Links to Fun and Educational Websites

• TrackStar
  Helps instructors organize and annotate Web sites for use in lessons.
• Awesome Library
  The Awesome Library organizes 33000 carefully reviewed K-12 education resources
• Defenders of Wildlife – Kids’ Planet
  Wildlife Adoption Center
• Discovery Kids
  Science is squishy, yucky and noisy.
• Gigglemoose.com
  Exploring and preserving nature with children, parents, and teachers.
• GLOBIO – Where Kids Discover the World
  Internet-based and community-based biodiversity education programs for children.
• HowStuffWorks – Learn how Everything Works!
  HowStuffWorks explains hundreds of subjects, from car engines to lock-picking to ESP,
• Kids Connect
  KidsKonnect has kids homework and educational help – a safe Internet gateway for kids
• Weekly Reader
  Weekly Reader offers engaging educational materials, reinforcing curriculums with reader friendly, supplemental learning tools.
• Google Directory – Kids and Teens
  Google for Kids
• Scholastic Explorers
  you have a chance to explore new worlds from Native American cultures to the rainforests of Costa Rica.
• Read Children’s ebooks online
  Children’s ebooks online Including animated texts and online storytelling videos.
• NYPL references for kids
  Great resources linked from the NYPL

• Tumble Books
  A large collection modern children’s picture books with animation. A narrator reads each book aloud. Includes English and Spanis
• Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games
  Arcademic Skill Builders: Online Educational Video Games for Students and Teachers.
• BrainPop
  Animated Science, Health, Technology, Math, Social Studies and English movies, comic strips and activity pages
• BrainPop Jr.
  Provides educational movies for K-3 students. Homework Help, leveled quizzes, games and activities for kids
• Cool Math
  An amusement park of math and more! Math lessons …
• Dositey.com
  Free educational programs, games, and printable worksheets in Math and English for grades K-8.
• The Yuckiest Site
  Entertaining science site
• Visuwords™ online graphical dictionary and thesaurus
  Look up words in the Visuwords online graphical dictionary and thesaurus to find their meanings and associations with other word

Daily Candy for Kids

April 7, 2008
Food Fright
Stat Kids Allergy Gear

Back in ye olde days, eating was a whole lot simpler. Foods weren’t overprocessed, kids weren’t allergic to everything, and parents didn’t OCD over every morsel.

Take back the table with customized health ID gear from Stat Kids.

The colorful wristbands, lunch bags, and backpacks allow you to clearly identify allergies or health issues so kids are protected when they’re out on their own. Cherry red silicone bands are waterproof, comfy, and fit small toddlers. Backpacks and lunch bags have display windows for health info. Travel fannypacks provide easy access to keep EpiPens, inhalers, and emergency medical info.

So they can eat, drink, and not feel scary.
Available at Fairway, 2127 Broadway, at 74th Street (212-595-1888 or fairwaymarket.com); online at statkids.com.

THINK
Race: Are We So Different?
What: Kids explore race from cultural and historical perspectives and how it impacts their lives.
Why: We are family.
When: Thru Apr. 27. Mon.-Fri., 9 a.m-5 p.m.; weekends and holidays, 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Where: Liberty Science Center, Liberty State Park, 222 Jersey City Blvd., Jersey City (201-200-1000).

HEAR
Cinderella and the Prince Who Slays the Magic Dragon
What: The Little Orchestra Society presents a fantastical story (dancers, a magic dragon, and puppets galore) to the music of Prokofiev.
Why: Fairy-tale fun.
When: Sat., 11 a.m. & 1 p.m.
Where: Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, 1941 Broadway, at 65th St. (212-875-5030). Tickets online at littleorchestra.org or 212-971-9500.

DANCE
Coyote’s Dance
What: Treehouse Shakers present a mesmerizing dance-play using trampolines to tell the Native American tale of the wily Coyote.
Why: Jump to it.
When: Sun., 11 a.m.
Where: The Ailey Citigroup Theater, Joan Weill Center for Dance, 405 W. 55th St., at Ninth Ave.  Tickets at 212-715-1914.