Links
Listed below are some links that you might find useful for planning and preparing your lessons.
Sites For Making Worksheets
- Crossword Puzzle Maker
- www.armoredpenguin.com/crossword/
- Another Wordsearch Maker
- www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/
- This one allows hidden words - words that are in the puzzle but not listed
- www.armoredpenguin.com/wordsearch/index2.html (one use is to add intentional misspellings to see if kids are really checking what they circle - hidden words are handy for this)
- Scrambled Words
- www.armoredpenguin.com/wordscramble/
- Colour by numbers or letters
- www.coloring.ws/cbn.htm
- Connect the dots
- www.coloring.ws/connect.html
- Alphabet links
- www.dltk-teach.com/alphabuddies/links.htm
- Find the letters
- www.beginningreading.com/Alphabet%20Set%202.htm
- Write the beginning letter
- www.beginningreading.com/Alphabet%20Set%203.htm
- Circle the correct letter
- www.beginningreading.com/Alphabet%20Set%205.htm
- How many?
- www.beginningreading.com/counting_set_1.htm
- Handwriting Sheets (only three lines)
- www.handwritingforkids.com/handwrite/manuscript.htm
- Handwriting Sheets (only three lines)
- www.handwritingworksheets.com
- Handwriting Sheets (four lines)
- www.writingwizard.longcountdown.com/handwriting_practice_worksheet_maker.html
- Wordsearch
- http://colorstudy.com/scramble/javascript-wordscramble.html
- Printable dominoes
- www.dltk-cards.com/dominos/index.htm
Clip-art Collections
- Drawings of Famous People in Japan
- http://star.nigaoes.com/nigaoe01/
- Royalty-free clip art collection for foreign/second language instruction
- http://tell.fll.purdue.edu/JapanProj//FLClipart/default.html
- Wikimedia Commons
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page (Wikipedia Page) is a collection of "freely usable" media files, including pictures, graphics, sound clips, and probably more.
- OpenClip Art
- www.openclipart.org — Huge collection of public domain clip art, much of it in SVG format.
- Yasu's Illustrations
- http://dns.satonishi.town.satosho.okayama.jp/vg/english/ resources/imgs/tnthemes.htm
- Google image search (English)
- http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=en&tab=wi&q=
- Google image search (Japanese)
- http://www.google.com/imghp?hl=ja&tab=wi&q=
- English Microsoft clipart
- http://office.microsoft.com/clipart/default.aspx?lc=en-us
ESL/EFL Resources
- Vocabulary Guide at SuperSummary.com
- www.supersummary.com/vocabulary-guide/
- Very large collection of sites to do with English
- www.usingenglish.com/links
- Collection of resources for teachers
- www.mes-english.com
- Alphabet, phonics, crafts and more
- www.kizclub.com
- Various activities, worksheets, etc.
- www.first-school.ws
- Interactive site links
- www.owen.k12.ky.us/trt/kindergarten.htm
- High level interactive site links
- www.citycol.com/basic_skills/interactive%20english.htm
Software
- TuxType
- http://tuxtype.sourceforge.net/.
- PortableApps.com
- http://portableapps.com — Apps you can use from a usb drive, without installing to the computer. Very useful for people who work at more that one school or who cannot install software on school computers.
- Inkscape
- www.inkscape.org — an SVG editor. Easy to make very cool worksheets very quickly.
- The GIMP
- www.gimp.org — The main site for the GNU Image Manipulation Program. http://gimp-win.sourceforge.net — The GIMP for MS Windows.
- Snipshot
- http://snipshot.com — A cool online tool for making changes to your pictures. Easier to use than The GIMP, and no need to install anything - everything happens right in your browser.
- LibreOffice.org
- www.libreoffice.org — an office suite, comparable to MS Office.
- Google Documents
- http://docs.google.com — online wordprocessor and spreadsheet. Not as many features as MS Office, LibreOffice.org, or Ichitaro, but because Google Documents is online, your documents are available anywhere.
- Google Earth and Google Maps
- http://earth.google.com — Google Earth is a 3D program that lets you fly around the world and zoom in almost to street level. Works best on a fairly powerful computer with a broadband connection.
http://maps.google.com — Google Maps is similar to Google Earth but runs in your web browser.
World Facts/Encyclopaedias
- Universal Currency Converter
- www.xe.com/ucc
- Current population of countries
- www.mnsu.edu/emuseum/information/population/index.php
- World Times
- www.worldtimeserver.com/current_time_in_JP.aspx
- CIA World Factbook
- www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
- World Flags
- www.flags.net
- World Weather and Maps
- www.wunderground.com
- Encyclopaedia
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
- Japanese version
- http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/メインページ
- World heritage site
- http://whc.unesco.org
Kanazawa Related Sites
- Kanazawa homepage
- www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/index.html
- Kanazawa homepage (English)
- www.city.kanazawa.ishikawa.jp/index_e.html
- School homepages
- www.kanazawa-city.ed.jp/sch/sch_set1.html
- Department of tourism homepage
- www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp/index.html
- Department of tourism (English)
- www.kanazawa-kankoukyoukai.gr.jp/kanazawa_e/index.html
- Kanazawa 21st Century Modern Art
- www.kanazawa21.jp/ja/index.html
- Kanazawa 21st Century Modern Art homepage (English)
- www.kanazawa21.jp/en/index.html

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