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Fun sites Unfortunately many of the game sites now have banner ads that may take children to inappropriate or commercial sites that ask for credit cards or personal information. I've dropped those sites in favor of sites without banner ads except where noted in the comments. Connect Four A CGI-based version of Connect Four rather than JAVA. Lots of options. The Java(tm) Boutique A collection of Java-based games and educational interactive sequences. The Stock Market Game An electronic simulation of Wall Street trading, designed to help students and adults understand the stock market, the costs and benefits involved in decision-making, the sources and uses of capital and other related economic concepts. All 4 Kids Greeting Cards A subsection of the awesomecards.com web site, however, there is no charge for the children's cards website. Parents should note, however, that there is an ad banner at the very top for the NY Times. sodaplay The British interactive design company Soda Creative Technologies Ltd. designed this highly interactive web site. Its Sodaconstructor game gives you a wire-frame, jellyfish-like creature that marches jauntily back and forth across your computer screen; it's up to you to alter physique or physics (by turning gravity on or off, for example).
Quality Educational Web Sites Art Metropolitan Museum of Art: Education This sections of the Met's website offers a variety of educational experiences with images of works of art and detailed descriptions of educational opportunities at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Younger viewers might like to visit the Met's Explore and Learn section. There is also an extensive, updated categorical list of art-related links catalogued by the the staff of the Hazen Center for Electronic Information Resources at the Educational Resources: Online Resources page. WebLouvre Includes hundreds of images and histories of famous paintings and artists from various centuries. Highlights of the museum's site include a comprehensive look at French impressionism, an exhibit of medieval art, and a virtual tour of Paris. English Children's Literature A site designed for adults looking for information about children's literature. Here you will find a wealth of free resources at the Children's Literature website, as well as information about the Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD), available by subscription only. Themed Reviews make it easy to get a list of best books from almost 60 topics such as Remembering September 11th, 2001, Dinosaurs, Gardening, TV Turn Off Week, or Space Exploration. Most topics include a short introduction, for example, Flight and the Wright Brothers begins with a bit of biography on the Wrights. This is followed by short, signed reviews (reviewers' credentials are also provided), often with cover images, and age recommendations. There is biographical information about authors and illustrators (often links to publisher pages), as well as teaching guides and lesson plans, and events and upcoming conferences. Children's Literature Web Guide Internet resources and awards related to books for Children and Young Adults. Compiled by David K. Brown, Director, Doucette Library of Teaching Resources, a Librarian with several years of experience in children's materials and educational resources. Columbia University: Bartleby Library Classical works of literature as well as Bartlett's Quotations beautifully rendered into HTML pages. Includes an internal search engine. This site now carries commercial banner ads. Internet Public Library: Youth Division Began at the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan. They aim to build and maintain collections, especially for young people, and uphold the values of librarianship: intellectual freedom, equality of access, literacy. Jane Austen Info Page A huge site that offers annotated hypertext of several of her works, plus complete HTML versions of almost everything by Austin. In addition there's a biography, samples of Jane's art work, and a selective bibliography. The Lucy Maude Montgomery Institute Includes information about L.M. Montgomery, the Institute, and the Kindred Spirits electronic mailing list. There's also an online quiz. Shakespeare A practical, searchable, on-line collection of Shakespeare's plays and poetry. There's also a hypertext glossary built into each work. Each work also has a newsgroup associated with it. History Letters Home from an Iowa Soldier in the U. S. Civil War Features the letters of Newton Scott, a private in the 36th Infantry, Iowa Volunteers, during the Civil War. Also includes Scott's service record, obituary, and links to other Civil War information on the Net. Library of Congress World Wide Web (LC Web) Home Page The Library of Congress is using the World Wide Web (WWW) to present information about and primary materials from its collections over the Internet. Perform a search, find out what's new on the Library's Web Site. Martin Luther King Jr. Wonderfully researched with timeline, stories, sound bites, photos, moderated discussion and more: another great education site from the Seattle Times. Seattle Times Trinity Web Full text of the Seattle Times' 12-page newspaper edition on the dawn of the nuclear age, with added information, photographs, interactive activities and related links. Designed for teachers and students. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum is America's national institution for the documentation, study, and interpretation of Holocaust history, and serves as this country's memorial to the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust. Math The Geometry Center Interactive geometry games. If you love geometry and haven't seen The Geometry Center, catch this site now! Don't miss the Interactive Geometry pages. They're simply beautiful - and you can play with them. The Math Forum Home Page The best. Students can compare solutions to problem sets, download a geometry drawing instrument, ask Dr. Math math questions or test their skills by answering the Problem of the Week or work in collaborative groups to solve math problems. Music Classical Music - Classical Net Home Page - Classical Music An excellent "point of entry" into both classical music and classical music on the net. Among other things, the site contains: a guide to exploring classical music which includes a "basic repertoire" of various classical styles. This site now carries commercial banner ads. Gilbert and Sullivan Archive Home Page Text, plot summaries, and MIDI files for all 14 of Gilbert and Sullivan's operas, photo gallery, performing groups and festivals. First Internet "web opera" featuring the Pirates of Penzance MIDI files you can hear while reading lyrics and dialogue. The Blue Highway A collection of biographies, memorable quotes, and sound samples of twenty blues musicians. Those with little knowledge about the history of the blues can easily gather a great deal of essential information. This site now carries commercial banner ads. The Piano Education Page - Just for Kids Kids can listen to the Taz-man, jump to other cool places, meet a famous composer or pianist, learn how to have more fun with their piano lessons, and even ask a piano teacher their own question! Time travel interview with Liszt while his music plays. School Projects Web66: Classroom Internet Server Cookbook This cookbook gives recipes for setting up an Internet server on a classroom as well as how to make Web pages. Each recipe includes links so that you can download every ingredient you need. The Home Page also has a link to all K-12 Web servers. Science Electronic Zoo The Electronic Zoo, compiled and maintained by veterinarian Ken Boschart at Washington University, is without peer as a comprehensive reference to Internet animal resources and yet easy to navigate, with links grouped by both subject and resource type. Exploratorium: ExploraNet A museum of science, art, and human perception with over 650 interactive "hands on" exhibits. The online version has downloadable exhibits as well as listing of the 10 cool science sites of the month. Frog Home Page An amazing recording of deformities discovered among frogs by sixth-graders who used the Web to publicize their findings only to realize that these deformities were spread over six states. Introduction to Windows to the Universe A state-of-the art educational Web site because of its interdisciplinary connection of cultural myths about the planets to current NASA findings as well as it's three-tract content path based on elementary, intermediate and advanced understanding. MTU Volcanoes Page Current global volcanic activity, research in remote sensing of volcanoes and their eruptive products, hazard mitigation,"Decade Volcanoes", links to government agencies and research institutions, and even some volcano humor. NASA KIDS NASA KIDS offers a fun way for children to learn about NASA's activities and science, using interactive tools and kid-attractive pages. NASA KIDS is an on-line or printable resource designed for students from Kindergarten to 8th grade. The Museum of Paleontology Surfing here is almost as informative and exciting as visiting the actual museum at University of California at Berkeley. The pages contain information punctuated with pictures of fossil remains from dozens of extinct creatures. The Nine Planets Provides a tour of the solar system, complete with pictures, sound, and movies. You see the sun, planets, moons, space craft, asteroids, and comets. A rich starting ground for exploration into our solar system. The WWW Virtual Library: Whale-Watching Web Big whales have had their own world-wide communication network for 70 million years. Only recently have homo sapiens reached the same level. Whales welcome you to join the world-wide communication network. Woods Hole's "Coastal Brief" series: Tide pools This is a map of plants and animals typically found in a Massachusetts tide pool. The author, Kimberly Amaral, also has a page with marine mammal vocalizations. Special Web Projects for Kids KIDLINK: Global Networking for Youth 10-15 A grassroots project aimed at getting as many children in the age group 10 -15 as possible involved in a GLOBAL dialog. Since the start in 1990, around 75,000 kids from 97 countries on all continents have participated. Kids' Space A multi-cultural, multi-lingual environment where kids share their artwork,writing stories, connecting with pen pals, grooving to music they enjoy, and helping a beanstalk grow. The creator is a doctoral student at Teachers College at Columbia U. MidLink Magazine A bimonthly on-line magazine created by and for children ages 10 to 15 to link middle schools around the world. Each issue features student writing and electronic artwork organized around a new theme. Telepresence Projects * Welcome to Live from Antarctica 2 * An electronic field trip to Antarctica - perhaps the most interesting place to study marine mammals on Earth. JASON Project The JASON Project enables students to take part in global explorations using advanced interactive telecommunications. JASON VIII will visit two of the earth's geologically unique locations, Iceland and Yellowstone. Race Rocks is an ecological preserve off the British Columbia. In order to preserve this area, students at Pearson College proposed establishing a live 24 hour web presence so that human visitors could visit it virtually so as to not disturb the real preserve. The result is this website with four live webcams that transport the visitor to the sights and sounds of barking sea lions, seabirds, and the endless surf of the Pacific. Technology How stuff works In 1998, Marshall Brain, an electrical engineer and former teacher started posting his breezy, well-organized essays on the mechanics of engines and motors, complete with diagrams. Today HowStuffWorks is an eclectic encyclopedia that covers everything from torque converters to dieting to DNA. The site's search engine trolls the Web as well as its own content; search for hot rods and you will pull up links to sites about vintage cars and bodybuilding, plus Brain's pages on lightning and batteries. Diversity for Kids Babloo: A portal for kids between the age 3-12. Babloo's content is multi-lingual, audio-integrated and comprises of rhymes, stories, jokes, games, quizzes, school subjects, and more with an Indian flavor. A uniques feature of Babloo is that the site can be viewed and heard in the nine major languages of the Indian sub-continent: Hindi, Telugu, Marathi, Gujarathi, Kannada, Malayalam, Tamil, Bangla. The site can also be heard and viewed in English.

Links checked April 30, 2004

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