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KidLink
Communication is one of our top educational objectives and for kids under 15 years, KidLinks offers activities for kids to communicate
in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Nordic languages (Scandinavian), German, Icelandic, Hebrew, and Turkish.
KidPub
KidPub is back online and is an ideal place for kids to hook up with a key-pal or publish their own writing. KidPub showcases over
11,000 stories written by kids from all over the planet!
Yahoo's playwrights resources
This page offers access to works on dozens of authors ranging from Judith Adams, Aeschylus and Aristophanes to Shakespeare,
Shaw and Williams.
The Internet Public Library
Visit the Internet Public Library reference centre to ask a question, look for a book in a particular subject area such as arts and
humanities, science and technology, law, government and political science, education, computers, and social sciences. Check the frequently asked
questions (FAQ) for fascinating answers to questions you never knew you wanted to ask.
The Online Literary Criticism Collection
This collection at the Internet Public Library brings together hundreds of literary criticism and biography web sites with annotations.
Arranged by author, subject, and time period, it includes English-language authors from North American, the British Isles and the former British Empire.
The Victorian Literature Overview
This page features 28 authors such as Browning, Dickens, Stevenson, Tennyson, and Wilde, and includes fine biographies, notes
on works, political and social context, themes, settings, and characterization.
The On-line Books Page
Over 6000 electronic books for you to search by author, title, subject, word or quote.
Ask An Expert in Literature and Language Arts
This site offers free advice from a host of experts including Ask the Classics Expert, Grammar Now, Ask the Grammar Doctor and
Shakespearian Helper.
English Literature Resources
If you are studying literature in Year 11 or 12, this page is for you. The NSW Board of Studies has developed a collection of links to
internet resources on many of the classic titles on its Prescribed Texts List. These links are also useful for students from other states who are studying the
same titles, so why not check?
Project Gutenberg
Project Gutenberg republishes fine Literature digitally on the Web for people to read, use, quote, and search. Categories include light
literature such as Alice in Wonderland, heavy literature such as the Bible and Shakespeare and references such as Roget's Thesaurus.
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Maths
Ask Dr. Math
The Math Doctor service started in 1994 matching math students who love to answer questions with other students looking for help.
Now there are over 150 volunteer 'Math Doctors' from Australia to Iceland. Essentially it provides a question and answer service for K-12 math students and
their teachers. And if you're a maths teacher with a little spare time, why not volunteer?
Maths In Real Life
This lovely page aims to give students a closer look at how numbers affect everyday decisions such as buying a product, using a
recipe, and arranging furniture in a house. Exercises feature playing to win, savings and credit, population, home decorating with pi, and cooking by
numbers.
UBUYACAR site
Most teenagers, sooner or later dream of owning a car. But how much income do you need a year to afford the one you want? This
page walks students through the steps to solve this question.
Introducing MegaMath
Introduces the complexity of real-life maths through games and puzzles such as the Mathematics Of Map Colouring, Untangling
Knots, Games on Graphs and Graph Theory games. TO THE TOP
Science
MAD Scientists Network
Whether you are seven years old or 70, if you're stuck on a science problem, here is the place to find the answer. First check the
answers to previous questions. If you cannot find yours, send your question. A "collective crania of world scientists" fields your questions with amusing and
informative answers.
Science Spot
Science activities appropriate for Australian students aged 9-15 yrs. Includes lesson plans on general science, biology, chemistry,
and earth science and astronomy complete with work-sheets.
Physics Lessons
Physics Lesson Plans and worksheets on simple machines and inertia as well as Science trivia a reference desk and career lessons
and links.
Teachers First Physics Lessons
Physics lessons for Years 9-12. TheInteractive Physics Problem Set - from the University of California, Berkeley offers 100 physics
problems, listed by topic, for Year 9-12 students to attempt and find the answers online.
Biology Lesson Plans
Designed for prospective Primary school teachers, this lovely collection of lesson plans can also be used profitably by practicing
teachers. The lessons are intended to be downloaded and implemented in a laboratory or computer classroom - they are not interactive web
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Languages
The Human Languages Page
A comprehensive catalogue linking to over 1800 Internet resources on language. Includes online language lessons, translating
dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software and language schools. Browse in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, or Portuguese.
Travel Language site
Select the language you speak from a list of 49 including Serbian, Ho-Lo-oe, Welsh, Occitan and Irish. Then choose the language
you wish to learn from a spectrum ranging from Afrikaans to Zulu. These crash courses emphasize basic conversational skills; you see the text and often
hear the pronunciation for basic words and expressions, numbers, shopping, dining, travel, directions and places.
Free On-Line Language Courses
Tempted to take some free lessons in Arabic, Basque or Bengali? Catalan, Chamarro or Cherokee? Links to courses, books,
multimedia, on-line dictionaries and translators you may never have heard of!
The Human Languages Page
A comprehensive catalogue linking to over 1800 Internet resources on language. Includes online language lessons, translating
dictionaries, native literature, translation services, software and language schools. Browse in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, or
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History
Australia's Bicentennial National Trail (BNT).
Stretching 5,330 kilometres from Cooktown in tropical North Queensland, to Healesville in Victoria Australia's Bicentennial National
Trail is designed to be a "living history" of our country. It follows historic coach and stock routes, and old pack horse trails and highlights historic sites and
artifacts. As the BNT lies within four hours drive of 11 million Australians, it is likely to pass near you. This page offers history, guidebooks, maps and
frequently asked questions.
MendelWeb
Cool science site offering classical genetics, introductory data analysis, elementary plant science, the history and literature of science
and collaboration on guided and independent studies.
The Nobel Prize Internet Archive.
Check out the prizes and while you're there, view the IgNobel Prizes and the international physics research paper competition for
high school students.
The Ada Lovelace Page
Presents brief biographical details of Ada Byron King, Countess of Lovelace 1815-1852 a fascinating mathematician with strong
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Technology
NSW Board of Studies Computing Studies page
Links to shareware and software sites, computer magazine sites and lesson material sites. This site also links to the Computer History
Page, for a fascinating glimpse of the speed with which computers are evolving.
The Past Notable Women of Computing and
Mathematics Page
Top collection of access material to help restore the too-often gender-imbalanced range of role models.
Alan Turing
Who was Alan Turing? Founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker, strange visionary and a gay man
before his time in (1912-1954)
Charles Sturt University NSW
Charles Sturt University offers on-line tutorials in C++ and a Class on the Net for those with Little or No Net Experience. Though
designed for librarians, anyone new to the Net may enjoy it and no it is not in clunky Acrobat format.
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Geography
AUSLIG
From AUSLIG, the body responsible for updating Australia's maps, comes the best maps of Australia on the Net for school projects.
Physical features, states marked, major rivers and roads and detailed facts on Australia and individual states. There's also the Fabulous Facts About
Australia page. Just what is the longest river in Australia anyway?
Bureau Of Meterology
Is it going to rain today? One of the most popular sites in Australia, the Bureau of Meterology site sports weather forecasts, warnings,
charts, observations, and satellite images for you to check cloud cover yourself. You can also check coastal forecasts and warnings for coastal water an
shipping on the high seas plus an interesting map of coastal forecast areas.
Ask an El Nino Expert
It blows hot and cold. It brings fire and rain, feast and famine, drought and flood. But what is El Ni¤o? See what the experts have to
say and ask them your own questions.
Drop in at the Australian Bureau of Meterology for all weather details.
Volcanic Eruptions Page
Every time you see a magnificent sunset, head for this page to see which volcanoes have erupted in the past few weeks. This page
update world-wide Volcanic activity, lists the latest eruptions and names the volcano and the location.
In the first week in July 1999 for example, five
volcanoes erupted, the closest to Australia being Mount Leotobi in Indonesia. The others? Soufriere Hills, West Indies; Colima, Mexico; Guagua, Ecuadore;
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Arts
NSW HSC Visual Arts On-line
This site, hosted by Charles Sturt University offers news, and information on courses, assessment and teaching support. It links to the
NSW Board of Studies syllabus, audio visual and print resources, and art education and teacher associations.
The World-Wide Web Virtual Library: Art
Fine collection of links to Art on-line, digital art, electric galleries, literature, culture, museums, music, and the
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Health & PE
The Learn Well On-line page
First tempt yourself with short courses on basic internet skills, and 16 short courses on health issues such as nutrition, weight control,
cholesterol and healing humour.
Olympics 2000
Illustrated informative overview of the Olympics 2000 and Sydney. Links to the official and unofficial Olympic 2000 sites. The official
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Homework
NJNIE Project Ask-An-Expert
Extensive collection of links to experts in Science, History, Social Studies, Economics, Marketing,
Literature, Library References,
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper
Offers over 200 sites to help kids with homework. Categories include Maths, History, Science, Art, Music, Social Studies, Languages,
Reference, English, Computer Studies, News and Playtime.
Star Tribune's Homework Helper
For excellent help from teachers. You read answers that teachers have given to previous curly questions, then click on a subject
(English and Literature, World Languages, Social Studies and Civics, Science, Maths, Primary School Topics) and post your own request.
Homework Hotline
An interactive television program from the United States that helps students with maths and science homework. Email your questions
and a teacher will contact you to help you find the answers. TO THE TOP
Reference Guides
Kids Web
Presents students with a subset of the Web that is simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Categories
include The Arts, Sciences and Social Studies. The Arts, for example, offers detailed links to Visual Arts, Drama, Literature and Music.
Global Classrom projects
Developed for Victorian school communities the Global Classroom Project aims to develop and promote models of networked student
learning and teacher professional development. There are currently over 90 GC projects in the database, covering a wide range of key learning areas, age
groups, commitment levels and resource levels.
Australian Bureau of Statistics
Essential stop for students of Australian Studies, the Australian Bureau of Statistics offers goodies such as 'Australia Now' a
comprehensive overview of the economic and social conditions of contemporary Australia. This includes the government,
international relations, defence,
The Internet Public Library reference centre
A superb site! Subject areas include arts and humanities, science and technology, law, government and political science, education,
computers, and social sciences. And for fascinating answers to questions you never knew you wanted to ask, check the FAQ!
The WWW Virtual Library
Fantastic collection of world-wide links categorized by subjects such as Agriculture, business and economics, computer science,
computers and the media and education. One of the first stops for researching a topic.
Martindale's The reference Desk
Here's the place to find interactive sign language and braille, world postage rates, science tables and databases, dictionaries and
encyclopedias, map collections both current and historic, and language and translation dictionary centres.
Onelook Dictionaries
At Onelook Dictionaries just enter your word and click "Look It Up". No response? Try Special Subjects, which includes terms
relating to investment, industrial, economic, insurance, finance, music, law, computing and allergies. Medical dictionaries such as the dictionary of
Epidemiology and the Dictionary for Brain Tumour Patients add weight and for fun check the Dictionaries of Geneology and Roadie Slang.
HSC Results
You can access your HSC results here. You will need your student number and your PIN number.
Alternatively phone 1902 220 100.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics offers a comprehensive overview of the economic and social conditions of contemporary
Australia.
Universities Admissions Centre (NSW and ACT)
Information about University Admissions in NSW and the ACT, undergraduate courses offered by the participating universities, how
to apply, and study costs and key dates.
Study Skills & Examination Techniques
This site offers essential tips on effective study skills and how to take exams. Sections include Time Management Hints); Selecting
What Is Important : A Few Clues; and Reading With A Purpose.
Board of Studies NSW
An essential first stop for HSC students. This site includes past HSC papers to down-load, curriculum material, useful resources email
links to 516 NSW schools.
The National Library of Australia
The National Library of Australia site offers access to a range of electronic Australiana resources on the Internet and World Wide
Web. There's a heap of useful information here from how to contact the Prime Minister, to Australian publishers, literature and culture.
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On-line Courses
The WWW Virtual Library Distance Education Courses
It also has an extensive collection of Distance Education links around the world.
The Australian Correspondence school
Provides correspondence courses within Australia. This site offers tips to studying by the Net, Video conferencing, course information,
videos, books and student directory. Correspondence courses include Agriculture, Business Management, Writing, Journalism, Photography, hospitality,
Health, Fitness, and Horticulture to keep your fingers green.
The Distance Education Centre Victoria
Delivers distance learning courses to Victorian students by the Internet, print material, video, audio and CD.
Charters Towers School of Distance Education in Queensland
Provides education for children in remote areas and hospitals, children whose medical condition prevents them from attending school,
travelling families in Australia and overseas, and homeschoolers. Details on eligibility for studying by distance education are available on the
enrolments page.
Queensland University of Technology
Offers external study courses for Bachelor of Education; Nursing and Teaching Dance.
Charles Sturt University
This page includes fine information on the HSC Online, Charles Sturt Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses, distance education
courses, bridging courses, and on-line subjects.
Monash University's Gippsland campus
Distance education courses in Arts, Humanities, Social Science, Journalism and Social Welfare.
Writers On the Net
Offers group classes and one-to-one mentoring on a host of styles including polishing a business proposal, a screenplay, poetry or
journalism. Students range from raw beginners to experienced writers in search of another eye.
Yahoo
Every school subject plus news, sport, entertainment, books, literature; comics and animation, contests, surveys, polls, events, food
and eating, movies and films. Use the subject directory or search for the topic you want.
Education Network Australia
This Australian site offers information on VET/TAFE courses and enrolments, international projects for Australian students to
participate in, curriculum resources, news, views and discussions.
Check the UAC page for information on University Admissions in NSW and the ACT.
SchoolPC Magazine
For the most extensive collection of reviews of Science educational software in the world, log on to our own
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Australian Commonwealth Government Entry Point
Fantastic site continuing essential information about the history of the Australian government and how it operates. Information about
the government, parliament and legislature, departments and agencies, and people and their function.
Suite 101
Uses people with a demonstrated knowledge and passion for a topic, as opposed to robot web-crawlers, to select the sites worth
visiting. It groups sites under an immense range of topics including arts and humanities, business and computers, internet, music, news and media, pets and
animals, education, entertainment and leisure, gardening, hobbies. And you can search the site
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