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Linkage: Smart Sites for Children and Adults Compiled by Michael Nicolella Good sites for
children are abundant on the world wide web. I've compiled this
Linkage to be a fun guide to web surfing for students, parents,
educators, and other users. Interactive sites about music and art
are listed here, as well as websites run by not-for-profit
organizations. There are also several web applications for help with
mathematics. Informative sites tell you about art in museums and
strange, fascinating experiments that you can perform. Also, there
are several good human-powered Internet directories for education
that will provide much fodder for lesson plans, classroom
activities, and academic research. Interactive
Sites: This is a project of two art museums in Minneapolis, Minnesota: "ArtsConnectEd is an Internet-based gateway for teachers, students, and parents to access the combined educational resources of the Walker Art Center and The Minneapolis Institute of Arts and selected other resources on the Internet." There is an Art Gallery with interactive, multimedia, contemporary art projects, as well as access to classroom material, and more. The web site for The Cleveland (Ohio) Museum of Art, with several areas for children. There are online exhibits about Medieval Armor, Ancient Egypt, and the Animals of Egypt in photographs and ancient art. The American Symphony Orchestra League maintains this fun interactive site for children and frazzled adults. FlashMedia pages teach site-goers about classical instruments. Plus, there are many written facts and sound samples for symphony instruments.
Cool Planet is a website for parents, teachers, and students, by the global poverty charity Oxfam. This site features global geography and culture, some fun and games, teacher's materials, and interactive participation with Oxfam. This site has fill-in forms for math problems. The problems are analyzed by computer, and a step-step solution is provided when possible. Geometry, finance, number crunching, trigonometry, and more are here, as well as things like computations for weight on another planet. Similarly, this site offers interactive mathematics lessons and tutorials Informative: http://www.carnegieinternational.org/html/menu.htm The 1999/2000 Carnegie International exhibition maintains this website about its important international survey of contemporary art. Its teachers' resources, designed for Pittsburgh educators who would take their students to the museum, are designed to be useful for all educators who want to teach contemporary art. The course materials are thoughtful, meaningful, and widely applicable for an age in which contemporary art is as frequently mocked as it is misunderstood.
Classic home science experiments at Bizarre Stuff. Make slime, catch meteorites, construct basic optical devices, cause explosive chemical reactions with household substances, measure the height of a tree, read how to make a shrunken head. NOTE: Responsible supervision is a must. Parental involvement is recommended for some of these - (non-dairy creamer is potentially explosive). The Newsletter assumes no responsibility for experiments gone awry. Index Directories: http://www.pitt.edu/~poole/edmenum.html The EdIndex is a homegrown web resource run by an educator who evidently enjoys this. There are links to all areas of pre-university education, and all educational subjects are covered in this large and diverse site. Here are some similar pages:
Education Index, another good site with more than 3,000 resources in 66 categories, is maintained by an educational software company. Links are to all varieties of sites, which may be incorporated into lessons, be used for reference or research, or provide products and services. The Library in the Sky: "Containing over 15,000 links to some of the best educational resources on the Internet, The Library in the Sky guides teachers, students, parents, librarians, and members of the community on their journeys through cyberspace. The Library was visited over 900,000 times in 1999, and we anticipate well over 1 million visitors in 2000!"
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