Cool+websites

=Ulearn share back sites=

http://sarataylor.wikispaces.com/ http://sites.google.com/a/ptengland.school.nz/blogs/ http://rachelboyd.wikispaces.com [|http://slideshare.net/tonyryan] - Tony Ryan's slideshow from ULearn http://tonyryan.com.au Tony's website http://edtalks.org/play.php?vid=145 - video of Tony outlining his message from Ulearn http://21stcenturylearning.wikispaces.com - Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach's wiki http://www.AboutNewsMaker.com (PC only) http://weavingittogether.wikispaces.com

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=Literacy =

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/jackanory/fun/ - literacy games

http://pbskids.org/wordworld/index_flash.html - literacy games

http://www.lookybook.com/ - children's books online

Raising readers[| http://pbskids.org/read/]

http://www.adrianbruce.com/ - resources for literacy and lots of other curriculum areas. Includes great posters that can be downloaded for the classroom

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=Numeracy =

= = =Theme= [|Virtual field trips] These annotated trips take students to some of the best web sites for each subject.

[|http://www.google.com/sky/] - Similar to Google Earth, with Google Sky you can explore the solar system and more

Sid the Science Kid http://pbskids.org/sid/parentsandteachers/index.html

http://www.anatomyarcade.com/index.html Games and activities to learn about human anatomy

http://www.geobeats.com/ - Guided video tours of places around the world. Would be good to use to give students a sense of the places they are studying or reading about.

=General= http://jigsawplanet.com/ Read this blog for [|ideas on how to use this site]

[|MaoriTube] - find video clips with a Maori focus.

http://ikeepsafe.com/ Teach your students internet safety with this site. Has a very good teacher section.

[|Creative Park] Projects range from 3-D paper crafts (like airplanes, the Great Pyramids, a globe, dinosaurs, and the Leaning Tower of Piza, etc.) through to calendars, art crafts, a digital photo gallery, and scrapbook area.

http://www.widgets.linguascope.com/index.htm- cool widgets you can use in the classroom over the projector, stopwatch, timer, spinner, bingo etc.

http://www.curriculumbits.com/categories.php- Curriculumbits has videos and lesson ideas for many parts of the curriculum. Worth taking a look.

http://freerice.com - This site is a bit of a drill and practice site with a difference. You can choose from a range of different curriculum areas to answer multiple choice questions. For each question you get correct the UN donates 20 grains of rice to a third world country. A very motivating site with a 'save the world' feel.

http://millionfutures.com - This is a british initiative where people have been asked to write their hopes and dreams for the future on virtual paper planes and launch them into the air with the planes of others. Would be a great site to use to reflect on learning in an inquiry unit for example.

http://piclits.com - this site allows you to choose an image and then choose some words to place on the image (or write something freestyle). This would be a good site to reflect on learning. For example students could select an image and words as a metaphor for what they have learnt, what they feel or what they plan to do with their learning.

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