Pumpkin and Company - TEACHERS/Web Resources

Giggle Poetry. Poetry-based activities: Fill-in-the-Blank Poems, Poetry Race, Rhyme-Time Riddles, Poetry Theater, E-Poem, Poetry Contests...Different levels.

Poem Making. How to make poems with the Poem Machine…+ poetry games.

BBC Words and Pictures. Ten colourful poems with animation, audio and activities.

Poetry Exhibits- The academy of American Poets Biographies, photos and other information on more than 200 poets + listening booth for some of them. Search tool.

Edgar A. POE's poetry This site features Annabel Lee, the Raven, the Bells, Lenore, Eldorado and more classical masters.

The North Pole. Loads of Xmas stories to read online, songs and poems to listen to.

Haunted Places and the Raven by Edgar Allan Poe.

Squish Reader's Corner This month we have two poems for you to enjoy. Both these entries win prizes. If you want to win Cadbury goodies, send me a picture, poem or story (or just about anything we can put on a web page) about your favourite Yowie. If we publish it you will win a fabulous prize.

Nursery Rhymes Rebus Rhymes is designed for children who are learning how to read: Ants Go Marching, Baa, Baa, Black Sheep, Betty Botter, The Boy in the Barn and many others. Includes activities accompanying the rhymes, sequencing cards, word families used in rhymes and lesson plans for teaching rhymes.

British Ring Games Traditional British Ring Games are accompanied by singing and rhymes.

Pollution

Waste Prevention Cliparts.

Try shrinking a Landfill. About 80 percent of our nation's garbage goes to landfills. Many landfills are rapidly running out of room; half are expected to close by the year 2000.With fewer places for our trash to go, we'll need to start generating less by reducing, reusing, and recycling as much as possible. Try your hand at shrinking the amount of new material going into a community's landfill.

An Internet Research Learning Adventure. With this Derby, students will learn the fundamentals of Internet research and discover challenging ideas about ecosystems and important environmental issues.

Recycling Rhyming Poem.

Recycling. Click on the different types of trash in our pile to find out how each kind is recycled.

The American Forest and Paper Association's Recycling site. Information and clipart on recycling.

For some more resource, go to Teachers/Web Resources/Environment, Kids/Links/Educational Sites/Environment or to Kids/Links/Environment Games and Puzzles.

Puzzles

Australia: facts and quiz Click on any of the pictures to go to a related topic on Australia.

Puzzlemaker. Puzzlemaker enables you to create puzzles in various styles (Word Searches with or without a hidden message, Word Ladders, Mixed-up Letter Puzzles, Crosswords…) using your own words. These puzzles can not be taken online but can be printed out and used in class.

Quiz Center: Quiz Center is a powerful tool you can use to create, administer, and grade quizzes online. Without any Web development background whatsoever, you'll be able to make online quizzes that provide instant feedback to you and your students. An excellent tool!!

British Crossword puzzles. Word searches and word games to print out.

John's Word Search Puzzles. Topics organized by categories:
- Holidays: Xmas, 4th of July, Halloween, Mothers Day, New Year's Eve, Thanksgiving, Valentine's Day, Veteran's Day…
   - General: feelings, birds, fruit, inventors, jobs, money, musical instruments, Native Americans, ships, space, weather, women in history…
   - Kids: colours, computers, cars, clothes, Halloween, library, rain forests, rocks and minerals, school, sounds the same 1+2.
   - States: on the United States and a great may of the 50 states.
   - Sports: baseball, camping, fishing, football, golf, Olympics, ski, wrestling, rodeo, volleyball…
   - TV/Movies: Batman, Star Trek, the Simpsons, Titanic, Westerns, the X-Files, Sliders…

Puzzle Solver. Can't solve a puzzle: type in the clue and number of letters and this site suggests possible answers.

Learning Planet. (Maths, English, Puzzles, crosswords…)

Easy Crossword Puzzles Featured puzzles: Ancient Egypt, France. Puzzles by topic: antonyms and synonyms, Little House in the Big Woods, USA, Basketball, Animals, Spring, Thanksgiving, Christmas.

Detective Shell's Word Search Topics: Summer, Numbers, Basketball, Farm Animals, Fruit/Vegetables, Zoo Animals, St Valentine's Day, Spring, Fall, Winter.

Detective Shell's Word Search Topics: Summer, Ancient Egypt, Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, Mammals, Reptiles and Amphibians, St Valentine's Day, Birds, Basketball, Farm, the Heart, Spring, Winter.

Quiz Lab at Funbrain. With Quiz Lab, you can build quizzes online in minutes, allow students to take quizzes over the Internet in the classroom, in the library, or at home. Save time with quizzes that are automatically graded, averaged, and emailed to you.

X-Word.com. Page of links to crossword puzzles web sites.

CROSSWORD COMPILER 5. Make your own interactive crossword puzzles for the Internet.

For some more resource, go to Teachers/Web Resources/Games.