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If you're looking for some great media suggestions for your kids--look no further than our Top Picks! We have a variety of lists in all of our media categories with some wonderful suggestions for kids of all ages. Whether you're looking for great fantasy books for your 8-14 year old or some classic holiday movies, you're sure to find something that your kids will enjoy.
Check back here often since we're continually adding new lists every week! If you have any suggestions for a new list or for a title that should be added to one of our existing lists, please let us know.
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Alien/UFO Web Sites
SETI@Home The Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence (SETI) could use a hand interpreting years and years of data. Specifically, they could use some more computers. Yours, for example, while you're not using it! Turn your unused processor cycles into a workhorse for actual scientific research by downloading a small screensaver program and signing up to participate.
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NOVA Online All Alone? Or Not? Easy to read facts on what we know about other worlds, and how we know it.
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ABC News 4 Kids Alien Secrets Did you know that UFOs were documented as early as 329 BC? Since then, there have been plenty of strange things spotted in the sky. Some turn out to be weather balloons or swamp gas, while others?well, we just don't know. Explore the history of UFOs and learn about the search for extraterrestrial life at this excellent site.
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Out of this World Design The aliens have landed and it's your job to make them feel right at home. Trouble is, they have three legs, four mouths, and claw-like fingers. You need to redesign their hotel room chairs—fast! While you're at it, better rig up a special phone, a pen, and a vehicle as well. Can you learn enough about industrial design in time, or will you create an interplanetary crisis?
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Mars Exploration Just for Kids If you visited Mars, YOU'D be a space alien, yourself! Find out what that would be like. This site offers printables, games, and a chance to find out your weight on the Red Planet!
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The Space Place for Kids Make a spacecraft out of a tortilla, create asteroid potatoes, and print and play a Black Hole board game.
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Build Your Own Aliens Select arms, legs, heads, and other body parts to create your vision of what aliens might look like. Then take a virtual visit to another planet and see if you're right!
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Web site Lists
- Safe Social Networking for Tweens
- Social Networking for Younger Kids (7 and under)
- Stellar Sports Sites
- Harry Potter Web Sites
- Geography Web Sites
- Gardening Web Sites
- Safe Search Sites for Kids
- Farm Animal Web Sites
- Art Web Sites
- Dinosaur Web Sites
- Homework Help Web Sites
- History Web Sites
- Astronomy Web Sites
- KIDS.US Web Sites
- Reading Web Sites
- Color Web Sites for Young Kids
- Signs of Spring on the Internet
- Princess for a Day Sites
- Earth Day Web Sites
- News Web Sites for Tweens
- Winter Web Sites
- Black History Month Web Sites
- Trains, Trucks, and Robots Web Sites
- Chinese New Year Web Sites
- Educational Game Web Sites
- Math Web Sites
- Volcano Web Sites for Kids
- Hawaii Web Sites
- President's Day Websites
- Travel Web Sites
- New Year's Web Sites
- Martin Luther King, Jr. Day Web Sites
- Tooth Fairy Web Sites
- Kite Web Sites
- Coral Reef Web Sites
- Natural Disaster Web Sites
- Planet Mars Web Sites
- Easter Web Sites
- Passover Web Sites
- Horse Web Sites
- Money Web Sites
- Presidents Day Web Sites
- Poetry Web Sites
- Soccer Web Sites
- Hurricane Web Sites
- History of the United States Web Sites
- Time Web Sites
- Alien/UFO Web Sites
- Beach Web Sites
- Fantasy Book Web Sites
- Arts and Crafts Web Sites
- Middle Ages Web Sites
- Folk Tale Web Sites
- Music Web Sites
- Halloween Web Sites
- Animal Web Sites
- Elephant Web Sites
- Cow Web Sites
- Robot Web Sites
- Worm Web Sites
- Frog Web Sites
- Whale Web Sites
