Kids' websites can make learning fun.
Parents often seek additional ways to enhance and supplement their children's education. The Internet provides access to a variety of free resources. Kid-friendly sites exist to teach children about almost any subject. Geared toward helping children learn, these websites use games, puzzles and other fun methods to capture your elementary-age child's attention.
Kids Know It Network
The Kids Know It Network of websites (kidsknowit.com) offers games and activities on subjects like dinosaurs, the solar system, the human body and state capitals. It also offers free educational movies and podcasts, all designed to entertain and educate. The network is broken down into mini-websites dedicated to the following subjects: history, geology, geography, spelling, dinosaurs, human biology, astronomy, math, biology (basic) and memory. All subjects are covered in an easy-to-comprehend manner and each has games to help reinforce concepts.
FunBrain
FunBrain is an educational website (funbrain.com) designed for children from kindergarten to eighth grade. The website also provides resources for teachers and parents, and the games are designed to supplement lesson plans. The site has over 50 interactive games covering math, reading, language arts and history. Activities feature popular kids' books like "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" and "Amelia Writes Again." Another interesting feature is the "Fun Blog," which is sectioned according to gender and age group, and contains fun-fact entries like the history of ice skating (girls, ages 10 and up) and the earliest letter to Santa from the 1200s (boys, ages 6 to 10). Children can navigate the site, selecting games according to type or grade level.
KidsClick
KidsClick is the Internet version of setting your kids free to explore books in the children's library. KidsClick.com is technically a search engine---but it's a search engine designed by librarians from Kent State's School of Library and Information Sciences---and it's connected to a wide array of kid-appropriate websites on a variety of subjects. A click on the topic "Christianity" brings up a list of websites, including "The Creator of Narnia: C.S. Lewis," and "Manas: India and Its Neighbors," while clicking on "Pets" brings a linked list of common pets. For example, "Aquarium" brings you to a list that includes "FINS: Fish Information Service" and "Fishgeeks.com." The easy navigation encourages children to explore subjects they may have discussed in school and to discover new information about topics they may never have thought about. KidsClick does not contain any advertising.
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