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Navigation the 'Net with Your Kids :
 

Whether or not a filter is in place, guidance from parents and other adults is crucial in creating safe and positive Internet experiences for your children...from the American Library Association's website.

A useful list found on the American Library Association's website.

No Child Left Behind

NEA strongly supports the goals of the No Child Left Behind Act: raising student achievement and closing achievement gaps. Learn more.

A clearinghouse of information parents, other caregivers, and teachers...topics range from childcare to youth development.

Teacher's Corner

Tallahassee's Online Visitor's Guide lists local sites for school field trips and learning opportunities.

Kid's Bookshelf

The "goal is to encourage parents and caregivers to help children discover the enjoyment of reading. To encourage creativity and imagination in children through reading, writing, and drawing." Also publishes teachers' and parents' original recipes, book reviews, poems, and short stories written for children; and includes some authors' and illustrators' addresses so kids can write to them.

Promotes creative homeschooling through unique resources, teaching methods and online helps. Articles, resources and product reviews are featured here.

A homeschooling megasite!

This organization concerns itself with the legal aspects of homeschooling.

The official site of Practical Homeschooling magazine.

Homeschooling magazines available online and by subscription.

A vast amount of information, selected resources based on clarity and breadth, is contained on this site. Visit it and see what I mean.

"Shows you how to use your own initiative in learning, so you can use schools and teachers just when they are helpful to you, and voluntarily chosen by you."

An interactive homeschooling community open to any homeschooler.

Curriculum
Resources

• Amanda Bennett's Unit Study Adventures - Resources for unit studies on many subjects.
• American Memory - This Library of Congress site allows you to view thousands of documents on a large variety of topics related to life in these United States.
• Encyclopædia Britannica Online - This site contains a huge amount of information.
• Carol Hurst's Children's Literature Site - This is a treasure of books, and activities about particular subjects and themes.
• Children's Literature Web Guide - A Canadian site which contains "internet resources related to books for children and young adults".
• Homeschooler's Curriculum Swap - You can buy, sell or trade used books and curriculum through this site.
• Picture Book Database - A resource for designing thematic units through Children's picture books.
• Recommended Literature: K through 12 - This site arranges award winning books by reading level and subject.

Lesson
Plan Sites

• A to Z Teacher Stuff
• DiscoverySchool Lesson Plans 
• The Lesson Plans Page
• PBS Teacher Source
• Teachers.net
  

Free
Worksheets

• SchoolExpress.com - Free Worksheets
• RHL School
  

Preschool

• Choosing Child Care - Tips on what to look for in a child care environment for your child from the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC).
• List of NAEYC-Accredited Schools
• List of Child Care Sites in Leon County

Elementary, Middle
and High School

• Leon County Schools web sites.
• List of Private Schools
  
  

Places to go with Children
in Tallahassee

• Family Forum Magazine Online
• Mary Brogan Museum of Arts and Science 
• Museum of Florida History
• Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science
• Challenger Learning Center
• St. Marks Wildlife Refuge
• Wakulla Springs
• MOMS (Moms Offering Moms Support) Club of Tallahassee -- A non-profit mother support group.  (850) 668-9671.

An ongoing effort to focus attention on the importance of the early years for children's learning and all aspects of development.