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News and Zines
BBC News Online - BBC News Online offers continuously updated world news for the UK and worldwide.
Canadian Rockhound: Junior Rockhound Magazine - If you've ever wanted to start a mineral collection, this is a good place to explore. If you've already collected boxes of rocks and would like to try to identify and organize them, you'll really like this site (almost as much as your parents will!). About 3,000 minerals have been identified, but the good news is most rock collectors will only come across about 60 of them in the field. This site offers a lot about geology in general, too, including plate tectonics, earthquakes, and the geologic time scale.
Electric Library Personal Edition - "The Electric Library currently contains 5,277,563 newspaper articles, 697,457 magazine articles, over 419,011 book chapters, 1,523 maps, 136,419 television and radio transcripts, and 104,894 photos and images!" There's also an encyclopedia, Monarch Notes, and a fair number of reference books. You can search topics for free, but if you want to read the full text of the articles, you must become a member. There's a 30-day free trial offer.
How to Analyze News - This site has a tremendous amount of very solid information, as well as suggestions on how to get kids thinking about news stories. Who gathered the information, who reports it, what's the slant, who sponsors the program--all these things and more should be evaluated when we hear a news story. Make sure your kids are media-aware! Visit the main level of this site for more.
KidsPost.com - KidsPost.com is a new Web site just for kids. Every weekday, they'll publish news and feature stories from the KidsPost page of The Washington Post. KidsPost.com also has games, discussions, polls, and online extras you won't find in the paper.
MidLink Magazine - Design an alien or visit a virtual haunted house at MidLink, where kids ranging in age from 10 to 15 years gather to share news of their schools and cities. Check the virtual quilt, with "patches" from kids all over the world. Enjoy the haiku poetry. And don't miss the Cool-School Home Pages. There is always something fun happening at this site, which gets better and better every time we see it!
Newspapers Galore - Links to newspapers in the U.S. and around the world. Alphabetized by city names.
OWLkids Online - These Canadian kids' magazines have online versions full of stories, jokes, puzzles, crafts, and of course, links! Kids ages eight and up will love Wired OWL, while younger kids should try Chickadee Net. The Cybersurfer section in Wired OWL has a nice overview of the culture of the Net. There's also a new parenting section of this entertaining and educational resource.
Smithsonian Magazine Presents Kids' Castle - This site offers a neat mix of feature articles, message boards, and wonderful photos from the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. For example, here's a question: are fairies real? Find out how even Sherlock Holmes' author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was fooled.
Stone Soup Magazine - is a well-known magazine of stories, poems, and artwork by kids, for kids. Here at their home page, you can peek at a sample issue, plus read some online stories and poems. Maybe you'll be able to send them some of your own work. There is nothing like seeing your name in print, next to something you wrote, whether it's printed in a magazine, a book, or on the Net!
Time for Kids - Time for Kids is a very popular news magazine for adults, but now there is an online version for kids, and it is HOT! You'll find current news stories on the front page, but dig deeper for cartoons, multimedia, and an archive of past issues. Recent stories included information on the first woman to command the space shuttle, the death of John Kennedy, Jr., and puzzling mazes cut into cornfields. There are two versions, one for second and third grades and one for fifth and sixth grades.
WORLD Magazine @ Nationalgeographic.com - WORLD Magazine has been a family favorite for decades. They also have a magazine just for kids, called WORLD, and this is its online version. The contents of the issues vary, but we've enjoyed articles on the space station, pirates, and movies of an avalanche in action! There are links to challenging games, plus a way for you to get an international pen pal, too.
Yak's Corner - Imagine a magazine for kids run by a yak. There would be hard-hitting investigative journalism ("Is Lake Champlain Really a Great Lake?"), survey reports ("How High Is Your Allowance?"), and even behind-the-scenes sports stories ("How to Talk Hockey"). You'd also find some Yaktivities such as the Neverending Yak Story, where you can add to the adventures kids have already written; some yak jokes; and lots of fun and games. You don't have to imagine it--you can visit it!
YES Mag - Canada's science magazine for kids has an electronic version. It includes book and software reviews, in-depth articles, and science news and projects. We particularly liked the How Does That Work? section, where we learned lots about telescopes, cameras, submarines, and other inventions.
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