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For Kids - Homework Help/Educational
- A+ Math: This website helps students improve their math skills interactively with games, flashcards, and math word puzzles. Try the homework helper to check your homework answers.
- America's Story from America's Library: The Library of Congress hosts this website for young Americans to learn about their country. Kids can meet amazing Americans, jump back in time, explore the states, join Americans at play, watch movies and listen to songs from America's past.
- Awesome Library: This site links to carefully reviewed resources to find information by school subject.
- Classroom Clip Art: Free pictures to download or print for school assignments. Simple picture index. Can be keyword searched.
- Cool Math: This math site features many games and puzzles to make sharpening your math skills fun.
- Fact Monster: A bright, colorful site that has a homework center for answering your homework questions, plus information on world and news, U.S., science, math, sports, and more.
- FunBrain Games: Great collection of interactive word, number, and science games. You can search for games by age, subject, title, or keyword.
- The History Place: This site includes timelines of major events in U.S. and World history, information about historical topics and U.S. Presidents with photos.
- Homework Spot: Homework help for students.
- KidsHealth: Accurate, up-to-date information about growth, food and fitness, medical and surgical conditions and the latest treatments. You'll find health games, How the Body Works animations, the KidsVote health poll and tons of surprises. Special sections for parents, kids and teens.
- KidsHub.org: Kids Hub is a fun interactive learning center for elementary and middle school students. It includes educational games, puzzles, quizzes, spelling activities, and subject guides.
- KidSpace @ the Internet Public Library: Here's the place to go for all your general reference needs! There are links to dictionaries, encyclopedias, almanacs, and other sites for homework help or just looking things up.
- Money Central Station: Play games to learn about money on this U.S. Department of the Treasury website. There are separate areas of activities for ages 5-8 and 9-13.
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA): Find out how to get photos from space, see a launch and more.
- National Geographic for Kids: One of the best resources for information on the Net about the world, its people, and its wildlife.
- National Wildlife Federation: The Kids Page features articles in English and Spanish from Ranger Rick, the environmental magazine for children; a homework help section; and briefings on issues such as the wetlands, endangered animals, water quality and more.
- Internet Picture Dictionary: This dictionary comes in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish where students can browse through words and pictures by letter or category.
- Science Fair Project Resource Guide: An excellent resource from the Internet Public Library that links kids to all sorts of exceptional resources for their projects.
- Science Net: Features information about science subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, zoology, geology, botany, paleontology, and astronomy.
- Start Squad: Colorful, family-friendly website featuring links to recommended websites by age and topic.
- The White House: Take a tour with Scotty the Bush family dog and find out about life in the White House.
Search the Web
- Ask for Kids: A "Safe" web search tool that allows young people to ask questions in everyday language.
- Google: The best search engine on the web to find websites containing information on any topic.
- KidsClick: Web search for kids by librarians intended to guide users to good websites.
- One Key: A kid safe search engine in conjunction with Google.com.
- Yahooligans! A web guide for kids featuring news, reference, science, sports, a book club, games, jokes, e-cards and much more.
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For Kids - Fun and Entertainment
- ASPCA's Animaland: This child-friendly site offers interactive information on pet care, animal issues, poster and essay contests, games and cartoons and more.
- Cartoon Network: Games featuring Cartoon Network characters.
- Disney Channel: Activities and games with characters on the Disney Channel.
- Everything Girl: Contains six websites with games and activities including Barbie, Diva Starz, Polly Pocket, Kelly Club, Flavas and My Scene.
- Family Fun: A great place to visit for craft and activity ideas.
- Fox Kids: Games featuring Fox Kids tv characters.
- Internet Movie Database(IMDB): This site features movie and tv news, links to official movie websites and movie reviews, actor biographies and U.S. movie showtimes.
- Jan Brett: Popular children's author and illustrator of numerous books including The Mitten and On Noah's Ark has a great website featuring over 2,000 pages of activities artwork and projects for children. Kids can check out websites of their other favorite authors and illustrators as well by searching for their names using a search engine such as Google.
- Kids Domain Craft Ideas: Check this out for craft ideas for holiday, seasonal, gifts, groups or just for fun.
- Lego: Play games, go to the "Lego Design School" to get tips on building and lessons about Legos, view other kids' Lego creations and upload photos of your own to the Gallery, and build with virtual 3-D blocks.
- Lemony Snicket: On this site for fans of the popular book series A Series of Unfortunate Events find out about the author, illustrator, books and play games.
- Nickelodeon: Create and watch cartoon movies, listen to music, play games and more at this popular kids' site.
- PBS Kids: Games, stories, making of the show, color and draw and many more fun activities featuring PBS characters from Sesame Street, Clifford, Sagwa, Arthur, Caillou and more.
- Puzzlemaker: Create and print customized word search, crossword and math puzzles using your word lists. Users can also print out cool mazes.
- Scholastic: Play games and activities featuring characters from Scholastic books including Harry Potter, Clifford, Goosebumps, Dear America, Captain Underpants, Magic School Bus, I Spy and more. This site includes an area for families featuring child development information, tips for selecting books for your child and teaching them to read, and at home activities.
- Sports Illustrated for Kids: A busy, colorful site with articles about sports figures from Jackie Robinson to Jackie Joyner Kersee, league standings, games and more.
- Very Best Kids: Developed by Nestle, this site offers learning fun, crafts and activities, holidays and celebrations, parties, cooking and baking.
For Parents
- ALA Great Websites for Kids: American Library Association's recommended websites for kids. This list is reviewed and expanded on an ongoing basis.
- The Parents' Guide to the Information Superhighway: Rules and tools for families online from the Children's Partnership. Comprehensive look at the information superhighway and what parents should know to help their children use it safely and wisely.
- ParentSoup: Parenting tips, discussions on all aspects of raising children from pregnancy through teens. From the iVillage Network.
- Screen It! Detailed movie reviews for parents listing possibly objectible material in the film. Includes "our word to parents" about the movie.
- Wired Kids: Internet safety and privacy tips for children and parents. This site includes a list by age group and subject of safe sites.
- Yahooligans! Parent's Guide: Parents' resources to help their children surf safely on the web.
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