Audrey of the Outback
Fun Stuff
Spy Tricks and Science
Audrey of the Outback series
See the Audrey page on this website
Australian Outback, past and present - Web-links
Fun Weblinks
David Suzuki Kids' Nature Challenge.
As David says, 'Think smart. Do your part.'
10 nature challenges, activities and links to other cool sites.
Museum of Art, North Carolina, Mystery of the Poison Dart Frog
Interactive mystery involving the rain forest and artworks.
Ways of Knowing Trail
Choose your own path trek into a jungle, with a certificate you can print out at the end.
Science Toy Maker
Instructions for how to make interesting toys
Protozone Games
These are interactive games. I just wish I could get all those bees out of the hive.
Children's Museum of Indianapolis
This link take you to the games section. There are all kinds of things including 'Designing your own Space Station' and 'The Bone Detective'
Little Horus - fun for kids
Colouring, games, quizzes about Egypt
Thomas Kidd School U-Tube Golf Contraption
This video shows an amazing contraption that Mr MacMath's class made, and it took them five months. Check it out.
Puzzle Pixies
Lots of fun puzzles to test out your thinking skills.
Spy Tricks and Science Weblinks
Here are some cool links about secret codes, unpicking locks, wire-tapping, invisible ink, brain teasers to train yourself to think quickly and clearly (important to undercover agents) and some interesting facts about the science in the Spy/Undercover Girl series (including cryonics and nanotechnology).
Cryptokids Codes and activities
Special Agent Undercover
Add a disguise to 'Special Agent Bobby Bureau'
Crytpoclub Encrypting and decrypting secret messages
NASA
Learn about the 'secret code' used by the Voyager spacecraft
Inky Magic
How to make invisible inks for secret messages
How Stuff Works - Real spy gadgets
How Stuff Works - Wire tapping
How Stuff Works - Lock picking
How Stuff Works - Nanotechnology
How Stuff Works - Nanotechnology and self-healing spacecraft
New Scientist
The secret of geckos sticky feet and nanotechnology
New Scientist
The real stuff about Illuminator weapons
National Snow and Ice Data Center
About avalanches and how to improve your chances of survival if you're caught in one
First Special Response Group
Introduction to Avalanche Rescue Dogs
Snow Search and Rescue Dog Training
Ancient Egypt Weblinks
Egypt Tutankhamun’s Face Revealed (ABC)
Really exciting video clip of Tutankhamun's body revealed.
King Tut
Info, X-rays, the whole bit
Hieroglyphic Name Translator
See how your name looks in Egyptian symbols.
The Alphabet in Hieroglyphs (hieroglyphics)
Egyptology on Line
Wonderful colours, graphics and a load of information that could keep you reading for hours
Ancient Egypt for Kids
All kinds of interesting facts about heaps of subjects like school, famous pharaohs
Trivia quiz
Including answers to questions such as, 'What did Ancient Egyptians believe cured toothache?' and 'Where did Egyptians wear their perfume?'
Pyramids, Mummies and Daily Life - Cleveland Museum of Art
More on Mummies - Cleveland Museum of Art
Treasures of Tutankhamun's Gallery
Mummies at the British Museum
Click on the thumbnail pictures and more information will pop up. Find out about the Mummy of Cleopatra from Thebes, who was wrapped so tightly that her hip was dislocated.
Mummies, Museum of Science Boston
This is really cool. Photo and facts about mummies. And an X-ray that shows the skeleton inside the bandages.
3-D view of a mummy done with a CAT scan, Museum of Science Boston
Latest Archaeology News from BBC, UK
Keep up to date with the latest discoveries
Ancient Egyptian virtual Temple
Amazing graphics and a ton of information
Authentic Egyptian names and their meanings
Egyptian Museum
Do you know what a wesekh is?
Games, Crafts and Activities about
Ancient Egypt
Information and missions to fulfill
Build a Pharaoh Death Mask (craft)
How to Play Hounds and Jackals - similar to Snakes and Ladders
How to play the ancient Egyptian game, Senet
Riddle of the Sphinx game
Answer the Sphinx's three riddles to open the gates to Thebes.
Mummy Maker
Enter the embalmer's workshop, where you are to prepare the body of Ramose, officer to the king, for burial.
Hunt the Ancestor Interactive Game - BBC, UK
Experience some of the realities of being an archaeologist by playing Hunt the Ancestor
Game - guide the lost mummy through the maze to his pyramid
Mummy in Museum, colouring page
Mummy Wrapping, colouring page
How to Draw a Picture of an Ancient Egyptian
Three games
Hieroglyphics Puzzle, Falling Lotus, Tutankhamun Puzzle
Games
Many links to games connected to Ancient Egypt
Sign Language
My book Mask of the Jackal has a deaf character called Jordy.
These websites have some examples of sign language. It's fun to try:
Auslan Sign Bank (Australian)
Sign language is used to communicate with deaf or hard of hearing people. This website shows how to fingerspell, sign number or words. It's like a dictionary, but you can watch a video of someone actually signing.
Have a go at fingerspelling your name and try it out with your friends. This site shows the two-handed alphabet, used in Australia, UK and other countries - and also the one-handed alphabet, used in USA.
Deafblind website (United Kingdom)
Drawings of the two-handed alphabet, and tips on how to communicate with deaf people. It also gives some history of how sign language came to be.
DLTK'S
Printable colouring sheets, also showing American or British sign language.
Deaf Characters in Adolescent Literature
Sharon Pajka-West has made a list of books for young readers that feature deaf characters
