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Learning About Safe Internet Use for Kids

• Blog Safety -- http://www.blogsafety.com/
• i-Safe -- http://www.isafe.org -- Funded by the Dept. of Defense
• GetNetWise -- Great resources! --
  • Suggest parents and kids to talk about this -- Internet Contracts -- see http://kids.getnetwise.org/tools/toolscontracts for links to several suggested contracts.
• Wiredkids.org -- http://www.wiredkids.org/educators/index.html
• Staysafe.org -- http://www.staysafe.org/teachers/default.html-- funded by Microsoft
• Net Family News -- http://netfamilynews.org/index.shtml -- past newsletters at http://www.netfamilynews.org/letterindex4.html
• NetSmartz Workshop -- http://netsmartz.org/educators.htm

Cool Things

• Exploratorium List of Cool Sites for K-12 Teachers -- you could spend all days just cruising this wonderful list of links -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cool/k12_resources.html
  
  
• Check out the Exploratorium's Science Center in SF -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/educate/index.html
  • How does an eye work? -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/how.html
  • Watch a cow's eye get dissected! -- http://www.exploratorium.edu/learning_studio/cow_eye/step01.html
    
    
• Ben's Guide: U.S. Government Sites for Kids -- http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html -- Cool iste with links to all sorts of kids' sites made by different government agencies, like Agriculture, Treasury, Smithsonian, etc.

• Franklin Institute Science Museum has in storage a century's worth of scientific instruments. "inQuiry Attic" offers an online exploration of some particularly interesting things in its "Attic"-- http://sln.fi.edu/qa98/atticindex.html

• Check out projects, games, and critters at the Monterey Bay Aquarium website -- http://www.mbayaq.org/lc/default.asp

Tools for More Information

• SchoolZone (UK) -- http://www.schoolzone.co.uk/ -- 50,000 web resources reviewed by UK teachers
• AOL@School -- http://www.aolatschool.com/educators
• Wiredkids Safe Search -- Excellent search -- by topic and age range http://www.wiredkids.org/safesites/star_search1.php
• TekMom's Search Tools for Students -- http://www.tekmom.com/search/ -- All-in-one search page for kid search sites and research resources.
• Kids Search Tools -- http://www.rcls.org/ksearch.htm -- Search a variety of kid-safe search engines from a single page.
• Education World -- http://www.education-world.com/ -- Over 500,000 sites of interest to educators. Browsable or searchable, with the ability to narrow in by appropriate grade level. Launched in spring 1996.
• SearchEdu.com -- http://www.searchedu.com/ -- Index of pages built by crawling education web sites.
  
• Teach-nology.com -- http://www.teach-nology.com/ -- Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.
  
• Surfing the Net with Kids Archive - Archived suggestions from Barbara Feldman's syndicated column.
• Teach-nology.com -- http://www.teach-nology.com/ -- Directory of web sites for teachers and educators.
• Internet Content Rating Association -- http://www.icra.org/about/
• Top Rated Sites for Children -- http://www.ssfchildren.co.uk/modules.php?op=modload&name=Web_Links&file=index&req=TopRated -- interesting listing of top-rated kid-safe sites -- non-profit in UK
• Family Friendly Sites -- http://www.familyfriendlysites.com/FamilyFriendly/default.asp
• Math Forum @ Drexel -- http://mathforum.org/arithmetic/arithmetic.html -- cool resources for math help -- also check out their "Ask Dr. Math" -- http://mathforum.org/dr.math/
• Children's Literature Web Guide -- http://www.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/ -- University of Calgary
• Kidspace @ Internet Public Library -- http://www.ipl.org/div/kidspace/ -- Univ. of Michigan
• NIEHS Kids Pages -- http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm -- Cool online games, songs, materials, from National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
• Family Education Network -- http://fen.com/resources/aboutFEN.html -- Pearson's resources for families
• Childnet Academy -- http://www.childnetacademy.org/default.aspx -- Kids can win a place at an international Internet academy by submitting their own cool Internet creations
• Librarians Internet Index -- http://lii.org/ -- Publicly funded research library online with safety in mind
• Ben's Guide: U.S. Government Sites for Kids -- http://bensguide.gpo.gov/subject.html -- Cool iste with links to all sorts of kids' sites made by different government agencies, like Agriculture, Treasury, Smithsonian, etc.