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Discussions
- Allows chat areas to be set up for families to use safely, without outside intrusions. 12-99
Lesson Plans
- Provides reviews of movies that include elements of lesson plans and background materials. Films rated by age appropriateness. Designed for parents, but appropriate for teachers. Also includes a section on films that have merit, but provides reasons why the films are not a preferred medium for use in teaching children. Index loads slowly.
Lists
- Provides information for birth parents, adoptees, and parents.
- Provides a searchable list of 120,000 child care centers and family day care homes in the United States. Facilities are searchable by zip code or city.
Materials
- Provides online information on personal credit and financial planning.
Papers
- Provides the most frequently requested pamphlets for parents.
- "A non-profit corporation dedicated to the protection and recovery of missing, abused, and exploited children." Also includes information for prevention.
- Provides information by state and city.
- Provides tips on teaching your children about personal finances.
Periodicals
- Provides articles for parents and families.
- Rated the number one education site by WEb 100.
- Provides information for working families. 3-00
Projects
- Provides nine developmental games to teach basic concepts and to promote interaction with parents. Requires Shockwave software (available for free from the site). Loads slowly.
- Provides opportunities for schools to conduct online fund raising projects and for parents to participate. 3-00
- Provides dozens of activities to help children understand their heritage. 11-99
- Provides homework assignments and other notes from teachers participating in the program. A free service for parents to keep up with their children's homework and encourage better communication between parents and teachers. If you want your children's teachers to participate, you will probably need to initiate the process by asking the teachers to post their assignments on this Web site.
- Provides opportunities for all of us to help in bringing Internet access to schools.