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Fun Sites |
| Aunt Annie's Craft Page (http://www.auntannie.com/) |
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| Brooklyn Expedition (http://www.brooklynexpedition.org/) |
| An interactive Web site jointly developed by the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum. Presented at the 5th grade level. Requires QuickTime plug-in. |
| Cyberteens (http://www.cyberteens.com/) |
| This site gives teens a place to express their creativity and receive valuable feedback. Rich with music, art, computer animation, and innovative ideas made real. |
| Global Children's Art Gallery (http://www.naturalchild.com/gallery/) |
| A refreshing collection of children's artwork in a variety of formats. |
| Hands On Crafts for Kids (http://www.craftsforkids.com/) |
| Companion site for public television program. |
| International Kid's Space (http://www.kids-space.org) |
| Kid's Gallery, Storybook, Beanstalk Craft Room, On Air Concert, and more. |
| Kid's Castle (http://www.kidscastle.si.edu/) |
| From Smithsonian Magazine. Includes a link of the day, and information from the Smithsonian archives about history, art, personalities, sports, air space, etc. |
| Little Explorers Picture Dictionary with Links (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Dictionary.html) |
| Entertaining children's with over 2100 entries, but also a hidden metasite, allowing children to explore the Internet to learn more about the words they have chosen. |
| Merriam-Webster Word Central (http://www.wordcentral.com/) |
| Aimed at junior and senior high students who love words and want to know more about them. |
| PaPa iNK (http://www.papaink.org/gallery/home/index.html) |
| The International Gallery of Children's Art Founded in 1999 with a mission of preserving and posting children's artwork. |
| PBS Kids! Online (http://pbskids.org/) |
| Includes preschool activities section, fun games, and information about PBS shows for children. |
| Sports Illustrated For Kids Online (http://www.sikids.com/) |
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| StoryPlace (http://www.storyplace.org/) |
| The Children's Digital Library: Includes the Preschool Library and the Elementary Library. From the Public Library of Charlotte Mecklenburg County. |
| Whootie Owl's Stories to Grow By (http://www.storiestogrowby.com/) |
| Fairy tales, folk tales, children's stories, adventures and riddles. |
| World of Peter Rabbit (http://www.peterrabbit.co.uk/) |
| Free content for the young and young-at-heart, plus commercial content. Requires Macromedia Shockwave and QuickTime plug-ins. |
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Homework Help |
| America's Story (http://www.americaslibrary.gov/) |
| Child-friendly site launched to mark the 200th anniversary of the Library of Congress. |
| Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids (http://bensguide.gpo.gov/) |
| Created by the Government Printing Office. |
| Big Chalk: The Education Network (http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/db/Home.html?name=PortalMain) |
| Large study collection for homework help, divided into grades 1-6, middle high school, and college beyond. |
| B. J. Pinchbeck's Homework Helper (http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/index.html) |
| Created by a 11-year-old and his dad, with links to more than hundreds of sites in numerous categories. |
| California Missions (http://www.californiamissions.com/) |
| A Virtual Tour: Two histories (one brief, another in depth) for each California mission. Includes photos, annotated links, and a history of mission music with sound clips. |
| California Missions Interactive Home Page (http://www.rawbw.com/~cmi/) |
| An Internet field trip. |
| Fact Monster (http://www.factmonster.com/) |
| Geared towards kids, parents and teachers. Includes the Homework Center, which offers tips for frequently-assigned topics and answers questions posted by registered users. Formerly Information Please Kids' Almanac. |
| FirstGov for Kids (http://www.kids.gov/) |
| Organized into 20 subject areas, containing links to federal and other sites of interest to children. From the Federal Consumer Information Center. |
| Geoexplorer (http://www.geoexplorer.co.uk/) |
| Geographical and geophysical information of all sorts, including maps, images, instructional modules, and statistical data. |
| KidsClick (http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/KidsClick!/) |
| Kid-friendly links for younger kids. |
| New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/learning/) |
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| Online Courts for Kids: Learning About Law on the World Wide Web (http://access.wa.gov/kids/courts.aspx) |
| Intended to teach children about the creation and enforcement of law around the world. |
| PinkMonkey.com (http://www.pinkmonkey.com/index2.asp) |
| Study site for middle school, high school, home school and college students, featuring more than 300 literature summaries (by chapter), 1800 classics online, study guides, and SAT preparation. Requires free registration. |
| Quia Mathematics (http://www.quia.com/dir/math/) |
| Helps K-12 students practice math. Collaborative educational resource offering customized online courses with Web-based learning activities and assessments. |
| Research 101 (http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/) |
| "Interactive online tutorial for students wanting an introduction to research skills. The tutorial covers the basics, including how to select a topic and develop research questions, as well as how to select, search for, find, and evaluate information sources." |
| SA: Student Advantage (http://research.studentadvantage.com/) |
| Academic research engine. Keyword search of 25 different subjects. Some links are to Northern Light's fee-based Special Collections, or to books sold by Amazon.com. |
| Scholastic.com (http://www.scholastic.com/) |
| Sponsored by Scholastic, Inc. |
| Social Issues (http://www.multcolib.org/homework/sochc.html) |
| From the Mutnomah County (Oregon) Library Homework Center. Created for middle and high school students researching current social issues from multiple perspectives. |
| Study Guides and Strategies (http://www.iss.stthomas.edu/studyguides/) |
| Straightforward study strategies for students. Select specific hints and strategies from six categories. |
| Uncle Sam for Kids! (http://www.win.org/library/matls/govdocs/kids.htm) |
| Government information for kids. Some local information related to the sponsoring St. Charles City County Library District, Missouri, but also contains information about Federal government, American history and foreign governments. Of value to teachers and librarians in the primary grades. |
| Virtual Schoolhouse (CEARCH) (http://www.ibiblio.org/cisco/schoolhouse/) |
| A Meta-Library of K-12 Internet Links. Searchable. Sponsored by Cisco Educational ARChives. |
| Whitehousekids.gov (http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/index.html) |
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Surf Lists of Youth Sites |
| Colorado Virtual Library for Kids (http://kids.aclin.org/) |
| Thousands of Webs sites, selected by "volunteer school library media specialists, educators, and other library professionals." |
| 4 Kids (http://www.4kids.org/) |
| Sites are screened and grouped into topics such as Brainsweat, Fantastic Voyages, and Be a Hero. New sites are added each week. |
| Hotlist: Kids Did This! (http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/hotlists/kids.html) |
| Student-produced Web Pages. |
| Kinderstart.com (http://www.kinderstart.com/) |
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| Ninos Net (http://www.csusm.edu/csb/) |
| A bilingual Web site listing recommended books for youth published in Spanish worldwide. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children and Adolescents at California State University, San Marcos. |
| SNAPdragon (http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/hosted/snap/snapdragon.html) |
| A collaboration of the UCLA Graduate School of Education Information Studies and the School Network Action Project. A WWW directory of sites evaluated by children for other children. |
| SafeSurf Kid's Wave (http://www.safesurf.com/kidswave.htm) |
| Partial list, organized by age-appropriateness, of sites that have received the SafeSurf seal of approval. |
| TeenZone (http://www.kcls.org/newya/ya.cfm) |
| All things teen and fun, coming out of the King County Library System in Washington state. |
| Yahooligans! (http://yahooligans.yahoo.com/) |
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Useful Sites for Parents and Teachers |
| San Bernardino County Library's Education Resource Pathfinder (http://purl.oclc.org/corc/system/Pathfinder/3715:xid=CBL) |
| Allows teachers to explore additional sites. |
| Adventures in Education (http://adventuresineducation.org/) |
| Information on careers, colleges, and financial aid to help you plan for your future. |
| Ask Asia (http://www.askasia.org) |
| Online resource for elementary and secondary Asian and Asian American studies. The site has cultural information, games and activities as well as relevant links. There is also an Adult-Free Zone. |
| Book Adventure (http://www.bookadventure.org/) |
| Motivational reading program for children in grades K-8. |
| Candlelight Stories (http://www.candlelightstories.com/) |
| Kids can follow illustrated stories online. There's also a gallery of pictures and links to storytelling sites and educational pages. |
| Children's Book Council (http://www.cbcbooks.org) |
| Resources for parents, publishers, authors, illustrators, and librarians. |
| Children's Television Workshop (http://www.sesameworkshop.org/) |
| Parenting information and Sesame Street treats for kids. |
| Children's Music Web (http://www.childrensmusic.org/) |
| Promotes music for children. For parents, teachers, children, and professionals. |
| Cool Safe Links for Kids, Parents and Teachers (http://www.karscot.com/kidlinks.html) |
| A Canadian hotlist. |
| Crafts for Kids (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/crafts/) |
| These crafts projects are for preschool, kindergarten and elementary school children. The crafts use materials found around the house, like egg cartons, cardboard, paper, boxes, string, crayons, paint, glue, etc. |
| Cyber Patrol's Cyberguide (http://www.route616.com/) |
| Safe route on the information superhighway for kids, teachers parents. |
| Enchanted Learning (http://www.enchantedlearning.com/Home.html) |
| Approximately 20 categories with a large amount of enjoyable content. |
| FamilyFun (http://familyfun.go.com/) |
| Sponsored by Disney Online. Claimed to be the greatest and most accessible body of information for parents on the WWW. Information of food, travel, education, activities, home computing and family ties. |
| Fun-Attic Game & Activity Guide (http://www.funattic.com/games.htm) |
| Unique games, physical education lesson plans, and activities for all levels of play, including the disabled. |
| Great Sites: Amazing, Spectacular, Mysterious, Wonderful Web Sites for Kids and the Adults Who Care About Them (http://www.ala.org/ala/alsc/greatwebsites/greatwebsiteskids.htm) |
| The American Library Assoc.'s cybercollection of links to more than 700 fun, exciting and useful Web sites for children and their grown-ups. |
| High School Hub (http://highschoolhub.org/hub/hub.cfm) |
| Noncommercial gateway to free online academic resources for high school students. |
| Internet Advocate (http://www.monroe.lib.in.us/~lchampel/netadv.html) |
| Very useful guide for librarians, teachers and others interested in providing Internet services for youth. Takes on the pornography issue, discusses acceptable use policies (with examples), discusses filtering software, links to other organizations. |
| Kid Safety on the Internet (http://www.ou.edu/oupd/kidsafe/start.htm) |
| Questions and answers to help kids protect themselves and handle emergencies. Developed by Oklahoma University's Dept. of Public Safety. |
| KIDiddles (http://www.kididdles.com/mouseum/) |
| Mojo's Musical Mouseaum: 2000 kids song lyrics, some with MIDI file clips. |
| Kids Book Shelf (http://www.kidsbookshelf.com/) |
| Encourages kids' creativity through reading, writing, and drawing, and encourages parents' involvement with book reviews. |
| Kids-in-Mind: Movie Ratings That Actually Work (http://www.kids-in-mind.com/) |
| Provides objective, non-critical assessments of the potentially objectionable material contained in movies. |
| KidSource OnLine (http://www.kidsource.com/) |
| A hot list with education and health care information for kids and parents. |
| KinderGARDEN: Texas AM (http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/kinder.htm) |
| Many rich resources to encourage kids to learn about plants, gardening and the natural world. |
| Making Hearts Sing (http://www.wildgear.com/stories/) |
| A collection of fables for kids based on traditional values such as kindness, respect and friendship. The stories are inspired by tales from China, Japan, Korea and France. |
| Mother Goose (http://www.amherst.edu/%7Erjyanco/literature/mothergoose/) |
| Full text of nursery rhymes listed by first line, plus annotated links. |
| Safe Kids Page (http://www.safekids.com/) |
| Includes Child Safety on the Information Highway. This excellent brochure was written by Lawrence J. Magid, and jointly produced by the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children and the Interactive Services Association. |
| Webtime Stories (http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/webtime/) |
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Science Exploration |
| San Bernardino County Library's Science Project Resource Pathfinder (http://purl.oclc.org/corc/system/Pathfinder/3612:xid=CBL) |
| Another source for serious science inquiries. |
| Ask Dr. Math (The Math Forum) (http://mathforum.org/dr.math/) |
| The Swat Team, a group of Swarthmore students as well as international volunteers, answer K-12 math questions. |
| Center for Educational Resources (CERES) (http://btc.montana.edu/ceres/) |
| Collection of K-12 resources to teach astronomy. From NASA and faculty at Montana State University. |
| Comet's Tale (http://cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/SegwayEd/lessons/CometsTale/com.html) |
| Everything about comets, including how to make one for a school project. |
| Cool Science for Curious Kids (http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/) |
| Five museums contribute questions, activities and factual information, with the support of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. |
| Dept. of the Interior Kids Page (http://www.doi.gov/kids/) |
| Links to the kids pages created by various agencies of the department, pointing to information on wildlife species, wildflowers, butterflies and geology. |
| Dinosaurs in Hawaii (http://honolulu.hawaii.edu/dinos/dinos.1.html) |
| Fossil exhibits that are replicas of originals at New York City's American Museum of Natural History. The seven fossils selected and the clear, brief descriptions are perfect for very young children. |
| Discovery Channel Online (http://www.discovery.com) |
| Sponsored by the cable TV network. |
| Dragonfly (http://www.units.muohio.edu/dragonfly/) |
| Sites and discussion lists for students, parents and teachers to communicate directly with scientists, related to theme-based magazine celebrating the ideas of children and research scientists. |
| Endangered Species (http://endangered.fws.gov/index.html) |
| Sponsored by the US Fish Wildlife Service. |
| Energy Quest (http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/index.html) |
| Energy-related educational materials for students from kindergarten through middle school. Games, puzzles, science experiments and other challenging information. |
| The Exploratorium (http://www.exploratorium.edu/) |
| Housed within the walls of San Francisco's Palace of the Fine Arts, the Exploratorium is a collage of 650 interactive exhibits in the areas of science, art and human perception. |
| Extreme Science (http://www.extremescience.com/index.html) |
| The highest, lowest, biggest, deepest, largest, fastest and other extremes of the natural world. |
| FDA Kids Homepage (http://www.fda.gov/oc/opacom/kids/) |
| Highlighted by Yorick, the FDA's (Food and Drug Administration) favorite skeleton, which allows users to see the various medical devices and implants that can replace real body parts. |
| The Field Museum (http://www.fmnh.org/) |
| The Field Museum of Natural History in Chicago is an educational institution concerned with the diversity and relationships in nature among cultures. |
| Franklin's Forecast (http://www.fi.edu/weather/) |
| Online weather exhibit from the Franklin Institute Science Museum in Philadelphia. |
| How Stuff Works (http://www.howstuffworks.com/) |
| Clear explanations about the operation of a wide range of things. |
| Journey North (http://www.learner.org/jnorth/) |
| An Annenberg/CPB science education program using the Internet to track migration and the signs of Spring. |
| K-8 Aeronautics Internet Textbook (http://wings.avkids.com/) |
| Principles of aeronautics for elementary and middle school students. |
| Kids' National Geographic (http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids/) |
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| Kratts Creatures (http://www.pbs.org/kratts/) |
| A companion site to the PBS television program. Features information about a variety of animals from around the world. |
| Living Things (http://www.fi.edu/tfi/units/life/) |
| Very effective use of image manipulation. |
| NASA Kids (http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/) |
| Emphasis on space exploration and astronomy. |
| NASA Quest (http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/) |
| Provides support and services for schools, teachers and students to fully utilize the Internet as a basic tool for learning. |
| Neuroscience for Kids (http://faculty.washington.edu/chudler/neurok.html) |
| Neurology site aimed at K-12 students and teachers. Explore the Brain, 60-part tutorial, highlights this site. |
| Nine Planets: a Multimedia Tour of the Solar System (http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html) |
| Each planet and major moon in our solar system is briefly described, and illustrated with a photograph form NASA spacecraft. |
| Nutrition Explorations (http://www.nutritionexplorations.org/) |
| From the National Dairy Council. Helps educators teach children about nutritious foods and a healthy diet. |
| OLogy (http://www.ology.amnh.org/) |
| Definitions of ologies such as astronomy and paleontology, shown with trips through space and the Gobi Desert. From the American Museum of Natural History. |
| Science Fair Project Index (http://www.ascpl.lib.oh.us/scifair/) |
| Index of experiments and projects in all aspects of science and technology published since 1990. |
| Science Learning Network (http://www.sln.org) |
| Sponsored by the National Science Foundation. Excellent science resources for teachers. |
| Science for Families (http://scienceforfamilies.allinfo-about.com/) |
| Directory of annotated resource lists organized by categories. |
| Sea World/Busch Gardens Animal Information Database (http://www.seaworld.org/) |
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| Smart-Mouth.org (http://www.cspinet.org/smartmouth/) |
| Interactive site for kids to learn about nutrition. From the Center for Science in the Public Interest. |
| Spacekids (http://www.spacekids.com/) |
| News and entertainment for budding astronomers and astronauts. |
| The Space Place (http://spaceplace.jpl.nasa.gov/index.shtml) |
| Demonstrates and explains scientific concepts related to astronomy in a fun, hands-on manner that is tailored to grade school children. |
| Star Child (http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/) |
| A general astronomy learning center for young astronomers. Sponsored by NASA. |
| USDA For Kids (http://www.usda.gov/news/usdakids/index.html) |
| Dozens of links for everything from the food guide pyramid to backyard conservation. |
| University of California Museum of Paleontology (http://www.ibiblio.org/expo/paleo.exhibit/paleo.html) |
| Jurassic Park on the Web. Geological Time Machine calls up information on past eras and extinct species. A detailed online tour of exhibits about evolution, geology, a history of dinosaur discoveries, and the awesome Hall of Dinosaurs. |
| Volcano World (http://volcano.und.nodak.edu/vw.html) |
| Supported by NASA's Program Public Use of Earth and Space Science Data Over the Internet. |
| Weather Dude (http://www.wxdude.com/) |
| Weather page designed especially for kids, parents and teachers from KSTW-TV weather forecaster Nick Walker. |
| Welcome to the Learning Studio! (http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/) |
| Sponsored by the Exploratorium in San Francisco. |
| Welcome to the Planets (http://pds.jpl.nasa.gov/planets/) |
| A collection of the best images from NASA's planetary exploration programs. Sponsored by Cal Tech. |
| The Why Files (http://whyfiles.org/) |
| A kids science site run by the Univ. of Wisconsin and the National Science Foundation. Presents the science behind the news in a lively and engaging way. |
| Wild-Eyed Alaska (http://www.hhmi.org/alaska/) |
| Educational site which enables students and nature lovers to travel instantly to the remote Gull Island in Alaska to visit puffins, kittiwakes and other wildlife. |
| Windows to the Universe (http://www.windows.ucar.edu/) |
| Easy, informative descriptions of the planets and other solar system objects told in short bites with simple language. Planet mythology and the latest space news. |
| Yuckiest Site on the Internet (http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/) |
| "The best place for science entertainment." Colorful, factual and fun.
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