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The International Children's Digital Library has children's picture books written in English and other languages. The content of the books seems to have an emphasis on fairy tales, folklore, and diverse cultures. From their mission statement, "to excite and inspire the world's children to become members of the global community - children who understand the value of tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas -- by making the best in children's literature available online."

The internetsafetygame http://www.att.com/gen/general?pid=1391 is from the AT and T website. It's a game with a villain and a hero. The player is the hero trying to catch the villain doing bad things online in 8 different ways. It's very child friendly.

An internet safety website obviously intended for elementary age children to learn the basics about internet safety. You follow "Captain Broadband" around to 8 different sites answering questions about internet safety. When you answer all questions correctly, you can print off a certificate that must make elementary children feel good about themselves.

Webwisekids has resources for teaching Internet safety that are appropriate for middle school to high school age children. Online videos and lesson plans help make it easier to plan lessons to teach about Internet safety. The stories used do not sound contrived or artificial at all, and are definitely worth checking out. The ability to order games to reinforce the concepts taught through the lessons is an added bonus that might make this an attractive option for teaching about safety.

The site has a wide array of information from simulations that teachers/parents can conduct with students/children, a list of dangers on the web, true stories of children and child predators, and a list of ways to prevent online child victimization.

This site offers safety tips through videos and games. Real-life scenarios are presented to reinforce the basic tips being taught. The examples given are realistic, and can get otherwise naive students to be more aware of their activities on the internet. The online videos can be easily incorporated into any classroom at the start of the semester. This is a great resource for any child or teen.

Gives younger children an interactive instructional delivery of New York City and immigration.

I like this! Very accessible for young children and still appropriate for up to 4th grade.

Geared toward parents, this site cautions parents specifically about sexual predators and their potential influence on children through the internet. It details behavior that could be signs that a child is at risk and offers guidelines to help make your children's internet usage safer. The major guideline is awareness and communication.

This site has many online safety games for younger children and information for children of all ages as well as helpful information for teachers, parents and law enforcement.

This is an AWESOME website for parents, teachers and students to use in order to remain safe online. I really like how many tips are provided for parents. The website breaks down tips for how much independence and use online children should be provided. While exploring the site, I thought that it was very helpful and user friendly. Overall, if I were a parent this website would be very helpful.

Site focuses on how to keep children safe from internet predators. Carrie links to sex offender databases as well as other security sites.

One of Dr. Topp's suggested sites, NEWTON gives children the opportunity to connect with real scientists from around the world. If a child is having difficulty finding the answer to a question using traditional methods, he or she can search the archives on this site or ask the question. Depending on its content, a scientist may answer the question.

This is a very informative website that helps teach parents and children how to be safe on the internet.

Nonverbal, no written instructions, highly engrossing for young children, but with applications at many levels. Explore alphabets (4 languages), numbers, art, music, plus. Recently added a user guide for educators & parents who don't want to just explore.

This is a great website full of different culture stories for children to read.

This site has lots of resources for teaching kids about cyberbullying and how to prevent it. Resources on this site would be appropriate for middle school to high school age children.

Interactive website about how to stop and prevent cyberbullying. Can be used with 4th grade and up.

Something from the creative side with a kids cookbook that covers internet safety tips that parents and children could cook and study together

This site is designed to be a resource for parents who have decided to home school their children. The site offers a lot of information and resources for home schooling including: newsletters, discussion forums, curriculum resources, workshops, and scholarship information.

Great site. Loaded with videos, information for kids, as well as parents and educators. The kids section has games, downloads and other resources. I also liked the faith resources section. This could be used in schools with a religious background.

The site contains a parent resource center- hot topics, videos and tutorials (social networking, cyberbullying, etc..) family fun lessons that parents can conduct with their children, D.A.R.E. activity lessons. There is also games, wallpapers, screensavers, videos for online safety and a site for educators.

This site covers 5 web strategies for keeping children safe when using the internet. The article discusses the pros and cons of custom browsing, filtering software, prefiltered browsers, net playgrounds, and monitoring and locking software.

This website has resources, tips, and videos for parents on how to protect their children when using the internet.

This site focuses on answering questions posed by kids. Resources are included for all of the core subjects.

This site is based off of the adult search engine ask.com. This specifically caters to children and offers age-appropriate results to search inquiries. In addition to the search box, students can click on the following categories for more educational links: schoolhouse, movies, games, images, answers.

This site offers basic internet safety tips for children and teens. They are a good starting point for conversation between parents and kids on how to stay safe online.