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Google Custom Search of sites for children.

Easy to read: TTJunior.com offers easy-to-read news stories for 2nd Graders, 3rd Graders and advanced 1st Graders, as well as remediation and ESL for all grades. Easy to write: Students can post blog comments that teachers review before publication. Click below to sign up. It's fast, easy and free!

"A virtual world aimed at kids between 6 and 14 enables them to interact with each other, play games, and create and share their own musical creations. "

You can choose a shape or draw your own and then choose words to fill it. Click the question marks on each screen for help if you get stuck.

This is a pdf file for PA Kindergarten standards.

Looking for a way to get your students more engaged? Mixbook is proud to present Mixbook for Educators, a program that allows educators even easier access to the most powerful suite of digital storytelling tools on the web. Check out the stories below to hear how Mixbook can help YOU.

Big Universe® is an award winning web community devoted to beautiful children's picture books. READ hundreds of offerings from today's best children's book publishers, CREATE e-books with the help of an easy-to-use Author Tool, and CONNECT with other Big Universe members to share your creations and to learn what books they have read, created, or recommend. Parents, teachers, kids, authors, and others can share and learn while they enjoy this educational and entertaining website.

All about setting up a ning account. Includes comments about ning for under 13yro students.

Kerpoof is all about having fun, discovering things, and being creative. Here are just a few ways you can use Kerpoof:\n * Make artwork (even if you aren't good at drawing!)\n * Make an animated movie (really! it's easy!)\n * Earn Koins which you will soon be able to spend in The Kerpoof Store\n * Make a printed card, t-shirt, or mug\n * Tell a story\n * Make a drawing\n * Vote on the movies, stories, and drawings that other people have made

The goals of the Copyright Society's Kid's Website are to provide: * an educational tool to define, explain, and apply copyright issues in language understandable to Middle School students. * an educational resource on copyright issues for teachers and parents of 5th - 8th graders who are engaged in a creative process. * instructions about how to protect your own creations by registering them with the U.S. Copyright Office in the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. The site is designed so that students may use it on their own or in connection with classroom activities. The material provided on this site may be reproduced for educational, noncommercial purposes, provided that the following copyright notice is included: "Copyright 2001, The Copyright Society of the U.S.A.," and the following acknowledgment also included: "These materials are reproduced from the copyrightkids.org website courtesy of Friends of Active Copyright Education (FA©E), an initiative of the Copyright Society of the U.S.A.."

"Discover the power of visual learning! Simply select a grade and subject area to find practical examples, lesson plans and real-life classroom stories."

Career site for primary age students.

Kids love to learn. PBS KIDS Raising Readers is a national literacy campaign, and part of the Ready To Learn initiative, focused on building reading skills at home, at school, in child care, and in the community. Funded by a Ready To Learn grant from the United States Department of Education, the Ready To Learn initiative is developing engaging PBS KIDS Raising Readers television programs, exciting games, playful Web sites, and easy-to-use learning resources for kids, parents, caregivers, and teachers-all with the goal of helping children ages 2 to 8 get ready to read.

The award-winning Random House Children's Books Web site, kids@random, offers an array of materials and activities free of charge for children, teens, parents, and educators. The innovative teachers@random Web site features many teaching tools and classroom activities, including title-specific teachers' guides developed by leading educators, biographies of authors and illustrators, and podcasts. The Magic Tree House, Junie B. Jones, and Andrew Lost online classroom clubs provide innovative curriculum tie-ins and interdisciplinary connections for teachers during the school year. Random House is also the proud host of the award-winning www.seussville.com, Dr. Seuss's home on the Internet.

Simple and interactive charts online.

The ultimate Children's Digital Library. Stories and activities for children young and old.

At kitZu, you will find a collection of free, educational, copyright-friendly media resources. Students and teachers around the world can access pre-made collections, or "kits," of various digital assets - still images, background music, narratives, video and text. Each kit is built around a common theme, or curricular topic. For students, this becomes the construction paper of the 21st century --allowing them to create reports and projects filled with rich, immersive media for communicating their vision of whatever subjects they chose. AS they master the technology, they will progress from building projects with supplied materials to projects where they find or create their own resources -- a strategy that results in truly authentic assessment as measured by the projects produced.

Helps students create work in a new and exciting way. Kids'Vid is an instructional website to help teachers and students use video production in class to support project based learning.