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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
to help make yourself smarter. And e-mail us at admin@maremel.com
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net citizens.
Learning About Safe Internet Use for Kids
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
- 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
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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.
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