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kids to become great Web Wizards...
Helping kids find great stuff to make their worlds bigger and
better...
How can I better understand the web...so I can
better give guidance to my students, teach better, and help extend
the classroom into outside resources? Check out the resources below
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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
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
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.
NIEHS Kids Pages -- http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/home.htm
-- Cool online games, songs, materials, from National Institute
of Environmental Health Sciences
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.