PowerPoint Presentation: It's Elementary!
Internet and Children || Internet Safety || How to Search and Evaluate || How to Cite
Here's a sampling of Web sites about children and the Internet, teaching children to use the Internet, Internet safety and citation.
Children on the Internet - a guide to demographics of users and how to design web pages with children in mind.
Children and the Internet - Annotated links to related sites and tools for parents.
Safe and Smart - Research and guidelines for children's use of the Internet.
For more, query INTERNET CHILDREN
Internet Crimes against Children - Scope of the problem, characteristics of cybercrimes, youth safety survey, the future and more.
Children's Internet Protection Act - What the government's CIPA act requires of schools.
NetSmartz Workshop - Internet safety and smart practices for an older elementary and teen audience.
FBI: A parent's guide to Internet Safety - Signs that children might be at risk.
The X Lab - Software solutions for parents, related safety links.
For more, query INTERNET SAFETY CHILDREN
Ivy's Search Engine Resources for Kids - A link farm for kid-friendly search engines, Web guides for kids and specialized searches.
Welcome to the Web - A guide for primary grades about how to navigate, use Web tools and find information on preselected sites.
Noodle Tools: Choose the best search for your information need - Suggested tools for finding information defined by the purpose of the search.
Teaching Children how to Search the Internet - An article about teaching young children written by an elementary media specialist.
How to Search for Information on the Internet - Ways to work with children to pick keywords.
Elementary CC's for Evaluating Internet Sites - 22 categories of questions to ask about Web information, plus some perspectives from children on evaluation clues.
Effective Use of the Internet for the Elementary Classroom Teacher - Includes lists of Kid-safe search engines, search engines for teachers and ways to use the Interent to teach.
For more, query INTERNET SEARCH CHILDREN or ELEMENTARY INTERNET SEARCH
Citing Electronic Resources - A comprehensive background page by Larry Johnson and Annette Lamb that includes how and why, plus a list of useful citation resources.
Noodle Bib Express - Interactive tool that features MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles.
Citation Machine - David Warlick's interactive web tool designed to assist high school, college, and university students, their teachers, and independent researchers in their effort to respect other people's intellectual properties. MLA, APA, and Chicago/Turabian styles.
