Canadian Middle Schools
Homework Help: Grades 6, 7 and 8

Art: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• 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: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• Exploration, Colonization and Development
  Features the cartography of what was to become Canada, and the directions its development would take.
• Historical Maps of Canada
  
• 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: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• 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: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• 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.
• Exploration and Settlement - Library and Archives Canada
  Library and Archives Canada resources on the topic of exploration and settlement.

Language: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• AltaVista´s Babelfish Translation Service
  
• 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: Homework and Teaching Aid

• Aboriginal Peoples
  Looks at some facets of the history of Canada's Aboriginal peoples, underlining their fight for cultural survival and indicating the wealth of their modern-day contributions.
• 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.
• Grade 6 Social Studies
  A directory to hand picked Web sites especially selected on Places, Languages, History and People.
• Holidays & Festivals Around the World
  Contains information on celebrations and holidays all around the earth.

Math: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• AAA Math
  Online interactive arithmetic lessons, problems and games for Grades 6, 7 and 8.

• Grade 6 Math
• Grade 7 Math
• Grade 8 Math

• 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: School Homework and Teaching Aid

• Earthquakes and Volcanoes (Hazards)
  Teaches middle grade students the mechanisms of natural events, such as earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, landslides, and floods.
• 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.
• Hurricane (NASA)
  Describes how hurricanes are formed and shows graphically a cross-section of a Hurricane.
• 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.
• Rocks and Minerals
  Shows photos of common igneous, sedimentary and metamorphic rocks. Also, gives information and has photos on a selected group of commercial minerals, such as, talc, hematite, and diamonds.

Practice Games for Learning

• Flashcards for Kids
  Math, Science, Language and Social Studies flashcards to easily help you understand the subject.