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06/18/09

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General Links

  1.  Provincial Accountability Survey

  2. Ecole Westlock Elementary School

  3. Town of Westlock

  4. http://coac.learnalberta.ca - Co-Acquisition Video Consortium  (coac-pilot-y2)

  5. GoogleEarth - Explore, Search and Discover

  6. KidsLove2Learn.ca

  7. learnalberta.ca

  8. www.wonderville.ca - An award winning digital science community

  9. http://www.theweathernetwork.com/index.htm

  10. Westlock Weather Station

  11. http://www.iknowthat.com

  12. National Library of Virtual Manipulatives - tons of virtual math manipulatives (eg. base 10 blocks, geoboards, and much more!!!)

  13. Weekly Reader

  14. Merriam Webster Dictionary - online dictionary

  15. eLearning Online Math Quizzes - choose a math topic, take the quiz, then click finish to check your answers

  16. Mathematics Blackline Masters Gr.'s P to 9

  17. Mathematics Blackline Masters Math Essentials 11

  18. Power Typing - online free typing tutor

  19. Online Translation, Translation Software and Translation Servers : SYSTRAN

  20. Yahoo! Babel Fish - Text Translation and Web Page Translation

  21. Google Translate

  22. http://learn360.com/

  23. Discovery Education - video on demand trial
    user:CAMS.2009  password:CAMS.trial

  24. The Chimo Project- The Chimo Project is an innovative not-for-profit initiative that assists in the development, planning, and implementation of Animal Assisted Therapy at a wide variety of facilities.

Search Engines

  1. Yahooligans - the Web Guide for Kids

  2. KidsClick!

  3. Google

  4. askforkids

  5. ask.com

  6. altavista

  7. lycos

  8. Excite

  9. hotbot

  10. Dogpile

  11. Webcrawler

  12. Find

  13. Wikiseek - Wikipedia search

 

 

 

Nutrition and Healthy Living

  1. Canada's Food Guide - eat well with Canada's Food Guide.
  2. EatTracker - lets you track your day's food and activity choices and compares them to the guidelines laid out by Health Canada.
  3. Virtual Grocery Store - here you will learn how you can use the nutrition information on the label of packaged foods to make healthy choices for you and your family.
  4. Virtual Kitchen - Explore our virtual kitchen by clicking on selected areas to reveal interesting nutrition facts about the foods you eat.
  5. Nutrition Explorations - explore the world of nutrition with nutrition explorations

Environmental Links

  1. One Less Tonne - The One Less Tonne tool will help you choose actions to meet the climate change challenge — for each Canadian to cut his or her annual emissions of greenhouse gases by as much as possible. With every action you select, the tool will display the emission reductions you'll achieve (and the money you'll save in energy costs!).
  2. Seeds Foundation - The SEEDS Foundation has been providing bias-balanced, curriculum-fit energy and environmental education programs for the past 32 years. These programs have educated, inspired realistic choices and stimulated action by millions of students and their families on relevant energy and environmental issues across Canada.
  3. Alberta Environment - Educational Site for Teachers
  4. Story of Stuff - A 20-minute animation of the consumerist society, narrated by Anne Leonard.
  5. Global Environmental and Outdoor Education Council (GEOEC) - a list of organizations that have materials and do presentations
  6. David Suzuki's Nature Challenge at School - We’ve developed the "Nature Challenge Teacher's Guide"--a comprehensive curriculum resource for grades 4-7. Promote understanding and encourage informed choices about environmental conservation.
  7. FLICK OFF - Who needs to FLICK OFF?  Easy answer: we all do. Everyone from Grandma, who leaves the bathroom light on all night, to McInsertBigCorporationHere, who keeps manufacturing without a care for the consequences their profits make on the environment. Or you, getting your take-out lunch in styrofoam containers every day of the week.
     

Terry Fox

1.     http://www.collectionscanada.ca - biography of Terry Fox

2.    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Fox - tons of information about Terry Fox

3.    Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program -The Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program was established in 1982 through a grant by the Government of Canada to commemorate Terry's courage and tenacity in his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope.

4.    CBC Archives - listen to radio clips and watch video clips about Terry Fox

5.    More CBC Archives - Terry Fox 25: Reliving the Marathon of Hope (more radio and video clips)

6.    Terry Fox Foundation - The Terry Fox Foundation's mission is to maintain the vision and principles of Terry Fox while raising money for cancer research through the annual Terry Fox Run, memoriam donations and planned gifts

7.    Terry Fox Foundation: Resource Videos - video clips from "The Life and Times of Terry Fox".  Relive his historic Marathon of Hope with vintage news footage and interviews from the people who were part of it, including his family, his best friend Doug Alward, who accompanied Terry in the van, and hockey star Darryl Sittler.

 

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This site was created by Christine Quong
A special thanks to Black Gold Regional School Division's ICT website developers and all the people have contributed to the making of this website.