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www.eduplace.com/ss/maps/
Here's a useful site if you are wanting to print off clear, outline maps of countries for your students.
www.timeanddate.com/
Great site for making calendars, finding times in other countries and a lot more.
www.1stheadlines.com/index.htm/
Top US breaking headlines.
www.yahooligans.com/
A great safe search tool for kids.
www.piperpat.co.nz/nz/contents.html
Here are several thousand New Zealand websites that provide all manner of information about New Zealand. This is an ever-expanding and ever-evolving list.
www.www.guardian.co.uk
The UK Guardian newspaper's website. This site has excellent backgrounds to current news issues.
www.globalnet.org.nz
Global net is designed to allow educators, students, parents and others to take part in a worldwide learning adventure. Share your stories about the future of the planet.
www.google.com
An excellent search tool. Don't forgot to add a + sign to get exactly what you want, e.g. Newspapers in Education+activities+quiz.
www.stuff.co.nz
Our New Zealand newspaper site featuring the latest news of the day. News from many newspapers around New Zealand. One of the best for seeing up to date news at a glance. Excellent photographs too.
www.nzoom.com
TVNZ's New Zealand site where you can catch up on the latest news, sport, business and weather information and watch some of the latest stories and interviews on video.
www.stats.govt.nz
Statistics NZ's web database for up-to-date facts and figures about New Zealand. Click on Schools' corner.
www.ew.govt.nz/educationprogrammes/schools/index.htm
Environment Waikato - environmental education programmes for schools. Lots of curriculum based lessons for teachers and worksheets for students.
www.www.refdesk.com/facts.html
Huge searchable facts resource. Includes calendars, time conversions, dictionaries, maps, news sources and a lot more.
www.onlineconversion.com
An excellent online conversion site. It helps you convert just about anything to anything else. |
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