Websites for Learning
Check out these websites suitable for kids. These sites chosen will help students with their learning. We try to choose sites that are both interesting and visually appealing.
Science
The Habitable Planet
This is an excellent collection of resources about the Earth and it's environment. Sections include oceans, climate, energy, eco-systems and agriculture. Click here to visit the site.
Windows to the Universe
This is a great website for learning all about science. The site has a range of resources, documents, images, movies, animations and data sets. Click here to visit the site.
The Blobz Guide to Electronic Circuits
This entertaining, colourful and interactive site shows how circuits operate, including conductors and switches. The instructions are simple and the activities can be completed individually or in groups (of up to five). Click here to visit the site.
Science Kids
Science Kids is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world. Learn more about the amazing world of science by enjoying our fun science experiments, cool facts, online games, free activities, ideas, lesson plans, photos, quizzes, videos & science fair projects. Click here to visit the site.
New Zealand Conservation Week
DOC and TVNZ 6 are working together for Conservation Week 2009 to help you get involved in conservation. Follow the Meet the Locals presenter, Nic Vallance through the website to find out about activities you can do in your area. Get involved and who knows what’s possible for conservation in New Zealand!
FUNOLOGY
Funology is a great site recipes, games, fun facts and is a good site to bust bordem.Click here to check it out.
Kids Science Experiments
is a good site to learn new experiments and have great fun.Click here to check it out.
Popsci
Created as the online version of the Popular Science magazine. Popsci offers a wealth of news, articles and commentary that's easy to understand and search. Information is also organised in sections: gadgets, cars, science, technology and DIY. Click here to check out the site.
Seeing Science
Seeing Science has interactive materials to support teaching about how science works. There are six themes - life, space, materials, food, environment, and light - each with data, images, games, lesson plans, teacher notes, worksheets, and more. Click here to check out the site, which is aimed at intermediate level children and above.
Man vs Wild
This adventure website is based on the Discovery Channel TV programme of the same name. Click here to visit the site.
Conservation Week
Show how much you love New Zealand by celebrating Conservation Week from 11-18 September 2011. Join thousands of people across the country to celebrate our native wildlife, our incredible natural areas, and the places that are part of our history by taking part in conservation events and activities, watching programmes on TVNZ 7 and sharing your photos with the Love New Zealand photo group on Flickr. Click here to visit the Conservation Week website.
How Stuff Works
How Stuff Works is a site that is explained by the title 'How Stuff Works'. Here you can find out about how just about anything you can imagine works. The site is a lot of fun for all ages. Click here to check it out.
Science News for Kids
Science news for kids is a great site for kids.click here to check it out. science news for kids.
The Big Bang
This site is packed with fun stuff to make and do, to keep you occupied and amaze your friends! Click here to check it out.
The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium isn’t just a museum, it’s an ongoing exploration of science, art, and human perception—a vast collection of online interactives, web features, activities, programs and events that feed your curiosity. Click here to check it out.
Discover Kids
This is a fantastic website that is linked to the Discovery Channel. On the site there is a range of articles, games, puzzles, interesting questions, and activities. that are suitable and fun for primary school children. Click here to check it out
Explore the Solar System
This is a fascinating collection of of materials from the BBC that lets you explore the solar system. Search through video and radio clips for information on everything from planets and moons, to astronauts and missions. Click here to visit the site.
Science News for Kids
Search various topics for science news. There are featured articles and photos, and 'zones' to explore, like sci fi, games and puzzles. There's also a teacher zone with advice and classroom activities. Click here to visit the site.
Rain Forest at Night
Created by National Geographic, this is a fun and informative way to learn all about the rain forest. Move your mouse around to click on animals to find interesting facts and photos. Click here to check out the site.
Kids Astronomy
Astronomy for children, students, and kids of all ages. KidsAstronomy.com, is the absolutely free astronomy resource designed to teach children about the exciting world of outer space. Click here to visit the site.
Beat the Clock
Click here to check out the Discovery Kids site. You will see games and activities, video, and a whole lot more to do with learning about our wonderful planet.
KidSites.com
Click here to read about great science achievements at Kidsites.com suitable for all ages.
Science Monster
Science Monster is a good site for years 6-8. You can learn about plants the solar system and loads more.Click here to check it out.
ElectroCity
ElectroCity is an online computer game that lets players manage their own virtual towns and cities. It’s great fun to play and also teaches players all about energy, sustainability and environmental management in New Zealand. Click here to check it out.
Maths
Maths Buddy
Students will need their school username and password to access this site. Click here to visit the site.
NZ Maths Family Page
This page from the NZ Maths website has a lot of information, games, resources and activities to help children and families with their maths. Click here to visit the site.
Number Cruncher
This is a fun way to learn number sense, as well as problem solve. You're given two numbers, one to start with and one to finish on. The goal is to get to the target number in as few steps as possible. There are two levels; beginners and experts. Click here to check out the site and improve your maths.
Maths is Fun
Maths is Fun is full of activities for all areas of maths. You will find something for all levels of the primary school and beyond. Click here to check out the site.
Maths Playground
Math Playground is an action-packed site for primary and intermediate school students. Practice your math skills, play a logic game and have some fun! Click here to check out the site.
Fun Brain
Funbrain is a fantastic maths website. It has heaps of really cool games that will help you with your maths. We are sure you will like it.
Click here to check it out!
Maths Magician
Maths Magician is a fantastic site for building up your basic facts skills. Students will try to beat the clock in a number of challenges, while at the same time striving for accuracy with their answers. Click here to check it out.
A Plus Maths
A Plus Maths is a great site to get kids interested in Maths. It has a great selection of learning games, flash cards and many more. To check it out click here.
Maths for Kids
This is an excellent collection of activities to improve your maths skills. Click here to visit the site.
Maths Continuum
This site has many explanations of maths topics. Each begins with a definition, then moves on to practising the skill with interactive pieces. There's also an excellent glossary of maths terms. Click here to visit the site.
IXL
This is a FANTASTIC maths site that covers all skills, knowledge and concepts in the New Zealand Maths Curriculum. Parents, teachers and students, bookmark this site as one you visit regularly. Click here to visit the site.
Maths Arcade
Maths Arcade is a great website with a wide range of maths games that will help you to develop your maths skills. Chances are you will have a lot of fun along the way! Click hereto check it out.
Maths Attack
In this online game you're a doctor and your objective is to stop viruses and bacteria by answering maths questions. Click here to play the game.
Tutpup
Tutpup is a game where you can compete in fun, educational games against other kids from all over the World! Click here to check it out.
Sumdog
Check out this website for free maths games to help you improve your literacy skills.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy is a great (and free!) website to support children with their maths learning. There's also a wide range of other topics covered, but the most important from our perspective is what's there to help children with their maths, from beginners, all the way up to the most advanced students. Anyone can sign up to create their own account. Additionally, it's a programme that we will be looking to implement at Lakeview School. Click here to visit the site.
Math is Fun
Math is Fun is loaded with activities and games. They're divided into topics, such as algebra, geometry, games, dictionaries, and a lot more. Click here to visit the site.
Kids Numbers
KidsNumbers.com is the absolutely free math resource designed by teachers, specifically for students and children of all ages. A place where students can practice all aspects of math, including addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division, in a fun and pressure free way. Click here to visit the site.
Give the Dog a Bone
This is a maths site that is aimed at students in the junior classes. The site will help students develop their number skills with a game based on a 100s chart. Click here to check it out.
Coolmath
Coolmath is a mathematics site for parents, teachers and kids. There is a huge range of activities for all of the mathematics strands that can be used to support class programmes. The games will keep children entertained at home and will help them to develop their mathematics skills while having fun. We hope that you enjoy using the site and would love to get feedback from you about the site.
BBC Schools 'Play a Game'
This site has a number of games
aimed at helping students in the junior school develop their maths skills. These could be played at school to support class programmes, or at home to give students a way to work on their numeracy skills with some fun activities. Click here to check it out.
Health and PE
Kids Health
This is a great site for kids to learn all about kids health. There are games, quizzes, and all sorts of other stuff all about kids being healthy. Click here to visit the site.
Kidnetic
Kidnetic.com – the cool site for kids and their parents to learn more about health, fitnessand nutrition through fun games, recipes and articles. Click here to check it out.
Food for Thought
Food for Thought is a free nutrition education programme that assists Year 5 and 6 primary school students make healthier food and lifestyle choices. Click here to visit the site and start your healthy lifestyle!
Disney's Healthy Kids
Use Disney's Healthy Kids to learn more about different foods and energy. Follow characters through challenges and quizzes to find out about balancing food, portion control, food pyramid, and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. There's an orientation video to help get you started on the site. Click here to visit the website.
Mission On
Mission On is for kids who want to have some FUN! If that's you, come and join the site, play games, earn points and get some really cool prizes.
Fifa
This is the official site for the 2010 Football World Cup. There's heaps of information, pictures, videos for you to find out about what is happening in South Africa. Unfortunately we couldn't find a site just for kids, but this one is still quite appealing for anyone interested in The All Whites progress at the 2010 World Cup finals. Click here to check out the site.
Sportplan
This is a fantastic website resource for coaches and players alike. Search 1000's of Ideas, build & share training plans, expert advice & more. To access the site, click here.
Disney's Healthy Kids
Use Disney's Healthy Kids to learn more about different foods and energy. Follow characters through challenges and quizzes to find out about balancing food, portion control, food pyramid, and exercise for a healthy lifestyle. There's an orientation video to get you started. Click here to check out the site.
Maori
Let's Learn Te Reo Maori
Use this blog that has been set up by Room 2 as a small step approach to learning words and phrases in Te Reo Maori. Click here to check out the site.
Toku Reo
The Toku Reo website is fantastic to help with your learning of the Maori language. Click here to begin your Maori language learning today!
maorilanguage.net
Study the basics of the Māori Language, through online video movie lessons. Learn to korero or speak Te Reo Māori and get links to Māori Language resources and organisations to help you. Click here to check out the site.
He Reo Tupu, He Reo Ora
He Reo Tupu, He Reo Ora has been chosen as the title of this resource. The literal meaning is ‘a growing language is a living language’. The title signifies the way languages grow and evolve, and the importance of learning and using languages to keep them alive and dynamic.
The title reflects a belief about the well-being of te reo Māori – that the more we learn and speak it the more it will flourish. It implies the reciprocal benefits of learning te reo Māori. As our knowledge and use of te reo grows and develops, te reo grows and develops in its turn.
The theme of growth is reflected in the four levels of Te Aho Arataki, the curriculum guidelines, which illustrate progression from a seedling to a sapling to a flourishing tree. Click here to visit the site.
Rangitane o Wairarapa
Akona Rangitāne contains educational material about the iwi for descendents and the community at large.
There is information on a wide range of subjects from mythology, origins, world views, the natural world, social structure to contemporary issues.
Maori.org.nz
All your Maori news and History all on this site.
Korero Maori
Kōrero Māori is for everyone who wants to speak the Māori language, or learn more about it. You can find interactive conversations, language resources, and advice to help you increase your knowledge of reo Māori.
Literacy
Mother Goose Club
For a great selection of classic rhymes and songs try Mother Goose Club. The site has many multimedia resources for teachers, including videos, rhyme lyrics, rhyme histories, songs, printable sheets, and alphabet writing pages. Click here to visit the site.
Vocabulary Games
Visit Vocabulary Games to play a wide range of games that are designed to improve your vocabulary skills and word knowledge. Click here to check out the site.
Book Lamp
Are you looking for a new book to read these holidays? Enter the title or author of a book you like andBook Lamp will come up with suggestions for books with similar themes and writing style. Now you can visit the library to see if the book is there, then pass away some hours over the next week of the holidays enjoying your new book.
Learning English Kids
Welcome to LearnEnglish Kids! Lots of free games, songs, stories and activities for children - you can have fun and learn English too! You can search for your favourites, or have a look at the Explore section and find out where everything is.
vocabulary.com
This is a great way to improve your use of words. The site has more than 40,000 questions designed to help you learn words. As you answer, it tracks your progress and asks harder questions. Click here to visit the site.
Duffy Books in Homes
The Alan Duff Charitable Foundation, better known as Duffy Books in Homes, is proud to provide free books to over 100,000 New Zealand children, three times a year. On the website you can find information for schools, parents and kids of course! You can also find out how to support literacy in New Zealand by donating, sponsoring a school or becoming one of our Role Models.Click here to visit the site.
StoryBee
Storybee contains hundreds of stories for a range of ages (4-18). Told by professional storytellers, genres include myths, legends, folk tales, fairy tales and some original works. Click here to check out the site.
Meddybemps Young Writers Workshop
The Meddybemps Young Writers Workshop has heaps of great story writing ideas. Clickhere to check it out for some writing inspiration.
Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for primary school children. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes. Book Adventure was created by and is maintained by Sylvan Learning. Clickhere to check it out.
Spelling Bee lets you choose your level, then listen to a story and type the required word in the blank space. This is a great interactive site for improving your spelling skills. Click here to give it a go.
Reading Bear
Reading Bear is an interactive site for teaching beginning readers vocabulary and concepts through the principles of phonics. Designed for ages 4-7, each presentation is playable either as a video or an interactive slideshow and introduces one or a few related phonics rules. Click here to visit the site.
Building Language for Literacy
This is a collection of activities to help children learn to read and spell. Three characters - Newt, Lobster and Rhino - each have their own activities to help you learn. Click here to check out the site.
Between the Lions
This is a website designed to encourage kids to 'get wild about reading'. There is a wide range of reading activities, as well as helpful information for students and teachers. Clickhere to visit the site.
Snappy Words
Snappy words is an online visual dictionary and thesaurus. Simply type a word in the search box, click 'go' and a word map is instantly created. Words are also colour coded according to parts of speech. Click here to check out the site.
Starfall
Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. The systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first year, second year, special needs, home school, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Click here to visit the site.
Wordmaster
This is another great way to improve your use of words. You're shown a sentence with a word missing. Click the on-screen keyboard to fill in the blanks. It's against the clock and there are various levels of difficulty. Teachers, this is an excellent close reading activity. Click here to visit the site.
Woodlands Junior literacy
Woodlands Junior literacy is a great site for ages 5-11 it has a range of fun games and activities for kids who are struggling or don't find maths interesting. Click here to check it out and have some fun!
Here's one for our junior students; First 55. This site features the first 55 words a child is supposed to learn to read. The lessons allow students to work independently and for teachers and parents to check their progress. Click here to check it out.
Beat the Clock
Beat the Clock is a game where players have to complete a sentence by choosing the right word before the time runs out. There are lots of categories to choose from for this game. Click here to try it out.
Literacy Activities
Literacy Activities. This is a great site for juniors, it teaches you basic literacy. Click
here to check it out.
The Book Seer
'I've just finished reading _____ by _____. What should I read next?" Fill in the blanks, ask the question and The Book Seer will do it's thing. You'll get two lists of recommendations from Amazon and 'Library Thing'. This could be a way to introduce you to new authors and books. Click here to visit the site.
dictionary.com
This is a great online dictionary that will help to develop your word knowledge and vocabulary skills. Clickhere to visit the site.
Definr
This is a great online dictionary. There's suggestions if your word isn't quite right, and there's a fun 'word of the day'. Click here to check it out.
The Great Word Quest
Develop your vocabulary skills and practise phonics on The Great Word Quest. Click hereto visit the site.
Grammar and Vocabulary
This website (which you will need to register for) has a range of information and activities for learning English grammar and words. The site has a large number of fun educational games. Click here to visit the site.
Kids Spell
The absolutely free and totally fun way to improve your spelling. Kids Spell helps to dramatically improve your students ability to learn and retain spelling words. Click here to check out the site.
Bookhive
BookHive is a web site designed for children ages birth through twelve, their parents, teachers or anyone interested in reading about children's books.
Lexipedia is a great looking thesaurus. The results for searching on words are displayed in a pin-wheel fashion, with word types - nouns, adverbs, synonyms, etc. all colour coded. This is a great site for learning about and understanding words. Click here to check it out.
Best Children's Books Ever
Click here for a list of the Guardian (UK) newspapers best children's books ever. The list is broken up into age groups to make it easy to select a book for your reading or listening pleasure.
Starfall
Starfall.com opened in September of 2002 as a free public service to teach children to read with phonics. The systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic awareness practice, is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, junior school, special education, homeschool, and English language developmentStarfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children.