Student Resources
Art Kids Rule
Here you can search for art activities and crafts for kids.
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Here's a user-friendly search engine where you can ask your question in plain
English.
Ask an Expert
Have a question? Ask an Expert is a directory of links to those who have volunteered their time to answer questions, as well as links to webpages that provide information.
Best of
History Web Sites
Best of History Web Sites is an award-winning portal created
for history teachers, students, and general history enthusiasts. BOHWS contains
annotated links to over 1000 history web sites as well links to hundreds of
quality K-12 history lesson plans, history teacher guides, history activities,
history games, history quizzes, and more throughout its pages.
Calishphere
This
free Web site offers educators, students, and the general public access to more
than 150,000
digitized
primary sources
from the libraries and museums of the UC campuses and cultural heritage
organizations across California.
Children's Books Online
Children's Books Online: The Rosetta Project, Inc. A
collection of children's books with illustrations.
Collection Connections
History Web Site through the Library of Congress
College Results
On-line
This interactive
Web tool, created by The Education Trust, allows you to learn more about student
graduation rates at four-year colleges and universities.
EduHound: Everything for K-12 Education
"We've tracked it down, so you don't have to." Includes K-12 resources on all subject areas!
Federal
Resources for Educational Excellence
KidsKonnect.com
A safe Internet gateway for kids, created and maintained by educators.
The Internet Public Library - Youth Division
Features a Young Writers Competition, Ask an Author, the Story Hour, and a World of Readers (in which kids from around the world review books they've read).
Kid Info
This site has resources for students, teacher, parents, and young children.
Learning Planet
A source for quality
interactive learning activities.
Library of Congress Music, Theater and Dance
The Library of Congress Performing Arts Reading Room
Library Spot
Life Works
National Institute of Health Office of Science Education
Map Collections - 1500 to 2004
National Library of Virtual Manipulatives
Math help on the Web.
Niehs Kids' Pages
Brainteasers,
Puzzles, & Riddles
Scientists get to solve puzzles every day,
because science and research involve finding solutions from the clues that we
are given. Just like with brainteasers (or brain teasers) and riddles, the
answers to science mysteries are not always easy to see at first. With time and
effort, they eventually become clear.
Nutrition.Gov
Providing easy, online access to
government information on food and human nutrition for consumers. A
service of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The
Paris Review
A site
featuring works of literature, interviews with authors and audio readings by
authors.
PBS Kids
Includes Fun & Games area where you can show your knowledge, a special Pre-School area for the youngsters, & Babble On, an area which includes links to educational television shows like Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow, etc. plus an opportunity to communicate with PBS figures.
PBS - Mark
Twain
Discover the true
Mark Twain through his writing and his collection of artifacts.
Refdesk.com
On the Internet since 1995, Refdesk is a free and
family-friendly web site that indexes and reviews quality, credible, and current
web-based resources.
Science
World
Smithsonian Education
The gateway to Smithsonian educational resources.
Surfing the Net with Kids
A site created by Barbara J. Feldman that contains selected pages for kids to surf indexed under categories such as: Arts, Crafts, Music; Math; Language Arts; Geography; Games, Hobbies; Computer, Internet; and Science.
Today in Literature
Great Books, Good Stories, Every Day
Yahooligans
The Web Guide for Kids. If you are familiar with Yahoo (and who on the net is not!), this is a similar site geared to kids!
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