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Created by Yahoo as a directory to children's material online. Intended for 8- to 14-year-olds with numerous links to children-oriented sites. It is informative and well designed.

Created specifically for school kids who might become frustrated with the vastness of the Internet. The goal of Kid's Web is to present students with a subset of the Web that is simple to navigate, and contains information targeted at the K-12 level. Each subject area contains a list of links to information that is understandable and interesting to school kids. There are also links to external lists of material on each subject which more advanced students can browse for further information.

The New York Times Learning Network is a free service for students in grades 6-12, their teachers and parents. The site is up-dated Monday through Friday throughout the school year.

MaMaMedia's mission is to offer a rich and entertaining time for kids while providing playful learning and increased technological fluency. visitors to MaMaMedia.com can create Web site collections, design their own multimedia characters and stories, enjoy computer clubs and engage in many other interactive activities in a safe environment. It is a site, say its developers, based on 15 years of research at Harvard and MIT.

CyberKids is a free online magazine for kids by kids (with a little help from their big friends). It contains stories, artwork, puzzles and more. The site has a kids chat area, links to all kinds of places, help with online tutoring, and numerous games.

Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting System, this site provides a place for kids to listen to music, quiz about music and find information about science, animals, homework help, games, sports information and much more.

Experts in numerous categories can be queried. From astronomy to zoology, these experts are on call 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Thanks to the power of 3-mail and the World Wide Web, these gurus are now just a mouse click or e-mail message away.

Has numerous games, activities and homework help, focusing on kids below the age of 12. To protect children from adult and other objectionable content, SearchGuard is automatically enabled when you visit this kids area of www.Lycos.com. With SearchGuard enabled, objectionable content is removed from search as are navigation links to possibly adult content such as chat clubs and message boards.

The Internet Public Library's Youth Division offers content that people of all ages can enjoy. In a Story Hour section are illustrated books that young readers can understand. A section entitled world of Reading offers book reviews written by children. And, there are many areas to explore in this outstanding site.

KIDSNET is a national resource for children's television and radio. Has links to media and programming information for youngsters of preschool to high school age. You can find study guides, programming and media ratings.

Young people can visit the national Inventors Hall of Fame to search for inventors by name or browse by invention. They will find a brief biography and information about people that might spark their inventive creative stream.

Every week, check out a fresh story "In brief." It gives a quick taste of science discoveries and information. "Features" are in-depth explorations of the science behind the headlines. Produced by the National Institute for Science Education.

Sports Illustrated for Kids presents all kinds of sports news in a lively presentation format and trivia questions on sports to challenge knowledge about the world of sports.

Family Village was developed by the Waisman Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison to promote, facilitate and support the use of the Internet and WWW by parents and families with children who have disabilities or special health care needs. the project aims to provide a means for families to acquire practical, useful, and accurate information about disabilities and to facilitate family to family communication.

The Coloring Book has all kinds of pictures that you can select colors for and fill them in. Themes range from holidays to animals, sports, birthdays and more.

Follow the TerraQuest team as they travel to such exotic places as Antarctica and the Galapagos. Read their dispatches from the field and see photos of their adventures.

Tiger Adventures are interactive, online simulation games that will draw you into the world of tiger ecology and conservation.

This site bills itself as an Alphabet Superhighway. There are links to tutorials to improve writing skills and various activities involving words and writing. It provides reference tools such as a link to an online dictionary and to a thesaurus.

The National Geographic magazine site has all kinds of information about our planet and its inhabitants, and as always, great photos.

Aquaria Central brings you a fund of information on caring for fish and all kinds of additional facts and photos about marine life in a variety of environments.

www.schoolwork.org

Can e-mail a librarian. For kids seventh grade and up.

http://www.KidsClick.com

This area of the KidsClick.com site you can ask more specifically about searchable and comprehensive directory of Internet resources for kids selected by librarians with notes on reading levels.

http://www.bigchalk.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/WOPortal.woa/db/Home.html

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