Midvale's Library
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.
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Science/Space/Environment
All About Clouds
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PlanetPals
- Suitable for young children, this site features Planetpals,
"characters that help kids learn about the earth in a fun way." You'll find activities, games, crafts, and information about earth science, ecology and Earth Day. There are also recycling kits, facts, lists and teacher/parent pages.
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NASA-Exploring the Sun
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Seeing is Believing
- Great site all about sight
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Photographs of Tornados, hurricanes, northern lights and more
Fossils
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Environmental Protection Agency's Explorers' Club
- Includes Water
A special site to help educate children about their water environment. Children can create a drawing with a water message and have it displayed on this site. Visit the Drawing Gallery. Site has rotating topics. Also lessons which are useful to teachers and parents.
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Biology Kids Corner
- Whooping Cranes
- Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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California Academy of Science
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Forest Plants
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Forest Wildlife
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National Parks maps
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Conservation and the Environment
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Extreme Weather and Climate Events
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ZoomAstronomy
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Earth
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The Constellations and their Stars
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ZoomOceans
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American Environmental Photographs 1891-1936
- From the U of Chicago Library collection at the Library of Congress
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Entomology
- Designed for teachers, young people, and anyone else who wants to pursue an interest
in Entomology. Several articles give resources and basic information about insects and their relatives, while others outline activities with different insect themes.
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Biomes of the World
- Need information on stars, constellations, the Milky Way? Check out this site!
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The Nine Planets
- The Nine Planets is an overview of the history, mythology, and current scientific knowledge of each of the planets and moons in our solar system. Each page has text and images, some have sounds and movies, most provide references to additional related information.
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ZoomRainforest
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Biomes-Habitats
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Big Bend National Park, Texas
- Take a Virtual Hike through this beautiful National Park. Includes Geology information
Save Our Frogs!
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Social Studies/Culture/History
- Martin Luther King Jr.
- Interactive site from The Seattle Times.
- HyperHistory Online
- This helpful collection of historical maps complements timelines of lives and events in world history. Includes 2000 files covering 3000 years of world history
- The Library of Congress' Country Studies
- Antartica
- Africa
- Thailand
- Vietnam
- Japan
- Europe
- Caribbean
- China
- Russia
- Indonesia
- India
- Nepal
- Mexico
- Latin America
- Myanmar
- Burma(name given by English colonialists)Myanmar(name given by military rulers)
- Maylaysia
- Egyptian Monuments
- Pyramids
- Egypt History for Kids
- African American History and Culture
- From the Smithsonian Institution
- Ancient Egypt for Kids
- Ellis Island
- Ancient Americans of the Southwest
- University of California Museum of Paleontology
- If you like paleontology, you'll enjoy the on-line exhibits here (recommended for third grade and up).
- Wooden Canoe Heritage Association
- Before there was aluminum, fiberglass or plastic, there was wood, animal skin and bark. The canoes originally made by Native people of North America have spread throughout the world. The site includes images of vintage postcards and catalog covers from manufacturers, including The Racine Boat Company of Wisconsin.
- Harriet Tubman
- Inventors and Inventions
- Some examples from this terrific site:
Garrett Augustus Morgan (March 4, 1877 - August 27, 1963), was an African-American inventor and businessman. He was the first person to patent a traffic signal. He also developed the gas mask (and many other inventions).
The popsicle was invented by an 11 year old, Frank Epperson, in 1905. Epperson (1894-?) lived in San Francisco, California. Epperson left a fruit drink out overnight (with a stirrer in it), and it froze, making a new treat. His frozen treat was originally called the Epsicle. Epperson got a patent on his "frozen ice on a stick" many years later, in 1923. The Epsicle was later renamed the popsicle. Epperson also invented the twin popsicle (with two sticks so it could be shared by two children), Fudgsicle, Creamsicle and Dreamsicle.
- ZoomExplorers
- Native American Tribes: Index pages
- Information on almost all Native American cultures.
- Library of Congress: African American Odyssey
- Presidents of the United States
- From the Internet Public Library: Presidents of the United States
- First Ladies
- Vice Presidents of the United States
- Those Were the Days
- Find out what happened today in history.
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Sports/Games
- Badger Fans
- Girl's and Women's Sports sites
- Thunk.com
- A kids' site looking at the fun and mystery of cryptography, the science of secret codes, with lots of activities.
- Bubblegames
- Battleship
- Play this strategic game against the computer.
- Cartoon Corner
- A world of fun for kids of all ages
- String Games
- Checkers
- Will the black or the red pieces win this time?
Wisconsin
- State Historical Society of Wisconsin's Kids Pages
- Wandering Through Wisconsin
- Milwaukee County Zoo
- 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.
- Wisconsin State Legislature
- US and Wisconsin Constitutions
- State and local Government Web Sites
- Madison, Dane County, Wisconsin and all other states
- The Capital Times and The Wisconsin State Journal
- Isthmus Weekly Newspaper
- The Madison Times Newspaper
- From Virocqua School District, a compendium of Wisconsin Web Sites for Kids
- Milwaukee Public Museum
- Madison School Forest
- University of Wisconsin Information
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Miscellaneous
Propelled by Pedals - A fun guide to bikes. Includes "Pedaling Through the Parts", Pedaling Through the Past", and "Pedaling Puzzles Plus".
- Zoom School
- An on-line elementary school classroom with lessons in geography, biology, language
arts, and early childhood activities.
- Biographical Dictionary
- More than 28,000 notable people.
- Egyptian Recipes!
- Kids Castle
- A Smithsonian Magazine website to capture the interest and imagination of eight to fourteen year-old kids. The site features a link of the day and topical entry into site sections in the major areas of History, Arts, Worldwide, Personalities, Sports, Air & Space, Science, and Animals. Brief articles and singular graphics optimize the content at the site. Kids can also join the Kids Club at the site to receive a monthly newsletter via email that contains poems and stories from ordinary kids, articles, and notification of upcoming contests and games.
- Castles of the World
- A great castle page by Jaime J. Fernandez
- Castles on the Web
- A beautifully designed and carefully researched site by Ted Monk.
- The Chicago Tribune
- The Los Angeles Times
- The New York Times
- The San Francisco Chronicle
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Last update: July 30, 2001
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