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Wednesday, 9th December 2009

ALSC Announces Exceptional Web Sites for Children

The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), has added recommended Web sites to Great Web Sites for Kids (www.ala.org/greatsites), its online resource containing hundreds of links to outstanding Web sites for children.

Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to Web sites of interest to children 14 years of age and younger, organized into diverse subject headings, from astronomy and space to zoos and aquariums, from games and entertainment to geography and maps. There is also a special section with sites of interest to parents, caregivers and teachers.

Little Lunkers
http://www.takemefishing.org/fishing/family/little-lunkers-learning-center
Janet Wong
http://www.janetwong.com/
Catch the Science Bug
http://www.sciencebug.org/
Color with Leo
http://www.colorwithleo.com/
Coretta Scott King Book Award Curriculum Resource Center
http://www.teachingbooks.net/crc.cgi?id=1
Global Trek
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/
What’s it like where you live?
http://www.mbgnet.net/
Literacy Connections
http://www.literacyconnections.com/index.php
Getty Games
http://www.getty.edu/gettygames/
Kid’s Science Challenge
http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com/
I was wondering…
http://www.iwaswondering.org/
CILIP Carnegie & Kate Green Away Children's Book Awards
http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/home/index.php
Storynory
http://storynory.com/
Earthquakes for Kids
http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
The Great Plant Escape
http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/gpe.html
Invention at Play
http://www.inventionatplay.org/
Library of Congress: Books for Kids
http://read.gov/kids/
Encyclopedia.com
http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Up To Ten
http://www.uptoten.com/
The Story Home
http://thestoryhome.com/

Source: American Library Association


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