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Other cool sites with great content... Exploratorium has a great list of cool kids'
sites -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/kids.html
KidSpace.org -- international site -- great games and info on the web; storybooks, kids' art gallery KidsCom -- supervised chat with other kids Kiddonet-- create your own home page, calendar, message boards, etc. Funschool.com -- kids 6 - 11 Zeeks.com -- kids 9-14 -- has games, chatrooms, and a great "Meet the Authors" area MaMaMedia -- kids can design and animate characters, make their own digital cards, invent games, and more. Free membership lets kids save, publish, and e-mail their creations to friends. Agirlsworld -- http://www.agirlsworld.com/ -- web sharing and content for girls and teens Ben's Guide: U.S. Government Sites for Kids -- Paws,
Claws, Scales, & Tales -- Librarians' Internet Index info
on critters and pets galore Paws,
Claws, Scales, & Tales, Part II -- California's Summer
Reading Program -- How does a Zamboni
(Ice machine) work? Activities from the ZOOM
TV show on PBS -- games, science, puzzles, and fun Check out bios and details about your favorite characters in the Disney Archives Experience Outer Space with the Jet Propulsion Lab's Cassini-Huygens Mission to Saturn & Titan -- build a model of the Cassini spacecraft and find Saturn in the night sky Armor and Arms -- Check out video and pictures of old armor and weapons at New York's Metropolitan Museum My Hero Project -- Kids create web pages about their heroes and submit them to http://myhero.com/myhero/ Check out WebQuests -- cool search-based learning projects on the web. Here's a few:
Earth from space -- http://www.earthfromspace.si.edu/ -- care of the Smithsonian Asia Trail at the National Zoo -- http://nationalzoo.si.edu/Animals/AsiaTrail/ Free, Legal Pictures for Projects! Check out this great search engine of photos online -- even by color -- at Yoyophoto at http://yotophoto.com/ How about Podcast stories? Check out http://www.summerreading.cla-net.org/srpgpodcast.html Stamps can be cool! Check out the Kids' Page on the world of stamps at http://www.stamps.org/kids/January/Beginner_intro.htm |
Scary Books for Kids -- http://www.monsterlibrarian.com/horrorfictionlistkd.htm Guided tour of Harlem from an artist's point of view -- http://www.metmuseum.org/explore/the_block/guide.html Endangered Species Information -- http://www.fws.gov/endangered/kids/ PBSkids.org -- Lots of cool stuff, games, info on shows PBSkids/go -- Great stuff for bigger kids HowStuffWorks Express -- Interviews with experts and the cool Autopsy section, showing how you can take things apart and what they are made of United Nations -- for kids! -- the UN has a site with all sorts of stuff about it as a Cyberschoolbus Team Jake -- -- Check out Jake, a 7 year old runner raising money for kids in need in other countries Make an e-card to send to a friend at Crayola Did I just feel an earthquake?
Check it out at the US Geological Survey site and log on what you
felt to help them collect data. America's Story -- Library of Congress has created this fascinating interactive web site about famous Americans and history. NASA Kids -- check out all things space-y at this site KidInfo
on Magic!
-- they have assembled a great group of links all about magicians
and magic Look at a "live" diary of the original King Tut excavation on National Geographic's site Check out projects, games, and critters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium website Interested in Space? Adler Observatory has a great list of links to all sorts of space-related sites World Factbook from the CIA -- how can you get cooler than that? Cable Channels' Sites
-- Publications -- usually
commercial-oriented Toy Oriented -- Commercial oriented
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