Internet Projects

This page contains links to Internet projects that teachers can use with their students. If you know of any other projects that teachers might find useful, please write to tell us about them.

Using Area and Perimeter to Design a Fun House Design a get-away house for you and a friend.

Sadako and the Paper Cranes Webquest Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes by Eleanor Coerr is a true story about a girl who lived in Japan toward the end of World War II. This Web Quest is designed to introduce you to Sadako Sasaki and her country of Japan. Find out why Sadako is a heroine to the children of Japan.

Alphabet Adventure Gallery The Alphabet Adventure Gallery is a different way of examining a letter of the alphabet by using technology as a tool. It is an interactive site, which means that the students get to go on it and see/hear their work. Great way to integrate technology into the |Kindergarten classroom.

A Look Inside the Human Body At this site you can take a closer look at the major systems of the Human Body and how they work.

A+ Math Created just for kids, this colorful, interactive math site is educational and fun. Highlights include flash cards, games, and the homework helper, where students enter a problem and find out if their solution is correct.

AAA Math Hundreds of pages of Basic Math Skills. Interactive Practice on every page. An Explanation of the math topic on each page. Several Challenge Games on every page. Math Problems are randomly created.

AskERIC Lesson Plans contains more than 1100 unique lesson plans which have been written and submitted to AskERIC by teachers from all over the United States.

BasketMath Interactive Learning a huge selection of online interactive math activities to choose from such as addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, rounding off, and factoring.

Boowa & Kwala This site is for kids who want to play fun interactive games / activities, read a great illustrated story and listen to some great music and songs with Boowa and Kwala. Age range - Kindergarten / preschoolers / primary school (2 - 8 years old).

The Button Game Try the Clarisworks quiz to see how good you really are!

Coolmath4kids An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for FUN, FUN, FUN!

Flashcards for Kids This page was set up to help kids learn basic math skills while on the Internet. It was set up for K-12 schools to use and because it's simple, it can sometimes offer some complex equations

Flat Stanley Students in small groups or individually, prepare paper Flat Stanleys and mail them out to somewhere on the list along with a journal. The recipients complete the journal and return Stanley.

Funbrain.com Where Kids Get Power Math Baseball ~ Score runs with your math skills. Change Maker ~ Never get short-changed with this cash register game. Fun Match ~ Is your mind playing tricks on you? Spell Check ~ Something is wrong with one of these words. Wacky Tales ~ Write your own crazy story.

GameGoo Educational games that develop early reading skills.

The Grammar Gorillas need help identifying parts of speech.

Grade 4 Bookmarks Page Internet projects which fit into the grade 4 program of studies.

Grade Five Bookmarks Page Internet links used in grade 5.

Grade Six Bookmarks Page Internet projects which fit into the grade 6 program of studies.

GrassRoots projects are a unique and valuable resource as they are teacher-designed, tailored to the learning needs of the youth in today's classrooms. The Program provides a vehicle to showcase Canadian best practices in the implementation and integration of information and telecommunication technologies at the classroom level by Canadian teachers and students.

Inventing Around the World Write a report on an Inventor after finding research info on the web.

Just for Kids Uncover the mysteries of plant life, let Squirmin' Herman the Worm teach you all about worms, learn what it feels like to be older, and learn what you need to know to become a great babysitter.

KidZlibrary Check out some really great stories in the wonderful storybook player inside Kidz Library. Read along with some ole classics like Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Rabbit. Travel places and have fun diving into a good book, right here on your computer.

Lemonade Stand or GameOrama Lemonade Stand If you've never played nor seen Lemonade Stand, it's not that hard of a game. Basically, you're a kid setting up his own Lemonade Stand on a neighbor's yard. Before each day starts, you have to decide how many cups of delicious lemonade you are going to make. You make this decision based on the weather forcast. You continue playing until you go broke, you decide to retire or you reach 25 game days.

Lingo Land Far beyond lofty Paragraph Mountain, and across surging Sentence River, stands an enchanted grove -- the Word Jungle. Deep in its heart lies a clearing. And there, basking in the sun on the banks of a blue pool, is where you will find Alphy the alphagator. Let Alphy be your guide on a tour of Lingo Land.

Math Baseball The computer will give you a math problem. Enter the answer to the problem and hit the "Swing" button. If your answer is correct, you will get a hit. The computer will decide if the hit is a single, double, triple, or home run based on the difficulty of the problem. If your answer is wrong, you will get an out. The game is over after three outs.

Math, Baseball & the San Francisco Giants! Aunt Rosemary from Ohio is in town and wanted to take you to a Giants game. Unfortunately, the game was starting during your MATH class! However, your parents and math teacher gave you permission to attend the game with special conditions. The deal is that you will report back to the rest of the math class all the different ways mathematics is used in the game of baseball.

Neuroscience for Kids - Plenty of experiments, activities and games to help you learn about the nervous system.

Marvelous Machines - This is a series of experiments about simple machines: levers, wheels and inclined planes. This unit was designed for use in the third grade.

MathStories.com - Math Problems based on Popular Children's Books.

Puzzlemaker A site that allows you to create puzzles and games for your newsletters, flyers, handouts, or classroom assignments.

Qesn.connection is a pilot project, supported by Services à la communauté anglophone and the QESN. This project is designed to respond to two key requirements: To help teachers integrate technology in their classrooms, and to support the upcoming reform to our curriculum.

Question That We have an answer, now you need to give us the question.

Quia Math is a treasure trove of more than thirty math activities which include flashcards and a Concentration-style matching game. Topics range from basic addition to algebra terminology. Don't miss the Math Journey, where students can travel around the world as they practice addition subtraction, multiplication,division and rounding at four levels.

Stay Afloat Stay afloat is similar to Hangman. You must guess the words before all the objects are loaded and the boat sinks!

Sympatico: Jeunesse Pour les jeunes (6 à 12 ans)

Teaching Time All kinds of activities to help kids learn how to tell time on both analog and digital clocks.

Turkey Tales Thanksgiving things to read - history, fun, stories, legends...

The Two Minute Mystery Solve-It Club The "Solve-It" Club is for rookies as well as experienced veterans who would like to test their deductive abilities at solving a tricky weekly mystery.

Wacky Web Tales Choose one of the tales and fill in the parts of speech to create your own funny story. Check out the tales created by visitors like you or send us your own!

What Good is Math? Here are some situations that you may find yourself in on any given day. Each one involves the use of math skills. Try clicking on each topic to be convinced that learning math in school is helpful, not pointless!

Where Is That? The game where your mind is the map!

Virtual Alphabet Click on any letter to begin your journey through the Virtual Alphabet. Each letter has an animal character associated with it, an original song with a familiar melody, and links to other pages about that animal.