Re: WC:>: Got an idea floating around

[Dick Rhindress]

Chad, my favorite kid site is  Club Yucky Home Page .  It revolts many adults, but that's because the author knows kids and understands the level they are at.  Every kid I've shown it to loves it.  It also has the parent support stuff which you are interested in.

Chad Zimmerman wrote:

>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brent Eades <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 8:40 AM
>Subject: Re: WC:>: Got an idea floating around
>

>> >So, here is an idea I have: An educational learning site for kids
>> >I cruised around the web and havn't really seen any sites for this
>> >purpose, it is like noone has really though ot it yet and created a
truly
>> >educational site for pre-K through 12.
>
>I missed the original post here, but I'm guessing from the references to
>"daughter" and "Albuquerque" that Chad sent it :)

Am I that noticeable now? :}

>Anyway... what exactly do you have in mind when you say "educational
>sites"?  For there are literally tens of thousands of sites oriented to
"K-12"
>education in one way or another: as a father of two and step-father of
>another four, and with my present and ex-wives both being teachers, I
>spend a lot of time looking for lesson plans and similar materials on the
>Web, believe me. <g>

Mainly I want to design a site that kids can go to to learn, and also have
resources for parents to help their child learn and teachers to get lesson
plans and teaching aids.  A combination of Discovery Zone and the
information in the sites below (good for teachers, not for kids).

Here is an example (thought of this on the drive yesterday):
Ok kids, now load up the URL ____________________
Now, read about DNA and answer the 4 questions about it

The kids then go through a multimedia presentation about DNA.

>The most comprehensive K-12 resource I know of is ERIC (the Educational
>Resources Information Center), which has spitloads of lesson-plans,
>journal articles, links and so on, of interest to teachers and parents:

These aregood, but they are for the educators not the students or their
parents.

>http://ericir.syr.edu/
>
>I find their "Virtual Library" in particular to be a good jumping-off
point:
>
>http://ericir.syr.edu/Virtual/index.html
>
>For a *very* extensive review of children's software, check out (surprise!)
>"Children's Software Revue":
>
>http://www2.childrenssoftware.com/childrenssoftware/
>
>
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>Brent Eades, Almonte, Ontario
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