Informational Websites

Coursera is an education platform that partners with top universities and organizations worldwide, to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.


NYS Health Ins. Marketplace

nystateofhealth.ny.gov

Free Legal Help – NY

LawHelpNY

Legal Services of the Hudson Valley

 Social Security

Social Security Express

 New York State Library’s new Early Literacy website for young children and their families. It is part of the New York State Library early literacy initiative

Ready to Read at New York Libraries.

DayByDayNY 

Storyplace.org Ultimate Children’s Digital Library. Stories and activities for young and old. (from Charlotte and Mecklenbury Co. PL in NC.

  Ben’s Guide to US Government

Teaches kids from K-12 about the federal government, from the US Government Printing Office.

 New York State Kid’s Room

Fun and facts all about our home state. From the NYDOS

 Kids.Gov

Kids.gov is the official kids’ portal for the U.S. government. It links to over 2,000 web pages from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations, all geared to the learning level and interest of kids.


(from RCLS) A web search site collection for kids created by Librarians and catagorized by subject area. KidsClick! is run by the School of Library and Information Science at Kent State University.

Candy Experiments

Lots of fun combining science with candy. Great for rainy days, and left over Halloween candy!  A Blog by Loralee Leavitt

FreeRice 

Play educational, multiple choice games and fight world hunger at the same time

NASA Kids Club

 brings you images, videos and interactive features from the unique perspective of America’s space agency.

 100 Milestone Documents

US Historical Documents 1776-1965 from the National Records Administration

 American Memory

Multimedia website of documents, recordings, and photos from the Library of Congress

 

Whyville.net

Become a citizen of this virtual city for teens & tweens. Explore science, run for senate, earn clams and have fun.

Flora 1 

An experiment in growing plant life forms. Pick a flower box from each side and then click on graft button.

One of many algorithmic art experiments by Manny Tan from his site at Uncontrol.com

Flora 2

Click inside the green box and watch a flower bouquet form before your eyes

 

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