Check out these wicked links to very cool pages. Some have been made especially for InterLink by other people, and others are links to places we think you might like. Please feel free to send us URLs of other cool places that you think should go here....... New Zealand Education General Government Maori Media Nature Sport Britain Education Media Nature Politics and Royalty Science Tourism General Cool Stuff Grrl Sites HTML Software

New Zealand Education The CWA Education Web The people who brought you InterLink - full of links to every educational resource you could imagine - it's great! (even if we do say so ourselves!). New Zealand Schools with websites Is your school listed here yet? General Ara Nui: Aotearoa New Zealand links galore! Ara nui is a Maori phrase and means "many paths". Aotearoa is the Maori name for New Zealand and means "Land of the long white cloud". Auckland Irish Festival 1997 Well, St Patrick's Day may have been and gone, but this site also has lots of links to other Irish sites - check it out. Christchurch City Council Everything you ever wanted to know about Christchurch. Destination New Zealand A link site for ALL NZ travel/tourism related sites - here you will find all kinds of fascinating information about New Zealand. New Zealand/Aotearoa on the Web Akiko International's New Zealand links. New Zealand map You can zoom in on any part of the country to see it in more detail. NZ WWW On A Page A one-page guide (with links) to every server in New Zealand. Ruapehu Links to all kinds of info, photos and video about Mt Ruapehu - New Zealand's most active volcano. Wellington City Council Everything you ever wanted to know about New Zealand's capital city - Absolutely Positively Wellington! ZIA New Zealand Resource Kids on the Net goes to New Zealand. Government NZ Government Online This is a VERY styley website - check it out! The Treaty of Waitangi - New Zealand's founding document. Maori Nau Mai, Haere Mai, ki te Kupenga Maori! Maori Net written by Kamera Raharaha - full of information about Maori culture, with questions for InterLinkers to research and answer. It's awesome! An InterLink Site of the Week. Maori Organisations of New Zealand A site for Maori organisations and for information on matters Maori. Media Aardvark Internet industry news. City Voice Wellington's coolest independent newspaper. Christchurch Press Online Daily updates from the Christchurch Press newspaper. Check out Project New Zealand - follow the progress of two cyclists as they bike from the bottom of the South Island to the top of the North Island. InfoTech Weekly New Zealand's weekly information technology newspaper. New Zealand On Air "Home grown television and radio programmes made with the help of your broadcasting fee". NewsRoom The interactive information station bringing you New Zealand news as it happens. Radio Hauraki 99FM The Rock Zone! Radio New Zealand This is a MAJOR site - you'll need a 486 or Pentium or higher to view it - and lots of RAM available on your machine, as well as a sound card in your machine. It's amazing - streams Real Audio so you can hear what's on the radio at the same time as it is being broadcast, or you can choose to listen to specific programmes broadcast earlier in the day. There's also video you can watch. Check it out if you can! An InterLink Site of the Week. Nature New Zealand Wildlife Check out the Real Audio New Zealand birdsong...... Tuatara Find out all you ever wanted to know about the Tuatara - New Zealand's "living dinosaur". Sport All-Blacks' Haka "Cute little war dance"? I don't think so........ You can even listen to the All-Blacks performing the haka! The Hillary Commission website Packed full of New Zealand sports information, with its own awesome kids' section full of projects, a magazine and heaps more. An InterLink Site of the Week. The Official All-Blacks Junior Fans' website Find out about your favourite All-Black, send in reports of matches you have attended, send the All-Blacks an email - it's all here. Britain Education Education & Training Academy Also known as the Examination Technique Academy - "let our minds be open to positive influences" EduWeb Schools List Search for your school on the list - plus hundreds of others. The UK National Curriculum Sorted into subject areas - the entire National Curriculum online. Media The BBC The British Broadcasting Company - it's big - and impressive - and takes a while to download! The BBC World Service The website of the radio station that reaches the world - broadcasting in 44 languages across the globe. The Electronic Telegraph The Daily Telegraph online - but you have to register in order to read it.... The Guardian The Guardian newspaper online - Ali's favourite! The Scotsman Scotland's own national newspaper. The Times The Times - the world-famous newspaper online. Nature naturenet An online resource for practical conservation. Politics and Royalty British General Election If you want to follow the British election, this page guides you to the sites on the web with the best election coverage. The Guardian & Observer General Election Coverage Excellent up-to-the-minute coverage of the general election in Britain! An InterLink Site of the Week. The Houses of Parliament website has lots of info - but no pictures........ The Queen has a brand new website! Well, actually, it's the British Monarchy - that's all of them, and the crown jewels and the castles and palaces and everything!.... there's even a visitor's book you can sign. However, it's a pretty popular site, so it may take a while to get through. Science The Exploratory Hands On Science Centre (What a great name!) - where you can explore the world of science..... Check out the Stroop Effect - it's really weird! The Science Museum in London Has lots of online activities for schools to take part in. Take a look! Science Centres in the UK Links to every online Science Centre in the UK. Stars & Galaxies This site is full of info and pictures about the stars, consellations, planets, galaxies - it's wicked!! And great for anyone doing the N. and S. Hemisphere stars science project! Check out the audio and video files if you can! Tourism Castles of Wales What a great site! A tour around just about every medieval castle in Wales - and there are heaps of them! Beautiful pictures too. An InterLink Site of the Week. City of Derry The official site for the Northern Ireland Tourist Board - it's full of photos and information on the City of Derry and County Londonderry, plus links to the rest of Northern Ireland. It's brilliant! An InterLink Site of the Week. English Heritage Education Service Has heaps of activities that schools can share, including resources and educational visits. Excite's city.net A page of links to awesome UK travel sites from the Excite Search Engine. Rampant Scotland Full of links to just about everything you can think of to do with Scotland. An InterLink Site of the Week. UK-Guide Travel, leisure and tourist information from around the United Kingdom - lots and lots of links here. Wales/Cymru - Land of Inspiration The official site of the Welsh Tourist Board. General Cool Stuff 365 TV-Free Activities There are heaps of ideas here! @URL's Internet Arcana Heaps of cool links - there's even a live frog dissection(!) Oh - and InterLink's there too! Big Top Arts and Crafts Stuff to try that will take you far away from your computer.... Great Globe Gallery An amazing site - over 100 planet earths to look at - from spinning globes to the effect of volcanoes, from plate tectonics to a view of the earth from space. For the traveller in all of us! An InterLink Site of the Week. Jean Armor Polly's 50 Extraordinary Experiences for Internet Kids Wow - this is a wicked site - everything from watching what the Hubble Space telescope has been watching, through to sailing a boat around the world and checking out how many cans of Coke are left in the machine! An InterLink Site of the Week. Kids Craft Cool craft ideas for you to try. NASA Wow, what a site - everything from information about the latest Space Shuttle launch, to pictures, video and sound files from space, and how to become an astronaut, plus educational resources to keep your teachers happy. An InterLink Site of the Week. National Geographic World Online Full of excellent adventures - stories, experiments, amazing facts and heaps more! Realist Wonder Society This is a beautiful site - full of wonderful stories and fabulous illustrations - I got lost in the tales for ages and ended up printing one out so I could take it home and read it again and again..... An InterLink Site of the Week. Send A Card Did you know you can send a card to someone by email? The David Jones website has the nicest collection of cards we've found so far. Stone Soup "The magazine of writing and art by young people". An InterLink Site of the Week. Summer Fun Ideas for kids (and grownups!) of all ages.... TAK - das Transatlantische Klassenzimmer The Transatlantic Classroom - an Internet-based project, a bit like InterLink, encouraging American and German teenagers to get together. See what you think! Web.Kids "An online adventure for creative minds. Expect to push your imagination to its limits - and then WAY BEYOND!" World Village All kinds of amazing global stuff - and you can also join the School 2000 project! Yes Mag Canada's science magazine for kids. Grrl Sites Some people believe that the Internet has traditionally been a place explored and developed by more boys and men than women and girls. What do you think about that? Do you think it's true? Why/Why not? How could you find out and count the numbers of different people using the Internet? What have you noticed about the ways in which boys and girls use computers, the Internet and Information Technology in general? Think about the similarities and differences in your class (if you are a mixed school!) or amongst your friends. Do you think you learn in different ways and/or use IT for different reasons - or is it all pretty much the same? There are now a lot of cool sites on the WWW designed by and for women and girls. We wanted you ALL to have a chance to check some of them out - there's stuff here for everyone - let us know what you think! What do you think of the sites themselves - and how do you feel about sites designed specifically for women and girls? If you're interested in finding out more about who uses the Internet and why, visit GVU Center's WWW Survey - as a WWW user yourself, you can also answer this year's questionnaires. Christmas Lost & Christmas Found An interactive story, written especially for the WWW. The story follows two little girls (who live in two different time periods) and a book (which lives in both). There is no single right way to read the story: start with one girl, or the other or start with the book first. There is also a section for you to add bits to the story and to make comments at the end. Club Girl Tech A site designed specifically for girls, but which boys are welcome to explore too. Interesting stuff for everyone - from being an inventor to learning sign language - it's an excellent site! Her Interactive "For girls who aren't afraid of a mouse......." Go to your room! (and check out the cool places hidden inside the image map). HTML A Beginner's Guide to HTML If you're starting from scratch - this one's for you! The WebMastery home page Dr Lynn Smith has put together the best set of links to places where you can learn how to create your own web sites..... HTML, graphics, even resources for kids - it's all here. Check it out! An InterLink Site of the Week. Software Superkids Educational Software Review Reviews of all kinds of software specifically aimed at kids. This month includes a section on software for girls. TUCOWS - UK mirror or TUCOWS - NZ mirror The Ultimate Collection Of Winsock Software - TUCOWS is a legend - go here to download about just about any piece of software available on the Net. An InterLink Site of the Week.