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Hey LHS Kids is a science activities website for kids developed by the Lawrence Hall of Science at UC Berkeley. Hey LHS Kids features some good activities for primary school students. 

A pretty cool website which allows kids to create their own volcano! Kids can change the viscosity and gas levels to create different types of volcanoes

A Maths Dictionary for Kids provides simple and clear definitions of math terms. Each definition includes a small diagram or simple activity to illustrate the term's definition. A Maths Dictionary for Kids does not have a search option, but it doesn't need one as all definitions appear alphabetically just like in a physical dictionary.

A great collection of keyboarding games for kids

This blog entry links to an article which promotes the use of webcams for improving children's reading fluency etc. Interesting stuff! Link to article here: http://educationresearchreport.blogspot.com/2010/11/webcam-research-helps-kids-improve.html

50 Fun iPhone Apps to Get Kids Reading and Learning - A good collection of early learning iphone apps

Cybersmart provides activities, resources and practical advice to help young kids, kids, teens and parents safely enjoy the online world. Cybersmart also offers training and resources for schools and materials for library staff.

This blog entry includes links to sixteen of the best  websites pertaining to internet safety for kids. Some are US-based, however, it provides a great starting point for those schools who are starting to tread cybersafety as a priority. 

Interesting website on energy

NetSmartzKids is a website set up to teach children and young adults about using the internet safely. Well worth a look when working on cyber safety with kids. US Focussed, but still has much relevant information.

Kideos is a great site to find online kid friendly videos that are safe.The videos are sorted by age level, too!

Free educational games and songs games for kids

If you want your students to use the internet for research, but find that sites such as Wikipedia can overwhelm students and contain too much information - then you might like to take a look at the Simple English Wikipedia. The Simple English Wikipedia uses simple English words and grammar to explain topics.  There are 70,000 articles on the site, a fraction of the 3 million articles that are on the main wikipedia page, but enough for most students. Check before you send kids towards the site that it contains the topics you want them to research. If it doesn't you could always create a page and add the information yourself - or make it a goal for the research project to write a page!

Whiz Kid Games is a "portal for autistic children. The games are a free resource that aim to help autistic children to develop independent living skills." There are sixteen games to choose from- each targeting a specific area such as waiting, choosing the correct clothes to wear based on the weather, sorting items, coping with change, etc

A good app for those who want to keep up to speed with the chat language that kids are using in their day-to-day conversations

Following an Australian study of 10000 kids, Professor Donna Cross summarises the facts

"the museum of science, art and human perception" A great site to engage kids in science

This is a pretty cool spelling activity, as the student clicks on the letters, different pictures appear on the page that begin with that letter (all kid-friendly!). As the student inserts more letters, the relevant images get larger if they are being spelt correctly. 

Great use for the classroom. Huge timesaver in making certificates for kids... also does newsletter templates

"Free Educational Software We find and review high-quality free learning software and websites - mostly for kids, but also for grown-ups". Most of the software is for PC but the sites work. Worth a look, choose a category at the top