Teachers and Parents
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| 4Kids.com |
A weekly feature published in newspapers all over North America. There is a collection of great Web sites and a way to nominate Web sites for the list. |
| Basic Dictionary of ASL (American Sign Language) |
Terms. Learn sign language online! |
| Clip Art Gallery |
Drawings and simple color graphics in a variety of subject areas, including sports, art, math, music and awards. Educators can download up to 10 different clip art images for non-revenue producing use on print documents or on Web sites with some restrictions. |
| Education World |
A search engine for educational sites only. Also sections on curriculum, lesson planning, technology in the classroom, and a variety of other school issues. |
| Educational clip art |
Includes images of animals, foods, holidays, school mascots and more. |
| Encarta Concise Free Encyclopedia |
A free abridged version of Microsoft's CD-ROM encyclopedia. |
| Encyclopedia Britannica Guide to Black History |
Enter through "eras in Black history", which examines five centuries of black heritage through five distinct time periods, from slave revolts of early America through the successes of the Civil Rights Movement. |
| English Grammar |
A dictionary of English grammar. |
| Harper Childrens.com |
A place to do fun things, learn about books, and meet authors. This is an exciting site maintained by Harper Collins for its children's books. |
| Holiday Origins in America |
Offers detailed information on numerous holidays, as well as interesting holiday facts. |
| Holidays on the Net |
An interactive Web site that includes explanations, sounds and graphics of holidays celebrated in America. |
| Kathy Schrock's Guide for Educators |
A categorized list of sites useful for enhancing curriculum and professional growth. It is updated often to include the best sites for teaching and learning. |
| Kid Search Tools |
Web sites for kids and teachers for searching the net. |
| Kidworld |
A good example of kids' writing on the Internet, including particularly good games and puzzles in an online format. |
| Magic School Bus Page |
What are Ms. Frizzle and her class doing now? This site encourages you to work with many aspects of the Magic School Bus Adventures. |
| Making Multicultural Connections Through Trade Books |
Using multicultural books with children that focus both on specific cultures and on the universality of the human experience. |
| Moms Helping Moms Helping Kids |
A portal of rated Web sites for children, organized by age groups. |
| Quotations Page |
Search for a quote or read the quote of the day! Great links to other quotation sites. |
| Random House Kids |
Explore online with your favorite books and characters; you can even submit your own book reviews for online publication. |
| Reference Desk |
A wonderful starting place for Internet users, this site attempts to organize a multitude of sites into a usable index. |
| Rhyme Zone |
A weekly feature published in newspapers all over North America. A collection of great Web sites. Can be used to write poetry using three query functions described on the site. You can find words that rhyme or sound the same as a target word. |
| Scholastic |
Lesson plans, interactive projects, supplemental book lists, etc. |
| Stories from the Web |
Using story starters or going solo, children can write their own tales, poems or book reviews and hang them in the online gallery. Or, read a story from one of your favorite authors. |
| StoryNet |
Information about the National Storytelling Festival held in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and a print directory of storytellers and storytelling programs. |
| Web of Online Dictionaries |
Provides an easy-to-use search engine for words and the results are quite detailed. Also offers 400 different language dictionaries. |
| Web English Teacher |
Anything and everything to do with children's literature. |
