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===[|Lighthouse Weekend Writing Workshops] ===

Adults are responsible for determining appropriateness of all sites before using with children. Due to the changing nature of the Internet, we can not be held responsible for bad sites although every effort is made to only include child-friendly sites. Links are listed with those specifically for younger children appearing first and those for all or older students appearing toward the end of the list. Listings below are grouped by curricular area.

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[|Gifted Book Lists] [|Cool sites for kids] __[|__Classic Stories for Children__]__ __[|__Aaron Shepard__]__ Stories with nice illustrations for children [|__Stephen Cosgrove's Book Pop__] Stories for children __[|__Li'l Fingers__]__ Storybooks for toddlers [|__Starfall__]Have fun learning to read [|__Etymology and History__] of first names [|__Online Etymology Dictionary__] where words including slang come from [|__OneLook__] takes the dictionary and thersaurus to places never dreamed before [|__ASL__]American Sign Language [|__Nonverbal dictionary__]of gestures, signs and body language [|__28 Rules for English Spelling__](and their exceptions) [|Denver Public Schools Semantics/Spelling Bee Site] [|__Free Dictionary__]and so much more [|__Free ACT and SAT test prep__] plus word of the day [|__Word images__] help remember words [|__NaNoWriMo__]National Novel Writing Month (November each year) includes young writers' program [|Big Universe Book Publishing] [|Tikatok Book Publishing]

[|__Math Forum__] all things math including Ask Dr. Math [|__Aunty Math__] challenges for K-5 learners [|__Cool Math__] Comprehensive math site __[|__Math Humor__]__Jokes, stories, riddles, limericks __[|__Figure This__]__ math challenges for families __[|__Math Cats__]__ activities in an interactive blackboard style [|__M.C. Escher__] Mathematics of art [|Flashcard Machine] Make flashcards [|__Fractal Art Gallery__] Arguably the most beautiful fractal gallery in the world with more than 700 fractals [|__Fractals__] for elementary and middle schools [|__Fractal geometry__] A Yale site [|__Abacus__]interactive math site [|__Absurd math__] Prealgebra from another dimension [|__Babylonian__]mathematics [|__BeatCalc__] Beat the Calculator (a free subscription) [|__Explore Math__] Advanced concepts [|__Fibonacci numbers__] and the golden sections [|__Girls go Tech__] (a Girl Scouts site) [|__How to Calculate Pi__]by throwing frozen hot dogs [|__Logical Fallacies__] and their proofs [|__Problem of the Week__] 4 levels of problems elementary - algebra

[|__Astronomy for Kids__] An Astronomy magazine site [|____BrainPop____]Health, science and technology [|__Cool Science for Curious Kids__] (Site of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute) __[|__Eco Kids__]__ (Canadian Site)

__[|__Energy Quest__]__ __[|__FEMA for kids__] __ __[|__Invent Now__]__ __[|__Junior Master Gardener__]__ __[|__Soil Net__]__ __[|__Space Kids__]__ __[|__Weather Wiz Kids__ (Indiana site)] __ __[|__Windows to the Universe__]__  [|__Science Buddies__]a general science fair site [|__Wonderville__] a Candian site

[|__World Atlas__]Point and click [|__Japan__]Kids Web [|__Meet Me At The Corner__] Virtual Field Trips [|__National Geographic__]Kids [|__Show Me__] United Kingdom Virtual National Museum [|__White House__] Kids' site [|__Jamestown__]An innovative virtual site [|__50 States__] History, facts and faces [|__Country Reports__] Anthems, flags, history, symbols and more [|__Degree Confluence Project__]Latitude and longitude intersections in the world [|__World Sunlight Map__] Realtime including cloud cover [|__Xpeditions__] A National Geographic website Also visit the Colorado History links on the [|__Resources Page__]

[|__Classics for Kids__] Includes many cross-generational children's stories, fairy tales, fables, etc. [|__Fractal World Gallery__] Stunningly beautiful fractal art [|__Film Street__]Create movies and animation [|__The Getty Museum__] for kids [|__Jackson Pollock__] Interactive canvas [|__Write Your Own Music__]and play it back [|__San Francisco Symphony__] for kids, create music [|__The Animated Internet__] Learn how the Internet works [|__Make Believe Comics__](in Spanish, too) [|__Cartoonster__]Create cartoons [|__The Cave of Lascaux__] Perhaps the world's most famous cave art [|__Chinese Watermelon Art__] Amazing carvings that can be used on other veggies, too [|__Fractal Art__] Blending art and mathematics [|__M. C. Escher__] Official Gallery [|__Metropolitan Museum of Art__]An extensive vitual museum [|__Smithsonian__] kids [|__Web Exhibits__] Science in art [|__WebMuseum__] with links to museums around the world [|__Polyhedra__] hundreds of paper models [|__Stephen O'Hanlon's__] Origami page [|__Virtual keyboard__] Electronic keyboard options including different sounds and rhythm [|podcasts for parents - education options] [|UN rice project - Vocab. Development] [|Spelling list practice]