2Learn 'NetStep Ref. ID: N1429
Mmmouse Moves Links
Level:K-3
Audience:Student, Teacher, Parent
Category:Career and Technology Studies, PD - Technology
Theme:Science and Technology
SubTheme:Electronic Equipment
Prepared by:2Learn.ca Team Teachers
School/Organization:2Learn.ca Education Society
Jurisdiction:2Learn.ca Education Society
Berenstain Bear Country, Bear Country Maze Page
 http://www.berenstainbears.com/maze.html
Click on a maze to choose it and then move your cursor along the paths.  This  maze can be printed.  Your trails aren't recorded as you go, but the mazes can still give you good mouse practice. This is part of The Official Berenstain Bears Web Site.

Hop Pop Town, Create Your Scenario
 http://www.kids-space.org/HPT/1a/11a.html
Click inside text boxes and type in your play's prologue, click inside radio buttons to identify which woodland creatures will speak, and then click in more text boxes to type in their lines, push the Submit button and.....voila! You have just created a scene complete with dialogue in script form.  Enjoy the animated illustration, too.  This page is suitable for young children working with older childen or adults who can help them with the keyboarding.  Hop Pop Town is part of the well worth visiting International Kids' Space site.

Internet Public Library IPL Story Hour
 http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/storyhour
The Internet Public Library's youth division holds a lovely collection of online picture books. Practise your mouse skills as you read, by clicking on the arrow keys to move forward and back through linear text.

NOVA Online, Super Bridge, Build a Bridge
 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/game.html
"How would you span a freeway? A canyon? A river? Or an ocean waterway?" (site) Click on each bridge and drag it over the locations to decide where it best fits.   This is part of the larger NOVA Online Super Bridge site.
(-uses the Shockwave plugin)

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/bridge/gamesans.html (-not Shockwave, so it doesn't have the drag feature.)


Thomas the Tank Engine
 http://www.thomasthetankengine.com/
Thomas the Tank Engine and friends.

Waiting Room Games - Choose an image, choose a color, and move your mouse from dot to dot to connect them--See which train is revealed!  
(This site uses the Shockwave plugin).

The Engine Shed Game - Which engines are in the sheds at The Official Thomas the Tank Engine Site today?  Click and find out.  Then, go to the Depot and pull down a scroll bar to the engine about whom you would like to learn more.


Webbits World
 http://www.aei.ca/~star/
Make a picture!  Click on a creature and drag it onto the background; click again to set it in place.  Pick it up and move it around some more.  Print it up and write a fable! (uses Java)

Choose: Parkland Image or Meadow Image