PRIMARY GRADES
STAGES ONE, TWO AND THREE
• Maths • English • Art/Craft • Science & Technology • PE, Pd & Health
• HSIE • L.O.T.E. • Music • Integrating Technology • Miscellaneous Resources sites

PE,PD & HEALTH	PE,PD & HEALTH	PE,PD & HEALTH
Fun PE Lessons Looking for kids games?  How about rules for playground games, verses for jump-rope rhymes, and much more???  This is the right site!	Physical Education Lesson Plans - Here are some physical education lesson plans and links to useful websites.	PE Lessons a small number of very useful PE activities that just might be new to you.
Physical Education & Health Lesson Plans - Grades PreK-1 also Grades 2 - 3 and Grades 4 - 5	Nutrition and Food WebQuest A webquest designed by Amanda Chambers which guides students through the process of creating a menu for a new fast food franchise. The WebQuest provides valuable links to resources students will need to complete the task.
H.S.I.E. FLAGITUP provides national flags from all the major countries in the world and lots of information on each particular country. Users can learn about the countries of the world and even take up the challenge of the free Flagitup quiz!	MYSTERIES OF THE NILE http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/egypt/ Want to see the Sphinx close up? Clamber inside the Great Pyramid? Visit the magnificent tombs and temples of Luxor? Simply click on the images and enjoy a self-guided QuickTime tour through the Land of the Pharaohs. There's so much here, it's easy to get lost. Use the Site Guide to see the list of everything available. Classroom resources section helps you customize your own lesson plans, check out their lesson plans, or get started with ideas to energize your students. Grade Level: Early Childhood (K-2), Elementary, Middle School, High School, College, Adult/Professional	NATIONAL CENTRE FOR HISTORY EDUCATION This site is part of the National History Project, supported by funding from the Commonwealth Department of Education, Science & Training under the Quality Outcomes Programme. It contains, among others things, a number of units of work for Upper Primary (Investigating Our Land and Legends) and Secondary (Investigating People and Issues in Australia after World War II.)
L.O.T.E. & LANGUAGES	MUSIC	MUSIC
Languages - E.L.Easton site with loads of lesson plans and strategies for teaching a range of languages. Also contains articles, Mail Lists, Key pals etc   Jennifer's Language Page At Jennifer's Language Page you can learn how to say several words and phrases in hundreds of different languages. LANGUAGES ONLINE Check out this interactive French language site.  It's good for non-French speakers such as myself, who need to hear what the language sounds like.  There are also versions for German, Indonesian and Italian - and a song download section! http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/default.htm	Play Music You will love this site: It is a fun, educational website about instruments of the orchestra.  It's been provided by The American Symphony Orchestra League - attractive, inviting graphics with an overview for each instrument family and each of the common instruments, more detailed info, sound clips, games and snippets on musicians.	ODDMUSIC Oddmusic.com is for anyone interested in unique, unusual, ethnic, or experimental music and instruments. So whether you play stalagmites in a cave, the kaval, bow telegraph wires across the Nullarbor Plain, twist electrons by circuit bending, call whales on a Waterphone, or just love listening, this site is for you. Showcasing the sounds, music, and instruments of artists and artisans from around the globe.  From gourd music to electronic odysseys, harp guitars to industrial insect metal, from the beautiful to the bizarre.
Jen's Education Music Don't buy a whole CD for one song! For less than $2 per song you can download the songs that are relevant to your children's/students' needs! Choose and purchase from the download menu or Play Samples Counting Songs, Topical Songs, Colour Songs, English Spelling Songs, Transport Songs, English Grammar Songs, Alphabet Songs, Maths Songs, Health Songs, Science Songs	Echoes of Africa This special site created by the BBC offers musical clips and information about musical instruments across this vast continent. First-time visitors to the site can select a geographical region of Africa to begin their musical exploration, and then proceed to learn about the various wind and percussion instruments within each region. Visitors should not neglect to listen to the raw sound of the iranzi, the belap (a type of thumb piano), or the bangwe.	MUSICLOPEDIA This site offers a music research portal. There is a long list of resources here for music studies from lists of composers to today's recording artists and bands.
ART/CRAFT	ART/CRAFT	ART/CRAFT
Art Safari This site prompts kids to explore paintings and sculptures from the Museum of Modern Art. A series of questions guides children to write about what they see. Then, kids are encouraged create and submit their own art. Grade Level: Elementary. Content Area: Arts (Visual Arts), English (Writing)	Kinder Crafts About 50 project ideas for young children. Some are more appropriate for a home project but there are ample ideas for the teacher as well	Elementary Art Lesson Plans Do you have some of those lessons that you just can't wait to do with your students? Well, here are some of mine!
ART ADVENTURES Our ArtEdventures are interactive online games for teachers and students. In these fun and educational activities, you'll discover how great artists made their famous works&emdash;while learning tips and techniques for creating your own art!	K - 6 Art Lesson Plans  This site may not have a snappy title, but this database of lesson plans is a great resource for early childhood and primary school teachers. Dance, music, drama and visual arts lessons have been created by student teachers at CSU Chico.	Mansion Madness: Mystery at Gyppeswyck is a very interesting (and short) mystery where students have to look at the art work from several artists, exploring colour, composition, subject, and style to find out who painted a special portrait. GREAT INTRODUCTION TO ART for stage 2 or 3 students.
The Artist's Toolkit from The Minneapolis Institute of Arts offers the chance to explore the principals and elements of art such as line, color, space, shape, balance, movement and rhythm by watching an animated demonstration, finding examples of the concept in works of art from museums and creating your own composition. The URL: http://www.artsconnected.org/toolkit/index.html	Art Zone NGA Kids from the National Gallery of Art USA provides several tools that allow users 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.'	In The Memory Project, highly skilled art students create portraits for children living in orphanages around the world. The idea is that children who end up in orphanages tend to have few personal possessions and receiving a portrait of themselves helps to create a bond with their youth, their culture and ultimately, their identity. So, if you are an Art teacher or know of one, perhaps this is a project you might be able to support! Check out the site for samples and more information on how you can participate.
Classroom Architect is Flash-based floor-planning tool which helps the teacher design a floor plan for the classroom. It includes shapes for desks, tables, shelves, and other classroom furniture built to scale. By entering the classrooms dimensions, the teacher can have a sense for what might work in planning a particular classroom environment before doing all the heavy lifting. This might make an interesting activity for students who are learning to map out a classroom too. As well, this site includes helpful tips in planning an effective classroom layout to maximize learning and reducing distractions.	the ART ROOM "It's designed to create inspiration for art projects, but many of the projects can be adapted to any classroom. There is a great deal that can be adapted to any topic, too. There are many resources for creative teaching ideas for art and other subjects." The URL: http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room/index.html	Mr PICASSO HEAD Mr. Picasso Head is a simple app that allows users to create pictures, but the objects you drag in look like they were taken from a Picasso painting. Most of the work ends up looking like Picasso – it’s fun. The URL: http://www.mrpicassohead.com/
INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY	INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY	INTEGRATING TECHNOLOGY
Integrate the Internet into the Classroom These pages have been designed for classroom teachers looking for resources that will assist them to use telecommunications effectively for student learning.	Integrating Kid Pix into the curriculum Contains some good ideas for integrating KidPix in classroom lessons	Integrated Technology Lessons K-6 Technology Integrated Units
Lessons Integrating Technology Maths and Language activities for Grades 3 - 5	Digital Storytelling Digital Storytelling is a fantastic way to engage students, teachers and just about anyone else who has ever wanted to be the next Ken Burns or Steven Spielberg. There are many different definitions of "digital storytelling," but in general, all of them revolve around the idea of combining the longstanding art of telling stories with any of a variety of available multimedia tools, including graphics, audio, video animation, and Web publishing.	Collie Collie is a Garden Gnome who goes on lots of adventures. Students can participate in the online research project and follow Collie on the adventures.
Teachers Use Technology  http://www.ourladyofvictories.ecsd.net/maas/usetech/ Edmonton Catholic School teacher, Danny Maas, created an educational website resource for teachers who wish to integrate technology into their classroom instruction. The site is called Teachers Use Tech, and it contains ideas, activities, and web links which may help teachers integrate technology into their teaching in a meaningful way.	PowerPoint Projects and Resources Here's a resource for power point that is directed directly to the educator. Some ofthe links have died since I first looked at this, but there are plenty of others that do work.	Weaving The Internet Through Your Elementary Literacy Curriculum Enhancing and Extending Literature Lessons with Technology. THE BIG QUESTION: How can I use the Internet to enhance and extend the range of literacy opportunities for my elementary school students? This site leads to numerous examples on line.

SITES CONTAINING AN ASSORTMENT OF UNITS, LESSON PLANS

Teachers ONLINE An extensive and exciting internet resource of classroom activities based on well known Australian Children's Television Foundation programs.	Teacher Files Math, Language, Computer, Health and Phys Ed, Social Science, Art and Drama, Science	Education World Over 50,000 sites of interest to educators. Lesson plans, professional articles, resources.
MISCELLANEOUS Mini-Lessons Elementary (K-5) 36 assorted "mini" activities and lesson plans	Community Learning Network Educational WWW Resources for K-12 Students and Teachers (by Subject) Excellent site!!!! Includes a wealth of Lesson Plans, ideas for integrating the internet into the classroom, - don't leave without looking at this site!	Teacher Vision Teacher lesson plans and classroom management. Learning Network's initial focus is on K-12 students, parents, and teachers. Curriculum Materials, Teacher Resources, Professional Development, School-Home Connection, Teachers' Lounge. Part of the Learning Network
Blue Web'n Blue Web'n is a searchable library of Blue-Ribbon Web sites categorised by grade level, content area and type. Includes lesson plans, tutorials, resources, activities and projects	Encarta Schoolhouse Internet sites representing some of the best online resources for educators seeking innovative Internet projects, lesson plan ideas, source materials, and opportunities to collaborate with other schools and teachers. Student Resources -links to help students with homework Mostly United States based but an excellent site.	Puzzlemaker - part of the Discovery School site. Great for generating/creating puzzles - word or maths etc
The Lesson Plans Page Home to over 1,000 Free Lesson Plans - Making Teaching Easier! HAVE A LOOK AT THIS ONE!	Laura Chandler's File Cabinet In the file drawers below, you'll find all sorts of activity sheets and blackline masters that I have created for my classroom.	Educate Teachers can download NSW HSIE units that are ready for classroom use!
Inspiration and Kidspiration Take the time to look at this collection of Inspiration and Kidspiration examples made by the Education Dept of The University of Sioux Falls. Be sure to check out the other resources on this page - there are many!	The Children's Literature Web Guide is an attempt to gather together and categorize the growing number of Internet resources related to books for Children and Young Adults. Much of the information that you can find through these pages is provided by others: fans, schools, libraries, and commercial enterprises involved in the book world. An excellent Canadian site.	Worksheets4Teachers  http://www.worksheets4teachers.com/ Be Creative! Access these easy to use, online tools that let you develop your own worksheets effortlessly. Or, look for a worksheet by exploring links to existing worksheets and maps for all ages of students.
I Love That Teaching Idea! It's a great site for K-6 teachers. They have worksheets for many areas, ideas (many from teachers) and quite a few sections. Worksheets, reproducibles, newsletters, books, lesson plans, ideas and more!	Jim Cornish, Grade Five Teacher from Gander, Newfoundland, Canada has a couple of great sites which provide over 100 themes, fourteen of which have lessons directly linked to web sites for online studies and Webquests. The main theme page is at http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/themes.html The list of themes with lessons for online study are at: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/CITE/lesson_plans.htm	Teaching Treasures Teachers, parents and students using this educational site from Perth, Australia, will find many unique online interactive activities, projects, worksheets and many other resources to help with the daily educational learning adventure. The URL: http://teachingtreasures.com.au/
INTERLACE This wonderful site has been created by Teacher Librarian Sue Lacey (Bega West PS) containing a huge number of links to support topics covered in the NSW Curriculum plus a great list of search engines, tips on using search engines and a host of encyclopaedia links on line. Have a look yourself!	Sea and Sky A site rich with news, photos, scientific information about the Sea and Space. Excellent resource or just good for a browse. Very interesting!	pics4learning - Looking for images for your classes to use legally in class projects and reports? Pics4learning put together this site of images, along with a clear use policy for images. Teachers can get ideas for groups projects or reports using technology in the lesson area.
FunLessonPlans.com Download preschool lesson plans, themes, electronic booklets, children's songs, games, health and manners lessons, and crafts. Preschool lesson plans, pre-k lesson plans, kindergarten lesson plans, kindergarten themes, and children's free printables for preschool crafts, games, and activities. It takes some time to sort through but there is some good stuff here!	The Best OnLine Homework Help This is an article written by Pete MacKay who runs The Teacher List . Its a great collection of very good sites which can be used as homework helpers or in the classroom.	A to Z TEACHER STUFF Created for teachers by a teacher--This site was designed to help teachers find online lesson plans and resources more quickly and easily. It's one of the most popular Web destinations for teachers--more than 1 million visitors are counted each month at A to Z Teacher Stuff & LessonPlanz.com! American site but plenty of useful stuff for we Aussies too!
ALEX (Alabama Learning Exchange) Brought to you by the Alabama Department of Education, ALEX is designed to compile many types of educational materials and information into a time-saving one-stop resource for teachers and administrators. The lesson plans can be searched by subject, grade, and key word. The ALEX website will also let you create lesson plans. In order to create lesson plans, users will need to create a free account on ALEX. Your ALEX login and personal workspace will remain active indefinitely when used regularly. Inactive accounts will be eliminated if not accessed during a six-month time period.	Alberta Curriculum Web Sites Alberta (Canada) teacher Paul Lavery, wrote about his site: "A few years ago while teaching I lost all my school bookmarks in Internet Explorer.  At the same time our board was really starting to stress good old Professional Growth Plans so I decided one way to protect my bookmarks was to put them on a website.  I have been collecting curricular websites (based on Alberta curriculum grades 1-6) for about two years now and putting them on my website.  I think some of your teachers might find it useful, either for themselves or as a starting point for students." The URL:  http://members.shaw.ca/pmlavery/index.html	The School Bell - This website is designed to be a resource for teachers, children, and parents by US teacher Kathy Gursky. She writes: I have recently added 2 complete learning programs to the site. First, is my Number Family Program, complete with games and activities to help first and second grade children learn the basic addition and subtraction facts. Second, is a complete Dolch Word Study program, again, complete with games and activities.
The Resource Room contains Lessons, ideas, articles and links for multisensory learning for people of all ages. There are also resources for people who learn differently, or have learning difficulties or learning disabilities such as dyslexia, dysgraphia, or dyscalculia. The URL: http://www.resourceroom.net	Tech Teachers' Digital Filing Cabinet Tech Teachers is the on-line home of Meg Ormiston and associates whose goal is to connect technology to curriculum to transform teaching and learning. Each professional development project is focused on improving instruction to directly boost student achievement. This resource has numerous links to Curriculum Resources and Integrating Technology.	Kieran O'Regan has offered to share with other teachers his site with new junior history & english resources. They use some of the best and reliable edu. sites on the net. They have a lot of interactive activities and come with worksheets. The kids and teachers like them, even teachers who don't like computers, because they are totally student self directed. The site is: http://www.interactive-learning.com.au
Tools for Teachers offers a selection of quiz generators, worksheets, templates, games and free web tools for email and bookmark storage! The URL: http://www.suelebeau.com/freetools.htm	Econ EdLink - A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students. It has lesson plans for all grades, K-12, and many have interactive games and on-line instructional links.	NINE QUICK LEARNING STRATEGIES Nine Quick Learning Strategies is a well planned site that walks learners through the process of picking a learning outcome, then a strategy to reach that outcome and a method by which to assess their learning skills.
Here's a great MIND-MAPPING TOOL that works online! Gliffy.com is a concept mapping tool that you use right through your browser - no downloads, no cost. What's more, you can save your diagrams online, share them between different users for collaborative work, and save them back to your computer. Check it out! The URL: http://www.gliffy.com	Here's a collection of online teaching tools, formerly known as "Rona's Teacher Tools." There is an extensive collection of resources here ranging from search tools, interactive tools, reference tools and preparation tools - all built with busy classroom teachers in mind! The URL: http://www.myteachertools.com/	StarTeaching is dedicated to providing every teacher and educator with great ideas for their classes and schools. A bi-monthly teacher newsletter, Features for Teachers, is written by real teachers and educators. Both the website and newsletter are packed with tips, techniques, lesson plans, writing prompts, activities, and stories about helping students achieve success. The URL: http://www.starteaching.com
ABC EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES The Australian Broadcasting Corporation's gateway to Education. ... An interactive music education project ... Online Games and Teacher Resources	PRIMARY SCHOOL - as the title suggests this is a site with Free Primary School Lesson Plans & Education Resources. There is a huge number of links to sites - it may take you a while to find that nugget but this is a good place to start looking.	TEACHER HELPERS - Here's a thematic site full of interesting ideas for use in your classroom. You'll find teacher-made sites, resource pages and unit plans.
NPWS EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES - The NPWS website is packed with information on national parks, native plants and animals, weeds and pest animals, Aboriginal culture, history and more.	Mrs MAC's LIBRARY SITE - A site containing tools for teacher librarians and teachers including Research Modules/WebQuests and lots of good links.	BLOOM'S REVISED TAXONOMY Bloom's Taxonomy is a great way to plan units of work that incorporate high level thinking skills. This site has information about Bloom's Taxonomy including a PowerPoint presentation, planning framework, a poster and examples. The URL:http://www.kurwongbss.eq.edu.au/thinking/Bloom/blooms.htm
Lake Munmorah PS worksheets - some great works here for all primary classes. Worksheets and activities ready to go!	Bilambil PS pages - some great links here - have a browse around! http://www.schools.ash.org.au/bilambil/contents2.html	CYBERKID - another site with some great links and lots of Research Modules to explore. http://www.kidcyber.com.au/
TEACHERS' DOMAIN - multimedia Resources for the Classroom and professional Development - a collection of multimedia resources that offers:high-quality multimedia from NOVA, American Experience, and other public television productions and partners. You'll also find video and audio clips, interactives, images, and documents as well as explanatory background articles for each resource. http://www.teachersdomain.org/	PETE'S POWERPOINT STATION This is a collection of Powerpoint files which are especially good for elementary teachers. The URL: http://www.pppst.com/index.html	Personal Education Press - a website that lets teachers and parents create free educational worksheets such as flashcards, game boards, and quizzes to print directly from your browser. There is even a new pdf function! The URL: http://www.educationalpress.org
GRAPHIC ORGANISERS - http://gotoscience.com/Graphic_Organizers.html This is a site with a collection of graphic organizer templates would be useful.  You can download them in MS Word or Adobe PDF formats - and preview them with a mouse rollover before you do so.	Download lesson plans in Inspiration, Kidspiration or InspireData. The URL: http://www.inspiredlearningcommunity.com	ROCK and ROLL KINDERGARTEN This site might be a great resource for some. Be sure to read the About page on kindergarten teacher, Kurt Schwengel's site: "The name “Rock and Roll Kindergarten” is not a reference to the Rock and Roll music that he plays in class but a reference to a changing of the times in education. Just as Rock and Roll music was seen as rebellious when it first appeared “Rock and Roll Kindergarten” will also be viewed as some as rebelling against traditional Kindergarten themes and practices." The URL:http://www.rockandrollkindergarten.com
ANOTHER Powerpoint collection has surfaced - this site is amazing.... almost 600 categories, with thousands of PowerPoint and PDF documents to choose from... The URL: http://www.pppst.com/themes.html	BEST ONLINE DOCUMENTARIES is a collection of online documentaries that can be used in the classroom. The URL: http://best.online.docus.googlepages.com/	Peter Russell's World Clock has created a lot of interest as it puts into perspective all sorts of social, economic, and scientific values. You can set it to view by year, month, week, day and current statistics. PC users can download a standalone application as well. The URL: http://www.peterrussell.com/Odds/WorldClock.php PS this is similar to http://www.worldometers.info/ which was recently shown here.
42Explore provides technology resources for all sorts of units. Once there, click on Topic Index. Some of the suggested sites have broken links, but it is a great source for using technology to differentiate instruction." The URL: http://42explore.com	Quizlet http://quizlet.com/ Quizlet is similar in concept to flashcards, but much more interactive. You can create short quizzes then choose from a range of activities to perform the quiz, share it with others or a select group or class.	ACADEMICINFO AcademicInfo is an online education resource center with extensive subject guides and distance learning information. Our mission is to provide free, independent and accurate information and resources for prospective and current students (and other researchers).

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