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Education Resources for K-12

A service of the Connecticut State Library and your local library in partnership with the Department of Higher Education.

Resources for:

Kindergarten and Elementary Schools • Middle Schools • High Schools • Miscellaneous Resources

Resources for Kindergarten and Elementary Schools:

ABC's for Grades K-2 (Utah Education Network)	Aesop's Fables	Aladdin and the Magic Lamp	Alphabetize the Library
Ask for Kids (formerly, Ask Jeeves for Kids)	BBC Schools (18 months – 5 years)	BBC Schools (Ages 4 – 11)	Children's Notable Lists (Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)
Cinderella	ConneCT Kids	Connecticut Education Network	Dance Mat Typing (4 levels: Ages 7 – 11) (BBC Schools)
DoodlePad	DragonFly (all ages)	Ellington Center and Windermere Schools Online Library Media Center – Resources By Grades K-6	Enchanted Learning (search or browse by subject 20,000 web pages)
Fact Monster	Fairrosa Cyber Library of Children's Literature	Great Web Sites for Kids (Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)	Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Kindergarten)
Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Grade 1)	Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Grade 2)	Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Grade 3)	Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Grade 4)
Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Grade 5)	Grimm's Fairy Tales	Growing with Technology (Grades K – 8)	Hans Christian Andersen's Fairy Tales
The History of Tom Thumb	Homework Helper (Grades 1 - 12) (Refdesk.com)	International Children's Digital Library	Internet4Classrooms (Grades K – 8 by Subject)
Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids	Keyboard Activities	Keyboard-O-Rama (Sesame Street Workshop)	Kids.gov (Federal Citizen Information Center)
KidsClick	KidsHealth	KidSpace at the Internet Public Library	KidsPsych (American Psychological Association) (preK to grade 3)
Kindergarten Curriculum Research Links (Picadome Elementary School, KY)	Kinetic City (AAAS)	Leading to Reading (Ages 0 – 5) (Reading Is Fundamental)	Learning Planet (all grade levels)
MaMaMedia	Merriam-Webster Word Central (for children)	NASA for Students (K-12)	NASA Kids
National Geographic Little Kids	National Geographic Kids	Nutmeg Children's Book Award (Grades 4 - 6; Grades 7 - 8)	PBS Kids
Quintura for Kids	Reading Planet (Ages 6 – 15) (Reading Is Fundamental)	Rock Hounds	Science Clips (Ages 5 – 6 and 6 – 7) (BBC Schools)
Science Clips (Ages 7 - 11) (BBC Schools)	Sesame Street Workshop - Games	Starfall.com (Grades Pre-K – 2 with emphasis on Grade 1)	Thinkfinity (Verizon Foundation)
Touch Typing	Yahoo! Kids

Resources for Middle Schools:

Amity-Bethany Virtual Library	Ask for Kids (formerly, Ask Jeeves for Kids)	BBC Schools (Ages 4 – 11)	BBC Schools (Ages 11 – 16)
Children's Notable Lists (Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC)	ConneCT Kids	Connecticut Education Network	Dance Mat Typing (4 levels: Ages 7 – 11) (BBC Schools)
DragonFly (all ages)	Earth Observatory (NASA)	Ellington Middle School Library Media Center – Resources By Subject	Enchanted Learning (search or browse by subject 20,000 web pages)
Fact Monster	Free Rice (For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger)	Greenwich Public Schools Virtual Library (Middle School)	Growing with Technology (Grades K – 8)
Homework Helper (Grades 1 - 12) (Refdesk.com)	I Was Wondering (Showcasing Women in Science) (The National Academies)	International Children's Digital Library	Internet4Classrooms (Grades K – 8 by Subject)
Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids	Kids.gov (Federal Citizen Information Center)	KidsClick	KidsHealth
KidSpace at the Internet Public Library	Kinetic City (AAAS)	Learning Planet (all grade levels)	Merriam-Webster Word Central (for children)
NASA for Students (K-12)	NASA Kids	National Geographic Kids	Nutmeg Children's Book Award (Grades 4 - 6; Grades 7 - 8)
Quintura for Kids	Reading Planet (Ages 6 – 15) (Reading Is Fundamental)	Rock Hounds	Science Clips (Ages 7 - 11) (BBC Schools)
Science for Kids (AAAS)	Science News for Kids	Scratch (MIT Media Lab)	demo 1
demo 2	TeensHealth	TeenSpace at the Internet Public Library	Thinkfinity (Verizon Foundation)
ThinkQuest Library (search or browse by subject 6,500 websites) (Oracle Education Foundation)	Word Central (Dictionary, Thesaurus and Rhyming) (Merriam-Webster)	Yahoo! Kids

Resources for High Schools:

BBC Schools (Ages 16+)	ConneCT Kids	Connecticut Education Network	DragonFly (all ages)
Earth Observatory (NASA)	Fairfield Warde High School Virtual Library – Resources By Subject	Free Rice (For each word you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the United Nations to help end world hunger)	Greenwich High School Virtual Library – Resources By Subject
Homework Helper (Grades 1 - 12) (Refdesk.com)	I Was Wondering (Showcasing Women in Science) (The National Academies)	Learning Planet (all grade levels)	Loomis Chaffee School / Katharine Brush Library
NASA for Students (K-12)	Reading Planet (Ages 6 – 15) (Reading Is Fundamental)	TeensHealth	TeenSpace at the Internet Public Library
Thinkfinity (Verizon Foundation)	ThinkQuest Library (search or browse by subject 6,500 websites) (Oracle Education Foundation)

Miscellaneous Resources:

BBC Schools (Main Site)	The Big Six	Book of Nonsense	COMPASS (The British Musuem)
Digital Classroom (National Archives and Records Administration)	Internet4Classrooms (Main Site)	Lewis Carroll Home Page	Mark Twain's Autobiography and First Romance (Quinnipiac University)
Online Children's Stories (The Children's Literature Web Guide)	StoryLine Online (Screen Actors Guild Foundation)	Storynory (audio stories)	StoryPlace: The Children's Digital Library (English and Spanish)
SurLaLune Fairy Tale Site

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