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When it comes to family safety, we aim to: *Provide parents and teachers with tools to help them choose what content their children see online *Offer tips and advice to families about how to stay safe online *Work closely with organizations such as charities, others in our industry and government bodies dedicated to protecting young people

This YouTube channel features fun science experiments for families. Families nationwide can take advantage of the information presented on this dedicated YouTube channel, featuring simple, fun science experiments that parents can conduct at home with their children__such as making colors explode in a puddle of milk, creating sidewalk chalk, and making a cloud.

Family games offers an online fantasy-adventure novel, randomly generated haiku poems and stories (reload for a new versions) and other interactive features for grades 5-12.

"Welcome to Photo-notes.com ...a fun way to share your photos! A free service for generating PolaroidTM-like images and emailing them to family and friends!"

Smithsonial Education for Educators, Families and Students

This site is really interesting. I clicked on educators and I was able to search a topic by keyword, grade, as well as state and standard. When the search came up It has numerous additional links to go out to. It really looked like the links had good materials for teachers and kids. The one that I chose had lessons that could be printed out for educators.

Share your family tree. Free

I have used this site to upload videos created by teachers and students. I haven't seen anything inappropriate on it. I know it is monitored because I believe the video had to be previewed before it was released onto the site.

"TimeGlider is a data-driven interactive timeline application built on the (Adobe) Flash platform. You can "grab" the timeline and drag it left and right, and zoom in and out to view centuries at a time or just hours. TimeGlider allows you to create event-spans so that you can see durations and how they overlap. Being web-based, TimeGlider lets you collaborate and share easily. You can create timelines about the last year of your family, the last century of world events, or about pre-historical (bce/bc) times. Currently, one can zoom out to a scope of millenia:"

Timelines are great ways for students to organize and present information.

Posterous sites are the simple way to send your message where you need it. Posterous groups are great for sharing privately via email, mobile, or the web. Discuss, collaborate, or just keep everyone on the same page, whether it's colleagues, a club, team, group of friends, or family

Math and Money, as academic standards-based program designed to teach middle school students the value of managing and saving money. Teachers can download lessons, printables, and bonus materials. Students can participate in an interactive game to see the impact of smart money decisions and budgeting. A parent handout encourages families to work together to create budgets, save wisely, and cut costs.

NumberNut.com is a part of Rader's family of educational games and activities. Number Nut provides some great games with which students can practice and develop their math skills. Unlike many other Math game websites, Number Nut includes some word problems that force students to problem solve rather than just recall information from rote memorization.

Novel Games provides a large list of fun, simple, educational games. The list of games includes numerous math and word games. All of the games are free and are available in multiple formats. All of the games on Novel Games are easily embedded into your class blog or website.