Resources
PBS Kids
Visit this site for some neat interactive activities for kids from the people who created the Ready To Learn Service - PBS!
These 5 Web sites cover a variety of topics of interest to this audience, including art and design, the environment, media literacy, food, and dealing with real life issues. Kids, parents and educators can trust these sites to be safe havens where children can learn, share ideas and have fun.
It's My Life
It's My Life invites kids to share their feelings about the social, emotional, and physical issues that affect them.
Don't Buy It
Don't Buy It challenges kids to question adversting, evaluate media, and become smart consumers.
Backyard Jungle
Backyard Jungle is a particpatory multimedia site where kids learn about ecology and new ways to explore their natural surroundings.
Plastic Fork Diaries
On Plastic Fork Diaries, tweens explore their relationship to food: nutrition, athletic performance, cultural significance, and the vanishing family meal.
3d&i
3D&I is a place where kids discover, dream, and design; where visual literacy becomes a concrete, cool concept.
Interested in educational materials and resources for children? Visit the following sites:
Teach More Love More
Alerts parents to the stark consequences of failing to prepare our children - all our children - for school and success in life, but also offers solutions for overcoming the challenges that all parents face.
PBS TeacherSource
Combines lesson plans and online activities found elsewhere on PBS Online with original activities and professional development opportunities.
Center for Florida's Children
The Center is dedicated to placing children in the spotlight of public attention so their needs can be identified and problems addressed.
National Association for the Education of Young Children
The National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC) is the nation's largest and most influential organization of early childhood educators and others dedicated to improving the quality of programs for children from birth through third grade.
The Northwest Regional Educational Laboratory
Improves educational results for children, youth, and adults by providing research and development assistance in delivering equitable, high-quality educational programs.
SERVE
SERVE is an education organization with the mission to promote and support the continuous improvement of educational opportunities for all learners in the Southeast.
Federal Resources for Educational Excellence (FREE)
More than 30 Federal agencies formed a working group in 1997 to make hundreds of Federally supported teaching and learning resources easier to find.
NASA Television
NASA Television (NTV) is a resource designed to provide real-time coverage of Agency activities and missions as well as providing resource video to the news media, and educational programming to teachers, students and the general public.
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