Kid's Resources!      

There are great places to take your children online.

Recommanded    Sites
Elementary Ages	Older Kids / Parents
Space Stuff	Cartoons!

Sites for Elementary Ages

• .The Just For Kids Links Page -- features links to fun places on the web for kids, including Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, a Cooking Club, and E-mail Club and more!
• Austin KidsNet -- offers many great things for kids including games, toys, arts, crafts, science, books and more. A great place for kids to surf!
• Kid's Page -- features interactive games, a Cool Tour of our environment, Animal Tracks and much much more. A really fun site to visit!!
• KidsCom -- This busy place features a graffiti wall, games, stories and key pals for your young one, and a place for parents and teachers too!
• CyberKids -- A place for kids and teens, featuring multimedia, an art gallery, a place for young composers and authors and great stories.
• Berit's Best Sites -- Creepy crawlies, crafts, stories, dinosaurs and more brought to you by Berit.
• Hickory & Dickory's Adventure Page -- is full of adventures both entertaining and educational. Children are sure to visit this site again and again.
• Carlos' Coloring Book--pick a picture and color it in. When you're finished, you can download the picture and keep it.
• Kid Safety on the Net--A course in safety for kids, well-organized and full of helpful information. Compiled by the University of Oklahoma. Refer to it now, before you need it.
• The Hands On Children's Museum--if you're ten years old or younger, this museum is made just for you. If you can't go to Olympia, Washington to see it, this page is the next best thing.
• Parents and Children Together Online--A participatory magazine from The Family Literacy Center, in Indiana. Read what other parents and kids are interested in, or submit an article yourself.
• Platypus Family Playroom -- This playroom is a repository of stories, activities, mazes and songs for families of all ages.
• TheKids.com -- Explore illustrated stories from around the world. Join in the conversation, write stories, play games, try new links or vote in the Kid Stuff opinion polls.
• ACEKids -- is a great place for kids featuring stories, contests, kid's home pages, kid's pages and science fiction.

• Pre-School Pages -- Young children will find tons of interesting facts and activities here for both fun and learning. Including ideas, articles, projects, seasonal themes, and printable pages, kids and parents will love this site!

Sites for Older Kids / Parents:

• The Weather Unit : Features the Educational Rain Game.
  For all ages.
• First Aid Online--no matter how old (or young) you are, you should know this stuff. Find out how to stock a First Aid kit, plus what to do in case of emergency. Do it now, before you need it.
• HCC Dinosaur Exhibit--Honolulu Community College offers a look at its collection of dinosaur fossils. The curator offers a commentary on each on-line exhibit.
• MidLink Magazine--the electronic magazine for kids in the middle grades. Sail the ocean with the ship Malcolm Baldridge, or see what other kids are doing with their computers to write school reports.
• A Word A Day--what's the good word? find out here with a new vocabulary-builder daily.
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland--the Lewis Carroll classic, with chapter headings so you don't have to read it all at once.
• I Live On A Raft--a book of fanciful poetry by Jerzy Harasymowicz.
• Muppets Home Page--This is an unofficial collection of information about Jim Henson's Muppets.
• Ingenius--Multimedia news for kids, parents and schools.
• Makayla's PlayPen - The worlds first ALL Child Safe search engine, this site promises to add only SafeSurf Rated sites to its database.

Space Stuff:

• The USS Jaguar awaits! Go where no kid has gone before on a special space ship made just for you, so join the crew and explore!
• NASA Calendar--Star dates: NASA tells you what's going on now, what went on in the past, and what's going to happen in the future.
• The Nine Planets--All of the moons of Uranus take their names from--whose works?It's our neighborhood in the cosmos: get to know it better. Facts and GIF's abound. Mirror sites all over the world to speed up your connect time.
• The StarChild Project--A look at astronomy. You can download a simulation of the Big Bang that began the Universe, and it goes forward from there....
• Space Shuttle--Information about the mission in progress: if there's no mission in progress, the schedule for the next mission.
• Space Telescope Science Institute--See the latest pictures from the Hubble Space Telescope. You can download them if you like.

Cartoons:

• Disney Online -- All the latest and greatest from the most wonderful place on earth, featuring Toy Story and The HunchBack of Notre Dame!
• Warner Bros. Kids Page -- Cartoons, interactive games and even Karaoke at this fun site just for kids!
• The Comic Strip--Check out popular comic strips syndicated by United Media, including "Peanuts" and "Dilbert," and learn about the cartoonists.