ALSC’s Great Web Sites for Kids (GWS) features links to Web sites of interest to children 14 years of age and younger, organized into diverse subject headings. There is also a special section with sites of interest to parents, caregivers and teachers.
Members of the ALSC Great Web Sites for Kids Committee review and evaluate potential sites for inclusion and vote on the sites to be included. They also regularly check the entire site to ensure currency and re-evaluate sites when necessary.
The newly added sites are:
Little Lunkers — http://www.takemefishing.org/fishing/family/little-lunkers-learning-center
Janet Wong – http://www.janetwong.com/
Catch the Science Bug – http://www.sciencebug.org/
Color with Leo – http://www.colorwithleo.com/
Coretta Scott King Book Award Curriculum Resource Center – http://www.teachingbooks.net/crc.cgi?id=1
Global Trek – http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/globaltrek/
What’s it like where you live? — http://www.mbgnet.net/
Literacy Connections – http://www.literacyconnections.com/index.php
Getty Games – http://www.getty.edu/gettygames/
Kids’ Science Challenge – http://www.kidsciencechallenge.com/
I was wondering… – http://www.iwaswondering.org/
CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards – http://www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk/home/index.php
Storynory – http://storynory.com/
Earthquakes for Kids – http://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/kids/
The Great Plant Escape – http://urbanext.illinois.edu/gpe/gpe.html
Invention at Play – http://www.inventionatplay.org/
Library of Congress: Books for Kids – http://read.gov/kids/
Encyclopedia.com – http://www.encyclopedia.com/
Up To Ten – http://www.uptoten.com/
The Story Home – http://thestoryhome.com/
The complete listing of great sites with annotations and selection criteria can be found at www.ala.org/greatsites.