Web Sites for Children, Teachers, Parents
These sites are those considered the best web sites for ages birth-14, outstanding in both content and conception. The web sites are of especially commendable quality - sites that reflect and encourage young people's interests in exemplary ways. Some of these links are also in other content areas elsewhere on the Midvale-Lincoln Web Site.
Lincoln's Library
Part One
Animals
African Conservation
- The African Conservation Foundation's web site, which is devoted to saving endangered and threatened African flora and fauna. It is a very beautifully designed site with a wealth of information about the African continent, including topographic maps of each country and breathtakingly beautiful photography. Every country on the continent has its own site, some with extensive information about the land and the cultures. Please set aside some time to visit the site.
- SeaWorld Busch Gardens
- Animal Information Data Base with extensive resources, including plants and biodiversity and animal sounds.
- Butterfly Site for Kids
- Moths of Wisconsin
- Wolves
Ornithology website
- Great picture gallery, includes Hummingbirds
- Snake River Birds of Prey
- Frogs and Toads
- Salamanders
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Enchanted Learning
- Children's educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. It is designed for students of all ages and levels of comprehension. It has an easy-to-use structure that allows readers to start at a basic level on each topic, and then to progress to much more advanced information as desired, simply by clicking on links.
Birds
Mammals
Whales
Whales Glossary
Sharks
Rays
Butterflies
Butterfly Glossary
Monarch Butterfly
- Wendell's Yucky Bug World
- If you're a fan of cockroaches, this is the page for you!
- Organization for Bat Conservation
- Wonderful site full of great photos and information about this misunderstood creature
- Patuxent Bird Identification
- Here we present photographs, songs, videos, identification tips, maps, and life history information for North American birds.
- US Fish and Wildlife Service
Who Am I? I live in the Pacific Ocean - Find out about Pinnipeds, whales, dolphins, coral reefs and much more at this kids'/teachers' site about the world's oceans. Beautiful and user friendly.
- For Kids - about Wetlands, Shorebirds
- Endangered Florida Panther
- The Animal Page
- Here are lists of common animals, with pictures and sounds, of how people describe the sounds animals make in 13 languages. How do Ukranians make the sound of a bee, or the Thais the sound of an elephant? Here you'll find out.
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Art/Math/ Music
- Artlex
- The name ArtLex comes from art lexicon. A lexicon is a list of words or a
dictionary. You will find definitions of more than 3,100 terms used in visual culture, along with thousands of images, pronunciation notes, great quotations and cross-references.
- Music Dictionary
- Includes sounds the instruments make
Origami
- For beginners or experienced origami enthusiasts
Crayola's Web Site
- Fun site for parents, teachers and kids. Lots of creative projects/lesson plans, pages to print and color, tour the crayon factory, send a card, and more.
- A. Pintura Art Detective
- Egyptian Art
- Great Buildings Online
- The leading architecture site on the web. This gateway to architecture around
the world and across history documents a thousand buildings and hundreds of leading architects, with 3D models, photographic images and architectural drawings, commentaries, bibliographies, web links, and more.
- Animated Learning
- 4 - 8 year olds have fun with numbers, words, stories and more, with a British accent!
- FunBrain
- K-8, teachers, parents: math, words, games
Geography, Geology
- Xpeditions
- National Geographic's interactive adventures that illustrate geography skills, recommended by U.S. educators. Includes 600 maps for printing. 1999 winner of best new education online product
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Blue Ribbon Site on Geography
- The Earth, from Space
- Tiger Map Server
- from National Geographic's recommended sites
- Geologic Time Scale
- World Surfari
- An 11-year-old's page that travels to a different country each month.
- Maps and Flags
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Literature/Writing
- Children's Book Awards
- Caldecott, Newbery, Coretta Scott King, other annual book awards
- Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC)
- The CCBC is a unique and vital gathering place for all who are interested in youth literature. Book reviews of the week, plus archives
- Mrs. Mad
- All the best children's books rated and reviewed for young readers, parent, teachers and librarians
- Arthur
- With a Librarian's Nook hosted by Paige Turner
- Kids on the Web
- Children write stories and post them for everyone to read.
- Rebus Rhymes
- Designed for children who are learning how to read. Preschoolers and Kindergartners enjoy picking out the words they can read in their favorite nursery rhymes.
- English-Spanish Dictionary
- Children's Literature Web Guide
- Extensive resource - for example: Author Dav Pillkey Mary Pope Osborne and the Magic Treehouse books Allen Say Chris Van Allsburg (Jumanji, The Polar Express)
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Museums, Libraries
- Children's Museum of Indianapolis
- This site is loaded with fun activities and exhibits. You can watch videos of how Kinetosaurs (giant metal sculptures of dinosaurs that move) are made and see them in action. At the Arts Workshop you can make your own multimedia puppet show. Check out the Cosmic Quest section where you can design your own space station online and learn about our solar system.
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Washington DC's National Gallery of Art, Kids Page
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
- BadgerLink
- BadgerLink is a program supported and funded through the Department of Public Instruction ‹ Division for Libraries, Technology, and Community Learning. Its goal is to provide increased access to information for Wisconsin residents in cooperation with the state's library community. Extensive and fascinating resource.
- Electronic Library
- The primary goal for this site is to provide links to World Wide Web resources selected for the staff and students of the Madison Metropolitan School District. Links found on this site are organized by subject and by theme. Excellent resource
- BookHive: Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg Co. Virginia
- A reader's advisory tool for infants through sixth graders that can be searched by topic or reading level; includes materials for parents and other adults.
- the Museum of Unnatural Mystery
- A slightly bizarre, cyberspace, science museum for all ages. Are there really flying saucers? What killed the dinosaurs? Is there something ancient and alive in Loch Ness? The Museum takes a scientific look at these, and other, questions.
- National Museum of the American Indian
- The British Museum
- Extraordinary online museum with a vast collection of exquisite photographs of African, Asian and other cultures.
- Smithsonian Institution
- The storehouse of American history has a wonderful set of online exhibits.
- This museum is devoted to the protection and study of the life, languages, literature, history, and arts of Native Americans.
- Brooklyn Expedition: Latin America
- A collaborative project of the Brooklyn Public Library, the Brooklyn museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Children's Museum, this site is a springboard to discussions about ancient and modern Latin American cultures, history, and animals.
- Egyptian Information
- University of Memphis Institute of Art and Archaeology leads you on a color tour of ancient Egyptian sites, Egyptian artifacts, and more!
- Egypt
- King Tutankhamen
- Sakkara Ruins, Egypt
- Luxor, Egypt
- AbuSimbel, Egypt
- Iran
- Iraq
- Sudan
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Part Two
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Last update: July 30, 2001
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