PBS Picks - NODDY "Imagination and storytelling, music and songs, humor and creative play are all part of NODDY, an original
children�s series premiering on PBS September 1998 (check local listings). The series, based on the world
renowned children�s books by Enid Blyton, provides active, fun and imaginative viewing for young children, while helping them learn to explore their world."
Children's Storybooks Online Special listings for Young Children, Older Children and Young Adult. Each category links to several books for kids or young adults to read this summer.
Welcome to Boogers and Boogeymen! "The First Interactive Talking Kid's Novel for the Web Welcome to Boogers and Boogeymen!" You will need Netscape 3.0 and Shockwave.
The Kids' Storytelling Club Purpose: To introduce students to storytelling as a communications art, encourage students to become storytellers, help students learn to create their own storytelling stories, help build self esteem, promote understanding of differing viewpoints, show students how to get information from a computer, discover the capabilities of an interactive web site and make international friends through storytelling. Recommended for grades 3-9
Manford of MorningGlory Mountain The 36 stories (Each is 4,000 to 5,000 words long and takes about half an hour to read aloud) follow seven animal friends on adventures.
thekids.com Illustrated rhymes, fables, adventure stories, folk and fairy tales from around the world.
Candlelight Stories Illustrated children's stories. "This is the home of Sally and you'll find her latest adventures here. The Sally books are written and illustrated by site creator, Alexander Cima."
Theodore's Surprise Friend -Tugboat Story This page is about a TV series of a cheerful tugboat that likes to make friends with everybody. Interactive story, coloring book (download pages from the online coloring book).
Book Nook Book reports by kids on children's literature.
Disney News [Toy Story] [More Disney] [Stars] [Shopping] [Winnie the Pooh] [Prizes] [Fun] [More News] [Hits From the Pit].
WINDY HILL PRODUCTIONS Interesting essay on musical literacy on site. Includes a demo to download called "The Clam Game" which teaches high and low tone recognition skills. This demo is a fully
functioning interactive learning game (a self-extracting file that take 24 minutes to download at 28.8 baudl!).
Dodo Land in Cyber-space A sandbox on the Internet? It's about time! Check out the toys....
"Go to the Dragonship to play games.
Go to the Island of Eyes to meet authors and artists and ask them questions.
Go to the Night Bubble and write and illustrate stories with other children.
Go to the Giant Flower Island and do environmental activities which you can share
with other children."
CyberKids A free online magazine for kids that contains stories, artwork, puzzles, and more, created mostly by other kids. Current issue has articles/fiction written by kids age 11-16. See those written about the experieces of new arrivals to the US.
Illustrated stories from around the world: rhymes, fables, adventure stories, folk & fairy tales
SIFK: Shorter Reporter I like the warning at this site. Kids will like the information and the trivia quiz on sports.
Look and Learn Look learn and do fun projects, history and books for kids.
Welcome to Kid's Web Camp '97 Still think HTML and creating Web pages is beyond your students? Check out these pages created at a Camp where kids were divided into teams. Many of the pages are created with the help of a Kid's Web Camp '97 Tech Center.
Fox Kids Cyberstation The Amazing Spider-Man | The Adventures of Batman and Robin |
Attack of the Killer Tomatoes | Beetleborgs | Bobby's World | Casper|
C-Bear and Jamal | Carmen Sandiego | Eek! Stravaganza | Goosebumps |
Life with Louie | Power Rangers Zeo | The Tick | The X-Men |
Peter Pan.
Welcome to the Nabisco� Kids Home Page! "Evil Dr. Snackmasher wants to zap all cookies from the past and the future - and he can do it 'cause he's hacked into YOUR TIME MACHINE. Here's your chance to be a Super Hero, travel through time, think faster than Snackmasher and bring back cookies for everyone!" Tough game! I ran out of cookies very fast.
Egypt: Color Me Egypt: Just for Kids Download a zip version of the page for student coloring. Older students might use graphics in their multimedia projects.
Ancient Civilizations Activities Offers a "Workshop Launcher" with coloring/art activities for children. Interesting topics (African, Ancient, Babies, Birds, Cars, Danger, North, Landmarks I,
Landmarks II, Airplanes).
Welcome To Cocoa Technology preview version of Cocoa, an interactive media authoring tool for children (age eight and above) and adults. Apple is offering a free download of the software that allows children to build simulations, games, and interactive worlds, and publish them on the Internet.
The Learning Kingdom Java educational games that run directly over the web. The first game, "Gaggle," teaches
group names of animals with some math games soon.
Welcome To Cocoa Internet authoring for Kids. Offering software to create moving characters.
1A1A Secret Treasure Hunt Games,Kids,Children,SuperHeroic,Magical,Zap!,Tonz,Entertainment,Animation,Educational Awarded the "Site With the Longest Name" award. According to the Weekly Bookmark "...a World Wide Playground for children. The site journeys visitors through entertaining clues and characters, leading children toward a most wonderful discovery...The Enchanted Treasure! A Game Room with printable activity pages is also housed within the site."
Little Planet Times An interactive online newspaper for kids, by kids, that promotes reading, writing, and communication skills for grades K-5.
Media Bridge GAME KIDS Home Page For kids of all ages to learn and exchange non-computer games and activities. Selected games and rhymes for downloading.
Crayola Art Education
Written so that younger users can follow, with examples of children's art. The site is scheduled to be expanded with a bulletin board and lesson plans by mid-March.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED FOR KIDS
"...answers sport questions, exhibits drawings, poems, jokes and
stories from kids about their favorite athletes and games..."
And for the latest in sports news, kids can check out The Insider's weekly
column from SIFK's man at the scene, Bob Der. He'll even reply to email!"
THE WIZARD OF AAHS
"RADIO AAHS, the interactive music and entertainment playground for kids,
wants you to come over and play! Meet stars like Bill Nye, the science
guy, or Nancy Cartwright, the (female!) voice behind everyone's favorite
brat, Bart Simpson. Surf on in to get CD reviews for kids, do fun puzzles
and quizzes, and find out about cool events happening near you!"
TIME FOR KIDS Site that explains world events in a way that kids can understand.
Official Site of the Olympic Movement "KIDS, the online presence of the Olympic 2000 National
Education Program. Whilst O-News, the Olympic student newspaper for
Australian Primary and High School students, and aspire the Olympic 2000
Resource for Australian schools are national initiatives, KIDS is our global
face. We invite parents, teachers and educators from around the world to
contribute and feel part of our program."
OKSWAT.COM The Tobacco Industry has targeted youth for years, now they become our
target.
Adventures From The Book Of Virtues Home Page A site to "...discover
virtues such as honesty, courage and responsibility at this Web site
companion to the PBS series. Children can learn about the characters, read
stories from around the world, and play interactive puzzles and games,
while parents can access tips for discussing virtues with their children."
HighWired.com: The HighWired.com National Edition Showcases the writing of
high-school journalists nationwide and around the world. The site also
offers space for schools to publish school newspapers on-line and
create special Web sites for extracurricular activity groups, clubs, and
individual classrooms to publish student writing on the Web.
KIDSNET I looked first at the media section of the page. You can browse the entire collection or search for something specific. The page that is generated in the "entire selection" choice has four frames. One lists the entire spectrum of channels and another lists programs and titles of specials. Clicking in either area generated an information frame in the center. Browsers looking for more infomation can travel off-site to the actual web pages for each program or to the home page for the station. All this is very well organized and useful for a quick look at the entire continuum of programs.
Book Review A part of New Hampshire Public Television's participation in First Book and Ready to Learn Initiative. The actual Review Panel is made up of third, fourth and fifth grade students from Dondero Elementary School in Portsmouth and first through six grade students at the Girls Program Center at the Manchester YWCA. Most of the books reviewed are available from Scholastic Books.
NGA's Youth Garden Grants Awards grants of gardening equipment and supplies valued at more than $750 to each of 300 exemplary new or existing outdoor youth gardening programs.
Claribel said, "My mother tells my older brother what to do,
he tells my other brother what to do, and my other brother tells me.
Who am I going to tell, the rat or the cockeroach?"
(Sometimes you have to get away from it all.)
Merlyn's Pen Fiction, Essays, and Poems by America's Teens.
Fun Stuff - ROM Revise for Kids page and archaelogy. Offers a Kid's Stuff Fun Page. See Archaeological Analysis: Pieces of the Past, Cuneiform to Computers, Homes of the Past (Archaeology of an Iroquoian Longhouse), and Make Your Own Dinosaur Out of Chicken Bones.
ICONnect: KidsConnect A question-answering, help and referral service to K�12 students on the Internet, with the goal of helping students access and use the information available on the Internet.
CBC 4 Kids Splash Page CBC Radio's interactive Web site for children 8-13, offering "...daily news, sports, classical and popular music, Canadian history, science experiments, jokes, quizzes and games."
Games Kids Play Kick The Can, Annie Annie Over, Red Light / Green Light and Red Rover.
Fun Stuff for the Public Museum of Grand Rapids Visit this site to study the birchbark canoes that carried people and goods up and down the lakes and rivers of Michigan. You can make your own Odawa Canoe decorated with traditional woodland designs. You can also visit THE FURNITURE CITY and make the Little Chair. I printed one of the pages and it fit nicely on standard paper.
Teens with HIV I ran into this article while browsing the Houston Chronicle. Reporter Claudia
Feldman provides some critical information and advice to both parents and teens. Organized into the topics of: Living in the shadow of AIDS, Words of wisdom for parents, Several locations offer help to teen HIV sufferers, Improved drugs available to treat patients with HIV and HIV at a glance.
Lil McCumsey's 3rd Grade Class Here is a class that has gone the distance. Every student has a page, complete with a photo, some art work and some things that make them unique. Can't wait to see what they do in 4th grade!
KIDS' TURN A nonprofit agency to help children whose parents separate or divorce.
The JSA Home Page
"Junior State of America is a nationwide, non-profit,
non-partisan political education organization for students in grades 9-12. We are run completely...; students who are interested in politics and government, foreign affairs,
the law, and education.
A database of articles of intrest to teenagers and students. ie book reviews,
product reviews and student recreation/activities.
Welcome to CTDNet Internet Service Provider for Talented Students (Identified by the Midwest Talent Search). Junior High demo's - writing, art, a MOO, and student homepages..
Hands On Children's Museum New features that let children solve mazesand write their names using ship signal flags. "Children can see how ships use signal flags and semaphore to communicate with other ships and harbor masters. As a hands on project, the flag page also shows
children how to use resources on the internet to create their own flag messages. Children can type in their name or a short message like "Happy Birthday" or "Get Lost," and it will automatically be translated into colorful signal flags."
Hotlist: Kids Did This!! resources created by K-8 kids. "There is quite a bit of variety and interesting jumping off places for discussions of how teachers and students are experimenting with publishing."
Debbie's Home Page Home page for a 7th grader.., probably crafted by her Father.
A.Word.A.Day Learn Vocabulary. Includes an archive of past words.
Hillside Elementary School Are you considering joining the schools already connected to the Internet? Visit these sites for feedback on their experiences. HILLSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL:
The pages of information on this World Wide Web server are being created by a classroom of sixth grade students at Hillside Elementary School in Cottage Grove, Minnesota. A comprehensive list of elementary schools on the Internet (45), secondary schools (104), school districts (50) and 27 educational organizations. Also included are post secondary links and links to libraries on the Internet.
The Postcard Store Send an electronic postcard to a friend. Please send your lesson ideas on this site. It could be a real hit in your classroom. Slip or PPP connection needed to show the graphics included in the free postcard.
Children's Literature Web Guide
Great umbrella site and a great place to start exploration. Resources for Parents, Teachers, Storytellers, Writers and Illustrators plus links to Publishers and Boosellers, Children's Writings, Research Guides and Indexes, Related Internet Sites: Books, Libraries, and Cool Stuff for Kids.
MidLink Magazine This is a special magazine for middle school (age 10-15) students.
Welcome to the ICS Gateway Page! Focus on using computers as tools to accentuate and improve
classroom learning, often in the form of games and simulation activities.