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Games
- Provides interactive educational games for preschool, kindergarten, and grades 1 through six. 8-99
- Provides five games, ranging in difficulty from preschool through elementary school level.
- The object of the game is to find all of the matching pairs of cards.
- "All you do is figure out how many of each bill or coin that you expect to get back when you pay for something."
- Each problem is a "pitch." If you are correct, you get a hit with a single, double, triple or home run, depending on the difficulty of the problem. The result is provided in large letters above the problem.
- Write your own wacky story. Help Dictionary Jenkins finish 5 different stories.
Lesson Plans
- Provides information and quizzes related to the nutritional value of fast foods. 3-00
- Provides 7 lessons for children kindergarten to third grade. 4-00
- Provides lessons and activities to help younger children enjoy learning about nutrition. 3-00
- Provides resources by topic. 3-00
- Provides many lessons to improve self understanding. Standards based. 9-99
Lists
- Provides a careful selection of sites for young kids.
- Children's Picture Book Database at Miami University provides short descriptions of over 4000 picture books for children through a search by keyword, subject, author or title. Does not provide the books or pictures of the books.
- 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.
- Provides a careful selection of sites for young kids.
- Seussville provides games and activities. 2-00
- The goal of this site is "to ensure that all children are ready to learn when they start school."
Materials
- Provides two coloring books, one for a boy 4 - 7 and one for a girl 4 - 8 years old.
- Provides worksheets for use by parents and teachers.
- Provides software by subject and grade level.
Multimedia
- Provides mazes, games involving colors or shapes, puzzles, guessing games, and more. Requires Flash4 software (available free). 4-00
- Provides simple tunes that can be played using your mouse. See the lower half of the page for the mini-piano. Uses Macromedia. 6-99
Papers
- Provides reviews of books for children, including younger children. 5-00
- "The Ogre and the Angel" has the message that it is always good to tell someone, such as a mother, father or grandmother, if someone is hurting or harming you. Pictures and words for young children.
- Provides articles related to health, education, safety, development and more.
- Provides articles to enhance learning for preschoolers.
- Provides skill checklists by age and subject, including Christian studies. 7-99
- Provides lyrics for young children's songs by subject, by keyword or by title. Called KIDiddles.
Periodicals
Projects
- Changes the color of the page when the mouse covers each small block of color. Fun for very young children. Can be used to teach colors.
- Provides images for coloring. The top black and white image changes each time that it is selected. Pages can be printed for coloring.
- Provides five developmental games to teach basic concepts and to promote interaction with parents. Requires Shockwave software (available for free from the site). Loads slowly.
- Requires the Shockwave Plugin. Provides an agent of the CIA and different outfits that can be dragged on to him with a mouse.
- Provides a way to participate in painting an alternative to eggs for vegetarians and others who prefer not to paint eggs. 4-00
- Provides finger plays for young children, materials that can be purchased for teaching young children, and a chat area.
- Provides fun activities to share with kids, preschool through second grade.
- Provides games, coloring books, and other activities for children, ages 2 - 10. 6-99
- Provides dozens of online games and activities for young children.
- Provides dozens of online games and activities for young children. Organized by the special software required, if any.
- Learning Planet provides four interactive games for preschool level to kindergarten level to enhance learning. The games use Java and may take over five minutes to load.
- Provides sing-a-longs, play activities and more.
- Provides projects, such as working with colors, numbers, the alphabet, and shapes. Also includes farm, dinosaurs, calendar, ocean, shoes, my body, reading, and zoo as topics.
- Provides lessons and activities suitable for preschool and kindergarten level children.
- Provides a trip around the world in twelve months.
- Provides interactive games. Uses Flash 4 plugin, which is free.
- Provides lessons by subject.
- Provides lessons and activities suitable for preschool and kindergarten level children.
- Provides tips and diagrams for making hand puppets for young children. 3-00
- Provides activities for families to develop readiness skills for different ages of young children.
- Provides activities to help understand science. 3-00
- Provides 8 projects to build related to exploration of space. 3-00
- Provides games, such as kickball, for young children.
Standards
Worksheets
- Provides printable calendars, with a "coloring book" top.
- Provides coloring books and links to related resources to help younger children become more aware of the need to avoid drug abuse. 9-99
- Provides dozens of worksheets to teach basic concepts, such as colors and shapes. 11-99