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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/
This week’s workshop is on Interactive Whiteboards. Commonly known as IWB’s. The type we have at out school are Team Boards.
These are soft touch boards that can be operated by your hand or a pointer. To be able to use the boards with you laptop you first need to install a driver. They can be downloaded from this site or alternatively you can use the CD. A driver is a piece of software that allows the IWB to talk to the computer. The software that comes with the Team Board is called easiteach.
This suite of CD’s can be installed on your laptop and it allows you to create lots of different activities to complete with your class.
You can also use the myriad of websites that have been developed for IWB use!
Some resources…..
This will link you to some great videos that will show you how to use and give some ideas for IWB’s
This is a great UK blog that is FULL of resources for the IWB
Great online spelling site!
250 Games that the kids absolutely love with lots of educational application great for the whiteboard! Tried and tested by last year’s grade one’s!
The website for the software that comes with Team Board. Lots of goodies to download!
Loads of online interactive activities in all subject areas
A link to an Australian developed IWB challenge to help you learn to use the IWB better. It is definitely worth a look. A good way to improve your IWB skils for your Performance Appraisal
A very challenging Middle Eastern Map. Great as a class challenge!!
Cool geometry site. Excellent for hands on learners!
168 Interactive resources for primary students
Wonderful Music site developed by the San Francisco Symphony. I had fun playing with this one!
Excellent literacy website based on the samish principals to THRASS. Matthew tested this one and loved it!
Lots of great web tools which can be used by primary and secondary students. Many of which can involve the IWB.
If you are over making PowerPoints and want a presentation with a little more pizazz try Prezi. Lots of application for the IWB and makes presentations soooo much more interesting than the linear PowerPoint model.
Remember if you don’t have an IWB in your classroom most of these activities can also be used on a PC!
