Some Online Resources for Parents

Child Safety on the Information Superhighway

http://www.4j.lane.edu/InternetResources/Safety/Safety.html
This site offers information on the benefits of the Internet, what dangers there are, what parents can do, and guidelines and rules.

Foster Parent Home Page

http://worldaccess.com/FPHP/
This site offers information and resources for foster parents, and issues relating to foster care.

The Future of Children

http://www.futureofchildren.org/
This site offers articles on special education, outcomes of early childhood programs, low birthweight babies, and many more.

Keeping Kids Reading

http://www.tiac.net/user/maryl/
This site offers information on how to get your children interested in books and reading.

Single Parenting

http://www.parentsplace.com/readroom/spn/index.html
This site offers information on how to be a better single parent. It has articles, book reviews, and other interesting features.

 

Some Online Resources for Children

Volcano World

http://volcano.und.nodak.edu
This site offers lots of information about volcanoes.

Exploratorium Museum

http://www.exploratorium.edu
This site offers natural history, fine arts, cow eye dissections, life on Mars, and much more.

Nye Labs

http://nyelabs.kcts.org
This site is all about a science show on PBS.

Kids Zone

http://www.spokane.net/kidzone/
This site offers educational sites for kids, guidelines for parents and teachers, along with sites for teens.

Virtual Whales

http://www.sfu.ca/~michaec/whales.htm
This site offers lots of information about whales.

Apollo 11

http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/hqpao/apollo_11.html
This site offers posters, aerospace history, information about the space program, misson information, and pictures of views from space.

Book Nook

http://www.schoolnet.ca/arts/lit/booknook/index.html
This site is a place where children can read and write about books, and meet in a conference area to discuss books.

Yahooligans!

http://www.yahooligans.com
This site is a search engine geared to children.

Field Museum of Natural History

http://www.bvis.uic.edu/museum/Home.html
This site includes online exhibits with plenty of graphics.

Dr. Math

http://forum.swarthmore.edu/dr.math
This site is run by a group of students at Swarthmore College who help children with their math problems through e-mail.

Cool Word of the Day

http://www.dsu.edu/projects/word_of_day/word.html
This site provides one Webster's Dictionary word per day, with hyperlinks to related sites, and a thesaurus.

A Girls World

http://www.agirlsworld.com/
This site is just for girls. They can give one another advice, read about their lives, and learn about women who have acheived their goals.

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