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The Internet can be a helpful educational tool for all students.  The sites listed below are known as "kid-friendly" sites.  Just click on the links below and start having fun. 

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Games & Entertainment
Chateau Meddybemps All kinds of fun for families with younger kids.
Children's Television Workshop Your friends from Sesame Street!  Check out the coloring pages in "Big Bag."
Official Disney Web Site Movies, animation--everything Disney!
PBS for KIDS Games and activities connected to your favorite PBS programs, including Arthur, Between the Lions and Sesame Street.  Also provides information for grownups on using the site.
RIF Reading Planet Write and illustrate your own stories, play reading games, express yourself through poetry--this site is a wonderful resource for younger children to explore reading and writing.
The Crayola Home Page Everything you always wanted to know about crayons!
Music
San Francisco Symphony for Kids This site provides information about instruments, a music basics tutorial and a listing of family programs and activities at the San Francisco Symphony.
Sing-Along Songs Can't remember the words to a favorite song?  Don't remember the tune?  Search this site and find both lyrics and music files for many classic songs.
Dallas Symphony Orchestra -- DSO Kids DSOKids is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students. The site's mission is to provide attractive, accessible and child-friendly resources that introduce symphonic music, the orchestra and its instruments, and to encourage young people to explore the world of the symphony orchestra.
Arts
The Children's Museum of Indianapolis This museum offers nontraditional learning opportunities for children and their families.  Includes explorations of dinosaurs and visits to "Rex's Lending Library."
Smithsonian for Kids The Smithsonian Institution is a center for research dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history.
National Gallery of Art for Kids Choose from a variety of activities or projects, enjoy an animated musical adventure, take a tour through the sculpture garden, and more.
Science
National Geographic for Kids This site offers games, activities and experiments, a print 'n' go coloring book, and a cartoon factory.
Space Kids This is a great space science site for kids.
Bill Nye the Science Guy Bill Nye applies his entertaining approach to science in this website.  Highlights include a Demo of the Day, highlights from the day's television episode, and a chance to e-mail your own questions.
Money and Finances
Bureau of Engraving and Printing Look at the new currency designs, fact and trivia and more.
FDIC Learning Bank The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's kid's site tells you the who, what, when, where and why about this agency - with a little help from Carmen Cents!
Time Machine This is a great site about learning the history of coins. There are great facts about interesting people, places, and events that are honored on our coins; you can now experience these people, places and events first hand.