The state of Alaska offers online help to Alaskan students in grades K-12 and intro-level college students. Live help is offered seven days a week from 1 PM to 10 PM Alaska Time. WOW!
http://sled.alaska.edu/homework.html

B.J. Pinchbeck began this site as a 12 year old working with his dad in 1996, and to day B.J. is a 22 year old with many web awards. Visit to try an of the many terrific links listed by B.J.
http://www.bjpinchbeck.com/

The American Library Association offers Great Web Sites for Kids, with a searchable index, and a curriculum area / subject indexed web link section for kids K-12.
http://www.ala.org/greatsites

The American Library Association offers the Kids Connect Research Tools page to help kids with the research process.
http://www.ala.org/aaslTemplate.cfm?Section=k12students&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=21725

Cyber Dewey is a hotlist of internet sites organized using the Dewey Decimal Classification codes.
http://www.anthus.com/CyberDewey/CyberDewey.html

Kids' Info is a subject organized list of curriculum information published byKid Info.com teacher author Linda Guterba.
http://www.kidinfo.com/School_Subjects.html

The Biography.com database puts over 20,000 of the greatest lives, past and present at your fingertips.

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Kid's Favorites

Whatever you are looking for, this engine will help you find! Locate games, information, From Yahoo
http://www.yahooligans.com/

Award Winning Books
http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dkbrown/bestbooks.html

Look at current and past Newbery Award winning books, authors, and award information. Also find links to the Caldecott home page, and the Coretta Scott King Award pages
http://www.ala.org/alsc/newbery.html

Animated Clip Art
http://www.zapa.com/site1/

The Internet Public Library's Author Page
http://www.ipl.org/div/askauthor/

The Edible/Inedible Experiments Archive: Herein lie a series of experiments demonstrating concepts in different branches of science. Some may be eaten before, during or after the experiment, and some definitely should not be eaten at all. From The MAD Scientist Network (www.madsci.org), based at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis
http://www.madsci.org/experiments/

Bill Nye the Science Guy, Nye Labs Online
http://www.nyelabs.com/

Scholastic's The Magic School Bus®, based on the award-winning book series by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, features a wacky science teacher named Ms. Frizzle who takes her class of enthusiastic, inquisitive students and playful sidekick, Liz, the lizard, on educational field trips in her magically transformable bus.
http://www.scholastic.com/magicschoolbus/

NASA Puzzles and Games, NASA kids home
kids.msfc.nasa.gov/

The Multnomah, Oregon County Library provides information and a joke of the day.
http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/kids/

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Coolest Web Aps, Ever!

If you find objectionable material, please email me. Due to the changable nature of the Internet and the World Wide Web, the Anchorage School District and I cannot be responsible for the contents of individual sites on this list.

Some of the applications below will require you to create an account with a user and password, and almost all will require you to have an email account (If you don't have an email account, I'd recommend talking to your folks about getting a gmail account with Google. Establishing a Google account with gmail, will enable you to create Google docs at home or school and to complete them in either place without worrying about differences in software). All the aps below offer a free application use, and some offer more advanced options with a paid membership. Be sure and check with your folks before you create accounts or purchase anything!

Blabberize allows you to take a still picture, cut out a mouth shape, and record something for your picture to say. Hit the play button, and your still picture becomes a talking movie. Be sure to use a picture YOU took to avoid copyright violation!
http://blabberize.com/

"Animoto turns your images and soundtrack into stunning music videos in minutes. Free to sign up, it's fast and dead easy to make your first vid. If you’ve got pics, you’re ready to go!" (From the Animoto front page) A paid subscription allows you to download the movies, but it is free to create and save movies and continue to access them on the Animoto site. Use pictures YOU took to avoid copyright violation.
http://animoto.com/

"Poster yourself - Make your interactive poster easily and share it with friends..." using video, text, and animations. (From the Glogster front page) A tutorial @ http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dgqwv5cr_127g7nqc8fm
http://www.glogster.com/

Create your own animated cartoons and movies!
http://goanimate.com/

"Turn your photos into incredible artwork with one click" (from the front page).
http://www.befunky.com/

With Kerpoof! you can make pictures, stories, and movies.
http://www.kerpoof.com/how_to_play

Create your own cartoons.
http://pixton.com/