Useful Online Websites

Sunday, June 20, 2010

Picture Trail

A great site for creating slideshows with lots of extras!

Thursday, June 17, 2010

National Library of Virtual Manipulatives

Lots of manipulatives like abacuses, graphs, attribute blocks, etc.

Tuesday, June 15, 2010

i-board player

Free interactive activities across all KLAs - mainly for the lower school .

Wednesday, June 9, 2010

Myths and Legends Story Creator

Welcome to Myths and Legends. This site is for pupils, teachers and all those who enjoy stories and storytelling. The British Isles is rich in myths, folktales and legends . Almost every town, city and village in Britain has its own special story, be it a Celtic legend, Dark Age mystery, strange happening or fable.
Our school/organisation name is: St Anthony's
Our username is: stanthony
Get your pupils to Join E2BN Story Creator 2 (When they click "Save" in E2BN Story Creator 2 it will prompt them to join) as part of your school/organisation (it is important that they do select your organisation when they join) and when they Submit work for review you will be alerted by email and be able to review it by logging in (at the location above).

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Online Bomb Countdown

A great stopwatch device to use for countdowns, group changeovers, transitions, etc.

Tuesday, June 1, 2010

Kurwongbah State School

Lots of unit plans and lessons.

Horrid Henry

A great website based around the Horrid Henry books - audio books, etc.

MathsSphere

Free maths resources for primary schools.

Blabberize

A fun way to share stories in an animated audio format.

Maths Drills

Free maths worksheets

Lancashire Grid for Learning

Maths challenges

Primary Games

A fun place for learning activities.

Cool Math 4 Kids

Lots of maths games, activities and puzzles.

Kids' Astronomy

Powerful and fun resource for kids, exploring astronomy and other space related topics. Play games, learn through interactive applications, and much more.

Wordle

Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide.

Sing Up

Hundreds of songs
Lesson plans and activities
Warm-ups and workouts
Guides and tutorials

Teaching Treasures

Within this web site you will find thousands of unique teaching tools, online interactive activities, educational games, projects, worksheets and many other resources to help with the daily learning adventure of your students, you may even find a new teaching or learning strategy that may assist some students.

Toy Theatre

Toy Theater is a collection of early learning activities to be used as another tool in the teachers toolbox. An eclectic "Theater" of learning toys, Toy Theater is a safe place to play and learn.

Splat Board

A great 100s board for number activities.

Museum Box

This site provides the tools for you to build up an argument or description of an event, person or historical period by placing items in a virtual box.

Monday, May 31, 2010

Primary Resources

A great site for stuff across the KLAs.

WordSift

WordSift sifts through texts and helps to quickly identify important words that appear in the text. It includes a Visual Thesaurus and Google searches of images and videos. The program displays instances of sentences in which that word is used in the text.

Pics4Learning

Free photographs to use as stimuli for writing activities.

Sunday, May 30, 2010

Teacher Tube

An online site for teachers to share instructional videos.

Teachers TV

Good stuff for teachers across the KLAs.

Write Board

A great collaborative writing tool.

Text 2 Mind Map

Text 2 Mind Map is a web application that creates a mind map out of a list of words.

Write Source

A good site for examples of student writing across the text types.

Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Pic Lits

PicLits.com is a creative writing site that matches beautiful images with carefully selected keywords in order to inspire you. The object is to put the right words in the right place and the right order to capture the essence, story, and meaning of the picture.