General Interest Links - Education
| Ancient Greek Quiz | This site is a comprehensive Internet encyclopedia of Ancient Greece in an easy to navigate A-Z format. |
| Bill Nye's Simple Machines | Information and ideas about levers, pulleys, screws and ramps. |
| Dositey Educational Site | Free educational software for use on the Internet. Development of reading, math, and science skills using interactive workbook exercises and mini-lessons. |
| ePALS Classroom Exchange | Classroom exchange keypals search engine |
| Himalayan Trek | Very few challenges have excited climbers as much as Mt Everest. This site looks at the successes and failures through the years, as well as the environmental issues etc. |
| ICT | The Ministry of Education's Strategy for Schools for Interactive Education - Information & Communication Technologies. |
| Idea Box | A site for parents of young children. Features ideas for education, activities, message boards and more. |
| International Antarctic Centre | Explore and experience the adventures of Antartica - lots to explore and things to do. |
| La Fête | French/English site for children and educators. Teaches French through music, arts and crafts, and teaching aids. Also info on how to mount a children's festival. |
| Learn Geography | From creating treasure maps to helping children find pen pals, this site offers many simple, fun activities to teach youngsters the fundamentals of geography. From the U.S. Department of Education. |
| Lego Dacta at Avondale School | David Hawthornthwaite is a senior teacher who has been using Lego dacta resources for the last 5 years. This site looks at some of the ways this has been used and some of the childrens other activities. |
| Look, Learn and Do Projects | Simple machines to make. |
| Ministry of Education | The New Zealand Ministry of Edcuation site with links to many other items of interest to teachers. |
| Natural Disasters | A collection of links to sites on Natural Disasters, such as Earthquakes, Tsunamis, Volcanoes, Hurricanes, Tornados etc, compiled especially for New Zealand schools. |
| New Zealand Council for Education Research | Explains the history and scope of the NZCER and contains a large Assessment Resource Bank covering Mathematics, Science and English from which items can be downloaded with the appropriate user-id and password. |
| New Zealand Qualifications Authority | The NZQA web site carries the unit standards and qualifications for all industries on the National Qualifications Framework. These can be downloaded and printed free of charge. |
| New Zealand Teachers' Science Helpline | Expert answers provided free of charge to NZ science teachers by experts from the University of Otago. |
| Math Tutor | Interactive math tutor for children up to 10 years. Includes practice problems, assistance, links and chat. |
| Outer Space and Beyond | A collection of links to Space and Space Related sites compiled especially for New Zealand schools. |
| Problem Solving Maths | Based on the NZ curriculum, this is a new fascinating site for exploring mathematics for levels 1-4. |
| Te Ohu Kai Moana | Explores the work of the Te Ohu Kai Moana (Treaty of Waiatangi Fisheries Commission) together with the people and the industry that it serves. Great study site for levels 3-5. |
| Teachers @ Work | A site run by Mark Treadwell, an Auckland-based education consultant and although it has a commercial bias some of the free links are rather good. |
| Teaching Online | The 'starters and strategies' teacher's magazine site designed for NZ teachers. |
| Telecom Wonders of the World | A continually updating site containing very high quality teaching materials and other information. |
| The Resource Guide | A comprehensive database of Science and Technology Resources available in New Zealand. A database for NZ educators. |
| The Science of Cycling | A site about how a bicycle works - looks a wheels, gears etc |
| Timeplan | Virtual Teaching Centre |
| Treaty of Waitangi | A must site for details regarding NZ's founding document. |
| WeNET | Waikato Education Network |
| Wow! it's science | New Zealand's innovative website for students, educators, industry professionals, the media, communicators and other intelligent life forms wired into science and technology |
| Yuckiest site on the Internet | Explore the living sciences of entomology, earth science, and human biology through roaches, earthworms and the mysterious human body |