THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF NEW ZEALAND.This beautifully designed and organised Encylopeadia of everything New Zealand. Includes vieos and audio clips. A must visit site.

Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips.
• Fly to your house. Just type in an address, press Search, and you’ll zoom right in.
• Search for schools, parks, restaurants, and hotels. Get driving directions.
• Tilt and rotate the view to see 3D terrain and buildings, or look up to explore the sky
• Save and share your searches and favorites.

Find your way from anywhere in New Zealand to where ever else in New Zealand you want to go. Amazing technology.

Everything for kids including movies and a comprehensive study section.

The popular free encylopedia with over 2 million articles on thousands of subjects.

Wonderful for homework and 'looking up stuff'.

A super site where you type in the name of the town, city and/or street in New Zealand you would like to find and up comes a detailed map of the area. A boon for atlas and study skills.

Whatbird is a practical bird identification tool for anyone interested in identifying birds in New Zealand and paricularly good as a visual identifyer for students. Observe a bird — what is it? — hop on to what bird and scroll through. Whatbird currently includes 51 exotic and native bird species that are likely to be encountered in and around New Zealand forests, gardens, bush and urban areas.

Whatbird has two special features — students can play a short audio of the bird song so they can identify a bird by its call — plus New Zealand maps identify the regions of the country showing where the bird can be found. Click on the logo above.

Te Aka has encyclopaedic entries including the names of plants and animals (especially native and endemic species), stars, planets and heavenly bodies, important Maori people, key ancestors of traditional narratives, tribal groups and ancestral canoes. Maori names for institutions, country names, place names and other proper names are also provided.

BIOGRAPHY.COM

Biography.Com. Over 20,000 Famous People Short Bios

ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANICA

Browse Encyclopedia Britannica's entries in over 140 categories including art, literature, world geography, culture, technology, and health.

CIA WORLD FACT BOOK.

Facts and figures about all the countries in the world.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAP MACHINE

Sample the political, physical, and virtual Earth maps collection, searchable by region.

A DAY IN HISTORY

Find out just exactly what happened on today in history from ancient to modern times. Who are students sharing a birthday with?

ONLINE GEOGRAPHY GAME

Just how much do your students know about other countries of the world? What is the capital of Argentina? What is the population of Australia? Where is the Niagra falls? If they can't answer any of these questions than this is the site you need.

A great site for interactive-online geography quizes plus much more. There are even online live geoweb cams where students can see the places they are learning about. A great site for early finishers.

EDUCATORS REFERENCE

Everthying Educational Reference for Teachers –from classroom management to curriculum advice – a great site for all teachers!

BLANK MAPS OF THE WORLD

Blank maps of every country in the world for free downloading.

HOW STUFF WORKS

Exactly what it says - if you want to know how something works then go to this supersite. Great for planning research topics. eg 'Conduct onsite research and report back to the class (with diagrams) explaining how a light bulb works.

THE LANGUAGE CENTRE

Dictionary, Thesaurus, Word Games and much more. It's simple to use. Just type in the word and up comes the definition and pronunciation guide. The new audio feature is a boon for students - they can now hear the pronunciation of the word. Click on the banner above.

NEWS FOR KIDS

BBC NEWS FOR KIDS website.

GLOBAL GANG

Packed with puzzles, comic stories, craft ideas and news from around the world, children can find out how world events affect other childrens' lives and learn about important global issues such as child labour, landmines, and fairly-traded food. [ Illustrations: many | Reading Level: 3-6 | Subject: News ]

TIME FOR KIDS (TEACHERS

The online edition of the weekly news magazine for children. Includes archives of previous issues (with its own search engine). The news articles are accompanied by multimedia files.
[ Illustrations: many | Reading Level: 3-6 | Subject: News ]