TumbleBook Library

An online collection of animated, talking picture books; full-length, unabridged, streaming audio books; books in French, Spanish, and other languages; as well as puzzles and games to reinforce concepts from the books. The interface is also viewable in French and Spanish making it accessible for ESL learners.

An online collection of read-along titles for children and young adults, featuring adjustable online text and audio narrration. Sentences are highlighted and the pages turn automatically. Great for readers of all abilities.

Expands the collection of TumbleReadables with nonfiction titles, full cast Shakesperian plays, and more read-along titles.

Games Just for KIDS!

 

Gamequarium.com: 1500 online learning games!

Social Studies (Critical Challenges)

 Math (Number, Patterns and Relations, Shape and Space)

  1. Fish Swish (Count the fish) Peep and the Big Wide World
  2. Flower Power (Counting Activity) Peep and the Big Wide World
  3. Chirp Shape Up (find the shapes) Peep and the Big Wide World
  4. Hop to It! (small, medium or large) Peep and the Big Wide World
  5. Which Fish (patterning) Peep and the Big Wide World
  6. Colorfish- Follow directions and identify shapes and colour
  7. Bobby Bear Bobbie Bear is planning a vacation and wants to know how many outfits can be made using different colored shirts and pants.
  8. Which One? (comparing)
  9. Math Skills Kindergarten (teacher directed activity)
  10. Juggling George - Counting- Join Curious George in an interactive counting activity
  11. The Patterns Game Look at each pattern. Which bear should go next?
  12. Count Us In ( 15 math games including volume, addition, symmetry, matching)
  13. Bunny Balance (balance the bunnies) challenging (Peep and the Big Wide World)


The Alphabet
 

 

  1. ABC Match (READ WRITE THINK)
  2. ABC Order Which letter comes next?
  3. Sound Match  (Clifford) drag and drop
  4. Letter Match (Clifford) sort words by the starting sound
  5. Make a word (Clifford) drag vowels to complete the word (challenging)
  6. Concentration (find the objects with the same middle sound)
  7. ABCD Watermelon- type the missing letter from the alphabet
  8. Fuzzy Lion Ears -  type the missing first letter from a word 


Basic Skills (colours, shapes, memory, matching)

 

  1. Kinderweb (Educational Children's Games) identify animals, shapes, letters, colours, numbers
  2. Tina's World - follow 3 step instructions
  3. Memory Lane (remember what you saw) Peep and the Big Wide World
  4. Hide and Peep (Memory game) Peep and the Big Wide World
  5. Trash Stash (sorting) Peep and the Big Wide World
  6. Literacy Center This site offers a variety of letter, shape, and number activities for young learners in your choice of language (appropriate for Smart board or group activity)
  7. Mixing Colours
  8. Paint Spat An interactive colour mixer and paint program.
  9. Ellen's Acres: Sorting with Ellen - Ellen needs your help to put items in the right places. (challenging)


Science

 

  1. House Hunt Help the animals find their home. (Peep and the Big Wide World)
  2. Round and Round life cycles (Peep and the Big Wide World)
  3. Elmo's World Weather Game  Choose the type of weather you like and then select clothes for Elmo to wear.


Français
 

  1. Literacy Centre (Lettres majuscules, minuscules, les formes, écriture, les mots, nombres, couleurs, touche)
  2. Je Suis Unique
  3. L'histoire des trois petits cochons
  4. Le corbeau et le renard
  5. Les souris courageuses
  6. Le rat des villes et le rat des champs
  7. Le petit bateau rouge

Reading
 

 

  1. I Can Read (Scholastic)
  2. Read Key Words (challenging)
  3. Clifford the Dog Interactive Stories Emily Elizabeth Goes to School, "Here Clifford!", Clifford's Big Dig,  Where Is Emily?
  4. Clifford the Dog - Phonics Fun for Early Readers
  5. ABC's Let's Get Ready to Read (Starfall)

Creating (Drawing/Painting/Writing)

  1. Kerpoof Create original artwork, animated movies, and stories!
  2. Mix and Paint
  3. Grandparent's Day (Help Zac write a letter to a grandparent)
  4. Word Hunt (click and drag words to help finish sentence)

Educational Sites


Bonus.com
Dedicated to providing access to a rich selection of entertaining and educational works for children. They have links to hundreds of applets on the Web.

Kawama.com
An Education Internet portal which offers students, parents, teachers, and administrators an online "community" surrounded by best-in-class age-appropriate information, educational content, and entertainment.

Thinks.com
"Fun and games for playful brains." Brain games, puzzles, and pastimes. Another terrific site for kids.

Games, Puzzles, and Mathematics


Puzzles.comIncludes a PuzzleMart where visitors can purchase a variety of puzzles and other amusements, a PuzzleClub with a discussion board and newsletter, and, of course, a wide selection of interactive puzzles from across the web, for puzzlers of all ages.

Brain teasers by Barry R. Clarke
Original free brain teasers and recreational mathematics articles from the British puzzles expert and Daily Telegraph (UK) compiler.

Puzzle World
John Rausch's site is dedicated to mechanical puzzles of all types. Includes Nick Baxter's sliding block puzzles, as well as a Java version of Lunar Lockout which I wrote for Binary Arts.

MathPuzzle.com
Ed Pegg Jr.'s site is a celebration of math puzzles and Mathematical Recreations.

Java on the Brain
Karl Hornell's Applet Center has some of the best Java games I've seen anywhere on the Web.

Cut-the-Knot
Alexander Bogomolny's site has interesting mathematical information about Peg Solitaire, and about lots of other things too. The page on Reverse Solitaire has a commentary by Leibnitz, of all people.

Javhar's Hex Page
Jack van Rijswijck is the author of QueenBee, one of the strongest Hex programs available. There's also a good collection of Hex links here.

Tower of Hanoi on the Web
The place to start for any and all information on the Tower (or Towers, nobody seems to know which is right).

Fiver in Tcl/Tk
Felipe Voloch has created a version of Fiver which handles much larger boards, which can take the form of a cylinder, torus, or moebius strip. Runs in a browser (with the Tcl plugin) or as a Windows executable. Source code is available.

Combinatorial Game Theory
Lots of links related to the strategies and mathematics of two-player "perfect information" games.

LiveWire Puzzles
This site is dedicated to very intricate wire disentanglement puzzles. Check out the wide variety of puzzle arrangements from this well designed site.
 
Chess


Kasparov Chess
The official site of World Chess Champion Garry Kasparov. Probably the single most popular chess site on the web. Includes lessons, tournament coverage, online play, columns, etc.

Chess Corner
Has an excellent tutorial for beginners, as well as an introduction to the main tactical themes.

Chess For Kids
Designed by kids, for kids. A resource for chess players of all skill levels, from beginners to advanced tournament players. Includes basic tutorials, puzzles, an introduction to tournament play, and annotated games.

F.I.D.E.
Official website of the World Chess Federation. Features include news, calendar of events, tournament info, ratings, a playing area, and links catalogue.

ChessCanada.Net
Hosts a variety of chess games and a ranking ladder to help you keep track of your progress.

Bruno's Chess Problem Of The Day: Like chess? Well, everyday you will find here new free chess problems. Looking for logic puzzles, free chess strategies or tactics? Come on!

Mazes and Labyrinths


Amazing Mazes
A prize-winning 7th grade Science Fair project created by Andrew Bridges, which investigates various strategies for traversing mazes. Excellent project documentation, including the Java source code, is available on the site.

RatInMaze
Kaushik Raj has created a very nice rat-in-the-maze game, with a clever twist. The Java source code is available and very well documented.

Falstad's Maze
Real Programmer Paul Falstad creates randomly generated 3-D, first-person scrolling-perspective mazes, using straight Java 1.0. Source code is available.

3D Mazes in Java
Another great maze program, by James L. Dean. The Java source is available as well as a C++ version for Win9x.

Think Labyrinth
Built by fellow maze enthusiast Walter Pullen, this site includes an interactive maze program, information on creating and solving mazes, a gallery of computer mazes, pictures of life-size mazes, and many links.

Adrian Fisher Maze Design
The home page of Adrian Fisher, a professional maze designer.

Morrison Maze Prints
Solvable modern art. All signed and numbered prints come with certificates. Only one is released a year, due to the intensive detail they have.

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