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K-12: Where Fun and Learning Click

Where Fun and Learning Click!

Explore these 5 Great Web Sites for Tweens (9-12 year old kids). Downloadable educator's guides and informational posters are available for each site offering suggestions for connecting children with the richness of the 5 Web sites through projects and offline activities.

See: Introductory Educator's Guide & Posters

3D & I

3D & I
www.3d-i.org
3D&I is a place where kids discover, dream, and design; where visual literacy becomes a concrete, cool concept.

3D & I Educator's Guide: 8pgs/720k PDF

Backyard Jungle

Backyard Jungle
www.backyardjungle.org
Backyard Jungle is a particpatory multimedia site where kids learn about ecology and new ways to explore their natural surroundings.

Backyard Jungle Educator's Guide: 7pgs/654k PDF
Plastic Fork Diaries

Plastic Fork Diaires
www.plasticforkdiaries.org
On Plastic Fork Diaries, tweens explore their relationship to food: nutrition, athletic performance, cultural significance, and the vanishing family meal.

Plastic Fork Diaries Educator's Guide
8pgs/751k PDF
Don't Buy It

Don't Buy It
pbskids.org/dontbuy
Don't Buy It challenges kids to question adversting, evaluate media, and become smart consumers.

Don't Buy It Educator's Guide
7pgs/592k PDF
It's My Life

It's My Life
pbskids.org/itsmylife
It's My Life invites kids to share their feelings about the social, emotional, and physical issues that affect them.

It's My Life Educator's Guide
8pgs/687k PDF

Educators Guides: See other guides for each site above.
Intro to Educator's Guide
3pgs/870k (PDF)


Posters

Share posters and flyers with local community centers, libraries, schools, and after school programs.

5 Sites Color Poster 1 pg/944k (PDF)
5 Sites B/W Flyer 1 pg/590k (PDF)

 
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