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Resources for teachers and parents

Administration for Children and Families

Ask the Preschool Teacher

Ben's Guide to U.S. Government Web Pages for Kids offers a guide for educators to government web sites for kids

Child and Youth Health

Children Now

Children, Youth and Families Education and
Research Network

The Children's Literature WebGuide  A research  list maintained at University of Calgary

Childstats.gov

Connect for Kids

Database of Award-winning Children's Literature compiled by Lisa M. Bartle, reference/user education librarian at Ohio State University

Childhood and Parenting (ECAP) Collaborative

Early Childhood and Research Practice

Early Childhood & School Furniture - Features school and children’s furniture and equipment.

Everything Preschool

Facts in Action

Family Fun Magazine -offering crafts, games, advice

First- School

The Gateway to Educational Materials (GEM) resource for K-12 educational materials

Hummingbird Educational Resources

Hoagies Gifted Education Page

I am your Child Foundation is a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization founded in 1997 by actor/director Rob Reiner to raise awareness about the importance of early childhood development and school readiness.

Jokes by Kids has every type of joke for all ages of kids, from knock to knock to cross the road to math jokes to food jokes.   

KidSource created by librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System. The site contains nearly 1800 searchable and browseable links.

Kid-Source In-depth & timely education & healthcare information

KinderKorner

KinderGARDEN  An introduction for children to plants and the outdoors

National Association for the Education of Young
Children (NAEYC)

National Childcare Information Center (NCCIC) U.S. Dept of Health Service

National Network for ChildCare

National Recreation and Park Association provides up-to-date information on playground safety

National School Age Care Alliance

Natural Learning Inititative a University of North Carolina research and extension program that offers resources and ideas for outdoor play areas

National Institute of Child, Health and Human Development

National Institute of Early Education Research

ParentSoup

*Ready*Set*Read Early Childhood Reading Kit

Preschool Zone For Early Childhood Special Educators

Spaces for Children features quality facility design tips and information

Story Arts Online all about storytelling from A to Z

The Teacher's Guide offers free educational clip-art

Zero to Three

Additional Resources

About.com (Desktop publishing) an internet source for clip-art, and where some of the art used on this site came from!

Child and Family Webguide Tufts University provides information on Family, Education, Health, Typical Development, Childcare, and Activities.

National Center for Early Development and Learning U.S. Dept of Education Research Project

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission offers consumer product information and recalled products

Resources for Kids

Brainboosters Weekly challenge puzzle, plus great archives from the Discover channel.

Brainfood Puzzles for your brain to gnaw on!

Brainquest Who has the best brain?

CoolMath4Kids this site teaches fun learning games

FirstGov for Kids homework help from librarians

Harry Potter Games and Puzzles

Information Please Kids' Almanac provides reference information grouped into people, fun facts, science, world, sports, life and U.S.

KidsInfo  Reference information is grouped into seven categories: people, fun facts, science, world, sports, life, and US.

Kid's Click features links to many different sites for kids

Knossos Games Terrific brain teasers,  featured on Johns' Hopkins Imagine magazine

Labyriynth Make your own mazes, and solve them in 3D!

Mathbrain How much of a brainiac are you?

Mysterynet Mini-mysteries to solve,
scary stories, magic tricks, and contests

MathGym  math games to challenge you

Mystery Masters Logic Puzzles puzzles and grids, to solve...

National Institue of Health Kid's Pages Coloring, games, brain teasers galore!

Resources for Young Children

Between the Lions Early literacy site for children ages 4-7

Carlo's Coloring Book

Crayola Home Page coloring and other activities

Download-A-Dinosaur download a dino today

Fun With Spot Eric Hill's Spot for Tots! (Requires a Shockwave plug-in)

Pauly's Playhouse  Games, sounds, and a gallery
of cartoons mostly for very young Web- surfers with a high-speed Web connection

Peter Rabbit Homepage with lots of bunny things to do!

Playhouse Disney Games songs and activites featuring Disney characters