ALSC recommends more Great Websites for Kids

ALSC recommends more Great Websites for Kids

 The Association for Library Service to Children (ALSC), a division of the American Library Association, has added more sites to Great Websites for Kids, its online resource containing hundreds of links to exceptional websites for children.

The newly added sites are:


  • Creative Kids Central - http://classicalkusc.org/kids/
  • Frontiers for Young Minds - http://kids.frontiersin.org/ 
  • Harry Potter Alliance - http://thehpalliance.org/
  • Latinos in Kid Lit - http://latinosinkidlit.com/about/ 
  • Ocean Portal - http://ocean.si.edu/ 
  • Optics for Kids - www.optics4kids.org/ 
  • Paka Paka - www.pakapaka.gob.ar/
  • Periodic Table of Elements - http://pt.kle.cz/en_US/index.html
  • Planet D - www.diabetes.org/living-with-diabetes/parents-and-kids/everyday-life/ 
  • Plaza Sésamo - www.plazasesamo.com/ 
  • Quarked! Adventures in the Subatomic Universe! - www.quarked.org/
  • Semillitas de aprendizaje - www.rif.org/kids/leadingtoreading/es/leadingtoreading.htm



 http://www.ala.org/news/press-releases/2014/06/alsc-recommends-more-great-websites-kids

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