The Material World

 

Fly around here and you"ll find some interesting sites.

Great site. Has Pencil trivia, tells how pencils are made etc.

Composting For Kids. A great slideshow demonstrating how to set up a compost bin. (About 20 slides). Useful for a whole class lesson.

Environment Unit.

Recycle City

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Technology and Information Technology

Introduction to the Internet For Teachers.

Technology Standards For Students.

"Katy No Pocket" by Emmy Payne. An excellent Cyber guide. Suitable for Grades 2-3. Lesson plan. A site well worth taking a look at. Language/science integration.

Media Builder - fun site. Makes animated banners etc for you. Does all the work you just save and pop your banners or buttons in your web page. Great for kids making web pages. Neat site.

Kid Pix - some really good ideas here.

Using Kid Pix across the Curriculum.

How To Go And Fly A Kite.

Lisa Explains It All. Great site if you want to learn HTML.

Web Monkey For Kids.

Learning to be a Clown with Technology. Neat ideas if you are doing a clown unit.

Integrating the Internet into Curriculum.

Sample lessons using Kid Pix. Great Ideas.

And some more ideas for Integrating Technology from Churchill Road School Technology Lab.

Show Me How@ 2Learn Together. "Show me How..." sheds some light along the path of creating and implementing successful--"worth it"-- telecollaborative projects, all the way from creating a collaborative classroom to building, managing and evaluating your project.

Project Based Learning with Multimedia.

Technology Applications Centre for Educator Development. (Texas Essential Knowledge

Skills.)

The Amazing Picture Machine. Use this to locate pictures of animals etc. Has lesson plans incorporating use of pictures. I particularly liked the one "What Do You See" on language arts and writing for Grades 3 - 6. Uses Monet Paintings.

Digital Learner Portfolios. Mt Edgecombe High School.

Want to read about Computers and Constructivist Inquiry? Lots of interesting links here.

Exploring Leonardo.

Inventors and Inventions Links.

Graphic Converter - Download, Hints on using. (Shareware Graphics editor for Macs.)

School Spreadsheet Safari. (Using Excel)

Dreamweaver Tutorial.

The Story Behind a Loaf of Bread

Botham Bakery's Guide to Bread

Technology Integration - McRel

Papermaking

Learn2 Make Homemade Paper

Handmade Papermaking

Making Templates.

On a Mac.

In Windows.

Making a Claris Works Slide Show.

Using iMovie. Great site for ideas on how to integrate iMovie into your class programme.

Movie Tutorial

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Teachers

Catch a coffee and take some time out here.

Waikato University.

ERIC

NZ Education Gazette - This site is dedicated to Chris and the dream job!

Reber's K6 Resources. Great site - I like the monthly update.

Classroom Connect. Teachers' Listserv. Really useful for contact with teachers around the world, finding keypals, information on technology etc.

The Education Haven - An extensive list of links here.

Puzzlemaster. Will make up word searches for you. Well worth a look. You'll also find "Worksheet Generator" and more.

Teachers at the Yucky Site.

Gander Academy, Theme related resources. You'll find this site worth visiting!

Tammy's Tidbits. Heaps of links here. A site well worth browsing.

The Teacher Website. Try the Live Chat Room. Lessons and heaps more!

The Global School House.

Starters and Strategies.A New Zealand site. Has practical classroom lessons and resources for teachers. Advertises New Zealand teaching vacancies.

Online Educator.

Free Worksheets. Just print them out! A handy site to know about.

Mr Donn's Site. Excellent teacher resources here. Good Social Studies section.

Apple Learning Interchange Units of Practice.

Quia. Make your own online quiz.

SuperKids Maths Worksheet Creator. Fast and easy!

Themes and Units

Cool Teaching Lessons And Units

Themes for Juniors

Chateau Meddybemps. This is one awesome site. Big kids and little kids will love the interaction. Check out what can be done with a web page and some imagination.

School Entry Assessment.

School Supplies - Online Store. Some great art ideas here. Take a look at "Lessons" and "Projects".

Time to take a break and cook up some Indian food, Ammas.com is the place to look.

Dragonfly Magazine. Science stuff. Great site.

Teachers@work

PCL Map Collection

Educational Review Office.

A to Z Teacher Stuff - Themes, Harry Potter, Circus, Nursery Rhymes, Oceans, Deserts and lots more.

LessonPlanZ.com - songs, poems, printable pages, Themes, Science, Social Studies etc.

Learning Page .com - Songs, free worksheets, themes.First, Second and Third Grade. A heap of worksheets based on an Ocean Theme. (They're good!") You'll find Dinosaurs, Insects and Spiders, and Zoo Animals.Reptiles is being added. Graphics for adding to documents.A site worth taking a look at.

Enchanted Learning Homepage. Awesome site. Kids love it. Heaps of information on dinosaurs, Animals, plants, butterflies, sea creatures, nursery rhymes etc. Printouts, fact files,
quizzes.

Educate the Children. Whole unit plans in PDF or RTF format. Worth taking a look.

National Curriculum Online. National Curriculum for England. A particularly helpful site. Check out "Schemes of Work."

Teaching Resources from the Classroom of Laura Candler. Great Site.

Teaching Ideas for Primary Teachers.

The Solution Site. K 12 Thematic Units.

Teacher2Teacher. Blackline masters of materials such as flash cards, booklets and charts in the language arts and math areas for use by teachers and parents. Good section on Dolch Sight Words. Fun bookmarks for kids to put their stickers on. Crossword puzzles. Has a Special Ed. section.

Berit's Best Sites For Children.

Teachnet.com. Has some free education clip art.

Success Link, Lesson Plans.

The Chocolate Dream Machine. A chocolate unit from Hersheys. Students discover the sources of the primary ingredients for chocolate and chocolate products: cocoa beans, milk, and sugar.

Thematic Planning Units.

Thematic Units For Primary Grades. University of South Carolina.

Assessment Resource Banks, English, Science, Mathematics. (New Zealand)

National Education Monitoring project - New Zealand.

Discovery Channel Online. Lesson Plans, clipart, (school) Puzzlemaker, current news.

So You have to do a Research Project? Some sound advice for children from Grade Four up that are about to do a research project.

Gary Pichford's Primary Resources. Worksheets, activities and resources for teachers. Well worth a visit.

edHelper.com

learnz2k. This is an awesome New Zealand site. Take a look at Operation Nest Egg, Tongariro a World Heritage, and Karioi Rahui.

BBC Education Online. Great site.

This is a direct link to BBC Education Online's, "Words and Pictures" A fun packed site for 5-7 year olds with poems, games and activities to help with reading and writing. This is excellent. Print out pages for teachers, lesson plans. Don't miss it!

Website of Snaith Primary School in England. This is a truly inspiring interactive website aimed directly at kids. Use the site as a research base for topics such as, Castles, India,Vikings, Ancient Greece and more.Use the activity map for quicker loading.

Co operative Learning. Elementary Activities.

Online Research Modules. (Australian) These are worth taking a look at.

TeacherVision.com. Has "My Grade Book" and links to "Super Kids Math Worksheet Creator." Enter test results etc. Set up password access for parents and kids.

Elementary Science Resource Book Developed by the Teacher's of Utah. Unit Plans,stated objectives, children's activities. Find Plants, Water, Senses, Electricity, Ecosystems, Magnets and heaps more. A valuable resource base.

TKI Website.

The School Daily.com - NZ Website. A free daily e newspaper to schools.

New York Times Learning Network Lesson Plan Units. Take a look under "NIE Teacher Resources" for ideas on using newspapers in education.

Kodak Lesson Plans.

PAC - IT. AN introduction to packaging in New Zealand.(Education Resource.)

Egg Drop Contest. (Fun Stuff!)

Cooperative Learning Network. Sme excellent strategies here.

edHelper.com Generate worksheets, find web quests, lesson plans and more.

The Solutions Site. Thematic Units by Grade Level. Just click, "Find A Unit" Great site.

Internet Directory of Unit Studies

Graphic Organizers Online.

Some nice graphic organizers here.

Graphic Organizers

Graphic organizers from ABC Teach.

And some more graphic organisers from Teachervision.com

 

Graphic Sites.

Some handy sites to find icons - nice little ones and heaps of them!

The Iconology: Gif Collection. Has a huge collection nicely cataloged. Health, Science, buildings,weather,animals,space,plants,smileys, marine and heaps more.

A Jumble of Icons. (Cute little ones.)

Over the Rainbow. (Backgrounds)

Educational Clip Art.

Can Teach.

Original Country Clipart by Lisa.

Coop's Teacher Header Graphics. Some cute ones here.

Graphics For Teachers. (Heaps of links.Theme page sets etc.)

Anne's School Days Gifs - and the accompanying, "If You're Happy and You Know It!"

Maori Clipart site.

For Fun.

World Time Server. World Time Server provides the most accurate current local times of any world clock on the Internet.

Vegfed. NZ vegetables are the best in the world. Recipes, Kids section.

Awesomecards.

Want to make some awards? Try Alfy.

Origami. Models and Diagrams.

Say Hello to the World. How to say "hello" in different languages.Gives correct pronunciation.Has audio.

thesupermarket.co.nz - New Zealand's Blenheim based first nationwide internet grocery service. Living overseas? They'll see that you get your Vogels' and vegemite!

Rubric Generator

localendar.com

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