The Web Catcher

From RIF (Reading is Fundamental) comes the Reading Planet, a place to explore, create and… read! Choose from the Activity Lab, Games Station, Book Zone or Express Yourself. Explore and have fun, or ‘join the club’ to be able to create your own ‘bookshelf’ and save your activities.
Favorites: The activity lab includes links to kids [...]

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An Astronomical Alphabet is a fun introduction to astronomy.  The photos displayed show the alphabet shapes as found in a variety of astronomical phenomena.  A picture’s worth a thousand words, so this one’s worth 26,000 at my count, but really what happens here is the photographed ‘letters’ are the hook — if [...]

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CountOn offers numerous interactive math activities from England (hence ‘maths’ instead of ‘math’). Use the links on the left to fully explore what’s here, including numerous links and helpful resources. The activities themselves are straightforward and engaging, making it a useful classroom tool.  Explore Pictures Interactive, a creative building-like interface which leads to explorations that [...]

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Bookshare.org gives print disabled people in the United States legal access to over 34,500 books and 150 periodicals that are converted to Braille, large print or text to speech audio files.

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BrainsRule! provides information, reference materials and interactive games, animations and slideshows to explore how the brain works and what happens, for example, if someone has a stroke. Also included are options to set up your own BrainsRule web page and interact with the BrainsRule community via voting for favorite games, sending notes to BrainsRule and [...]

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ARTFL Project: ROGET’S Thesaurus Search Form provides a free, public domain, searchable thesaurus. You can search by head word (entry) or any word.
HELP! In order to develop this thesaurus together with the Webster’s dictionary into an encyclopedic knowledge base for use in intelligent programs, volunteers are needed with all levels of expertise [...]

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NeuroScience for Kids is a buried treasure of brain information and activities for kids. There’s Neuroscience in the News, online and hands-on explorations, experiments, contests, and links to sites, books and articles all about brains. It’s worth the time to dig deep into this site!

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FossWeb offers three sites with interactive inquiry-based science activities. The site does not have full auditory support, but downloadable audio versions of the Foss texts are available. Each level offers a different range of features and topics, but all three offer extensive parent and teacher support.

The K-2 site includes background information, an interactive activity, [...]

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Aunty Math
gives kids in K-5 a different math challenge each week, with three levels (regular, ‘a wee bit harder,’ and ‘a wee bit easier’). Kids can try the challenge and submit their answers. Teachers and parents can view tips on how to use the challenges with kids, what math is involved and how to modify [...]

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Like its companion Magnetic Letters, Magnetic Numbers is a simple, open-ended place to explore numbers. Simply click or type to place an endless supply of numbers and operators on the screen, then move them around to order them, create equations, or just explore.

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