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Last updated 8 February 2010

What's New This is our ever changing list of recently added sites. These are not in alphabetical order. Mostly, sites get added on the top and eventually get taken off the bottom.

We've broken out our huge Literacy section into interest areas, such as Grammar. Check it out!.

WolfQuest Episode 2 is out and ready to download!

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AstroTour Solar system interactive virtual orrery from Gunn Interactive of New Zealand. "A free, educational, customizable, scriptable model of the solar-system. Have fun! Learn Something!" We took their intro tour and watched the retrograde orbits demo. Pretty cool. A good way to investigate the Solar System. Going in Astronomy. Reddited.

Cool Zone for Kids from Utility Services of Alaska has a great site about water! The Story of Drinking Water, water FAQ's, games, Water Cycle printable, how water is treated to make it potable, more. Going in Science > Combined Sciences and Earth Science, also in Technology.

WhoZoo from Texas Wesleyan University is our newest animal site. It's taking over from the late great AmericaZoo on our pages. (Go to the old AmericaZoo URL and guess who's there? Yep, The Blonde With The Backpack!) WhoZoo is easy to use, has animals organized into orders (mammals, birds,...) and has short, readable information on each animal. Uhh..it's going in...Animals! Got it in one!

Test Quest Houghton-Mifflin's Eduplace Site teaches kids how to take multiple choice tests! With animated coach and practice problems. Try this as a whole class session with a digital projector. Oldie but goodie!

After School Mathematics "The After School Math website is a full-featured math web site for grades 5-8 created by after school staff and credentialed teachers. The site consists of 10 thematic activity modules, each with at least four activities. These content standard aligned activities are fun, hands-on, and provide opportunities for small group interaction, cooperation, and student leadership." Go for it! Going in Mathematics, Home school, and Teachers Parents.

The Virtual Microscope from University of Illinois. Oh you've got to get this for kids! Amazing closeups! Plug in a digital projector and show these on the wall! "The Virtual Microscope is a NASA-funded project that provides simulated scientific instrumentation for students and researchers worldwide as part of NASA's Virtual Laboratory initiative. This site serves as home base for the Imaging Technology Group's contributions to that project—namely virtual microscopes and the multi-dimensional, high-resolution image datasets they view. Currently we provide 90 samples totaling over 62 gigapixels of image data. The Virtual Microscope, which is available for free download supports functionality from electron, light, and scanning probe microscopes, datasets for these instruments, training materials to learn more about microscopy, and other related tools. The project is open source and the code is available on Sourceforge." Note: This program requires Java. More info at the site. Going in Science > Living Things, > Earth Science, and > Technology.

American Sign Language Learning Aid Link goes to the program page. Download the program here. This is the Windows version, there are others. "A set of programs designed to help the beginner ASL student learn ASL. It is composed of two parts: ASLLA-Dictionary and ASLLA-Fingerspeller. ASLLA-Dict allows the student to look up English->ASL sign. ASLLA-Fspell allows the beginner to practice seeing fingerspelling." Thanks to Andy Uehara, who wrote these programs and is deaf, if that matters to you. Cool. A short manual and other info may be found inside the unzipped program folder. Found it on Sourceforge. Going in Life Skills, Literacy > Misc, and Teachers & Parents.

Fantastic Contraption "A fun online physics puzzle game!" Build machines to do 21 different tasks. Every user-built machine different. Teaches logic and basic engineering principles. Thanks, Mel S. Going in Technology.

North American Bear Center now featuring Lily the Black Bear and Den Cam! Lily's taking the net by storm, with her own Facebook page and millions of Friends. "Three-year-old Lily may have her first set of cubs in January." Everybody's waiting to see! Lily is just one in the line of bears studied by the good people in Ely, Minnesota. Check out the rest of the site, too. Note: If the cam does not work with Firefox, try Internet Explorer. Going in Animals.

WolfQuest Episode 2 is out! Download it! From the Minnesota Zoo and EduWeb comes this excellent download wolf simulation game. Players become a wolf and explore Yellowstone Park! Kids from elementary to high school love to play this game, it's hard to get them to stop! We printed out the enclosed instructions for players to use. Needs a newer computer with good graphics. 127 Mb download for episode 2.

All Science Fair Projects Here's a site that has searched for and categorized all kinds of science fair project links, and offers it to you free! 10 different topic sections, subcategories, lots of projects under each heading. Look for ideas here! Going in Homeschool, Science > Combined Sciences, and in Teachers & Parents.

FaceChipz Ok, we haven't ever done a social networking site for kids before. They have a good reputation and they definitely fill a need. Here's an excerpt from their pitch: "FaceChipz.com has all the features of a real social network – but with one big difference: kids can ONLY communicate with others they’ve physically exchanged FaceChipz tokens with – NO strangers allowed! No one can arbitrarily contact them. No one can search for them. It’s the social network they collect, but doesn’t collect them." We understand that the Chipz are now available at Toys R Us. Going in Teachers and Parents and Life Skills ('cause for better or worse, successful online social networking is now a life skill)

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