ALA Resources for Parents
and Kids, includes guides, links to sites for kids, book lists, awards
lists, links to a question-answering service, and links to online magazines.
Children's Theatre Plays: Stageplays,
Scripts for Young Audiences, Plays are listed by category(American
heritage, Cultures around the world, Storybook classics, etc). and by age
group, with production photos, info about cast requirements, royalties,
and ordering.
Children with
Disabilities, Outstandingly useful for links to federal and state resources
for kids with disabilities, and to national organizations devoted to specific
issues like education, recreation, transportation, and housing. Also included:
information on grants and funding, and a set of pages for the kids themselves.
Electrical Safety
World, Experiments, games, home safety audit, electrical safety, and
more.
Fingerplays
Index Page, Introducing poetry to children. Fingerplays are useful
tools for practicing fine motor skills, following directions and introducing
concepts. This site has about 2 dozen traditional fingerplays.
Funschool.com, educational games
for children from kindergarten to the second grade.
Goodnight Stories, Lets
you read a story, hear a story, fill in a story, finish a story, or send
a story to friends.
Homework &
Education, a group of Ebsco databases suggested by Ebsco for K-12 homework
assistance and research in education; access limited to Howard College
campus computers
Homework Resources,
a group of Ebsco databases suggested by Ebsco for K-12 homework help; access
limited to Howard College campus computers
Hotlist: Kids Did This,
student-produced stuff: Science, Art, Social Studies, Mathematics, Language
Arts, School Newspapers
Kids Connect, help
in gathering information from the internet for K-12 students. E-mail questions
are answered in 48 hours.
KidsClick World of Searching,
Tutorial for kids on search techniques, including directories, search engines,
boolean searching, and glory be, an explanation of what's NOT on the net
and why kids should still use their libraries.
MagicTricks.com,
Sells kits, books, videos, and the like. The free information includes
a glossary, bios of magicians, links to magicians' home pages and e-mail
addresses, "This Day in Magic" and other trivia.
MAS Ultra: School
Edition, article search utility for school students, full text articles
included; access limited to Howard College campus computers
Middle Search Plus,
provides full text for about 120 magazines for middle school and junior
high school youngsters; access limited to Howard College campus computers
OH! Kids, entertainment
and education links divided by age groupings.
Science Fair Project Resource
Guide, includes information on how to do a science project, samples
of projects, ideas for projects, links to science magazines, and other
links to resources about science fair projects. From the Internet Public
Library.
Searchasaurus,
a group of databases from Ebsco suggested by Ebsco as appropriate for Web
searching by kids; access limited to Howard College campus computers
Superman Through the Ages!, Fan tributes,
Encyclopedia for information on places and characters, Trivia.
The Childrens Book Council, information
about books for children under the user categories of publisher, author,
parent, bookseller, artist, teacher, and librarian.
Teen Hoopla - An Internet Guide
for Teens, recommended web sites for ages 12-18 from the Young Adult
Library Services Association of the American Library Association.
Travel
with Kids (About.com), This site focuses on the how and where
of travel with children. Different topics are; locale, type of lodging,
mode of transportation, age, and activity. A lot of other neat things on
this site.
