Pampers Parenting Institute
Information from T. Berry Brazelton and other experts on infant and toddler care.
Professor Garfield
The Professor Garfield Foundation learning portal is a fun interactive online environment where children can safely explore, learn and creatively express themselves.
Spellwell
Work on your spelling skills over the summer with this fun web site. This site offers spelling lists, worksheets, flash cards and interactive exercises.
Travel for Kids
A family travel guide for planning fun vacation trips with children. Vacation ideas for Asia, Europe, North America, South America, Australia/South Pacific, and Africa are included.
WorldCat
The global catalog of library collections that lets you find what you want in a library near you.
May 2008
EurekAlert!
EurekAlert! Science for Kids Portal is a central, online source for kid-friendly news and resources. The Portal is housed within EurekAlert!, the editorially independent, online news service operated by AAAS, the science society. The Portal is available to the general public.
Lingo2word
Lingo2word demystifies the new Internet shorthand language of text messages, chat rooms and Emails. Lingo2word is devoted to the fun of text messaging in all forms, there is a whole new fun language out there just waiting for you! This site includes Acronym, Emoticon Dictionary, Texting Thesaurus and Text Message Translator, a funny text message collection and colorful phrases. Popular Smiley, Chat words and text message lists.
Savings Quest
Savings Quest is an interactive online budgeting game that tests kids' ability to save for the things they want, while paying for all of the things they need.
The Toymaker
The Toymaker provides samples of her work in the form of printable paper toys and crafts. Just print them out, cut, glue and enjoy. Make holiday toys, as well as more generic toys. Stories and the artist's online journal are available to read.
World's Largest Roadside Attractions
The kids will enjoy this fun site, which features a collection of larger-than-life roadside attractions from around the world. All of the attractions on the lists have either been proclaimed as the world's largest, or are, by virtue of their uniqueness or size, in all likelihood the largest. Attractions include huge alligators, bicycles, a tomato, windchimes and more.
Zero to Three
ZERO TO THREE's mission is to support the healthy development and well-being of infants, toddlers and their families. This site's focus is informing, educating and supporting adults who influence the lives of infants and toddlers.
April 2008
Authors4teens
Authors 4 Teens is a one-of-a-kind web-based resource that explores the craft, insight, habits, hobbies, studies and passions of today's top young adult authors. Each author is showcased with in-depth interviews, bibliography, reviews, and appearances. Using Authors 4 Teens is like bringing today's top Young Adult authors right into your classroom or library.
CBBC
CBBC (Children's BBC) is the name for the BBC's children's television programs aimed at children aged between 6 and 12 years old. At CBBC.com you can play games, watch clips, chat and explore all the CBBC websites.
Geocaching
Geocaching is an entertaining adventure game for gps users. The basic idea is to have individuals and organizations set up caches all over the world and share the locations of these caches on the Internet. GPS users can then use the location coordinates to find the caches. Once found, a cache may provide the visitor with a wide variety of rewards. All the visitor is asked to do is, if they get something, they should try to leave something for the cache.
Governor's Summer Program for Gifted and High-Achieving Students
The Governor’s Summer Programs provide an opportunity for outstanding gifted and high-achieving students to participate in and use the resources of the universities and colleges in the State of Florida. Institutions of higher education, public or private, submit proposals to provide day or residential, summer programs for gifted and high-achieving students entering grades 8-12.
Study Stack
Using the StudyStack web site, you use your computer to display a stack of "virtual cards" which contain information about a certain subject. Just like flashcards, you can review the information at your own pace discarding the cards you've learned and keeping the ones you still need to review. However, unlike traditional flash cards, each card can show multiple pieces of information; and the whole stack can be automatically sorted by any one of the pieces of information. Also, when you enter the data for a studystack, the same data can automatically be displayed as flashcards, a matching game, a word search puzzle, and a hangman game. You can also export the data to your cellphone or PDA.
Student Challenge Awards Program
The Student Challenge Awards Program (SCAP) offers students aged 16-18 gifted in the arts and humanities an opportunity to spend two to three intensive weeks during the summer at a scientific research station.
The Traveler IQ Challenge
How well do you know your world? Test your geographic IQ. Click as close as possible to locations on the map. The faster, the better…speed counts!
March 2008
Chess KIDS Academy
ChessKIDS academy offers online interactive lessons, quizzes and games for kids, five chess computers to play, and a resource center for parents and teachers of kids who play, or who would like to play chess, including a scholastic chess download pack to enable any school to run a chess club.
Dance Mat Typing
Dance Mat Typing is a fun introduction to touch typing for children aged 7 - 11 years.
Launch Pad
Become a published young author or illustrator! Launch Pad: Where Young Authors and Illustrators Take Off! is a new online magazine devoted to publishing fiction, nonfiction, poetry, book reviews, and artwork by children ages 6-12.
Mom Corps
Mom Corps connects employers and professional moms who desire to return to the workforce.
The Walt Disney World® Moms Panel
The Walt Disney World® Moms Panel is a forum where online "Moms" answer your questions and offer advice about family vacations to Walt Disney World® Resort.
TIME For Kids
TIME For Kids is a weekly classroom news magazine that motivates kids to read! Issues cover a wide range of real-world topics kids love to learn about - and it's the best nonfiction text you'll find! A powerful teaching tool, TIME For Kids builds reading and writing skills and is easily integrated across your curriculum, including social studies, science and math.
Camp Invention
The Camp Invention program is a nationally acclaimed weeklong summer enrichment day experience for children entering in grades one through six. The Camp Invention program provides quality enrichment programming in the fields of science, mathematics, history, and the arts. Local schools host the program and the week’s hands-on activities are led by local teachers to ensure a safe learning environment. The staff to child ratio is 1:8!
Catalog Choice
Catalog Choice is a free service that lets you decline paper catalogs you no longer wish to receive. Reduce the amount of unsolicited mail in your mailbox, while helping to preserve the environment.
NewsHour Extra
NewsHour Extra offers student resources page, where past stories are archived by school topic. On each page, you'll find NewsHour Extra stories, written for students and interactive packages based on reports from the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, the nightly news broadcast on PBS.
Summer Scholar Program
About to complete your sophomore or junior year in high school? Explore your career possibilities through the Summer Scholar Programs at the University of Miami. Each program offers a three-week, educational experience that lets you live like a college student on campus while earning valuable college credit.
The Tales of Beedle the Bard
Amazon has purchased J.K. Rowling’s The Tales of Beedle the Bard. The book of five wizarding fairy tales, referenced in the last book of the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, is one of only seven handmade copies in existence. Enjoy these first images of the book and reviews of each of the fairy tales.
eBeanstalk
eBeanstalk is a place where you can give expert-selected newborn toys, baby toys, toddler toys and toys for a preschooler. All of the learning toys are packaged into a Gift Series, where every three months a new gift arrives that is perfectly suited the appropriate stage of a child’s development.
History of Physics
American Institute of Physics presents exhibits and other online resources for history of physics and allied fields.
Scratch
Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web. Scratch is designed to help young people (ages 8 and up) develop 21st century learning skills. As they create Scratch projects, young people learn important mathematical and computational ideas, while also gaining a deeper understanding of the process of design.
Spell City
This site is designed for you to learn and enjoy spelling! To start, you can go to the home page and enter your spelling words into the list there, or you can use the menu links to try existing spelling lists, or find spelling lists submitted by your teacher.
The New York Times Learning Network
Students can read the day's top stories using Knowledge Tools, take a news quiz about today's world, and play special crossword puzzles. Students can also submit a letter to the editor, ask a reporter a question, or submit a science question and search through the Science Q&A archive. They can also expand their vocabularies and practice their verbal test-taking skills, and even take a Web Exploration on a variety of topics.
November/December 2007
FREE Rice
FreeRice is a sister site of the world poverty site, Poverty.com. FreeRice has two goals: 1. Provide English vocabulary to everyone for free. 2. Help end world hunger by providing rice to hungry people for free. As you play the game, advertisements appear on the bottom of your screen. The money generated by these advertisements is then used to buy the rice. So by playing, you generate the money that pays for the rice donated to hungry people.
History of Hanukkah
Explore the history of Chanukah, as well as traditions associated with the festival. This site ncludes links to electronic postcards, recipes, and songs.
Kids Travel
Read articles featuring kid-friendly destinations and tips for traveling with children or search the Kids Travel directory by category: Activities and Entertainment, Food, Places to Stay, Rentals and Dealerships, Travel Equipment, Travel Planning.
Santa.net
Learn about Christmas traditions around the world.
Science News Online
Visit this site for interesting up-to-date science news! The Science News magazine has been around for over 70 years. Learn how a computer chip works? Heard about the new planet discoveries? Find out all about this and much, much more at this site.
The First Thanksgiving
Learn how the Pilgrims reached America and lived to celebrate the first Thanksgiving. A picture timeline, a cyber-challenge, and information about life aboard the Mayflower and in Plymouth. Perfect for kids with small chunks of information on each page.
WORLDMAPPER
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest. There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters.
October 2007
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
This site provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. And, just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
Body and Mind
BAM! Body and Mind is an online destination for kids created by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Designed for kids 9-13 years old, BAM! Body and Mind gives them the information they need to make healthy lifestyle choices. The site focuses on topics that kids say are important to them — such as stress and physical fitness — using kid-friendly lingo, games, quizzes, and other interactive features. BAM! Body and Mind also serves as an aid to teachers, providing them with interactive, educational, and fun activities that are linked to the national education standards for science and health.
Pumpkins & More
This University of Illinois Extension hosted site offers fantastic facts on pumpkins including: recipes, pumpkin and jack-o-lantern history, varieties, nutrition, links to pumpkin educational materials, growing information, pumpkin Q&A, and other pumpkin and Halloween links.
Puzzlemaker
Allows you to create crosswords, word searches, math squares and more with your own word banks. What a fun way for students to create their own reviews too! Let them create a puzzle and trade with another student for extra practice time.
Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab
Visit this site to learn how to do fun and educational science experiments. What a great source of science and chemistry projects and experiments for parents, teachers, kids, and children of all ages!
September 2007
Coupons.com
Coupons.com offers flexible, effective, fraud-resistant, print-from-the-web coupon solutions, and the most popular alternative to traditional couponing.
Discovery School
DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. The site provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Flying With Kids
Flying with Kids is a free resource for families who plan to fly with a baby or pre-school age child. It's based on tips and advice contributed by flying families from all over the World. This site tells you more than the airlines' web sites about how to make flying with your baby a success. It's based on real parents' real experiences.
KidsHealth.org
KidsHealth has a physician-directed, professional editorial staff - and is the largest resource of online children’s health, behavioral, and developmental information written for three distinct audiences: parents, kids, and teens. Each year, over 120 million families turn to KidsHealth.org for expert answers, making it the Web’s most-accessed site on children’s health. KidsHealth comes from The Nemours Foundation, one of the largest nonprofit organizations devoted to children’s health.
The History of Labor Day
Learn the history and traditions of Labor Day at this U.S. Department of Labor hosted web site.
The Volunteer Family
The Volunteer Family makes volunteering together easy. This site is continuously adding to their list of organizations willing to accept you and other members of your family. Family is very loosely defined - it is any group of two or more people, such as parents, children, siblings, foster parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends. The Volunteer Family can either match you and your "family" up with one of their preexisting opportunities, or depending on your situation and interests, work with you to create an individually tailored volunteer experience.
August 2007
AAA Math
This site illustrates and provides interactive arithmetic exercises and problems. They contain a series of basic math lessons, which are a resource that can be used by math students in formal elementary education math classes, home schooling or elsewhere.
Club Penguin
Club Penguin is a multiplayer online role-playing game for people of all ages developed by New Horizon Interactive and bought by Disney. Using cartoon penguin avatars, players can waddle around, converse, play minigames, and participate in other activities with one another in a snow-covered virtual world. Though open to users of all ages, Club Penguin is primarily designed for children ages eight to fourteen.
College Opportunities Online Locator
See and compare profiles of nearly 7,000 colleges and universities across the nation.
Discovery School
DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. The site provides innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school. The site is constantly reviewed for educational relevance by practicing classroom teachers in elementary school, middle school, and high school.
Millsberry
General Mills presents this web site full of activities and games for kids. Millsberry is a fun virtual city for kids to explore. Create a citizen of the city and discover Millsberry through his eyes. You'll need to make sure he takes care of himself, so you'll need to get food (from the shopping area) and make sure he exercises (by playing games), but you'll also get to go on adventures, solve mysteries and have all kinds of fun while visiting Millsberry!
NASA's Earth Science Enterprise For Kids Only
On this fun web site, kids learn how NASA studies air, land, water, people and natural hazards. Enjoy games, quizzes and maps.
The Volunteer Family
The Volunteer Family encourages and facilitates volunteering with parents while simultaneously assisting local agencies in planning and preparing for family volunteers.
June/July 2007
A Girl's World is an interactive website with classes, programs and materials written and designed for girls, by girls that encourage and empower teens and tweens (7-17 years old) to be active and independent members of their community.
Internet Public Library’s Science Fair Project Resource Guide
The IPL’s Science Fair Project Resource Guide will help you through the whole science fair project by guiding you to a variety of excellent web resources. The Internet Public Library is a public service organization and a learning/teaching environment founded at the University of Michigan School of Information and hosted by Drexel University's College of Information Science & Technology.
Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation Database
˜Sorenson Molecular Genealogy Foundation (SMGF), a non-profit scientific organization with the world's largest correlated genetic and genealogy catalog of more than four million records from 172 countries, is inviting anyone who is curious about their family history to search its free online database to learn if they had forebears in Jamestown, "European colonists' first permanent settlement in North America” during its quadricentennial celebration The free, online SMGF database (smgf.org) is unique because it can link an individual's genetic profile to specific ancestors by name going back six to eight generations or further.
McGruff the Crime Dog and pal, Scruff, created by National Crime Prevention Council, bring ideas about kids staying safe through safety puzzles, games, and coloring pages.
Infants and Epilepsy
Parents of Infants with Epilepsy Can Now Easily Access Reliable Information - This new website is dedicated to parents of infants with epilepsy, and includes detailed information about seizure and syndrome types, medication, first aid, and a guide to frequently asked questions with a focus on diagnosis, treatment, parenting, and new research. These tools will help parents ensure the best possible treatment and care for their infants.
The Child Health Guide is the only online medical reference that uses video clips, photos, animation, and guided Q&A to help parents better understand their child's health issues. Easy-to-use, it features more than 100 of the most common childhood maladies, helping to more accurately determine the best course of action for a sick or injured child. While it is not a substitute for physician's care, the CHG helps parents save time and money and provides peace of mind.
Kids and Cars
This site's objective is to develop and implement programs that educate and raise awareness of the public about the dangers of leaving children unattended in and around vehicles. Advocates for Highway and Auto Safety, Consumer's Union and KIDS AND CARS are working with members of Congress to pass bi-partisan legislation that will establish basic safety regulations. This legislation would reduce the incidence of child injury and death occurring inside and outside of motor vehicles.
May 2007
Access My Library gives you free access to millions of articles from top publications available at your library.
ALFY.com is a free, advertising supported children's destination site offering hundreds of online games, cartoons, movie clips/previews, music videos, puzzles, creative activities, arts & crafts, coloring pages, and a child safe search feature.
At MaMaMedia.com, kids discover by doing and create while clicking. Engaging activities help them gain technological fluency and expand their minds through playful learning; they can design and animate characters, make their own digital cards, invent games, and more. Free membership lets kids save, publish, and e-mail their creations to friends.
My Pyramid for Kids
This USDA hosted site offers nutrition education for children and their caregivers, and school and community support for healthy eating and physical activity. Play the MyPyramid Blast Off Game, print out your own pyramid to color or a worksheet to help kids track how their food choices match up to the recommendations of MyPyramid.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. This site includes a great compilation book awards lists as well as links to a variety of children's literature web sites.
The Labor of Love
Resources for pregnancy and those trying to conceive including journals, message boards, birth stories and more.
April 2007
Consumer Product Safety Commission
The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is charged with protecting the public from unreasonable risks of serious injury or death from more than 15,000 types of consumer products under the agency's jurisdiction. The CPSC works to ensure the safety of consumer products - such as toys, cribs, power tools, cigarette lighters, and household chemicals.
FDLE's Internet Safety Information
To help provide you with information on keeping your family safe while using the Internet, FDLE has compiled information that has previously been released separately, including a collection of on-line resources for parents and kids who want to learn more about general Internet safety.
International Cesarean Awareness Network, Inc.
ICAN helps women to realize that they have both rights and responsibilities regarding birth, which they need to accept. By doing so, they can regain control over their bodies and their births. ICAN works to insure that women have easy access to accurate information about pregnancy and birth. That information needs to include the risks and benefits of a cesarean, vaginal birth, drugs during labor, and other procedures. ICAN also promotes legislation that requires hospitals and physicians to reveal statistical information so that women can make informed decisions about where they wish to give birth.
Roots & Shoots
Roots & Shoots, a program of the Jane Goodall Institute, is a powerful, youth-driven, global network of more than 8,000 groups in almost 100 countries. Together, youth of all ages are taking action to improve our world through service learning projects that promote care and concern for animals, the environment and the human community. Use the sites Search option to find a group in your area
Sparky the Fire Dog
The Sparky the Fire Dog® Web site is brought to you by the nonprofit National Fire Protection Association, the premier source worldwide for the development and dissemination of knowledge about fire and life safety. Families will find fun coloring pages, and games, along with important safety information. Join Sparky in the Fire Truck Gallery, see how other animals would look with Dalmatian spots or try some cool games at Sparky's Arcade!
The Mint
The Mint, first developed in 1997, provides tools to help parents as well as educators teach children about sound money management and establish good money habits at home. It will give your pre-teens and teens a fun and interactive way to learn about earning, saving, spending, investing, and borrowing. The Ideas for Young Kids section offers tips to start this important message early, even before your children start grade school.
Voluntary Prekindergarten Program
At the VPK Florida site, you'll learn everything you need to know about Florida's Voluntary Prekindergarten Program. Find out how to locate providers in your area, what VPK options are available to families, the standards and requirements for the school-year VPK program and much more.
March 2007
KidsSoup.com is a place for kids, parents, teachers and caregivers to find arts and craft projects, coloring pages and activities to explore children's creativity and to encourage children’s development.
Fun Brain offers learning games of all sorts, including Math Baseball, Grammar Gorillas, Space Hopper, Soccer Shootout and more! Games can be sorted by age appropriateness.
Florida KidCare is Florida’s children’s health insurance program for uninsured children under age 19. It is made up of four parts: MediKids, Healthy Kids, the Children’s Medical Services (CMS) Network for children with special health care needs, and Medicaid for children. When you apply for the insurance, Florida KidCare will check which program your child may be eligible for based on age and family income.
BirthdayPartyIdeas.com is a site to share ideas for children's birthday parties in a simple and organized format. Each month new ideas are posted on the "New Ideas" section of the site where you can read through all of that month's ideas. You can also view over 10,000 ideas in the database by browsing the directory of party themes or simply by searching the database. Whether you are trying to decide on a theme, looking for activities and games, searching for food ideas, invitation ideas and decoration ideas, BirthdayPartyIdeas.com will provide you with ideas that you never thought of, or open your eyes to a new twist on an old theme.
This month at FabulousFoods.com, try baking St. Patrick's Day Cookie Pops with the children. This site is loaded with recipes, cooking tips, cookbook reviews, crafts and more.
Safe Kids Worldwide is a global network of organizations whose mission is to prevent accidental childhood injury, a leading killer of children 14 and under. More than 450 coalitions in 16 countries bring together health and safety experts, educators, corporations, foundations, governments and volunteers to educate and protect families.
Answers.com offers useful answers in categories like business, health, travel, technology, science, entertainment, arts, history and many more. The site's collection of four million answers is drawn from over 120 titles from brand-name publishers, original content created by Answers.com's own editorial team, community-contributed articles from Wikipedia, and user-generated questions & answers from Answers.com's industry-leading WikiAnswers™
February 2007
FlyLady's list has grown by leaps and bounds due to her special way of weaving housecleaning tips with homespun humor and daily musings about life. She has a no-nonsense approach to getting your house and your life in order. She mixes housekeeping advice with insights about life and love and anything else that is on her mind.
Information Please has been providing authoritative answers to all kinds of factual questions since 1938—first as a popular radio quiz show, then starting in 1947 as an annual almanac, and since 1998 on the Internet at www.infoplease.com.
Kaboose is one of the most trusted online resources for parents, caregivers and educators seeking information, resources and activities to engage and share with their students and children ages 3-11. This award-winning resource website offers more than 10,000 pages of topical content relating to parenting and education and thousands of ideas and tips to enhance the family Internet experience. It is a top choice for product reviews, crafts, family vacation planning tools, teaching tools, party planners, clip-art, contests, free downloads and much more to help parents plan their family life.
At Looney Games, get your game on with thirty challenging Looney Tunes games featuring your favorite characters!
Prematurity is a volunteer preemie website for your preemie. This site's goal is to support preemie parents by providing information on prematurity and preemie care. Since 1996, the Prematurity website has been a top ranked preemie support site in major search engines, preemie books, TV, and the news. Preemie Child, a support group for parents of school-age preemies, is a preemie parent organization for the growing population of older preemies.
As the largest volunteer child advocacy association in the nation, National Parent Teacher Association (PTA) reminds our country of its obligations to children and provides parents and families with a powerful voice to speak on behalf of every child while providing the best tools for parents to help their children be successful students.
Need more storage space for all of your digital family photos? Xdrive is a service offered by AOL which allows users to backup their files over the Internet. The service provides a free 5 GB account (free online storage) to anyone who has, or is willing to sign up for a free AOL screenname. Xdrive also offers remote backup services or higher levels of storage for monthly fees.
January 2007
Each month, at Creative Kids at Home, you’ll find new ideas for children's craft activities and science projects that kids and adults can do together. These free children's crafts and science activities should be fun for one or more kids, as long as the adults plan to be involved too. The crafts supplies needed will be items commonly found in most households. It could be anything from an empty milk carton to a newspaper.
Drive-ins.com is a comprehensive and continuously updated website dedicated to drive-in movie theaters and their history. The site features a searchable database of 4904 drive-ins.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page offers resources, articles, books and links for Parents, for Educators, Counselors, Administrators and other Professionals, and for Kids & Teens. Pick your entrance, but investigate them all!
Explore Popcorn.org to learn the history of popcorn, find fun trivia, games and arts & crafts. Choose one of the many recipes to make tasty and original snacks in no time at all.
Created in April 1996, the award-winning StorkNet.com site has grown from a list of pregnancy links to over 10,000 pages of rich content covering pregnancy, parenting, and more, along with a very active community of devoted members.
At The King Center’s site you will find invaluable resources to become informed about Dr. King and the ongoing efforts to fulfill his great dream of the Beloved Community for America and the world. Learn the meaning of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday; explore links to find King Holiday events being held locally, nationally and internationally; learn about the various programs and services offered by The King Center.
Visit Travel for Kids for tips on kid-friendly "must sees," discover hidden treasures and learn insider secrets for holidays in Europe, North America, South America, Asia and Africa. This site offers a family travel guide for planning vacation trips with children as fun adventures.
December 2006
Having a baby is a life-changing event, and raising a child is an exciting ongoing challenge. Babycenter.com offers guidance, with easy-to-use sites that feature original high-quality content and practical advice from trusted sources such as obstetricians, pediatricians, developmental experts, nutritionists, and fellow parents.
Teen Ink is a national teen magazine, book series, and website devoted entirely to teenage writing and art. Distributed through classrooms by English teachers, Creative Writing teachers, Journalism teachers and art teachers around the country, Teen Ink magazine offers some of the most thoughtful and creative work generated by teens and has the largest distribution of any publication of its kind. Teen Ink depends completely on submissions from teenagers nationwide for content.
Florida Academic Counseling and Tracking for Students is Florida’s free education advising site. Designed by the Florida Department of Education to provide maximum access and seamless articulation services in order to help high school and college students make informed choices about their education.
National Organization of Mothers of Twins Clubs, Inc. - NOMOTC was founded in 1960 for the purpose of promoting the special aspects of child development which relate specifically to multiple birth children.
Thanksgiving World is a wonderful site featuring everything relating to Thanksgiving. Learn the history of Thanksgiving and Thanksgiving parades. Have fun with Thanksgiving trivia, games, facts and turkey carving tips.
Log on to easy-kids-recipes.com to find quality healthy recipes and advice for kid cooking and cooking for whole families, indeed for all who wish to cook healthy, sometimes quick, delicious meals. Content is provided in many forms, including posted and timely recipes, articles, newsletters, news items, as well as general commentary. A special section offers easy Holiday recipes for kids.
The Family Travel Network is an online magazine and website providing objective family travel information, tips and resources to parents, grandparents, kids, travel professionals, and others. FTN is not a travel agency and does not sell travel on the site, allowing for unbiased and objective opinions.
October 2006
Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, as well as summaries of Frequently Asked Questions
Griddlers.net is a free-of-charge, logic puzzle site; a place of continuous enjoyment, with thousands of paint-by-number puzzles to solve online or offline.
The Triplet Connenction is an international "network of caring and sharing for multiple birth families" which was founded in 1983. For expectant parents of triplets or more, The Triplet Connection offers a packet of information, which helps parents know exactly what they're up against, and specifically what they can do to enhance and promote the best possible outcomes to their pregnancies.
Pumpkin Masters®, creator of the world's first pumpkin carving kit, provides this web site loaded with pumpkin carving tips, free patterns, recipes, Halloween history and facts along with a carving contest and a full product line including carving tools, lighting, decorations, trick-or-treat accessories, hair coloring, and more.
Surprise trick-or-treaters with hair-raising Halloween fun including decorations, party supplies, novelty toys and games. Oriental Trading is the nations leading direct marketer of value-priced novelties, toys, and party supplies, and a leading direct marketer of home decor products.
KidChef is a movement -- a movement aimed at getting kids, parents and new chefs into the kitchen. Cooking is a great way to slow down and bring kids back in touch with the food they eat. It's a way for them to see how each individual ingredient works to create a flavor and texture. It's a way to allow kids to see, taste and experience the product of an effort put forth. Think of the educational value as well -- cooking is science, math and art all rolled into one - and what a tasty way to learn!
South Florida, KidVision offers a way to put hurricane safety tips right into kids’ hands. KidVision Lessons Just For Kids is a WPBT Channel 2 podcast destination providing quick, engaging spots that kids and their parents can download onto a handheld iPod via iTunes or watch directly on their home computers by either visiting www.channel2.org or going to their iTunes desktop file. Visit the Channel 2 website at www.channel2.org, scroll to the Podcasting section, and select KidVision Lessons Just for Kids.
As an online research tool, www.search.travel delivers qualified search results from the entire World Wide Web, giving priority to destinations and businesses that have been authenticated. By using www.search.travel, consumers can now find all things travel related while saving valuable time and gaining peace of mind, because priority placement is given to "travel authenticated" registrants, eliminating the need for consumers to sift through pages of irrelevant results or visit web sites that may not be reputable.
September 2006
KinderArt® is the largest collection of free art lessons on the Internet. What began in 1997 as a few helpful ideas for teachers and parents, has since grown into an enormous collection of resources featuring thousands of tried and tested free lesson plans, ideas and resources which have been contributed by people from around the world.
The Library of Congress is the nation's oldest federal cultural institution and serves as the research arm of Congress. It is also the largest library in the world, with more than 130 million items on approximately 530 miles of bookshelves. The collections include more than 29 million books and other printed materials, 2.7 million recordings, 12 million photographs, 4.8 million maps, and 58 million manuscripts.
Want to learn how to play chess? Want to learn how to play a bit better? Here are some fairly easy "lessons." Those relatively new to chess should play though the introduction to chess and the section on chess strategy just below.
The oldest, largest and most respected doula association in the world. A birth doula is a person trained and experienced in childbirth, who provides continuous physical, emotional and informational support to the mother before, during and just after childbirth. DONA serves mothers and families by providing access to information and research about doulas, childbirth and the postpartum experience
Learn about the history and origins of Labor Day at the U.S. Department of Labor web site.
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GoCityKids gives you shortcuts to the city at its best—its parks, stores, professional services, restaurants, babysitters, places to stay, and entertainment, among other things. Search for afterschool activities, day camps, sports equipment, or a good pediatrician. Or what to do on a rainy Sunday, where to throw a party for an eight-year-old, and how to find camping equipment you can rent.
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ED was created in 1980 by combining offices from several federal agencies. Its original directive remains its mission today — to ensure equal access to education and to promote educational excellence throughout the nation.
Your ringside seat to history - from the Ancient World to the present. History through the eyes of those who lived it, presented by Ibis Communications, Inc. a digital publisher of educational programming.
HowStuffWorks is an online publishing company widely recognized as a leading source for clear, unbiased, reliable explanations of how everything actually works. With thousands of articles, content features and illustrations populating ten different content channels, HowStuffWorks.com attracts millions of unique visitors each month.
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Allrecipes.com, the world’s largest independent food site, is an online cooking community where home cooks from around the world come to share, rate and download recipes and meal ideas. With more than 15 million annual visitors and a membership base of more than a million strong, Allrecipes.com is considered the world’s largest test kitchen, offering a nightly glimpse into the kitchens and habits of home cooks everywhere.
Sidelines is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization providing international support for women and their families experiencing complicated pregnancies and premature births.
Kidsnewsroon.org is a non-profit organization that offers students and schools alike free access to excellent educational resources.
What started as a small community service in Canada, Kidproof has grown to have international reach and is a driving force in proactive and preventative child safety education from coast to coast.
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