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Junior School Great Web Resources

Filed Under (Resources) by on 10-07-2009 and tagged , , , ,

 Here is a selection of websites suitable for use in the Primary Curriculum. I have compiled them from the help of my own resourcea and the wonderful educators on the OZ-Teacher Mailing list. If you have any other great resources that are useful for the Primary years please add them in the comments.

 

Junior School All Ages

Wordle
www.wordle.net

Adrian Bruce website links to lots of good sites!
http://www.adrianbruce.com/computers/educational-software.htm

From very simple to very hard patterns and rotations
Build a Block

Great science website looking at animals and habitats
SwitcherooZoo

Put your face in photos (a lot of fun, not sure how educational)
http://www.photofunia.com/

Creating heroes to put in comics
http://cpbintegrated.com/theherofactory/

Stacks of lesson plans for all levels on literacy
http://www.readwritethink.org/

Loads of resources for the IWB (can be used on a normal computer too!)
http://www.copacabana-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/Get_Smart_Pages/Get_Smart.htm

Lots of literacy activites to download. Some are not THRASS friendly but there is some that are!http://www.sparklebox.co.uk/cll/sea/

Times Tables Game with a Moon theme!
http://www.primaryresources.co.uk/online/moonmaths.swf

Times Tables with a Fish Theme
http://www.multiplication.com/flash/PracticeFish.swf

 Grammar Ninja coz it’s cool!!
http://www.kwarp.com/portfolio/grammarninja.html

 Look, Cover, Write check Spelling
http://www.ictgames.com/lcwc.html

Wick Ed NZ website with lots of educational games
http://www.tki.org.nz/r/wick_ed/index.php

Lower Primary

Lots of games in many subject areas. Easy to play and suitab for either the PC or IWB
Toy Theater

THRASS friendly phonics website
Roy the Zebra

Hugely entertaining and educational!! Lots of different subject areas!
http://www.tvokids.com/ 

Upper Primary

Dance Mat Typing Tutor
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/

Clay Animator – for stop motion animation
http://www.clayanimator.com/english/stop_motion_animator.html

Free online brainstorming
www.bubbl.us

Andrea Mosaic – create your own photographic mosaics made with your own pictures.
http://www.andreaplanet.com/andreamosaic/



4 Responses to “Junior School Great Web Resources”

  1.   Pam Thompson Says:
      July 11th, 2009 at 5:37 pm

    Thanks for sharing the compiled list Lisa. There are some great resources here.

    Just to let you know, I know some junior primary teachers using the Dance Mat Typing site.

  2.   Dan Hite Says:
      July 12th, 2009 at 4:44 am

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