October 2005
The Blobz Guide to Electric Circuits
(via)This exciting and interactive site, consisting of games, activities, information, and quizzes, is all about electric circuits. You'll learn what makes circuits work, and about conductors versus insulators, switches, changing circuits, and circuit diagrams.
September 2005
Secrets at Sea
Ace on the Case: Secrets @ Sea is an online curriculum-based adventure story for grade 4-7 students covering topics in Ocean Science.
August 2005
GeoNet Game
by 2 others (via)Online geography game for the United States and World. Games are centered on the 5 themes of geography.
July 2005
NatureScene Virtual Field Trips
Pack your computer for a virtual tour from a wide selection of nature spots across the country. Investigate wildlife inhabitants in Who Lives Here and view narrated movie clips on your virtual tour of America. Includes Northeast Kingdom in Vermont
Welcome to MapStats for Kids
Excellent site for teaching concepts about maps and statistics through interactive graphing tools. Mapped to standards. Check it out!
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 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?
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.
Animal Diversity Web
by 2 othersAnimal Diversity Web (ADW) is an online database of animal natural history, distribution, classification, and conservation biology at the University of Michigan
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?
