World Book - Kids, Students and Advanced
This famous encyclopaedia is available free to primary schools when you visit Scoilnet. There is information, pictures, video clips, maps, quizzes, special reports and sound files.

The main Irish website for education.
Mainly for Teachers but Children will find useful.

BBC Primary Schools Games-
Games for all subjects

Primary Schools Websites in Ireland -
Check out the best 'Star Sites'

Are you doing a project, or just interested in finding out more about your country? Visit this fascinating site to explore and enjoy the photos, maps, games, songs and stories

Play fun English and Maths games against other children from all over the world.

Multiplication Tables Games-
Interactive games to make the learning of multiplication tables fun

Times Tables Challenge

Maths Olympics-
Answer all 20 questions to win gold!

Basket Math Interactive -
Fun assessment in most aspects of the Maths curriculum

Maths games galore!

Fun maths games

Print out these fun games to play using counters and dice

If you love cats and maths this is the site for you!

Maths, English and Geography games

Maths games including bingo. concentration, space invaders etc

Rainforest Maths-
Ideal for Maths revision

Lots of fun games here to help you improve your typing speed and skill. You'll be a real computer whiz in no time!

Are you a fan of books by Roald Dahl? Here are lots of games, quizzes and fun activities based on him and his books.

A new website run by three teachers from Dublin but written completely by children from Irish National Schools. They have emailed us complimenting us on our website, and inviting any of our budding authors to send them their stories, poems, jokes, recipes and book reviews for publication on their website.
Share your talent with Ireland!

Lots of talking stories to read and enjoy

Stories with pictures read by famous people

Fun reading activites for younger children.

'The Magic Key' -
Games and worksheets to explore aspects of English based on the Magic Key reading books

Kinder site - stories, songs and games for children up to 8 years

Do you think you are a good speller? Test yourself here at your chosen level.

English, maths, science games

Phonics games and activities

Have fun making small words

Syllables Factory -
Provides good practice for pupils who are weak at syllabification. The goal is to finish making a robot!

European Mosaic Games-
Interactive mapping activities based on EU countries

Kids National Geographic - full of photos, activies, stories and games about animals, people and places.

Photos of Ireland which are free to use. You can even give them your own interesting photos to add to their collection.

Weather made simple! Elements such as wind direction, wind force, precipitation, temperature, sunshine, visibility and cloud explained with fun illustrations

Weather proverbs and sayings

Weather website with simple notes
covering most weather topics

National Geographic - maps, articles and photos about animals, the environment, science and space, travel and cultures, daily news, nature videos etc.

Barnaby Bear goes on holiday to explore Paris, France and Australia

Download Google Earth (ask your parents' permission) and Google Earth lets you fly anywhere on Earth to view satellite imagery, maps, terrain, 3D buildings, from galaxies in outer space to the canyons of the ocean. You can explore rich geographical content, save your toured places, and share with others.

Life and culture of the Plains Indians of North America

Maps and information about every country in the World. You can also zoom in closer to see town maps.

Interactive Map of Ireland-
Place the county shapes directly on the map

Have fun with a crossword based on the counties of Ireland

Photography directory of places and features around the world

Lonely Planet-
Fast facts about any country.
Check out the Thorn Tree section

Information about every country in the world.

Do you think you can name all the countries in the E.U. and in Europe? Do you know the continents and oceans of the World? Test yourself.

Clean Air Kids-
Information sheets about air, acid rain and the ozone layer

A site that tells you everything about
your mouth and teeth

American site that tells you all about nutrition and healthy food, with fun and games

Interactive study of flora and fauna in habitats

Ancient Greeks Penalty Kick Quiz-
Interactive quiz on the Ancient Greeks

Information on lots of history topics, quizzes, games, making storyboards, information and history links.

This is the story of a Wicklow family who lived through the Great Famine.

A fun guide to the Irish Famine and village life

World war II - Look at the lives of people who were not fighting

Find out all about soldiers' lives during World War I, the battle of the Somme and life in the muddy trenches.

This interesting website has all the stories of the famous Irish Fianna, and also tells you some fascinating facts about the Celtic warriors.

Read the Irish legends and do fun activities based on the stories

Read some Irish legends and complete tasks

Online Irish /English - Engligh/Irish dictionaries

Irish proverbs for every occasion!

A site which has lots of links to websites with useful Irish resources.

A Guide to Museums and Art Galleries
all over the world

I am an Artist-
Activities, factsheets and games

Create a face

Create a face like one by Picasso!

Download the free program 'Pivot Stickfigure Animator' and have lots of fun creating cartoons. This program is very popular with the pupils!

Tuxpaint is a great free to download art program. You can create amazing pictures using its many features.

Dance Mat Typing-
The BBC site has a free to use typing tutor called 'Dance Mat Typing'. Cartoon characters make it fun to practice typing. There are 4 levels, with incentives to get to level 4.

Download this free easy-to-use word processing program, ideal for young children.

Reviews and links to the best free learning games, software and websites

An Irish company 'EdTech' which supplies a wide range of educational software

Software Central have a list of and links to all the Irish suppliers of educational software.They also have descriptions and evaluations of software.

Hundreds of games that are fun
for the playground or for P.E.

games, songs, communication cards, print resources and information for special needs

A publishing company which specialises in books and resources. For 30 years, Brookes has published resources in early childhood, early intervention, inclusive and special education, developmental disabilities, learning disabilities, communication and language, behavior, and mental health.

A U.K. based supplier of books about social and emotional skills, behaviour skills, life skills, drug education, teaching and learning, emotional health, special needs and professional development.

An Irish company 'EdTech' which supplies software and hardware (special keyboards, mice etc) for children with special needs

Assist Ireland have a good list list of educational software for children with special needs. Each program is described and there are links to Irish suppliers.

San Francisco Symphony Kids - learn about music through listening, composing and experimenting

You can buy and download the Ejay program here - different versions start at £10. With Ejay you can easily create and compose a piece of music. Modern music styles like dance and hip hop are used and there are lots of samples to drag on to a multi track format. Add your own voice recordings to the backing track!

Download the free 'Vanbasco Karaoke Player' which displays words and provides music accompaniment for songs. If the pitch of a song is too high or low you can change it, and songs can be slowed down or speeded up. A variety of songs can be downloaded from the internet and integrated into the program.

Download this free program which works as a sound recorder and editor. You can delete gaps in a recording, raise or lower the pitch, change the tempo and add effects such as echo or reverse.

Word Search Factory Lite- download ths program and make, print and try out your own word searches

Clozemaker-
2 websites where teachers and pupils can make a cloze and try it out.

Free stuff for teachers- worksheets, literacy games and activities, worksheet generators

Hundreds of games that are fun for the playground or for P.E., listed according to category

Illustrated Stories read by well known actors and celebrities. Each story has activities and lesson plans.

Help with learning Spellings -
A 'Look, Cover and Write' program, free to use and effective.

Fantastic free resources compiled and created by Irish teachers for classroom use. Resources, worksheets, flashcards, powerpoints, photos and links in all subject areas including Irish.

Eclipse Crossword Maker - download this program and make your own crosswords.

Visit Pete's Power Point Station and you can choose to view and save thousands of free great power point presentations from all subject areas. There are also lots of great interactive whiteboard lessons.

Great for attractive free printable resources for classroom use and displays ie certificates, classroom signs and labels, subject resources etc.

Print out these 12 fun maths games of strategy to play using counters and dice.

History topics, quizzes, games, teacher resources, online lessons, powerpoint presentations on popular history topics, worksheets, making storyboards, information and history links.

Download this free photo organiser and editor

Download this free program and create a slideshow of photos - combine images, sounds and text to create lovely presentations

Download this free program which works as a sound recorder and editor. You can delete gaps in a recording, raise or lower the pitch, change the tempo and add effects such as echo or reverse.

Thousands of free printable exercises and worksheets

Visit the enchanted learning web site and avail of the great selection of free worksheets and printable resources.

Download a free maths program which generates random worksheets for specific arithmetic skills.

At Kids Domain you can find lots of ideas for crafts, parties, holidays etc and also download from a big selection of free (demos and freeware) programs for Art, Maths, Science, Religion, English etc.