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Resources for Parents of
G
ifted Talented and Children
  • Amby's Gifted Resources - Provides a list of well annotated web sites related to gifted children.
  • Bruce User's Gifted Resources - One of first and largest collections of gifted resources.
  • GT World - An online support community for parents of gifted children, including a website, several discussion lists and a MOO.
  • Helen Dowland's Helping Gifted Children - A range of resources compiled by the Australian Mensa Gifted Children's Coordinator.
  • Hoagies - A labor of love that is a wonderful resource for gifted kids, and their parents and teachers. Includes the latest research on parenting and education practices.
  • Hoagies Software Reviews - Check what others have said about the software out there.

Preschoolers

Years K-6  

  • Aunty Math - Weekly maths challenge aimed at K-5 from DuPage Children's Museum
  • Boston Children's Museum - An interactive museum.
  • Bubble Dome - An interactive children's story website that aims to develop imagination and lateral thinking.
  • BrainPop - Selection of animated movies on health, sceince and technology themes.
  • Capital Children's Museum, Washington DC - An interactive museum.
  • Chicago Children's Museum - An interactive museum.
  • Cool puzzles - A site with simple to very hard lateral type puzzles.
  • Cyberchase - A high production value site with many maths games.
  • DiscoverySchool - Learning and homework help oriented site for K-12 students and their teachers/parents.
  • Eureka Children's Museum, Halifax UK - An interactive museum.
  • Kids.net.au - Very large annotated directory/search engine of web sites of interest to kids.
  • KidsClick - Good portal to info on a wide range of subjects, apparently vetted by librarians.
  • Hoagies' Kids - Provides a range of interesting activities and links to great places for kids.
  • HomeworkUK - Despite the name it contains some interesting info and worksheets.
  • The Mummy Maker - BBC game about mummy making in ancient Egypt
  • Miss Maggie's Earth Adventures - Attractive free Flash animated site for learners (and teachers).
  • Puzz - Lateral thinking and logic puzzles.
  • Shields, Knights and Heraldry - Offers free software to allow children to make their own shields/coat of arms.
  • The Space Place - NASA's site for kids interested in space-related activities and science.
  • Trinity College's site collection - Puzzles, teasers and related sites maintained by college librarian.
  • Try Science - Educational science site with a range of games and experiments.
  • Yucky Body - An informative animated site on the various bodily functions (except reproductive ones).

Years 7-12

  • Anchors Away Longitude Mapping Game - Web based learning game.
  • Artist's Toolkit - Explore visual elements with interacitve demos and a create your own tool.
  • Brian Barratt's English site - Explores the history and usage of English in an eclectic, fascinating way
  • ExploreScience - Great interactive learning experiences with Shockwave multimedia activities.
  • EdNA's Curriculum Resources - Authoritative evaluated resources from Australia's EdNA.
  • Geometry from the Land of the Incas - Great Flash enabled site on Euclidean geometry.
  • Hoagies Investigations - Reference libraries and individual links for all your school subjects.
  • Hoagies' Teens - Provides a range of interesting activities and links to great places for teenagers.
  • Illuminations - US mathematics mega site.
  • Lateral puzzles - A large and free collection of puzzles with interactive chat problem solving.
  • The Mint - An integrated US web-site covering personal finance and economic themes designed for middle and high school students, their teachers and parents.
  • MIT Open Courseware - Massachusetts Institute of Technology course material progressively put online for public use
  • Moneyopolis - US site using a game format for junior high maths in a personal finance setting "the place for money-sharp kids" - authored by Ernst and Young
  • Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews - Free academic ezine that reviews major new philosophical books
  • OzSkyWatch - A site to inspire and help Australians to learn about the night sky.
  • Physics Classroom - Attractive online tutorials on several physics topics.
  • RDN's Virtual Training Suite - Easy, free and excellent tutorials for senior students wanting to master internet resources in their chosen professional field or interest area
  • Robocode - Site allows you to program your own virtual robotank using Java with virtual competitions or rumbles between the created tanks
  • The Science Site - Fortnightly science ezine with Pacific/New Zealand focus
  • TeleMentors - a site linking students with a particular interest electronically to volunteers working in the fields
  • Trinity College's site collection - Puzzles, teasers and related sites maintained by college librarian


 
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