Hands Across the Oceans

 

 

1 Alphabets

Go to http://your.dictionary.com/fun.html and write your name in exotic alphabets. You can also count to ten in thousands of languages

 

2 Poetry

If you go to http://www.wordcentral.com/mus/versecomposer.html, you can write online poetry

 

3 Sites for Learning English

http://www.english-zone.com/

Lots of topics/all levels

http://a4esl.org/

Self-study grammar quizzes, exercises & puzzles

http://www.eslgames.com/teachingsongs/edutainment1/

Songs to help you learn English

http://www.nanana.com/grammarlinks.html

Grammar links for kids

http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi?Games

Games for learning English

http://www.eslcafe.com/ideas/sefer.cgi?Kids

Exercises for kids

http://www.britcoun.org/

Websites for kids

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/

News articles to help you learn English

http://www.theenglishprofessor.com/

Listening activities

http://www.englishlearner.com/tests/test.html

Tests, quizzes & crosswords

 

4 Make a Thunderstorm

http://www.ucar.edu/40th/webweather/tstorms/tstorms.htm

 

5 Online Maths

http://www.aaamatch.com/

Excellent online math practice on a variety of topics. Children can use all or some of the pages to develop their knowledge of math.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/mathsme/gameswheel.htm

Games for math

http://mathforum.org/sum95/math.forum/middle.projects.desc.html

Interesting links for many subjects

http://www.enc.org/

 

6 Sites about Ancient Egypt

http://library.thinkquest.org/%20CR0215615/

 

7 Ancient History Projects

http://www.internet-at%20work.com/hos_mcgrane/ancient_history/eg_history_intro.html

 

8 Quiz about Daily Life in Ancient Egypt

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/games/brainteaser/egypt.html

 

9 Activities about Ancient Egypt

http://www.seaworld.org/Egypt/

 

10 Animals

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/

http://www.yahooligans.com/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/

 

11 Shopping

http://www.amazon.com/

http://www.imaginarium.com/

http://www.hamleys.com/

 

12 Space

Site about Astronomy

http://kidsastronomy.about.com/

Games about science and space

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/Science_Games/

Photos and facts about space

Http://www.spacekids.com/homework_homepage/

http://www.spacekids.com/spacenews/solarsystem-ez.html

 

13 Websearching

http://www.teacher.scholastic.com/

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythistryfun1.html

 

14 Science

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ngkids/trythis/tryfun10.html

Interesting experiment about a water clock

http://www.nationalgraphic.com/kids/activities/index.html#science

Lots of interesting experiments

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/Science_Games/

Science games

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/Print-n-Play_Games/

Puzzles and crosswords

http://yuckykids.com/

Yucky experiments

http://www/chem4kids.com/

Chemistry website

http://www.planet-science.com/

Fun site

http://www.firstscience.com/

All areas of science

 

15 Movies

Visit http://www.yahooligans.com/, then click on movies.

 

16 Recipes

http://www.britegg.co.uk/kidssection/startsection.html

Recipes for eggs

http://www.hookerycookery.com/

Kids’ recipes

http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/recipes/banana_bread.html

Healthy recipes

 

17 Fun

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/inventors/fun.shtml

 

18 Health

http://www.kidshealth.org/,

 

19 Other Interesting Sites

If you go to http://www.yahooligans.com/ you will find lots of interesting sites on a variety of topics. Click on the buttons on the left and follow the instructions on the screen. There is enough information here to keep you busy for hours!

 

20 Geography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/activities/matrix.html

There are many printable exercises on geographical topics in http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography. You can download the exercises and then complete them. Interesting topics include the Middle East, deserts of the world, the Earth, world flags, continents and oceans quiz, and labeling the world map. You can also try http://www.nationalgeographic.com/.

Different activities about geographical topics

http://earthquake.usgs.gov/4kids/

Information about earthquakes

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/wildworld/

Maps of world

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/geobee/

Quizzes about geography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/xpeditions/atlas/

Maps

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/geography/

Activities and pages for geography

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/games/

Geography games and quizzes

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/quiz/geonews2/1.html

Countries in the news quiz

http://www.factmonster.com/spot/quiz/travel/1.html

Travel quiz

Http://school.discovery.com/schooladventures/geogame/

Geography game

 

21 Calendars and Holidays

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/calendar to make your own calendar. Print out the pages.

If you print out the weather calendar, you can glue pictures on your calendar. Http://www.enchantedlearning.com/calendar/2002weather/.

If you go to http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0760942.html, you can mark Islamic holidays on your calendar.

 

22 Holidays

http://www.surfnetkids.com/games/History_Games/

Holidays

http://www.yahooligans.com/Around_the_World/holidays/

Holidays

http://www.timeandate.com/calendar/

Website for making Islamic calendar with Saturday as the first day of the week

http://www.kidlink.org/KIDPROJ/MCC/main.html

Multicultural calendar

 

23 Making a Homepage

Go to http://www.arachnoid.com/lutusp/pagebuild.html and follow the instructions telling you how to make a homepage.

 

24 Health

If you go to http://www.kidshealth.org/, enter kids and click on word, you will find definitions for words used in medicine.

 

25 News from Around the World

Go to http://www.kidnews.com/news.html, and complete the following table by answering the questions who, why, what, where, when. When you finish, you can write a story about Malaysia or any other Asian country, and send it to kidnews.

 

26 Clipart

Go to http://www.kidsdomain.com/clip/. You can download the art and save it as a

screensaver, or use it to make cards to send to your friends.

 

27 Brain Boosters

Go to http://www.school.discovery.com/. Click on students and brainboosters. You will find lots of puzzles to help you learn English.

 

28 Puzzles

Go to http://www.puzzlemaker.com/. You can have fun with your friends by making up your own puzzles, crosswords and cryptograms.

Introduction

Some of these links are listed in www.jawischools.blogspot.com and http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/, both of which have other links for science, maths, CALL and English language learning.

Astronomy

http://www.badastronomy.com/

http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/

Bad science

http://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/BadScience.html

Biology, chemistry, physics

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/

http://www.eslkidstuff.com/LinksMenu.htm

Blogging

www.blogger.com

http://edublogs.org

Charts, graphs, diagrams

http://smartdraw.com/exp/ste/home/

Chemistry terms and vocabulary

http://www.onelook.com/?loc=pub&w=chemistry

Clipart

www.the-tutor.com

http://biology.about.com/cs/biology/clipart/

Dictionary for scientific terms

http://yourdictionary.com/

Games for maths

http://www.funbrain.com/kidscenter.html

http://www.cleverisland.com/limited/eversave/registration_v11_step2.asp?refcode=6136

Games for science

http://www.kidsdomain.com/games/science.html

Geology/earth sciences

http://education.usgs.gov/

http://earthscience4kids.cr.usgs.gov/

http://www.data.scec.org/

http://nesen.unl.edu/tsunamikit.htm

History of maths

http://turnbull.mcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Indexes/HistoryTopics.html

How everything works

http://science.howstuffworks.com/

Jokes

http://www.members.optusnet.com.au/~borishandal/MathsInternetGuide/MathsHumour.htm

Lesson plans for maths and science

http://lessonplanz.com/gradelevels.shtml

http://www.teach-nology.com/teachers/lesson_plans/

http://www.theteacherscorner.net/math/index.htm

http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/content/index.asp

Links for ESP

http://www.unav.es/espSig/esponweb.html

www.jawischools.blogspot.com

http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/

Links to other sites

http://sitesforteachers.com/index.html

Maths

http://www.brainpop.com/

http://fi.edu/explore.html

http://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/kids/index.html

Maths, science, technology

http://www.surfnetkids.com/directory/

http://www.xplora.org/ww/en/pub/xplora/about.htm

http://www.athenaweb.org/

Online dictionaries

http://www.onelook.com/browse.shtml

Physics

http://www.intuitor.com/moviephysics/

Physics in movies

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2005/09mar_conference.htm?list1090077

Cutting edge physics

http://www.physlink.com/Fun/Links.cfm

Poems for maths

http://www.pen.k12.va.us/Div/Winchester/jhhs/math/poetry/mathpoet.html

http://www.americanpoems.com/searches/m/45

http://terri.zone12.com/other/poetry/

Projects for science across the world

http://mathforum.org/dr.math/

Pronunciation of science and maths’ terms

www.answers.com/main/science.jsp

Pronunciation of scientific terms

http://www.genome.gov/glossary.cfm

Questioning techniques

http://www.nexus.edu.au/teachstud/gat/painter.htm

http://changingminds.org/techniques/questioning/questioning.htm

http://www.nwrel.org/scpd/sirs/3/cu5.html

Readings for science

http://literacynet.org/cnnsf/sciencetech.html

Research and science in Europe

http://www.scienceacross.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=content.showhomepage

Sample questions for science

http://www.qca.org.uk/7857.html

http://www.qca.org.uk/6.html

Science activities

http://news.fen.com/article/0,1120,1-11420,00.html?wtlAC=FE_Grades_3-5_2005-05-17,email-h

Science fair

http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0772964.html

Science for under 11s

http://www.planet-science.com/under11s/index.html

Talking glossary of genetic terms

http://www.answers.com/main/science.jsp

Teaching materials for science

http://school.discovery.com/sciencefaircentral/

URLS for maths’ projects

http://www.courseworkbank.co.uk/GCSE/Maths_Coursework/

http://mathforum.org/geometry/geom.projects.html

http://camel.math.ca/Education/mpsf/

URLs for science projects

http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/projectguide/

http://www.all-science-fair-projects.com/

http://www.super-science-fair-projects.com/

Websites for maths

http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/bjmath.html

http://www.sciencegems.com/math.html#1

http://www.mathstories.com/

Webquests

http://webquest.sdsu.edu/

http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~edtech/webquest/

http://www.oswego.org/Staff/CCHAMBER/webdesign/web_quests.htm

http://www.ih.k12.oh.us/estech/webquestworkshop.htm

http://www.spa3.k12.sc.us/WebQuests.html

Workshops for maths

http://mathforum.org/alejandre/spreadsheet.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. If you check out http://jawischools.blogspot.com, you will find lots of links for work on all the subjects you are studying in school.

 

2. If you check out http://allwritejawi.blogspot.com, you will find examples of children’s work from some of the schools in the Jawi district, in Malaysia.

 

3. If you want some fun activities, you will find them in http://kuc02.kuniv.edu.kw/~dotmack/ under just for fun. You will also find work for your little brothers and sisters here too, in kids corner.