Adults are responsible for determining appropriateness of all sites before using with children.  Due to the changing nature of the Internet, we can not be held responsible for bad sites although every effort is made to only include child-friendly sites.  Links are listed with those specifically for younger children appearing first and those for all or older students appearing toward the end of the list.

Listings below are grouped by curricular area.

Classic Stories for Children

Aaron Shepard  Stories with nice illustrations for children

Stephen Cosgrove's Book Pop Stories for children

Li'l Fingers Storybooks for toddlers

Starfall Have fun learning to read

Etymology and History of first names

ASL American Sign Language

Nonverbal dictionary of gestures, signs and body language

28 Rules for English Spelling (and their exceptions)

Free Dictionary and so much more 

Free ACT and SAT test prep plus word of the day

Word images help remember words

NaNoWriMo National Novel Writing Month (November each year) includes young writers' program

Young Writers' Clubhouse (includes information about getting published and lots more)

Math Forum all things math including Ask Dr. Math

Aunty Math challenges for K-5 learners

Cool Math  Comprehensive math site

Figure This math challenges for families 

Math Cats activities in an interactive blackboard style

M.C. Escher Mathematics of art

Fractals for elementary and middle schools

Fractal geometry A Yale site

Abacus interactive math site

Absurd math Prealgebra from another dimension

Babylonian mathematics

BeatCalc Beat the Calculator (a free subscription)

Explore Math Advanced concepts

Fibonacci numbers and the golden sections

Girls go Tech (a Girl Scouts site)

How to Calculate Pi by throwing frozen hot dogs

Logical Fallacies and their proofs

Problem of the Week 4 levels of problems elementary - algebra

Astronomy for Kids An Astronomy magazine site

BrainPop Health, science and technology

Cool Science for Curious Kids (Site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute)

Eco Kids  (Canadian Site)    

Japan Kids Web

Meet Me At The Corner Virtual Field Trips

National Geographic Kids

Show Me United Kingdom Virtual National Museum

White House Kids' site

Jamestown An innovative virtual site

50 States History, facts and faces

Country Reports Anthems, flags, history, symbols and more

Degree Confluence Project Latitude and longitude intersections in the world

World Sunlight Map Realtime including cloud cover

Xpeditions A National Geographic website

Also visit the Colorado History links on the Resources Page

Classics for Kids Includes many cross-generational children's stories, fairy tales, fables, etc.

Film Street Create movies and animation

The Getty Museum for kids

Jackson Pollock Interactive canvas

Write Your Own Music and play it back

San Francisco Symphony for kids, create music

The Animated Internet  Learn how the Internet works

Make Believe Comics (in Spanish, too)

Cartoonster Create cartoons

The Cave of Lascaux Perhaps the world's most famous cave art

Chinese Watermelon Art Amazing carvings that can be used on other veggies, too

Fractal Art Blending art and mathematics

Egyptian Art and Archeology (a University of Memphis site)

M. C. Escher Official Gallery

Metropolitan Museum of Art An extensive vitual museum

Smithsonian kids

Web Exhibits Science in art

WebMuseum with links to museums around the world

Polyhedra hundreds of paper models

Stephen O'Hanlon's Origami page

Virtual keyboard Electronic keyboard options including different sounds and rhythm