Educational Websites

education.abc.net.au/home#!/resources
ABC Education has 5000+ educational games, videos and teaching resources for schools and students. Free resources covering English, maths, science, history, geography, etc.

Kids News is proudly supported by News Corp Australia. Articles on kidsnews.com.au are based on content from the many publications within the News Corp Australia network.

ABC iView education: iview.abc.net.au/category/education/
ABC iview is a free internet TV service of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation that provides a range of suitable educational programs. It can be used on personal computers, tablets, smart phones, games consoles, internet-connected TVs and media streaming devices.

Where to get iView: https://iviewsupport.abc.net.au/hc/en-us/articles/360000963296-Where-to-get-iview

DK Find Out! is a general interest site with fun facts, quizzes, games, and activities on a wide variety of topics.

www.abc.net.au/btn/
Behind the News (more commonly known as BTN) is a long-running news programme broadcast on the ABC and aimed at upper primary. We suggest you watch this with your children and talk about what you see.

T4L Kids Issue 5This issue is jam-packed with challenges and brain-twisting ideas to get your creative juices flowing! Whether you’re working in the cloud or offline, you can put your ideas to the test with the 6 challenges contained inside.

www.abcya.com/

ABCya! offers a broad range of games that covers a variety of subjects areas for K-5. Some games may not work on iPads.

However, it is US based so be selective, and advertisements can be annoying.

Mem Fox Books: listen to her Mem Fox read her books for free on her website.

www.crickweb.co.uk/

Crickweb provides excellent free educational interactive games/teaching activities for all ages and subject areas.

musiclab.chromeexperiments.com/
Chrome Music Lab is a free website featuring 13 different interactive musical "experiments." The focus is very much on free-form play and experimentation, inviting students to explore and create. Lots of fun!
Only works with Google Chrome browser.

www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/primary

Bitesize is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age pupils in the UK. Find step-by-step guides, videos, activities and quizzes by level and subject.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math
Khan Academy is a free website with excellent tutorials on maths concepts from early learning through to uni. Exercises and videos can be accessed without signing up to the Kahn Academy, but kids are encouraged to sign up so they don't lose their progress. To do this they are asked for their parents email.

T4L Kids Issue 01T4L Kids magazine is a self-guided independent learning resource created by teachers for students. It can be used either in class or as a work from home resource. The magazine aims to provide students with purposeful challenges that engages them in creating content using technology.

T4L Kids Issue 02Welcome to issue two of T4L kids! We hope you enjoyed issue one, and learnt skills on how to design your own game. Congratulations to Artarmon Public School who had a huge number of students enter their game designs. The T4L team had a great time playing them! Read on in the magazine to find out who the two lucky students were that won an Annoyatron for sharing their great games with us!

T4L Kids Issue 3Science is a passion of mine and this issue is all about investigating science and the ideas behind scientific enquiry. I hope you’re inspired by some of the incredible scientists and the challenges they are finding for solutions for. Can tech help you with your challenge? How can you share the ideas and concepts behind your idea and then quantify your data? It’s all in this Science issue!

T4L Kids Issue 4Design or imagine a public space using the power of Minecraft: Education Edition (M:EE) in our special Minecraft edition. Explore a range of tutorials and guided challenges to harness the power of M:EE to create a design for a public space – reimagined of course!

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