Fun Sites
Here are some fun sites submitted by the computer mentors and the
tech support people in Charlottetown from Feb-May 2001.
I have found 2 great free typing
downloads.
www.learn2type.com/
www.easytype.com/
Good day folks; give the following site a try. It is a great site for
parents -- even students. They type in information that is asked through
a variety of questions, and then a story comes up with that information
in the story.
www.searsportrait.com/storybook/index.html
Fun Brain has a good site. Just pick the their age level and it will
make the games age-appropriate. Also, once you are in the games, you can
make them harder or easier.
www.funbrain.com
Fabulous site to play arcade, board, or card games:
www.games.com
Variety of games:
www.ezone.com
For mystery lovers:
kids.mysterynet.com
For information on a wide variety
of topics:
www.factmonster.com
www.discoveryschool.com
www.bigchalk.com
www.refdesk.com
www.dictionary.com
www.britannica.com
Found a great Easter coloring page site suitable for grades 1-3-VERY
LARGE PICTURES.It has a variety of themes available for other times also.
www.coloring.ws/easter.htm
2 super fun/educational sites related to castles! Enjoy!
kotn.ntu.ac.uk/castle/
www.castlesontheweb.com/
Here are a couple of sites from a workshop I took part in recently.
www.careerexperience.com/
-Try their "Match Me" feature, but be ready to spend
some time on this!
www.jobprofiles.com
-This site contains descriptions of occupations from real people;
what they do each day, what they like and dislike about their job, and
the challenges they face. Some of these career descriptions are hard to
find anywhere else.
St. Patrick's Day Sites
Stuff on St. Patrick's Day if you're looking for elementary.
Give it a try.
www.enchantedlearning.com
Try this sites. There's tonnes of activities on each. Have fun!
www.EnchantedLearning.com/crafts/stpatrick/
This is a great site for St. Patrick's Day. It has a number
of great activities for all ages. Bye For Now.
kidsdomain.com/holiday/patrick/index.html
And a French St. Patrick's Day site! It's very good.
evelynebedard.multimania.com/St-Patrice/index.html
Mapping Websites
Try this one, it is pretty good.
www.freetrip.com
I have two sites.
www.mapquest.com
www.infospace.com
- Choose Maps/Directions
I hope that one of these will be useful!
www.transcanadahighway.com
www.lonelyplanet.com/dest/dest.htm
FANTASTIC site on SPIDERS!!! for elementary students
and teachers.
www.powerup.com.au/~glen/spider.htm
And DINOSAUR websites:
www.tyrrellmuseum.com
Here's an interesting website that includes activities/games
such as trying to figure out what dinosaur head belongs on the skeleton,
dinosaur puzzles, and figuring out with the use of detective clues which
animals are actually dinosaurs. It's connected to the Carnegie Museum:
WOW! It has dinosaur everything, there are fact pages, coloring
pages, quizzes, puzzles, calendars everything you can think of. You gotta
look....Also, I found a multilingual dictionary there. It has Eng, Fr,
Spanish, Portugese etc.
www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html
A couple of days ago someone was requesting interactive websites for
preschoolers.
www.pbs.org/kids/
crafterscommunity.com/kids
crafterscommunity.com/kids
www.cbc4kids.ca
funbrain.com/kidscenter.html
www.funology.com/index.cfm
Here are some sites on map-making:
www.mapquest.com
ceonet.cgdi.gc.ca/cs/en/index.html
www.aquarius.geomar.de/omc/
Hi everyone! Just wanted to tell you all about a great site
with lots of great resources. Select the theme page option. The theme pages
are filled with teaching resources and tons of excellent links.
www.cln.org