06/22/2010

Geography | Puzzles and Quizzes | Health/Careers | Art | holidays | Animals | Study Skills |

Geography

1. GeoSpy- A geography game from National Geographic
2. Latitude Longitude Links
3. Maps and Map Games (Test your geography skills!)
4. Outline Maps (These maps may be printed and copied for classroom use)
5. National Geographic Kids (games, news, animals, pictures, postcards)

Puzzles and Quizzes

1. JigZone
2. Discover Canada (quizzes)
3. City Creator
4. CryptoKids How to make your own secret codes, games and activities!
5. PuzzleMaker

Animals

1. Walking with Dinosaurs: BBC site about dinosaurs. Lots of video clips.
2. National Geographic Wildlife Filmmaker Make a custom nature film. Students click and drag animal clips, sound clips, a song and then
    if there's time they can write, save and add captions. Ask the students to write about a mammal, a bird, and a reptile!
3. Scholastic: Dinosaur activities
4. All About Birds
5. Birds
6. Bird Clip Art
7. Endangered Exploring a World At Risk
8. In The Wild

Art/Music

1. Arts Alive Learn all about orchestral music, the NAC Orchestra, its musicians and friends, great composers, conductors and much more!
2. Kerpoof Create original artwork, animated movies, and stories!
   link to Teacher account (Kerpoof Teacher Accounts are free and will allow you to access classroom administration tools to
   easily create accounts for the entire class).
3. The Art Zone- Interactive art that you can make online!
4. Art Express - Select a grade level and try one or more of the interactive online art activities. Great fun!
5. Art Adventure Website - (From Cave Art to Your Art, The Art of Crime Detection, Leonardo's Workshop, Go West, Young Artist,
   Color Theory vs. Dr. Gray, Be an Architect, Out of this World Design, Face to Face)
6. The Artist's Toolkit: visual Elements and Principles (Explore the tools that artist use like line, colour, and balance- to build works of art)
7. Welcome to the Art Window
8. Inside Art: An Art History Game: An excellent art history game which enables children to interact
   by following a story relating to particular paintings and selecting where the story takes them next.
9. Mixing Colours - This interactive resource from The Learning Federation allows students to
   use a mixing machine to make new colours from red, blue, yellow, and white
10. A Lifetime of Color- Lesson Plans by grade
     
11. Play Music (introduces kids aged 7-11 to the instruments of the orchestra using games, animations, audio and more)
12. Composer's Keyboard, Beethoven's Baseball
13. Musical Mysteries This music education site explores sound, rhythm, mood and the orchestra.
14. Instruments of the Orchestra
15. Essentials of Music (eras, composers, glossary)

Health/Careers/Internet Safety

1. Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating

2. Vegetable Facts Guide - nutrition values and interesting facts about fruits and vegetables.

3. Kids Health - Health information geared towards kids and teens. Kids - you can choose from articles in many areas

4. The Virtual Grocery Story   Épicerie virtuelle use the nutrition information on the label of packaged foods to make healthy choices for yourselves and your families.

5. The Virtual Body human brain, skeleton, human heart, digestive tract

6. Hand Hygiene  (Grade 4)  Health and Life Skills Wellness Choices - Students will make responsible and informed choices to maintain health and to promote safety for self and others.

7. Living in the Fast Food Lane (WebQuest- explores the question, "Can you 'eat healthy' by frequenting fast food restaurants?"

8. NutritionData - is an amazing website which generates nutrition facts and easy to understand
   nutritional analyses for all types of foods and recipes.

1. Internet Safety - Kids in the Know Created for Grade 4  Pour la sécurité - enfants avertis

2. Privacy Playground: The First Adventure of the Three CyberPigs (Ages 8-10)In this first adventure, the CyberPigs learn about online marketing,
   and about protecting their privacy as they surf the Internet.
3. CyberSense and Nonsense: The Second Adventure of the Three CyberPigs (Ages 9-12) In their second adventure, the CyberPigs explore the
   world of chat rooms and learn to distinguish between fact and fiction, and to detect bias and harmful stereotyping in online content.
4. Cyber Safety (students explore areas of cyber safety; personal information, cyber predators, Inappropriate content, social networking, Piracy, and Cyber bullying.
5. Jo Cool or Jo Fool:Interactive Module and Quiz on Critical Thinking for the Internet (Grades 6-8)This interactive online game takes students
   through a series of mock sites that test their savvy surfing skills. The game ends with an online quiz, that gives students an even
   more in-depth level of information.
6. Bullying; S-Team Heroes
7. Stop Bullying Now! A great site with a series of short animated films.
8. KABAM! Comic Creator - "Help the BAM! Bunch through the day... Give the best advice to the characters
   and then re-create their story in an interactive create your own comic book game!"

1. Career Profiles
2. Alberta Career Profiles

Study Skills

Holidays

WebQuest Projects

WebQuest-A Dream Vacation
The Stowaway Adventure (Real Time Activities)
The Gulf Stream Voyage (Real Time Activities to discover the science and history of the Gulf Stream)
Wonderful World of Weather (Real Time Activities)
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs