{"id":973,"date":"2009-12-17T04:46:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:46:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=973"},"modified":"2009-12-17T04:47:38","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T11:47:38","slug":"exceptional-web-sites-for-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2009\/12\/exceptional-web-sites-for-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Exceptional Web Sites for Children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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. <\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The newly added sites are:<\/p>\n

Little Lunkers \u2014 http:\/\/www.takemefishing.org\/fishing\/family\/little-lunkers-learning-center<\/a><\/p>\n

Janet Wong – http:\/\/www.janetwong.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Catch the Science Bug – http:\/\/www.sciencebug.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Color with Leo – http:\/\/www.colorwithleo.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Coretta Scott King Book Award Curriculum Resource Center – http:\/\/www.teachingbooks.net\/crc.cgi?id=1<\/a><\/p>\n

Global Trek – http:\/\/teacher.scholastic.com\/activities\/globaltrek\/<\/a><\/p>\n

What\u2019s it like where you live? \u2014 http:\/\/www.mbgnet.net\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Literacy Connections – http:\/\/www.literacyconnections.com\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Getty Games – http:\/\/www.getty.edu\/gettygames\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Kids’ Science Challenge – http:\/\/www.kidsciencechallenge.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

I was wondering\u2026 – http:\/\/www.iwaswondering.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards – http:\/\/www.carnegiegreenaway.org.uk\/home\/index.php<\/a><\/p>\n

Storynory – http:\/\/storynory.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Earthquakes for Kids – http:\/\/earthquake.usgs.gov\/learn\/kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Great Plant Escape – http:\/\/urbanext.illinois.edu\/gpe\/gpe.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Invention at Play – http:\/\/www.inventionatplay.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Library of Congress: Books for Kids – http:\/\/read.gov\/kids\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Encyclopedia.com – http:\/\/www.encyclopedia.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Up To Ten – http:\/\/www.uptoten.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The Story Home – http:\/\/thestoryhome.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n

The complete listing of great sites with annotations and selection criteria can be found at www.ala.org\/greatsites<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 \u2014 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\u2019s it like where you live? \u2014 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\u2026 – http:\/\/www.iwaswondering.org\/ CILIP Carnegie & Kate…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[22,10,24,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-literature","category-committees","category-digital-world","category-evaluation-of-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}