Top Picks - Web sites
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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Natural Disaster Web Sites
Tsunami: the Great Wave Excellent scientific background on tsunamis, illustrated with many diagrams and photographs. For older kids.
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Tsunami Warning This 30-page comic book-style site tells the story of how an earthquake in Alaska can cause a tsunami in Hawaii. It explains how scientists are always monitoring conditions around the U.S. coastlines so that people can be evacuated if necessary.
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USGS Earthquake Hazards For Kids Only This general information site offers earthquake-related science fair projects and information about how to prepare for an earthquake. Have any happened in your area in the last week? Take the link to the map of recent earthquake activity in the U.S. and see.
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Seismic Monitor Excellent, near real-time visualization of earthquake activity worldwide.
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What you might feel in a Disaster Natural disasters are scary to hear about, but there are six things you need to remember - the first is that disasters don't last very long and things will eventually get back to normal. You can read the rest of the reassuring words on this site. There is also quite a bit on earthquakes, including some easy experiments to try yourself.
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NOAA's National Geophysical Data Center Educational Materials If you'd like to print and fold a colorful dodecahedron globe, there are some great downloads on this page.
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Tsunami Textbooks This excellent downloadable book series begins with activity pages for pre-K students. Kids will learn about the usefulness of water but also work a maze to find the shortest route to higher ground. The books for older kids include chapters on plate tectonics and how the Tsunami Warning System of the Pacific works
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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
