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Search Engines for Children

Ask Jeeves – Kids
http://www.ajkids.com
 

Awesome Library
http://www.awesomelibrary.org/student.html

KidsClick!
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/kidsclick!/

LycosZone for Kids
http://www.lycoszone.com

Surfing the Net with Kids
http://www.surfnetkids.com

Yahooligans
http://www.yahooligans.com  



About Maine:
 

Abenaki Culture and History
http://www.avcnet.org/ne-do-ba/menu_his.shtml

Abenaki History
http://www.tolatsga.org/aben.html

Gulf of Maine Aquarium
http://octopus.gma.org

Maine Audubon Society
http://www.maineaudubon.org

Maine Black History Resources
http://www.visibleblackhistory.com/Resources.htm

Maine History
http://maine.gov/portal/facts_history/facts.html

Maine Secretary of State’s – Kid’s Page
http://maine.gov/sos/kids

Micmac History
http://www.dickshovel.com/mic.html

Portland, Maine - Play
http://www.ci.portland.me.us/play.shtml

 



Art and Music:

@rt room
http://www.arts.ufl.edu/art/rt_room

Art Safari (Museum of Modern Art)
http://artsafari.moma.org

Hands on Crafts
http://www.handsoncrafts.org

Metropolitan Museum - Explore & Learn
http://www.metmuseum.org/explore

National Gallery of Art for Kids
http://www.nga.gov/kids/

New York Philharmonic Kidzone
http://www.nyphilkids.org/main.phtml

Playmusic.org
http://www.playmusic.org/stage.html

San Francisco Symphony for Kids
http://www.sfskids.org

 





Authors/Illustrators:

Learning about the Author and Illustrator Pages
http://scils.rutgers.edu/~kvander/AuthorSite/index.html
The
symbols indicates a Maine author or illustrator.

Toni Buzzeo      
http://www.tonibuzzeo.com

Kimberly Holt     
http://www.kimberlyholt.com

Philip & Hannah Hoose 
http://www.heylittleant.com

Dahlov Ipcar      
http://www.exitfive.com/dahlov

Jennifer Jacobson   
http://www.jenniferjacobson.com

Lisa Jahn-Clough  
http://www.lisajahnclough.com

Amy MacDonald    
http://www.amymacdonald.com

Kathy Mallat  
http://www.kathymallat.com

Jacqueline Briggs Martin  
http://www.jacquelinebriggsmartin.com

Bruce McMillan    
http://www.brucemcmillan.com

Alice Mead    
http://home.maine.rr.com/alicemead

Gustav Moore  
http://www.
mainething.com/artists/gus_moore/gustav_moore.htm

Tamora Pierce
http://www.tamora-pierce.com

Daniel Pinkwater
http://www.pinkwater.com

Matt Tavares 
http://www.matt-tavares.com

Leslie Tryon
http://www.leslietryon.com

The symbols indicates a Maine author or illustrator.

 


History and Government:

Ben’s Guide to US Government for Kids
http://bensguide.gpo.gov

Brooklyn Expedition: Latin America
http://www.brooklynexpedition.org/latin/gateway2.html

California’s Untold Stories – Gold Rush
http://ww.museumca.org/goldrush

CIA’s Homepage for Kids
https://www.ica.gov/kids-page/index.html

Civil War Museum
http://www.civilwar.si.edu

Country Studies
http://countrystudies.us

Government Web Sites for Kids
http://www.ustreas.gov/kids/index.html

Great Speeches
http://www.historychannel.com/speeches

Library of Congress presents America’s Story from America’s Library
http://www.americaslibrary.gov

Lower East Side Tenement Museum
http://www.thirteen.org/tenement

Smithsonian National Museum of American History
http://americanhistory.si.edu

World Facts
http://worldfacts.us


Math:  

AAA Math
www.aaamath.com

Ask Dr. Math
www.mathforum.com/dr.math

Coolmath
www.coolmath.com

Figure This! Math Challenges for Families
www.figurethis.org

Math Cats
www.mathcats.com
 

Math League Help Topics
www.mathleague.com/help/help.htm

Measurements Converter
www.convert-me.com/en
 


Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy’s Nye Labs Online
http://www.billnye.com

Cool Science for Curious Kids
http://www.hhmi.org/coolscience

Exploratorium
http://w
ww.exploratorium.edu

Inside the Animal Mind
http://wnet.org/nature/animalm

NASA Just for Kids
http://kids.msfc.nasa.gov

National Zoo
http://www.si.edu/natzoo

Nine Planets
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/billa/tnp

Ology
http://ology.amnh.org

Rainforest Action Network
http://www.ran.org/kids_action

Robotics – sensing – thinking – acting
http://www.thetech.org/robotics

SeaWorld – Animal Information Database
http://www.seaworld.org/infobook.html  

 


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