Association for Library Service To Children Notable Web Sites 1998
Staff -- School Library Journal, 4/1/1998
| ALSC Notable Children's Web Sites Evaluation Committee: Roxanne Burg, Roxanne Hsu Feldman, Walter Minkel, Mary Peverada, Mary Voors. |
| The Notable Children's Films and Videos, Recordings, Computer Software, and Children's Websites are compiled annually by four committees of the Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association (ALA). The lists were released during the January 1998 ALA Midwinter Conference in New Orleans. The items on these lists were selected by children's librarians across the country on the basis of their originality, creativity, and suitability for young children. The members of the committees selected materials that respect both children's intelligence and imagination, exhibit venturesome creativity, and encourage the interests of viewers/listeners. The first list of Notable Children's Web Sites, the best websites for ages birth-14, were selected on the basis of their outstanding content and conception. |
(National Geographic)
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/
features/97/bureau
Kids can journey into some of the world's fascinating places and play interactive games.
Arthur Page
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/arthur
For Arthur fans everywhere. This site, maintained by PBS, features games and children's art. A very popular site for younger children who love the character created by Marc Brown.
Cyber Jacques
http://www.cyberjacques.com/
A group of games from ImaginEngine Corporation, using the Shockwave plug-in, that are lots of fun, including solving a tangram and throwing pies at a smirking polar bear.
Dav Pilkey's Web Site o'Fun
http://www.pilkey.com/
One of the silliest sites you will find, from children's author and illustrator Dav Pilkey. A tongue-in-cheek comic strip biography, crafts projects, and "boring" stuff for teachers (or is that stuff for boring teachers?) will please fans of Captain Underpants and his other hilarious books.
Jan Brett's Home Page
http://www.janbrett.com/
At this site, you can send cyber-postcards, download artwork and activities designed by author-illustrator Jan Brett, find recipes, read about Jan Brett's books and much more. If you admire her detailed style, you can now access her art and also e-mail her through the Web.
Kids' Space
http://www.ks-connection.com/
Find a pen pal, or visit the different "villages"ópersonal Web pages of other children organized by subject area (science, literature, etc.). A great page for young people to interact with one another in a supervised environment.
KIDLINK
http://www.kidlink.org/
One of the Internet "veterans." Since 1990, over 100,000 children in 114 countries have joined Kidlink's moderated global dialogues, e-mail, chats, and interactive projects.
Learner Online Exhibits Collection
http://www.learner.org/exhibits
Interactive exhibits inspired by video series in the Annenberg/CPB Multimedia collection are especially suitable for middle school students. Take a particular look at he Volcanoes and Middle Ages exhibits.
Little Explorers
http://www.EnchantedLearning.com/dictionary.html
Click on a letter of the alphabet and connect to not one, but many pictures of words with that letter and hotlinks to Websites about that word. Sponsored by Enchanted Learning Software.
Nine Planets: An Interactive Tour of the Solar System
http://seds.lpl.arizona.edu/nineplanets/nineplanets/nineplanets.html
One of the best sites for young astronomers (and young people with astronomy homework assignments), this interactive site by Bill Arnett supplies all the vital statistics for all the bodies in the Solar System, beautiful photos and diagrams, and even music files.
Sesame Street Central
http://www.ctw.org/sscentral
Play Java games with Cookie Monster, solve an Ernie puzzle, and help Elmo around the farm. a pleasant collection of Web activities for younger Net users.
Theodore Tugboat
http://www.cochran.com/theodore
For younger children; a Canadian site centering around a popular children's television show. Many online activities, and the site also includes links to over 600 other sites rated for quality.
Virtual Renaissance: A Journey Through Time
http://www.district125.k12.il.us/Renaissance/GeneralFiles/Introduction.html
Travel back through time and space to a world completely different from your own. This site offers opportunities to examine the Plague, the times of Shakespeare, and the Tower of London and other aspects of the Renaissance. Created by high school students as part of the ThinkQuest competition.
