
- No Cavities Club Dr. Bunny
teaches children about oral hygiene with interactive games, stories, and art projects.
- World Kids Network A fun site run mostly
by kids for kids.
- Kids on the Net A new
educational children's website. Part of the trAce International Online Writing Community
based at Nottingham Trent University.
- Billy Bear's
Halloween Page Halloween bits and pieces from Billy Bear.
- Mind's-Eye Monster Project
Sign up for the fall 1998 Mind's-Eye Monster Project Exchange.
- Scottish Virtual Teachers' Centre Created as
part of the NGfL implementation in Scotland, it is targeted at teachers and librarians.
- Netd@ys '98 (BECTa) aims to inform
and inspire UK schools and colleges to exploit the educational opportunities offered by
electronic communications through its Netdays website.
- Kindergarten Connection Here you will find
photos of bulletin boards made in Kindergarten classrooms and samples of paper quilts made
by Kindergarten students etc.
- SNOW Kids SNOW Kids has
information for special needs children and their teachers and parents.
- Kididdles Looking for children's music?
Then check out this site. It's chock full of music and fun for kids.
- Xpeditions More than a
hundred original lesson plans and after-school activities for grades K-12.
- Classroom Connect The world's leading
publisher of supplementary curriculum materials for Internet-connected K-12 educators.
- Tesco Schoolnet Sign up for the
Schoolnet2000 project here.
- DfEE Standards Lots of good
resources for teachers, particularly for the Literacy Hour.
- Volcanoes Online What is a
volcano? How are they are formed? What is the impact of eruptions?
- Sipapu: Chetro Ketl Great Kiva
A three-dimensional reconstruction of an Anasazi Great Kiva.
- Webtime Stories An
annotated hotlist of exceptional online stories, book and author resources, and online
activities for people who love children's literature.
- Space
Shuttle Discovery John Glenn, who thirty-six years ago made history when he became the
first American to orbit the Earth, will be aboard this shuttle.
- Literacy Time
Resources to back up the National Literacy Project.
- Web Classroom Lots of valuable educational
resources on this Australian site.
- Anglia Interactive Have been busy
all through the summer adding new units to the site
- AfricaQuest Beginning October 5,
the AfricaQuest team will take an online audience of students on a 1,500-mile, six-week
mountain bike journey through Africa's Great Rift Valley.
- The Octopus Website
Inclusive Technologies new site for Kids, Teachers and Parents.
- Teachergrid UK Microsoft, BT and
Research Machines have teamed up to provide an on online Teacher Resource Centre.
- Seussville Fun
activities for your little ones based on popular Dr. Seuss books.
- Treasure Island A complete
middle school literature unit for Robert Louis Stevenson's "Treasure Island."
- Legend of Captain Dave An online Internet
hunt. Follow the story of Captain Dave and answer questions about pirates along the way.
- Fairy Godmother Stories, artwork and
games for children.
- Educast A free, information-providing
service for educators.
- MidLink Magazine June-September
issue of MidLink, and educational magazine.
- Hedgehogs Web Activity
An interactive quiz, a word search, stories written by students and much more.
- Habibah of Malaysia Recently
voted the best kid's site by the Carver Middle/Pakistan Computers Global Mailing List.
- Barn Yard Buddies All about our
barnyard friends.
- John's Mountain Farm An
American educational farm site.
- Traveling Buddies
All you need to know about Traveling Buddy projects which involves mailing stuffed animals
to participating schools.
- Happy, Healthy and Wise
Health resources and lessons for elementary teachers. Topics include dental health,
exercise, and parts of the body.
- Head into Summer Kick-off your
summer vacation with a few kicks of the soccer ball.
- World Cup Sites
- The Great Plant Escape
Help Detective Le Plant and his partners Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of
plant life.
- Schoolart A UK based website for all
ages.
- Teachers' Centres There's a
section on this website that lists a whole range of Virtual Teachers' Centres.
- Who-Am-I? An
eight-month educational program for European teachers hosted by KidLink.