Here is a list of some links to learning websites & software for kids which others may find useful, from my delicious.com bookmarks. Most I've them I have myself used with my son Dév:
- http://www.starfall.com - Great Spelling site (English)
- http://www.literacycenter.net - Spelling (English, French, German, Spanish), but not as cool as Starfall
- http://www.home-2009.com - Movie Nature
- http://fr.vikidia.org - Wikipedia pour Enfants (French)
- http://fr.wikimini.org - Wikipedia pour Enfants (French)
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/ - BBC CBeebies (great also for smaller kids)
- http://pbskids.org/caillou/ - Caillou Dinos from http://pbskids.org
- http://www.sdnhm.org/kids/dinosaur/ - Dinos
- http://www.cotf.edu/ete/modules/msese/dinosaur.html - Dinos
And the following are some great (free) learning software to download, not websites:
- http://scratch.mit.edu - Great! (I teach Scratch classes in the local community myself)
- http://www.phunland.com - A cool physics simulator which is quite easy
- http://www.planet-plopp.com - Plopp, easy 3d painting
- http://gcompris.net - GCompris various Fun Games
- http://www.schoolsplay.org - Childsplay and others various games
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/sn/prehistoric_life/ - Dinosaur World
Lastly here are some thing that look interesting but that we haven't looked much at yet, and which are probably of interest for slightly older kids than the above:
- http://www.alice.org - Looks VERY interesting, hoping to look at this more later, with the idea to build a post-Scratch courses?
- http://wiki.laptop.org/go/DrGeo - Dr. Geo, Geometry
- http://www.geogebra.org - Geometry as well
- http://www.greenfoot.org - Programming, another one
- http://www.microworlds.com& http://mia.openworldlearning.org - More programming
- http://www.simplecodeworks.com - More programming