Market Place Topic Resources

Here are some online resources for our new topic on the Market Place.

The Little Red Hen from the Council for Economic Education

Here are some sites about the production process of different things.

Mr Rogers' Neighborhood

Here are some games to help you learn about the market place. If you really like one come back here and leave a comment to recommend it to your classmates.
Coffee Shop
Hot Shot Business
Lemonade Millionaire
Lemonade Stand
KidsBank
Rich Kid Smart Kid
Escape from Barter Island

The One Hen website

Human Body Resources

Our new unit of inquiry is about the human body. Here are some links to useful websites.

BBC Interactive activities on the human body
http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/humanbody/

Yucky Gross and Cool Body!
http://yucky.discovery.com/body/

The Skeletal System Interactive Skeleton
http://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html

Your Bones: Great information about your bones
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/bones.html

Bones of the Body Game
http://www.kidport.com/Grade6/Science/BodyBones.htm

Skeleton Shakedown, put a body back together! http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/skel/skel.html

Label the bones in the body activity http://www.klbschool.org.uk/interactive/science/skeleton.htm

The Muscular System Thanks to Jackie Miers on www.teachers.ash.org.au who compiled this list
Movie about muscles
http://kidshealth.org/PageManager.jsp?lic=1&article_set=59302&cat_id=20607

The Body : Muscles
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bodymuscles.htm

Just for kids - Muscular system http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/muscularsystem.html

Your gross and cool body: muscular system http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000123.html

Thinkquest - The muscular system
http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/mus2.htm

The muscular System - Human Anatomy Online http://www.innerbody.com/image/musfov.html

Your multi-talented muscles
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/muscles_noSW.html

Muscles of the human body - an animation http://www.kidport.com/RefLib/Science/HumanBody/BodyMuscles.htm

Muscles. A learning object in two parts - an animation and a drag-and-drop exercise. http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Liquid_Animation/Body_Parts/Muscles/index.html

The Digestive System Thanks to Jackie Miers on www.teachers.ash.org.au who compiled this list
My Body : Digesting food
http://www.kidcyber.com.au/topics/bodydigest.htm

The digestive system - an animation with information http://www.childrensuniversity.manchester.ac.uk/interactives/interactive_fs.asp?swfpath=science/bodyandmedicine/digestive.swf

The digestive system - an animation with information http://www.ahealthyme.com/Imagebank/digestive.swf

A look inside the human body : the digestive system http://www1.bellevuepublicschools.org/curriculum/k6web/fifthgrade/bodysys/digestivesystem.html

The real deal on the digestive system
http://www.kidshealth.org/kid/body/digest_noSW.html

The digestive journey : a tour through the digestive system http://www.uen.org/utahlink/tours/tourFames.cgi?tour_id=13125

Just for kids - Digestive system http://www.imcpl.org/kids/guides/health/digestivesystem.html

Your gross and cool body: digestive system http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000126.html

Musclesculpt - The digestive system
http://www.musclesculpt.com/Digestive.html

HowStuffWorks : How your kidneys works
http://www.howstuffworks.com/kidney.htm

Thinkquest - The digestive system
http://library.thinkquest.org/5777/dig1.htm

The digestive system - Human Anatomy Online
http://www.innerbody.com/image/digeov.html

Your digestive system and how it works. http://digestive.niddk.nih.gov/ddiseases/pubs/yrdd/index.htm

Digestion animation
http://kitses.com/animation/digestion.html

Explore your digestive system - Take a journey through the digestive system and find out how all the parts work and why we couldn't live without them. http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/interactives/digest.html

The digestive system. A learning object in two parts - an animation and a drag-and-drop exercise.

http://www.e-learningforkids.org/Courses/Liquid_Animation/Body_Parts/

The digestive system quiz. Test your knowledge and see if you can answer the 10 questions correctly.
http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/_bfs_DSquizsource.html

The digestive system quiz. See if you can get the answers in both sections correct. http://hes.ucfsd.org/gclaypo/digestivequiz.html

Digestive system builder game. Created by Walter Mack http://science.waltermack.com/flashTeacherTools/biology/digestiveSystemBuilder2a.swf



The Immune System
Kids' Health Website:

http://www.cyh.sa.gov.au/HealthTopics/HealthTopicDetailsKids.aspx?p=335&np=152&id=2402

Another Kid Health website about the immune system

http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/immune.html

Learn to Type Faster

A fun colourful website with animation and games introducing touch typing to children aged 7 to 11.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/typing/