Links Of Interest

Last update: 9th October 2005

This is just a collection of links related to different areas of interest, classified alphabetically. These links will take you to some useful Web sites I found while surfing the Net. The first group of them are formed by links to sites about the Basque Country, home of BETEA, mainly in English. I hope all of them will give you some hints on how to take advantage of the World Wide Web, as far as English Teaching / Learning is concerned. As a matter of fact, most of the Internet is a tremendously huge source of everything that a teacher or a learner of Shakespeare's language can imagine in terms of resources. In the following Web sites you will find a droplet of all that vast ocean of resources. Have a good crossing!

Note: If you noticed that any of the following links is not properly updated, please let us know!

Do you know any other unmissable sites? Please, tell us about them. Thanks! :-)

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BASQUE COUNTRY

CELEBRATIONS & HOLIDAYS

  • European Festivals and Traditions : Web site created with the support of Comenius Action 1: European Educational Partnerships. An example of the kind of projects that schools can plan together on the Internet.
  • John's ESL Holidays : Site primarily for intermediate and advanced students offers excellent background information on a variety of holidays; also offers links for each holiday to educational sites.
  • Holidays at Yahooligans : A complete directory of holidays and celebrations with links galore!
  • Holidays on the Net  : A site devoted to give information about the different holidays celebrated throughout the year. It also includes a holiday calendar, holiday greeting cards, crafts, pictures and recipes and even a special section for educators.
  • KidsDomain Holidays.
  • The Holiday Zone : Seasonal language activities, learning games, songs, fingerplays and action rhymes, art projects and craft ideas, and more for young English language learners.

Christmas

Easter

Mother's Day

Halloween

CINEMA

E-CARDS

There are lots of sites from which you can write and send E-cards, that is, electronic cards. These are just a few of them:

EDUCATION

  • ABC Teach : It provides easy, online materials for immediate use by kids, student teachers, teachers, parents and other visitors to the site.  The material can be printed directly from the screen; no downloads necessary. Teachers have permission to reproduce these pages for classroom use.  Very useful!
  • AFS Youth Development :AFS Youth Development is the UK partner in the AFS international network and a founder member of the European Foundation for Intercultural Learning (EFIL).
  • Amazingmoms.com: Ideas for family fun, arts and crafts for kids, birthday parties for children and more!
  • Aussie Gateways: This web site has been designed to provide parents and their children with easy access to internet activities and computer tasks for children of all ages.
  • Awesome Library - K-12 Education Directory
  • EdHelper : Free lesson plans, worksheets, puzzle builder and more.
  • EdHelperNet : It links to some useful education and teacher sites.
  • Education World (tm) Where Educators Go To Learn
  • Educational Software from Owl & Mouse
  • Encarta Lesson Collection -Teacher Resources - Encarta Schoolhouse
  • Exploring the continents - Webquest: An example of WebQuest.
  • Fonts for Teachers: At the Teachers' Parking Lot there is a large collection of freeware and shareware fonts ideal for use in the classroom.
  • Foundation for Environmental Education.
  • FREE Sample Edutainment Games
  • Global Gateway: The Global Gateway  is an international website, enabling those involved in education across the world to engage in creative partnerships.
  • Grandma George's Website: Here you will find many country graphics for your personal use such as scrapbooking, greeting cards, stationary, clocks, magnets, correspondence, business cards and much more. Free samples are also available.
  • Grid Club : An excellent colourful site that manages to cover all areas of the British Primary curriculum with fun, interactive educational games.
  • IEARN : International Education And Resource Network.
  • Integrating The Internet : Use this page to find primary resources, projects, units of study, and a tutorial to help you plan projects and class homepages.
  • Internenes: Lots of downloadable educational programmes classified in different categories according to level and/or language and subject.
  • Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators: Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators is a categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning.
  • Kindersite: The Kindersite Project is intended for ALL preschool and Kindergarten age children. It has 1,000s of links to the best Games, Songs and Stories for young children.
  • Learning Page : Learning Page is a huge collection of professionally produced instructional material for you to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets and much more can be found on the site. Membership needed for full contents.
  • Online Educator : Site containing a weekly hot list archive of interesting educational links.
  • Primary Games: This site contains educational games for primary students.
  • Puzzles
  • Quia : The Web's largest educational technology resource.
  • Scholastic's Homepage
  • Sites For Teachers :A list of links to sites that contain teacher's resource and educational material. The sites are ranked by popularity. Site statistics (hits in/hits out) are updated hourly. A must for teachers.
  • Surviving In The One-Computer Classroom : It is divided into four areas: classroom management issues , ideas for using one computer with 25 students , troubleshooting tips and Internet resources for the one-computer classroom.  
  • The Teacher's Guide: Lesson plans, thematic units, book activities, teacher freebies, children's songs, and more. 
  • Teaching Ideas : It is for teachers who teach primary-age children (i.e. ages 5 to 11). Although it has been designed with UK teachers in mind, all ideas can of course be used by teachers around the world.The ideas, activities and worksheets are organised according to a number of subjects (those covered in the English National Curriculum): English, Maths, Science, Design and Technology (D+T), Information and Communication Technology (I.C.T.), Geography, History, Art, Music, Physical Education (P.E.) and Religious Education (R.E.). There is also an area on the site entitled "Time-Fillers".
  • TeAch-nology.com: It claims to be "The Portal For educators". It is worth a visit... It contains lots of free materials for teachers and educators.
  • The Global Schoolhouse 
  • The Perpetual Preschool : Another site replete with children's songs, fingerplays, language activities, crafts, and more; not just for preschool teachers!
  • The Virtual Schoolhouse
  • The Virtual Vine : One long-time teacher's collection of ideas and activities for themes and units, displays, literacy connections, and more.
  • Topmarks Education: High quality, free educational resources on the Internet. Especially remarkable are the sites featured in it that work well on interactive whiteboards in the primary classroom.
  • Webquest Portal: A portal to find out about this constructivist lesson format, used widely around the world.
  • WebTeacher: A tutorial site for teachers with information and ideas on how to use the World Wide Web in the classroom. It is divided into six categories: Webbasics, Communicating, Multimedia, Homepage Construction, Peripherals & Utilities and The Web In Your Classroom.
  • World Wide Learn: It claims to be the world's largest online directory of education.

BBC

  • BBC Learning : A wonderful site providing schools, colleges and adults with useful materials and information.
  • BBC Schools : Learning resources for both home and school.

Institutions

ENCYCLOPEDIAS

GEOGRAPHY

Atlases

Maps

HISTORY

HUMOUR

LANGUAGES

Dictionaries

ESL - EFL

Penpals and Keypals

  • E-Mail Projects Homepage
  • E-pals : It claims to be “the world’s largest online classroom community and leading provider of student-safe email.”
  • Intercultural E-mail Classroom Connections : IECC is a free teaching.com service to help teachers link with partners in other cultures and countries for email classroom pen-pal and other project exchanges.
  • IPFS educational pen pals
  • KeyPals
  • Kidnews : A source of e-mail penpals (keypals) for children from all over the world. Your class can put their details onto the list in a specially created 'magazine' area. Super as a basis for letter-writing class projects or discussions with peers about life in other countries/cultures.

Publishers

Resources

LIBRARIES

LITERATURE

  • Bartleby.com Great Books Online
  • Bibliomania : It offers an educational resource with the full text of classic world literature and important non-fiction texts supported by an extensive reference section.
  • Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site : A collection of reviews of great books for kids, ideas of ways to use them in the classroom and collections of books and activities about particular subjects, curriculum areas, themes and professional topics.
  • Classics at the Online Literature Library
  • CLWG Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Literature Online : A fully searchable library of more than 330,000 works of English and American poetry, drama and prose, plus biographies, bibliographies and key criticism and reference resources.
  • Poetry Archives, The : It strives to be the largest collection of free classical poetry on the Internet. Users can search through the database of poetry by author, title, and first line of poem.
  • PROJECT GUTENBERG INDEX : It contains literary texts in English that are free of copyrights. Texts can be downloaded - making texts available free to everyone!  
  • Shakespeare : The Bard's complete works online.
  • Shakespeare (again!): At the time of updating these links the MIT's one had apparently changed. That's why I included this one that features links to other Shakespeare's sites.

MUSIC

Charts

Karaoke

 

Lyrics

No more time spent working them out ;-)

 

Music Guides

 

Radio

NEWSPAPERS

RECIPES

SCIENCE

SEARCH ENGINES

  • ditto.com - the place for pictures : Find lots of pictures from the WWW by typing in any word.
  • Download your FREE copy of Copernic : All-in-one search engine. Copernic uses the best search engines (Yahoo, Altavista, Google...) at the same time. So you just type in any clue word and all these search engines will work for you at once...
  • Find Sounds: A free site where you can search the Web for sound effects and musical instrument samples.
  • Google - An excellent search engine! Now it includes such features as a video search engine!
  • Humor Search - The Web's Humor Search Engine : No need to tell you what it is about!
  • Kid's Tools For Searching The Internet : Lots of search engines for kids in one single site! Great idea!
  • Lesson Plan Search : This search engine offers thousands of lesson plans for educators in grades K-12. Teachers can find lessons for all content areas.
  • LessonPlanz : It is a searchable directory of free online lesson plans and lesson plan resources for all grades and subjects.
  • Top English Teaching: Your guide to the best ELT resources in the internet: activities, printables, games, lesson-plans, worksheets, songs, ideas, articles, books, videos, etc. You can search for resources by level, age and/or skills.
  • Yahooligans! : Yahoo for kids. If you are a teacher this is a huge source of anything you need for your lessons. It is classified in a similar way as its 'older brother'.
  • Your WebScout : More cool sites to be searched for!

SITES FOR CHILDREN

  • A+ Math : Maths can be fun! You can make your own flashcards, play Matho and Hidden Picture in the games room, use the homework helper tools to check solutions, or even get worksheets for offline practice.
  • ABC Babysit : This site offers free printables for babysitters, parents, daycare providers, and teachers of young children.  Check out the word puzzles, colouring pages, and project ideas.
  • Activity Village: Here you will find over 2000 free pages of fun for kids!
  • Animal Sounds Library : From SeaWorld/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database.
  • Aussie Gateways: This web site has been designed to provide parents and their children with easy access to internet activities and computer tasks for children of all ages.
  • BBC Education : A wonderful educational site, one of the British Broadcasting Corporation's online services.
  • Beyond Our Skies: Discovering the Cosmos : This great ThinkQuest site tells you everything you might want to know about galaxies, stars, planets, and many other areas of astronomy.
  • CLWG Children's Literature Web Guide
  • Disney.com -- The Web Site for Families
  • DLTK's Crafts for Kids : It features a variety of fun, printable children's crafts, colouring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favourite cartoon characters. 
  • Educational Software from Owl & Mouse
  • ENCHANTED LEARNING SOFTWARE HOME PAGE : An interesting site for Primary projects, including a simple but effective interactive picture dictionary.
  • First School : It features fun preschool lesson plans, educational early childhood activities, printable crafts, printable activities, calendar of events, and other resources for children of preschool age. 
  • Funschool - Kids Software Online!!! : Games, activities, printables and downloads. It also includes links to other interesting kids' sites such as Zeeks and Kids Domain.
  • Games Domain : It claims to be the largest gaming resource on the internet.
  • Games Kids Play : Rules for more than 250 popular kids games from all over the world; almost any of these could be adapted for ESL/EFL!
  • Human Body Adventure : From skin to the inside of a tooth, find facts and diagrams all about human anatomy. Check out the bonus science facts too!
  • Humongous Entertainment
  • I Know That : Includes animated, multimedia adventures to make learning more fun! Try out the stickerbook, art area, or maths and language games.
  • Jan Brett's Home Page : A quality site packed with activities, colouring pages, masks, stories and more.
  • Kbears : Educational activities and games.
  • K.E.W.L. Kids Excellent Web Links
  • KIDiddles : Sing along with lyrics to hundreds of kids' songs in the Musical Mouseum, read a Trunk O'Tales, or play some games with Loopity Lee!
  • KidNews Home Page : A free news and writing service for students and teachers around the globe. It has already published thousands of young authors from every continent. Anyone may submit a piece whether a review, journalism piece, short story, poem, sports critique, real life accounts, opinions, or just a short hello. Each submission, just like at any publishing house, is edited and reviewed for content and language before being posted.
  • Kids Domain : Games, activities, printables and downloads. It also includes links to other interesting kids' sites such as Zeeks and Funschool.
  • The International Kids' Space : An attractive website with bright, clear screens where children can submit stories for publication online, or your class can submit a group writing project to the Story Book section.
  • Kid's ZONE the WEB Site by Kids for Kids
  • Kindersite: The Kindersite Project is intended for ALL preschool and Kindergarten age children. It has 1,000s of links to the best Games, Songs and Stories for young children.
  • Ladybird.co.uk
  • Literacy Center: Check out these multimedia early reading, writing, colors, and math lessons in English, French, German, and Spanish. You need to have Flash to do the activities.
  • LITTLE EXPLORERS by Enchanted Learning Software : Exciting and visually appealing picture dictionary. It provides a superb introduction to navigating on the WWW. Each picture, when clicked on, links to a relevant website, giving students a feel for 'net-surfing'. Flexible resource good for use with small groups to explore the possibilities of the Internet.
  • Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures: A visually attractive site with lots of activities. Cool! Learn about the environment with Maggie and her dog, Dude. Follow along on their special missions and help them solve problems all over the globe. Requires Flash.
  • Mother Goose Rebus Rhymes-Enchanted Learning Software : Over 40 well-known children's nursery rhymes designed to help children who are learning to read. Illustrations accompany key words and enable even very young children to join in. As pictures are quite small, this site is most suitable for a small group of pupils reading with an adult.
  • Mysteries to solve, scary stories, magic tricks and contests.
  • Nursery Rhymes 10,000 Volkslieder, German and other Folksongs.
  • Online Children's Stories : Offers links to children's classics, fairy tales, folklore, nursery rhymes, poetry, and more. Use this site to build your own classroom library. (Print out public domain texts, placing a sentence or a paragraph on each page, allow students to read and illustrate, then staple or bind.)
  • SchoolHouse Printables : A place to find free printable worksheets for young children and more.
  • Stories for children : Beautifully illustrated stories for children, featuring both classic and contemporary contributions. It includes links to other sites that offer stories and illustrated entertainment.
  • The Activity Idea Place : Over 1450 free theme based lesson plan ideas for preschool and kindergarten teachers.
  • The Kids on the Web Homework Tools
  • Under5s : FREE quality pre-school worksheets, rhymes, activities, lesson plans and much much more. Plans based on the UK curriculum. Updated regularly.
  • Yahooligans! Yahoo for kids. If you are a teacher this is a huge source of anything you need for your lessons. It is classified in a similar way as its 'older brother'.

TELEVISION

 

TRAVEL

General

Britain

Book Guides

Maps

Tourist Offices

Weather

WEBCAMS

  • EarthCam : Search engine for live webcams.
  • WebCam World : It claims to be the first and biggest portal to webcams.

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