Websites Stuff and NZ Herald both offer comprehensive news services updated throughout the day. You can also search backdated news stories.
National Geographic Kids provides information on animals and geography accompanied by breath-taking photography. The site's highly animated so you'll need broadband.
National Geographic's activities are hands-on - for instance, "plant your own herb garden" or "make a healthy oatmeal breakfast". Kids can also create their own accounts and store favourite photos and activities.
Time Inc goes to the trouble of publishing a weekly magazine just for kids. You'll find backdated issues at Time for Kids . This site is split: one half provides lesson plans and topics for teachers while the other half contains activities and articles for kids.
Look out for the "homework helper" section on the kids' half. Here you can search stories filed under different topics (for example "Science") and pick up advice on how to structure an article. There are plenty of educational games as well.
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