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Art

Kids Art

This web site filled with art activities for children!

Sanford Art Adventure

Locate art products, resources, lesson plans, online art activities, and interactive online games for teachers and students.

Crayola

Discover the world of Crayola. This site offers crafts projects, games, activity pages, and on-line kids gallery


Art Safari

Click on a paw print to start the journey to discover modern art.

Artchive

It is a free resource of famous artists, artistic styles, and works of art.

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Fun Activities for Children and Parents

Enchanted Learning

It is an educational web site with games to capture a child's imagination while developing creativity and learning.

A Game a Day: Just for Kids

You can locate thousands of games, puzzles, and related materials designed in print, online, and CD for stimulating learning, problem solving, and creative thinking.


Kid's Hangout- Disney Home Page

You can discover everything about Disney: Disney Land/World, characters, tours, and products

Fun Brain

It provides an assortment of math, language, science, geography and culture games for children of all ages.

Discovery Channel: Section for parents and students

Students can access homework help and web math. Parents and teachers can discover brain booster, puzzle maker, and science fair central for project ideas.


Nickelodeon

A great site for elementary students, they can discover games, storybooks, coloring books, crafts, activities, music, and more.

Welcome to Berenstain Bear Country

There are several fun activities based on the characters from the books.


Games Kids Play

A great lists of traditional kids games with instructions.

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Homework Aides

Homework Spot

A free web site useful and educational resource for homework help in grades K-12.

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Language Arts

A Research Guide for Students

Students will find a collection of tools and tips for doing research and writing papers.


Roget's Thesaurus

This web site provides access to synonyms and antonyms, for thousands of words.

Dictionary

This web site contains alphabetical word lists with definitions, pronunciation, and origins.


EdSitement

It is "The Best of the Humanities on the Web" with lesson plans and at home activities for literature, language arts, foreign language, art, culture, and history.

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Maps

Topo Zone

Site provides interactive topographic maps of the United States in cooperation with the USGS.

Map Quest

Locate maps of an area by address or zip code in the United States, Canada, and Europe.

About: The Human Internet- Geography

Locate featured links to census/ population, weather, cities/transportation, and maintained lists of maps even historical and blank maps.

National Atlas

Locate current maps and data.

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Math

Fractals

A kid based site to help them understand fractals.

Cool Math 4 Kids

This site is full of math games and other activities that will have kids of all ages enjoy practicing their math skills. Parents and teachers will find support pages.

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Museums

Art Institute of Chicago


Smithsonian Institute


The Library of Congress


The National Air and Space Museum

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Music

Morton Subotnick's Creating Music

This web site is a children's online creative music environment for children of all ages. It's a place for kids to compose and perform music along with games and puzzles.

Kididdles

A great web site to locate games and kids' songs lyrics by alphabetical and category lists, or search engine.

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News

USA Today


ABC News for Kids


Public Broadcasting

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Nutrition

Dole 5 A Day

Parents and educators can find educational resources and lessons to teach children healthy lifestyles habits in fun and interesting ways.

Kids Health

KidsHealth was created by the Nemours Foundation Center for Children's Health Media. This website provides doctor-approved health information about children from before birth through adolescence. It offers separate areas for kids, teens, and parents - each with its own design, age-appropriate content, and tone. Check out the Vitamin Chart!

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Physical Education

The President's Challenge

The President's Challenge is the Physical Activity and Fitness Awards Program of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports (PCPFS). Starting with the Presidential Fitness Award (PPFA) in 1966, this program has rewarded and motivated millions of youth.

AAU

The Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) is one of the largest, non-profit, volunteer, sports organizations in the United States. A multi sport organization, the AAU is dedicated exclusively to the promotion and development of amateur sports and physical fitness programs.

AAHPERD

American Alliance for Health Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance is promoting healthy lifestyles through high quality programs in health, physical education, recreation, dance, and sport.

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Science

NASA Web Sites

K-12 Internet Initiative

Kennedy Space Center

NASA's educational web sites bringing space, science, and links to the Astronauts.

How Stuff Works

This site provides information on how things works.

Animal Diversity Web

This web site is an online database of animal history, distribution, classification, and conservation by the University of Michigan Museum of Zoology.


The Weather Channel

The Weather Channel is the top provider of weather information and how it affects your life.


The Tornado Project Online

If you are interested in tornadoes, this is your web site. You can find tornado data, myths, oddities, safety, and history.

Visit a Volcano

A great web site developed by the University of North Dakota. It contains information on volcanoes and a kids section with games and virtual field trips.

The Nine Planets

This web site offers the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system.

Dinosaurs

Zoom Dinosaurs is a comprehensive on-line hypertext book about dinosaurs.

Welcome to the Planets

It is part of the NASA web site that offers a collection of many of the best images from the planetary exploration program.

Animal Planet

What to know facts on animals, check this site out. Also, you can find information on the animal series and fun and games with animal themes.


Discovery Channel

This web site offers the best of the Discovery Channel with direct links to the Travel Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, and Health Channel. You will find real-life, non-fiction information covering nature, science and technology, history, and world exploration.


Discovery School

It is part of Discovery Channel dedicated to teaching and learning with resources for students, parents, and teacher.

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Social Studies

50 States

A great educational resource providing U.S. territory and state information.; including state symbols, flags, nicknames, songs, and birds.

National Geographics

A great resource for finding scientific discovery, photography, travel, exploration, maps, news, live web cams, educational tools, and an online newsletter.

National Geographics Kids

Be a National Geographic kid! You will find tons of games, e-mail postcards, photographs, pictures, animal facts, cool links, NG Kids Magazine stories, and homework help.

Grand Crayon National Parks Homepage

You can discover facts, statistics, photos, weather, links, and educational information about the Grand Canyon. You can even use the management plan to improve your canyon experience to discover the beauty, peace, and scenic grandeur.

The History Place

This web site is loaded with historical information for students and teachers. Check out the helpful tips in the homework section.

H.I.P. Pocket Change: U.S. Mint

HPC is designed by the U.S. Mint to be a fun, educational tool -- for students and teachers -- that generates interest in coins, the Mint, and U.S. history. Teachers can find social studies and mathematics lesson plans for the 50 States Quarters Program.

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Technology

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