Great site for kids...history games and virtual tours of many historic places including North Pacific Cannery.

Awesome free online or downloadable tool for creating shape collages. I learned about it today from a teacher who is using it with students to create collages of their interests for the learning styles/preferences portion of their portfolio. Very quick to download and figure out...totally worth watching the 3 minute tutorial. Leaves a watermark with their company logo in the free version but the teacher says it was so successful she's going to buy the paid version.

Page of resources created for students in a 4/5 class learning about Canada's Provinces and Territories but working below grade level.

Website made by a grade 5 class in New York studying Canada. Really well done but contains some mistakes...would be fun to challenge kids to find them, e.g. on the BC page.

Cute anime drawings with lots of Canadian symbols set to Arrogant Worms song Rocks and Trees.

Great song about the significance symbols on Canadian coins. Challenge your students to write verses for the Loonie and Toonie.

Great website for finding information about each province written in very simple language.

Here's a set of websites I put together for students in grade 5 learning about continents but working below grade level.

Kieran Egan's Learning in Depth Project page.

Looking for an exciting and imaginative way to plan lessons that fit with the ways kids already think? Our school district is involved in Kieran Egan's Learning in Depth program which is a great fit with the udl principle Multiple Means of Engagement. Examples of lessons and downloadable lesson planning frameworks for imaginative education at this site.

Great activity in which students find a simple machine, select it's function from a humorous list and tell what kind of machine it is.

Sqworl set of quick links created for older students studying Canada Fur Trade.

Sqworl page created for easy student links to resources on the Canada fur trade.

Great unit on pioneer life in Canada designed for about a grade 3 level.

Created this wiki page in response to a request for support materials for learning about continents in a grade 4/5 classroom.

Similar to Wordle except you can save to a file instead of having to take a screenshot...also lets you create shapes such as whales with your word cloud.

One very quick way to look up words on Google is simply to type define:anyword in the Google search field. However, their actual dictionary is far and away my favourite of all the dictionaries I've reviewed, mainly because of its clean, ad-free format. When you click on a sound icon to hear a word pronounced, it doesn't open in another annoying window. The definitions are not too complicated for use by school kids and there are examples used in context and links to other definitions found on the web. At any time, at the top of the page, you can also access web-links, images, videos, etc. that are part of a regular Google search. The site also works with NaturalReader.

Kelly Tenkley blogs about the 16 best sites that teach internet safety.

Sqworl is a free app that allows you to create a public page on the web that contains thumbnails of several webpages. You can then share the url. This would be useful for making a custom homepage, lists of workshop resources, or safe sites for kids to browse when doing research. It's very easy to set up...you just name a group and then paste in the url's and a short title or description of the links you want. Sqworl creates the thumbnail pics which you can drag around to reorder.

several gigs of geometry resources by what can we do with this guru Dan Meyer