Animals at the Minnesota Zoo - Facts and photos about animals found at the Minnesota Zoo

Creature Feature - Photos, video, audio, and facts from National Geographic. Focus on unusual animals.

Biography:

Presidents of the United States - Interesting facts and notable events for each of the presidents.

InfoPlease Biography - More than 30,000 biographies from Information Please Almanac. Search by name or subject.

States and Countries:

Countries of the World - Fast facts, geography, history, government, plus who's who in each country.

Country & State Reports - Basic facts about government, geography, economy and people. Includes flags and maps.

Minnesota - State symbols, history, trivia and more fun facts.

Minnesota History Center - Photos and more about Minnesota people, places, and history.

Stately Knowledge - Facts and links to official state websites.

Current Events:

Kids Post - Short news stories from the Washington Post of interest to kids.

News for Kids - Top news stories and features from around the world, written for kids; Scholastic Publishing.

Time for Kids - Online version of the print magazine

Language Arts

Bookwink - Need to find a good book? Visit this website to see video booktalks on a variety of themes for kids in third grade through eighth grade. QuickTime is needed to view the videos.

Giggle Poetry - Hundreds of poems for kids to read and rate.

Grammar Gorillas - Nouns, verbs, adjectives and more. Click here to practice naming parts of speech.

Guys Read - Author Jon Scieszka makes suggestions for a literacy program that connects boys with books they want to read.

Kidsreads - Offers reading guides for a variety of books. Also contests, author interviews biographical information.

Young Writer's Clubhouse - Created by Deborah Morris, the author of the Real Kids, Real Adventures series. This site offers a great deal of sound information and opportunities for young people through writing.

Math

Calculator - Online calculator.

Cool Math for Kids - Games for learning math facts, plus activities for learning fractions and geometry.

Graphs and Charts - An easy tool for creating graphs and charts.

Math Facts - Practice addition, subtraction, multiplication and division playing an online baseball.

Math Fact Flash Cards - Create and print your own flashcards to practice math facts.

Measures - Change from Metric - Example: If you know kilometers, and want to change to miles.

Measures - Change to Metric - Example: If you know miles, and want to change to kilometers.

Money - Making Change - Practice choosing the right change. Easy to hard games.

Science

Bill Nye the Science Guy - Nye applies his entertaining approach to science to the Web, with a Demo of the Day, highlights from the day’s television episode, and a chance to e-mail your own query. Requires Macromedia Shockwave Plug-in.

Building Big - Explore construction by type of structure, try labs and challenges, read biographical sketches of people working in a variety of engineering careers, and even nominate local structures. Based on David Macaulay's BUILDING BIG.

Cool Science for Curious Kids - Created by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, this site offers both online and offline science activities for children of all ages.

How Stuff Works - Learn how everything works. From digital cameras to identity theft, this site is a treasure trove of useful and searchable information.

IPL Kidspace - Finding an idea for your project can be the hardest part. A list of sites offering great places to start to look for topic ideas.

NASA Space Place - Includes games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
National Geographic Kids - National Geographic’s site for young readers is one of the best resources for information on the Net about the world, its people, and its wildlife.

Science Activities - The Science Museum of Minnesota highlights objects from the collection monthly that allow visitors to use science sleuthing skills to guess the mystery object as well as find out about other objects.

Science News for Kids - From the makers of the weekly magazine, Science News, comes a kid-friendly site devoted to a variety of science topics, puzzles, games, and science fair suggestions.

Search Engines

Ask for Kids - Ask for Kids is a fast, easy and kid-friendly way for kids to search the Internet.

KidsClick! - A Web directory and search engine created by librarians.

Yahoo! Kids - Yahoo! Kids is a browsable, searchable directory of Internet sites for kids. Each site has been carefully checked by an experienced educator to ensure the content and links are appropriate for kids aged 7-12.

Social Studies

America's Story - Famous Americans, the 50 states and more. Jump back in time to your birth date. From the Library of Congress.

Ben's Guide to Government - Information about how government works. Organized by grade level. From the U.S. Government.

Native Americans: Facts for Kids - Information on over 33 Native American tribes, including Chippewa (Ojibwe).

World Almanac for Kids - Provides kids with the information they crave on thousands of subjects.

America's Story - Famous Americans, the 50 states and more. Jump back in time to your birth date. From the Library of Congress.

Ben's Guide to Government - Information about how government works. Organized by grade level. From the U.S. Government.

Native Americans: Facts for Kids - Information on over 33 Native American tribes, including Chippewa (Ojibwe).

World Almanac for Kids - Provides kids with the information they crave on thousands of subjects.