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ThirdAge.com
ThirdAge.com is a website and community for active older adults, with
feature articles, advice columns, reviews, forums, and live chat.
Here you can find out if your doctor is qualified to work with
seniors; get computing help; and search a database containing 5,000
pages of free and discount items. Read expert columns on retirement,
second careers, and managing your money; get tips on the best ways to
travel; keep up with daily news headlines; and subscribe to a free
weekly newsletter. The Personal Portraits section gives members a
chance to create their own home pages. Members can chat live any time
or participate in weekly topical chats and celebrity events.
ThirdAge.com also sponsors forums on hundreds of topics, including
art and culture, books, genealogy, health, sports, love and
friendship, news and politics.
http://www.thirdage.com
The ParenthoodWeb
The Parenthood Web is a comprehensive site for parents and
parents-to-be. Here you can find many articles on parenting topics,
plus discussion boards, quizes, polls and surveys. A panel of
pediatricians and other experts are available to answer questions.
The Pregnancy Corner is a one-stop source for everything on pregnancy
and labor, including an interactive calendar to chart your pregnancy
from ovulation to the big day. Find the most popular baby names, keep
track of toy and equipment recalls, and get recipes for quick food
ideas. Sample article topics are: Ten Tips for Shopping With
Children; Making Day Care a Good Experience; How Do I Find
Information Related to Waterbirth?; The Great Debate: Whole Language
vs. Phonics; How Long is it Appropriate to Nurse? Visitors can search
for articles by author or topic, or subscribe to a free weekly
newsletter.
http://www.parenthoodweb.com
Family.com
How should a parent handle back talk? Do the new report cards
encourage kids to learn? What are the best values in software for
your home computer? These are some of the subjects covered in
Disney's Family.com, a website with many resources for families, with
or without children. There are intelligent and timely articles on
parenting, relationships, fun and games for kids, education, family
computing, food, and vacations. More than 100 parenting publications
from North America are linked here; type in your state or province
and you can access publications with local activities for kids. You
can also tap into thousands of in-depth feature articles by selecting
a topic and age group. Another useful feature is a recipe database
that will print out a shopping list of ingredients for your chosen
recipe. Visitors can also meet and exchange ideas in the community
forum or chat area, and post messages on the bulletin board.
BellSouth.net Educational Gateway
The Bellsouth.net Educational Gateway guides teachers, students, and
parents to a collection of well-selected sites, and is designed to be
used by K-12 classes as a starting point for exploring the Internet.
There are student resources with news, entertainment, homework help,
and forums. Teacher resources include lesson plans on all subjects,
educational materials, textbooks, innovative programs, grants for
teachers, and connections with other educators on and off the
Internet. Family links lead to areas of interest for the whole
family, parenting connections, household helps, and personal business
sites.
http://www.bellsouth.net/k-12
Science & Nature for Kids
Science and Nature for Kids has a resource library for parents,
teachers, and students; weekly articles and events; and a chat room
for kids. Some of the interesting features are a History of the
Internet, given via a pictorial timeline; Ask the Astronomers, in
which students can correspond by email with SPARTAN 201 and Ulysses
scientists; and What Machine Could Do All of This? a list of amazing
facts about the human body. Students can ponder Science! What's It
All About? to learn what it takes to make an idea a fact. There is a
Homeschooling Guide here as well.
http://kidscience.miningco.com
The HomeArts Network
This online magazine has articles about women's health, diet and
cooking, gardening, and more. Expectant mothers can read about health
issues for mother and baby, calculate due dates, and see how the baby
grows through each month of pregnancy. There is a large section on
women's health, with the latest information on breast health and
other topics. Parents can share ideas with each other in the Parents
Anonymous forum. The food section has recipes and dietary advice for
staying healthy. For fun, visit the sections on horoscopes, romance,
and fashion.
Kid Info
Kid Info is an excellent starting point for students, teachers, and
parents to explore the World Wide Web! This ezine was produced by a
fifth grade class searching for links to help with homework and
research projects. It is organized according to the curriculum of
elementary, middle and secondary schools in the United States. In
addition to the school subjects, there are parenting links here,
activities and stories for young children, and leisure pages. Beside
the pointers to Internet resources in many subjects, the class
presents important facts about each curriculum topic in a section
called "Did You Know?".
http://www.kidinfo.com
The Family Saving Center
In the 1950s, the U.S. saving rate averaged about 11.5% of household
income. Today, Americans save only 4.5% of their disposable personal
income. The Merrill Lynch Family Saving Center is a resource site to
encourage more saving, with pages for families, parents, and
teachers. The Family section provides the Family Financial Management
Guide, personal budget activity sheets, and ways of presenting ideas
about saving to kids of different ages. The Parents' page has help
for setting family financial strategies. The Teachers' page has ideas
and lesson plans for teaching K-12 students about saving and
investing. There are links to educational websites and a reading
list, divided by grade level. In addition, students can enter the
National Saving Month "Time to Save" contest. Visitors to the site
are encouraged to ask questions via email.
Headbone Interactive
Headbone Interactive has a mission: to create the most original,
imaginative children's multimedia titles in the world and have lots
of fun doing it. At this website you can find out about "AlphaBonk
Farm," a wacky farmyard where kids learn their ABCs (on CD), the
"Gigglebone Gang" activity series for young thinkers ages 4-8,
"Pantsylvania," a cartoon series for learning early science, and
"What the Heck will Elroy do Next?" comic adventures for inquisitive
kids ages 7-97. The presentations combine humor, colorful cartoons,
imaginative stories, and mental challenges to make learning fun.
Visitors to this site can enjoy riddles, contests, and downloadable
games; read Elroy's adventures (vote on "What the heck should Elroy
do next?"); consult The Headbone Fortune Teller; pose questions to
Svelte Velma the Swine; and get a free Headbone sampler disk.
http://headbone.com/
Cyber-Seuss
"I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary
ingredient in living; it's a way of looking at life through the wrong
end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh
at life's realities.'' - Dr. Seuss. This website is a good place to
start introducing children to Dr. Seuss online. Here you can find a
list of Dr. Seuss Stories on the Internet, Dr. Seuss Books in Print,
and Dr. Seuss Beginner Books. There are Dr. Seuss illustrations and
quotations. Fans will find some early Seuss writings and information
on his unfinished pieces. There are reviews and discussions of Seuss
works, plus biographical information and photos. There are links to
other Seuss pages, the Dr. Seuss CD-ROM, and even a place where you
can get 100% silk Dr. Seuss ties. Find out about Boris Karloff
reading the Grinch!
http://www.afn.org/~afn15301/drseuss.html
Safe Surf
SafeSurf is an organization dedicated to making the Internet safe for
children. Their efforts include establishing an Internet Rating
Standard; child-safe sites can be marked with the SafeSurf Wave. At
the SafeSurf homepage parents can get information on filtering
software available on the market, learn how to block certain chat
rooms, read a list of online safety basics, find out about Cyber
Angels "neighborhood watch", and find recommended sites for children
classified by age group.
http://www.safesurf.com
Yahooligans!
Yahooligans! is Yahoo's site for kids - a searchable, browsable index
of the Internet for Web surfers ages 8 to 14. "Yahooligans! sites are
cool, goofy, fascinating, fun, hysterical, philosophical, surprising,
sedate, silly, seismic, popular, obscure, useful and, ummmm....
interesting." Some of the features are: Stay Street Smart On the
Web!, Around the World, Sports and Recreation, School Bell, Science
and Oddities, and Art Soup. There are links for science, museums,
homework help, space exploration, the environment, dinosaurs,
computers, games, shareware, TV, movies, magazines, music, careers,
reference, amusement and theme parks, clubs and organizations, humor,
jokes and fun. The Scoop has daily news, comics, and weather. The
pleasant graphic design and interesting links will keep kids
fascinated for hours.
http://www.yahooligans.com
KnowledgeLand
KnowledgeLand is a safe place for children of all ages to learn and
have fun on the Internet. It features a 3-D JumpStart Elementary
campus packed with activities and games such as a 3-D scavenger hunt
and a Java game of the month. Children can do research using the free
reference library and encyclopedia, and can click on the globe to see
views of the earth from outer space. They can color in their favorite
cartoon characters or visit the Science Lab, where whole new worlds
come to life. Teachers and parents can find technical support,
educational software for kids, online activity guides, and project
ideas.
http://www.adventure.com
The Scouting JumpStation
This is a big list of links for boy and girl scouts and guides
worldwide. Visit this page to find scouting events around the world;
information on scouting history and traditions; books, magazines and
newsletters; and home pages for individual troops. Scouts can find
penpals from troops in such diverse places as South Africa, Israel,
Turkey, Norway, Slovenia, Spain, New Zealand, and Uruguay. There are
links for camping and hiking, knots and patches, climbing and caving,
canoeing and kayaking, songs and plays, and amateur radio. Find
places to buy everything from camping equipment to scouting software.
Scouts and guides have fully joined the information revolution and
have newsgroups, IRC, FTP and Telnet sites, clipart, and templates
for making troop websites listed here.
Midlink Magazine
MidLink is an electronic magazine for children in the middle grades -
ages 10 to 15. These pages link middle schoolers all over the world.
The kids can voice their opinions at the Global Forum on child
survival and development, send words of comfort to those affected by
the violence in Israel, and read letters written by students
worldwide. They can join in a Celebration of Cultural Diversity, read
about Dr. Martin Luther King, or sail the world's oceans with the
NOAA MALCOLM BALDRIGE. There are science articles with tips on
projects for fun and school, recipes to try, and news about
interesting programs in schools around the world. Other features are
the Best Web Sites picked by kids, the Sports Page, and the Game
Page. Kids can also visit the International Book Fair, read stories
and plays by other students, and share their own writing.
http://longwood.cs.ucf.edu:80/~MidLink/
The StarChild Project: Connecting NASA and the K12
Classroom
This page contains space photos of the Sun, the Moon, Saturn, the
Earth from outer space, galaxies, stars and planets. The captions can
be read and understood by elementary school children.
http://heasarc.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/StarChild/StarChild.html
CyberKids
This page and its related page, Cyberteens, encourage young artists
and writers by publishing their work on the web. The art gallery and
online magazine sponsor art and writing contests. Coming soon: a
section where young composers can air their works online. In
CyberKids Connection, kids can respond to magazine articles, exchange
email or chat with each other. There are also art projects,
interactive stories, games and puzzles, and a list of hot links.
http://www.cyberkids.com/
Sports Illustrated for Kids Online
"Magic Johnson returns to the NBA!" and other sports stories
including coverage of the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta provide
interesting reading for kids at this website. A hands-on section and
a trivia quiz supply more fun and challenges. There is a gallery for
artwork, poetry, stories,and jokes created by kids. Young readers can
correspond with the magazine via e-mail and find addresses of
favorite athletes. There are reviews of top sports video games and
computer software, and a library with features from past issues.
Family Planet
A small baby's car seat should always be buckled in the back seat of
your car, facing the rear. Protective gear is available to prevent
kids' sports injuries to the head and mouth. These are some of the
informative articles parents will want to read in Family Planet
magazine. Keep up to date on medical breakthroughs, education issues,
toy safety, and nutrition. Express your opinion or ask questions of
child development and behavior experts. Search by topic to find
answers to such problems as daycare woes, picky eaters, tantrums.
Check the website, book and movie reviews; get ideas for games,
crafts, experiments and other activities you can do with your
child.
Theodore Tugboat
Theodore Tugboat is a Canadian TV series about a cheerful tugboat who
likes to be friends with everyone. Life in his playful Big Harbour
community is always changing, and whatever each new day brings,
Theodore likes to do the things that friendly tugboats do. Children
can help Theodore decide what to do next in an illustrated,
interactive story at this site. They can also download a coloring
book page or receive a postcard with Theodore's picture. The page
contains an introduction to Theodore for parents and teachers, and a
list of many other children's links.
ZooNet
This is a zoo page that is easy for children to explore, with lots of
animal photos. There is an index of zoos for the USA and the world.
There are also animal links, current zoo news stories, endangered
species links, a slide show and a big cats screensaver/wallpaper
collection.
http://www.mindspring.com/~zoonet/
aha!
From Al Hyslop, Emmy Award-winning producer of Captain Kangaroo,
Sesame Street and 3-2-1 Contact, comes this exciting interactive
environment for kids of all ages. "Our goal is to provide gentle
adventures through likeable characters, with original songs, stories,
trips, and age-appropriate projects, to entertain and motivate
children in a lively but not frenetic style." The aha! website has
colorful pictures for preschoolers, stories and other adventures
readable by elementary school children, more challenging reading for
middle school children (and a chance to contribute to the stories),
and a link for teenagers.
http://www.aha-kids.com/
Children's Stories, Poems, Pictures and Sounds
This page is a good place for a child to start exploring the
Internet. The Bowen children present stories, poems and pictures done
by themselves and other children. There are links to children's
books, movies, sound clips, games, comics, museums, and other
children's home pages. There are also links for parents and
teachers.
http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/oucl/users/jonathan.bowen/children.html
Family World
Family World is a collaboration of more than 40, monthly parenting
publications. They share their activity calendars for parents and
children, from all sections of the United States. In addition, there
are monthly feature articles and regular sections: Activities, Baby,
Book Reviews, Child Development, Education, Entertainment, Family
Files, Fashion, For Dad's Eyes Only, Health, Home Tech, Parenting,
Recreation and Travel. This site provides links to Internet resources
for parents, children and schools.
International Student Newswire KidNews
KidNews includes news and feature stories, profiles, sports, poetry
& fiction, reviews, how-to information, and other articles, all
written by kids. There is a section for teachers' discussion and
instructions for young writers wishing to submit work.
http://www.umassd.edu/SpecialPrograms/ISN/KidNews.html
OUDPS Kid Safety
This site, provided by the University of Oklahoma Department of
Public Safety, gives kids information on household safety, responding
to emergencies, dealing with strangers, guns, drugs, and other safety
topics, presented with colorful graphics. Included is a section on
Internet safety.
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