Inspire Your kids

Inspire Your Kids

Inspire Your kids

As parents, we want to give our children every opportunity to excel. In this section, we have included links to some of our favourite kid-friendly educational websites to help  inspire your kids.

When it comes to helping kids find the resources they need for homework and projects, we have made it easy, with links to general reference sites, and other fun and informative specialist sites, sorted by subject and school age. Many also offer activities, educational games, puzzles, worksheets and printables.

And don't forget to look at our online games section, which has links to fun games (with an educational twist) for your kids.  They won't even know they're learning!

Spanish for Kids

Kids can learn basic Spanish online for free, and have fun at the same time!  ...read more »

Australian Centre for the Moving Image - Hothouse Program

ACMI HothouseThe Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) runs the Hothouse: Tall Poppies Grow Here program which aims to develop the creative talents of ten of Victoria’s best young aspiring filmmakers in years 10 to 12.  ...read more »

Maths is Fun

This website offers mathematics in an enjoyable and easy-to-learn manner, to make mathematics fun.  The site aims to cover the full Kindergarten to Year 12 curriculum.  ...read more »

PrimaryLeap

PrimaryLeap provides teachers, parents and homeschoolers with thousands of printables covering English, maths, science, geography, history and lots of fun themes for children.  ...read more »

Free Mathematics How-To-Library

Select a category and click topic headings for free exercises and explanations on a range of mathematics topics, brought to you by the teacherschoice website.  ...read more »

The Science Spot

A resource for middle school teachers and students...  Lessons and activities, science concepts, word searches. crosswords, project ideas, and more.  ...read more »

Sydney Youth Writing Competition 2013 - Entries Close June 18

18/06/2013

The Sydney Youth Writing Competition is open to any student nationally between the ages of 7-12.  Enter your story, poem, play, script or free choice and you could win great prizes.  ...read more »

Gnowledge

Gnowledge is an online test publishing platform.  Tests and exercises can be created by anyone and are categorized by title, subject, grade, school and/or country. Once published, these tests are available for everyone to use and share.  ...read more »

AVA PetPep

AVA PetPEP is the Australian Veterinary Association's Pets and People Education Program. AVA PetPEP teaches children and the community about responsible pet ownership, safety around animals, healthy living (pets and people), welfare of animals and animals in the community.  ...read more »

'Rock the Schools' Music Project

Australian school students with a passion for music will benefit from new Australian Government funding for the ‘Rock the Schools’ project, with $400 000 being provided to help bring music tours and workshops into more schools next year.  ...read more »

Clean Up the River

Clean Up the River is an interactive recycling game for primary school students, brought to you by Clean Up Australia.  ...read more »

Australian Poetry Library

The online library holds more than 42,000 poems by 217 Australian poets. The poems on the site are fully searchable by poet, theme and form. You can, for example, search for an animal poem, a bush poem, a poem for kids, a friendship poem, a funny poem, a war poem or a school poem. If you feel like a ballad, a haiku, a parody, a sonnet or just a poem that rhymes you can find all those categories and more.  ...read more »

FunBrain

Funbrain, created for kids age preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.  ...read more »

WorldRecordChase.com

Alastair Galpin took to world record-breaking in 2004 after being inspired by a record-setting rally driver in Kenya. What began as a hobby soon escalated into an active publicity pursuit.  ...read more »

Kerri's Library Page

Kerri's Library Page has been created by a library technician.  The website has been created for schools and is used widely.  It has excellent reference materials and links to a variety of subjects, and there is a section loaded with games for kids.  ...read more »

Behind the News

News for kids by ABC.  Understanding current events made easier for kids.  Watch clips, read about the latest happenings around the world, and be informed about the issues.  ...read more »

Creativity Games

CreativityGames.net is a website designed to encourage and enable young people (and older ones too) to push the boundaries of creative ability with fun games, challenges, and resources.  ...read more »

Budd:e by StaySmartOnline

The Budd:e website helps kids to learn about being safe on the internet.  Fun games for primary and secondary students will help you learn about how to keep your computer safe, what is safe to publish online and what is better kept private, how to potect your ID, how to create a strong passord, how to know when something is a scam, and more.  ...read more »

Digital Citizenship

A selection of the best online digital citizenship videos and information to help you gain a better understanding of how you can keep yourself and others safe online.  ...read more »

Top 10 Halloween Websites for Kids

Jack o Lanterns

Halloween, celebrated each year on October 31, is a mix of ancient Celtic practices, Catholic  and Roman religious rituals and European folk traditions that blended together over time to create the holiday we know today.  Here are some links to find out more about Halloween and fun activities for the kids.

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Cure the Bullies

Developed BY kids FOR kids, CureTheBullies is a fun, interactive awareness-raising campaign, which focuses on a new approach to the issue – by targeting the ‘bystander’ – kids who may witness bullying behaviour or even act as an accomplice to bullying behaviours, through their use of email, social networking or text messaging.

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Sloan Digital Sky Survey

This website presents data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a project to make a map of a large part of the universe. It shows the beauty of the universe, and shares with us the excitement of building the largest map in the history of the world.  ...read more »

Book: Australian Backyard Explorer/ Naturalist

Australian Backyard ExplorerAustralian Backyard Explorer / Naturalist
Author: Peter Macinnis

Children's Book Council of Australia 2010 Winner - Award for Information Books

Australian Backyard Explorer tells the stories of many intrepid individuals who explored the Australian continent in the first 120 years of European settlement. It includes little-known explorers as well as the old favourites, such as James Cook, Edward John Eyre, Robert O'Hara Burke and William John Wills...  ...read more »

Marine Education Society of Australasia

MESA is a national organisation that aims to bring together people interested in the study and enjoyment of coastal and marine environments.  ...read more »

Teen Truth

This site has been developed by the Florida Department of Health to engage teens, parents and other citizens in an informative dalogue about teen risks.   ...read more »