Homework Help

Homework Sites

Life Processes and Living Things

  • TheGreatPlantEscape  -  Help Detective LePlant and his partners   Bud and Sprout unlock the amazing mysteries of plant life! They will need your   help to find clues, do experiments, and solve problems as you journey into the   world of plants.

Life Processes and Living Things: Ourselves

  • TheHumanBodyCyberhunt         A series of questions about the human   body. Click on the links below each question to find the answers.
  • HealthyKids         Pages about keeping healthy, with materials   written for especially for each age group.

Physical Processes: Forces

  • ForcesCyberhunt         A series of questions about Forces. Click   on the links below each question to find the answers.

Physical Processes: The Earth in Space

  • SolarSystemon-linegame - How much do you really know about   the solar system?
  • SpaceKids Visit our   solar system, watch the night sky, homework help, games, ask an expert and lots   more at this site especially for children.

Materials

Maths Sites for Children (ages 7 to 11)

  • MathBaseball – FUNBRAIN will give you a maths problem. Enter   the answer to the problem and hit the “Swing” button. If your answer is correct,   you will get a hit. FUNBRAIN will decide if the hit is a single, double, triple,   or home run based on the difficulty of the problem. If your answer is wrong, you   will get an out. The game is over after three outs. Choose from Addition,   Subtraction, Multiplication, or all four operations and four levels of   difficulty.
  • What’sthePoint? – Using co-ordinates.
  • SoccerShoot-out – Score and Save by correctly answering math   problems. First you shoot, then try to save the shot by FunBrain. Remember to   reduce your answers (fractions only).
  • FreshBakedFractions – You are shown four fractions. Three of   the fractions are equivalent. They can all be simplified to to the same   fraction. Click on the fraction that is not equal to the others. Choose from   four levels of difficulty.
  • ShapeSurveyor – Choose what you would like to play –   perimeters and/or areas – and hit “Start Digging” to begin the game.
  • PrimaryGames – Maths games for 1 or 2 players, mostly for   number bonds practice and mental maths including fractions and decimals.
  • BBC-Starship-Maths-Calamity’s Quest  – Help Captain Calamity   free Princess Amber from the Evil Ruler’s castle.
  • A+Maths  – A whole   room full of interactive maths games, plus homework help.
  • www.multiplication.com  – Interactive Internet Games
  • LearningPlanet  – A fun collection of free games and learning   activities just for you! Choose your grade level, and then choose from fun games   like Mr. Elephant’s Matching Game and Math Mayhem!
  • TheFrogPuzzle –  Click on the lily pads to make the frogs   move across the pond by hopping or sliding. Can you work out how many moves you   would need to shift any number of frogs?
  • AmazingAgeCards  – How does the computer know which number   you’ve picked?
  • MathMagician – Practice the basic skills of +, -, x and ÷

Literacy Sites for Children (ages 7 to 11)

  • Squigly’sWritingCorner       Have fun making your own stories   using Squigly’s story builder. Squigly and his friends have written some stories   that you can personalize with your own words.
  • Children’sStorybooksOnline       Original stories with colour   illustrations for young children as well as older children and young adults.   Children’s Storybooks Online combines education and entertainment to amuse and   engage children’s imaginations. There are riddles, mazes, coloring book pages   and a page with children’s links that have won Children’s Storybooks Online   Award for excellence.
  • AmazingAdventureSeries        The Amazing Adventure   Series features fun read along stories, movies, and activities for   children of all ages.
  • Arthur|PBSKids        Developed with the help and advice of   Arthur creator Marc Brown, the ARTHUR site is organized into pages hosted by the   series’ characters, each with features that encourage kids to read and   write.
  • GrammarGorillas       Our friends, the Grammar Gorillas, need   help identifying parts of speech. If you click on the right word in the   sentence, our friends get a banana.
  • Peter Rabbit: Discover the magical world of Peter Rabbit and his friends, with stories,   film shows, puzzles and everything you need to know about your favourite Beatrix   Potter characters.
  • Fun with Spot: Visit the Spot website for lots of online fun with the world’s most loveable   puppy – there’s games to play, competitions, books, videos and much, much more.
  • Flower Fairies:  Full of fairy fun and facts, including the Fairy Finder, Fairy Scope and Fairy   Letters, as well as an online gift shop and lots of information about the   creator, Cicely Mary Barker.
  • PuffinBooks   -   Fun   stuff, free stuff, cool links, how a book is made, book of the month and   parents’ and education zones.

History Sites for Children (ages 7 to 11)

Sites about Ancient Egypt

Sites about Ancient Rome

Sites about the Anglo-Saxons

Sites about the Normans

  • The Bayeux Tapestry – Here you can read the tale told by the Bayeux Tapestry – The   story of William the Conqueror and Harold, Earl of Wessex, the men who led the   Norman and Saxon armies in 1066. William’s defeat of Harold at the Battle of   Hastings ensured the success of the Norman invasion of England.

Sites about Tudors and Stuarts

The Victorians

General History Sites

Sites about Famous People

  • Anne Frank
  • Edward Jenner
  • The Story of Louis Braille - Blind from the age of three, young   Louis desperately wanted to read. He realised the vast world of thought and   ideas that was locked out to him because of his disability. He was determined to   find the key to this door for himself, and for all other blind persons.
  • Diana, Princess of Wales - The British Monarchy   Website

Geography Sites for Children (ages 7 to 11)

Maps

Rivers, Coasts and the Water Cycle

Miscellaneous Sites

World Study Sites

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