November 2005
Dog Breeding
Can you breed a new border collie puppy by selecting the parents with the right traits?
September 2005
national Whiteboard Network: Mathematics
Excel actvities for your classroom. Only download the activities marked with excel icon. Other files need to be downloaded to a PC first
Kids Love 2Learn.ca Webpage Authoring Tool
An Easy to Use online web page creator. Pages are created online and then saved or emailed for posting on our school website. Once it is saved, images can easily be substituted.
August 2005
Place The State - Intermediate
by 2 others (via)Click and drag the states to their correct location
Let's Discover Canada!
Software-based program on Canada. Also State of Vermont title is available.
ZOOM SCHOOL - EnchantedLearning.com
ad-free with subscription
Elementary Zone
Web-based subscription service with math, literacy, and science activities for ages 4-7, 4-11, and 8-11. Login is case-sensitive.
eChalk: free interactive resources for whole-class teaching
Soon to be a subscription service, these are additional interactives for math, science, and literacy.
echalk: Interactive resources for Math
Online, open-ended tools to use with a projector( or by students) to stimulate exploration and discovery of math concepts.
GoMedia Canada - Image library
Find pictures of Canda by location
SES by Sattelite
Starting at SES, how many landmarks can you find? Where is your house? What is the longitude and latitude? Look at the bottom of the screen and click "Link to this location". Save it to your favorites or copy the link into a Word Doc.
July 2005
Exploring Math With Technology
Grades 3-5 provides a variety of resources linked to the NCTM standards
Gander Academy's Canada Theme-Related Resources on the World Wide Web
Links for various web resources about Canada.
Enchanted Learning: Canada
Good reference site for Canada appropriate to elementary school students
Canada e-Book
The Canada e-Book uses sound, images, tables, graphs to look at Canada—The Land, The People, The Economy and The State. The text, photo, and some sound files may be appropriate for upper elementary students.
The 50 States
Find State information for the folleing categories: Quick Facts, Geography, Early Inhabitants, History, Economy, Famous People, Sights to See, Bird and Flower
DragonflyTV
Interactive resources for elementary science. From PBS, DFTV has units on Body and Brain, Earth and Space, Living Things, and Matter and Motion. Students will enjoy the Riddles section where they can find answers to tricky questions such as "How do you get electricty from a cow?"
The Tudors
Interactive activities from Great Britain's National Archives. Learn about the Court of Henry VIII, tudor life, and jousting. Well done and informative. Includes teacher resources.
Blueberry Farm
Blueberry Farm is a computer program that models a simple ecosystem.
It was designed to be used as part of a sequence of science lessons aiming to help Yr7 pupils understand more about the use of chemical agents in farming and how these can affect ecosystems.
Atlantic Challenge
Sir Richard Harmoat-Wilde plans to be the first to cross the Atlantic in a hot air balloon. Half way across disaster strikes - the balloon punctures and begins to lose height.
Pupils working together have to find out what the airship is carrying and jettison equipment in order to make it across.
Survivor
A thinking for learning activity to encourage group discussion and justification of decision making. 6 people are left on a liferaft, for the raft to stay afloat 2 people must be thrown off.Who will it be? Why? Is it fair? Who should go first? Are some lives less valuable than others?
Project Interactivate for Elementary Math Topics
Activities from Project Interactivate can be used to explore the topics covered in elementary grades 3-5 mathematics. The lesson ideas are still a work in progress but all of the activities are aligned with suggested grade levels.
When the Wind Blows
Interactive demonstration of wind from a calm breeze to hurricane levels. Try it!
City Creator
by 14 othersBuild towns and cities. It is similar to some of the old MyWorld screens and SIM City. This is a building tool only. Could be used to support other curriculum areas.
BBC - History - Viking Quest game
An epic tale of loot and legend! Travel back in time to the year 793 AD. Can you build a ship, cross the seas, loot a monastery and return home to claim your prize?
