Electronic Library Page
Welcome to the Electronic Library Page. Are you ready for some fun? Try out these sites!
- Museum Sites
- American Museum of Natural History
- The museum, located in New York City, features exhibits on different
sciences, incluing the Rose Center For Earth and Space.
- Smithsonian Institution
- The Smithsonian Institution consists of sixteen museums located around
Washington D.C. and several research facilities throughout the United
States. The more popular attractions are the National Museum of Natural
History, the National Air & Space Museum and the National Portrait
Gallery.
- Jacques Cousteau Kid's Corner
- This is from the Cousteau Foundation, which has a museum in Monaco. Jacques Cousteau was a world famous oceanic traveler who brought the world to the television in an effort to save our oceans, and the living creatures in them.
- Space Sites
- NASA
- The premiere space website, this is where the action takes place.
Shuttle updates and other items related to Space can be found here. The
Kid's Place has information about the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration's (NASA) Space Station.
- The Hubble Project
- This is a part of NASA's website (although not easily found) concerning the Hubble Telescope out of the Goddard Space Flight Center. This site contains updates on the images from deep space being sent from Hubble back to earth.
- Laird Elementary School Computer Lab Links
- Students Link Page: Be sure to check out the Web Treasures!
- Student Resources: Additional resources for children to look at online!
- Ask for Kids
- Yahooligans by Yahoo
- Marco Polo Search
- Awesome Library
- Funbrain
- AAA Math
- Starfall
- Student Resources: Additional resources for children to look at online!
- More Student Sites
- Sioux Falls Computer Lab
- Forsyth Computer Lab
- Kid's Place
- Jefferson County, Tennessee Interactive Web sites
- Harcourt's Math Advantage
- Forsyth Computer Lab
- Teacher Curriculum Resources
- Columbia Education Center
- The Academy Curriculum Exchange
- Tucson School District Resources Page
- Edutopia
- The Academy Curriculum Exchange
- Fun "Educational" Stuff
- Book Adventure
- This is a site for children, parents and teachers designed to
challenge children to read books. Points are given for books read, with
prizes assigned to the points.
- Discovery.com
- The website for the Discovery Channel for cable television also
carries Discovery Classroom, The Travel Channel and Animal Planet, among
other sites.
- Kids' Place
- This site has free games and activites geared towards K-8 featuring
math, reading, science and more.
- Usborne Online.com
- Usborne carries books of its own publication. Reading games and other
activities are on this site
for children.
- World of Reading
- Another internet site devoted towards getting children to read more books. A search engine is included in this site to help children find the books they want.
- Silly Sites
- Castles On The Web
- This is a fun little site for older children interested in castles,
legends and just about anything else mideval!
- Walt Disney Site
- This is a site made for the entire family, a la Walt Disney. Loaded with lots of animation and graphics, this site contains games for the children, shopping and a page for designing your next Disney vacation.
- O Kid.com
- Fun site with lots of games and lots of noises.
- Seussville
- This site is based on the characters created by Dr. Seuss. There are
games and activities where children can win prizes, as well as pages for
parents to purchase books.
- Soda Constructor
- This is a fun website that uses geometric figures for movement and to show the effects of different forces that we take for granted with our own bodies. Be careful: This site can get addictive!