Springvalley Middle School

•Chess games online (play the computer - easy)

Christmas Around the World

Digital and Graphic Arts

•GoogleLabs Browser Size - Click here for description.

•Oatmeal Box Pinhole Camera - good info and images

•Pinhole Gallery - SMS students' pinhole photographs! Have a look!

•Free Rice - improve your vocabulary and help feed the poor

•Hana's Suitcase song (from YouTube) and interview with George Brady, Hana's brother and Holocaust survivor.

•NoveList K-8 - allows you to discover the fiction titles that are popular with young readers. Training and Support provides a complete introduction to the product and shows you how to use NoveList to meet the reading needs of students.

•NoveList - a fiction database that provides subject heading access, reviews, annotations, and much more for over 135,000 fiction titles. It also includes other content of interest to fiction readers, such as Author Read-alikes, What We're Reading, Book Discussion Guides, BookTalks, and Annotated Book Lists. For school media specialists and teachers there are Picture Book Extenders and articles on Teaching with Fiction.

•Persuasive essay topic help:

•Points of View - great for debate & essay projects

•SMS Library - great links to research databases and our library catalogue

•SMS Library Catalogue - see if we have the item you want!

Evaluating Online Information

•Reality Check! - Takes students in Grades 9 to 12 through seven lesson modules that build critical thinking skills for getting the most out of the Internet while avoiding its information pitfalls. Applying a journalist’s who-what-when-where-why-and-how framework, Reality Check! focuses on teaching students to go beyond the obvious: to exercise scepticism, compare information sources and apply basic investigative tools when researching on the Net.

•iMovie Tips (use this to complete the Filmmaking Tips worksheet)

Graphics Information

•Pixel2Life - graphics tutorials

•Caught in the FIRE - Fireworks tutorials

•Fresher Image - Fireworks tutorials

•Solar Dream Studios - Fireworks tutorials

•Ultraweaver - Fireworks tutorials

Heatlh & Career Education

Information & Communications Technology

•ICT & Technology Resources website - Resources to Support ICT Integration, including a guide for getting started, a guide for mentors, learning outcomes, ethics of information use and sample units (BCMOE)

•ICT Integration Performance Standards, Grades 5 to 10 - Key Components of ICTI Performance Standards, including sample tasks, rating scales and samples of student work at each level of proficiency(BCMOE)

•Example tasks - A list of example tasks using ICT for each subject area in Grades 5-7 (BCMOE)

•Laptop Computers in the K-12 Classroom - An ERIC digest article that summarizes the issues surrounding laptops in the classroom.

•Laptops Across the Curriculum: Strategies for Integration - Redesigning learning environments to incorporate laptops

•Laptop Learning Challenge - A web site for teachers that offers tips, rationale, and lesson plans associated with using laptops in the classroom.

•Making Math Interesting - An article that discusses the possibilities of teaching math with the use of laptops.

•Laptops and Special Needs Children - An article that explores the possible uses of laptops with special needs students.

•Optical Character Recognition (OCR) - Free online OCR site that will convert a scanned document into text for you. Click here for other servers that can recognize other languages. Do not use this for private documents!

•Click here to access your home folder on the server

Physical Education

Kick Start Kelowna - Enter your steps Circulatory System •Diagrams of the heart interactive quiz Diabetes •Weight Loss & Exercise Muscular system •General information and major muscles - "KidsHealth" •"Inner Body" - interactive diagrams with labels and detailed information •Overview/Front view of muscular system •Back view of muscular system .	Nutrition •General Nutrition Resources •Healthy Living •Interactive Nutrition Label and Quiz Skeletal system •"Inner Body" - interactive diagrams with labels and detailed information •Front view of skeletal system •Back view of skeletal system •Interactive skeletal system quiz When all else fails, read the instructions..

•Amnesty International Canada: ... Writing an Appeal Letter

•Ancient Egyptian landmarks - Google Earth tour - This website has built in placemarks for Google Earth and Ancient Egyptian landmarks. Students just need to load Google Earth, then click on the links on the site. Google Earth will fly them to many different locations around Egypt (organized by dynasty). They can see the geography around the sites as well as actual photographs of the pyramids and other landmarks.

•Ask Kids - a search engine for kids

Ancient Civilizations:

•Ancient Civilizations eBook

•Ancient Civilizations for Kids - links to lots of good websites

•Ancient China from mrdonn.org

•Ancient Egypt from mrdonn.org

•Ancient Greece from mrdonn.org

•Ancient Greeks & Romans (lots here!!)

•Ancient India from mrdonn.org

•Ancient Rome from mrdonn.org

•Best of History Websites

•Collapse: Why do civilizations fail?

•History Link (lots here!!)

•Kidipede: History for Kids (click on the desired area on the map)

•Mesopotamia from mrdonn.org

•Background Notes (US Dept. of State): Go here to find a list of publications that include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.

•Canada and the World - Materials on current events specifically designed for use by high school students. It provides students with the facts they need to reach their own understanding of the complex world in which they live.

•Canadian Encyclopedia

•Canadian Geographic magazine website - lots of great information, photographs and videos.

•Canada Yearbook (Statistics Canada)

•CIA World Fact Book

•Cultural Profiles of many countries from Citizenship and Immigration Canada

•Developing Countries - U.S. Dept. of State Background Notes plus two encyclopedia articles for each country

•EBSCO - all sorts of useful reference tools. Try the Student Research Centre!

•Encarta - MSN's encyclopedia

•Newseum: Front Page News Around the World

•Geonet

•Geospy

Global Village