Canadian Middle Schools
Homework Help: Grades 6, 7 and 8
Art:
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Artist's Toolkit Encyclopedia
Is an in-depth guide to learning more about the building blocks of composition. -
ArtLex Art Dictionary (Colour)
Gives definitions for more than 3,500 terms used in discussing visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references. For example, check out "camouflage". -
Inside Art: An Art History Game
Geography:
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Historical Maps of Canada
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Outline Maps
Gives maps of the world and every continent in pdf format( Adobe reader
downloads are free.) Historical maps are for the USA only. -
The Atlas of Canada - Map Listing
Includes numerous types of maps: Geographical maps, Climate change, Health, National parks, Aboriginal languages, Aboriginal peoples, Ecology, and Canadian history.
Health and Nature:
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Lungs are for Life
Is The Lung Association´s free school program for smoking prevention. It has been developed especially for Ontario teachers and students. Choose your grade.
History:
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Canada in the Making - Constitutional History
Covers Canada’s history time line starting with the aboriginal peoples, through all major historical events, to the present day.
Language:
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AltaVista´s Babelfish Translation Service
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Booklists by Grade
The children's librarians at Carnegie Library in Pittsburgh, compiled these lists that target different ages and levels of readers. -
LanguageGuide: Guide de Vocabulaire
Covers both French vocabulary and grammar. Audio integrated: place cursor on a picture and hear pronunciation. -
Learn Chinese
Has flash cards for words and pictures, short sentences with audio pronunciation, phonics, and selected readings with English annotations. -
Tips-O-Matic
Gives writing tips and explains parts of sentences and paragraphs, and outlines how to write and essay. -
WordCentral.Com - Dictionary
Offers kids a student dictionary, Daily Buzzword, and interactive word games. Includes homework help, and lesson plans for parents and teachers.
Social Studies:
Canadian Government Structure
Learn about the structure of government and other interesting facts about the government.-
Cultural Profiles
Outlines the culture of countries around the world from which Canadians have immigrated. Provides insight into some the customs. Also lists facts and figures about each country. -
Earth Calendar
Contains information on celebrations and holidays all around the earth. -
Grade 6 Social Studies
A directory to hand picked Web sites especially selected on Places, Languages, History and People.
Math:
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AAA Math
Online interactive arithmetic lessons, problems and games for Grades 6, 7 and 8.
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Create a Graph
Permits one to create various types of standard graphs (area, bar, line and pie) by simply entering an x- and y-value for each point used. -
Powers of Ten
View the Milky Way at 10-million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree. Also includes many experiments involving powers of 10.
Science:
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Earth Life Web
An encyclopedia of life on earth. -
Global Climate Change
Allows middle grade students to explorer scientific data from many fields (physics, chemistry, biology, meteorology, oceanography) relating to global warming. Covers the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, and biosphere. 
Earthquakes and Volcanoes
Teaches grade 6 students the mechanisms (tectonic plates) of earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.-
Make-a-Quake
Earthquake Simulator. -
Microrobe Zoo
Discover the hidden world of microbes, which includes information about microbes and the habitats they dwell in as well as dozens of images of microbes. -
Weather Laboratory (NASA)
Describes how hurricanes are formed and shows graphically a cross-section of a Hurricane.