Websites for Kids and Families
- Great Websites for Kids: Sites for the Adults in Their Lives
Sites selected by ALSC to help those adults tending to and raising children in a digital world.
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NASA Kids' Club
A place to play games and learn about NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). -
NOAA
Explore a wide variety of resources and activities for kids from the National Ocean Services (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration) -
U.S. Mint for Kids
Welcome to the U.S. Mint's Kids Site! Want to learn about coins like the penny, nickel, dime or quarter? Or play free educational games? Come on in! -
Storylineonline.net
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s Daytime Emmy®-nominated and award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online®, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Oprah Winfrey, Chris Pine, Kristen Bell, Rita Moreno, Viola Davis, Jaime Camil, Kevin Costner, Lily Tomlin, Sarah Silverman, Betty White, Wanda Sykes and dozens more. -
Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens | Smithsonian Institution
The Smithsonian Institution is the world’s largest museum, education, and research complex, with 21 museums and the National Zoo—shaping the future by preserving heritage, discovering new knowledge, and sharing our resources with the world. -
Bringing the World to your Classroom
PBS SoCal | KCET and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more just for California teachers like you. -
Read.gov
Find classic books, book lists, book reviews by the Library of Congress teen board, and author videos. -
Goodnight with Dolly
“Goodnight With Dolly” features Dolly Parton reading a series of Imagination Library books all carefully chosen for their appropriate content at this moment in time. Dolly welcomes the viewers and introduces the title, author and illustrator. Snuggled in bed with her Imagination Library book, Dolly shares stories that are just right for this moment in time. The readings are a mixture of Dolly and the interior pages of the books. The books include “There’s a Hole in the Log on the Bottom of the Lake” by Loren Long, “Llama Llama Red Pajama” by Anna Dewdney, “I Am a Rainbow” by Dolly Parton, “Pass It On” by Sophy Henn, “Stand Tall Molly Lou Mellon” by Patty Lovell, “Violet the Pilot” by Steve Breen, “Max & The Tag-Along Moon” by Floyd Cooper, “Last Stop on Market Street” by Matt de la Peña, “Coat of Many Colors” by Dolly Parton, and of course, “The Little Engine That Could” by Watty Piper.
Creative Science and Math Activities for Children (eBooks)
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Hands-On Science and Math
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780876596500Publication Date: 2015-07-01Encourage young investigators to feel, listen, smell, taste, and see their way to discovery by seamlessly infusing math and science throughout the school day! As you incorporate all five senses into learning experiences, you will give little innovators the opportunity to observe and explore the world around them. -
Simple STEAM
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9780876597521Publication Date: 2018-04-01Parents are eager to help their children learn, but teaching young children complicated scientific and mathematical concepts can be intimidating. Simple STEAM helps parents realize they don't need to be engineers or scientists to support STEAM learning.Help children explore STEAM concepts with fun and engaging activitiesDiscover STEAM learning opportunities in everyday activities and experiencesPrepare children for kindergartenBuild crucial 21st century learning skills, including collaboration, communication, creativity and problem solving, curiosity, and critical thinking AWARD WINNER! Recipient of: Creative Child Magazine 2018. -
Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool and Kindergarten : Enhancing Curriculum with Technology
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781605546025Publication Date: St. Paul, MN : Redleaf Press. 2018Across the curriculum, Teaching in the Digital Age for Preschool and Kindergarten will guide teachers toward integrating technology so it has an authentic, meaningful, and developmentally appropriate impact on children's exploration and learning.
Teaching in a Diverse Society
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Cultural Competence Now
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781416628927Publication Date: 2020-02-18Cultural Competence Now provides a structure to begin meaningful conversations about race, culture, bias, privilege, and power within the time constraints of an ordinary school. The 56 exercises include activities, discussions, and readings in which to engage during each of the four quarters of the school year. -
Diversifying STEM
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781978805682Publication Date: 2019-11-01The essays cover three main areas: the widely-held ideology that science and mathematics are “value-free,” which promotes pedagogies of colorblindness in the classroom as well as an avoidance of discussions around using mathematics and science to promote social justice; how male and female students of color experience the intersection of racist and sexist structures that lead to general underrepresentation and marginalization; and recognizing that although there are no quick fixes, there exists evidence-based research suggesting concrete ways of doing a better job of including individuals of color in STEM. As a whole this volume will allow practitioners, teachers, students, faculty, and professionals to reimagine STEM across a variety of educational paradigms, perspectives, and disciplines, which is critical in finding solutions that broaden the participation of historically underrepresented groups within the STEM disciplines. -
Exploring Gender and LGBTQ Issues in K-12 and Teacher Education
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Call Number: E-BookISBN: 9781641136174Publication Date: 2019-07-01This volume, Exploring Gender and LGBTQ Issues in K12 and Teacher Education: A Rainbow Assemblage, edited by Adrian D. Martin and Kathryn J. Strom, provides examples of empirical inquiries and theorizations that explore how schools can function as more than safe academic environments for gender diverse and LGBTQ students.
