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As our children grow, they need well-rounded stimulation and exposure to various interests in order to become informed and educated adults later. Most children are taught to engage in sports, while their exposure to the arts may not be as intensive.

These lessons are designed to guide young children through an introduction to symmetry using a puzzle set of seven geometric shapes called Tangrams. As children manipulate the tangrams, they will visually learn about slides (translation), turns (rotation), and flips (reflection).

As the age at which children start to get familiar with computers and the net gets ever lower, questions are starting to be asked about what that exposure is doing to our children's brains and their ability to concentrate.

"By providing a directory of children's art collections from around the world, art educators, museum and gallery directors, researchers, parents, and children, are able to learn from, and contribute to, an international community of child art collectives. "

Sharing Creative Works is a new comic about Creative Commons. It aims to explain the basics of CC licensing as simply as possible to a general audience, including children.

The photograph became an icon of the Great Depression: a migrant mother with her children burying their faces in her shoulder. Katherine McIntosh was 4 years old when the photo was snapped. She said it brought shame -- and determination -- to her family.

Take advantage of the natural affinity children have for comics and use them as a powerful teaching tool in your classroom. The following tips, tools, and resources will get you started.

Stories, books, audio, movies, and games. We have many free stories, audio books, games, movies, and story contests. We publish too!

Being an "agent of civilization" is one of the many roles ascribed to teachers. If we are to have any expectations of producing a well-educated, well-prepared generation of deep-thinking, resourceful leaders, then it is essential to give students an opportunity to review, respond to, and ultimately revere the power of the human imagination-past and present. There may be no better way to promote this than to study, understand, and exult in masterpieces.