Vancouver Island Regional Library
To find and order books from any branch of the Vancouver Island Regional Library system.

District Resource Centre
Our school district Resource Centre will lend resources to Partners In Learning families. Use the catalogue at this site to find resources that you wish to borrow, then email me and I will arrange to have them sent to the school.

CanTeach
Hundreds of lessons plans and links with a Canadian focus.

Bestwebquests.com
This site makes it easy to find a webquest that will make help you meet learning outcomes for a variety of subjects.

Webquests from Malaspina Faculty of Education
More webquests for a variety of grade levels. These excellent resources were produced by Malaspina Education students.

Core Knowledge Lesson Plans
This collection contains units developed by teachers in Core Knowledge schools.  The units are organized by grade level, and within grade level by subject area. The lessons plans are detailed, and seem ideal for guiding homeschool learning projects. Click on the links on the left-hand side of this page to begin browsing.

Learning Page
For Kindergarten to Grade 3.
Learning Page provides a huge collection of professionally produced instructional materials that are free to download and print. Lesson plans, books, worksheets, and much more can be found here. Another good source for homeschool projects. You must become a member to access most of the materials, but membership is free.

Woodlands Web
For Kindergarten to Grade 3 or 4.
This site is amazing. It has excellent worksheet generating progams for math, telling time, measurement....as well as activities for other subject areas. There is a lot here, and spending a little time following the links will turn up treasures!

Games for the Brain
A cool website full of games that make your head hurt. The best part is, after spending a good part of an hour playing them you can reassure yourself that it was time well spent and that you're that much smarter for the playing.

Interactive Keyboarding
An excellent site for building keyboarding skills--best for Grades 3 to 7.
Students progress through several levels as they become more competent with keyboarding tasks. Lively animals guide them through keyboard familiarity with hands-on exercises.

Dance Mat Typing
Choose between four skill levels to begin with, and progress as you become more competent with keyboarding tasks. Lively animals, possibly irritating for parents, guide students through keyboard familiarity with hands-on exercises.

Chess Problem of the Day
Solve these daily updated chess puzzles with three levels of difficulty.

Chess Poster
A great site for learning the game.
Click on Chess Problems in the menu bar to practice openings and end games.

Chess for Children
Similar to the site above.

The Internet Chess Club
This is the only online chess club I can find that has no advertising an no trash talk. Cost is $25.00 per year for students, $50.00 per year for adults. It offers a 7-day free trial.

Victoria Junior Chess Website
For information about the many tournaments organized throughout the year by the Victoria Junior Chess Society. Click on "Results Recent Tournaments" on the sidebar for tournament results.

Ted Talks--Education
This page from "Ted--Ideas Worth Spreading" is provided as a public service to promote the spread of good ideas about education. You can watch, and listen to, a range of engaging speakers in a YouTube-style format that is controlled for quality and a positive approach. You can click on "Ideas Worth Spreading" in the top menu bar for Ted's homepage and several other themes.

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