Multi links

1. Ben's Guide - U.S. Government Web Sites for Kids
2. Best Sites for Kids
3. FirstGov for Kids - the U.S. government interagency Kids' Portal.
4. Great Web sites for Kids - from ALA (American Library Association)
5. Online Activities from KidsDomain - Numerous activities of all types for kids.
6. Search Tools for Kids - Search engines designed for use by children accompanied by screened sites just for kids

 Educational

1. BrainFood - Finished his/her work? Try this stimulating site if your child has a few minutes to spare!
2. Child Safety on the Information Highway - rules for kids and guidelines for parents.
3. Energy Quest - Energy Education from the California Energy Commission
4. Fun Brain - where kids get power - check out their educational games
5. Invention at play - Explore the playful side of invention.
6. Kids’ Puzzles - online interactive hidden picture puzzles, mazes, word searches, cryptograms, jigsaws, connect the dots, match games, and some math reinforcement
7. Lil' Fingers Storybook - Over a dozen stories and a coloring activities page also
8. Muppet Movies - Lyric archive
9. Neuroscience for Kids - The smell of a flower - The memory of a walk in the park - The pain of stepping on a nail. These experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds of tissue in our heads...the BRAIN!! Explore their activities to learn more about this part of you.
10. Safety for Kids - What to do if you are lost, avoiding fights, and lots of other issues.
11. StudyStack - The StudyStackTM concept was designed to help people memorize information about various subjects. Using the StudyStack web site, you use your computer to display a stack of "virtual cards" which contain information about a certain subject.
12. Weekly Brain Teasers: grades 3-4, 5-6, and 7 +
13. Words and Pictures - These games and activities from the BBC will make learning phonics fun.

 Newspapers Just for Kids

1. Scholastic News - America's Leading News Source for Kids.
2. Science Daily - Links to the latest research news
3. Student News Net - Student News Net - Explore your world
4. TimeForKids Online - from Time Magazine

Arts/Crafts

1. Make your own Bookmarks - Design and print your own personal bookmarks.
2. Sesame Street Coloring Pages - a collection of coloring pages featuring the letters of the alphabet and your favorite characters from Sesame Street.
3. Coloring Pages from PBS - Find your favorite characters to color!
4. Origami University - Learn to make origami shapes!

Holiday Links 

1. The American Secular Holidays Calendar - "Let's see ... hmmmm, when is Veterans day?" If you ever ask questions like that, go to this page enter the year and see important dates for that year. This calendar covers years later than 1776. If you are interested, in the year 2195 Earth Day will be Wednesday, 22 April.
2. Holidays 4 Kids - from Homework Hotline
3. Links to Holiday and Special Day sites - August to February | March to July
4. Yahoo Directory - Holidays and Observances

Just for Fun

1. Barney and Friends - Music, games, stories and more.
2. EtchaSketch - Play this online!
3. Invention at play - Explore the playful side of invention.
4. Mastermind - I know it's just a game! But, this game really makes you, or your students, use logical reasoning. Give it a try.
5. Paint By Number -The Art of "Piecful" Imaging - Color by number in the digital age!
6. Pauly's Playhouse - Some of the games are educational and others are just plain fun. Want to see a neat four function calculator for kids? Take a look at Professor Finkle's Adding Machine.
7. Sesame Street - A place for kids to have fun! Games, stories, art, music and many other activities.
8. Spiderman in Amazing Adventures - an activity book for children K-6. Part of the READ*WRITE*NOW! campaign.
9. Surfing the Net with Kids - Barbara J. Feldman, a former computer consultant and programmer, is the mother of two young children. "Surfing the Net with Kids" is syndicated in newspapers nationally. Incudes a large list of kids games.
10. TeaGames - test your skills
11. W*Bert - based on QBert - fun game

Other interesting links.

• Ask a Geologist  Scientists from all over the US answer your questions about the earth.  Maintained by US Geological Survey scientists. 
• Ask Dr. Universe Dr. Universe answers your questions...plus has a web site full of interesting science facts and features. 
• Bartlett's Familiar Quotations  Do you need the perfect quote for your report?  Click here! 
• Barry R. Kirshner Wildlife Foundation   ~Tigers in Durham! Click here to see all the fantastic big cats at Kirshner's wildlife reserve in Durham. 
• Berit's Best Sites for Children This is a directory of safe, recommended Web sites for children up to age 12. Each selected site has been carefully reviewed and given a rating out of 5. 
• Cool Math: An Amusement Park of Mathematics  The greatest math web site ever!  Really!  Have fun with basic arithmetic or advanced calculus.  Puzzles, games, fractals, contests, and LOTS more! 
• Cricket Magazine     Super online magazine for kids!
• CyberKids  Games, art, chiller stories, contests, Kidzeen...lots of exciting info! 
• Dig, Disney's Internet Guide   Dig This! lists top sites recommended by Disney's editors. Check back often for new picks, links, and descriptions. Happy surfing!
• Encarta Online Encyclopedia
• Endangered Species  Online coloring book.  Just click on the full page picture, print it out and start coloring!  Bald eagle, grizzly, panther, tortoise, manatee, and many others...
• FunBrain.Com  Play games: Math Baseball; Grammar Gorilla: Where Is That, etc.  Test yourself.  Make a quiz. Take a quiz 
• Gifted Resources Home Page  This page is intended to be a convenient starting point for gifted students, their parents and educators to access Gifted Resources, whether on the internet or otherwise. 
• Homework Help: All Subjects  Use this homework help page for all of your classes...from pilgrims to presidents, grammar to Shakespeare, addition to calculus.  They've got it all! 
• Just 4 Kids  Sponsored by the California Dept. of Fish and Game, this site has lots of great links to sites about endangered species, facts about California and its ecology,   a wildlife gallery and much more.
• Kids on Campus
• Kids Web     Lots of links to cool sites for kids who want to learn, learn, learn!  Links to information that is understandable and interesting to schoolkids. 
• Mad Scientist Network  Ok, Kids, here it is!  Science with a sense of humor!  If you like science, and you have a sense of humor, you're going to love this site!
• National Geographic  Amazing Facts; Pen Pal Network, Cartoon Factory! 
• National Wildlife Federation Kids Page  Mad-libs, riddles, mix and match games...all about wildlife.
• National Zoo  Lots of great exhibits about animals at the zoo.  Also, take a look at a live video camera at the zoo!  Fun! 
• Neuroscience for Kids  Created for all students and teachers who would like to learn more about the nervous system. Enjoy the activities and experiments on your way to learning more about the brain and spinal cord.  These experiences are made possible by the 3 pounds of tissue in your head...your BRAIN!! 
• No Sweat.Com  Homework Central!  Online help for all ages and subjects.  Great activities for learning basic and advanced math, reading and language skills 
• Poetry  Super-cool site!  Click and drag words to make your own poems.     Then you can submit them for publishing online.
• Ranger Rick    The #1 nature magazine for kids!
• Scholastic  Cool games, activities, and more!  Star Wars: The Ultimate Reading Adventure! 
• Scientific American: Ask the Experts  Just write in your question about anything in the fields of astronomy, biology, chemistry, computers, environment, geology, mathematics, medicine,  or physics, and an expert will answer your question!
• Sesame Street Alphabet Coloring Page    For tots! Print out a favorite Sesame Street character for  your little brother or sister.  They'll think you're great!
• StarChild Fantastic site for young astronomers!  All about the solar system and the universe...from the people who know... at NASA.  Great links to other sites, such as The Best of the Hubble Space Telescope.
• Time for Kids  All kinds of great news stories written at different reading levels. Would you believe a 3.7 ton burrito made the news?
• U.S. Census Bureau  Want to know the U.S. population?  It's updated every 5 minutes! Also, get the very latest facts for your State Reports here. 
• US Geological Survey   Learning Web  Explore things on, in, around, and about the Earth, such as plants and animals, land, water, and maps. 
• Volcano World    All you ever wanted to know about volcanoes!   Fascinating 
• Welcome to the Alphabet Superhighway  Learn to be a good searcher!  This is your home for help on searching the Alphabet Superhighway and the entire World Wide Web for information.
• Wild Ones  Learn about endangered animals from around the world.
• WonderKorner    Don't miss this site!  Lots of games, fun activities as well as links to other great sites.  
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