Curriculum Links

The following categories include teacher resources (including lesson plans), organizations, and content sites related to each subject area.

Carnegie Corporation (Report) - A Time to Act: An Agenda for Advancing Adolescent Literacy for College and Career Success

Website of the Month :  November, 2009

KidsClick! Web Search for Kids by Librarians

http://www.kidsclick.org/

KidsClick was first created by librarians at the Ramapo Catskill Library System in order to help establish a safe, valuable interface for children when searching the internet. It has been further developed and is now owned and run by the School of Library and Information Science (SLIS) at Kent State University. KidsClick is not an Internet filter, so it does not block users from accessing sites, but rather, it functions as a guide to help users find useful and appropriate sites. They do not accept any advertising and the selection criteria for linked sites are posted on the KidsClick website and listed as follows:

Our first instruction to our database contributors is to add sites that they think kids (grades K-7) will find entertaining or enlightening. Beyond that we've only offered a few specific points:

• Do not add commercial sites that only offer particular product/ordering information.

      In order to be cataloged, commercial sites must contain entertainment content

      or educational content.

• Do not catalog any site with unsafe privacy features,

       i.e. sites that ask for kid's full names and addresses/phone numbers.

• Do not catalog sites that require a fee to gain access.

• Do not catalog sites that celebrate evil, shock or scare, or advocate violence,

     hatred of other groups of people, or illegal activities (illegal for adults or children).

• Do not catalog sites that are in obvious violation of copyright laws.

The site is organized according to Dewey Decimal categories, in fact, if you click the hotlink at the bottom of the search page, you can see what the home page looks like through a Librarian's Eyes. Users can search the 600+ linked sites with a simple, direct interface by typing in their keyword or selecting a letter of the alphabet to look at topics beginning with that letter; the topic-word is linked to related sites. Other site features include a short, graphic tutorial with helpful search strategies, and links to search tools with other formats such as “picture search tools” and “sound search tools.”

*This company or website is not affiliated with or connected to The University of Iowa

and the University does not in any way endorse the products or services it provides.

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