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Its the [|Copacabana Public School - Get Smart - Interactive Activities] and its loaded with links to so many really neat online activities - especially useful with an interactive whiteboard!
 * here is a **GREAT** site!

**The Theme Machine** - a collection of downloadable themes for your classroom. Nametags, bookmarks, classroom money - you name it they seem to have it all! []

[|**SCHOLASTIC**]website - games, stories, printables and more. Well put together site with lots of free-bes plus, of course, ads for Scholastic materials.

**Student-created Graphic Organizer Activities to Enhance Visual Literacy & Deepen Learning** Having students create their own graphic organizers with key words or phrases, multimedia, connections, color, and layout can be a great way for them to develop visual literacy and thinking skills, construct and represent knowledge, and show the connections between their ideas and understandings. This is part of the //**[|TILT - Teachers Improving Learning with Technology]**// website

**Kids Ed Websites**. The purpose of this website is to present free, high-quality, fun, interactive, educational websites to parents, teachers, and kids. The author, Laurie Batres, selects quality educational website activities that are more meaningful than drill or arcade style games. Most of the activities are appropriate for kids ages 8 to 14, but some of them are fun for kids of all ages. []

Interactive Websites provide standards-based cross curricular web resources designed to enhance online learning opportunities. These sites interact with the user usually through either a text-based or graphical user interface. [|http://jc-schools.net/tutorials/interactive.htm#Language%20Arts]

[|**TEMPLATES FOR TEACHERS**] This site has more than 80 templates for a range of possibilities including Permission Notes for Excursions, behaviour logs, detention notes, referral letters etc etc. Its obviously American but most can be modified to suit your school/class.

These worksheets were designed to fit the Victorian Education Learning Standards but can also suit NSW schools. []
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**"The Totally Free Children's Learning Network"** This site encompasses many subject areas. Tagged as "The Totally Free Children's Learning Network", it contains many resources for teaching and learning, covering all subject areas. The URL: [] || **Check out this stunningly large collection of** Power Point templates **and themes. Prepare to spend some time at this one!**
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You must have a look at this amazing collection of touring sites dealing with history/social studies, language arts, math and science. You can easily spend many hours exploring this one - it's one of 'those' sites!
 * [|**Simple K12 Virtual Field Trips**] **
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Look at this site full of game activities. One interesting area is the ice-breakers collection - I can see it being useful for the start of new term classes and leadership groups. There are other categories and tidbits of information for leadership teachers - like team-building quotes and directories.
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Welcome to BrainBashers™, an exciting collection of brain teasers, puzzles, riddles, games and optical illusions. With thousands of brain teasers and puzzles, over one hundred awards, BrainBashers is updated with optical illusions and games regularly and has 5 new puzzles added every other week.
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JIGSAW PUZZLES ON-LINE []


 * Web 2.0 Cool Tools for Schools is a wiki page collection of categorized tools that are of use in classrooms. Click on a category to be presented with a list (often a long list) of online tools from which to choose. **
 * http://cooltoolsforschools.wikispaces.com/ **

[|**80 Optical Illusions & Visual Phenomena**] this is a page of optical illusions and visual phenomena. Site owner, Michael Bach, has put together a vast supply of resources that are suitable for use in the classroom. [|http://www.michaelbach.de/ot]

** Human Society and Its Environment ** This site has numerous links sorted by Grade and by Units of Work (eg the Years 3-4 includes: Australia: You're Standing In It, British Colonisation of Australia, People and Their Beliefs, Places:Then, Now and Tomorrow) Each link leads to a page with many more links associated with that Unit of work – sites, lesson plans, resources, software ideas, texts and videos available. [] ||