Websites

~Where will your journey take you today?~ These are some really wonderful websites that I think you'll find to be great additions to your everyday needs or interests! This is an educationally based site that covers a wide spectrum of topics, anywhere from geography to math. It offers a great deal of information and things like worksheets, games and study materials. A word of caution- the site is not as organized as I would like it to be, so you have do a bit of hunting to find what you’re looking for.  []

It’s “National Geographic”, what more can I say? Here you can find a site that’s dedicated to bringing the world’s younger explorers a taste of what the adult National Geographic encompasses. They have videos, activities, games, informative kid-sized articles and much, much more…Give it a look! []

Now, this is a cool site! Discovery Kids has a ton of neat things to offer. They have things like games, activities, puzzles, science experiments, a questions and answers page, an exploration activity and even some cool fashion tips and recipe suggestions. Also, don’t forget to check out the link to Discovery’s “Yuckiest Site on the Internet”, you won’t want to miss it! []

 This site is a must see if you are searching for a great way to integrate fun into education. The Kids Learning Network has built a totally free, fun and comprehensive site that caters to the idea of making education fun and exciting. They have so many great things to offer that I can’t even begin to list them all…but to give you a taste, they have music, podcasts, movies, games…and much, much more.  []

Cool Math 4 Kids is a site dedicated to, yup you guessed it…MATH! The site itself is designed to work with kids from ages 5-13, but there are links to especially for kiddos aged 3-5 and 13 to 100!! At this site you will find unique methods, strategies and games built around math concepts that are suitable for kids in the specified age ranges. Get ready to make math fun!! []

· OK, so I cheated a little bit here and will give you the fact that this site is not just “A” site, but is in fact a site that gives you the top 100 educational sites for the year 2008. Coming upon a goldmine like this one was too hard to pass up! Take a gander through this mammoth list of resources and you’re sure to find something that suits your area of need or interest! []

I want a “fun-brain”, I want a “fun-brain”!! This site is designed for kids in grades K-8 and covers subject areas like math, reading and grammar; but the great thing about this is the way that they have chosen to teach these things. Instead of your traditional worksheets and activities they have things like “Soduku”, blog-sites, movies and comic strips. What’s even more is that they use titles, topics and characters that kids in these age ranges are familiar with, such as “Diary of a Wimpy Kid”, “The Incredibles” and many more. <span style="color: #404040; font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: -0.25in;"> · <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Yahoo Kids is a great “kid version” of the classic Yahoo for adults. They cover things like entertainment topics, horoscope, and hot new music and movie clips. They feature a homework help link, internet safety suggestions, a joke of the day, current events issues for kids and much, much more. Don’t miss out! <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[] <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif; font-size: 9pt; line-height: 200%; text-indent: -0.25in;">·

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">Alright, so the Cyber School Bus is a site the looks to inform and educate kids on many of the current human rights issues of today. Granted that this site, (and topic), are not for everyone, it could however be a great resource in trying to teach kids about many of the issues that pose challenges and threats to people in the world around us. <span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">[|http://www.un.org/pubs/cyberschoolbus] [|/]

<span style="font-family: 'Palatino Linotype','Book Antiqua',Palatino,serif;">This is so cool! The Kids Science Challenge is a site dedicated to a science challenge posed to kids in grades 3 -6 asking them to come up with questions and problems for real-life scientists and engineers to solve. If you have questions, they’ll work to give you answers. You choose a topic, do the research, come up with a question, submit your idea and wait to see if you’ve won a prize! Could be fun and surely worth the effort.

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