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PUBLIC MARKS from knann with tags district & gr4

September 2005

AAA Math

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Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills. Interactive Practice on every page. An Explanation of the math topic on each page. Several Challenge Games on every page. Math Problems are randomly created.

Rhyming Unit

This resource pack aims to introduce pupils to rhyming patterns using familiar poems and rhymes. This is a whole class activity using a projector.

Games for Numeracy and Literacy

Very nice early elementary school games for literacy and math. Most games require minimal instruction.

Look, Cover, Write, Check

Use the easy buttons for basic site words or type your own words to practice your spelling words. Requires teacher direction to start, Requires keyboard typing.

Dance Mat Typing - Learn to type

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Full typing program with 4 levels. Choose full screen version.

BBC - Schools - Famous People

Learn about Famous People such as Christopher Columbus, Florence Nightengale, Pochahontas, and more. Click Learn, Quiz, and Pirates. Use Full Screen window.

August 2005

Image Trails - Canadian culture

Image Trails are pre-selected searches on a particular topic or theme, which yield between 50 and 150 images.

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.

GeoNet Game

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Online geography game for the United States and World. Games are centered on the 5 themes of geography.

July 2005

My Body

Interactive site for elementary school to learn about the body.

Plimoth Plantation - You are the Historian

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Use the skills of historians to peel away the layers of myth and misconception surrounding “The First Thanksgiving” and discover what might really have happened during the fall of 1621. Outstanding site with Teacher's Guide.

Welcome to MapStats for Kids

Excellent site for teaching concepts about maps and statistics through interactive graphing tools. Mapped to standards. Check it out!

Exploring Math With Technology

Grades 3-5 provides a variety of resources linked to the NCTM standards

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.

A Walk in the Woods

Walk in the Woods is designed for third through fifth grade students to gain an appreciation of nature. Accompanied by audio narration.

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.

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?

BBC - Schools: Elementary Games

Practice games in all subject areas