Alphabet Soup
Alphabet soup includes Kindergarten Kafe, thematic units, teacher & parent resources, literature, recipes, fun & humor, holidays, crafts, and special pages for mainly 3 - 5 year olds.

Animal hand puppets
This page offers several printable patterns for children to make hand puppets (under supervision) - the patterns are sized for preschool hands. Patterns include: bear, frog, cat and owl puppet.

Art capades
Art Capades provides easy, fun and educational Visual Arts activities suitable for early childhood. It is also available in Spanish. The 'You Choose' section allows students to explore and select art works from 28 examples. Students can enlarge thumbnail paintings and share their interpretations with others, learn about artistic styles and attempt to duplicate or change them for different effects. Teachers' pages include a rationale, tips for teaching and a list of Art links.

Art Zone
NGA Kids from the National Gallery of Art (USA) provides several tools that allow kids to create art interactively. The site includes a Collage Machine; PixelFace, an interactive portrait maker and drawing board; Cubits, a geometric sculpture maker; 3-d Twirler, for designing and texturising three-dimensional shapes; Diamonds; and RiverRun where 'young children orchestrate a flowing array of colorful shapes and patterns.'

Author Jan Brett's home page: A great place for ideas
Jan Brett's website has a collection of activities around her books for children. Some themes include: hedgehogs, gingerbread house, gingerbread baby, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, rainforest animals, Noah's Ark. There are many of her illustrations as colouring pages, templates for finger puppets, alphabet pages, high frequency work lists, as well as videos of activities and story readings.

Back to School
The creator of this website is a Californian kindergarten and first grade teacher. This part of the website focuses on the beginning of the school year and provides rhymes and activities for classroom use. The whole site provides a wealth of useful material.

BRUSHster
BRUSHster lets you paint on the web. More than 40 brushes and textures are offered with a full palette of colours and effects that blur, ripple, and fragment your designs. Click auto to see the computer generate screen designs. BRUSHster is programmed to paint abstract art, but the tools can be used to create realistic pictures, too. If you'd like to draw with BRUSHster, select brush 32 and adjust the size slider to make a thin line.

Chanukah (Hanukkah)
This site provides links to a variety of websites with information and activities about Chanukah, including links for children.

Children's Christmas holiday links
This website provides links to Christmas activities, crafts, stories, legends, a trivia quiz, and electronic cards. There is also a link to information about Chanukah.

Chinese New Year Craft
This Kids Domain site contains detailed instructions of how to create many of the traditional Chinese New Year decorations, with varying degrees of difficulty between activities. Included in the decorations are snakes, dragons and Chinese lanterns

Chinese New Year Theme Page
Resources for teachers regarding the Chinese New Year including lesson plans, worksheets, images and other resources explaining Chinese New Year and its traditions.

Christmas activities
Site includes printable templates and online activities for Christmas suitable for preschool and primary aged students.

Christmas Crafts and Activities
The focus of this Christmas site is K-3. It contains instructions for practical craft activities, online activities, resources for teachers, links to web sites, and bokks that the teacher could read to a class.

Colouring pals
A collection of online colouring in activities for students from preschool to grade 3. Teachers can choose to print or do the activity online.

Cooking up reading
This site provides a connection between stories in books and a recipe, both encouraging literacy and numeracy skills. It also includes bibliography information including ISBN numbers, with the recipes generally being simple and using minimal equipment.

Dear Grandpa Pencil
This monthly online magazine offers fun and resources for students, parents and teachers including rhymes, activities, science, Australian history, easy recipes, and more.

Discovering peace
This unit includes various activities to encourage students, and in particular, ESOL students, to explore vocabulary related to peace, as well as their own feelings about peace. Students explore their personal feelings about peace through discussion and pantomime, and create and illustrate a peace poem. They then work as a group to create a 'Peace Quilt' that documents their feelings about peace.

Dolphin Coloring Page


Dolphin theme: Preschool activities and crafts
The website provides dolphin theme printable activities, lesson plans, crafts and coloring pages suitable for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten.

Dolphin themed colouring pages
This site provides a collection of black and white outlines of dolphins suitable for colouring in.

Dr. Seuss Theme Page
Resources for teachers using Dr Seuss Books. Including Lesson Plans and Worksheets such as wordsearch, craft activities and other literature based lesson ideas.

Early childhood education resources: Recipes
Recipes for playdough, cornstarch clay, paste, fingerpaint, bubbles, modeling dough, gunk, and lots more.

Easter activities for children
This page provides a range of activities, puzzles, printables, recipes and worksheets for preschool and kindergarten children on the theme of Easter. It includes a number of ideas for dying Easter eggs.

Easter activities for kids
This page provides information related to Easter activities: including crafts, festive foods, music, other cultures, stories, activities.

Easter activity pack
A package prepared for public librarians to use for ideas and resources related to Easter. Created by the Public Library Services of the State Library of Queensland, Australia.

Eggs: Rhymes, crafts and coloring printouts
Enchanted Learning provides this theme page about eggs, including simple craft activities suitable for Easter, rhymes and colouring in pages on eggs.

Finding Nemo Activities
Finding Nemo, a Disney/Pixar movie is a film that students of all ages can enjoy. These activities are aimed at Early Childhood students and include colouring pages, online jigsaw puzzles and other fishy craft.

First Palette: Arts and crafts site for kids
This site provides free creative crafts and art lesson plans for children. Themes include: colours, lines and shapes; alphabet and numbers; animals (including zoo animals); nature; people; world and travel; music; wearables; food art; and special occasions such as Halloween, Christmas, Chinese New Year, Valentine's Day, Easter, Mother's Day, birthday. Crafts may also be browsed by age group: toddlers, ages 4-5, 6-8, 9 and up.

Gail Lovely - Resources
Gail Lovely has a collection of links to resources suitable for early childhood. Topics include reading and literacy, maths, tsunamis, hurricanes and seasonal resources such as Christmas, New Year and Polar Express.

Get cracking: Educators
This site has a selection of printable modules of information on eggs, resources suitable for early childhood including creating egg characters, information on egg decorating, egg science and literacy worksheets related to eggs.

Global Children's Art Gallery
A gallery of well-presented art pieces from children aged 1 through 12 world-wide. This collection of over 900 examples of children's drawing and painting is hosted by the Natural Child Project as a project which furthers their vision of the world in which all children are treated with dignity, respect, understanding and compassion. In such a world, every child can grow into adulthood with a generous capacity for love and trust.

Grandpa Pencil's Christmas special
This special online magazine issue provides the words to many Christmas carols, recipes, card templates, inexpensive craft activities, and some information about Christmas traditions around the world, including La Befana in Italy, Babushka in Poland, Hogmanay in Scotland, and Nisse in Denmark.

Grandpa Pencil's colouring in pages
The index to colouring in pages, takes the user to topics such as: butterflies, dolphins, mermaids, unicorns, pets, horses, the alphabet, amongst others.

Grandparents Day crafts and cards
This Enchanted Learning page provides activities to celebrate Grandparents Day: cards and envelopes including dried flowers, pop-up cards, folded card shapes; picture frames for portraits; family crafts and family trees; and template books to print about grandparents.

Hatching Easter egg
A printable Easter themed worksheet for primary students. Colour the eggs, cut them out, write a greeting inside, fold them in half and sit them in water. Watch them hatch!

Incredible Art Lessons
This art education website provides art lessons, news, links, art departments and cartoons. Sections of the site are aimed at Early Childhood, middle and senior school age students.

Japanese crafts and activities
This page on Japanese crafts for kids provides ideas for simple crafts with things found around the house. Included are: Japanese doll, miniature Japanese garden, hanging fish and simple origami projects.

Kea Coloring Book
This online colouring book has features including bucket fill, multiple free-form brush sizes, color mixing, zoom in/out, and save/print/email. Themed colouring books include Halloween, transport, dinosaurs, bugs, mandalas. Some of the books include pop-up boxes with factual information. There is also a Masterpieces colouring book with artworks by Leonardo da Vinci, Salvador Dali, Picasso, Van Gogh, and Mary Cassatt.

Kids craft weekly
This site provides a collection of craft ideas and printables suitable for Early Childhood and Junior Primary learners. Users can subscribe to a weekly newsletter.

Kids Crafts Bulletin Board
A Bulletin Board for the exchange of information on crafts for children.

Kids Things
The 'Kids' Things' section of the Satyananda Yoga website offers a range of yogic symbols and intricate pictures for children to colour in.

Kinder Planet - Children's art and craft activities
Some arts and crafts activities to amuse preschool children: paper lantern; Mexican pinata; papier mache clown; papier mache space helmet; make your own checkerboard (paper weaving); fish mobile; fingerprint fun; cut-out surprise; teddy bears holding hands; painting egg shells; tennis ball painting; marble effect picture dipping; vegetable prints; butterfly blob picture; crayon texture pictures; crayon resist pictures; crayon technicolor surprise; melted crayon peels; popsicle stick treasure box; home-made clay; colourful clay mobile; playdough recipe; papier mache glue; ice candles; pasta necklace; food tin walkie talkie; rubber band guitar.

KinderArt: Art lessons
The site offers arts lessons for kids of all ages, arts history, art and craft ideas, as well as other teaching and learning resources across the curriculum.

KinderArt Kitchen
This site contains a collection of recipes for cakes, cookies, and healthy snacks (some of which are sugar-free), as well as homemade art supply recipes including clay and dough.

Kindercrafts
Instructions for large number of crafts projects for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue,

KinderCrafts for Toddlers
These simple crafts projects are for toddler, preschoolers, and kindergartners. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. There are links to other parts of the site which cover pre-reader activities and K-3 themes.

Kwanzaa crafts and activities
Kwanzaa is a holiday that celebrates African-American culture. Kwanzaa lasts for seven days; it starts on December 26th, and ends on New Year's Day. The word 'Kwanzaa' means 'first fruits' in Swahili. The website offers instructions for simple crafts with things found around the house, and worksheets to print.

A lifetime of color: Lesson plans for kindergarten
The Lifetime of Colour website provides lesson ideas incorporating art activities aimed at young children.

Make stuff
This site contains all kinds of creative Christmas craft, decorating, and project ideas. Included are articles made from recycled materials, ornaments, recipes, and gift ideas.

March of the Penguins colouring picture
A picture of penguins for colouring in from the movie March of the Penguins.

March of the Penguins colouring picture #2
A picture of penguins for colouring in from the movie March of the Penguins.

Masks: Printable animal
Templates are provided for a number of animal masks: leopard, mountain lion, owl, rabbit, raccoon, panda, mouse, tiger, chimpanzee, brown bear, frog, wolf. There are also templates for Santa, Little Red Riding Hood, clown, and a Halloween pumpkin.

More Fun on the High Seas
A collection of resources with a pirate theme are provided: a pirate patterns mat, a pattern sheet, pirate board game, maths mat, dominoes, and a colouring sheet.

Mother's Day craft idea
A simple idea for large group card is presented, suitable for giving to a nursing home for Mother's Day. An activity on making a beaded candle is also presented for older children.

National Geographic coloring book: Bottlenose dolphins
National Geographic for Kids provides a printable colouring picture of bottlenose dolphins. Links are provided to related resources and a trivia quiz about dolphins.

Ocean Life Activity Pages: Finding Nemo
A series of PDF worksheets for the early childhood sector on the animated movie Finding Nemo.

PA Cleanways Kids
The information on this site is U.S. based, but there are a range of craft and activity suggestions that are suitable for young children. Under 'Things to Make and Do' there are 'enviro-crafts' including handmade lint paper, bird feeder from a plastic bottle, a water treatment system, sun prints, spring egges using natural ingredients, and how to make a recycled picture frame. Under 'Get Involved' there are projects including making a hand puppet from a sock, flower seeds in cardboard egg cartons, yogurt cups for other purposes, mini-greenhouses from plastic bottles, CDs for coasters or mobiles. There are also games and puzzles, including 'Is it litter?'

Paper and scissor crafts and art activities for children
Scissorcraft provides a collection of images and ideas for children to print, cut out, and fold and assemble. It includes shamrocks, masks, authentic African masks, rings, ornaments, kirigami, snowflakes, Kwaanza images and more.

Play Online: Kusama's world of dots
In 2005 to coincide with the Children's Art Centre exhibition 'Made for this World: Contemporary Art and the Places We Build', the Queensland Art Gallery launched an online interactive based on exhibiting artist Yayoi Kusama's fascination with dots. Children can click on different coloured dots to create their own dotted scenes.

Playground fun
Playground fun is a website that promotes playing traditional playground games. Dozens of games are listed and give children rules for how to play them, interesting facts about the game as well as pictures and video clips to illustrate games. Children can also build their own games and see them on the site.

Queensland Art Gallery - Exhibition archive
Since 1998 the Queensland Art Gallery has been committed to developing innovative exhibitions and programs for children. This archive about previous exhibitions provides links to activity books on various art themes including Indigenous art, colour, portrait painting, animals, the beach, play and others.

QuickCraft: Free printables
This page on the QuickCraft website provides downloadable printables and colouring pages on themes including: animals and ocean creatures, self esteem, health and hygiene, handwriting, holidays and celebrations, occupations, and others.

Shapes cluster
This website provides simple books, activities and experiments about shapes related to curriculum areas of science, maths, and literacy. Topics include: making paper, noodle structure, opaque sun prints, straw gliders, strong shapes, suds for bubbles, spinning tops, tubular coaster, shape walk, I see shapes, bubble geometry, pyramids and cubes, tangrams. A list of picture books is also provides with links to related activities.

SNAICC Children's Day activity kit and event ideas
The Secretariat of National Aboriginal and Islander Child Care provides this page on how to celebrate National Aboriginal and Islander Children's Day. There is a downloadable activity kit which includes art and craft ideas celebrating Aboriginal culture: the Aboriginal flag, Torres Strait Islander flag, bush bracelet, didgeridoo, weaving, a jigsaw template, family kinship tree, jewellery making, clapping sticks, damper making, an animal game, bush tucker game,

St Patrick's Day activities
The site includes on-line games, e-cards, colouring pages, crafts, poems, songs and recipes.

Tate paint: Create your own masterpiece
Create a masterpiece with this online canvas and paints. Choose a selection of brushes and colours, then watch as the artwork is reanimated. Can be saved to a virtual gallery. Suitable for early childhood to primary aged students, from the Tate Museum, Great Britain.

Tree journal
In this Science activity children develop their observation skills in the study of life in and around a single tree. The observations can be done as an individual or whole class project. The lesson plan includes art and craft activities.

Tux Paint
Tux Paint is a downloadable open source drawing program suitable for children aged from 3 years to 12 years old. It combines an easy-to-use interface, fun sound effects, and an encouraging cartoon mascot who guides children as they use the program. Children are presented with a blank canvas and a variety of drawing tools to help them be creative.

Under 5s - The Web Resource for Pre-school
Under5s is the site for everyone involved in pre-school education and childcare; teachers, nursery nurses, students, child minders, nannies, and of course, parents. We believe that pre-school is the most important stage for learning; positive experiences provided at this time having a lifelong influence. We also believe that education should be fun, and actively encourage learning through play.

V&A Museum of Childhood: Kids' pages
The Kids' Pages on the Museum of Childhood website provide: 'things to do online' including simple interactive games eg a peek-a-boo game for very young children, an online kaleidoscope, and puzzles; 'things to make' including traditional craft activities and games eg a tumbling acrobat, paper dolls, toy theatre; and 'things to tell us' including holiday photos and descriptions.

Zoom, do
This PBS Online site presents art and craft activity ideas sent in by other children. The activities are grouped under: decorations; paper, paint and pictures; toy-o-rama; stuff to wear. Some are tagged as activities that help the environment. Craft activities include potato printing, papier mache, marble painting, and more.

Burarra Gathering
This interactive website gives an introduction to the people, land, language and traditional technologies and knowledge of the Burarra people of Arnhem Land, in Australia's Northern Territory. You can take a virtual trip to the land of the Burarra people, and be guided by Danaja, a young Burarra man, and his grandfather, Wala Wala. Learn about the Aboriginal method of making fire, fish traps, navigation by the stars, and tracking. The teachers' section provides ideas for additional activities.

Chrysanthemum: What's in a name?
This webquest uses different books by Kevin Henkes as a basis to explore the theme of identity. Topics include: my name, my family, my birth, my favourite things, my friends, when I grow up, making it into a book, life-size picture of me, and presenting it all. A student self-evaluation sheet is included, as well as a guide for teachers.

Little froggy
This learning quest encourages students to find out about frogs - their habitat and life cycle in order to develop a frog garden in the school.

Quest for the Rest
An intriguing Flash7 interactive in which the user assists three lost members to find the rest of their group in three adventure screens.

Webquests: Featured projects, K-2
These WebQuests are exemplary units ready for implementation in the K-2 classroom. Topics include: An insect's perspective; Animal hide and seek; Arthur's tooth; Designing Hermit's new home; Family of nations; In search of Stellaluna's family; Meeting in the mitten; Oceanography ABC books; Schema; Shocking sharks; Splash into an aquarium; The pilgrim life adventure; Trecking the tidepool.

a.s.p.i.r.e. School Network
The a.s.p.i.r.e. school network is the Australian Olympic Committee's national education program for primary educators. It is a free, online, values based program that provides access to Olympic themed resources, a school recognition certificate, a newsletter and one Boxing Kangaroo (BK) Medallion, given to a student who demonstrates the a.s.p.i.r.e. values at school. Teachers may choose Olympic themed lessons from Lower Primary (kindergarten and grades 1-2), Middle Primary (grades 3-4) and Upper Primary (grades 5-6).

ABC Children's TV - the playground
Australian Broadcasting Corporation's gateway to the internet for children. The site has been designed to provide an entertaining environment for children and grown-ups to explore. It incorporates a range of well known characters and programs from ABC Television as well as fun activities and games for children of all ages. There are games to play online, as well as a Games Download Zone with games to play when you are not connected to the internet. Included are schedules for the week's television programs.

Aboriginal astronomy
Australia's indigenous peoples have a rich heritage of astronomical observation and story telling. This website contains stories from 'The Emu in the Sky', a collection of Aboriginal astronomy stories from all around Australia.

Aboriginal Australia Map
The Aboriginal Australia wall map represents work carried out for the Encyclopaedia of Aboriginal Australia. Using the published resources available between 1988 and 1994, the map attempts to represent language, tribal or nation groups of Australia's Indigenous peoples. It is possible to click on grid sections of the map for an enlarged image.

Aboriginal perspectives through integrated units
These cross-curriculum units of work have been developed to highlight the potential for innovative teaching practices using the primary curriculum. Aboriginal Perspectives units include: Maths with the mob - integrated mathematics and visual arts activities; My Place - Aboriginal people's relationships with family, community, environment and place; Terra Nullius - problem-solving situations that reflect the significant events of the colonisation of Australia; Aboriginal Technology.

Aboriginal Studies resources
The list, Main Book List K-12, found on the linked page, was produced for gleebooks in conjunction with the Independent Education Union (IEU) and the Catholic Education Office (CEO) Aboriginal officers. It aims to provide resources to support the six strands in the NSW curriculum, as well as providing schools, libraries, preschools, play groups and community groups with a comprehensive list of published resources. Beside each title in the general K-12 section is a code, indicating the year range the book or DVD could be used with. A list of picture books is also provided under the Preschools and Play Groups link. Books may be ordered through gleebooks.

Aboriginal tools and artefacts
This website was created by a primary school class. It comprises children's research and simple presentations about different tools traditionally used by Aborigines.

Active-Ate
Active-Ate is a collection of resources developed by the Queensland Health Tropical Public Health Unit Network to promote physical activity and nutrition in primary schools. It was developed to contribute towards improved health and wellbeing among Australian schoolchildren. The documents available include teacher resources, fact sheets, information for parents, and 15 minute physical activity lessons for different age levels. It includes the 'Food for smiles' activities.

Africa for Kids
A site for children with African tales, music, masks and African students' photo albums. The Swahili folk tale has the option to hear the story read. Lesson plans and a teacher's guide are also available.

After the emergency
The After the Emergency activity book helps children think about what has happened and be aware of the feelings they may have after an emergency.

All about farm animals: Farm animal activities for kids and teachers
This site provides information about farm animals such as ducks, sheep, turkeys, cows, chickens, and includes activities, clipart, sounds, stories, and some videos e.g. making cheese and butter.

All about me
This thematic unit provides cross-curricular activity ideas on the theme of self or identify. It includes activities about special people or family members.

All about me: Preschool activities and crafts: I am special - peace education
This selection of preschool activities and crafts includes topics: my body, my senses, my emotions, my family, my name, peace education, character education. There is a link to a peace reading list.

Alphabet Soup
Alphabet soup includes Kindergarten Kafe, thematic units, teacher & parent resources, literature, recipes, fun & humor, holidays, crafts, and special pages for mainly 3 - 5 year olds.

American Montessori Consulting - Newsletter & Resources
This full text newsletter includes educational web site information, teaching tips, computer software reviews, book reviews, and other resource information of interest to parents and teachers.

Animal tracks font
A variety of animal tracks are provided - they could be enlarged and reproduced.

Animals in schools
The purpose of this web site is to assist NSW schools to satisfy the legislative requirements for the care and use of animals in schools. It provides species information for the animals which are considered suitable for use in schools and are commonly used for teaching and demonstration purposes; advice on keeping native animals and the licences required; application forms and resources.

APAC Lessons: Early childhood
The Western Australian Aboriginal Perspectives across the Curriculum (APAC) website provides lesson plans for early childhood in each of the key learning areas. Topics include: environment, the body, making marks and colours, families, night, damper, dreaming stories, wetlands, bush tucker, tracking. Emphasis is on Aboriginal language, culture and beliefs.

Australian animal printouts
This website contains printable colouring sheets and information about a variety of native animals and birds found in Australia, New Zealand, and nearby islands.

Awesome Clipart for Educators: Coloring Page
Free clipart and colouring pages, backgrounds, fonts, icons, lines, worksheets, holidays, Religion, animals, education, school, sports, seasons and weather.

Bananas in Pyjamas
From the ABC, this website has a collection of interactive games, stories, music, and craft projects related to the Bananas in Pyjamas.

Barinya: educational activites
Barinya is an Australian site providing educational activities and thematic units for home educators and teachers. Topics include photography, maths, technology, space, geography, history and art. Links are provided to articles on home schooling.

BBC Schools: early years foundation stage
This site produced by the BBC provides interactive resources in a range of subject areas for children aged from 18 months to 5 years. Subjects covered are: Personal, social and emotional development; Communication and literacy; Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; Knowledge and understanding of the world; Physical development; and Creative development.

Beijing: A contrasting locality in China
This unit aims to develop young students' understanding of Beijing as a place that contrasts with where they live, in particular to develop their knowledge and understanding and sense of place in relation to the city. The unit also provides the potential to link with other areas of the curriculum, such as art and design, music, ICT and literacy.

BK Zone
The BKzone is website for children aged 5-12 years, themed on the Boxing Kangaroo and the Olympic Games. The website features self directed learning and an invitation to send in stories and artwork for publication on the site.

Bobinogs
This set of interactive games focusses on washing hands and going to the toilet, tidying, music making, clothes and weather, caring for a pet, sharing, social skills and more.

Bubbie & Zadie
As a child, Daniel Bloom remembers feeling left out as other children wrote to Santa Claus with their wish lists each year. So when he grew up he decided to give Jewish children their own version of Santa by creating a story about a mythical set of grandparents called Bubbie and Zadie, and encouraged Jewish children to write to them through a letter-writing campaign.

Build your wild self
Create an avatar using a mix of human and animal body parts, whilst learning about the structure and function of the different animal parts. The finished avatar can be saved as wallpaper or emailed to friends.

Bunyips: Enter the lair of the bunyip if you dare
This site accompanies the National Library of Australia's Bunyips Travelling Exhibition. There are Aboriginal stories, evidence about bunyips, interactive games and activities to access. Some resources are divided into lower primary, upper primary and secondary. This site needs a Flash plug-in. Sound is definitely an advantage.

Burra Nimu, the Easter bilby
Jenny Bright's story about the Easter Bilby includes details about the lifestyle, eating habits and behavior of bilbies, and of the other animals and birds that appear in the story. Links are also provided to other sites about bilbies.

Busy Teacher's Cafe
Busy Teacher's Cafe is an American K-3 Resource website for busy teachers. The site features units, lessons, great teacher links, free worksheets and more.

Care For Animals
Care For Animals is presented by the American Veterinary Medical Association. The four sections of the site: Animal Journeys, Paws for Pets, Pet Stories and Kids Corner, each provide information about animal care. There are printable worksheets, and advice about handling pet loss, with a focus on responsible pet ownership.

Carl's Corner
This website has been created by an American classroom teacher to provide resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents and students in the area of language arts. There are lessons, worksheets, sorting cards, games, articles, calendars, small books, booklists, poems, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays.

Carl's Corner: Norwegian readers
Norwegian translated versions of simple stories are provided for early readers of Norwegian. Stories include: zoo animals, colours, big and small, fruit, Easter and others.

Carl's Corner: Spanish
Spanish translated versions of simple stories are provided for early readers of Spanish. Stories include: zoo animals, colours, big and small, fruit and vegetables, days of the week, clothes, weather and others.

Case study of Tarwin Lower Primary School
The Civics and Citizenship Education website provides this case study of how a small rural school with no Indigenous students, developed a year long unit 'Exploring Indigenous Art and Dance' using a multidisciplinary approach, and incorporating a global perspective. The unit employed a whole-school focus with all children and staff being involved. Key concepts included: heritage of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, citizenship, and conservation - ecologically sustainable use of natural and built environments.

Caterpillar Toothpaste: a Child's Introduction to the Decision Making Process
This downloadable book has been written to help younger children develop early decision making skills, actively preparing them for fuller participation in the home, school and community. The story is about Tim. Toothpaste reminds him of a big caterpillar coming out of the tube on to his toothbrush. Tim has some decisions to make. Should he stop brushing his teeth and risk smelly breath, dirty teeth and trips to the dentist? Join Tim on his decision making journey, and help him work out what he can do to solve his caterpillar problem!

CBeebies: Something special
This BBC website for young children includes some simple games (including a painting game), stories (Hansel and Gretel), and songs (Old Macdonald). It makes use of signs and sign language.

Child as a learner
This is the first in a two part article which explores how young children learn languages and what teachers can do to help them and their parents to make this process more enjoyable and positive. It covers: when to start language learning; what stops children from learning; how children learn languages; getting parents involved; learning styles; and also tips and activities for language learning.

Child as a learner 2
This is the second in a two part article which looked at how children learn a language and how to create the right environment for learning. This second part offers techniques to help develop their language and how to deal with errors. There are ten advice tips that teachers can give parents.

Child Development Website
Content of the site includes a hypertext overview of the theories of Freud, Mahler, and Erikson with special attention paid to comparing the theories on ages and stages.

Children, Stress, and Natural Disasters
There are a number of different kinds of activities that teachers can use in a classroom to prepare for or recover from a disaster. The process of expressing feelings and experiences, learning about the causes of disasters, and preparing for future events can give children a sense of understanding, coherence, and control. The activities are presented here by the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service.

Children's Rights
Early Childhood Australia has provided a collection of resources on 'children's rights'. It includes information on human rights, the UN Declaration of Human Rights, Rights of Indigenous Australians, the Children's Rights UN Convention (CROC), the Global Movement for Children (GMC), the Oslo Challenge, and a section on teaching for children's rights which includes teaching ideas.

China/Chinese theme page
This theme page on China includes books to print, worksheets and activities including: Chinese New Year, Chinese dragon, animals including the panda, and the rat, Chinese numbers, silkworm, China's flag, map, rivers, art and inventions.

Chinese heritage: Resource packet
The learning activities in this document on Chinese history and culture address elementary, middle and high school grades. It includes a mixture of history, language, stories, religion, inventions, art and craft activities, puzzles and activities.

Chinese New Year
Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is celebrated at night with lantern displays and children carrying lanterns in a parade. This website provides information about the customs associated with each day of the New Year celebrations, including traditional New Year foods, decorations, and taboos and superstitions.

Chinese New Year: Activities and crafts for preschool and kindergarten
This site presents Chinese New Year educational activities for preschool and kindergarten, including free Chinese New Year crafts and printable activities with easy to follow lesson plans, instructions, and related resources. There is a section on Chinese inventions including dominoes, the kite, the umbrella.

Christmas
This web page contains links to information about the symbols and customs of Christmas, the story of the Nativity, colour-ins, crafts, puzzles, songs, and Christmas around the world.

Christmas activities and links
This collection of interactive activities includes the Nativity story in Swahili, French, German, Italian and Spanish; advent calendars; Christmas clip art; drag and drop Nativity scene; numeracy resources; snowflake designer; the origins of Santa; and other activities and lesson plans.

Christmas books
Queensland library services has put together this list of books on a Christmas theme, to support the early childhood to upper secondary curriculum. Christmas resources are classified according to year level and include: Nativity stories, Christmas as a festival, Christmas plays, Activities and craft, Music and carols, tongue twisters, Christmas in Australia, St Nicholas - Folklore and fiction, Fiction, Teacher reference.

Christmas crafts
The seasonal craft projects on this site are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts include puppets, hats, cards, decorations, colouring sheets and printable activity books.

Christmas recipes at Santa's Net
This collection of Christmas recipes includes easy Christmas recipes from around the world, including: Chile, New Zealand, France, Egypt, Hungary, Germany, America, Sweden, Ireland, Denmark, Greece, England, Italy.

Circus Works
Ringling Circus provides practical activities for early childhood classrooms here: Clown Face Sandwich, Circus Train, Popcorn Frolic, Marching Elephants, Clown Parade, Mystery Trunk, Stupendous Stiltwalkers, and Three-Ring Circus. A linked page contains on line games, postcards, and a circus aptitude test.

Classroom Clipart
This web site contains a large variety of photographs, clipart and historical images. Many photographs and illustrations are made available by the original photographers and illustrators. These images can be used for educational purposes only.

Clean up your world: Protect our environment
Clean up your world with this fun drag-and-drop game, picking up the rubbish in a creek environment, and sorting it into the right recycle bins. It makes a great kids' introduction to recycling, and the environment.

Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures
Colgate Bright Smiles, Bright Futures Oral Health Education (BSBF) Program offers lots of developmentally appropriate material for use in the classroom. The Kindergarten through 3rd Grade program is based upon the Legend of Tooth Kingdom education program and includes online video and lesson plans about Dr. Rabbit and The Legend of Tooth Kingdom.

Colgate Kids World
Containing games and activities for students, Colgate?? Kids World provides online kids games and other fun activities aimed at the early childhood age group. A great tool to integrate early computer skills and a healthy learning activity.

Collingwood College: Reggio-inspired approach P-5
Collingwood College in Melbourne has adapted the key principles fo Reggio to their own community and culture. Various projects are described, including: learning about the past and learning from elders at the local day centre; 'Know Yourself Inside and Out' a project undertaken by the Prep to Year 2 students focusing on the human body; and the Kids Think project on mass media and technology.

Color in Motion
This interactive art experience investigates the symbolism behind colours and the information that colours can communicate. For each of six basic colours, there is a profile, a movie and a choice of three interactive activities to explore the symbolism behind them.

Cooking with children: Kids in the kitchen
This article suggests ways that young children can be involved in cooking activities, depending on their age. Recipes are provided for one-bowl French bread, tasty tortillas, waldorf salad, and funny, fruity pizzas.

Cooking with kids: Hands-on food and nutrition education
Cooking with Kids engages primary school children in hands-on learning with fresh, affordable foods from diverse cultures. Students are encouraged to explore many varieties of foods using all of their senses, to have fun, and to exercise choice. The activities are based on food acceptance research. There are free downloads of tasting sessions, written in English and Spanish, and graded by year level, K-1, 2-3, 4-6. The site requires free registration and login.

Cooking with young children
This learning unit for early childhood educators explains why cooking activities are valuable learning experiences for preschool children.

Cool food kidz
This European Food Information Council (EUFIC) website contains nutritional information and quizzes for young children on topics such as good diet and nutrition, keeping the body fit, keeping the brain fit, great teeth, food preparation and good hygiene, healthy eating habits.

Cracking eggs
This website offers fun and inspiring resources, recipes, and eggy information for teachers, parents and students. The site provides ideas as to how to introduce Pancake Day and Easter to the classroom.

Creating a child-friendly garden
Children benefit from opportunities to explore the changing, natural environment and to learn its time frames, which differ from artificial routines. Good garden design enriches the outdoor environment, providing children and child care professionals with a fresh range of play materials each day. This article describes how to plan a garden for children, add new features, and keep it safe.

Disaster connection: For the little ones
This site provides a collection of resources for young children, loosely related to the theme of safety and natural disasters. The photo library includes photographs of: disaster mitigation, earthquake, fire, flood, hurricane, tornado, tsunami and volcano, kids helping in a disaster, and pets in a disaster. Videos include: earthquake drill, fire drill, pets and disaster, hurricanes and tornadoes. Audio, video or photographs may be used for educational or informational purposes.

Divorce
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website explains divorce to young children. It makes suggestions for what children can do and ask about divorce.

DoppelMe: Free dynamic avatars
DoppelMe is an avatar maker for use in forums, blogs and on the web. It allows selections of facial expressions, hair, skin colour, clothing etc.

Early Childhood.Com
The source of information for all who share an interest in improving the education and general life experience of young children. It's a place for getting advice from experts in the early childhood field, expanding your collection of creative projects, and sharing ideas and questions with the early childhood community.

Early Childhood Australia - Code of Ethics
An Early Childhood Australia national working party developed a code of ethics to inform and guide the decisions and behaviour of all personnel involved, both directly and indirectly, in the provision of early childhood services for children between birth and eight years of age. The website provides links to the Code of Ethics, the Code of Ethics Agenda, the literature review and relevant publications.

Early Childhood Australia - Supporting Best Practice
The Supporting Best Practice section of the Early Childhood Australia website is a collection of quality information and resources on topics in early childhood. 'Growing and Learning' topics include: emotional foundations for learning; learning about babies and toddlers; everday learning and play; learning about preschoolers and school-age children. Other topics will be added in response to feedback from the early childhood field.

Early Childhood Research & Practice (ERIC)
Early Childhood Research & Practice (ECRP) is a free peer-reviewed electronic journal sponsored by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education (ERIC/EECE) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It covers topics related to the development, care, and education of children from birth to approximately age 8. ECRP emphasizes articles reporting on practice-related research and development, and on issues related to practice, parent participation, and policy. ECRP also includes articles and essays that present opinions and reflections, and letters to the editor. It is published biannually by the ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education

Early Childhood Today
The online version of Early Childhood Today, a magazine published by Scholastic as a classroom resource for preschool and kindergarten teachers and directors, and parents.

Early mouse skills
A collection of interactive drag and drop activities to help develop early mouse skills. Activities include build a house, dress the bear, build a snowman, decorate a Christmas tree, and make Rudolph.

Early Years
Produced by Learning and Teaching Scotland (LTS), the Early Years website is designed to support the continuing development of those practitioners working with children in the early years. It contains information about staff development opportunities, forthcoming conferences and events, current research, links to other relevant sites, information about the latest Scottish Executive publications and consultation papers. There is also a forum to encourage discussion about current interests and concerns and to enable practitioners to share good practice. The Early Years Matters newsletter contains a mix of articles on topics such as assessment, all-day provision, and ICT.

Early years experience
This site provides ideas, resources and information for parents, carers and teachers of learners up to the age of 7 years. The site includes recipes, crafts, songs, rhymes and role play activities.

Early years foundation stage
The Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL) Foundation pages contain resources, games and activities in a range of subject areas for preschool children. Topics include: personal, social and emotional development; communication and literacy; problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development; and creative development.

Easter activities
This website provides step by step instructions for a range of Easter craft activities including: painted Easter eggs, Easter cards, gift baskets and boxes.

edna - Early Childhood News
Early Childhood News at edna provides information relevant to early childhood education, 0-8 years. A newsletter is published monthly during the school year. edna is Australia's gateway to resources and services for education and training and a national asset collaboratively funded by the Commonwealth, State and Territory ministries of education.

Education World: Early Childhood Community
Education World's Early Childhood Centre contains resources and sharing of ideas for working with young children. These include arts and crafts ideas, stories, language arts activities and fun projects. There are links to child development and curriculum, lesson plans and teaching methods.

Educational Coloring Pictures
Educational images and colouring pictures for teachers in primary school. Categories include animals, buildings, cultures, space travel, holidays, time, and transport.

E-learning for kids
e-Learning for Kids is a nonprofit foundation dedicated to free and fun online learning (maths, science, language arts, health and life skills, computer skills, English language) for kids of all ages. Most of the interactive games have the appropriate age group designated, starting with 4-5 years, up to 11-12 years.

Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning contains thematic web pages with resources for teachers of K-2 and primary school students.

Enchanted Learning - All about me
This thematic unit provides memory and opinion activities, crafts, books and worksheets to print on the theme of identity. It includes: photo and handprint craft, a memory box, my own timeline, picture frames, family tree activities, family collage, a book about me, my friends and I, my feelings, my name, a school memory book, as a baby, things I like, and other worksheets and writing activities.

EnchantedLearning - Olympic Games
This website presents a view of the Olympics for younger students. It includes information about the symbols of the modern Olympics, the flag, the Olympic rings, the Olympic falme and the Olympic torch, and some printable activities, maps, a booklet, and colouring sheets.

Faces of the Olympics
Mount Pleasant Primary School in Victoria created this project aimed at developing student skills while researching the stories behind the Olympics. Students are invited to research within their own locality and find Olympic stories and share them with the world.

Family theme page
This Family Theme Page includes books to print, worksheets, and activities including: family tree, family collage, cards, and printouts on family members in other languages, and nursery rhymes about families.

Fingergym: Fine motor skills school readiness program
Fingergym is an Australian-developed, classroom-trailed, results driven program based on a firm theoretical background that uses fun and motivating activities to help children develop fine motor skills and become more independent in the classroom. The program is available for purchase by preschools, kindergartens, prep, or primary educational settings. There are some sample downloads on the website.

Fire inside out
The Fire Inside Out education package aims to educate primary students about key aspects of home fires and bushfires - prevention, preparation, response and consequences. Students can participate in activities linked to a number of learning areas, including science, technology and enterprise, English, mathematics, health and physical education. Each downloadble package includes three colourful kits - one each for junior, middle and senior primary students - containing comprehensive teachers' guides and student activities and resources, including big books, a story book, music CD, interactive CD ROM and video.

Fire trucks and firefighters
This theme page for K-3 has craft ideas, snacks, an online game, colouring pages, worksheets and activity pages about fire fighters and fire engines.

First day of school activities
A collection of first day activities developed by a Canadian Teacher, suitable for primary aged and middle school children.

First Peoples' Project
The First Peoples' Project allows indigenous students from around the world to work together on collaborative projects. Students can be involved in writing exchanges, art exchanges and discussion about issues relating to indigenous students. Participating groups are: Choctaw (USA), Karen (Thailand), Taos (USA), Nunga (Australia), Kunwinjku (Australia) Kek'Chi (Guatemala), Mapuche (Argentina), Cygany (Hungary), Nyoongar (Australia) Zapotec (Mexico), Koorie (Australia), Zunie (USA), Wisconsin Woodland Nations (USA). Previous themes under 'Art and Writing' include: Myself, my family, my culture; Traditional stories; Our community - past and present; Honouring the Elders; Traditional Foods; Heroes.

First-School Preschool Activities and Crafts
Free preschool printable activities, crafts, lesson plans, themes and coloring pages for toddlers, preschoolers, Kindergarten, daycare, after-school.

Flickr: Creative Commons
Flickr is a free online photo management and sharing application. Many Flickr users have chosen to offer their work under a Creative Commons license as an alternative to full copyright. The website provides explanations of the different types of licence. You can browse or search through content under each type of license, and find images that you may use in various ways. Teachers may find images to support a theme.

flickrCC
FlickrCC allows you to easily find photos on flickr that were released under the creative commons license. Click on any of the thumbnails to get a slightly larger image and the attribution details displayed. Right click to save the image. Don't forget to include the attribution text in any work you produce using the picture.

flickrCC: Christmas images
Find creative commons licensed images on flickr on the theme of Christmas.

Food theme page at Enchanted Learning
This Food Theme Page includes food words in other languages, food-related nursery rhymes, crafts, drawings and colouring worksheets, food groups and food pyramids, spelling sheets and puzzles, maths worksheets, and other printouts.

Foot prints
The footprints of some Australian animals are available at the bottom of this page: dingo, spotted quoll, wombat, thylacine (Tasmanian tiger), kangaroo, bandicoot, wallarooo, possum, as well as the tracks of a fox and a cat.

For the juniors
The material on this website from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation has been developed using National and State curricula to help teachers integrate the activities into their programs. The activities and teacher resources relate to ABC Education TV Series for 6-8 year olds. Sections include: the sea; human body; farm to table; buildings; transport; space; people who help us; celebrations; food; weather.

For the juniors: Christmas
This website created for the ABC education TV series provides links to worksheets, activities, recipes and resources on Christmas; suitable for lower primary students.

Freddy the fire engine
The Fire & Emergency Services Authority of WA have developed this page for young children to become aquainted with fire safety. The site includes activities, fire prevention information, fun and games.

Free wildflower and plant photos
This website provides a range of online photographs of wildflowers, plants and trees that may be freely used for both personal and commercial applications as long as the domain name is credited.

Fresh for Kids
Sponsored by the Sydney Markets and Brisbane Markets, this website contains information on sixty varieties of fruits and vegetables. It includes information about the 'Fresh for Kids' food campaign which targets school-aged children (predominantly primary school), their parents, teachers, and canteen supervisors. The site includes competitions, games, colouring sheets, and a fun cooking section.

Fresh for kids: Potatoes
This web page on the potato provides information on potatoes: availability, general facts, varieties of potato, their food value, how they are grown and harvested, choosing and storing them, prime growing areas in Australia, history of potatoes, potato recipes.

Friendship
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website is for young children. The topics include: What is a friend; How to make friends; Making friends can be hard. It includes a simple interactive activity.

Fun at the fire station
This interactive resource allows users to learn about fire safety. The resource includes stories, quizzes, emergancy call recordings and fire hazard games. The resource is suitable for learners aged 4-7, or 7-11.

Fun with Spot
The Spot website, based on the Eric Hill books, offer games for both skill and language development. Short guidance notes link the activities to the UK Foundation Curriculum. A free downloadable Spot Education Pack includes activity sheets which may be photocopied for use in the classroom or playgroup.

Fuse
Fuse allows educators to find, use and share educational resources with colleagues and students.

Fuse: early childhood
The Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development provides this collection of online games and resources suitable for use with young children. Activities are listed as: play and learn, music, explore, stories, art stuff, animals, space, build, sports, world, be healthy, science, and more.

GCompris Educational Software
GCompris is an open source educational software suite comprising numerous activities for children aged 2 to 10. Activities include: computer discovery, algebra, science, geography, games, reading practice, others such as learn to tell the time, puzzles, vector drawing.

Geography (K-3) at EnchantedLearning.com
Geography (K-3): Information, crafts, Quizzes, maps, coloring pages, and printouts related to the seas and various countries including Brazil, Antarctica, Australia, Africa, China, Japan, Mexico and the USA.

Getting on with the family
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website is on family relationships. The topics include: friendship, feelings, and communication. It includes a simple interactive jigsaw puzzle.

Global education: Right to a name
The Global Education website provides this page of ideas for teaching activities around the theme of 'the right to a name' and its importance for a sense of identity and belonging.

Global education: Teaching activities: Lower primary
The Global Education website provides a selection of teaching activities suitable for lower primary. Topics include: children's rights, gender equality, human rights, peace building, poverty, rice, urbanisation, water.

Global Handwashing Day video
The guiding vision of Global Handwashing Day is a local and global culture of handwashing with soap. Although people around the world wash their hands with water, very few wash their hands with soap at the critical occasions. The Wiggles have donated a catchy song to support the theme. The video includes scenes of children around the world using soap to wash their hands.

Go for 2 fruit and 5 vegetables: Kids only
This website outlines the benefits of fruit and vegetables, suggests ways of increasing fruit and vegetable intake and provides easy recipes. The Kids Only section provides food related activities designated lower primary, middle primary, and upper primary.

Go for your life: Fruit and veg program
Part of the Victorian 'Go for your life' initiative, the Fruit + Veg Program is to increase the consumption of fruit and vegetables by primary school children and their families. It includes healthy recipes for children, activities to promote healthy eating, and posters and brochures.

GoogleLitTrips
Users can take a virtual roadtrip of their favourite books using Google Earth. Trips are divided in K-5, 6-8, 9-12 and Higher Education. Projects need to be downloaded from the site and need Google Earth to run.

Great grub club
This website, aimed at 4-7 year olds, strives to encourage healthy eating and an active lifestyle in a fun and informative way. The site inlcudes interactive games, quizzes, food facts and recipes.

Happy Halloween
This PBS Kids website offers a variety of interactive activities to support a Halloween theme: dragon tales, Sesame Street Count Dracula, card creators, Halloween adventure, make spooky music, build a scarecrow, Arthur's Halloween activities, Halloween costumes, and mouldy lunchbox science.

Happy Teeth Program
The Queensland Happy Teeth program was developed by early childhood specialists and oral health professionals especially for the early childhood setting. The program is based on evidence that healthy teeth and gums are important for good health. In order to prevent tooth decay and gum disease, daily tooth brushing habits and healthy eating should commence early in life. A range of pamphlets on dental health are available to download; as well as a number of posters on dental visits, healthy eating, and healthy smiles.

Hello World: Chinese language
Chinese language games and activities and including comic strip conversations, memory game, word matching and listening games for learning the Chinese language.

Hello World: French language
French games, activities and songs, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the French language.

Hello World: German language
German language games, activities and songs, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the German language.

Hello World: Indonesian language
Indonesian language games and activities, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the Indonesian language.

Hello World: Italian language
Italian language games, activities and songs, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the Italian language.

Hello World: Russian language
Russian language games, activities and songs, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the Russian language.

Hello World: Spanish language
Spanish games, activities and songs, including comic strip conversations, bingo, word matching and listening games for learning the Spanish language.

Henry the hand
This website promotes the teaching of effective hand washing. The site inlcude a video and printable activities.

Holiday theme units
This site has free printable material and activities on various holidays and celebrations for use with young children, including: Chinese New Year, Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, and more. It includes colouring pages, crafts, activities and booklets for reading, spelling, word walls, picture sentences and writing ideas.

Holiday zone: Offering seasonal and holiday educational resources for teachers and parents
The Holiday Zone offers free holiday and seasonal educational resources for use in early childhood and elementary educational settings. Holiday and seasonal materials include learning games, whole language activities, writing prompts, songs, action rhymes, fingerplays, printable worksheets, printable and interactive puzzles, coloring pages, art and craft activities, educational game ideas, and children's literature recommendations. Themes include: Easter, Chusok, Hanukkah, Christmas, Halloween, Mother's Day, Father's Day.

iboard player
This is a collection of interactive resources for the early years . They can be used on any interactive whiteboard and are also simple enough for a child to use independently. Subjects include: numeracy, literacy, science, religious education, history, transport and general ICT resources.

Ideas for Using Digital Cameras in the Early Learning Classroom
Gail Lovely gives information about ways that digital cameras and the digital images taken by teacher and young students can be used in the classroom to enhance learning.

Implementing an Aboriginal Perspective into any everyday early childhood environment
This Childcare and Children's Health publication emphasizes that it is important to include Indigenous culture and heritage in everyday experiences, all through the year. Suggestions are made for: storytelling, books, music and music making, puzzles, construction, games, imaginative play, cooking, natural resources. A case study of an Indigenous Language and Cultural Program is also presented.

Increasing Computer Use in Early Childhood Teacher Education
This article in CITE journal explores the question of what factors are related to the incorporation of computers into teaching, by teacher educators with average computer skills. The article asserts teacher educators are important for technology infusion efforts and are an important influence on computer use in PK-12 education.

Indonesian children's traditional games
This site describes the traditional toys and games still commonly seen and played by Indonesian children today: kelereng or gundu (marbles); gangsing or gasing; lompat tali (elastic rope); bekel (jacks); layang-layang (kite flying); kuda lumping (horses); mobil-mobilan kulit jeruk (toy cars); congklak or dakon; musical instruments; semut, orang, gajah (like paper, scissors, stone).

Inquiry-Based Learning
This 'Concept to Classroom' workshop from Thirteen Ed Online steps teachers through explanation, demonstration, explorartion and implementation of inquiry-based learning pedagogy. It uses text, videos and online resources.

Interactive Advent Calendars
This blog provides a collection of interactive Advent Calendars that you can use in your classroom to teach about how the Christmas season is celebrated all around the world. These advent calendars reveal fun facts, interactive activities, and stories. It includes a French carols Advent Calendar, and a Christmas Around the World Advent Calendar Quiz. Good to use on an interactive whiteboard or projector.

Introduction to Aboriginal art and culture
A brief overview is given of Aboriginal culture, with some images of rock art in Arnhemland. Some symbols from Aboriginal art are also explained.

Introduction to Anzac Day for Early Childhood
This section of the Anzac Day website aims at assisting Early Childhood teachers to instil an understanding of ANZAC Day in their pupils. It is based on a colour publication produced by the ANZAC Day Commemoration Committee of Queensland which was distributed to Queensland schools in 2000.

Irresistible ideas for play based learning
Maintained by preschool teachers, this website provides practical ideas of how play based learning can be integrated across the curriculum.

Ivy's Domain - A Place for the Young at Heart
Ivy's grandfather has created a site for kids where you will find a colouring page search engine, greeting cards to print, quotations to ponder, fairy tales and more.

Jean Piaget Society
The Society, established in 1970, has an international, interdisciplinary membership of scholars, teachers and researchers interested in exploring the nature of the developmental construction of human knowledge. Resources on the site include conference information, bibliographies, a newsletter, links and more.

Julia's Rainbow Corner
Julia's Rainbow Corner is website aimed at children aged 2-6. It contains colourful and interactive Flash games, crafts, and links to other children's sites. A parenting section contains fun ideas, kid-friendly web sites, holiday craft ideas using recycled materials, rainy day activities, as well as tips on parenting, and reducing stress.

Just in Time
This website contains lesson plans and resource materials for teaching children to tell the time. Printable materials include clocks and calendars, and concentration game cards. Interactive activities assist in relating analog and digital time.

K-2 Student Interactives
The Utah Education Network website provides a selection of interactive learning activities for young children on: ABCs, reading, listening, writing, works, art and music, my world, maths, brain games, and health. The health section includes games about feelings and respect.

K-3 Themes at Enchanted Learning
These themes have links to simple crafts, nursery rhymes, coloring book printouts, information, and/or quizzes based on the topic. They include theme pages about animals, language, and special events.

Kideos: Videos for kids
Kideos is a collection of short videos that have been screened for suitability for children. Topics of videos include: book characters, cartoon characters, animals, Dr Seuss, fair tales, muppets, nursery rhymes, Sesame Street, songs, trains and machines, Teletubbies and Wiggles. There are also some available in Portuguese and Spanish. Videos have an age level indicated. You can register to create your own custom selection.

Kids: Go for your life
Kids - 'Go for your life' is a state-wide initiative to create healthier Victorian children who enjoy healthy eating and physical activity every day. Key messages include: Tap into water every day; Plant fruit and veg in your lunchbox; Limit 'sometimes' foods; Move, play and go; Turn off, switch to play; Stride and ride. There is a section specifically for early childhood services.

Kids at play
Kids at Play is a program of Sport and Recreation ACT. The program includes vans equipped with play equipment and staffed by qualified play coordinators. They provide regular play opportunities in the early childhood setting, (specifically catering for children 2-6 years) to encourage children and their parents to be involved in active play. The website provides play sheets on physical activities and games for children.

Kids cooking
This site provides recipes for cooking with children. Many of the recipes include tips on how to make them nut-free or gluten-free for children on special diets.

Kids Play Safe - Boowa and Kwala
Singalong songs, interactive games and activities, coloring games, mazes, guessing games, plus a story. Kids games on a site for kids. Kindergarten, preschoolers, primary school (0 - 6 years old). The site is updated with new things to do on the first of every month.

KidsPsych
KidsPsych is an interactive website developed for young children aged from 1-9 years. It aims to help children with cognitive thinking skills and deductive reasoning through games.

Kindergarten Connection
The Kindergarten Connection is designed to serve teachers and parents anywhere, and at any time. It is the intent of the author of this resource to: promote the value and importance of kindergarten; provide and encourge leadership in kindergarten; advance the professionalism of kindergarten teachers; promote understanding of how childern learn and develop; assist in the development and implementation of appropriate environment and curricula to meet the diverse needs of young children in our pluralistic society; review trends and issues, and disseminate research in early childhood education; and foster public awareness of quality primary education for a diverse student population

Kindersite Research Project
The Kindersite is designed for child-care, pre-school, kindergartens, elementary and primary schools plus home school, libraries and the home. In fact everywhere where young children access computers. To use the Kindersite content: Register - for full featured access; Links Directory - age related links

Koala's Christmas Pages
These pages are about Christmas in Australia. This is a site with extensive links and information regarding Christmas, including recipes, gifts, crafts,graphics, traditions and games.

Learning and Teaching Scotland Online Service
The Learning and Teaching Scotland Online Service provides resources and advice for teachers, school managers and others involved in education.

Lecky's Early Years Activities
The website has a number of simple activities involving Lecky the Alien in key early learning tasks: comparison of sizes, drag and drop language activity, colour matching, counting, number matching, dressing for the weather, weighing, colour sequence patterns and others.

Making life size posters
The instructions given in this blog explain how to use the Block Posters site to create life-size figures and posters. This method could be used for assessment such as monologues to provide characters to talk to, displays, for promoting events and for decoration.

Me the Child
Az-deteto.com is a Bulgarian children's portal, all in the Bulgarian language. The site includes: children's stories, folklore and classics, as well as stories by children; quizzes, communication tools; colour-in printouts 'Laughing alphabet' and 'Happy numbers'. There are also games for 'playing outside' and 'playing inside'; and recommended books. All materials on this site can be used without permission for educational or teaching purposes.

Message Club - Just for Fun
The ABC Message Club provides this collection of online games for children, all designed along Aboriginal themes. There is a collection of pictures to colour; a memory game; an underworld word game; quizzes on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heroes, flora and fauna, and Aboriginal languages; and a collection of e-cards to email.

Michael, Michael, go recycle!
In this interactive game, Michael has to move through the maze, picking up all the rubbish and depositing it in the appropriate recycle bin.

Michigan Team Nutrition Preschool Booklist
This booklist on a nutrition theme contains the annotations for over 250 books about food, healthy eating, and physical activity for children that are preschool age or younger. Books are rated to make it easy for educators to identify those with the strongest nutrition and physical activity messages. Books are listed by theme and by title. Themes include: ABC, body parts, books with recipes, bread, breakfast, colours and shapes, cooking, counting, dairy, dental health, eating out, Autumn harvest, family mealtime, farm to table, food art, fruit and vegetables, fun with food, gardening, grains, growing fruit, intergenerational, keeping clean, making soup, manners, MyPyramid, other cultures food and customs, physical activity, pizza, read and move, sandwiches, seasons and Weather, shopping, Spanish, taste something new.

Miss G's Aussie Kindergarten
This site has been created by an Australian kindergarten teacher and contains resources such as her curriculum framework and programme, portfolios, and sample lessons and portfolio activities, including information about activities related to assessing domains of development. The site also contains pages which list and describe web resources for parents and for children.

Mission: Sunwise
An activity booklet for junior primary aged students on the importance of sun safety. Produced by the Environmental Protection Agency in America.

MooMilk: A dynamic adventure into the dairy industry
Here is a fun and educational site about cows and milk with facts, games, and recipes. A virtual tour tells the story of milk, (although the account is North American), why the cows produces milk, where the cow store it, milking and products created from the milk.

Mothers Day activities
This website provides some simple ideas for activities to celebrate Mothers' Day.

Mouse Club
Fun learning site (UK) for young children, 3-6 years old, who can use it independently, at school or at home with their carers. It contains games, stories and activities introducing computers to children in a gentle and humorous way. Free activities, downloads, special offers.

Move more, eat well
This national health and wellbeing program for children is based on a Federal Government recommendation that children should participate in at least one hour of physical activity and eat seven serves of fruit and vegetables (two fruit and five vegetables) every day. The message is simple: Move More, Eat Well. The site has sections for kids, parents, teachers, schools, ambassadors, and competitions and events. The teachers' section has curriculum resources for early, lower, middle and upper primary years.

Mrs Mac's Library Site
Mrs Mac's Library Site provides a collection of resources for teachers. The home page features a different theme each month. Links are provided to collections of webquests and research tasks and other online activities organised by stage level.

Mrs Pancake
This website provides free downloadable resources which are suitable for children age from 4 to 11. Resources range from original ideas for things you can make with your class to items for classroom displays.

MyPyramid: For kids
MyPyramid materials on this site were designed specifically for children aged 6 to 11. It includes the MyPyramid Blast Off Game, an interactive computer game where kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. There are also downloadable posters, colouring page and worksheet.

N.S.W. Rural Fire Service: Students and teachers
The N.S.W. Rural fire Service provides a collection of downloadable teaching resources on the topic of fire safety. It includes advice regarding children and fire fascination, a home fire escape plan, and preschoolers and fire safety.

National Geographic animal photo galleries
This collection of photographs of animals around the world includes birds, some insects, spiders, land mammals eg bears and apes, reptiles, underwater animals, and some habitats.

National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids is a topical magazine-style website designed for children with stories, puzzles, games, feature articles, information about animals, homework helpers, and online activities. There is a free email newsletter for parents and teachers.

National Museum Australia: Learn and play
The National Museum of Australia provides a collection of interactives based on objects from the Museum's collection to help students learn more about Australia. There are interactives for a variety of age groups eg 5-7 year olds, 8-12 year olds, 10-12 year olds. Topics include: Saibai Island canoe, mystery object from the Torres Strait Islands, the Cobb & Co coach, natinal parks, emergency at Lonely Creek, Citizen's Arch, new homes, golden age of cricket, golden fleece, gold rush, heroes of the air, journey of the Hong Hai, the Enterprise.

National Recycling Week: Kids and teacher resources
This section of the Planet Ark site has lesson plans for teachers (including a survey on packaging, and how to make recycled paper) and downloadable activity sheets, and colouring sheets for students.

NAWMA Environment Education Centre
The Environment Education Centre in SA features a large-scale viewing window, allowing people to view the Cleanaway trucks depositing loads of kerbside collected recyclable materials which are then sorted and packaged for transportation to various markets in Australia and overseas. Educational facilities include: a video that can be zoomed onto any part of the recycling line; a vast story wall; display worm farms and compost bins; and recycled products, including furniture and carpet made from recycled plastic. NAWMA organises group tours of its facilities for schools and community groups.

NEN Gallery : China
This collection of images is of the Forbidden City in Beijing, China. It includes photographs of the Great Wall of China. All the resources in this Gallery have been provided freely for educational use only.

New Pet
NewPet contains a wealth of helpful resources for new, or soon-to-be, pet owners: what to look for in selecting a new pet, information on new pet care, health, grooming, feeding, and travel, pet names, and stories about pets.

No friends
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website is for young children. The topics include: What can you do; what if no-one wants to play; other things to do. It includes a simple interactive maze puzzle.

NSW Department of Education - Going to Primary School
From NSW, this site provides links to information about going to primary school, preparing for Kindergarten and starting school and ten tips for parents of children starting kindergarten.

NSW Department of Education and Training - Starting School
The NSW Department of Education and Training provides information for parents on starting school, the right age for starting school, support for special needs, the support available and transition to kindergarten (primary school).

Nursery rhymes to sing, see and sign
Nursery Rhymes to Sing See and Sign are free downloadable, web-based communication resources for all young children. It includes resources for 14 favourite Nursery Rhymes. It has a particular focus on communication strategies known to help communication and language development in children with communication difficulties. The Nursery Rhymes to Sing See and Sign communication resources include a picture song board using Picture Communication Symbols and a Key Word Sign poster (Makaton) for each Nursery Rhyme. A song lyrics sheet highlighting the key signs is also available for each song.

Olympic games for kids
This site provides lesson plans and activities related to the Olympic games for preschool and junior primary children.

Olympic opening ceremonies: Health/physical education lesson plan, thematic unit, activity
This packet of activities contains a schedule, a description of stations/events, and a letter to parents about a three-day elementary enactment of Olympic Opening Ceremonies and Games.

Olympic Torch
Instructions are provided for an Olympic torch craft activity for junior primary children.

Olympics art fun
Students create medals, Olympic rings, and torches using common materials, in this Olympics lesson plan for young children.

On the wing of a whitebird: Potatoes
This section from the Tomie dePaola resource book, available for preview, has ideas for activities on the theme of potatoes: potato recipe book; potatoes and people; research questions; sorting potatoes; planting potatoes; potato prints.

Orisinal: Learning Games - Morning Sunshine
This is a multimedia-rich collection of online activities for young learners. Most of the games aim at mouse use dexterity and use flash animation.

Out on a limb: a guide to getting along
Learn how to handle difficult situations and how to get along with others who see things differently. Work through problems with Maria, Cliff, Jim, and Ann and find the most effective ways of solving them. This University of Illinois Extension site provides an online program for younger students using Flash animation. Teacher notes available, and the animation can be paused for discussion time. High speed internet connection and Macromedia Shockwave player required.

OzOutback: Photos from the real Australia
OzOutback, the Australian Outback, is a vast land, often harsh and unforgiving, but with great beauty and variety. This website provides many photographs of the the bush, its natural wonders, wildlife and towns, as well as a collection of photos of the First Australians: the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their culture and ceremonies. Collections include: bush tucker, Aboriginal rock art, outback animals, Aboriginal crafts, children's portraits, dance and ceremonies. The pictures may be sent as postcards, or purchased for download. Students may use images from this site in their school projects, free of charge, provided they contact the publishers.

Panwapa
Panwapa, created by the educational experts behind Sesame Street, is a multimedia, global initiative that is designed to inspire and empower children, ages four to seven, to be responsible global citizens. Research-based materials come in a range of media platforms, including online, video, and print. Objectives include: awareness of the wider world; appreciating similarities and valuing differences; taking responsibility for one's behaviours; community participation and willingness to take action; understanding and responsiveness to economic disparity.

PBS kids
This PBS Online neighborhood features companion websites for many PBS kids programs. It offers music and songs, games and colouring sheets.

Perpetual Preschool
The Perpetual Preschool provides free teaching/learning ideas for parents and educators of young children. Resources are collected on themes - sorted under headings such as songs, science, snacks, games, art and others.

Photo bank
This gallery provides community groups with a growing library of photos that are available free for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons license. Browse categories of photos including: animal welfare, arts and culture, children and family, communication, community services, disability, economic development, education, employment and training, emergency and safety, environment, conservation and heritage, faith and spirituality, health and wellbeing, Indigenous, international, multicultural, notable community people, older people, rural and regional development, science and technology, sport and recreation, women, youth.

Physical education and health lesson plans
A variety of lesson plans are provided for games and relay races, health and fitness, sports, and related themes.

Pics4Learning: Free photos for education
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. Topics include: animals, art, countries, food, geography, volcanos, fish, parts of the body, plants, astronomy, space, fossils, machines, weather.

Picture books that explore the values of education
This list of books has been compiled to assist teachers in identifying literature that reflects different values. Many of the titles will address more than one value, and different readers will take different perspectives and meanings from the works. Books are listed for the themes of: connectedness, resilience, achievement, creativity, integrity, responsibility, and equity. They are tagged as suitable for: younger readers junior primary upwards; or for older readers - primary and seconday.

Play Online: The call of the wild
Australian artist Justine Cooper invites children to play her simple game created especially for kids. The aim of the game is to set the animals free from the museum and return them to their natural habitat.

2Simple software
2Simple Software, makes simple, powerful and creative educational software for primary age students. This website allows you to order or you can select some of the software on a 30 day trial.

abcteach: PreK / Early childhood
This site has free printable material and activities for use with young children. It includes activities and booklets for reading, spelling, word walls, picture sentences and writing.

All about me: Who am I?
This simple interactive reading game asks the child to answer simple questions to build up a picture of his/her self.

Animal Homes
This resource is suitable for early childhood students and could be used with Interactive Whiteboards. It has 3 levels of different activities. Level 1 involves dragging the correct animal to its environment. In level 2 students match the animal that is partially hiding and in level 3 students match the animal showing with the written word.

Ants on the Apple
This site contains the words and music (sound) for the popular alphabet song. Each letter is on a separate page. Use Internet Explorer to view.

Arthur & Busters
Developed with the help and advice of Arthur creator Marc Brown, the ARTHUR site is organized into pages hosted by the series' characters, each with features that encourage kids to read and write.

Author Jan Brett's home page: A great place for ideas
Jan Brett's website has a collection of activities around her books for children. Some themes include: hedgehogs, gingerbread house, gingerbread baby, Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, rainforest animals, Noah's Ark. There are many of her illustrations as colouring pages, templates for finger puppets, alphabet pages, high frequency work lists, as well as videos of activities and story readings.

Baby karaoke
The Raising Children website provides this collection of sing-along songs sung by Don Spencer. Each song is presented as a picture book with words highlighted as they are sung. Songs include: Twinkle twinkle little star; Rock-a-bye baby; One,two, three, four, five; Baa baa black sheep; If you're happy and you know it; Heads and shoulders; Incey wincey spider; The wheels on the bus; Kookaburra; G'day. The song story books are suitable for beginning readers. The books may also be played without the sound, as karaoke, reading from the text.

BBC Schools: early years foundation stage
This site produced by the BBC provides interactive resources in a range of subject areas for children aged from 18 months to 5 years. Subjects covered are: Personal, social and emotional development; Communication and literacy; Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; Knowledge and understanding of the world; Physical development; and Creative development.

Best recent books
Queensland library services has compiled lists of curriculum resources on topics of interest in the key learning areas, as well as books on themes sorted by year level.

Better beginnings at your library
Better Beginnings aims to put research into practice by supporting parents of new born babies to enjoy books, rhyme and song with their young children; to give their children a love of reading and language. Better Beginnings has been developed by the State Library of WA as a family literacy program that aims to support parents as their children's first teacher, and works through strong partnerships with health professionals, local governments and public libraries. Resources lists include first books for babies and toddlers, and rhymes and song for babies and toddlers.

Between the Lions
Based on a TV show for kids developed by the Public Broadcasting Service, US, the site provides interactive and fun learning opportunities for children aged 4-9. Parents of young kids will find useful guides and opportunities to help their children learn to read. Features include: weekly adventures, word helper, recommended books, literacy resources, colouring pages, lettering guides, videos, games and more.

BIS Audio Library
This audio library contains books that can be listened to in full during a class (30 minutes maximum listening time). You may search, listen to and comment on resources in the BIS Audio Library. Many of the audios have a listen and read option.

Book Adventure
Book Adventure is a free reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. 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. Teachers can make up book lists by selecting age level and subject category.

Book Pals: Storyline
Storyline is an on-line streaming video program featuring Screen Actors' Guild (USA) reading childrens books aloud. Each of the books offer an accompanying lesson plan and activity guide. Stories include 'The POlar Express', 'Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge', 'The Night I followed the Dog', 'Thank You, Mr. Falker', 'No Mirrors in My Nana's House', 'A Bad Case of Stripes', 'Private I. Guana', 'Brave Irene', 'Me and My Cat?' 'Knots On A Counting Rope'. and 'My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother'

BT Betterworld: Online activities
A collection of online activities to develop literacy, memory skills, listening skills and social skills. The site also includes and online podcasting activity suitable for upper primary and secondary students.

Building Language for Literacy
This learning activity helps emerging readers identify letters, sounds, and words using interactive multimedia. Three animal characters ask students to drag and drop images. Audio feedback helps students build vocabulary, identify letters and sounds, and match rhyming words.

Calendar boards: days of the week labels
A printable pdf document with the days of the week. Suitable for early childhood education.

California Early Literacy Learning (CELL)
California Early Literacy Learning (CELL) is a staff development program designed to support elementary teachers (CELL, PreK-3 and ExLL, 4-6) strengthen their teaching of reading and writing. Research-based teaching methodologies are organized into a framework for classroom instruction. The CELL project emphasizes that the primary instructional role in the elementary grades is to teach reading and writing.

Capital Match - Uppercase Lowercase Card Game
The game reinforces the difference between uppercase and lowercase letters. The game boards have various rules for using capitals as well. The website has downloadable documents that contain the instructions for the game, and printable cards.

Carl's Corner
This website has been created by an American classroom teacher to provide resources and materials for classroom teachers, reading and resource specialists, speech therapists, parents and students in the area of language arts. There are lessons, worksheets, sorting cards, games, articles, calendars, small books, booklists, poems, songs, rhymes, and fingerplays.

Cat: e-book
An online version of the 2008 Children's Book Week shortlisted text by Mike Dumbleton. There is an Indonesian version available as well as the English one.

Caterpillar Toothpaste: a Child's Introduction to the Decision Making Process
This downloadable book has been written to help younger children develop early decision making skills, actively preparing them for fuller participation in the home, school and community. The story is about Tim. Toothpaste reminds him of a big caterpillar coming out of the tube on to his toothbrush. Tim has some decisions to make. Should he stop brushing his teeth and risk smelly breath, dirty teeth and trips to the dentist? Join Tim on his decision making journey, and help him work out what he can do to solve his caterpillar problem!

Centre for the Improvement of Early Reading Achievement
Aims to improve the reading achievement of America's children by generating theoretical, empirical and practical solutions. To accomplish this mission, we propose to consolidate current knowledge on early reading, conduct programmatic research on specific early reading problems, identify best practices among successful early reading educators, and establish powerful interactive mechanisms for disseminating the resulting information and products. We believe that solutions to persistent problems in early reading can be obtained by studying successful practices in schools, communities, and homes where we are beating the odds, where children are learning to read thoughtfully and independently.

Chateau Meddybemps
A site full of original stories, amusing characters and creative ideas, to make learning fun and a wonder-filled experience for all ages. The authors share their professional knowledge, skills and creativity, to promote understanding and provide useful tools for parents and teachers, in the process of building the skills children need to be successful in school. Ideas for language arts include story starters and other fun activities. Activities are graded for preschool, primary, all ages, older kids and adults.

Cherububble
Cherububble publishes Australian literature for young people online monthly, with samples of good quality stories (fiction and non-fiction) poems and activities. Cherububble is aimed at 4 - 8 year old readers, and their parents.

Choosing and Using Teaching and Learning Materials: Guidelines for Preschools and Schools
These DECS SA guidelines replace the Selection and access for books and learning materials: Guidelines for schools (1987). Schools and preschools are expected to develop/amend their own policies for the selection and access of teaching and learning materials on the basis of these guidelines. The accompanying brochure: What is your child reading at school? Explains to parents how schools and preschools choose and use books and other learning materials. The appendixes to the guidelines: a template for a selection and access policy for teaching and learning materials, and a template for request for reconsideration of a resource, and the parent brochure: What is your child reading at school? have been provided as Word documents so that they can be easily downloaded and customised.

Chrysanthemum: What's in a name?
This webquest uses different books by Kevin Henkes as a basis to explore the theme of identity. Topics include: my name, my family, my birth, my favourite things, my friends, when I grow up, making it into a book, life-size picture of me, and presenting it all. A student self-evaluation sheet is included, as well as a guide for teachers.

Classroom games and activities: Wellbeing
A selection of activities are provided around the theme of identity and self-esteem. There is a 'Me Book' activity that is added to each day, a silhouette and pocket to collect positive statements, using the letters of JOY for stimulus, and a T-shirt outline to collect statements about oneself.

Clifford Interactive Storybooks
These learning activities are a part of "Clifford the Big Red Dog" series of books. Students can read or listen to stories and identify words that correctly complete sentences. Fun interactive games ask students to identify letters, sounds, and words in both English and Spanish.

Clifford the Big Red Dog
Clifford, the pooch from PBS, is a big hit with preschoolers. Bring your kids to Clifford's website for free stories, games, and online activities, plus printable coloring pages and cutouts. Go behind the scenes to meet the cast, watch the actors and artists at work, and learn to draw Clifford. The official PBS television web site for Clifford the Big Red Dog

Communication, language and literacy development: Letters and sounds
The 'Letters and Sounds' phonics resource for teachers has been developed by the Department for Education and Skills in the United Kingdom. Guidance is provided on the principles of the Six-phase Teaching Programme. Each phase comes with a video resource and transcript.

Communication: A total experience
This Learning Links article describes the Total Communication approach, able to be used in preschool, which can involve listening, speaking, gestures or hand movements, Makaton, facial expression, photos and pictures. The Total Communication approach is also known as Alternative and Augmentative Communication. It gives children increased opportunities to understand what is said to them and to communicate their wants, needs, thoughts and feelings.

Concetta Gotlieb's blog: Year 1/2: Singing, talking and listening
This teacher used Ben Harper's song 'With my own two hands' as an inspiration for a literacy activity with children to create a sound track on what they could do with their hands. Other extension ideas are also provided.

Contraction Concentration Card Game
A free game for teaching about contractions - contractions concentration/memory. It is designed for the emerging reader and to make learning fun. The site contains printable documents that contain the instructions for the game as well as the cards themselves.

The Counting Story
A counting Book for early childhood students learning to count. The simple story is based around a series of pink rabbits numbering 1 through to 11.

CVC Phonics Game
A card game for the emerging reader to focus on medial short vowel sounds. The website has downloadable documents that contain the instructions for the game, and printable cards.

Dr. Seuss Theme Page
Resources for teachers using Dr Seuss Books. Including Lesson Plans and Worksheets such as wordsearch, craft activities and other literature based lesson ideas.

Early Childhood Learning Resources Project
The Early Childhood Learning Resources Project was developed to assist parents to introduce and develop the early literacy and numeracy learning of their young children. A set of high quality, innovative early childhood resource materials have been developed, based on sound contemporary international research. They provide examples of how parents, carers and practitioners can create stimulating environments for their children. Resources include a literature review, posters, 'Building Good Practice' booklet, and videos of practical learning activities with children. The Early Childhood Literacy and Numeracy Cards may be printed out and used in the classroom.

Early Literacy and Numeracy: The Use of Assessment to Improve Programmes for Four to six year olds
This report published by the Education Review Office New Zealand is about the use currently made, by both early childhood services and schools, of the assessment of children's early literacy and numeracy achievements to improve teaching programmes. The aim of the report is to provide information and stimulate discussion about the assessment practices, about the use of information obtained from assessment and about links between early childhood education and schools.

Early Words early literacy program
This website provides information about early literacy resources, downloadable tip sheets for parents, booklists for infants and young children, links to songs, games, literacy programs and research.

Early years foundation stage
The Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL) Foundation pages contain resources, games and activities in a range of subject areas for preschool children. Topics include: personal, social and emotional development; communication and literacy; problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development; and creative development.

Earlyreading.info
The earlyreading.info website is designed to help classroom teachers and grant writers find resources for prekindergarten through 3rd grade in five reading components: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension. Teachers can browse to select a grade, reading component and type a resource.

Emma Quay and Her Books
This website has been created by Emma Quay, children's book illustrator and author. It includes valuable resources for early childhood teachers and school librarians, fun activity sheets, book lists as well as insights into the illustrative process - manuscripts, early character sketches, storyboards, roughs etc. and has proved to be a great resource for educators and carers.

Enchanted Learning - All about me
This thematic unit provides memory and opinion activities, crafts, books and worksheets to print on the theme of identity. It includes: photo and handprint craft, a memory box, my own timeline, picture frames, family tree activities, family collage, a book about me, my friends and I, my feelings, my name, a school memory book, as a baby, things I like, and other worksheets and writing activities.

English alphabet
This simple learning resource goes through the alphabet, sounds each letter, demonstrates how the letter is written and gives a picture of a word beginning with that letter. Students may click to repeat a letter.

Eric Carle
Eric Carle is an author and illustrator of children's picture books and is known especially for his popular stories, 'The Very Hungry Caterpillar' and 'Brown Bear, What Do You See?' and his colourful collage illustrations. The site includes a bulletin board of suggestions from teachers and parents about using the books with young children. There is also a link to the Eric Carle Museum Of Picture Book Art.

Eureka!
Educational resources for early childhood educators including downloadable learning games related to word recognition, alphabet, counting, healthy eating and sentence formation.

Fairy Tale Land
This site allows users to listen to nine popular fairy tales and nursery rhymes , and then undertake a variety of both online and offline activities. The Fairy Tale Land site is aimed at Yr 1 and Yr 2 children but there are some activities relevant to some younger or older children. The exercises will be of particular use when the fairytale is the focus text of the week, to reinforce sight recognition of new words that occur in the story. This will in turn assist children's own story writing.

Fairy tales, folk tales and nursery rhymes
This site provides a collection of interactive fairy tales and fables with teaching ideas.

Fairy Tales of Europe
This folk story project was part-funded by the European Union, and designed by the National Museum of Scotland. The site offers illustrated traditional stories and myths from Scotland, Finland, Iceland, Italy and Brittany. It is aimed at children from 8-13, and the stories are available in a range of languages including Gaelic.

Flat Stanley Project
In the book, Flat Stanley, by Jeff Brown, Stanley Lambchop is squashed flat. Flat Stanley visits friends by travelling in an envelope. In this Flat Stanley International Communications Project students make paper Flat Stanleys (or Flat Marys, Flat Alices, Flat Toms, etc) and exchange them, along with journals to record adventures, and keep in touch by email. It has become a way to develop literacy skills, foster understanding and increase global communication.

Folklore and Mythology: electronic texts
The Folklore and Mythology site contains a wide ranging collection of original folklore from all around the world. Many of the stories are grouped under headings, so that, for example, you can compare English stories about changelings, or travellers folk tales from around the globe.

Gail Lovely - Resources
Gail Lovely has a collection of links to resources suitable for early childhood. Topics include reading and literacy, maths, tsunamis, hurricanes and seasonal resources such as Christmas, New Year and Polar Express.

GameGoo - Educational Games
A collection of educational literacy games that are suitable for use with interactive whiteboards and Early Childhood students. The games include sound recognition, alphabetizing bears, opposites, making sentences and much more. The games are categorized as beginner, intermediate or advanced.

Games for Children
This site contains online alphabet, counting and reading games and activities for preschool children. There are alphabet games available in both English and French. The site is intuitive and children learn by playing.

Gateways case study 27: Aboriginal talking books
This case study is from a group of Australian teacher case studies illustrating experiences of using Information Technology (IT) to enhance student learning outcomes. In this case, the group consisted of Aboriginal children in years 1-7 in a remote Aboriginal Community where 3 languages are taught - English as a Second Language (ESL), and Burarra and Ndjbbana in bilingual classes. The teacher used HyperCard to create a series of talking books incorporating Aboriginal languages, where students were involved in making the book, seeing their own pictures and hearing themselves speak. Instructions are provided.

Grandparents Day
This simple interactive reading game helps the child to write a letter to a grandfather, grandmother, friend or grandparents.

Halloween: Teaching children
This guide to Halloween resources on the LearnEnglish Kids website includes extension activities for the classroom. It includes a Halloween word game, word search, quiz, story and art ideas, games and worksheets.

Handwriting
Generates a selection of sheets to support pre-writing activities.

Handwriting 2
Generates a selection of sheets to support pre-writing and fine motor activities.

Hans Christian Andersen - Fairy Tales and Stories
The complete list of Hans Christian Andersen's 168 stories, in the chronological order of their original publication.

Hazel Edwards: Teachers' notes and curriculum themes
Hazel Edwards, author of 'There's a Hippopotamus on Our Roof Eating Cake' provides a page of teachers' notes and curriculum themes based around her books: Antarctica, the cake eating hippo and young adult fiction.

iboard player
This is a collection of interactive resources for the early years . They can be used on any interactive whiteboard and are also simple enough for a child to use independently. Subjects include: numeracy, literacy, science, religious education, history, transport and general ICT resources.

ICT games
This site provides educational ICT activites and games linked to the English National Curriculum. Aimed at lower primary aged students, it includes numeracy and literacy games.

Indij Readers
Indij Readers Ltd is a not-for-profit publishing company that develops and publishes contemporary, Indigenous literacy materials for students learning to read and write. Indij Readers aim to be books that truly interest Indigenous students and inspire them to read, learn and have fun. They are also intended for non-Indigenous students - to have the same experiences and to learn more about the first Australians at the same time. The readers are for purchase. The website provides information about the books, authors and illustrators, a blog and a multimedia gallery about communities and schools around Australia where Indij Readers has visited.

International children's digital library
The International Children's Digital Library Foundation provides a digital library of children's books from around the world. Books are grouped by age level, short or long books, kid characters, real animal characters, imaginary creature characters, picture books, chapter books, fairy tales and folk tales, award winning books. Languages include: English, Arabic, Chinese, Croatian, Filipino/Tagalog, French, German, Hebrew, Italian, Persian/Farsi, Portuguese, Mongolian, Russian, Spanish, Thai.

International Reading Association
The International Reading Association provides online resources for use in the home or the classroom, to encourage reading and develop literacy skills. Created and collected by experienced educators (or, in the case of Choices booklists, by experienced kids) they're designed to make your teaching task a little easier and a lot more effective. The detailed, research-based lesson plans and activities are available from Kindergarten up to year 12.

Into the book: Teaching reading comprehension strategies
Into the Book focuses on eight reading comprehension strategies for grades 1-4: using prior knowledge, making connections, questioning, visualizing, inferring, summarizing, evaluating and synthesizing. Information and teaching resources are provided for each strategy. The Kids' area has interactive activities for each strategy; the teacher's area features teacher guides, lesson plans, posters, video and audio clips, downloads, and more.

I-Spi: Innovative Shared Practical Ideas
A support guide for literacy and numeracy in the early years of schooling for home tutor/supervisors in distance education. The guide accompanies the research report on the Project to Investigate Improving Literacy and Numeracy Outcomes of Distance Education in the Early Years of Schooling.

John Butler - Fun page
Children's illustrator and writer John Butler provides two interactive stories for very young children: Whose nose and toes? and Whose baby am I? Children move the mouse to find the matching animal. The simple easy to read text is displayed alongside.

K-2 Student Interactives
The Utah Education Network website provides a selection of interactive learning activities for young children on: ABCs, reading, listening, writing, works, art and music, my world, maths, brain games, and health. The health section includes games about feelings and respect.

K-3 Themes at Enchanted Learning
These themes have links to simple crafts, nursery rhymes, coloring book printouts, information, and/or quizzes based on the topic. They include theme pages about animals, language, and special events.

Key Seeker: Keyboarding for kindergarten
Key Seeker is a simple interactive learning tool to help kindergarten aged children recognise the letters on the keyboard and use the correct hand to strike the key - also helpful in letter recognition, and initial letters of words.

Kid Lit Kit: Grades K-2
This blog lists books titles for the K-2 age group, with suggestions for associated activities. There are also some suggested pairing of non-fiction with fiction books along a theme.

Kideos: Videos for kids
Kideos is a collection of short videos that have been screened for suitability for children. Topics of videos include: book characters, cartoon characters, animals, Dr Seuss, fair tales, muppets, nursery rhymes, Sesame Street, songs, trains and machines, Teletubbies and Wiggles. There are also some available in Portuguese and Spanish. Videos have an age level indicated. You can register to create your own custom selection.

Kids Books Alive
Books Alive is an Australian Government initiative that aims to encourage all Australians to experience the joys of reading. The Kids section gives annotations of new books for children, suitable for a range of ages.

KOL Jr. Stories: Online picture books read aloud
This is a collection of free online storybooks that are read aloud including the Arthur books, animal stories, family stories, fairy tales and rhyming stories. It includes 'Arthur's Christmas' and 'Santa's Kid'.

KS1 Bitesize Games: Literacy
This is a collection of fun and interactive games to help primary children with literacy. Topics include: phonics, rhyming words, alphabet, spelling, pronouns, conjunctions, synonyms, punctuation, sentences.

Leading to reading
Leading to Reading is a section of the Reading is Fundamental website designed for parents and early childhood educators. There are tips, stories, songs, and activities for children ages 0-5 divided into sections for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Booklists are provided for these groups.

Learn English kids
Although designed by the British Council for children learning English, this site provides a variety of quality stories, songs, writing activities, and games for young children. The stories are read aloud and each one has an extension activity to go with it. Included are tips for parents and teachers.

Learning Module Page
This is an online version of Look, Say, Cover, Write, Check. The user may input their own list of words or use one of the five word lists provided.

Learning Planet - Preschool, kindergarten
A small collection of simple literacy and numeracy games are provided for young children, including an alphabet game, count your chickens, a matching game, a number train, timeworks clock, and other games with shapes, colours, letters and numbers.

Learningpage.com
This site provides free learning materials based upon thematic units. Free printable worksheets for preschool, kindergarten, first and second grade curriculum (American) can be downloaded from the site. There are five main themes: zoo animals, oceans, dinosaurs, reptiles/amphibians, insects/spiders. Within each theme there are fact sheets, worksheets, lesson plans, teaching notes and more.

Lego Education: Activity Bank
Within this section of the Lego Website is a variety of activities suitable for early childhood through to students studying robotics. Curriculum topics cover some Key Learning Areas.

Let's Read
Let's Read is an initiative to promote reading with young children 0-5 years. It has been designed to support and empower parents/carers to read with their child, and develop the building blocks that are needed to make the transition to school as easy as possible. Let's Read is designed to be delivered to parents through community-based professionals in the community. The website has some frequently asked questions information for parents.

Literacy Centre
Children will learn uppercase letter, lowercase letters, shapes, writing, words, numbers, and colors, playing flash games. This site is also useful for teachers of languages other than English, like Spanish, German and French.

Literacy fans
Make your own literacy fans to support word building and phonics activities.

Little Big Book Club
The Little Big Book Club offers a portal to the world of books and reading. Suggested booklists are provided for all ages: baby to year nine; and tips are given for parents on reading aloud to their child.

Little Book Lane
Little Book Lane provides collections of simple online books for beginning readers. Readers include: alphabet reader, books about colours, sight word readers, word group readers, writing folder books and charts, Mother Goose readers. They can be printed out for use in the classroom.

Little Explorers - Picture Dictionary with Links
This website provides 1,885 illustrated dictionary entries. Each word is used in a meaningful example sentence. Most entries have links to a related web site. Just click on an underlined word (or its accompanying picture), and you'll link to a great web site related to it. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favourite adult. Older kids can use Little Explorers as a school reference. This is the English version; just click to use the English-French, English-German, English-Italian, English-Portuguese, or the English-Spanish version.

Little Fingers Games
A range of interactive games are provided for young children including alphabet and counting games. However the money games use US coins. The games give grade level for each activity.

Little platypus: Activity sheet
This activity sheet on the story 'Little Platypus', by Nette Hilton, provides cross-curricular activities to help children to interact with the story and illustrations.

Magnetic letters
This interactive teaching program allows learners to drag and drop letters to spell words. The game may be used with interactive whiteboards or on individual computers.

Making books with children
Instructions are provided for making a variety of different books using recycled materials: a wish scroll, an accordion book, stick and elastic book, a step book, hot dog booklet, index card accordion, 'who am I?' book, a palm leaf book, and information on books from around the world. Instruction sheets are available to download and print.

Mem Fox
Mem Fox, children's author, set this web site up to answer questions that kids, teachers, parents and would-be writers may have. The site works like a book: it has pages to turn and a table of contents to consult. In addition to biographical details, the site contains the stories behind a few of Mem's new and/or most successful books such as Possum Magic, Time for Bed, Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge, Whoever You Are, Wombat Divine, Koala Lou, Boo to a Goose, Hattie and the Fox, Shoes from Grandpa and others.

Michigan Team Nutrition Preschool Booklist
This booklist on a nutrition theme contains the annotations for over 250 books about food, healthy eating, and physical activity for children that are preschool age or younger. Books are rated to make it easy for educators to identify those with the strongest nutrition and physical activity messages. Books are listed by theme and by title. Themes include: ABC, body parts, books with recipes, bread, breakfast, colours and shapes, cooking, counting, dairy, dental health, eating out, Autumn harvest, family mealtime, farm to table, food art, fruit and vegetables, fun with food, gardening, grains, growing fruit, intergenerational, keeping clean, making soup, manners, MyPyramid, other cultures food and customs, physical activity, pizza, read and move, sandwiches, seasons and Weather, shopping, Spanish, taste something new.

Montessori Home: Games
This selection of free online games graded according to age group, provide simple reading activities for the beginning reader. Games are also available in Spanish. There are also sets of reading cards to download and print.

Mother Goose, Nursery Rhymes, & Children's Songs
This site gives a thorough directory of children's favourite nursery rhymes, including advice on how to read nursery rhymes to children, and suggested books and resources.

Mother Goose Rebus
Rebus Rhymes is designed for children who are learning how to read. Preschoolers and Kindergartners can enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes. This page lists a large number of rhymes. For each rhyme there is an attractive page and printable colouring sheet.

Mother Goose Society
An engaging site dedicated to the rhymes of Mother Goose. Contents include a history of the Mother Goose tradition; tips for celebrating Mother Goose Day (May 1st); rhymes and their corresponding recipes; fingerplays; costume and paper finger puppet patterns and art project ideas in Prop Box and links to other web sites and audio clips available over the Internet. Although there is an obvious American bias, this is a good site for planning activities and ideas. Suitable for Teacher Reference - Early Childhood.

Mr Thorne does phonics
A British primary school teacher has developed this free phonics / learning to read channel on YouTube dedicated to helping parents with young children, schools, teachers, trainee teachers and anyone with English as an additional language.

Mrs Pancake
This website provides free downloadable resources which are suitable for children age from 4 to 11. Resources range from original ideas for things you can make with your class to items for classroom displays.

NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier of NSW, the Hon Bob Carr, instituted the Premier's Reading Challenge to encourage a love of reading. The Challenge is open to students who are in Years 2 to 8 inclusive in NSW Government or non-Government schools or the equivalent in home schooling and accredited Australian International schools. To receive a certificate, students must read 20 books in a one-year cycle. Fifteen of the books must be on the Premier's Reading Challenge list. Students must fill out a Reading Record as they complete each book.

Nursery Rhymes
This nursery rhyme collection can be used to teach the rhymes, printed out, or printed and cut to create a nursery rhyme hunt or "concentration" game. The rhymes have audio (with American accent). Included are: Baa Baa Black Sheep, Little Bo Peep, Humpty Dumpty, Little Jack Horner, Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary, Jack Sprat, Old King Cole, Georgie Porgie, Itsy Bitsy Spider, Little Miss Muffet, Jack Be Nimble, Hickory Dickory Dock, Hey Diddle Diddle.

Nursery rhymes to sing, see and sign
Nursery Rhymes to Sing See and Sign are free downloadable, web-based communication resources for all young children. It includes resources for 14 favourite Nursery Rhymes. It has a particular focus on communication strategies known to help communication and language development in children with communication difficulties. The Nursery Rhymes to Sing See and Sign communication resources include a picture song board using Picture Communication Symbols and a Key Word Sign poster (Makaton) for each Nursery Rhyme. A song lyrics sheet highlighting the key signs is also available for each song.

One stop English: Free games and activities
This site provides a collection of free interactive games and activities to help young learners to practise grammar and skills. You can display them on a monitor or on a screen. For each game there is a zipped file. Save the file on your computer and open it from your computer in order to play the game. Games include wordsearches, crosswords, quizzes, a survey, a song and more. Student levels are indicated.

Oxford Wordlist research summary
The Oxford Wordlist research study summary provides teachers and researchers with an academic analysis of the results of the research conducted in Australian schools in 2007 - an investigation of high frequency words in young children's writing and reading development. The study's aim was to gain insight into what words students in Australian schools most commonly use in their own writing in their first three years of school. This information was used to provide a contemporary word list for Australian students that may be used for writing and reading purposes. The Oxford word list contains the 307 most frequently used words by Australian students in their first three years of school.

Pacific language early readers
This website contains a set of Early Reader books in nine Pacific languages and English. The stories are written at a K-3 level and may be downloaded and printed out. The stories in Pacific languages also have audio versions.

Phonics and Word Study
These pages offer free online interactive games, challenges, and links for students, information, resources and links for teachers, and guidance for parents of children learning new phonics and word study skills. Spanning grade levels from PreK to 6, these resources provide extra practice in many of phonics and word study skills. The student activities are varied in theme, skill level, and functionality.

Phonics game
This is a simple interactive game for young children where they can click on a letter of the alphabet and select pictures of objects beginning with each letter. Correct results produce simple animations.

Phonics Reading Practice : Learn to Read and Spell with Phonics
This is a Phonics course in reading and spelling for young children. The Foniks site uses the technique of allowing learners to simply mouse over letters and words to hear them spoken.

Picture book maker
Picture book maker allows users to easily create a picture book including text. It can be saved online or printed out. No registration is required and the url of your creation can be posted on a blog or website.

Picture Books by Dandi Palmer
This website contains a large number of children's picture books for both older and younger readers. In addition there are a number of books which students can finish by printing out and adding captions and colour. There is also a number of colouring sheets for download.

Picture books that explore the values of education
This list of books has been compiled to assist teachers in identifying literature that reflects different values. Many of the titles will address more than one value, and different readers will take different perspectives and meanings from the works. Books are listed for the themes of: connectedness, resilience, achievement, creativity, integrity, responsibility, and equity. They are tagged as suitable for: younger readers junior primary upwards; or for older readers - primary and seconday.

Possum Magic - Teacher Resources
Possum Magic written by Mem Fox and illustrated by Julie Vivas was published in 1983 and has become an Australian classic. This site from Scholastic contains details of the Possum Magic 21st birthday celebrations in 2004, plus teacher's notes and student activities based on the book.

Possum Magic Library Activity Notes
Library and Information Week 2004 activities paged based on Possum Magic written by Mem Fox, illustrated by Julie Vivas. Includes ideas for storytime, displays, craft, publicity and recipes.

Possum Magic Teachers' Notes
A collection of literacy activities suited to the early childhood reader, surrounding the book by author Mem Fox called Possum Magic.

Possum Magic teaching notes
Created by the Arts Centre in Melbourne, the activities are broadly categorised into written, spoken, visual and performance arts. It includes a wordsearch, book illustration, oral presentation and story telling ideas.

Possum Magic Unit of Work
This unit of work on Possum Magic uses the Walking Talking Texts Column Planner framework, provides a framework for the teaching of oral English, and in addition, for the teaching of literacy skills (independent reading and writing) in English through activities and exercises, uses the Do, Talk, Record planning model and was written for use with English as a Second Language (ESL) students.

Printable Books for Early to Fluent Readers (Enchanted Learning)
This website lists printable books for early to fluent readers, on a wide range of categories and themes.

Printable Reading Game - Bossy e
This card game reinforces the concept of the bossy e in a fun way. The website has downloadable documents that contain the instructions for the game, and printable cards.

QLD Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier's Reading Challenge is an initiative of the Queensland Government aimed at improving literacy, cultivating a passion for literature and encouraging children to read widely for pleasure and learning.

Raise a reader
The Raising a Reader parent information kit provides information and tips on how to introduce reading to young children up to eight years of age. Raising a Reader includes six easy-to-read cards for parents of babies, toddlers and school aged children. It offers information on the types of books suitable for young children and how parents can instil a love of reading in their children.

Raps and Book Raps
The book raps and raps hosted on the NSWDET web site feature collaborative planning and units of work written by teachers. These raps are jointly managed and supported by teams from Professional Support and Curriculum Directorate, including the Library and Information Literacy team, e-Learning unit, and relevant Key Learning Area (KLA) teams, such as English, HSIE, PDHPE, and Science. The book rap for Wilfrid Gordon McDonald Partridge includes activity ideas around themes of old people, and memory. The 'Identity: Sharing our stories' rap supports Aboriginal studies across key learning areas.

Razzledazzle: Once Upon a Tale
A collection of simple online stories which are read aloud. The words are highlighted as they are read. Some of the stories require the viewer to insert the correct word at different places. They also make use of repetition so the reader gradually becomes familiar with written language patterns.

Reading Posters
Free Reading Posters for your classroom. The covered sounds are oa, ou, ck, ea, ow, ight, ur, er, and ir. The posters are designed to help students with learning difficulties.

Reading Recovery in the classroom
This article published in the Research e-Lert gives practical examples of classroom practice derived from the Reading Recovery approach to teaching reading.

Reading Room 2
Reading Room 2 has a collection of games around simple sight words, including phonics games, snakes and ladders, wordsearch software, personalised sight word bingo, sound bingo, word race and more word games.

ReadWriteThink: K-12
ReadWriteThink offers a wide array of standards-based lesson plans that meaningfully integrate Internet content into the teaching and/or learning experience. Lessons can be selected according to grade band (K-2, 3-5, 6-8) and area of literacy practice. Each lesson is research-based, and includes a detailed instructional plan. The lessons are written for the teacher but include student-ready materials such as worksheets, interactives, and reviewed Web resources. Lessons on ReadWriteThink can be sorted by literacy engagements so that teachers can highlight specific language functions in the classroom. Literacy engagements simultaneously involve learning language (as students listen to it and use it with others in their everyday lives), learning about language (as students try to figure out how it works, engage with their teachers in focused instruction on how it works or in critiquing its impact), and learning through language (as students use it to learn about or do something).

Real e-fun theater: Toons that teach
Based on to Montessori methods, Real E-Fun Books help the child to gradually begin reading on his or her own. Filled with easy phonics, basic sight words and simple sentences, the books are designed in three levels, according to reading ability. Words are highlighted as read aloud. The stories are also available in Spanish.

Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read
US National Institute of Child Health and Human Development's Report of the National Reading Panel: Teaching Children to Read reports that a combination of teaching phonics, knowledge of word sounds and giving feedback on oral reading is the most effective way to teach reading.

Rigby RedGiants
Rigby Red Giants is a series comprising 15 big and small books, specifically designed for shared reading in the lower and middle primary years. The Rigby Red Giant Big Book Series provides lower primary classrooms with innovative and high quality shared reading resources. This web site contains free Teacher's Notes and Blackline Masters for each book.

Roy: Tale of a singing zebra
This site is home to a package of interactive games, stories and resources that have been developed to help emerging readers learn to read. It includes: guided reading and reading games with Roy the zebra with words that rhyme, high frequency words, capital letters, full stops and more. Each interactive literacy game comes complete with a lesson plan that gives practical step-by-step guidance on how to use the games in the classroom, on an interactive whiteboard, and in computer suites. Literacy worksheets are also available to download.

Roy the Zebra's reading games
Word level reading games for using on an interactive whiteboard, computer in the classroom, or at home. All reading games are downloadable and come with a lesson plan and resources.

SA Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier of South Australia issues a reading challenge to all students from Reception to Year 9 to read 12 books from the start of term 1 until the beginning of September . The Challenge is open to students in South Australian Government and non-Government schools as well as students undertaking home education.

Sascha Hutchinson
Sascha Hutchinson is a South Australia book illustrator, author and graphic designer of children's books including Little Duck, Snap and Pig Out. Sascha's website includes a biography, the steps required in illustrating a picture book, how she uses collage, exhibitions and workshops for schools.

Sesame Street
For fans of Sesame Street, this colourful site, based on the television characters, offers children a range of activities to complete either on or offline. Children can print off alphabet letters, shapes and opposites to colour; read an online storybook about Elmo's trip to a farm and complete a range of activities that require visual discrimination skills (find the hidden letter/number), manual dexterity (join the dots and fit the shapes) and decision-making skills (help Cookie Monster to choose foods for a salad). Suitable for Early Childhood.

Seussville
The Cat in the Hat, Sam-I-Am,Horton and the Whos, and the rest of the Seuss characters welcome you to Seussville, Dr. Seuss's playground in cyberspace.

Sight Word Bingo - A Printable Game
This Reading game is traditional bingo. You can print out the boards and use them straight away in your class. There are six boards in the set each with 16 words. They are aimed at the emerging reader. The website has downloadable documents that contain the boards.

Six Spelling Principles
This site from Department of Education, Tasmania contains information about six spelling principles, stages of spelling development, spelling strategies and monitoring spelling.

Snakes and Ladders - A Reading Game
This is a reading / phonics game of Snakes and Ladders that you choose the words for. The web page describes how the words are generated for the game and there is a printable document which supplies the game board.

Snapdragon: Reading the story of Goldilocks
Based on the BBC Wales Snapdragon radio series, this website presents the story of Goldilocks with coloured text that can be clicked on to hear simple sentences, and a word recognition game at the end. Other games and activities include recognising animal sounds, counting and matching, recognising colours, and telling the time.

South Australian Early Years Literacy Program
The South Australian Department of Education and Children's Services (DECS) Early Years Literacy Program aims to improve literacy engagement and achievement for all children in all schools and preschools. Key aspects of the program include a whole site and system approach to improving literacy learning outcomes through continuous review processes guided by contemporary research, effective practice and analysis of data; and educators, as skilled professionals, continuing to learn in supportive environments. The site includes information about the principles, policy contexts, multiliteracies and Reading Recovery.

Speakaboos
Speakaboos provides an online collection of talking stories. Stories include fables, fairy tales, folk tales, songs and nursery rhymes. The teachers section of the website includes story guides, worksheets and art and craft activities.

Spelling it Right
Spelling it Right is a member of the Gateway to Educational Materials Consortium sponsored by the United States Department of Education, and is a content provider to the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency. This site is primarily aimed for parents who are concerned about their child's spelling and are keen to help them improve, adults who find spelling difficult and want to learn to spell correctly, and children who are reasonably capable readers and can tackle the activities without help from their parents. The site also includes advice about dealing with problems, a collection of free printable worksheets, each comprising a complete lesson, designed to test and teach spelling skills.

Starfall: Reading resources
This website provides interactive phonic and reading games to designed for kindergarten and junior primary learners.

Story Online
Hear books read, browse through the activities or download a complete lesson plan on this story website.

Story Time
This Berenstain Bears online activity is an interactive cloze exercise where children write a story choosing objects visually. The story is several screens long. When the story is completed it can be read out loud, printed or shared with a friend.

Storybird
Storybird is a storytelling website allowing users to collaborate with artists and enthusiasts to produce fun, simple tools to make short, visual stories.

StoryPlace Pre-school Library
The StoryPlace Library provides a selection of simple online stories, with different themes, for preschool children. Associated with each story are activities for children and parents and suggested reading lists. It includes Spanish vocabulary in some stories.

Storytime ideas
BayNews features thematic storytime ideas with lists for suggested books, activities, and crafts. Themes include: animals, everyday things (houses, apples, potatoes, vegetable gardening, teeth), miscellaneous (bullying, disabilities), multicultural (African, Asian, Chinese, Middle Eastern), people, science, special days (Earth Day, Father's Day, Mother's Day), summer reading (bugs, insects).

Tar Heel Reader
Tar Heel Reader is a collection of free easy-to-read and accessible books on a wide range of topics. Each book can be speech enabled and accessed using multiple interfaces. You may also create your own books and save to the site. Books are organised by topics such as alphabet, animals, foods, health, sports. Some are available in German. You can create your own favorites page to display just the stories you have selected.

Tasmanian Premier's Reading Challenge
Tasmanian students have the opportunity to participate in the Tasmanian Premier's Reading Challenge to each student to read, to read more and read more widely. The Challenge is offered to children in Grades 1-6 and home educated children. The Tasmanian lists represent a wide cross-section of current titles and current publications for children, available through school or public libraries.

Teaching Reading: Report
'Teaching Reading', the report of the National Inquiry into the Teaching of Literacy Committee, comprises the Report and Recommendations, a Guide to the Report and Recommendations for Parents and Carers, a Literature Review, Submission Summaries hyper-linked to Submissions to the Inquiry and Site Visits. These are available for download separately. Topics covered in the report include evidence-based approaches to the teaching of reading, the role of parents, school leadership and management, standards for teaching reading, reading assessment, the preparation of teachers, ongoing professional learning and future directions.

Teaching resources for Indigenous students: English
These teacher resources are designed for engaging students with low literacy levels. Some of the resources have Aboriginal content and themes. Titles include: A Country Far Away, Baby Bilby, Bath Time, Be Careful, Big Rain Coming, Collecting Firewood, Crabs on a Rock, Henry's Ball, Kites, Lets go to the Zoo ABC Adventure, Morning Star, Possum Magic, Rosie's Walk, The Runnaway Pizza, The Very Hungry Caterpillar, Mmm Turtle, Where the Forest Meets the Sea, Windows, Wombat Stew.

Through my window
Through my window is a simple and engaging email activity designed to allow students to communicate about their world through words and images. It is also a great way to contact other schools and penfriends.

Using Video Editing for Learning
Using video production can stimulate discussion and reading skills in children. This website looks at the strategies used to encourage and implement the use of technology to enhance reading ability.

Vibe school: Class activities
Montlhly classroom activities are provided through the school section of the Vibe website, along an Aboriginal theme related to each issue of the Deadly Vibe magazine. Activities are graded by year level and include resources for K-1, and above. Some themes include: Sorry, Torres Strait Islander flag, Rabbitohs football players, healthy food, women in the community, music and dance, reconciliation, respect etc ; many designed to meet literacy outcomes.

Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge
The Victorian Premier's Reading Challenge is open to all Victorian students from Prep to Year 10. The challenge is to read 10 or more books from those recommended on the lists. All students who meet this challenge will receive a signed certificate.

We wish you a merry Christmas
Three activities are provided, based on the song 'We wish you a merry Christmas'. The first is a reading the words of the song accompanied by the music; the second is a an exercise in filling in the missing words accompanied by a sound recording of the song; and the third is a crossword puzzle.

Welcome to Letterland.
For anyone contemplating using Letterland, this site is worth investigating to analyse the depth of the system. Used in over 50% of UK schools, this structured scheme uses phonics and pictograms to help teach young children writing, spelling, and reading. Potential purchasers can find out about: the background to Letterland; testimonials from users; and frequently asked questions. For those who have already committed their schools to Letterland, the site includes new resources, updates, and the option of contacting the publishers directly via email.

WikiREADia: everything starts with reading
Wikireadia is a searchable and editable online encyclopaedia of good practice in reading. This site shares ideas and case studies in reading for all audiences (whether that is young children, adult learners, readers in the workplace or setting up a library). Wikireadia is written collaboratively by reading professionals from all across the UK and beyond. Its purpose it to provide a place where good practice in reading is recognised and shared to provide inspiration. This website has been developed as part of the UK's National Year of Reading 2008.

Wombat stew: Teaching notes
Teaching suggestions are provided to go with the story 'Wombat Stew' by Marcia K Vaughan.

Woodlands literacy zone
This UK site provides many fun online interactive activities aimed at improving students' literacy skills. Sections of the site include: words and spellings, grammar, punctuation, writing texts. There are also links to online stories.

Words and pictures
This site is aligned to the BBC Education Schools TV series 'Words and Pictures Plus' (UK). Includes a range of educational games and activities that are based on the phonics method of learning. Parents and teachers are also catered for with lesson plans, printable resources and more. Games require plugins such as Shockwave 7 and Realplayer.

Ziggity Zoom
Ziggity Zoom is where you can play games, colour pictures, read and listen to children's stories about many different characters, watch mini-videos or explore Play Worlds and other activities. The site has lots of activities, crafts, birthday party ideas, playwords and games, and coloring and stories for even babies and preschoolers. There are also parents articles and tips, reward charts, education learning worksheets, and kid certificates, iron-ons, favorite themes and characters like: princess, pirate, dragon, dinosaurs, surfers, mermaids, animals, Easter eggs. There are a couple of books on counting and colours in Spanish.

ABC playground radio
Playground Radio provides ABC Kids songs and stories such as Bananas in Pyjamas, The Wiggles, Play School and more. You can build up a favourites list to play just the ones you want.

Active start: Physical activity guidelines for children birth to five years
These guidelines from the US National Association for Sport and Physical Education (NASPE) support the position that all children birth to age five should engage in daily physical activity that promotes health-related fitness and movement skills. Guidelines are provided for infants, toddlers and preschoolers.

Australian Children's Music Foundation (ACMF)
It is the mission of the ACMF to awaken the imagination of children, up to 12 years, through the magic of music. It is the ACMF's belief that overexposure to visual entertainment such as television and computer games is stifling the development of children's imagination. The ACMF encourage children to be participators not spectators. The website contains online games, and downloadable sheet music (pdf format).

Back to School
The creator of this website is a Californian kindergarten and first grade teacher. This part of the website focuses on the beginning of the school year and provides rhymes and activities for classroom use. The whole site provides a wealth of useful material.

BBC Schools: early years foundation stage
This site produced by the BBC provides interactive resources in a range of subject areas for children aged from 18 months to 5 years. Subjects covered are: Personal, social and emotional development; Communication and literacy; Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; Knowledge and understanding of the world; Physical development; and Creative development.

be active PlayTime
'be active' PlayTime is a physical activity/physical play program for children aged 0-5 developed by the Office for Recreation and Sport (ORS). The program utilises the child's innate desire to play and offers ideas that will help children acquire crucial fundamental movement skills. The program directly targets children and parents, and provides an opportunity to deliver activities in a range of environments i.e. playgroups, community events, community centres, kindergartens, childcare centres, etc. The website provides a downloadable activity cards for babies, toddlers, and preschoolers; and a list of be active PlayTime Providers.

Becky's Campfire Songbook
This site is intended as a repository for song lyrics and to act as a memory 'trigger' for when you can't quite remember the words to your favourite songs. The menu includes Introduction and Warm-up Songs, Rounds and Multi-Part Songs, Action Songs, Yells, Chants and Repeating Songs, Slow Songs, Guiding-Themed Songs, Christian and Spiritual Songs, Misc. Traditional Campfire Songs, Graces, Vespers and Closings, Skipping Songs and Games.

CanTeach - Bears
CanTeach is a Canadian non-commercial site created to assist teachers in finding and using resources online. The Bears page contains song poems for elementary students about bears and is one of a number in a Songs and Poems section on the site. The site contains a large number of resources suitable for elementary classrooms.

Children's Music Network
The Children's Music Network is a non-profit association that celebrates the positive power of music in children's lives by exchanging ideas, visions and music. The site provides a collection of songs on peace browseable by topics of antibias, bullying, compassion, conflict resolution, fear, global family, grief, justice, nonviolence, and peace. Songs have age level indicators and some have audio provided.

Children's Music Web
A nonprofit organization dedicated to music for kids. The site provides music education resources for educators, music programs and products and projects to complete.

Dance, dance, dance
This lesson plan for prep to Year 3 is on a dance-a-thon. Students learn a selection of dances to be performed during the dance-a-thon.

Dream English
This site has free mp3's of children's songs and chants for learning English, kindergarten songs, sing-alongs, flashcards, and worksheets. All free song pages include lyrics. There are numbers, colours, animal songs, vocabulary chants, and songs and activities to help teach young children English.

Free ABC songs
This site provides free downloadable mp3 traditional Kids Songs - simple versions of classic songs like: The wheels on the bus, the ABC Song, Mary had a little lamb, Twinkle twinkle little star. The songs are listed in alphabetical order, and all pages have downloadable mp3's of the songs, lyrics and sheet music. Christmas songs include: Silent night , Jingle bells, We wish you a merry Christmas.

Funschool - Boomthang
Funschool Boomthang is a music activity that lets you create, record, and play your own music.

Global Handwashing Day video
The guiding vision of Global Handwashing Day is a local and global culture of handwashing with soap. Although people around the world wash their hands with water, very few wash their hands with soap at the critical occasions. The Wiggles have donated a catchy song to support the theme. The video includes scenes of children around the world using soap to wash their hands.

Hello Music
This website supports the Australian television programme 'Hello Music'. Hello Music Studios also runs music workshops for Pre Schoolers, and school age children.

Kindermusik
Kindermusik is an early childhood music and movement program based on the beliefs that every child is musical, every parent is the child's most important teacher, the home is the most important learning environment, and, based on research, music nurtures a child's cognitive, emotional, social, language and physical development. The Kid's page provides songs and music games including: Glockenspiel and Music match. The methodology is built on the music education philosophies of Orff, Kodaly, Laban and Dalcroze and the work of early childhood experts like Piaget, Montessori, Greenspan and Brazelton.

Languages from the cradle
Languages from the Cradle is a European Union funded project to collect the lullabies of Europe. Lullabies in the original European languages, with their translations and background are available here for families, schools and children to use. Partners in the project include: Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Greece, Romania, Turkey and the United Kingdom. The lullabies are also available on iTunes or may be purchased on CD.

Let's dance
With this teaching unit, students will memorise, rehearse and master dances of different forms. They will prepare introductions for their performed dances by investigating the role of dance and the cultural context of their dances. They will measure and monitor their fitness as they engage in a high level of physical activity.

Mama Lisa's World: Children's songs and nursery rhymes from around the world
Children's songs and nursery rhymes from all over the globe are presented both in English and their native languages. Many include MP3, realaudio or midi sound clips and sheet music. Songs are grouped according to region: North America, Europe, Asia, South America, Africa, Australia and Oceania.

Music & Lyrics - John Williamson
This page on John Williamson's web site features a number of his songs with lyrics, chords and real audio samples available for a number of his songs. Among the songs available are Sing You the Outback, Blinky Bill and True Blue.

Music eases transitions and encourages learning
Music is a natural way for children to explore the world and to interact with their social environment. It can motivate and encourage young children's learning and development during daily transitions and routines. This page provides several resources on incorporating music into young children's routines, including for autistic children, as well as sound recording of songs used at transition times. There is a downloadable podcast of an interview with music therapist Dr Petra Kern.

Music Education Online
This site contains resources related to music instruments, lesson plans, and music.

MusicAustralia - Themes: Children
Music Australia has collected many music scores, sound recordings, websites and a range of other music-related material along the theme of music for children. Many Australian composers have written music for the education and delight of children. Isaac Nathan, Edith Harrhy and Cecil Sharp, to name a few, based their music for children on popular childhood themes such as nursery-rhyme characters, teddy bears, fairies, and Australian plants and animals. This tradition is continued in the music of children's television programmes such as Play School, Humphrey, and the Wiggles.

PBS - Jazz Kids
An interactive timeline and an interactive worldmap allow students to explore the origins of jazz. In addition there is biographical material on jazz 'greats', and an improvisation station allows students to experiment with beat and sound.

Physical education and health lesson plans
A variety of lesson plans are provided for games and relay races, health and fitness, sports, and related themes.

Playground - Playground Radio
Playground Radio - ABC Music for children features music from Bananas in Pyjamas, The Wiggles, Play School and more. The radio can be downloaded to the desktop of a computer, allowing young children to listen off line.

Sing along songs (midis and lyrics)
A collection of sing-along songs with lyrics and sound is presented on this US site. There is also a 'guess this tune' quiz.

Sing up: Help kids find their voice
Sing Up is a programme designed for teachers in the United Kingdom to make sure that singing is at the heart of every primary school child's life. The Song Bank contains words and audio for songs can be listened to online but Australian teachers can not register to download the audio or song sheet files.

Songs and poems: Easter
This is a collection of songs and poems with an Easter theme. A link is also provided to general rabbit songs and poems.

Songs for teaching: Using music to promote learning
US site full of educational songs, chants, and raps to teach content across the curriculum to students of all ages. Ideas and lyrics for teachers to use in their lesson plans. Music to Celebrate Valentine's Day, Halloween, Christmas, Chanukah, and Kwanzaa. Music for classroom Transitions, Energizers, Relaxers, and Positive Attitudes. Action songs and educational lyrics and recordings that teach Content Area Subjects including Mathematics and Early Counting Skills, Foreign Languages (Spanish and French), Science and the Environment,Animals, My Body, Health, and Fitness, Reading: Phonics, Vocabulary, Comprehension, Initial Letter Sounds, Parts of Speech, Punctuation, and Spelling, Phonemic Awareness, Social Studies: History, Culture, Geography, Folk and Multicultural Music, Music: Songs that teach Music Appreciation, Music Theory and Musical Instruments, Concepts for Preschool, Early Childhood, and Kindergarten, Opposites, Colors, Sports and Games, Self-Care and Safety, Clothing, Se...

StoryBee
StoryBee is a website where you can listen to a variety of professional storytellers as they spin their wonderful tales. Just click on an age group, and you'll find a list of story titles. Click on any title, and the story will play. Most stories are set to music.

Storytime songs
This site provides free music activities and games, colouring pages, directions for homemade musical instruments, and also lyrics and guitar chords for many popular children's songs.

Under the sea
Sing-Along Midis and Lyrics featuring Under the Sea from the Disney movie "Little Mermaid."

Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association - VOSA
The Victorian Orff Schulwerk Association is part of a world wide movement of music educators. VOSA is based in Victoria, Australia and was formed in 1977. The website contains the VOSA Early Childhood Music and Movement Resource Centre, a range of resources, articles and ideas for use when working with children 0 - 8 years.

BBC Schools: early years foundation stage
This site produced by the BBC provides interactive resources in a range of subject areas for children aged from 18 months to 5 years. Subjects covered are: Personal, social and emotional development; Communication and literacy; Problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; Knowledge and understanding of the world; Physical development; and Creative development.

Bee-Bots downunder
A group of teachers contribute to this blog about using the programmable floor robots in an early years classroom, across curriculum areas. Downloadable lesson plans and resources are provided.

Bobbie Bear
An online interactive pattern recognition tool for young students to begin working with strategies and patterns.

Bobinogs
This set of interactive games focusses on washing hands and going to the toilet, tidying, music making, clothes and weather, caring for a pet, sharing, social skills and more.

CanTeach - Numbers
This site contains a number of activities which can be used in the classroom to develop math skills. Each activity is given a suggested grade level: many of them are K-2 and they often involve other non-mathematical activities such as painting, playing a card game, bouncing a ball, and rolling a dice.

Change Maker
This online game allows the user to choose to play in Australian, American, Canadian, or Mexican dollars or British pounds. There are 10 'how much change' questions in each round, and four levels of difficulty. The currencies are graphically represented but only by coins.

Chris's Virtual Clock and Watch Collection
This online clock and watch collection provides resources for teaching the time. Similar to a 'Judy clock' the hour hand moves with the minute hand as the time is changed. It includes both analogue and digital clocks.

Clock Wise
This activity allows the user to input any time through the day on a digital clock and see it displayed on the clock face. The user can also choose to have a random time displayed on the clock face and try to correctly identify it. The second activity is graded easy, medium and hard.

Count Us In Games
The games on this site at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation are designed to help children understand basic concepts in mathematics. These games can be played online or they can be downloaded and played at any time. Schedule and Outlines offer teachers access to more resources related to the games. Games will be added to the site in coming months.

The Counting Story
A counting Book for early childhood students learning to count. The simple story is based around a series of pink rabbits numbering 1 through to 11.

Dinosaur Math/Coloring Activities - Enchanted Learning
The print-outs on this site are activities designed for beginning readers in grades 1 and 2. Each one involves having the students add single-digit numbers in order to color a dinosaur scene.

Early Childhood Learning Resources Project
The Early Childhood Learning Resources Project was developed to assist parents to introduce and develop the early literacy and numeracy learning of their young children. A set of high quality, innovative early childhood resource materials have been developed, based on sound contemporary international research. They provide examples of how parents, carers and practitioners can create stimulating environments for their children. Resources include a literature review, posters, 'Building Good Practice' booklet, and videos of practical learning activities with children. The Early Childhood Literacy and Numeracy Cards may be printed out and used in the classroom.

Early years foundation stage
The Birmingham Grid for Learning (BGfL) Foundation pages contain resources, games and activities in a range of subject areas for preschool children. Topics include: personal, social and emotional development; communication and literacy; problem solving, reasoning and numeracy; knowledge and understanding of the world; physical development; and creative development.

Eureka!
Educational resources for early childhood educators including downloadable learning games related to word recognition, alphabet, counting, healthy eating and sentence formation.

Gail Lovely - Resources
Gail Lovely has a collection of links to resources suitable for early childhood. Topics include reading and literacy, maths, tsunamis, hurricanes and seasonal resources such as Christmas, New Year and Polar Express.

Games for Children
This site contains online alphabet, counting and reading games and activities for preschool children. There are alphabet games available in both English and French. The site is intuitive and children learn by playing.

iboard player
This is a collection of interactive resources for the early years . They can be used on any interactive whiteboard and are also simple enough for a child to use independently. Subjects include: numeracy, literacy, science, religious education, history, transport and general ICT resources.

ICT games
This site provides educational ICT activites and games linked to the English National Curriculum. Aimed at lower primary aged students, it includes numeracy and literacy games.

Illuminations - Grades Pre-K - 12
This page contains activities and resources that are appropriate for teachers at the PreK-12 grade level to use as they reflect on, plan for, and implement mathematics education in their classrooms. There are online, interactive, multimedia math investigations, selected web resources, lesson plans, learning objects and interactive maths tools.

K-2 Student Interactives
The Utah Education Network website provides a selection of interactive learning activities for young children on: ABCs, reading, listening, writing, works, art and music, my world, maths, brain games, and health. The health section includes games about feelings and respect.

K-3 Themes at Enchanted Learning
These themes have links to simple crafts, nursery rhymes, coloring book printouts, information, and/or quizzes based on the topic. They include theme pages about animals, language, and special events.

KS1 Bitesize Games: Numeracy
This is a collection of fun and interactive games to help children at junior primary level with numeracy. Topics include: addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, number ordering, number sequences, place value, length, weight, measurement, telling the time, 2D and 3D shapes.

Learning Planet - Preschool, kindergarten
A small collection of simple literacy and numeracy games are provided for young children, including an alphabet game, count your chickens, a matching game, a number train, timeworks clock, and other games with shapes, colours, letters and numbers.

Lego Education: Activity Bank
Within this section of the Lego Website is a variety of activities suitable for early childhood through to students studying robotics. Curriculum topics cover some Key Learning Areas.

Literacy Centre
Children will learn uppercase letter, lowercase letters, shapes, writing, words, numbers, and colors, playing flash games. This site is also useful for teachers of languages other than English, like Spanish, German and French.

Little Fingers Games
A range of interactive games are provided for young children including alphabet and counting games. However the money games use US coins. The games give grade level for each activity.

Magnetic numbers
This interactive teaching program allows learners to drag and drop numerals to construct and answer number sentences. The game may be used with interactive whiteboards or on individual computers.

Make and draw clocks
Print paper clock models and clock worksheets on which hands must be drawn.

Math Forum - Teachers' Place
The Math Forum, an online community funded in part by the National Science Foundation and hosted by Swarthmore College, has been built with the contributions of math educators, interested volunteers, and online programming groups, including the Perl and Apache communities. The site presents a collection of on-line maths resources, including puzzles and games as well as homework help and the serious stuff. It supports the development of the community of teachers and students, creators and appliers of mathematics, the education community, and all others with an interest in mathematics.

Math Games for Young Kids
This website contains printable and interactive online activities for young students aged between 3 - 6. From learning numbers and matching numbers to easy addition this resource is a great way to encourage math whilst using ICT's.

MathsCards
This is a simple interactive game for young children where they can click on a number and match it with a picture of numbers of objects. Children can work at increasing levels of difficulty.

MathTools: PreK
This website gives a compilation of math tools for early learning, ages 3-5 years. Covering topics such as pattern blocks, operations with numbers, addition, subtraction, number sense and counting, the site links to a variety of learning objects and mathematical interactive games. For some there are suggested lesson plans and procedures. Others are self-explanatory.

More Fun on the High Seas
A collection of resources with a pirate theme are provided: a pirate patterns mat, a pattern sheet, pirate board game, maths mat, dominoes, and a colouring sheet.

Mrs Pancake
This website provides free downloadable resources which are suitable for children age from 4 to 11. Resources range from original ideas for things you can make with your class to items for classroom displays.

Number time
Number time is an educational site from the BBC, with games, activities, animations and songs aimed at developing numeracy skills in 5-7 year olds.

Numberjacks
The BBC site 'Numberjacks' has a variety of interactive number games for young children, including a very simple sudoku, matching numbers game, number snap, number jigsaw, dominoes and more. There are also colouring printouts of number shapes and a recipe for numberjack biscuits.

Picture Arithmetic
Picture Arithmetic is freeware that allows pupils to practice the four rules of arithmetic. Ten questions are set and marked with each correct answer causing part of a mystery picture to be revealed. By editing the teacher's control pages, the teacher can control the degree of difficulty of the questions set and/or select a particular number to add, subtract, multiply or divide by.

Position paper on early childhood mathematics
A joint position paper of the Australian Association of Mathematics Teachers and Early Childhood Australia, this paper recommends appropriate actions to ensure that all young children have access to powerful mathematics ideas and learning in their early years, and to learning that ensures success and positive dispositions. It recommends pedagogical practices for early childhood educators, teacher education insitutions and educator providers.

Read clocks
Generates random clock faces at various levels for reading activities.

Sesame Street
For fans of Sesame Street, this colourful site, based on the television characters, offers children a range of activities to complete either on or offline. Children can print off alphabet letters, shapes and opposites to colour; read an online storybook about Elmo's trip to a farm and complete a range of activities that require visual discrimination skills (find the hidden letter/number), manual dexterity (join the dots and fit the shapes) and decision-making skills (help Cookie Monster to choose foods for a salad). Suitable for Early Childhood.

Smartkiddies Mathematics
Smartkiddies is an online, maths learning program for primary school children. The complete mathematics program is developed by teachers and includes interactive maths lessons, mathematics worksheets, maths assessment tasks, and maths number challenges. It is available as a free trial for home use before fees apply but it is available free to all schools. Teachers need to register.

Thirteen ways of looking at a half
This interactive game looks at fractions and demonstrates how 1/2 can look before progressing into the game.

2feet4feet
Letchworth Museum in England produced this site to accompany a museum workshop for Early childhood pupils. The workshop can be used as part of a Science Unit, focusing on hands-on, interactive learning. The Animal Trail is a good interactive whiteboard activity.

ABC TV's Our Animals
Developed to support an ABC TV series of the same name aimed at lower to middle primary students, this web site looks at Australian animals, their physical features, food, homes and environment and social groups. For animals in the air, on the ground and in the water, there are colouring sheets and a glossary.

All about bilbies
This topic on the bilby has information on: burrows, diet, description, habitat, predators, and the future.

All about farm animals: Farm animal activities for kids and teachers
This site provides information about farm animals such as ducks, sheep, turkeys, cows, chickens, and includes activities, clipart, sounds, stories, and some videos e.g. making cheese and butter.

Animal Allsorts: An A-Z of Animal Facts
Part of the Australian kidcyber website, this set of pages presents facts about animals for young children. An animal has been chosen for each letter of the alphabet. Some Australian animals are included.

Animals of coastal habitats
This Australian Museum website provides information and colourful illustrations of some key Australian animals found in coastal habitats, including oceans, coastal waters, beaches, sand dunes, rock pools and rock platforms, estuaries and mangroves.

ARKive: Images of Life on Earth
ARKive is the Noah's Ark for the Internet era - a unique initiative, gathering together into one centralised digital library, films, photographs and audio recordings of the world's species. ARKive is leading the online conservation effort - finding, sorting, cataloguing and copying the key audio-visual records of the world's animals, plants and fungi, and building them into comprehensive and enduring multi-media digital profiles. Using film, photographs and audio recordings, ARKive is creating a unique record of the world's biodiversity - complementing other species information datasets, and making a key resource available for scientists, conservationists, educators and the general public.

Arkive Education
Archive Education is a free multi-media educational resource, containing resources related to the UK National Curriculum in Science, specifically animals. There are lesson plans, links, project ideas, and support materials. Resources are grouped by age, starting with 5-7 and up to 16+. There is also a collection of interactive games.

Astronomy for kids
This site provides information on the solar system, sun, meteorites, stars, galaxies, planets, moon, comets, asteroids, astronomy dictionary, and space exploration. Each topic provides a picture and simple text.

Australian Animals - Mammals
Created by an Australian teacher-librarian, this page contains links to sites with facts and information about 15 different Australian mammals, organised according to complexity.

Australian Dinosaur Story
The Australian Dinosaur Story website contains information about the breakup of Pangaea and the formation of the Australian continent, the environment in which Australian dinosaurs lived and the discovery of dinosaur fossils. The Lark Quarry dinosaur trackways are featured. Other site features include 3D dinosaur animations suitable for young children, quiz and crossword interactives, and classroom lesson plan ideas with downloadable student activities.

Australian Plants: Junior Primary
Focussing on students from Reception to Year 3, this study guide has been created for use in the Adelaide Botanical Gardens but could be adapted for use in other locations.

Backyard Birdwatch - Birds of Urban Australia
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's ( ABC) simple online identification guide to over 50 birds commonly found in Australian urban locations. Users can browse the database, or search for a bird by size, view a picture, or listen to sounds.

BBC Science and Nature: Pets
This BBC website on pets has a variety of intelligence tests for pets including dogs, cats, fish, horses, and rabbit, ferret and rodent tests. It also provides pet fact files, articles on caring for pets, and a link to Wildfacts, facts about wild animals

Bilby videos
The Australian Bilby Appreciation Society presents 6 short videos of bilbies taken under a red-pink night light. The video clips are available in both small, 'low quality' and larger 'medium quality' versions.

Birds Australia
Birds Australia (also known as the Royal Australasian Ornithologists Union) is one of this nation's oldest conservation organisations. BA is dedicated to the understanding, conservation and enjoyment of Australia's wild, native birds. Birds Australia has joined with bird and habitat conservation organisations worldwide to form a partnership called BirdLife International.

Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo website provides videos, podcasts and slideshows of the animals in the zoo, including the gorilla, sea lion, monkey, bat, zoo babies, walrus, porcupine, tiger, snow leopard, tortoise, lemur, frog, and more.

Bubblesphere
Bubbles, bubble blowing, bubble solutions, bubble history, bubble fun, bubble games, bubble machines and bubble trivia are found on Professor Bubbles website.

BugWise
The BugWise program has been designed to enable schools and other groups to get involved in ecological research. Here you will find out what invertebrates are, what they do, their incredible diversity and why they are vitally important to a healthy planet. The Invertebrate Guide provides a fact page with image of each insect.

ChemShorts for Kids
Bubble Gum Chemistry Kids, all you really have to do in this 'experiment' is chew your favorite kind of gum for a while. Think about what you learn here while you are chewing ...

Cleveland Metroparks Zoo vodcast
The Zoo's video podcasts give a glimpse of what's happening with the animals, what's new at the zoo and what happens behind the scenes. Videos of animals include: elephant, cockatoo. rhinosceros, seal, sea lion, tiger, stingrays, koala, monkey, primates, and more.

Composting for kids
This scripted slide set gives a simple step by step guide to setting up a compost heap. It covers the essential ingredients for good compost and the uses for it.

Creature Feature: Bottlenose dolphins
National Geographic for Kids provides information on bottlenose dolphins with facts and photos, video, a map of locations, an e-card and a fact sheet to print. Links are provided to related resources.

Creature Features
Creature Features is an ABC Television series about pets, animals and the people who care for them. The website contains information about a variety of animals, things to make and do, instructions for drawing animals, and a articles about celebrity pets.

Creature features
National Geographic for Kids provides information on a wide variety of animals with facts and photos, video, a map of locations, and an e-card. Links are provided to related resources. Browse animals by species or habitat.

CSIRO - Double Helix Science Club
For students, teachers or anyone interested in science, this site provides news and a host of experiments, activities and projects. If you're a student, you'll find out about amazing experiments you can try for yourself, and see what it's really like to be a scientist. If you're a teacher, you can discover new ways to approach current topics in science and new classroom activities. If you're a member of the public with an interest in science, you'll find clear, easy-to-read, illustrated explanations of 'science in the news'.

CSIRO entomology: For kids
CSIRO Australia provides this site on insects - for children. It includes concentration games on beetles, bugs, butterflies and moths, and flies; wordseek puzzles on ants, butterflies, insects, ladybeetles, flies, wasps, spiders, beetles; and a collection of colouring pictures of bees, beetles, bugs, a butterfly, cockroaches, a fly and a mantid.

Darwin's footsteps
Darwin's footsteps is a simple interactive game about Charles Darwin and his discoveries.

Dinosaur Playground
This site gives younger users a chance to play a number of games with dinosaur content including a simple jigsaw, a memory game, and matching the bones. The site links to Walking with Dinosaurs, an ABC mirror site of the BBC television series website.

Dinosaur Theme Unit
This unit has been created by abcteach.com and focuses on internet resources suitable for teaching younger children. It contains many printable pages which can be turned into mini-books, colouring sheets and activities. There are links also to resources on other internet sites.

Dinosaurs
From the Busy Teachers cafe, here are activities, Learning Centers, Resource Websites and Websites for Kids all related to a dinosaur unit for younger students.

Dolphin theme: Preschool activities and crafts
The website provides dolphin theme printable activities, lesson plans, crafts and coloring pages suitable for toddlers, preschool and kindergarten.

Dolphins: mankind celebrating dolphinkind
Dolphinkind offers a variety of puzzles, games, colouring books and activities for children. The theme is intended to educate & raise awareness of dolphins and dolphin relates issues in a playful and interactive learning environment.

Drinking water and ground water kids' stuff
The US Environmental Protection Agency provides this selection of games and activities about the water cycle. A further link also provides teacher lesson plans.

Easter Bilby
Darrell Lea chocolates has funded this website to support the endangered Australian bilby. It contains games, project material, teaching resources and lesson plans, competitions, bilby pictures and video material.

EducaPoles: Pictures
The International Polar Foundation provides this collection of photographs free for educational use. Included are: whales and dolphins (cetaceans), Antarctic marine biology (scientific activities), Antarctic marine biology (flora and fauna), marine mammals from Antarctica, a colony of emperor penguins, sea ice and icebergs, sailing through Antarctic ice, birds of the Antarctic and the South Atlantic, Polar scientific activities, ice coring, polar bears, types of ice, Arctic and Antarctic fauna.

EekoWorld
EekoWorld is designed to help children between the ages of 6 and 9 learn about the important role they can play in taking care of the earth. EekoWorld (Environmental Education for Kids Online) features an engaging and interactive format that invites children to explore, experiment, and collaborate as they learn about conservation and the environment.

Entomology for beginners
A good place to start finding out about insects. This page provides some basic information on insects: it discusses anatomy and metamorphosis, laval and pupal stages. It includes a simple animation of the metamorphosis of the butterfly.

Eugene's web challenge: The River Murray
The Murray River web challenge is a simple quiz for young children with links to other sites for more detailed information. There is also a printable answer sheet.

Eyes on the sky, feet on the ground: Hands on astronomy activities for kids
This collection of children's online astronomy activities includes hundreds of fun explorations into astronomy as a classroom tool for learning how to theorize, experiment, and analyze data. The activities are fully illustrated and contain detailed, step-by-step instructions as well as suggested discussion topics.

Eyes on the tiger
This educational resource invites you to glimpse the world's largest cat through a variety of lenses: poacher, tourist, tiger cub, and prey. Then some challenging questions are proposed and suggestions for classroom activities.

Facts About Cows
Written for the younger audience this site has information about Cows with a link to the pasteurisation process, the health benefits of milk, games and other websites.

Farm - Weblinks for Little Kids
From Barrack Hills Primary School, this site has links for young children about farms and farm animals. There is information about animals and their young, animal sounds, a visit to a farm and stories and writing activities about farms.

Find out about plants with Zip the bee
This interactive activity provides information about the different parts of a plant, the plant life cycle and pollination. A multiple choice quiz is also provided.

Food Webs
Students can use this site to create food webs for Australian grasslands, African grasslands and Antarctica. The site also contains a simple food web mystery. There are lesson plans and fact sheets to complement the food webs.

Forest Education Initiative: Learning resources
This environmental education website provides teaching resources based on the age group of the children or the curriculum subjects you want to cover. The resources provide a wealth of suggestions for activities focusing on trees, wood and paper, and the woodland environment, developing skills and knowledge across a wide range of curriculum areas. It includes: minibeast hunt, trees and plant life cycles, paper mache animals, identifying wooden objects, worksheets and quizes.

A forest is a very busy place
This Western Australian 'Forest Pack' is a resource for teacher to explore the concept of forests and trees. It includes lesson plans, activity ideas, background information and lists of resources. Some pages can be used as classroom posters for displays by enlarging them to A3 size, and colouring them with dyes.' Activities are designed across a number of learning areas to enable teachers to integrate the theme where possible.

Franklin Institute Online - Activities
The activities on this web site are intended to support classes actually visiting the Franklin Institute, but nevertheless are simple classroom activities in areas such as Bio-Science, Communications, Computers, Earth Science, Energy, Mathematics, Oceanography, Physical Science, Space and Transportation. The activities have been assigned grade levels, e..g. K-3, 4-8

Free wildflower and plant photos
This website provides a range of online photographs of wildflowers, plants and trees that may be freely used for both personal and commercial applications as long as the domain name is credited.

Gardening with children
Bring the joy of gardening to your children with gardening activities and information. Gardening with children provides activities that entertain and educate early childhood aged children.

Gardening with kids
Indoor and outdoor ideas are provided to encourage children to nurture and learn from their natural environment. For example: growing carrot tops or wheat or alfalfa seed, craft with natural objects, guessing game, planting a small garden.

Gardening with young children: dig in
Simple indoor and outdoor gardening activities are described to encourage creative learning experiences.

Geoscience pathways
The Geoscience Pathways Project aims to change attitudes towards the Geosciences by demonstrating their essential contribution to modern society. Collaboration between primary, secondary, TAFE and university sectors have provided a range of engaging activities, many with an interdisciplinary focus. Once part of the website students and teachers can place projects, assessment tasks and plans to share. The website includes school activities for the R-5, 6-9, 10-12 age groups, careers and courses information, and teacher resources.

Good science books for children: Preschool
Science picture books will help develop observation and thinking. Titles of books are included if they develop an idea in a way that can lead to understanding scientific thought. Topics include: displacement of water, noses, spider, Australian animals, wombat, apple, quicksand, frogs, push, animals, wolf, sorting objects, capacity, weight, snails.

Great Barrier Reef image gallery
A small collection of underwater photographs are provided of reef coral, clown fish, sea anemone, silver batfish, golden damselfish, lion fish, orange sea star, from the Barrier Reef, Australia.

Greater bilby
The greater bilby is the largest of the small, rat-like marsupials that are known as bandicoots. This site provides links to short videos and images of bilbies that may be used for educational purposes.

Growing kids: Kids having fun with gardening and in the garden
This website provides a list of activities especially for kids who like to grow and make things. It includes things children can make for the garden and things to make from the garden.

Houghton Mifflin Science
A collection of science activities from K-6. The site includes lesson ideas and activities for students on topics such as; Plants, Animals, Earth, Movement, Weather, Matter, Energy, Environment and ecosystems.

Ian Reed's Science Wizards
Designed to supply science teachers with interesting and dynamic ideas for demonstrations and experiments for use in science classes. Aimed at a wide range of ages and abilities. Guaranteed to spark the interest of every teacher and student.

Inside the Human Body : Respiratory System
This website is filled with information and activities about the human respiratory system. The section provided for Grades 1-3 covers the basics of lungs and their function with an illustrated story, coloring book, interactive games, and downloadable worksheets. Older students focus in on smoking, air pollution, and other issues in addition to covering respiratory system biology.

Kids farm
Kids Farm is about animals and people that live and work on a ranch in Colorado, USA. It is a site for children to learn about farm and wild animals, animal sounds, a wildlife rehab center, what grows on the farm and farm equipment. It includes spelling, puzzles, horses, cows, chickens, sheep, turkeys, dogs, goats, ducks, geese, elk, llamas, kids rodeo, and pets.

Kids saving energy
A US Department of Energy site for kids on renewable energy. Provides links to information about solar, wind, geothermal and other general renewable energy alternatives.

KinderGARDEN
This website provides an introduction to the many ways children can interact with plants and the outdoors. Topics include: building a school garden, ideas and curricula, nutritional benefits, cylinder gardening.

Kindergarten zoo animal contract
This unit of work provides a selection of tasks related to zoo animals.

Kitchen science
This unit of activities provides fun ways to explore science right in the kitchen. It uses low-cost supplies that you already have on hand. Experiments include: Dancing Rasins (gas bubbles), Peppy Pepper (static electricity), Balloon Blowing Machine (carbon dioxide gas), Oobleck (liquid/solid cornstarch), Fun putty, and Baking Soda Pop-ups.

Koala project downloads
The Australian Koala Foundation provides this collection of free koala graphics download pages. There are maps and diagrams as well as a variety of colour photographs of koalas including one of a tiny baby koala.

Learning to love Australian birds: Primary activities
This unit of work has been created to support National Bird Day. It has a section on understanding bird features and a maths challenge.

Lego Education: Activity Bank
Within this section of the Lego Website is a variety of activities suitable for early childhood through to students studying robotics. Curriculum topics cover some Key Learning Areas.

Little froggy
This learning quest encourages students to find out about frogs - their habitat and life cycle in order to develop a frog garden in the school.

Marine Discovery Centre
The Marine Discovery Centre aims to encourage an appreciation and understanding of Marine life with a view to promoting conservation and sustainable use. The website provides information on tours, models, coatal signs, photo gallery, quizes, games. Bookings are invited for school excursions.

Melbourne Zoo pictures
A wide range of animal and zoo pictures are presented. Click on each picture to enlarge it.

Ms Lee's Kindergarten Experiments with Science
This site contains a number of classroom experiments for younger children: Separating Liquids and Floating Eggs, Understanding Volume, Moving Molecules and Diffusion, Mixing Primary Colors, Testing the Strength of an Ordinary Egg, and Investigating a Burning Candle

National Geographic coloring book: Bottlenose dolphins
National Geographic for Kids provides a printable colouring picture of bottlenose dolphins. Links are provided to related resources and a trivia quiz about dolphins.

National Geographic Kids
National Geographic Kids is a topical magazine-style website designed for children with stories, puzzles, games, feature articles, information about animals, homework helpers, and online activities. There is a free email newsletter for parents and teachers.

Nature detectives
This UK website provides early years online activities, creative ideas and printable resources about trees, outdoor play, autumn and minibeasts. Activities centre on British animals and plants, but ideas may be adapted for the Australian environment.

News in Science (ABC)
From the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, this site provides breaking science stories. General topics include Health & Medical, Environment & Nature, Space & Astronomy, Ancient Worlds, and Innovation & Technology. There is a mailing list for news alerts. In addition the site offers a free news ticker which can be embedded in an organisational website.

NSW Country Areas Program research modules stage one
The New South Wales Country Areas Program online research modules for years 1 and 2 aim to provide an easy introduction to Internet research. Topics are aligned with the NSW HSIE and Science and Technology syllabus. Topics include: Christmas, animal homes, occupations, food groups, toys, conserving water, Operation Koala, dinosaurs, five senses, energy and more.

NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service - Resources for children under 6
The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service educational resources include a worksheet on matching animals to their habitats: desert, wetland, grassland, woodland. Animals are: echidna, kookaburra, skink, snake, frog, possum, platypus, kangaroo, emu, spoonbill, duck, gecko, wombat, goanna, koala. There is also a children's gallery where students can send their pictures of plants and animals.

Nutrition and the Food Pyramid
Mrs. Rollman's first graders want to teach you a little bit about the foods that are good for you. Click on the pyramid to learn about any of the food groups!

Ocean Animal Printouts
Oceans cover almost 3/4 of the Earth's surface and contain roughly 97% of the Earth's water supply. Life on Earth originated in the salty seas, and contines to be home to an incredibly diverse web of life.

Oceans
This unit of work for the younger students has been developed to raise awareness of ocean life and contains a lengthy list of books suitable to read to the younger student.

Oceans and seas: Activities and information
Enchanted Learning provides this theme page for K-3 learners. It includes rhymes, crafts, ocean information and a printable calendar, activities and worksheets, writing quizzes, ocean animals and beach words in German, Italian, Spanish, French and Swedish, alphabet printouts, and colouring pages on many sea creatures and marine life.

PestWorld for Kids
What are pests? Think of them as animals out of place. Out in nature, they're just doing their jobs. But when they move into our homes and yards, then we call them pests. So come explore the world of pests. Then you can use your knowledge to outwit the pests in your world. PestWorld For Kids is sponsored by the US National Pest Management Association. The site includes interactive games. For teachers there are lesson plans, and classroom resources.

Pets - Weblinks for Little Kids
Published by Barrack Heights Primary School, this sites has links off to information about pets. This includes everything you need to know about house pets, a day in the life of a vet, sites about dogs and cats and stories and writing activities about pets.

Planet Science under 11s
Planet Science provides activities and links on science for younger children, with icons to indicate suitability for preschool, infants or primary school age children.

Plants
This thematic unit provides cross-curricular activity ideas on the theme of plants. It includes activities about seed germination, water moving through a plant, making a rain gauge and measuring rainfall, parts of a plant.

Possum Magic Teachers' Notes
A collection of literacy activities suited to the early childhood reader, surrounding the book by author Mem Fox called Possum Magic.

Potatoes
This KidCyber page on potatoes gives simple information on the potato, the potato plant and how it is grown.

Potatoes
These activities, provided by Horticulture New Zealand, will take children on a potato discovery adventure giving them an understanding of the importance of potatoes for themselves and also to both local and global communities. The website includes teacher's notes, posters, templates, instructions for growing potatoes in a bucket, and classroom cooking.

Potatoes for schools
This UK Potato Council website provides information on how to grow potatoes, where potatoes come from and how to cook them. The site has a children's centre with recipes, interactive resources and colouring pages; and a teacher's centre with additional resources and worksheets.

Powerful potato
This thematic unit provides background information on the potato, instructions for a class activity of growing a potato, related activites and resources.

Preschool environmental education: Little green steps
The Little Green Steps program promotes sustainability among Central Coast (NSW) preschools and early childhood centres. There is a practical and easy to read guide for educators 'Climbing little green steps' which provides ideas about developing sustainability resources; and a water education lesson plan for children aged 3-5 years.

Primary Connections: Linking Science with literacy
A partnership between the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) - Primary Connections promotes linking the teaching of science with that of literacy to enrich the learning experience for students. The project supports teachers and schools with an integrated teaching and learning approach;p Professional learning workshops; curriculum units supported with online resources; an ongoing research programme; an Indigenous perspective.

Primary Science Lessons
Simple lesson plans for Primary School Science teachers available from Dr. John Elfick's site at University of Queensland. Comprehensive program for Years 1 - 6 covering Queensland core topics of Animals, Energy, Human body, Measuring, Plants, Rocks and soils, and Substances.

Primary Science teaching resources
The Monash Science Centre Primary Science Teaching Resources provide topics within the 4 main science domains: chemistry, biology, physics, earth science, and also a section on safety procedures. Lesson plans are designed around a particular theme and may be used as individual experiments or where appropriate, as a sequence. Topics include: the Earth, chemical reactions, electricity, light, flight, matter, density, volcanoes, chemical changes, diffusion, animals, Australian animals, dinosaurs, the human body, skeleton, animal classification, space, solar system, rockets, water cycle, pollution, worm farms, food webs, salinity, native garden, convection, clouds, weather system, atmosphere and more.

Questacon Science Play
Questacon Science Play is a hands-on science programme for children aged 0-6 years old which aims to encourage young children to explore and learn about the world around them. It tours regional, rural and remote areas of Australia, providing science and technology learning experiences for young children aged 0-6 and offering early childhood educators, parents and carers of young children with valuable science education resources.

Reef Ed - Early years units
The Early Years units are designed to support teachers in curriculum planning and developing programs, through a variety of teaching and learning approaches that will enable students to gain essential knowledge, understanding and values of the Great Barrier Reef. Units of work include: our Great Barrier Reef; polyps and pufferfish; caring for the Reef; out and about in the community. Videos are provided for each topic.

Reef Ed - Students
The Reef Ed students section provides resources and webquests for different year levels, for exploring topics about the Great Barrier Reef. The 'Discover me in the sea' webquest is targeted at early years students; 'Exploring wetlands' is for primary and middle school; 'Pollution solutions' and 'Save our sharks' are for middle or senior secondary, and Interpreting the reef is an excursion activity. A link is also provided to a visual library of images that may be used for educational purposes.

Resources for Learning and Teaching
This website created by an active South Australian teacher librarian contains on-line units of work & activities, thematic web pages with internet links, samples of student portfolios, information for teachers, and general information. Topics covered include Integrating KidPix into the Curriculum, the Role of the Teacher-Librarian, Information Literacy, the Information Process and Resource Based Learning.

Responsible pet ownership program for schools: Junior primary
This is a Victorian Government educational site for primary school students featuring information on responsible pet ownership. The Junior Primary website has links to: Pet club; working pets; choosing a pet; great art work; lost pets; dealing with dogs; dealing with cats; games (Snakes and ladders, and Super Sleuth); teachers' resources and other links.

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds
An english site for early childhood students on the protection of birds. It includes information and interactive games on wildlife.

Rusty loses his loop
Rusty Loses His Loop is a water conservation book designed for children aged 4-8 years with an accompanying online booklet with teaching ideas and activities which is also suitable for parents and their children. The central theme of the book concerns the use of our water resources and the impact this has on the natural environment of the Coorong and River Murray. The freely downloadable resource booklet provides lesson ideas and activities including a zeotrope to make.

San Francisco Zoological Society: Podcasts
The San Francisco Zoological Society provides podcasts about caring for the animals in the zoo, including: seals, lemur, penguins, Sumantran tiger, meerkat, lion, reindeer, giraffe, siamang, porcupine, bears, siamang, tapir, hippopotamus, koala.

Science for Children
This page by a practicing teacher describes a number of simple science experiments that can be undertaken by young children with very basic equipment.

Science Image
Presented by CSIRO, Australia's major science research organisation, Scienceimage is an image library specialising in science and nature images. Every image held at the science image site is supplied with a short caption, scientific notes (if relevant) its source and copyright information. The website requires free registration. Selecting a school licence enables the use of free images (100 Kb only) that may be downloaded from the website for school use, such as school projects and activity sheets.

Science lesson plans that teach literacy
This website is devoted to providing lesson plans and ideas for teachers who want to include science instruction for young children. It includes highly tactile lesson plans that to inspire students to read and write with the purpose of inquiry. Topics include: rocks and dinosaurs; plants including a root box that shows roots; magnetism; crickets; class pets and insects; weather; pollination; using your senses.

Science postcards: Science exploration through stories
Science Postcards encourages the development of scientific exploration through children's literature. The postcards are an ideal way to motivate your class when they receive a 'postcard' with a personalised message that 'someone' has written to them. The website includes free activities, experiments, lesson plans, resources, and curriculum ideas for primary school (level 0-8). The site is free but requires registration.

Science Snacks
The Exploratorium Science Snackbooks show how to conduct science experiments or build miniature science exhibits with inexpensive, easily available materials.

Scientriffic: a Science Magazine for Ages 7+
A science magazine for children aged 7+. It is one of the educational projects developed by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), designed to encourage students to participate in science and mathematics activities. The magazine offers a range of science activities and experiments for children, educational science articles and stories, competitions, and more.

Sense-ational
This simple interactive activity introduces students to the 5 senses. In 'Making Sense" children match objects with the appropriate sensory organ. 'Inside story' provides more information about each sensory organ. 'Sensational Sue' is a game about identifying objects using different senses.

Shapes cluster
This website provides simple books, activities and experiments about shapes related to curriculum areas of science, maths, and literacy. Topics include: making paper, noodle structure, opaque sun prints, straw gliders, strong shapes, suds for bubbles, spinning tops, tubular coaster, shape walk, I see shapes, bubble geometry, pyramids and cubes, tangrams. A list of picture books is also provides with links to related activities.

Simply Science
This website has been developed over several years by John Pearce, a Primary School teacher in Victoria. It contains material for Primary School teachers and children around the following themes: ICT & Science; Ideas for using ICT in Science; Units of Work; Teaching ideas for various science topics; Tutorials on some popular computer applications, For Kids; Activities and sites for children; Science Starters; Simple standalone activities for the classroom; Science Sites; Links; Flash Bits; Some Flash animations to try; Simply Science Blog; and a newsletter.

Soft Shelled Eggs
This simple science experiment uses an egg and vinegar to demonstrate the role of calcium carbonate in hardening shells or bones. The site includes an activity sheet and a second experiment called 'Knotted Bones'.

Solar Energy - Year 3 and 4
Students begin by comparing how different colors absorb solar energy. Students then predict whether insulating air under a glass jar will help raise the temperature of the system. Based on what they learn, students build and use a solar cooker.

Space place
An interactive site for students, who will find activities such as games, puzzles, drawings, models of planets to make, experiments, animations and more. Also provided are intriguing science facts. Printable images of Earth and space are provided for teachers' use.

StarChild: Learning center for young astronomers
This NASA site provides information for primary students about our solar system, astronauts and space travel. The site includes ideas for classroom activities and is available as level 1 for younger children or level 2 for middle primary.

Suzy's fact sheets
The simple science experiments Suzy Cato suggests in these fact sheets could be useful in increasing the visibility of science in the early learning environment. A very wide range of topics are listed alphabetically.

Tree journal
In this Science activity children develop their observation skills in the study of life in and around a single tree. The observations can be done as an individual or whole class project. The lesson plan includes art and craft activities.

Trees Are Terrific - Travels with Pierre
Trees Are Terrific is a curriculum about trees for kindergarten - second grade (K-2) based on the Illinois State curriculum. It includes teacher's notes about content and suggests activities.

Walking with Beasts - Skeletal Jigsaws
Constructed by the BBC Walking with Beasts site, this fossil fun game invites younger students to try their hand at being a palaeontologist with beasts skeleton jigsaws. There are 3 jigsaws, and 3 levels of difficulty to choose from. Other activities include Burying Bodies, Making Fossils, Footprints and Camouflage.

Water Cycle
Evaporation, condensation, precipitation, and collection: this web page explains it all for lower primary students. There are the five printable activity sheets, available in both color or color-it-yourself black-and-white. The first printable illustrates the entire cycle, and each individual process has its own sheet. You'll find them at the very bottom of the page. For more 'Super Simple Science' explore the topics in the horizontal menu at the top of the page.

Water splash: Early years teaching pack
This WaterAid resource for the early years is a 16 page colour booklet with eight colourful posters and information and activities on water. The pack is designed for children in the early years and is recommended by the National Day Nurseries Association.

Weather Eye: Cadet section
This site provides lesson plans and activities for grades 2 to 8, on a weather theme. Topics include: clouds, floods, disasters, climate and more.

What is this bug? A guide to common invertebrates of New Zealand
This browseable website provides simple illustrations and text to help identify different insects and is relevant for both Australia and New Zealand. It provide pictures and initial information about the most frequently asked-about invertebrates. The content may be copied for personal, non-profit or educational purposes provided that the source is acknowledged.

Whoosh: Space for Kids
Part of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Space Gateway, this website contains a gallery of space pictures that children can contribute to, online space videos, fact sheets about each of the planets, interactive shockwave games and puzzles, an interview with Andy Thomas, and a constellation game to assist children in identifying groups of stars.

wickED - Theme: Sea
A collection of activities around oceans, for both the younger and an older student. The projects listed could be adapted to suit the Australian curriculum.

WILD Sample Audio - ABC
Part of the ABC (Australian Broadcasting Commission) Archives and Library services, this page contains links to its sound library for Australian birds, mammals, insects, reptiles, habitats and general sounds. Wild Sound and Wild Vision links lead to a sample of its Wild Database.

Wirlit K-3
This site provides free interactive and print resources for early and lower primary teachers for topics and themes including pandas, bears, from farm to table, Antartica, and the Solar System.

Wombat Foundation - Kids stuff
The Wombat Foundation provides a downloadable simple word search with words related to wombats.

You and your pets
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website is for young children. The topics include: what's good about having a pet; choosing a pet; keeping pets safe; some unusual facts; and a pet/animals quiz.

Your food
This page from the 'Kids' Health' section on the Child Youth Health website is for young children. There is a food chart that may be printed. Each food type is described and examples given. A Flash game 'Fill your plate' is provided. Links are provided to related topics with more detailed information.

Zoo Atlanta videos
Zoo Atlanta has a collection of videos of Mei Lan the panda. Other short video clips feature: lion cubs, tiger, orangutan, giraffe, kangaroo, tortoise, otters, meerkat.