Student Resources

Educational Websites

Kids directories and search sites that are good for kid and parenting site listings.

Internet Safety

Netsmartz.org: This site is put together by the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children and Boys & Girls Clubs of America and it has invaluable information for parents about keeping your kids safe online and off. I would highly recommend visiting and bookmarking this website.

Educational and Learning Sites

Science and Nature Activities and Experiments for Preschoolers - tons of great ideas to get your young children interested in science and nature. Learning can be fun!

Art

Art Projects for Kids: Wonderful site to find fun art projects that kids can do easily. Created and maintained by a Kids Art teacher.
National Gallery of Art- kids area: Fun art games and activities to engage your child with art.
PBS Kids- Parents Area- Creativity Exercises: Neat things to do online to help kids be more creative.

Culture

Kids Web Japan: Explore Japan on a kids level and find interesting things to do, see and learn about.

Environment

Environmental Kids Club: All areas about Environment for kids to learn about and play games. Teacher area.

Foreign Language

Chillola.com: A wonderful site for kids learning foreign languages with basic words for Shapes, Colors, Alphabet etc.

General Learning

Alphabet Action: Learning Planet's section for learning the Alphabet. Great preschool online resource.
Education.com: This is a great overall site filled with Educational activities, worksheets and articles on Education.
Sesame Street: Young children can learn about letters, counting, thinking, science, music, art, culture and getting along with others.

History

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government: Fun and educational site for kids to learn about history and the U.S.

Math

Math Playground: Action packed math site for elementary and middle school students featuring math games, math word problems, math worksheets, logic puzzles, and math videos.
PBS Kids Early Math Games: Great information and fun resources to help your child build his/her early math skills at PBS Kids parents section.

Money

US Mint kids section: Games and informative videos about the US Mint and money in the United States.

Music

NY Philharmonic Kids: a wonderful and fun Kids site all about Music. Composing, instruments, games and more.
Play Music: Provides information about musical instruments, composers, and musicians. With Shockwave plug-in, visitors can also play interactive musical games.
San Francisco Synphony Kids Site: Fun and educational kids site all about Music!

Nature and Animals

Animal Planet: Games and interactive features for kids at Animal Planet.
Dino Dictionary: Profiles of over 300 known Dinosaurs, fun games.
Kids Go Wild- Wildlife Conservation Society: Check out this site to learn more about lots of animals. Fun facts, information and things to do. Great site for kids.
Kids Planet: Facts, games, a teacher's section, information on saving endangered species. Fact sheets on over 50 species of Animals.
National Geographic Kids site: Great site for kids with games and information about animals and nature at National Geographic Kids.
National Wildlife Federation: Fun facts and games about wildlife and their environment on a kids level. Home of Ranger Rick.

Reading

Free Children Stories: A wonderful site of free stories for children by Daniel Errico. Some flash, flip the page stories and fun rhyming stories.
Giggle Poetry: Children's poetry by Meadowbrook Press. Lots of funny poems, poetry contests and more! Ideas for educators on teaching poetry in fun and interesting ways.
Kid Soup: Preschool and Kindergarten online Resource.
Kindersay: Educational site for kids to learn letters, words and signing.
PBS Kids Reading Language Section: Great information and fun activities for kids learning letters, sounds, and to read.
Reading Rockets: A wonderful site devoted to Teaching kids to Read and helping those struggling to Read.
Starfall: A free website to teach children to read. Perfect for kindergarten, first grade, and second grade. Contains exciting interactive books and phonics games.
StoryPlace: Spanish & English versions. Listen to interactive children's stories, play with on-line activities, print out take-home activities.
Tumble Books: This is a fun site for kids, parents and teachers to utilize for Reading. Hundreds of animated books for Kids with audio.
Word Girl: PBS site that encourages kids to learn words and get them ready for reading.

Science

Brain Pop: Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies and English movies, comic strips, activity pages and school homework help for kids.
Reach Out Michigan: Science Activities and Experiments for kids. I especially liked making nature and dinosaur fossils with my kids. The recipe is very easy and found at click for fossil directions
Inner body- Human Anatomy Online: Do you have a child that wants to be a doctor- check out the different systems of the body- skeletal, digestive, nervous and more. A site geared at kids over 7 or 8- lots of big words and drawing of each body system.
Kids Astronomy: Powerful and fun resource for kids, exploring astronomy and other space related topics. Play games, learn through interactive applications, and much more.
Kids Discover: Natural and Social Science magazine for kids 7-12.
Ology: American Museum of Natural History site for kids. Learn a lot about astronomy, paleontology, and the definitions of other "ologies" on this site. pbskids.org/zoom/activities/sci: Science experiments and activities for kids at PBS Kids.
Science Explorer- Home or School Experiments for Kids: Make science experiments with household items- find out how to make a volcano, sun clock, balloon blow up, chopper, and tons more.
science.preschoolrock.com: Science and nature activities and experiments for preschoolers. Tons of great ideas to get your children interested in science and nature. Learning can be fun!
The Magic School Bus: Fun facts, games and science information for kids and teachers.
Weather Channel Kids' Site: Information and games about the weather.

Family Activities and Crafts

Cooking for Kids

Cupcake Kid Cafe: A fun site all about Cooking, run by 7 year old Rachel who features fun recipes, videos and cooking games for Kids.

Fun and Entertainment

Kids 7+

American Girl: A real online fun place for girls. Create e-cards, do fun activities, post your photo and play games.
Barbie: Fun activities, crafts and other online fun all revolving around Barbie.
clubpenguin.com: Virtual playworld
Disney Princesses: Games and videos for all little princess lovers. Official Disney Princess site.
Fox Kids: A site with shows for kids and games based on the shows.
Funology.com: This site is about the Science of Having Fun- it is educational and fun- it has a few games, jokes, brain busters and more.
Go Girls Only: A fun site sponsored by the Girl Scouts of America. Fun and games for girls.
Kerpoof- Draw, Make a Picture, Write a Story or Make a Card: A site for kids 4 or 5 and up. They can make a card, picture, draw or create a story. This site was recently purchased by Disney.
Kids' Candian Broadcasting Site: This Site has lots of games and activities based on tv shows that run on this Canadian Broadcasting station.
Lego: Fun kids site with games, comics and movies.
Little Director- kids can animate their drawings: Neat site where kids can make movies and shae with friends. Sign-up may be required.
NASA Kids Club: Fun and games for kids 7 and up.
nick.com
PBS Kids-News Flash Five Kids News: This site is designed to give kids (7 and up) a place to go and learn about what is happening around the world in the news with the appropriate amount of content for kids and the broadcasters are virtual kids (animated). It is a neat site to go to with your older kids.
Playmobile: Variety of online games and 3D catalogue.
Poptropica: Poptropica, a virtual world for kids to travel, play games, compete in head-to-head competition, and communicate safely. Kids can also read books, comics and more.
Primary Games: Fun site for teachers, parents, and kids featuring free educational games, coloring pages, interactive e-books.
Seussville: A site by Random House that has games and printables from the Dr. Seuss books.
Seussville: Seussville Games. Here are lots of games for you to play. To keep you entertained all day!
Up To Ten: Educational and Fun games and activities for children aged up to ten years old.
webkinz.com: Virtual playworld for kids. In order to play you have to have purchased a webkinz stuffed animal. Although many kids younger than 7 may go to this site, I believe it is most appropriate for kids older than 6 and that can read the information.
Woogi World: Online virtual world for young children.

Preschooler - 6

Boowa & Kwala: Wonderful and fun Kids site. Children's music plus great illustrated stories. A preschool activity center with over 800 games for kids aged up to six. English or French.
Candyland: Coloring pages and fun activities related to Candyland.
Gofrette: A fun and games site for the younger set. In French or English. Based on a favorite tv character, Gofrette.
Jump Start: JumpStart is a series of educational games produced by Knowledge Adventure. The series is distributed as Jump Ahead in the United Kingdom.
Kid Soup: Preschool and Kindergarten online Resource. membership subscription.
kidmango.com: New!
My Little Pony: This is a cute site geared to little girls who love My Little Pony. Features games and activities for preschool kids.
nickjr.com noggin.com
PanWapa
pbskids.org: A Sesame Workshop site for fun and education for young children.
Peep & the Big Wide World: Play science games and activities with Peep.
Poisson Rouge: Online activities for Preschool children.
RayLit: Fun learning with educational games, videos & activities for kids.
Speakaboo: A fun site for Reading with lots of books to choose from, read by celebrities.
sproutonline.com The Color: All coloring website for kids with original graphics to color. Lots of themes.
The Mouse Club: Free games, activities, stories and puzzles for Kids 4 - 10.
Thomas & Friends: This site offers a number of favorite characters for children to interact with through games and fun activities. The star, of course, is Thomas the Train.
WebTots: Online toddler games, kids games, puzzles, drawing, colouring, music with sound recorder.

Health and Medical

Healthy Children, Healthy Choices information from the CDC
Kidshealth.org
Ask Dr. Sears- kids health topics: Good resource with articles on many kids' health topics by the well-known family of pediatricians and published authors.
Dr Greene- Pediatrician- website about kids' health topics: Good resource about kids health topics by a Pediatrician.

Nutrition

Food Facts- Find out What Ingredients are in your Food: www.foodfacts.com is a site that gives you nutritional information for hundreds of food products and food items at restaurants. Use this site to find out what you are really eating.
Healthy Children, Healthy Choices
Portion Distortion-slideshow: National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute-Obesity Education Initiative offers a informative slide show about portion sizes and eating right.

Natural & Organic Living

Kiwi Magazine

Parenting

Mommie 911

Baby

Curious Baby: A site devoted to new moms, pregnant moms and everything about Baby. Recipes, Health, Shopping, Product Reviews.
justthefactsbaby.com: Site for parents about top topics facing new parents about baby.

Going Green

Growing Up Green: Discovering modern Eco options for Kids.

Parenting Magazines Online

Cookie Magazine: A family magazine for parents with style.
iVillage: Daily expert advice for parents.
Parenthood: From birth to school age, a great resource for parents with articles on health, nutrition and parenting styles.
Parenting: A magazine devoted to all aspects of parenting.
Parents: An online parenting magazine for parents on the go.
Todays Parent: A good parent resource magazine for kids. In print and online.