Category

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Research and Data Collection

3

Dictionary and Thesaurus

4

eBooks & Free Books Online

5

Talking Books

6-7

Literacy Activities & Games

8-9

Spelling and Phonics

10

Brainstorming & Mind Mapping

11

Organisation & Planning

12

Mathematics

13-16

Science

17

Cause and Effectand Switch Activities (many activities also for Touch Window and IWB)

18-20

Teaching Resources for Educators

21-23

Web Browsers

24

Research & Data
Collection

Description and Suitability

http://www.encyclopedia.com/: Encyclopedia.com is an online library
and research Web site. Encyclopedia.com
puts millions of articles from some of the world’s most authoritative and
highly respected publications at a student’s fingertips. It is a free online
encyclopedia and features premier titles like The Columbia Encyclopedia, Oxford’s
World Encyclopedia, and the Encyclopedia
of World Biography. 

Suitable
for: Upper primary and secondary students.

http://kids.britannica.com/ : Britannica Online For Kids is an essential online homework
helper for children aged 6-14 years. It covers core subjects – Mathematics,
English and Science as well as History, Geography, the Arts and many more
subject areas. Britannica Online For Kids provides access to curriculum
relevant encyclopedia articles, learning activities, games and videos for
Years 3 through 10 in Australia and New Zealand. 

Suitable
for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Children’s_Encyclop%C3%A6dia:
The Children’s Encyclopædia
was an encyclopædia originated by Arthur Mee and published by the Educational
Book Company, a subsidiary of Amalgamated Press of London.

It
was published from 1908 to 1964. Walter M. Jackson’s company Grolier acquired
the rights to publish it in the U.S. under the name ‘The Book of Knowledge’
(1910). Each search will also generate appropriate images, photographs,
drawings, maps and other pertinent illustrations.

Suitable
for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students.

http://www.factmonster.com/
: The Fact Monster provides students with an
Encyclopedia Search that has access to more than 57,000 articles from the
Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. It offers an inviting uncluttered
interface and the information is appropriate for most students in primary and
secondary schools. 

Suitable
for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students.

http://www.rudimentsofwisdom.com/ : An interesting concept,
with the rudimentary topics of an encyclopedia represented in cartoon
descriptors. This will appeal to students who enjoy cartoons and require
simplified content for research in an amendable format. 

Suitable
for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students.

Dictionary and
Thesaurus

Description and Suitability

http://encarta.msn.com/encnet/features/dictionary/dictionaryhome.aspx : This is a very clear and
uncluttered web site. The word definitions appear quickly and in a large
clear font. All dictionary words and definitions are sourced from Encarta ®
World English Dictionary and 2009 Microsoft Corporation. The site content was
developed for Microsoft by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. 

Suitable
for: Lower and upper primary and junior secondary students.

http://dictionary.reference.com/  : Provides meaning and definitions for
millions of words. It also has a Flash Card game across word puzzles and
links to other sites for thesaurus and word game activities. A free app for
iPhones, iPads, Androids and other mobile devices is freely downloadable for
portable access to this very flexible dictionary. 

Suitable
for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students.

http://dictionary.babylon.com/ : Babylon online dictionary
provides meanings for words in numerous categories. More than 1400
dictionaries and 75 languages are available. Users can search myriads of
terms, expressions and phrases and it covers a wide range of fields such as
Law, Science, Medicine, Music, Business and many more. 

Suitable
for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students.

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/   : An extremely comprehensive and powerful
online resource. It is ‘busy’ and quite cluttered in design but it offers a
great deal of flexibility with many options. It provides some online
activities such as a Spelling Bee, Hangman game and word of the day.
Multiple language support caters to LOTE students and those who wish to work
in languages other than English. Note: A free toolbar add-in is available for
Mozilla Firefox browsers and has a great deal to offer more capable students.

Suitable
for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students.

http://www.dicts.info/  : Dicts.info is an extensive free
Dictionary Project.  It represents an
extremely comprehensive resource site that lists every conceivable resource to
do with meanings, derivations and contexts of words as well as free
downloadable dictionaries, portable apps and other related resources. 

Suitable
for: Upper primary, secondary and tertiary students.

http://www.lingoes.net/  : Lingoes is an easy and intuitive
dictionary and text translation software,
It offers lookup dictionaries, full text translation, capture word on screen,
translate selected text and pronunciation of words in over 80 languages.
These language are English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese,
Russian, Greek, Swedish, Turkish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Arabic,
Hebrew, Vietnamese, Thai and more…

Suitable:
Upper Primary and Secondary through Tertiary and ESL students

http://www.sequencepublishing.com/thesage.html   : The Sage’s English Dictionary and
Thesaurus is a professional software package that integrates a complete
dictionary and multifaceted thesaurus of the English language into a single
and powerful language reference system. The Sage can look up words directly
from almost any program (Internet Explorer, MS Word, Mozilla Firefox, MS
Outlook) and is also 100% portable. Due to popular demand, The Sage’s dictionary
is online.

Note: Only the definition
database is consulted.

Suitable
for: More capable Upper Primary and all Secondary and Tertiary students

Description and Suitability

http://www.bartleby.com/   : Bartleby is an internet publisher of
literature, reference and verse providing students, researchers and curious
readers with unlimited access to books and information on the web at no cost.

Suitable
for: Upper primary and junior secondary students.

http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page   : Gutenberg.org is one of the most useful
web sites for locating and obtaining free eBooks that are out of copyright
(i.e. published over 50 years). Texts can be acquired in a number of text,
HTML and PDF formats as well as in popular eBook formats including ePub and
Plucker. Students can download over 33,000 free eBooks to read on a PC, iPad,
Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android or other mobile
phone.  They provide high quality
books. Their free books were previously published by bona fide publishers and
digitized with the help of thousands of volunteers.

Suitable
for: Primary and Secondary and Tertiary students as well as all educators.

http://www.booksshouldbefree.com/  : ‘All Books Should Be Free’ is a source of
free audio books. Books Should Be Free hosts hundreds of free audio books in
a wide range of categories and offers titles for readers of all ages. The
audio books can be downloaded from Books Should Be Free website and or via
iTunes software. All of the audio books in the collection are either public
domain or Creative Commons works. Books are illustrated with a cover page for
easier identification. Suitable: Readers of all ages.

http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/index.html : The Online Books Page is a
website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the
Internet and aims to encourage the development of online books, for the
benefit and edification of all. Major parts of the site include:

An
index of hundreds of thousands of online books freely readable on the Internet
; Pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts ; Special
exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books ; Information on
how readers can help support their growth

Suitable:
Readers of all ages

http://www.e-book.com.au/freebooks.htm: A listing of sites that
provide access to eBooks in the public domain that may be freely accessed, as
well as some other books under specified conditions. This website lists links
to free digital libraries in Australia and New Zealand as well as free eBook
websites.

Suitable:
For readers of all ages

http://www.bookshare.org/ :Bookshare offers accessible
books to people all over the world with qualifying print disabilities.
Thousands of accessible books are available for download to International
Members, based on copyright permissions granted by publishers and authors.
Currently Bookshare has over 90,000 books available to their members in over
30 countries.

Suitable:
For readers of all ages

http://www.techsupportalert.com/content/50-places-free-books-online.htm: Gizmo’s Free Listings: This
is a listing of 260 sites that legally offer free books (eBooks) for download
or for online viewing. The author discovered these sites, all or most of
which should offer free eBooks as a reference. They should be authentic but
some have not been thoroughly checked.

Suitable
for: Readers of all ages

http://worldlibrary.net/: World Public Library is a
subscriber service. The World Public
Library Association Collection boasts more than 500,000 eBooks all
published in the PDF format and are available in over 90 languages.

Suitable
for: Upper Primary through to adults. Subscription required.

http://bookbuilder.cast.org/ – UDL Book Reader  Share publish and read books online or
offline

Students
can use Book Builder  site to create,
share, publish, and read digital books that engage and support diverse
learners according to their individual needs, interests, and skills.

Suitable
for: Readers of all ages.

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/titles/A.html –
University of Adelaide – The purpose of this site is to
provide access to the “classic” works of civilisation and to promote reading
of the same. There are many sites offering classic works in one form or
another. Putting them into a format which readers might actually enjoy using
them is their aim. Suitable
for: Readers of all ages.

Talking Books

Description and
Suitability

http://www.priorywoods.middlesbrough.sch.uk/page_viewer.asp?page=Talking+Story+Books&pid=75 These are the very popular
talking books from Priory Woods in the UK. Simple talking storybooks can be
created with commonly available presentation software such as MS PowerPoint
enabling and motivating children with poor literacy skills to produce meaningful,
high quality work. All of the stories featured on this site were created
together with pupils from as young as Year 1. They give educators and
students some ideas for talking story books and what can be achieved.

Suitable
for: Primary and Secondary students with special learning and/or reading
needs.

http://www.speakaboos.com/corporate/about : Speakaboos provides a
range of stories online for retelling of a wide range of books including fairy
tales, fables, folk tales, nursery rhymes and songs. Most of the content is
free. The high quality production provides animation, music and books retold
using actor’s voices.

Suitable:
Junior Primary to Junior Secondary and especially children with different
abilities.

http://www.aesopfables.com/aesop1.html : Online collection of
Aesop’s Fables includes a total of 638 Fables, indexed in table format, with
the associated morals listed. Many of the books are narrated using children’s
voices. It is a very austere site with few tricks and graphics. It caters to
students who are familiar and comfortable with reading text, or listening to
text.

Suitable
for: All students who are studying or enjoy Fables.

http://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/: Lit2Go is a free online
collection of stories and poems in Mp3 (audio book) format. You can –

Download
the files to your Mp3 player and listen on the go; listen to the Mp3 files on
your computer or view the text on a webpage and read along as you listen or
print out the stories and poems to make your own book.

Suitable
for: Primary through Secondary

http://www.magickeys.com/books/  : Illustrated children’s stories for
children of all ages. The titles are categorized for very young, young and
older students. Each title has an associated graphic representing the story.
There are also links to games, colouring-in books and other relevant
activities.

Suitable
for: Readers of all ages who require illustrated books.

http://tarheelreader.org/ : Tar Heel Reader is a
collection of free, easy-to-read, and accessible books on a wide range of
topics. The books may be downloaded as slide shows in PowerPoint, Impress, or
in Flash format. Each book can be speech enabled (online) and accessed using
multiple interfaces, including touch screens, the IntelliKeys with custom
overlays, and 1 to 3 switches. Books can be read in PowerPoint on a PC using
PowerTalk freeware (http://fullmeasure.co.uk/powertalk/ )

Suitable:
Junior Primary through Secondary, especially reluctant readers.

http://librivox.org/   : LibriVox provides free audio books all
taken from the public domain. There are several options for listening. The
first step is to get the mp3 or Ogg Vorbis (i.e. a sound/music format)  files into your own computer. There are
over 4000 projects available.

Suitable
for: Upper Primary and Secondary students

http://en.childrenslibrary.org/ : These are not talking
books but a treasure trove of stories from all genres, catering to younger
children and those that require illustrated texts. The books can be read
online. This site is very suitable for children using Interactive Whiteboards
in classrooms and equally at home with mouse or trackball or touch window/screen.

Suitable
for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary.

Talking Books

Description and Suitability

http://www.esl-storybooks.com – ESL Storybooks : Appropriate storybooks for beginner students, interest
level 6 to 12 years. Storybooks and ESL Textbooks for English as a Second
Language Students  This website is for
ESL Teachers who need ESL Instructional material for ESL Kids. Their
storybooks feature exciting adventure stories to encourage children reading
and comprehension of English as a second language.

Suitable
for: Year 6 – 12

http://www.riverdeep.net/language_arts/edmark_lang_arts/MakeAStory/MakeAStory.html – Make a Story – from Edmark. Use of simple yet effective animation
with words closed out. Children click on objects to complete simple
questions. Engaging graphics and clear use of a child actor’s voice.

Suitable
for: P – 2 and children with different abilities.

http://www.storylineonline.net/ – Storyline Online provides
children with a number of books that are read aloud by actors. Well known
actors’ voices are used. The animation and colour is very engaging and there
are a number of stories from which to choose. There are follow-up activities
online as well as downloadable activities for each story. All of the stories
are captioned.

Suitable
for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary.

http://www.oddcast.com/home/demos/tts/tts_example.php?sitepal : Children can type their
own sentence or short story and an online avatar (or character) will voice it
back immediately. It lists a very large range of text-to-speech voices and is
ideal for ‘testing’ TTS voices with children, before buying other programs.
In addition, it’s just fun. 

Suitable
for: P – 2 and children with different abilities.

Literacy
Activities/Games

Description and Suitability

http://www.starfall.com : Starfall.com opened in
September of 2002 as a free public service to motivate children to read with
phonics. Their systematic phonics approach, in conjunction with phonemic
awareness practice is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first year, second
year, special education, home school, and English language development (i.e.
ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices
for children.

Suitable
for: Junior Primary and especially children with different abilities

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/websites/4_11/site/literacy.shtml   : This website has many different games
for children to develop literacy skills. There are multiple games under each
category to keep children interested. Each game is challenging in multiple
ways. A number of different sites are provided to cater to different needs. 

Suitable
for: For Junior Primary through to Junior Secondary

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/   : The Scholastic Language and Literacy
site has some wonderful activities. This website focuses on rhyming, naming,
and letters.  Three different animals
encourage students to work with them to build vocabulary, identify letters,
and match rhyming words. 

Suitable
for: Junior Primary through Year 1 and children with different abilities.

http://pages.cms.k12.nc.us/tiffanyclarke/onlineliteracyactivities.html  : Mrs. Clarke’s Welcome to Year 1: A
comprehensive list of online interactive websites. Students can practice
correct sentence structure using keyboard and mouse with this vast assortment
of sites. Many are ideal for use with an Interactive Whiteboard in the
classroom with one or more students in pairs or in small groups.

Suitable
for: Junior Primary to Year 2 or students with different abilities.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/lions/activities/view-read-do.html  : A useful website, full of view-read-do
activities that connect to children and their imagination with clever use of
video, online books and other learning activities.  It is based on the PBS show ‘Between the
Lions’.  There are games, stories and
video clips to watch. 

Suitable
for: Junior Primary to Year 4.

http://www.pbs.org/parents/lions/activities/view-read-do.html  : This website features the Junie B. Jones,
the character from the Chapter Book series. It is a creative resource for
further reading about this popular character and has activities and games.  There are a variety of spelling games to learn new words. 

Suitable
for: Year 2 to Year 5

http://www.funbrain.com   : This website offers games from different
subject areas.  These games will help
strengthen writing, reading skills and acquisition of vocabulary.  The website has multiple activities to
encourage students to read and includes web books, word games, grammar and
spelling activities and word confusion. Navigate by selecting a year level or
by using the “reading” link.

Note:
Incorporates some sign language. 

 Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 7

http://www.learningplanet.com/index.asp  : This is an interactive website that allows
students to play online learning games. It lists categories by Year level.
The website extends activities up to Year 8. It also offers other curriculum
content (including Maths activities). 

Suitable
for: Junior Primary to past Year 8

Literacy
Activities/Games

Description and
Suitability

http://www.tooter4kids.com/classroom/just4kids.htm : Tooter4Kids – This website
offers numerous links that take the user to other websites. Each link is for
a different interactive activity. Each activity focuses on improving literacy
skills.

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 3

http://www.literacycenter.net/   : Literacy Centre.net – This is an
interactive website for student use. It has activities to assist children in
learning the alphabet, write letters and words, as well as learn colors,
shapes and numbers. It also provides activities for keyboard practice and
developing skills.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 1

http://pbskids.org/games/index.html   : PBS Kids: PBS Kids is a website where
children can play interactive games online. They concentrate on some of the
popular shows that they watch on television, such as “Arthur.”  It is bright and colorful and very
interactive. A great deal of content is offered. There are video channels as
well.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 3

http://www.nickjr.com   : Nick Junior: Noggin is part of Nick Jr.
The website allows children to play a variety of games featuring characters
from television shows.  Children learn
literacy skills as they play. There are printable pages of suitable
activities for the children to complete after they have finished the online
games.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2

http://www.readwritethink.org : Read Write Think: This
website has many games that have multiple difficulty levels. It allows
students to progress in their literacy development through the interactive
games.  It guides students in the
learning of the alphabet, rhyming, singular and plural words, phonemes and
capital letters.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 8

http://pbskids.org/superwhy/#  : PBS SuperWhy: This is an exciting website
for children with wonderful use of colour and animation. In Story Book
Village, you can play games, read, complete activities and explore the
environment. Words pop up as the content in the site talks to the students.
This site offers Letter Bingo and the Super Readers’ Challenge.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2

http://pbskids.org/wordworld/index_flash.html  : PBS WonderWorld: This site offers many
educational games as well as activities to do. All of the animals and objects
on this site are made up of their written letters. For example, the Bear
visual has the letters: b e a r.  This reinforces the print component of
reading, as well as the sounds that are heard in the words.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2

http://pbskids.org/sesame/   : This website has many ABC and letter
games, rhyming and bilingual games, videos and activities that enhance
children’s literacy development. Children learn with their favorite Sesame
Street characters (Rhyme with Grover, Abby’s Adventure, Rosita’s Fiesta, and
Cookie Monster’s Alphabet Soup).
Learning with the Sesame Street Muppets is engaging and motivating for
younger students.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 2

http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/  : The Magic School Bus: This website has a
wide variety of things to do. There are learning games (I SPY, bingo and
puzzles). There are games, various activities, stories, printables and
videos.  There are science connections
in many of the stories.

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4

Spelling and Phonics

Description and Suitability

www.kidsspell.com : Kids Spell is an interactive website that teaches young children spelling words.  There are games to play that help them learn new words to increase their vocabulary as well as spelling.  There are different games such as letter drop and ‘spelloons’. Over 6,600 words are provided in an assortment of
activities. 

Suitable for Junior Primary to Year 3

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/wordsandpictures/clusters/blender/index.shtml : This is a good website for
learning phonics, especially blending sounds. It is interactive. The ‘blender’ provides the word and asks the child for the beginning sound, and then the ending sound. It offers phonics, CVC words, consonant clusters, long
vowel sounds and high frequency words.

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 1

http://www.progressivephonics.com/ : This website offers many different things to learn about phonics and reading. There are different levels from beginner to advanced level. In each level there are many different types of books to read and things to learn. It is easy to navigate and find what students need. It is appropriate great for children to use alone, or with a teacher, parent, or tutor.

 Suitable for: Junior Primary to Year 4

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/interactive/literacy.html : The Literacy Zone; Interactive The English Games and Activities site is a vast collection of spelling activities and exercises. It is extremely comprehensive and offers hundreds of games and activities, all represented graphically.

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary

http://www.efdlrs.com/~sunrise/parentsreading1/ : This website is a course that provides participants with an overview of phonological awareness.  There are handy and useful tips for helping children to participate in their own learning. It is very austere but has some good advice and activities. 

Suitable for: Kindergarten to Year 3 and a great resource for parents

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/educational/literacy.html : This Woodland’s School site offers a great range of literacy activities for students, including Word Work (26 activities), Sentence Work (8 ) and Text Work (12). It is a colourful and engaging site that is comprehensive in its approach. 

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Grade 4

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/bitesize/  : BBC Bitesize: Offers Reading, Writing Spelling and grammar with games and activities and an area for teachers. Another comprehensive site that offers numerous activities across different genres.

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/spellits/home_flash.shtml  : This site requires Flash software. It is a thoroughly engaging online resource that will motivate students to practice their spelling skills.

Suitable for: Junior Primary to Junior Secondary

Brainstorming/Mind
Mapping

Description and Suitability

https://bubbl.us/ : A very simple yet powerful online mind-mapping tool. Users can work online, print their work and/or save the image as a JPG or PNG file as an HTML outline. Easy to master and learn and has useful online Help files.

Suitable for: Years 2 to Secondary

http://www.mapul.com/   : MAPMYself is a free Web-based online mind mapping tool. MAPMYself is unique web based software that allows users to create completely organic looking mind maps. Use your own ideas to accelerate learning, improve memory, increase productivity and save time. The intuitive interface is easy to learn and use. 

Suitable for: Years 2 to Secondary

https://www.mindmeister.com/users/signup : Users can sign up freely (with limited numbers of maps). It will also import other mind mapping files from Freemind and Mindjet Mindmanager software. 

Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary

http://freemind.sourceforge.net/ : Freemind is a free app that can be downloaded onto a Windows computer or downloaded as a portable App.

Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary

http://www.edrawsoft.com/freemind.php : A free download for EDraw mind mapping software. Users can create mind maps (graphical representations of thought processes) for brain-storming, problem solving, rational analysis, and decision making. EDraw Mind Map is a freeware vector-based application with rich examples and templates. Mind Map makes it easy to create basic flow charts, mind maps, brain-storming diagrams and sketch maps.

Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary

www.xmind.net/ : A very intuitive yet powerful mind mapping program that can be downloaded freely and installed onto a computer. It has numerous functions and features and is very visual. 

Suitable for: Years 4 to Secondary

Organisation/Planning

Description and Suitability

www.evernote.com : Capture, store, save and retrieve any facts and data from any source and access them anywhere at any time on a computer, iPhone or PDA. Data is kept safe and secure. Users can search by keyword, tag or even printed and handwritten text inside images.

Download and install and it is free. Students are able to save their ideas, things they like, things they hear, and things they see.

Suitable: Year 6-12 and adults

www.dropbox.com : Dropbox is an online storage service that’s free to use. Users can save files on their computers and retrieve it from any other computer, once logged in. It saves using USB devices and is safe and secure. Data can also be made ‘public’ and shared between users, colleagues and friends. It’s a great way to keep your favourite or important files stored for flexible access. 

Suitable: Year 8-12 and adults

Mathematics

Description and Suitability

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/   : BBS Skill wise – Numbers: Whole Numbers. Sections include the Time Tables, addition and subtraction, multiplication, division, negative numbers, and comparing numbers as well as multiples and factors, learning about place value (10s, 100s and 1000s), writing big numbers, rounding and estimating, ratio and proportion and a video guide.

Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/measuring/   : BBC Skill wise: Numbers – Measures, shape and space. Sections include 2D shapes, money (in pounds and pence, though), reading times and dates, calculation of time, temperature, volume, perimeter, area of rectangles, distances, timetables, length, weight and capacity and a video guide discussing weighing ingredients in metric.

Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary

http://www.coolmath-games.com/ An extremely comprehensive site for maths activities including lessons, games, puzzles, word games, jigsaw puzzles and quizzes. The games section includes:  Strategy, skill, numbers, shape/colours, pictures, logic, memory, and board games.  If offers arithmetic, pre-algebra, algebra, pre-calculus and other math lessons for older students.

Suitable for: Pre-school to Secondary

www.funbrain.com : Funbrain was created for students aged preschool through to Year 8. It offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Teachers and librarians can confidently encourage students to use Funbrain during their free time in class, assured that students will enjoy an
educational, safe online learning experience. Funbrain’s games help students build on what they have learned in class and acquire new skills in reading, math, and problem solving. This is the maths section.

Suitable for: Pre-school to Year 8

www.mathplayground.com : ‘The primary goals of Math Playground are to help students feel more confident about their math skills and to help them form more positive attitudes toward the subject of math. I try to accomplish these goals by providing engaging games and activities that students find meaningful and fun.’ Colleen King created Math Playground in 2002 for students in her class who needed a fun way to practice math facts. Since then, Math Playground has grown to include a wide variety of math topics, from problem solving and mathematical art to real world math.  Suitable for: Pre-school to Upper Primary levels.

http://www.dreambox.com/kindergarten-math-lessons : Aimed at teaching maths from K-3. Online activities and games include high quality spoken instructions and directions and engaging graphics. The differentiated learning content caters to all ability levels and the activities are clearly labeled and described.

Suitable for: K to Year 3

http://www.amathsdictionaryforkids.com/  : Maths Dictionary for Kids. A useful resource for students to investigate the terms used in mathematics. A Maths Dictionary for Kids is an animated, interactive online math dictionary for students, which explains over 600 common mathematical terms and math words in simple language with animated and interactive definitions, examples, activities, practice and calculators.

Suitable for: Pre-Primary and to older students.

http://www.easymaths.com/ Easy Maths. The aim of Easymaths is to reveal the secrets of maths in a way that is easy to understand and to make maths a challenge rather than a chore. It offers tutorials, an exam bank, a list of useful books and resources, a practise room and a section devoted to curious maths games and puzzles. It caters to students up to 16 years of age and includes areas of number, shape, space and measures, algebra and handling data.

Suitable for: Primary and especially secondary students to age 16.