Growing Awareness

learning about others and ourselves

Curricular Connections

another math dictionary from Math is Fun

Manipulatives of all kinds (Polypad from Mathigon)

online dotty grid
A bucketful of interactive environments: dice, spinners, geoboards…
roll multiple dice from 2 to 100 sides multiple times
Online tool for drawing squares & rectangles from Nrichmaths.org
Online Cuisenaire rods from Nrichmaths.org
online protractor
online base 10 blocks
online pattern blocks from mathtoybox.com
online Cuisenaire rods
Virtual Math Manipulatives (mathplayground)
National LIbrary of Virtual Math Manipulatives
Balances for balancing equations (also from NLVM)
virtual spinner (NCTM)
Tessellations by MC Escher
Math Games at Mathfrog
Square It game
Mathigon
Prime factorization visualizations

chess

chesskid.com is a safe, free site for kids to learn and play chess

Literacy

Online etymological dictionary (find out where words & their roots come from)
Young Readers Choice Awards
English vocabulary (links in other languages – best viewed in Google Chrome)
Parts of speech from Grammar Rock (& other Schoolhouse Rock videos)
Grammar Monster grammatical terms & definitions (rules explained)
KidsClick (a kid-friendly search engine)
Audio Books for Kids
Reading & other literacy activities from BBC
Grammar Bytes

digital literacy

Digital Compass (Common Sense Media)
Digital passport (Common Sense Media)

Blogging Rubric courtesy of Mr C Fisher, Snow Lake MB.
Great commenting guidelines from HUZZAH!, a class of student bloggers on Vancouver Island
tips on giving attribution & embedding images from Wikimedia commons also from our friends at HUZZAH! Thanks!
attribution for CC photos from Flickr using ImageCode.org (Thanks to B.L. Newman for the tip.)
Citing Sources for elementary school students from K Schrock
Douglas Road Library Web Resources (incl. World Book Student encyclopedia & GREAT DICTIONARY
List of genres of literature

Check out Scratch for learning about code, and check out this student project

Tech kids solving life’s problems in The Guardian

poetry

Classical Poems for Children (from storyit.com)
Searchable Index of poems & poets (from the Poetry Foundation)
Better than a thesaurus (from Lexical FreeNet)
Rhyming dictionary online (from Poetry4Kids – contains some ads)
Poetry dictionary (from Poetry4Kids)
Poetry writing tool from Scholastic
Limerick Factory
Literary devices (& other useful references)

video / slideshows / digital storytelling

Children’s University of Manchester (info & interactives in history, languages, science, & some art)

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life science

Biomes and other topics in biology & ecology
Indigenous Plant Diva NFB film of C. Wyss & plants in Vancouver
The Wild Classroom with lots of info and video.
BC Science 6 resources & review quizzes
Classification information from the Oxford University Museum of Natural History
The 6 kingdoms (from Rhode Island College)
taxonomy links
Kidshealth.org
Human body interactive from BBC (muscles, organs, skeleton, nervous system)
Respiratory System
Learn about the heart
Circulation Station
Kids Health from CYH Australia (muscles & much more)
Skateboard Science
Scale of the Solar system from the Exploratorium in San Francisco
Space Suite I on Knowledge Network
Space Suite II on Knowledge Network

Geology

Earthviewer Interactive
Interactive rock cycle animation
study rocks & the rock cycle
test yourself on the rock cycle
Minerals & mining (atlas of Canada interactive map)
plate tectonics / plate boundaries (KMZ file for Google Earth)
Evidence of plate motion (National Parks Service)

sustainability

Calculate your carbon footprint
Climate Kids
Simon Jackson on protecting the Spirit Bear
National Geographic on Salmon Forests

Social studies

Indigenous Peoples Timeline (Canadian Encyclopedia)
First Peoples’ Map of BC (Burnaby near Douglas Road School)
How To Say Sḵwx̱wú7mesh
First Peoples’ Map of BC & hən̓q̓əmin̓əm̓ language
Canadian Settlement – Chinese
Canadian immigration timeline
Asia – Canada settlement timeline from Historica Canada
Passages Canada personal accounts of heritage & cultural identity
Ancient Greece (BBC Bitesize)
Ancient Greece (mrdonn.org)
Roman empire (BBC Bitesize)
Ancient Rome (mrdonn.org)
Ancient Egypt (BBC Bitesize)
Ancient Egypt (mrdonn.org)
Indus Valley (BBC Bitesize)
Ancient India (mrdonn.org)
Mayan Civilization (BBC Bitesize)
Mayan Civilization (mrdonn.org)
Mesopotamia (mrdonn.org)
Ancient China [Shang Dynasty] (BBC Bitesize)
Ancient China (mrdonn.org)
Incas (mrdonn.org)

Truth & reconciliation, Orange Shirt day& Black excellence day resources

What is Orange Shirt Day?
The word “Indigenous” explained
Shi-shi-etko
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester

Government

Videos from studentvote.ca [follow the links & scroll down to the video]

Government & Democracy

History of Voting Rights in BC
The Political Spectrum
Levels of Government
Our electoral System
Vote Compass (youth edition)
Information Pollution and Disinformation videos