Thesaurus.com
An online thesaurus, dictionary and encyclopedia.

Merriam-Webster Word Central
Younger Humanoids can search a dictionairy and/or a thesaurus. If a word is misspelled, Merriam provides a list of similar words. Also offers games and a daily buzzword.

General Information
Ask Jeeves for Kids
Fast, easy way to find answers to questions. Simply type in a question, and Jeeves sends back related questions. Choose the best question for your needs. Knowledgebase results are carefully reviewed by a content editor, and Metasearch results are filtered by SurfWatch.

KidsClick! Web Search for Kids by Librarians
A search directory with subjects ranging from Home & Household to Weird & Mysterious. KidsClick! purpose is to guide young users to valuable and age-appropriate sites. Sites gathered by librarians.

Kidspace@ The Internet Public Library
Intended for children ages 4 - 11. Offers a wealth of information on Health, Art, Music, Sport, Recreation, Our World, Computers and Internet, Math and Science and a lot of plain fun stuff. Added bonus is the excellent resource page for parents and teachers.

The Ultimate Vocabulary Resource Guide
Tools for teachers and parents looking for strategies to help students excel. There are activities specifically for ESL learners, and others made for advanced English students. You’ll also find test preparation materials, skill-building quizzes, and dozens more ways to boost your English vocabulary IQ.

Math practice
Baseball Math
Math games for one or two players. You can practice additions, substraction, multiplication and divisions, and you get to choose the level of difficulty. Baseball Math is developed by FunBrain, which also offers games for reading.

AAA Math
AAA Math features a comprehensive set of interactive arithmetic lessons. Unlimited practice is available on each topic which allows thorough mastery of the concepts. A wide range of lessons (Kindergarten through Eighth grade level) enables learning or review to occur at each individual's current level.
Flashcards for Math
Design them yourself flashcards. Decide what you'd like to practice (addition, substraction, multiplication or division), set the level of difficulty, the number size and whether you'd like to include decimals, and the program comes up with a set of flashcards!

Interactive Mathematics (Pre K - 12)
The National Library of Virtual Manipulatives designed this math practice program, for grades PreK through grade 12.

Children's Literature / Learning to Read Information
Children's Literature Web Guide
A very elaborate set of links related to books for children and young adults. It offers quick references, discussion boards, and a wealth of resources for teachers, parents, writers and illustrators etc.

Authors and Illustrators on the Web
The Children's Literature Web Guide offers links to websites of authors and illustrators.

Folklore, Myth and Legend
Offers the stories and folklore reference sources.

Star Fall
Teachers around the world use Starfall.com as a way to make the classroom more fun and inspire a love of reading and writing. Parents use Starfall to prepare their children for school, and to support them once they are there. Primarily designed for first grade, Starfall is also useful for pre-kindergarten, kindergarten and second grade.

Science Sites
Wacky Dan the Weather Man
Learn about everything weather related from Channel 19's Chief Meteorologist Dan Satterfield. He put these pages together for Kids between 6 and 16 years old and for their Parents and Teachers, too!

The Electronic Zoo
Select an animal from the pick list and you will find a link to information about your animal! The Electronic Zoo also offers a lot of images and sounds.

**Energy Quest**
Energy Quest is the award-winning energy education website of the California Energy Commission. Energy Quest will answer your questions and spur creativity and imagination. But most of all it is fun!

Inventors and inventions
Links to some basic information and fun facts about inventors and inventions.

For Learning for Fun
The Exploratorium
The Exploratorium is a museum of science, art, and human perception located in San Francisco, California. Online since 1993, the Exploratorium was one of the first science museums to build a site on the World Wide Web. Included in the award-winning site are more than 18 thousand Web pages and many sound and video files, exploring hundreds of different topics. The Exploratorium's Web site is designed to extend the kinds of experiences our visitors have beyond the museum's floor. Many of the resources on the site are examples of very simple uses of information technology, but thoughtfully implemented. For example, the site contains instructions for over 500 simple experiments!

Planets
A lot of excellent work has been done by planetary scientists to bring you the best information about the planets and the latest pictures from space missions. This set of links will take you to whatever solar system tour you would like. Any of them will give you an excellent presentation.

Discovery Kids
Information on the Discovery Kids Channel with show times, a TV schedule, and games. You will also be able to watch videos, and for PreK and K kids there is a link to Paz's Place, where you can play fun games.

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