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      Useful Education Links for Kids

 

Click on the links to take you to useful and interesting sites! This webpage is set out in categories for each key learning area, and all of the links provide helpful and worthwhile activities and information especially for kids! 

 

Key Learning Areas Links to Useful Websites
 

Technology - 

 

 

http://www.funbrain.com/cgi-bin/getskill.cgi?A1=gba&A2=6

FunBrain Game Finder: This website provides hundreds of interactive games for students of varying grades and age levels. Includes games for many of the Key learning areas.

http://www.edheads.org/

Explore and identify over 50 different Simple Machines, from the super simple to the hideously hard!

 

English - 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

http://www.berenstainbears.com/index.html

The Official Berenstain Bears Website: Sister Bear has an important message for you, but it's written all in code!!! Use the decoder link to figure out the message Sister Bear wants you to receive! Many more fun activities are included, and read along with the interactive readers! Just simply follow the link to 'Activities'.

http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/home.htm

The Magic Schoolbus: Take a tour inside the Magic Schoolbus, visit simple science activities and read about your favourite books and authors  including J. K. Rowlings' Harry Potter! Take the Wizard challenge, or dare to enter the shrieking shack if you take the Harry Potter link!

http://www.poetryalive.com/

Search for your favourite poem, read the student poems of the month or submit your own work of art! Just follow the link to 'Students'.

 

 

 

Mathematics - 

 

 

http://www.mathgoodies.com/

This website is packed with 68 puzzle pages from a HUGE range of maths problems and questions, complete with solutions to all of them so you can see if you are on the right track. There are also further links to Homework sections and Maths worksheets.

 

 

SOSE -

 

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/school/Antarctica/

This link provides tonnes of useful about Antarctica, its climate, its native animals and much more! Links to other countries in the world are also included.

 

 

 

 

 

LOTE - 

 

 

http://www.abcmelody.com/

Use these catchy melodies to help you learn a different language! Languages include French, Japanese and Spanish.

 

 

 

Science -

 

 

 

 

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/categories/science/

This link provides information of various science topics including dinosaurs, butterflies, volcanoes, sharks, rainforests, oceans and many many more! 

http://www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html

NASA Kids page! Learn heaps of cool stuff about the history of flight, clouds, forces of nature, definitions and much more. Also included are interesting facts and jokes about space!

 

Health and Physical Education -

 

 

http://www.kidsrunning.com/

This website provides advice on how much exercise you need to do to be healthy, provides healthy snack food ideas, and places for you to publish your poems, stories etc on the website!

 

 

 

 

The Arts - 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Dance:

http://www.ausdance.org.au/

AUSDANCE is a helpful website where you can learn about dancing safely, can determine what is on in the dance world at the current time, and can access information regarding the history of AUSDANCE. Great for finding information for assignments!

Visual Arts:

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/

This link provides hundreds of ideas for crafty activities from using stuff found around the house! From dolls to gifts and pigs, the easy to follow instructions make these perfect ideas for art projects!

http://www.crayola.com/kids/index.cfm

Crayola Website: Packed with lots of fun things for kids to do. Includes card creation and many other fun games and activities!