Study Search | Primary School Links

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 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 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.

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.

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.

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.

Art and life in Africa
This site contains a database of 47 lesson plans created by the Art and Life in Africa Project Teachers' Forum related to Art, Music, Science, Social Studies/World Culture and divided into grade levels : Elementary, Middle School/Junior High, and High School.

Australian animal printouts (Enchanted Learning)
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 - Primary French
The Primary French website has both animated and non-animated content, and is available in both Flash and non-Flash. Primary French 1 teaches the numbers to 31, some basic questions and provides games, songs, and printable worksheets. There is a link to Primary French 2, where similar materials are available.

BBC Schools Online
BBC Schools Online is a service for children, parents and teachers at home and at school. It contains comprehensive listings of BBC resources available online for home learning and curriculum based resources for teachers. Fun learning resources are categorised as pre-school, 4-11 years, 11-16 years and 16+ years.

Bear Den
This site has all the bear facts. From the evolution of bears and efforts at conservation to information the vital statistics, habitat reproduction of all eight species of bear, this site has a wealth of information about bears. There are tips on bear safety (for you, not them) and a collection of quotes about bears and conservation in general. Kids can visit the Cub's Den and find fascinating facts about bears. Younger students should visit the cub den.

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.

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, wherever possible, correct 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.

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.

Celebrations and Commemorations
These units of work are a joint venture between the NSW Centenary of Federation Committee and the NSW Department of Education and Training as part of the project, One World, Many Democracies: Citizens of the World. Student activities on the theme of celebrations are organised by year level: K-2, 3-4, 5-6.

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 Peace Pavilion
Enriching the lives of children through peace for all. The Peace Pavilion is dedicated to pursuing and promoting peace through example. Available on this web site is an every day approach to peacemaking using the four concepts of peace: peace for me, peace for everyone, peace for the planet, and peace for us.

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.

Children's stories and folktales from Indonesia
This collection of children's stories and folktales from Indonesia includes stories in English and Indonesian.

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 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 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, Poetry and 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.

Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting
The Clearinghouse on Early Education and Parenting (CEEP) provides publications and information to the worldwide early childhood and parenting communities.

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 global 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.

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.

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.

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.

Down the toilet
Down the toliet is a resource suitable for primary aged students. The resource focusses on issues to do with toilets and sanitation. It includes a examples of different types of toilets in the world and games to play that demonstrate issues of sanitation and poverty.

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 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.

Easter
This web page contains links to information about the symbols and customs of Easter, the Easter story, colour-ins, crafts, puzzles, lesson plans, and Easter around the world.

Easter: curriculum context
The celebration of the Christian festival of Easter provides an opportunity for teachers to investigate with their students, the religious, historical and cultural significance of religious festivals in the Australian community. Links are provided to resources for phase of development eg early childhood, middle childhood, middle adolescence.

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.

Easter traditions
This webpage provides links to Easter sites around the world with information on the traditions in different countries.

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.

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

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.

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.

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; Honouring the Elders; Traditional Foods.

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: 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.

Fool's Gold - a Critical Look at Computers in Childhood
The overwhelming pressure on educators and parents to computerize childhood has fueled a national debate on the proper role of computers in children's lives.

For the Juniors: ABC Education TV for 6-8 year olds
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.

Framework for Action on Values Education in Early Childhood
Research confirms the importance of the early years to positively influence children in a long-lasting way. Children's values are largely determined by the time they reach the age of formal schooling.

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 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.

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 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.

Grades K-3
This is a compilation of websites that maybe useful when studying a range of topics with young children.It is anticipated that this will be a resource for teachers who are looking to use the Internet for whole group instruction or to provide additional information for classroom use. The miscellaneous links contain sites that contain activities for students, lessons for teachers, background information and scores of links to related topics.

Hairy potato head
This experiment suitable for junior primary or younger (with assistance) is an easy way to demonstrate seed germination and the quick growth of grass.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Jirrabal, Dreamtime stories by Maisie Barlow
Jirrbal is a book including four different rainforest dreaming stories, by Queensland Indigenous writer, Maisie Barlow. This webpage provides ideas and activities to use in the classroom to enhance the enjoyment of the stories.

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-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.

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.

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

Kindergarten Lesson Plans
Contains a variety of lesson plans suitable for use with young children, including those concerned with Cooking, Integrated Units, Language, Arts, Math, Multi-Cultural, Art

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.

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; poetry, 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.

Memory Game
A matching pairs game based on zoo animals for younger students. Pick the matching animal pairs and find out what's underneath.

Mengajar Bahasa Indonesia
This is an Indonesian resource for teachers in Australian Schools. This site has links to other relevant sites, worksheets, lesson plans and ideas.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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
Pics4Learning is a copyright-friendly image library for teachers and students. The Pics4Learning collection consists of thousands of images that have been donated by students, teachers, and amateur photographers. Among the many topics are: animals, countries, dinosaurs, flags, food, holidays - Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Ramadan, oceans, Olympics, parts of your body, plants, science, space, technology, tools, toys.

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.

Potato People by Pamela Allen
This lesson theme on the Pamela Allen story 'The Potato People' includes a list of books about Grannies, related activities and games.

Power in the Palm of your Hand
This page from Kathy Schrock provides educators with resources for effective use of the handheld computer in support of teaching and learning. The site includes supporting Web sites, links to hardware and software sites, books, and training handouts.

Preschool - Development and Activities
This website from the Learning Network focuses on what to expect from pre-schoolers, and contains links for games, activities, printables, arts and crafts, and expert advice about the importance of pre-school and other issues. Visitors can join an email service.

Preschool activities
Preschool activities include interactive, at-home activities, worksheets, colouring pages, and book listings for a variety of themes: alphabet, apples, birds, cats and dogs, circus, colours, dinosaurs, family, flowers, friends, fruit and vegetables, gardens, instruments, numbers, opposites, safety, 5 senses, shapes, sports, transport, water, seasons, holidays and festivals.

Preschool Activities (EnchantedLearning)
This site from EnchantedLearning contains lesson plans, online books, activities and printouts for Kindergarten teachers. Among the free resources on offer are alphabet activities, letter printouts, kinder crafts, colouring pages and number resources.

Preschool Get Ready For School
These fun preschool activity programs have been designed by early childhood experts - Preschool Teachers, Kindergarten Teachers, Pediatric Occupational Therapists & Parents - to help children develop age-appropriate self-care, play and school related skills.

Problem Solving in Early Childhood Classrooms
Discusses ways of valuing, promoting, providing for and sustaining problem solving in early childhood classes.

Public Domain Photo Library
The photos on this site are royalty free and may be used without charge for any educational purpose, with attribution. The general theme is environmental education. Images are grouped according to the following topics: India, Belize, Australia , plants, water, animals, energy, transportation, pollution, forests, markets, people, production, ecotourism, mountains, coffee, fruit. The set of Australian photos has some on Australian energy and conservation including solar power and recycling.

Questacon
Questacon, Australia's National Science and Technology Centre allows the user to explore the fascinating world of science and technology.

Ready set learn
Ready Set Learn! is designed to be full of the skills that promote optimism, persistence and resilience in preschoolers. Content areas include: literacy, decoding, numeracy, science, geography, social studies, music, art and dance.

Ready Web
ReadyWeb is an electronic collection of resources on school readiness sponsored by the Early Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative, College of Education, at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. It contains a collection of information and resources on school readiness and learning readiness, relating both to helping children get ready for school and to helping schools address children's varied developmental levels and backgrounds.

Recipes for kids
This site provides a range of recipes for children, including children with special dietary requirements, such as: cystic fibrosis, diabetes, vegetarian, lactose intolerance, and celiac disease (gluten-free).

Roebourne Primary School
Roebourne is more than a school - Roebourne is a community composed of mainly Indigenous Australians. The site contains excerpts of traditional music, a description of kangaroo-skinning, information about bush tucker and bush medicine and photos of the area. There is an easy-to-read story book created by students.

Ruby Lee the Bumble Bee and A Bee's Bit of Wisdom
Dawn Matheson writes with wonderful sensitivity about the fears that children face. In skillfully moving Ashley from self-doubt to self-reliance, the author gives young readers an important life lesson. Ruby Lee The Bumble Bee encourages children to meet life's challenges with courage and faith. The Kidz Zone section of the website links to useful resources for the classroom.

Saint Nicholas: Recipes
This site provides St Nicholas Day recipes including traditional breads, sweets, St. Nicholas cookies, desserts, pastry and cakes, and special main dishes, from the Netherlands, Poland, Germany, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Ukraine, England, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy, Serbia, Slovakia, and New England. There are also tips for things to talk about while making St. Nicholas recipes with children, including comparisons with Santa Claus.

Sesame Street
This website is provided by the Children's Television Workshop and has sesame street podcast and games for young children.

Smart moves: Physical activity programs in Queensland state schools
The Smart Moves Physical Activity Programs in Queensland state schools is a Queensland Government initiative that aims to increase student participation in physical activity and to improve the quality of that activity. It is widely recognised that physical activity is essential for good health and wellbeing, enhances students' educational outcomes, supports their personal development and promotes lifelong active lifestyles.

Songs & Poems
Songs and poems are collated here for special occasions such as seasons and holidays. There are also poems and songs about animals, birds, insects, pets, plants, family and friends, reading maths and school.

Sports
This theme page on sports includes books to print, worksheets and activities including: sports words in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Swedish, symmetrical drawing sheets, missing letters and word scrambles, and printouts on the Olympics.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation
The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Foundation exists to develop life-long healthier and happier eating habits in a new generation of Australians by engaging them in growing, harvesting, preparing and sharing delicious and healthy food at primary school. In partnership with the Victorian Department of Education, the Foundation works with schools spread across the State of Victoria, under the banner of 'Go for your life' Kitchen Garden Project with Stephanie Alexander. Information is also provided about the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden National Pilot Program.

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 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).

Teacher Resource Exchange
The Teacher Resource Exchange (TRE) is a United Kingdom moderated database of online resources and activities created by teachers. Resources may be browsed by year level (UK curriculum), subject, or type of resource.

Teaching resources for Indigenous students
These teacher resources will assist in engaging students and support teachers who may have students with low literacy levels or poor school attendance rates. These resources have Aboriginal content and themes and are designed initially to support teachers in the first few weeks with their students as they learn about their students' needs in order to plan more effectively to cater for their individual needs. They include general resources, English, Maths, Science, integrated units of work, and teaching resources websites.

Teaching with the web
This web site includes lists of resources for the teacher on a range of themes. The first page divides the information into materials suitable for K - 2, years 3-5, 6-8, 9-12. Under each of those sections there are themes including 100th Day of School, Apples, Bats, Bears, Birds, Christmas, Colors and Shapes, Dinosaurs, Family and Community, Farm Animals, Fish, Holidays, Insects and Spiders, Math, Pets, Plants, Reptiles, Amphibians, Sea Creatures, Seasons, Sharks, Snow, Space, Thanksgiving, Alphabet, Five Senses, Transportation, Whales, Zoo Animals. Each theme has its own page including Research/Informational Web sites, Online Lesson Plans, Online Activities, Offline Activities, and, in some cases, clip art and quizzes.

Tell the Time
This freeware is designed to help children learn to tell the time. The program provides children with access to a speaking play-clock together with exercises in setting a clock to a given time and reading the time from a pre-set clock. Questions can be on whole hours, half hours, quarter hours or five minute intervals. Tell the digital or analogue time. A bonus for students with impaired vision is the large, clear display.