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For Kids:

Games & Activities:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Kids Page - http://www.cbc4kids.cbc.ca/
KidsCom - http://www.kidscom.com/home_flash.html
Kid's Clubhouse - http://www.eduplace.com/kids
Sesame Workshop - http://www.sesameworkshop.org/

Children's Books & Authors:

American Girl - http://www.americangirl.com/homepage2.html
Arthur - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur
Jan Brett - http://www.janbrett.com/
Eric Carle - http://www.eric-carle.com/ 
Children's Books Online - http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/library.htm
Virginia Hamilton - http://www.virginiahamilton.com/
Patricia Polacco - http://www.patriciapolacco.com/
Harry Potter - http://www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/
Miss Spider - http://www.scholastic.com/titles/missspider/
Spaghetti Book Club, Book reviews for and by kids - http://www.spaghettibookclub.org/
David Weisner - http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com/authors/wiesner/home.html
Jane Yolen - http://www.janeyolen.com/

Geography, Government & History:

The 50 States of the United States - http://www.50states.com/
First Gov.Kids http://www.kids.gov/k_history.htm
Florida Kids - http://dhr.dos.state.fl.us/kids/index.cfm
White House for Kids - http://www.whitehouse.gov/kids/
State University of West Georgia Government Links for Kids Page -
http://www.westga.edu/~library/depts/govdoc/kids.shtml

Magazines & News:

CNN Student News - http://fyi.cnn.com/fyi/index.html
CRAYON: Create your own Newspaper - http://crayon.net/
Cricket Magazine Group - http://www.cricketmag.com/
CyberKids - http://www.cyberkids.com
Cyberteens - http://www.cyberteens.com/ctmain.html
Kids Space - http://www.kids-space.org/
Kids World Online - http://www.kidsworld-online.com/
MidLink Magazine - http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu/~MidLink/
National Geographic Kids - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids
National Geographic World - http://www.nationalgeographic.com/world/
OWL - http://www.owlkids.com/
Stonesoup - http://www.stonesoup.com/
TIME for Kids - http://www.pathfinder.com/TFK/
ZuZu - http://www.zuzu.org/

Math:

Ask Dr. Math- http://mathforum.org/dr.math/dr-math.html
A Plus Math - http://www.aplusmath.com/

More Links for Kids:

ALA's 700+ great sites - http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html
BJ Pinchbeck's Homework Helper - http://school.discovery.com/homeworkhelp/bjpinchbeck/
Internet Public Library Youth Division - http://www.ipl.org/youth/
Kids Around the World - http://www.worldkids.net/clubs/
KidsConnect Research Toolbox - http://www.ala.org/ICONN/
Schoolwork.org - http://www.kidsclick.org/
Test Prep Review http://www.testprepreview.com/ Yahooligans! - http://www.yahooligans.com/

Museums:

Science Museum of Boston- http://www.tcm.org
Smithsonian Instituion - http://www.si.edu
Franklin Institute of Science Museum - http://sln.fi.edu/index.html

Public Libraries - Kids Pages:

Kids Connect - Orange County Public Library System -http://www.ocls.info/Children/KidsConnect/default.asp
Kids Page - Seminole County Public Library System - http://www.scpl.lib.fl.us/kids/
OH Kids - Ohio Public Library - http://www.oplin.org/ohkids/

Science:

Cool Science for Curious Kids - http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/
Energy Quest - http://www.energyquest.ca.gov/
NASA Kids - http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov/
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab - http://www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko/
Starchild - http://starchild.gsfc.nasa.gov/
Science Explorer - http://www.exploratorium.edu/science_explorer/

Safety:

Kid Safety - http://www.ou.edu/oupd/kidsafe/kidmenu.htm

Writers

American Writers- http://www.americanwriters.org/index_short_list.asp
American Writers II -http://www.americanwriters.org/
Zora Neale Hurston -http://www.zoranealehurston.ucf.edu/

For Teachers:

Art:


KinderArt -http://www.kinderart.com

Computers & the Internet:

SuperKids Educational Software Review- http://www.superkids.com/

Curriculum Materials Centers & Education Libraries at other Universities

Forrest R. Polk Library Educational Media Collection, -University of Wisconsin Oshkosh http://www.uwosh.edu/departments/llr/emc/
Kutztown University, Rohrbach Library Curriculum Materials Center-http://www.kutztown.edu/library/materials/index.shtml
University of Florida Education Library -http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/educ/

Curriculum Standards

ACRL Guidelines for Curriculum Materials Centers- http://www.ala.org/ala/acrl/acrlstandards/guidelinescurriculum.htm
STEPS & The Lesson Architect - http://www.ibinder.uwf.edu/steps/
Sunshine State Standards- http://www.firn.edu/doe/curric/prek12/frame2.htm

Drugs:

Don't Use Drugs -http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/v3i3/normative.html

Early Childhood Education:

-READY*SET*READ Early Childhood Learning Kit- http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/RSRkit.html
Scholastic Early Childhood Today -http://teacher.scholastic.com/products/ect/index.htm

English as a Second Language:

English Zone- http://www.english-zone.com/

Foreign Language:

Center for the Study of Books in Spanish for Children- http://www.csusm.edu/campus_centers/csb/

General K-12 Resources:


Awesome Library K-12 Education Directory- http://www.awesomelibrary.org/
Armadillo's K-12 Resources- http://riceinfo.rice.edu/armadillo
BlueWebn: a Library of Blue Ribbon Learning Sites -http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/bluewebn
Busy Teachers' Web Site - http://www.ceismc.gatech.edu/busyt/
Connections+ - http://www.mcrel.org/resources/plus/index.asp
Education Central- http://www.ehhs.cmich.edu/
Education World http://www.education-world.com/
Educator's Toolkit http://marlo.eagle.ca/~matink/
EduHound http://www.eduhound.com/
Internet School Library Media Center http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/
Kathy Shrock's Guide for Educators http://discoveryschool.com/schrockguide/
Phil's Place Links http://philville.com/
ProTeacher.com http://www.proteacher.com/
QuizHub http://quizhub.com/quiz/quizhub.cfm
Scholastic http://www.scholastic.com/
Teach Net http://www.teachnet.com
Teacher/Pathfinder http://teacherpathfinder.org
Teacher Talk http://education.indiana.edu/cas/tt/tthmpg.html
U.S. Department of Education http://www.ed.gov/

Language Arts:

America Reads-http://www.ed.gov/inits/americareads/
American Library Association Youth Series Roundup -http://www.ala.org/ala/booklist/youthseriesroundup/SeriesRoundup.htm
Blue Book of Grammar and Punctuation- http://www.grammarbook.com
Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site -http://www.carolhurst.com/
Children's Literature Web Guide- http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown
Internet TESL Journal -http://iteslj.org/
Reading Rainbow -http://gpn.unl.edu/rainbow/
National Council of Teachers of English - http://www.ncte.org

Math:

Math & Science Gizmos http://www.explorelearning.com/
K-12 Mathematics Curriculum Materials Center -http://www2.edc.org/mcc/
Global Grocery List - http://landmark-project.com/ggl/us_list.html
Math Forum Internet Mathematics Library -http://mathforum.org/library/
Mega-Math - http://www.c3.lanl.gov/mega-math

Native Americans:

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet- http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAteach.html

Physical Education:

AskERIC P. E. Lesson Plans - http://www.askeric.org/cgi-bin/lessons.cgi/Physical_Education/
P. E. Central http://www.pecentral.org/
Physical Education Lesson Plans http://members.tripod.com/~pazz/lesson.html

Publishers:

Addison Wesley - http://www2.awl.com/aw/
AIMS Educational Foundation -http://www.aimsedu.org/
Barrett Kendall -http://www.barrettkendall.com/
Glencoe http://www.glencoe.com/
Harcourt School Publishers - http://www.harcourtschool.com/
Harper Children's -http://www.harperchildrens.com/hch/
Holt, Rinehart and Winston -http://www.hrw.com/
Houghton Mifflin- http://www.schooldirect.com/
EMC Paradigm -http://www.emcp.com/school_division/index.php
Great Source Education Group -http://www.greatsource.com/index.html
Key Curriculum Press- http://www.keypress.com/
Lerner- http://www.lernerbooks.com/
Macmillan/McGraw Hill- http://www.mmhschool.com/
Pearson Prentice Hall- http://www.phschool.com/index.html
Saxon -http://www.saxonpub.com/
Scott Foresman- http://www.scottforesman.com
SRA -http://www.sra-4kids.com/
Steck-Vaughn - http://steckvaughn.harcourtachieve.com/en-US/steckvaughn.htm
Thomson Learning - http://e-catalog.thomsonlearning.com/150l/
Usborne -http://www.usborne.com
Zane-Bloser- http://www.zaner-bloser.com/

School Libraries & Media Centers:


SUNLINK on the World Wide Web- http://www.sunlink.ucf.edu
Young Adult Librarians Help/Homepage -http://yahelp.suffolk.lib.ny.us/

Science:

Astronomical Image Library- http://www.syz.com/images/
Athena: Earth and Space, Space Science for K-12 -http://vathena.arc.nasa.gov/
Challenger Center for Space Science Education http://www.challenger.org/
- Discovery Guides http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/discoveryguides-all.php?SID=cgjojnsjtkan5e3u6vm6iubdh6
El Nino - http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/prednino/overview.php?SID=cgjojnsjtkan5e3u6vm6iubdh6
Frank Potter's Science Gems-Earth Science -http://www.sciencegems.com/
Interactive Frog Dissection - http://teach.virginia.edu/go/frog/
Live From Earth and Mars-http://www-k12.atmos.washington.edu/k12/resources/mars_data-information/mars_overview.html
Mad Scientist Network http://www.madsci.org/
MicroWorlds: Exploring the Structure of Materials http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/NASA Pages:
International Space Station Web http://spaceflight.nasa.gov/
Johnson Space Center -http://education.jsc.nasa.gov/
NASA Homepage-http://www.nasa.gov/
NASA Image eXchange (NIX)-http://nix.nasa.gov
NASA's Observatorium -http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/entries/entry_6.html
NASA Quest Project -http://quest.arc.nasa.gov/
National Wildlife Federation -http://www.nwf.org/
NickNacks: Learning Together Around the World- http://telecollaborate.net/
Space Science Institute -http://www.spacescience.org/index.php
Space Telescope Science Institute Home Page -http://www.stsci.edu/
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and Science Education- http://education.usgs.gov/
USGS Learning Web- http://education.usgs.gov/
Volcano World- http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
The Why Files: Science Behind the News -http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu
Windowpane Observatory -http://www.wpo.net/ask.html
Windows to the Universe -http://www.windows.ucar.edu/
Zoo Web -http://www.zooweb.com/

Social Studies:

Anne Frank Online- http://www.annefrank.com
Black History http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/BHM/AfroAm.html
History Channel http://www.historychannel.com/classroom/classroom.html
History/Social Studies Web for K-12 Teachers http://www.execpc.com/~dboals/boals.html
K-12 History Internet Guide http://www.xs4all.nl/~swanson/history/index.html
Education in Japan http://www.indiana.edu/%7Ejapan/LP/LS37.html
Martin Luther King, Jr. Electronic Classroom http://www.seattletimes.com/mlk/classroom/index.html
National Archives Digital Classroom http://www.archives.gov/digital_classroom/index.html
National Council for the Social Studies http://www.ncss.org/
Social Studies Lesson Plans http://www.csun.edu/~hcedu013/index.html

Reference:

Biography - http://www.biography.com
Internet Public Library Reference Center -http://ipl.sils.umich.edu/ref
IPL's Citing Electronic Resources Guide- http://www.ipl.org/ref/QUE/FARQ/netciteFARQ.html
http://lcweb.loc.gov http://lcweb.loc.gov/
Orlando Sentinel Online -http://www.orlandosentinel.com/
Research-It -http://www.iTools.COM/research-it/

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