Internet Resources for Children and Teens

Here teachers, parents, and students in grades 3-12 will find some of the best educational Web sites for use during the 2002/2003 school year and beyond. Each annual ERIC Web Links, published every September, describes and links to over 50 additional sites, covering not only the core curriculum of math, science, language arts, and history/social studies, but also art, health, music, and more. Last school year the Scout Report recommended ERIC Web Links 2001/2002: Internet Resources for Children, hundreds of schools and public libraries linked to it from their own Web sites, and tens of thousands of teachers, parents, and students from across the country used it.

ERIC Web Links are available at ericit.org in both an html version, with links, and a pdf version for ease in printing and photocopying. All ERIC publications are in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and disseminated.

Art | Health | History/Social Studies | Language Arts | Math | Media/Information Literacy | Music | Science

Art

National Museum of African Art
Exhibits house collections of paintings, currency, masks, ceramics, everyday household objects, and furniture.
www.si.edu/nmafa

Art Safari
An interactive adventure for analyzing and writing about famous works of art.
artsafari.moma.org

The Pizza Explorer
Food chemistry, food processing, nutrition, and health benefits of pizza’s ingredients.
www.efph.purdue.edu/pizza

TEAM Nutrition
Learn to make healthy food and physical activity choices, including healthy eating at school, plus nutrition-related activities for the whole family.
www.fns.usda.gov/tn

USDA Nutrient Database for Standard Reference
Contains data for over 6,200 foods and 82 nutrients such as minerals, vitamins, lipids, and amino acids.
www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data

National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information
World’s largest resource for current information and materials concerning substance abuse.
www.health.org/features/kidsarea/kidsarea.htm

National Institute of Mental Health: Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Provides information on mental illnesses in children, mild to severe, including learning disabilities, clinical depression, eating disorders, autism, and suicide.
www.nimh.nih.gov/publicat/childmenu.cfm

Atlas of the Body
Everyday health information for everyone. Illustrations of the nervous, circulatory, digestive, endocrine, reproductive, skeletal, muscular, lymphatic, respiratory, and urinary systems.
www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7140.html

Perseus Project
Provides an atlas, encyclopedia, dictionaries, and introductory essays on ancient Greek and Roman life.
www.perseus.tufts.edu

Ben’s Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
Information about the United States government, including government symbols, three branches of the government, and a glossary.
bensguide.gpo.gov

Statistical Abstract of the United States
A collection of statistics on social, political, and economic conditions in the U.S.
www.census.gov/prod/www/statistical-abstract-us.html

U.S. Census Bureau--Kids’ Corner
Teaches about the census, facts about the states, and why it is important to participate in the census.
factfinder.census.gov/home/en/kids/kids.html

We Shall Overcome: Historic Places of the Civil Rights Movement
An itinerary of 49 historic places of the civil rights movement from the National Park Service.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/civilrights

Explore Your Family History at Ellis Island
Search the database of millions of immigrant arrival records and view a timeline of major immigration events.
www.ellisislandrecords.org

Go West Across America with Lewis & Clark
An interactive, choose-your-own-adventure style of story traveling with Lewis, Clark and their crew in 1804.
www.nationalgeographic.com/west/main.html

MapMachine
Provides an atlas, maps, flags, facts and a tutorial on cartography.
www.nationalgeographic.com/maps

America’s Library
A timeline from the colonial period to modern time, as well as information about each state from the Library of Congress.
www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi

Avalon Project
Primary source materials in the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Biography of America
Topics ranging from New World Encounters to Contemporary U.S. History.
www.learner.org/biographyofamerica

Camp Life: Civil War Collections from Gettysburg
Highlights the common, everyday items that Civil War soldiers used off the battleground.
www.cr.nps.gov/museum/exhibits/gettex/live1.htm

Learning Resources from Colonial Williamsburg
Virtual trips address slavery, courts, and transportation during the colonial era.
www.history.org/teach

The National Women’s Hall of Fame
Read biographies of famous American women and learn about women’s suffrage and women’s rights.
www.greatwomen.org

Ancient Egypt from the British Museum
Explore Ancient Egyptian life, gods and goddesses, mummification, pyramids, trade, temples and writing.
www.ancientegypt.co.uk/menu.html

Infonation
Up-to-date statistical information for each country in the United Nations.
www.un.org/Pubs/CyberSchoolBus/infonation/e_infonation.htm

The Middle Ages