WWW Resources for and about Kids

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Examples of Schools with Web Sites

• Sandford School - a local Bristol Primary School
• Churchill School - a local Bristol Secondary School
• Kingswood School - a local school in Bath
• School's Online - a DTI funded Internet project for UK Schools
• UK Education Web Pages - a place to for UK schools to put their WWW pages - sponsored by Research Machines. It has recently been extended and contains a very useful index of over 250 topics which can be used to find Internet resources for classroom projects.
• BT Campus World - British Telecom's education service - for access to all the resources a subscription needs to be paid.

Children's Libraries and the Web

• Booklook - Boulder Public Library's magazine for Kids
• Library Youth Departments - a collection of links to public libraries with WWW pages for children. They are all american libraries of course.
• Kids and Libraries - Illinois State Library's children's library pages.

General Sites For Kids

• Yahooligans - a search engine which only covers WWW sites that are designed for children.
• Internet Public Library Youth Division - well designed and thought out.
• Ultimate Children's Internet Sites - lots of useful links here.
• Kids On The Web - this one has been put together by and for kids.
• Links for Kids - another good collection of interesting things.

TV Programmes on the Web

• Blue Peter - here's one I linked to earlier.
• Children's BBC - not the same since Gordon the Gopher left.
• Short Change - the kids consumer programme
• The BookWorm - the most watched literature based programme on British TV.
• Tomorrow's World - accessible science.

Internet Projects for Children

• JASON Project - very glossy, very well funded - exploration with the man who found the Titanic.
• European Schools Project - using e-mail to learn other languages
• Welcome to the WhiteHouse for Kids - Socks the cat shows you around The Whitehouse.

Some Museums and Galleries on the WWW

• National History Museum
• National Science Museum
• Museum of Bad Art
• The Smithsonian
• Le Louvre
• The Virtual Museum of Computing
• Other Museums and Galleries

Kids Own Pages

• Jessica's Home Page
• Bowen Family
• Kate's page

Literature on the Web

• Story Resources on the Web - where to find stories, hear stories and how to tell stories.
• Children's Writing Resource Centre - how to write for children.
• Lewis Carroll Home Page - an example of what can be done.
• Collaborative Book Reviews - children across Canada reviewing the same book by e-mail
• Children's Literature Web Guide - what literature is available on the WWW.
• Tarboard - an Arthur Ransome WWW discussion forum.

Possible School Project Topics

• Space Travel - NASA - very well put together
• Greenpeace - environmental issues
• Weather - the Met Office
• Marine Life - Sea World
• Business Education on the Internet - for those difficult economics projects.

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Content by Sarah Ormes of UKOLN
Last updated on 24-Apr-1998