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Last updated Thursday, November 24, 2005

• 4Kids Treehouse
  Online activities, games, science, projects and entertainment.
   
• Best Paper Airplane
  During the summer of 1950, eight-year-old Michael O'Reilly watched in amazement as his sister's boyfriend made the best paper airplane in the whole world. "When he started folding the paper, I knew this was something different, something special. He never explained how he did it but every move, every fold, every detail was burned into my memory." Today, Michael shares the secrets of the DC-3 paper airplane: how to build it and how to fly it.
   
• Billy Bear's Online Games
  Billy Bear has a large collection of games for preschoolers and early elementary grades created with Java and JavaScript. This means you don't need to download any plug-ins, but you do need a newer browser version (at least Netscape 3.0 or Internet Explorer 4.0). Be sure to have both Java and JavaScript enabled in your Netscape preferences or Internet Explorer options. Some of these games are very cute. My personal favorite is the addictive Billy Bear Solitaire: the aim of the game is to delete as many bears as possible by jumping checkers-style.
   
• Cyberkids
  Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge. It's clear that this virtual playground exalts the inner life of children to its rightful throne. Check out news and reviews from adults and art and articles by the young set.
   
• Dinobuzz
  The unfortunate result of the popularity of dinosaurs is that science gets obscured by fantasy. Dinobuzz brings you the latest in current dinosaur topics to help you differentiate popular myths from real science. Could we really bring back the dinosaurs like they did in the movie Jurassic Park? Did the dinosaurs actually travel at speeds of 50 mph, as depicted in the movie? This excellent resource is part of the outstanding Dinosauria website, created by the Museum of Paleontology at UC Berkeley.|
   
• Disney's homepage
  Family fun, books, home videos, online shopping at the Disney store. Information on theatre, software, movies, TV, travel and just a whole lot of fun.
   
• Exploratorium
  Hundreds of interactive exhibits about science, art and how we think.
   
• Fox Kids
  This week's TV shows, fox kids club, contests and games.
   
• Gargoyles in New York
  You don't have to be in New York to enjoy these virtual walks around the city, peering up at the monsters. "They crouch in the corners and lurk under windows. They curl around drainpipes and blend into doorways. They're so clever at hiding most folks won't see them at all." You can choose from monster walks down Wall Street, Madison, Gramercy Park, Central Park, the West Side and at the Brooklyn Museum. This Web site is illustrated with photographs and the writing is deliciously fun.

• Hop Pop Town
  Three ingenious neighborhoods are filled with musical sounds available for the clicking. Similar to the popular Living Books series (which taught our children to click on everything), each clicked object animates and plays a sound. Sequences of sounds can be recorded and played back. For older kids (or parents who take dictation), they also have writing pages based on material from the musical games. Requires Shockwave.

• InfoRamp
  Great stuff! Games, visit other schools that are online, even visit museums.

• Internet Public Library Youth Division
  Includes Story Hour with illustrations, World of Reading with book reviews written by children. Each book has information on the author, grade level recommendations and any awards it has won. Children can even ask questions of the authors.
   
• Kids On the Web
  Everything from Sea World to Global Show and Tell. Tons of fun! Spend hours playing in the Fun Stuff areas, using homework tools, writing to pen pals or sifting through children's books and stories. Also contains educational sites, links for adults and teenagers and info about how to keep kids safe on the Net.
   
• Little Explorers
  Little Explorers makes surfing the Internet very easy. A picture-dictionary format is used to link to hundreds of carefully-chosen child-friendly sites around the world. Since the pictures are links, even pre-readers can surf with a minimum of help and guidance from their favorite adult. Older kids can use Little Explorers as a school reference.

• Mars Travel Planner
  It's your job to put Pathfinder on Mars. But before you press the launch button, here's a hint. Picking the right launch date so that Earth and Mars line-up correctly is important. When was the real Pathfinder launched? You can find the answer by searching this CNN site with the seek button just below the game console. Next, figure out the velocity needed to escape the Earth's gravitational pull. Go ahead, give it a try.

• National Geographic Kids
  Youthful and entertaining illustrated summary of current issue's highlights. Games and other online item to teach and entertain children.

• Scrambler
  This Scrambler game is fun for the whole family because you are timed as you play at one of three levels of difficulty. Easy divides the picture into nine tiles, medium into twelve, and hard into sixteen tiles. There are ten pictures to choose from, and every time I've visited this site they have added more Little ones will need help choosing a picture, then pressing "Load" and "Scramble". But as soon as they see the scrambled tiles, they will understand what to do next. Can you beat your preschooler?

• Squigly's Playhouse
  There are lots of things to do at Squigly's Playhouse. You will find games, puzzles, jokes and riddles, plus lots of ideas for fun activities. Join Squigly as he celebrates all the holidays with creative new pages.

• Switcheroos
  What, no little green men found on Mars? Don't let reality stand in the way of your fun. Put together your own alien with these spare parts. This simple click-and-play is just right for the preschool and kindergarten set.

• Teletubbies
  The Teletubbies come all the way from Britain, where they have their own television show. Play a tune on the voice trumpets (fun for all ages) by moving your mouse over the flowers, then clicking on the trumpets as they appear. I never thought vacuuming could be made into a game, but I actually had fun helping Noo Noo the elephant "hoover" (that's English for vacuum) up the falling toast. All require Shockwave.

• The Electronic Zoo
  All sorts of great information on animals. Also NetVet that tells you all about becoming or being a veterinary and working with animals.

• The Galaxy Page
  An excellent site for anyone interested in the planets and the solar system.
   
• The White House
  Visit the White House interior and find out information about the first family.

• The White House for Kids
  Socks, the Clinton's cat, will lead you on a tour of the White House at this site. After the tour you can write a letter to the President.
   
• Theme-Related Resources on the WWW
  Gander Academy has created this resourceful site for elementary students. This site offers facts, links and all kinds of information on a wide variety of topics from airplanes to volcanoes.
   
• wicked 4 kids
  A high quality original interactive site designed by a former Nanny.  Features games, quizzes, puzzles, riddles and jokes, cooking and craft activities and heaps more!!!

• World Kids Network
  'If you can dream it, you can do it!'  Be anyone, do anything, or find out almost anything.

• Yahooligans
  This site has links to lots of neat places to go. For ages 8- to 14 years old. If it is out there, it's listed on this site.

• Zoom School
  Zoom School is an online elementary school classroom, but don't let that scare you away. The school features interesting monthly themes and makes learning fun by including relevant games and stories.

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