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Education On the Web |
We're proud to bring you this list of KidSource approved and rated websites! Each website has been reviewed by the KidSource staff for its content, overall quality and ease of use. We've sorted them by age group or by category.
Our rating system for these websites is:
- Best, in depth and most helpful overall
- Very Good, but more specific in focus
- Good reference material
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California Association for the Gifted
The California Association for the Gifted through its website provides many resources to both parents and educators.
A great list of resources, links, organizations and books for parents of gifted children. This site is not just for parents in California, but for parents anywhere in the world.
Child Safety on the Information Highway
SafeKids.Com is where you'll find tips, advice and suggestions to make your family's online experience fun and productive.
This is a great starting point for all information about safety on the Internet - whether it's for your young child, your teen or even yourself. Review the safety 'rules' with your children, read up on privacy issues and if you don't already have software to filter out objectionable sites, review their list.
Children's Television Family Workshop
The CTW Family Workshop delivers a unique approach to the Internet: melding technology and edutainment to bring families together to learn and have fun. At the Workshop, parents can discover how to get the most out of the Internet while spending quality time with their kids.
CTFW is a fun, educational site for your preschooler and you to enjoy. The reading area is especially good. Here you'll find online stories with parent guidelines for each page - to tell you what you can do while reading the store to enhance your child's learning experience. And your child will enjoy the Sesame Street theme throughout.
EASI's K-12 Educational Technology Centre
EASI is dedicated to providing the latest information and resources on improving K-16 access to technology in education for students with disabilities or in special education. Utilizing distance learning online courses and workshops, discussion listservs, a scholarly journal and a website full of resources on Adaptive & Assistive Technology, hardware, software and best practices in K-12 education, EASI has developed a complete resource and collaborative effort towards increasing the success of educational technology for students with disabilities. As an affiliate of the American Association of Higher Learning and with Grants from the National Science Foundation EASI has been providing parents and educators high quality current information within their realm for the last 12 years. With a current thrust on increasing access to science & math learning, EASI recently devloped a wide set of resources on their website in this area. We hope you visit and let us know what you think and what we can add to better meet your needs!
A must-see adaptive technology resource site for teachers, administrators and parents who are interacting and making educational decisions for K through 12th grade children with disabilities. Bookmark this site!
Institute for the Academic Advancement of Youth of The Johns Hopkins University
For the past 18 years the mission of the Institute has been to identify, nurture, and develop academic talent among precollegiate students. This aim has been pursued through an array of activities: summer academic and distance education programs, talent identification, consultation services, publishing, research, and public policy.IAAY offers educational programs that match the specific abilities,interests, and motivations of our students. We call our philosophy and practice of education the Optimal Match, and it is the guiding principal of our organization.
If your child is gifted, then you'll want to review the programs, articles and resources here. This is an in-depth and serious site not only providing information to parents, but one that promotes educational reform for gifted students worldwide.
Sanford's Lifetime of Color Art Education Resources
Explore the world of art with Sanford's Lifetime of Color Art Education Resources. Create, study, play, learn. It's all here! (Fourth grade to adult)
This is a fun and educational site for any child who's interested in learning more about art, colors and artists. You'll find activities and information, theory and games. You can read about featured artists and see other student's art. The site has good performance and is well designed.
ScienceMaster - the science and technology network
ScienceMaster is a resource for students, teachers and parents for all your science education needs. We feature news, information, products and services, jump start topics research and links. Site is arranged in easy-to-use format. Great for homework and researching school projects.
A great site for those who love science and for those who want to teach children about science. You could spend hours surfing through this site!
Stanford - Educational Program for the Gifted
The Education Program for Gifted Youth (EPGY) at Stanford University is dedicated to developing multimedia computer-based courses in a variety of subjects, including mathematics, physics, and expository writing. EPGY makes these courses available to bright students of all grades by offering them through the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.
This program will offer your gifted child (K-12) an outstanding computer based curriculum in many subjects that they would not normally have access to. This includes affording them the opportunity to progress through the standard primary and secondary school mathematics curriculum at their own pace, and making it possible for them to move on into university level courses in several subjects before leaving high school.
TAGFAM - Talented and Gifted Families
TAGFAM is an Internet support group for families of talented and gifted children. There are five active mailing lists and the website provides a wide variety of supporting and reference information. There are listserves for families, teens and kids.
This website represents an active and very supportive community of families of talented and gifted children. Visit the website to learn more about giftedness and then be sure to sign up for one of the mailing lists. It will be of great value to you and your family.
Teaching Strategies, Inc. offers information for parents and teachers of children from birth through age three including: *in-depth information about The Creative Curriculum and other Teaching Strategies resources, including writings by Diane Trister Dodge and others.
This very useful site will help both parents and teachers educate young children - from infants through the third grade. The parents section has specific activities and strategies, such as "Learning through Daily Activites" and "Learning through Routines". You'll also find a great list of links for a wide variety of educational topics. If you have young children, then you should visit this site.
CyberAngels is non profit organization dedicated to everything you ever wanted to know about your cyber-neighborhood watch and about protecting your children in cyberspace.
Another great site filled with articles, links and information about online safety. The articles are from a book entitled "Parents and the Internet". Online chat and online classes are offered.
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception with over 500 interactive "hands on" exhibits. Each year more than 600,000 visitors come to the Exploratorium, over 95,000 students and teachers come on field trips, and more than 2000 teachers attend professional development programs which focus on inquiry-based teaching and learning in the K-12 classroom.
Whether or not you've visited the Exploratorium in San Francisco, you will enjoy this site which brings science facts and information to the web in a fun and easy-to-navigate website. Visit this site with your entire family!
The Why Files, supported by the National Institute for Science Education helps explain the science, math and technology that are behind the headline news. The site is updated bi-weekly and has great science images, searchable archives, a discussion area and more.
What a great idea! A site that not only will help parents answer those "why" questions our children inevitably ask, but a site that helps make the news more understandable and interesting. Recent topics include earthquakes, hurricanes, learning and more. Make science fun and relevant for your child!
Amazon Interactive is based on field research into indigenous ecotourism in the Ecuadorian Amazon. It is designed to illustrate some basic physical and human geography of the Amazon as well as the risks and benefits of ecotourism as a development strategy. If you'd like to learn more, there are research report available upon which the site's activities are based.(Fourth grade to adult)
Your children will love to learn all about the Amazon jungle, the rainforest and the people who call it home, at this interactive website. The site loads quickly, unlike many other interactive sites.
Gifted Psychology Press, Inc. is a small publishing company located in Scottsdale, Arizona. We specialize in books and materials for and about gifted and are for parents, educators, and other professionals. Our web site offers resources, author articles, links to other sites and our catalog.
For those interested in gifted children, this site provides wealth of available literature including on-line articles, links and books for sale. Founded by James T. Webb.
Hoagies' Gifted Education Page
This exciting site contains links to gifted education resources all over the world, carefully annotated and organized into content areas including academic acceleration, gifted learning disabled, profoundly gifted, educational theories, and lots more. In addition, you can find resources for our kids, including magazines, software, web links and books, plus first hand success stories by the parents of gifted kids. International lists of organizations and conferences, too. Check it out!
If your child is gifted or is gifted and learning disabled, then you'll want to visit this site. Here you'll find a very thorough and complete set of articles, books, magazines, conferences and links about these topics.
This educational site will help parents and teachers of students in elementary, middle school and high School. It's most unique area is the online help from teacher volunteers and volunteer experts who can answer questions about English, math, science, social studies and more. It is a free public service. Other unique features include this month in history; weblinks, classroom activities and resources for parents and teachers.
This site will be quite useful for students and teachers when they need some help on a topic. Students can expect answers or advice in solving homework problems (not instantly, but typically in a few days). There is a wide range of topics in the discussion areas, most for middle and high school topics. This is a nicely organized and helpful site.
National Mental Health and Education Center for Children and Families
The National Mental Health and Education Center for Children and Families, a public service program of the National Association of School Psychologists, is an information and action network to foster best practices in education and mental health for children and families--which builds upon strengths, understands diversity, and supports families. The Center provides free information to parents, teachers, administrators and policy makers on issues concerning children's education and mental health.
Whether you are a parent or a teacher you'll find a wide variety of informative articles and newsletters on this site. In the Parenting and Family area we found articles entitled "Steps Towards Effective Parenting", and "Homework Survival Guide". Many of the articles require the free Adobe reader for viewing.
Odyssey of the Mind is a world-wide, nonprofit organization that promotes creative team-based problem solving in a school program for students from kindergarten through college. The program helps students learn divergent thinking and problem solving skills while participating in a series of challenging and motivating activities, both inside and outside their regular classroom curriculum.
This is an excellent organization that promotes creative problem solving in a team environment. This site will tell you more about them and how your school can participate.
SchoolNotes.com is a simple, free way to communicate school information to your education community. SchoolNotes.com complements school websites by allowing teachers to post school information on the world-wide-web without worrying about programming because there is no programming required. Teachers can post homework and make flash cards. Parents can find information about schools and districts.
This site has great potential for teachers & schools wishing to communicate with their students. Or if you just want to obtain contact information for schools you can look them up here. For each school, there are links to a related featured called schoolreports where you can obtain free reports on local schools and districts (through a local realtor).
Talking With Kids About Tough Issues
TALKING WITH KIDS ABOUT TOUGH ISSUES is a national initiative by Children Now and the Kaiser Family Foundation, endorsed by President Clinton, to encourage parents to talk with their children earlier and more often about tough issues like sex, HIV/AIDS, violence, alcohol, and drug abuse.
If you need help in talking with your children about difficult issues, then this site will help you. They provide no nonsense advice about when and how to talk to children. If your child is a toddler or older, then stop by and visit this site. It's never to early to start talking to your children.
The Education Place has been developed by the Houghton Mifflin Company as a resource for parents and teachers. You'll find lesson plans, activities, ideas in the areas of math, language arts and social studies. Teachers can purchase educational materials and parents can find projects and helpful information.
As you explore this site you'll find unique and fun activities to do with your child. My favorite is the Brain Teaser area (for grades 3 and up). Every week there is a new brain teaser for your child to try out. They're fun and educational. Also, make sure you check out the Kid's club where you'll find many great activities for your child to do. This site is nicely designed and downloads quickly.
101 Top College, University and Scholarship Pages
Links to the best college and university admissions, scholarship, free scholarship search, and financial aid information sites on the internet. Included are SAT and ACT help pages, a half dozen free college and scholarship search pages, and single applications accepted by hundreds of colleges and universities.
The web is a rich source of college prep information, but if you don't know where to start, it can be a frustrating experience. Start at this site. It's a list of links to great sites about scholarships, financial aid and more.
A to Z Home's Cool Homeschooling
Enjoy lively boards and chat with other homeschoolers while browsing through the best pages of the net for such things as features packed full of ideas, resources for materials, locating local homeschool information world wide, an event calendar full of conferences and more, and for those wishing to learn online, a great number of links to the sites for children that really teach something in a fun way.
A site with links, discussion and short articles, this site will be helpful to homeschooling families.
Biology Lectures on Human Genetics for High School Students
Human genetics, cardiovascular biology, and the role of the kidney in hypertension are the focus of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute 1998 Holiday Lectures on Science, Of Hearts and Hypertension: Blazing Genetic Trails. In conjunction with the free science lectures, the biology education website provides webcasting of the lectures, video chat with the scientists, interactive multimedia, online exhibits, and a host of resources that make complex concepts easier to understand.
This is a highly interactive site for the teaching of biology. While the curriculum is really oriented to suplement a classroom setting (with teaching guides, etc.), students at home can view lectures and learn about many advanced biological concepts. To make best use of this site you'll need support for video, shockwave and Java.
The complete online guide to College Admissions. The source of information about scholarships, selection, location, graduate, undergrad, financial aid, visitation, essays, resume, interviewing, college newspapers and links to other sources and articles by the author to help you make college admissions easier.
When your teen is ready to start the college admissions process, visit this site. Here you'll find checklists, great links and guidelines to help you and your teen make those critical decisions and survive this stressful process.
2000+ toys, books, ADLs and adapted hard/software for children with disabilities. Features: Innovative services, three specialized search engines for parents and professionals, and collections of special one-click searches. Search for toys based on a child's individual developmental profile! Commerce enabled.
For the child with special needs, this site offers educational material (in the form of toys, cards and games) that parents can use to help their child. The catalog is accessed through a searchable database. A child's profile is required. The navigation is very lengthy, but there is a pot of gold at the end of the journey!
The web site provides teachers\students with over 150 resources and lesson plans to aid in teaching schemes. Aimed for 7-11 year olds (Key Stage 2) but can be applied to most age groups. Based in the UK.
From math to english to art, at this site you'll find a wide variety of online activities and lessons to do with your 7 to 11 year old child. The lessons are based on the National Curriculum of the United Kingdom, but are applicable to children worldwide.
Gifted Resources Site contains links to all known online gifted resources, enrichment programs, talent searches, summer programs, gifted mailing lists and early acceptance programs, including CTY, EPGY, CTD, NRC/GT, TIP, RMTS, ERIC, NCSSSMST, IAAY, Odyssey of the Mind, and many, many others. It contain links to 4+ years of TAG-L mailing list archives (over 16 MB). It also contains contact information for many local gifted associations and government (mostly US state) programs. Some international program are also listed.
This site has a very comprehensive list of resources for parents of gifted children. It also has downloadable archives for several mailing lists about gifted children. This site is a good place to start if you need help in finding online information.
Impact of Technology is a resource for educators to better understand how computers are affecting the education of our children.
There is much controvery over the impact of computer technology on the education of our children. This site provides information on research in this area. The articles here are primarily written for educators, but will be of interest to parents who are trying to better understand the facts behinds the debates.
Kids and Parents Guide to Surfing the Information Highway
Topics on this helpful site include: using your home computer, computers and technology, homework helpers, raising readers, a guide to safe surfing and more. Provided by the Salt Lake City County Library System.
This site is a good 'starting guide' in how and why to use computers with your kids - from helping them read to surfing the Internet to help with their homework.
Make a Farm - An Activity for Kids
Free software for students to create their own model farm, with silo, barn, chicken coop, etc. Kids set out fields, choose crops, decide what animals to have on their farm, and what to grow to feed themselves and their animals.
This is one of a variety of free software programs for young kids to do with their parents. Requires Windows 3.1 or Windows 95 and a printer.
This site is developed and maintained by the Texas Statewide Systemic Initiative (SSI) with support from the Texas Education Agency as the designated Mathematics Center for Educator Development and from the National Science Foundation.
This site provides information about a K-8 math curriculum with goals, lessons and activities. While focused on TEKS, it is still interesting to anyone involved in teaching math.
Special Children from The Mining Company is a site built on love and committment to educating and empowering those who are touched by having special children in their lives. This site is new but growing quickly with many goals.
A well organized site that has basic information on a wide variety of learning disabilities and other topics for children with special needs. It's main value is the useful lists of links sorted by category.
Parents Educators and Publishers
The PEP site is an informational resource for Parents, Educators, and children's software Publishers. It contains information on computer products, camps, Internet safety, computer recycling and more.
There are many useful areas on this site, such as the section on Internet saftey, lists of computer camps for kids and many links to other areas. This is a good place to start if you're looking for information on your child and computers.
Although it is easy to navigate the Web, finding quality family sites is frustrating and time consuming. That is why hundreds of thousands of newspaper readers rely on Barbara J. Feldman's "Surfing the Net with Kids." Each weekly column rates and reviews five fun, educational Web sites on topics as diverse as Stock Market Games, Ben Franklin, Paper Airplanes and Tigers.
If you and your kids spend time surfing the internet for homework or fun, this site is going to be one of your favorite bookmarks. Their site gives short description (pre-screen sites) about where to find this month's featured topics and sites categorized by subjects such as math, science, history and geography.
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children
The National Foundation for Gifted and Creative Children is a non-profit organization dedicated to disseminating knowledge and FREE information to parents and educators on the plight of the gifted.
If you're looking for more information and resources about gifted children, then visit this site. You'll also find information about giftedness and ADD/ADHD, ritalin, ADD treatments and more.
America's Health Care Source - Careers and More!
Health Care Jobs Updated Daily, Career Info for Medical Professionals, also Continuing Education, Association and Licensure Info. Links and More!
If your teen is considering a career in the medical profession, then they will find a variety of references and links at this site.
A free online magazine for parents and caregivers of children with special needs. Features include Success Stories, Tips, a family advice column, informative disability related articles, a discussion forum, and more!
An on-line magazine for parents of special needs children that addresses the hope, success and some of the frustration of parenting such a child.
Puzzles that children can directly manipulate on the web page, teaching math, thinking and general problem solving skills. Have fun!
A very educational and well done site. Based on the popular magazine and tv series.
