Kids Click Award Winners |  Biomes |  Book Buddies |  Cartooning |  Crafts |  Current Events Document Based Questions (DBQ) |  Fun and Games |  Homework Help Mega Sites |  Reference |  School Assignments |  Search Engines Sites for Educators |  Sites for Parents Notice to Parents and Teachers

Award Winners

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Coretta Scott King Award The winners of the Coretta Scott King Award are authors and illustrators of African decent whose distinguished books promote an understanding and appreciation of the 'American Dream'.

John Newbery Award This award is given to an American author who has written the best book for children. Check out the list of winners and honor books.

Randolph Caldecott Award This award is given to the American artist who created the best picture book for children in a given year. Check out the list of winners and honor books.

Biomes

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Arctic Animals' Homes Find great stories, pictures, and interesting facts about arctic animals.

Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Need to find an arctic animal? Search through the list of mammals, birds, fish and find pertinent information here.

Arctic Wildlife This site provides information on arctic birds, mammals and sea mammals, plus beautiful color photos.

Biome-Habitat, Animal Printouts Learn about the many different biomes that exist on earth, such as the desert, the tundra, and the rainforest. Print out maps of the world with specific biomes labeled. (ie Sahara, Mojave).

Rainforest Action Network This fact driven site is great for middle school students doing overall reports on rainforests. Discusses rainforest destruction, economic alternative/benifits and animal species extinction numbers.

World Biomes This site provides a wonderful color map indicating where all the different biomes exist in the world. Find the plants, animals and climate for each type of biome.

Book Buddies

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American Girl Meet and play games with the characters from the American Girl books.

Book Hive Find reviews categorized by genre and age level, plus coloring pages.

Clifford the Big Red Dog Look here on this PBS site for Clifford stories, printable coloring pages and games.

Dr. Seuss's Seussville Play games and chat with the Cat in the Hat.

PBS Kids Check out your favorite PBS character, Authur, Clifford, Dragon Tales, plus more. Have fun playing games and printing coloring sheets.

Scholastic Kids Learn while playing fun games with some of your favorite books.

Cartooning

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Chunky Monkey Find cartooning instruction for comic strips, individual cartoons and more.

Looney Library for Kids Check out this site for great animation, interactive stories, activity sheets and learn to draw your favorite Looney Tune Character.

MaMaMedia Here you can create cartoons, play challenging games, make wacky creatures, paint digital pictures, plus more fun activities that you control.

NetSnake This site includes Snake and Lennie the Loser cartoons, information about Sols, the Australian syndicated cartoonist, tips on cartooning, school project material, and FAQs.

VanToons-Web-Cartooning View sample pages from the printed version of 'Simply Cartooning' and 'Cartooning Action Heroes'Description

Crafts

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Crafts for Kids This Enchanted Learning site features hundreds of educational craft projects for children in more than 70 topic areas. Children of all ages will find hours of engaging and stimulating crafts.

Hands On Crafts This wonderfully animated site encourages children to learn about pottery, weaving, quilting, basketry techniques and traditions.

Kid's Domain Craft Exchange If you're looking for craft projects, ideas for a holiday, a gift occasion, a party or just for fun, check out this site. With well-written directions, each craft is rated on a scale from very easy to difficult. Materials used in these crafts tend to be common household items.

Squigly's Arts & Crafts There's nothing like the satisfaction of making your own toys or gifts. Here you will find directions that are clearly written and easy to follow.

Current Events

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Online NewsHour Extra Issues that have been in the news rather than specific breaking news stories are the focus of this PBS site. Students will find an archive of past features.

Sports Illustrated For Kids Read about the latest news in sports.

TimeForKids.com Attractively designed and a breeze to navigate, this site supplies current news and online version of Time magazine for kids. (Three different editions K-1st grades, 2-3rd grades, 4-6 grades.)

The Washington Post Online A junior edition of the Washington Post with updates on the state of the world with games, quizzes and polls.

Document Based Questions (DBQ)

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AP U.S. History See DBQ scoring standards plus find out the time period topic for the 2002 U.S. History DBQ.

The Cave: How to write a DBQ Guideline and helpful hints for writing a DBQ.

Mount Holyoke College Here you will find the basic principles of a Document-Based Question, and a link to the college board homepage.

Sackets Harbor School Library Media Center Primary Source Document Collections Here you will find a compilation of Primary Source Documents. They are arranged in alphabetical order.

Fun and Games

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American Sign Language Coloring Pages Learn American Sign Language by coloring pages that represent each letter of the alphabet.

Arthur: The World's Most Famous Aardvark Have fun playing games with arthur and his friends.

Berit's Best Sites for Children Find thousands of top-notch fun and educational sites, rated and reviewed

Boy Scouts of America Boy Scouts is the world's pre-eminent organization dedicated solely to boys.

Crayola Creativity Central Create fun and exciting crafts.

Easy Recipes for Kids Learn to make some fun and easy foods.

Games Test your math skills. Give these games a try.

Girl Scouts of the USA Girl Scouts is the world's pre-eminent organization dedicated solely to girls.

Kids Domain Want fun? Click here. Check out the new PC downloads, holiday crafts and contests.

My Hero This site offers children and their parents a powerful way to combine cutting edge technologies with timeless values and the best humanity has to offer.

Nick Jr. Check out your favorite Nick Jr. characters such as Dora, Blue and Little Bill. Enjoy games, coloring sheets plus much more.

Playhouse Disney Have fun with the characters from Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, Little Einstines, Winnie the Pooh, Bunnytown plus many more!

Punky Doodle's Coloring Club and Funhouse This fun site features interactive games, puzzles, stories, clubhouse atmosphere, printable coloring pages and is suitable for ages 4-12.

Sesame Workshop Learn lots of fun things with your Sesame Street friends.

The Wiggles Find information about all your favorite Wiggle characters, color-in pages, concert and music releases

Homework Help

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allmath.com Use this site to find flash cards, metric converters, multiplication tables, plus more.

Answers 24x7 Answers24/7 provides online reference service to residents of Suffolk County, New York. Reference Librarians are available to answer your question using electronic resources or provide assistance searching the Internet. We can help you find information, articles, books, and much more.

Ask Dr. Math Ask a question using the Dr. Math web forum, or use keyword search to browse the extensive archive of previous questions. The archive is divided into elementary, middle and high school levels.

DiscoverySchool.com This mega site is broken down into many subtopics such as Science, Math, Social Studies and English. Many links lead to portals, which, in turn, contain many more subject specific links. Note, links at the top and bottom of the site take you out of the homework help and into the general Discovery Channel pages.

Fact Monster Homework Center Using an atlas, an almanac, a dictionary and The Columbia Encyclopedia this site answers questions and post them to the site, but you are advised to thoroughly search the site and FAQ section before sending questions. A special feature is the Writing and Study Skills section, which provides good mini lessons on note taking, test preparation and essay writing.

Homework Help Real tutors are available to help you with your homework 7 days a week from 2pm - 11pm. Students in grade K-12 can get help with math, science, English, social studies, and writing. Tutoring is available in Spanish. You will need a Suffolk County library card to access this site.

HomeworkSpot Educators, librarians and journalists develop this gateway site. Elementary, middle and high school levels organize it. Find such topics as Global Warming, Underground Railroad and Middle Ages plus much more. Check it out!

Math and Reading Homework Help This site is a comprehensive directory of original articles, tips, and resources to help parents and children make informed decisions about school related topics and issues.

Science Experiments Need an idea for a science experiment? Browse through this great list of sites for super science experiments. Many experiments to choose from!

Mega Sites

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Awesome Library K-12 Education Directory Awsome Library organizes the web with 15,000 carefully reviewed resources, including the top 5% in education.

Enchanted Learning This incredible site produces wonderful educational websites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning and enjoyment.

Internet Public Library Here elementary and middle school students can easily find science experiments, answers to math problems, and so much more.

Reference

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American Memory from the Library of Congress The American Memory project features 100 historical collections from the Library of Congress' National Digital Library Program. You'll find multimedia artifacts about everything from baseball cards to African-American sheet music to Presidential inauggurations.

Biography.com Over 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present, at your fingertips. Search by name to discover who they were and what they did.

Census 2000 Demographic Profiles Profiles of general, social and economic characteristics of a geographic area are available from this Census Bureau site.

CountryReports.org Find information on each country's geography, people, government, economy, defense and history. Plus hear each country's national anthem.

50states.com - States and Capitals Discover amazing facts about any state, commonwealth or territory in the United States, including state bird, song, and flag.

Kids @ National Geographic.com Fun, exciting animal facts and games you can play.

National Geographic Homework Help (history, geography, maps) This fun and beautiful National Geographic site contains great online exhibits covering animals, history and culture, maps/geography, science and nature.

New York State Assembly - Kids Page Find out what the New York Assembly is all about, plus who represents you.

SparkNotes This site provides young people with information similar to Cliffs Notes, such as plot overview, character analysis, themes and chapter summaries.

Suffolk Historic Newspapers This site is a centralized, searchable collection of Suffolk County's newspaper heritage. Town newspapers are currently available from Babylon, Huntington, Sag Harbor and Southold.

Thesaurus.com Here's a thesaurus at your fingertips. Find a list of synonyms and antonyms for your entry.

Time for Kids Stay up to date with the latest news for kids.

School Assignments

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100 Milestone Documents This site lists 100 milestone documents compiled by the National Archives and Record Administration whick chronicles United States history from 1776-1965.

Academy of Achievement Need a hero? This nonprofit organization is dedicated to providing students with a place to learn about the greatest thinkers of our time. Search the gallery alphabetically by name or by area of expertise: arts, business, public service, science or sports. Keys to Success explores the characteristics that helped these leaders reach their goals.

Citation Machine Select the type of print or electronic resource you would like to use in your bibliography, enter data and click on 'make citation'. You have a complete entry for your bibliography.

Fact Monster:How to Write a Research Paper Fact Monster will show you how to write a bibliography and give you many examples from books to online resources.

Greek Mythology Find brief entries about heros, gods and monsters of Greek mythology. Illustrations available too.