Child Care & Parenting
Rockville
Creative Learning, Inc.: Parenting Guides
Access this site for descriptions of valuable parenting books. Other
available material includes Science Kits and Robots, Activity Corner,
and Learning Library.
College Information
The
Princeton Review
Peterson's
Colleges and Universities
College
Board Online
Edutainment
CTW
Family Workshop
A great site designed especially for today's wired families. Preschoolers
to grandparents can have fun and learn together. A delight for Sesame
Street fans! Parents can find helpful tech tips, practical articles
on family life issues, and trustworthy product reviews.
Arthur
Join in the fun and learning with the world's most famous aardvark
and his family and friends. Games and activities for kids. Reading
lists, instructional activities, and other useful online resources
available for adults.
Mister
Roger's Neighborhood
One of the safest neighborhoods for children to learn, create, sing,
play, and much more! Children and adults can participate in activities
in conjunction with television broadcasts or independently.
Reading
Rainbow
While not as comprehensive as the television show, this site does
help to motivate children to read good books and visit libraries.
A great site for exploring children's literature with complimentary
activities that help children gain a deeper understanding and appreciation
of reading and writing stories.
Esprit De Corps
On2:
Fighting School Violence
Visit this site to see how different communities are fighting violence
and keeping kids safe in their schools and neighborhoods.
Center
for the Study and Prevention of Violence
Comprehensive information located at this site including "blueprints"
for violence prevention (model programs, training and technical assistance,
can much more).
Fighting Prejudice, Promoting
Tolerance
Anti-Defamation
League
This is the site of the Anti-Defamation League, an organization devoted
to combating prejudice.
Fire Safety
Fire Prevention
A great resource for teachers. This site contains links, lesson plans, articles and ideas for classroom fieldtrips and speakers.
Fire Stories
Students and teachers can use this site. Teachers can find links to lesson plans, activities and more resources. All visitors will like the crafts, activities and online games.
Mrs. McGowen's Fire Safety Site
This first grade teacher created a Web site chalked full of information for teachers, parents and students. Find great lesson ideas, activities and much more.
Education World
This site will provide interesting links for fire safety week. Most links are for fourth grade and below with lots of activities, safety facts and interactive coloring pages.
FEMA Fire Administration Kids Page
The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has created a fantastic site which is both educational and entertaining. Most activities can be printed off or online, interactive lessons for students grade K-6.
Kid's
Safety-Fire
This Web Site has a slide show that answers the question: Do you know
what to do in case of fire?
Home
Fire Escape Plan
This site may be a great place to start to have students begin to
create and plan a fire escape plan. Links include establishing a safe
meeting place outside the house, practicing the escape plan, and preparing
for those who may need extra assistance in this type of an emergency.
Safety
Bear's Coloring Page
This page has a whole host of safety type coloring pages for younger
students to color.
To Grandma's House We Go
GrandsPlace
Over 5 million children in the US live with their grandparents. This
site offers the opportunity for grandparents to receive support, legal
information (regarding custody and visitation rights, and networking
with other grandparents via email ICQ, live chats, and more.
Grandparenting.org
Created and maintained by a non-profit organization, The Foundation
for Grandparenting, this site contains invaluable information and
resources. It promotes annual conferences, grandparent-grandchild
summer camps, and intergenerational research.
Parents in Education
America
Goes Back to School
Calling all grandparents, parents, community leaders -- all caring
adults -- to take an active role in improving education in your communities!
Practical information provided at this site will help jump-start initiative(s)
with your school and community.
Pet Care (K-3)
Virtual Hamster
From feeding to cleaning the cage, this free Macintosh download site gives you a program called virtual hamster. You can love it, "hug" it, squeeze it, feed it and of course clean up after it! Again, this is a download program; it can be accessed without the internet once downloaded.
Cyberpets
Cyberpets.com is a free site giving information about the welfare and care of dogs and cats. Information is provided for several topics such as: Breed identification, oral care, pictures, FAQ, etc.
Neopets
Neopets.com is a fun site that is completely free. Students can choose and take care of up to 4 "pets" (they are make believe characters). The basic idea is that you adopt a pet, play with it, care for it, and watch it grow. As it grows, it becomes more demanding.
Cyber Tiger by National Geographic for Kids
Here is a free site that sets a scenario for students about adopting a tiger. Students are asked to set up a training, feeding, and care schedule for the tigers. It is an interactive site and shows actual photos of a variety of different types of tigers.
Petturtle.com
Many classrooms have turtles as pets. This site gives information about all types of turtles and how to care for them. This site also provides a section to post questions and talk with other turtle lovers.
SAT (The New SAT tests)
Would Shakespeare get into Swathmore?
This is an article written for Atlantic.com about the new SAT Test and the change of the standard scores. Most of the article addresses the new Writing section and the change of the base score for this section of the SAT Test. The new test is to begin in 2005.
The College Board
This site gives excellent information about the new test and what to expect in each area. Find free brochures, example testing questions and information about registration. There is also a Q&A area for teachers, parents, administrators and students.
New York Times Question of the Day
The NY Times gives a SAT Prep Question of the Day. Each day a new question appears for the students to answer. Once the question is answered and submitted, the correct answer is displayed. At that time, there is a link for further explanation as to WHY answer was correct or incorrect. This question changes daily and there is a link for strategies to answer the specific question of the day.
College Power Prep
This site is NOT a free site but does contain some free software downloads and tips for taking the new SAT Test. On this site there are free software downloads for Test taking tips, vocabulary terms and math questions. At anytime if it is not a free area, a warning does appear and you are asked for a registration number.
Quiz Hub
Learn new vocabulary words with this fun online interactive game. Lay a matching game to reinforce SAT vocabulary words. Simply click on a word an find the match by clicking on the definition.
Scholarships
Scholarships.com
Students can enter their information and get results that best suit their qualifications. There are over 600,000 scholarships and over one billion dollars worth of money available through their database. They also have a database of educational loans as well.
FastWeb
This site matches the student up with scholarships, grants, and fellowships. It also provides college applications and help on selecting a "perfect" school.
Absolutely Scholarships
This site has a partnership with eStudentLoans.com. Therefore, a student can look on either database. The site is free and gives you access to about 200,000 scholarships.
Collegeboard.com
The College Board compiles the scholarships found on this site. There are over one million awards. This is actually part of a larger site that could really help a student preparing for college.
FastAid.com
Scholarships given out by the private sector are the focus of this site. They also provide helpful hints on how to apply for these kinds of scholarships.
Scholarship Experts
The main difference with this site is that it is a pay site. It costs $29.95 to join but you get a larger database in a variety of categories and subdivisions. You can also preview the site before paying for the subscription. The site does provide some personal help if it is needed.
Special Needs
LD
OnLine: learning Disabilities Resources
National
Attention Deficit Disorder Association
LD
Resources
Telling Time for Younger Students
Telling Time
Use this interactive quiz to teach students how to tell time.
Education 4 Kids
This site provides time challenges for students based on their level of understanding of time concepts. Students can choose which level of complexity they would like to play.
Snapdragon Time
Your students will love to play the telling time game on this site. Not only does it help students learn how to tell time it also give them ample opportunity to use small motor skills by using the mouse to move the hands on the clock.
Teacher View
Students can practice telling time by analog type clocks or digital clocks on this site.
Harcourt School
This site provides a fun telling time game with the accompaniment of a Willy the Watchdog. Your students will love it.
Traveling with Children
The
Ultimate Field Trip Resource
A regional travel directory for museums, nature centers, historic
sites, zoos, aquariums, and much more as found in NJ, NY, and PA.
A great guide for parents and their children.
North
Central Regional Technology in Education Consortium
A must visit site! Nancy Johnson, a sixth grade teacher at Greenwood
School in Waukegan Illinois School District, created a problem-based
learning unit called "Are We There Yet?"
St.
Charles Public Library
Books for and about families who travel, stories, games, songs, and
travel tips for parents are included at this site.
Web Safety for Kids
Web
Wise Kids
This site is an Internet safety resource center for parents, teachers
and children.
Safe
Kids
Safekids.com offers tips, suggestions and advice to make the online
experience fun for the whole family.
Web
Safety for Kids
Children cruising the Internet can use this short safety guide, provided
by the Yahooligans Web site.
Teachers
Guide for Teaching Kids about Web-Safety
Learn what Internet Literacy is, why it is important, and how to teach
it to your students.
i-Safe
America
Computers are becoming a part of every child's life and this site
offers online Internet safety programs, as well as safe links for
kids to use while browsing the Internet. The site includes great resources
for parents and teachers who are looking for innovative and unique
ways to educate kids on how to become Internet wise.
