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Ancient
Romans
from BBC Primary History - one of many great sites from them! Find out all about
the ancient Romans. Dig up the past in the Dig It Up: Romans game! Fun and educational.
Going in Ancient History.
Science:
It's A Girl Thing | Facebook (Update!) "Just wanted
to let you know that there has been a lot added to the "Science: It's A
Girl Thing" Facebook page since it was listed on Good Sites For Kids. http://facebook.dj/scienceitsagirlthing.
We currently have 10 downloadable pdfs of activities, templates for keeping
a science notebook, and a downloadable sheet of tips for parents for doing short
science activities around the house. We also have an active community of nearly
3,000 users."
Winged
Sandals
"Take the tour with Hermes the messenger god, through a magical place filled
with awesome gods, daring heroes and fabulous monsters." Tour ancient Greece
with this very interactive site from Australia. Going in Ancient History.
Clockworks
from KS1
Bitesize Numeracy covers Hours, half hours and minutes; also
one of the few that asks "what time will it be in..." Three levels,
five stages in each. Good stuff. Going in Mathematics > Telling Time.
Frog
Test Excellent easy(?) logic game. Some kids will see solutions
quickly, others not so fast. This game from Brazil is popular in China, too.
Going in Mathematics.
KS1
Bitesize Numeracy For elementary students. Eleven math games,
each of three levels of difficulty. Cartoon characters, action, speech, and
music. These games cover: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, ordering
sequences, place value, money (British), length & weight (metric), time,
2-d and 3-d shapes & symmetry, and organizing data. Very good learning activities
that our elementary students actually liked! The BBC excels again!
Constellation
Hunt from KidsAstronomy
is like a word search of the sky! Going in Astronomy.
Merrillville
Community Schools of Merrillville, Indiana. List of 173 elementary
"good sites," including us. Going in School Sites.
Constellations
from Enchanted Learning/Zoom Astronomy! Their usual excellent coverage for elementary
and middle school. Subscribe so they'll keep doing sites like these! Going in
Astronomy.
Greek
Myths
from Kidepede "Here are some of the myths - stories about the gods and
heroes - that Greek people told" 30 myths listed, each with its own page.
Going in Ancient History.
Who's
Who in Greek Mythology
from Mr. Donn. His usual great treatment of a subject. A collection of links
to Greek myths including the 12 Olympian gods. Going in Ancient History.
AstroViewer
"Your night sky map in the internet" This excellent interactive constellations
viewer lets you see the names in Latin or English. Going in Astronomy.
Constellations
and their Stars
Great resource site! Information about constellations, stars, much more, also
has interactive sky charts. Going in Astronomy.
Constellation
Photos
This site shows photos of the stars and the constellation outline. Lists both
ancient Greek and "modern" constellations. Going in Astronomy.
Dome
of the Sky Lists constellations by northern and southern
hemispheres and time of year. Has outline of each constellation and the story
or myth behind it. Good resource. Going in Ancient History and in Astronomy.
Stellarium
"is a free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic
sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
It is being used in planetarium projectors. Just set your coordinates and go."
We love the constellation settings that let you show the mythological chracters
around the bowl of the sky! This is in the same genre as Celestia. Going in
Astronomy and in Downloads.
Woodlands
Junior School, Torbridge, Kent, UK. "Welcome to Woodlands
Web Developing
the whole child is important to us and that aim is reflected in all we do and
throughout our website. We have over 33,000 pages of easy to read information
to support learners of all ages. Even though our students are aged 7 to 11,
many of the activities and information on our website are appropriate for both
young and old." One of the best school sites ever! Going in School Sites.
Educational-freeware
Now with even more new stuff! Check this site
out!! "Welcome to www.educational-freeware.com!
This site is dedicated to listings, descriptions and reviews of the
best free educational software for kids and adults.
Some of the software is web based (see the online section), and some is Windows
software that you can download (see the downloadable section). Many of
the software titles are multilingual. In order to see what titles run in your
language, you can list the software by language." This is in Downloads.
Computer
Lab Favorites from Scholastic.com! "Here are all the quick,
compelling one-session activities you need to incorporate interactive learning
and technology into your curriculum. Each activity requires
no prep and can be completed in 15-30 minutes... Use these 50+
activities in the computer lab." The ones we played are good! Tabbed by
subject! Going in Homeschool, General & Specialty, and Teachers & Parents.
Poisson
Rouge
A delightful hands-on exploration site from France, just one site of many brought
to you by Kids
Activities from allkids,
a fine learning site from the UK. Just all sorts of fun things to click on here.
Going in General/Specialty & in Literacy > New Readers and Literacy >
Games.
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