On behalf of the Great Websites for Kids Committee, I’d like to share our latest additions. We’re happy to have some Spanish language sites to include this time, and wish to thank REFORMA for its assistance in providing us a representative.
If you missed our recent press release, the following are the newest sites added to Great Websites for Kids, the online resource featuring hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics K-12 http://www.bls.gov/k12/home.htm Bureau of Labor Statistics provides resources for students and educators on employment and career outlooks. Enjoy playing a game to understand a concept and use the resource section for school assignments all on one site!
- Bystander Revolution http://www.bystanderrevolution.org/ Search this site to find ideas about how to deal with bullying from folks who have been bullies, targets and bystanders. Watch videos by subject and sign up to take your own stand against bullying!
- Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius http://pbskids.org/fetch/ruff/ Videos to help kids make good decisions about texting, sharing photos, and other media literacy topics.
- Space Racers http://spaceracers.org/en Kids can explore space through a series of videos, games and printable activities complete with NASA approved science.
- PBS Kids Design Squad http://pbskids.org/designsquad Kids can safely share their engineering ideas and sketches, and be inspired by how-to videos and real-world projects.
- Virtual Museum of Canada http://www.virtualmuseum.ca/about-vmc/ This online museum provides as diverse collection of online exhibits pertaining to Canadian hertiage. Virtual exhibits are provided by Canada’s museums, educational institutions and heritage organizations.
- Disney Junior: Disney Latino (Spanish) http://disneyjunior/disneylatino.com Interactive site with videos, games, princesses stories, and activities of popular Disney characters. It also includes links for smartphones applications. | Página interactiva con vídeos, juegos, cuentos de princesas y actividades de personajes populares de Disney. También incluye enlaces para applicaciones de teléfonos móviles.
- Clic Clic Cuentos Interactivos (Spanish) http://www.cuentosinteractivos.org Clic Clic Cuentos Interactivos is a fun interactive site that features imaginative problem solving and alternate versions of popular stories. | Clic Clic Cuentos Interactivos es una página interactiva divertida que contiene actividades de resolución de problemas y versiones alternas de cuentos populares.
We hope that you will find these and other Great Websites for Kids to be useful tools for you and your library patrons. Sites are searchable by keyword or eight classifications (Animals, The Arts, History & Biography, Literature & Languages, Mathematics & Computers, Reference Desk, Sciences, and Social Sciences). The committee works diligently to find and evaluate new sites, and to weed out previously added sites that haven’t maintained “great” status.
We can always use your help!
If you know of a great site that you would like to have us consider, please submit your suggestion via this link: http://gws.ala.org/suggest-site. If you find broken links, etc. on the site, please alert us to that as well. Comments and suggestions are always welcome.
Members of the 2015 Great Websites for Kids Committee:
- Lara Crews, co-chair, Forsyth County (North Carolina) Public Library
- Lisa Taylor, co-chair, Ocean County (New Jersey) Library
- Emily E. Bacon, Yorktown (Indiana) Public Library
- Ariel Cummins, New Braunfels (Texas) Public Library
- Jill Eisele, Bellwood (Illinois) Public Library
- Krishna Grady, Darien (Connecticut) Library
- Joanne Kelleher, Kings Park (New York) Central School District
- Elizabeth Saxton, Tiffin, Ohio
- Alia Shields, Cherry Hill (New Jersey) Public Library
- Sujei Lugo (REFORMA Representative)
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