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This
site was designed to provide students, teachers and parents links to
educational sites corresponding to classroom curriculum.
Comments, suggestions or additions should be sent to info@stfrancis-yorbalinda.com
- Animals
- Animal
Myths and Legends Tales
from Oban The Knowledge Keeper down under.
Bat Conservancy International (BCI) The
definitive site for information about these flying friends
Bat Quiz Test what
you learned at BCI
The Bug Club A
world of information about bugs, and a built-in search engine to extend learning
beyond this site.
The Electronic Zoo
Animals, animals, animals!
Insects Class
projects and links to other great insect sites.
Sea World Main selections
are Animal Information Data Base, Teacher's Guides, Shamu TV: Sea World and Busch Gardens
Video Classroom.
Virtual Safari Visit animals
from the Serengeti from a safe distance.
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- Astronomy and Space
- NASA website
for kids
- Solar System Info on the solar system.
It contains images and information about the Sun, planets, moons, asteroids,
comets and meteoroids found within the solar system.
Space Shuttle Encyclopedia
Has Mission File Archive, Mission Press Kits, Status Report/Press Release Archive,
Technical Information Archive, Earth Observation Image Archive, Image Clip Archive, Video
Clip Archive, and Sound Clip Archive.
Hubble Space Telescope
Handbooks and guides for proposing, observing, and data reduction. Plus info on the
telescope's instruments, pictures, and links.
Students for the Exploration and
Development of Space Covers space, astronomy, rocketry, etc. Has a chat room, and
links to further resources.
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- Art
- Coloring
Book Select a picture, and color it. The pictures used here were taken from
Coloring Book 2.0 by Jim Allison. There's even a Mac coloring program you can download.
Computer Graphics Great
set of links (with icons) to places like MiraLab Computer Graphics & Animation
Group, Electronic Visualization Laboratory, The University of Manchester
Computer Graphics Unit, Graphics, Visualization, and Usability Center, That's
Animations Index, 3D WEB, UBC
IMAGER Computer Graphics Lab, NASA Scientific Applications and Visualization
Branch.
The Incredible Art Department A
wonderful news service for students featuring stories, articles and reviews written by
students from around the world.
VidKids
California Museum of Photography's Web page for K-12 kids has an Interactive Gallery,
Media Literacy Program, and Lesson Plans.
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- Geography
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Virtual Tourist 2
The successor to the popular Virtual Tourist.
It operates as a map-based interface to City.Net, the Web's most extensive library of
community. Here you can find general information, tourist guides, and pictures for
thousands of places, so you can 'Virtually Tour' the world.
Earth Viewer
You can view either a map of the Earth showing the day and night regions at this moment,
or view the Earth from the Sun, the Moon, the night side of the Earth, above any location
on the planet specified by latitude, longitude and altitude, or from a satellite in Earth
orbit.
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- History/Social
Science/Museums
- The
Los Angeles County Museum of Art An assortment of treasures. View works by
well-known artists as well as examples from ancient Islamic and Far Eastern cultures.
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts
They have over 85,000 objects spanning 4,000 years. You can see some of them in the
exhibitions and galleries. There's also a museum shop, educational and general info, and
other resources.
Museums
From the WWW Virtual Library. Has links to museums, exhibits, galleries, libraries, and
further lists and links.
The National Gallery of Art Take
the art tour of the week, or search extensive collections of paintings, sculpture
and graphic art from the Middle Ages to the present.
Yahoo's
Museum Guide Links to museums around the world.
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- Health and Safety
- Children's Safety Center
Questions and answers help kids learn what to do in an emergency.
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- Language Arts
- Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland A Project Gutenberg version, with separate links for
each of the 12 chapters.
American Literary
Classics Every day this site posts a new chapter to a
famous book. You can also discuss different literary works with others by
e-mailing your thoughts to the
Reader's Discussion Room.
Children's Storybooks Online
An assortment of illustrated interactive stories.
Early Learner's Picture
Dictionary Over 1,000 entries to provide hours of entertainment
and learning.
Fake Out! The Definition
Guessing Game Build your vocabulary by trying these weekly
games. Guess the definitions to unusual words, and send in your own fake
definitions for next week's
game.
Genentech Mystery - The Blackout Mystery Read
the story and see of you can find the clues necessary to solve this biological
mystery.
Global
Campfire Be part of a never-ending story. Choose one of the
continuing stories and read what has been created from contributors from
all over. Submit your own
paragraph to add another twist in the plot.
Global Show and Tell
Children show off their favorite projects, possessions, accomplishments and collections to
kids (and adults) around the world.
KidLink Projects
for creating dialog between kids.
Intercultural E-Mail
Classroom Connections The IECC (Intercultural E-Mail Classroom Connections)
mailing lists are provided by St. Olaf College as a free service to help teachers and
classes link with partners in other countries and cultures for e-mail classroom pen-pal
and project exchanges.
KidPub Children can
publish stories on the Web and read stories published by other children. A free service
sponsored by En-Garde Technical Communication.
KidsCom They call it 'A
Communication Playground For Kids Ages 4 to 15'. And it's available in four languages.
Registration is necessary.
library
Tales of Wonder
Has 'Folk and Fairy Tales from Around the World'.
Vegetable Faces The
timeless pursuit of designing potato faces virtually
Vocabulary University® Get
ready for life by building your vocabulary. Try different word puzzles and
check your answers immediately.
Wacky Web Tales
Select nouns, verbs, adjectives and other parts of speech to fill in the blanks and create
funny stories. Geared for Grades 4 and above.
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- Math
- Brain Teasers
Weekly math questions for students in Grades 3 and above.
Geometry Forum
Online More than math, it offer links to many other areas of interest like
graphics, projects on the Internet, publications, creating Web pages, and more.
Investing for Kids Play
the "Think Quest Stock Game", and use real data from Wall Street
to buy and sell stocks. This site has information for beginning, intermediate
and advanced investors.
Designed for kids, but ID is not checked at the door....
Math Projects A bountiful source of math
projects, based at the University of Hawaii
MathMagic
Provides strong motivation for students to use computer technology while increasing
problem-solving strategies and communications skills.
MegaMath
Project is intended to bring unusual and important mathematical ideas to elementary school
classrooms.
The New York Stock Exchange Tour
the world's largest securities market
- Puzzles Online Puzzles!
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- Music
- Yahoo's Music Guide Contains a listing of about 33 categories
pointing to over 12,000 sites
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- Religion
- Catholic-USA With over 3,700 links,
it is "the motherlode" of truly Catholic links. All links below
can be found there.
The Vatican
The Diocese of Orange
Archdiocese
of Los Angeles
Catholic Information Center On The Web
Catholic
Online Web Index Catechism of the Catholic Church
Bible Commentaries
Theology Resources
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- Research Tools
- Ask
Jeeves For Kids A wonderful classroom search engine
Dogpile A tool
using multiple search engines.
Gopher Sites
Internet Public Library
Knowledge Adventure Encyclopedia
Orange County Public Library
The Reference Shelf A
great public resource from the University of California at San Diego
The World
Factbook Extensive information about anywhere on Earth,
from the organization that should know (the Central Intelligence Agency)
- Search
Engines and Directories
 Indicates
designed for kid
- All the web Super-duper general
purpose search engine. Bested all others in 12/99 speed and page return
tests
Ask Jeeves A
search engine allowing you to type in your question
(Where can I find clipart for this page?)
Ask Jeeves For Kids Ask
Jeeves' kid-friendly version, wonderful in the classroom
Copernic Using
its own downloadable software Copernic will scan up to 32 search engines.
Page returns are noted for their high level of relevancy rather than
on sheer volume
Excite An all-purpose
search engine
Ditto Engine devoted
to searching for images of people or things
Dogpile Puts your
query through eleven search engines
Education World A
database of 120,000+ sites: très cool
Google A very comprehensive search
engine cataloging most of the internet.
KidsClick! A
database of sites assembled and maintained by librarians throughout the
country
Lycos A well-regarded
engine for general purposes
Lycos Kids Lycos'
site containing kid-friendly places
OneKey A
closed search engine for kids that requires web sites to meet an editorial
policy. Updated weekly.
Webcrawler
One of the first popular search engines, now owned by Exite
Yahoo Yeah, everyone knows Yahoo.
But what does it stand for? Yet Another Hierarchieral Officious Oracle.
Yahooligans Yahoo's
search engine for kids
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- Science (General)
- Exploratorium Fun for kids of all ages, complete with a
digital library and FTP site with images and more.
Franklin Institute Virtual Science Museum
They 'bring the exhibits, resources, and fun of a museum visit right to your desktop with
virtual exhibits and hotlists.
Helping
Your Kids Learn Science For parents. Do your kids ask why is the sky blue, why do
things fall to the ground, how do seeds grow, what makes sound and music, where do
mountains come from? Well, look into this from the government.
The JASON Project In
1989, after receiving thousands of letters from children wanting to know how he discovered
the RMS Titanic, Dr. Robert D. Ballard founded the JASON Project. Each year, a two-week
scientific expedition is mounted in a remote part of the world and broadcast in real-time,
using state-of-the-art technology, to a network of educational, research, and cultural
institutions in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the United Kingdom.
NCSA Education
Program Makes the connection between scientific research and education, and makes
the tools for computational science available in the classroom.
Bill Nye, The Science Guy
TV's favorite answer man.
Ontario Science Center Tour,
events, "The Human Body", a young person's guide to the Internet,
and links.
VolcanoWorld
Everything about volcanoes. Includes a Hawaiian Tour Guide, volcano images, current and
recent eruptions, and more.
You Can with Beakman and Jax A
good question is a very powerful thing; from the zanies who bring you Beakman's
World.
1001 Periodic
Table of Elements and Science Quiz Questions Over 1000 Science and
Chemistry questions per grade level and topic for
school, college and university students
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- Other Resources
- Children's Literature A guide for the K-12 range. It has:
Lists of Recommended Books, Information about Fictional People and Places, Electronic
Children's Books, Current Movie Tie-ins, Electronic Journals and Discussion Groups, Other
Children's Literature Sites, Resources for Parents and Teachers, Children's Writings.
MidLink Magazine
An ezine created for and by kids in the middle school year (10 to 15).
Reading
Rainbow Program descriptions and suggestions for activities.
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- Other
Links For Kids
- www.4kids
CrayonCrawler.com
Kids On The Web
Kidsource Online
NASA
The White House
The White
House For Kids
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- Other
Links For Parents
- Natural Parenting Center
Kids and Guns Opposing sides of the gun debate join forces
urging adults to use common sense to protect kids.
Generations Online "Devoted to literacy and Internet access for the paper generation" (Senior
Citizens)
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- Other
Links For Teachers
- U.S. Department
of Education
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