Last month, the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA), 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 websites 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.
Members of the ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids Committee review and evaluate potential sites for inclusion and vote on the sites to be included. They also regularly check the entire site to ensure currency and re-evaluate sites when necessary.
The added sites are:
* Aaron Shepards Folktales www.aaronshep.com/stories/folk.html
* Academic Skill Builders www.arcademicskillbuilders.com/
* BAM! Body and Mind www.bam.gov/
* Book Worm for Kids www.bookworm4kids.com/
* Census in Schools www.census.gov/schools/census_for_kids/
* Chicos www.chicos.net/
* Cool Science for Kids http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience/forkids/
* Dogo News www.dogonews.com/
* Enchanted Learning www.littleexplorers.com/languages/spanish/Aisfor.shtml
* Exploratorium Science of Gardening www.exploratorium.edu/gardening/feed/index.html
* Games for Change www.gamesforchange.org
* Gennas World www.gennasworld.com
* If I Was King of the World www.ifiwasthekingoftheworld.com/
* Jefferson Lab http://education.jlab.org/
* Lab TV www.ndep.us/LabTV.aspx
* MakeBeliefsComix www.makebeliefscomix.com/Comix/
* Math Apprentice www.mathapprentice.com/
* Mr. PicassoHead www.mrpicassohead.com
* Nourish Interactive www.nourishinteractive.com/
* NSA www.nsa.gov/kids/
* Pat Mora www.patmora.com
* Plimoth Plantation www.plimoth.org/education/olc/index_js2.html#
* Smarty Games www.smartygames.com/
* University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne extension http://urbanext.illinois.edu/kids/index.html
* US Mint for Kids www.usmint.gov/kids/
* Wacky Web Tales www.eduplace.com/tales/
* You Are Here www.ftc.gov/youarehere/
Members of the 2010 Great Web Sites for Kids Committee are: Meagan Albright, co-chair, Alvin Sherman Library, Research and Information Technology Center, Nova Southeastern University, Ft. Lauderdale, Fla.; Carla Morris, co-chair, Provo City (Utah) Library; Ryan Baker, San Jose (Calif.) State University; Rachel Fryd, Free Library of Philadelphia; Sharon Ledford, Harrison Elementary School, Lexington, Ky.; Elizabeth Medley, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Jacqueline Partch, Multnomah County Library, Portland, Ore.; Amanda Sharpe, UCLA; and Stephanie Simpson, Charlotte, N.C.
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