The online version of Scholastic News for kids
Yak's Corner
The online version
of the Detroit Free Press' Kid Pages
This kid's version of Sports Illustrated has articles and games, but no swimsuit connection.
New York Times Learning Connection
Find lots for kids and teachers here, from current events to crossword puzzles, from lesson plans to this day in history.
Newsweek
Education
The Newsweek
Education Program provides educators with discounted classroom subscriptions to
Newsweek magazine-a real-world text that encourages active learning-along with
free weekly lesson plans, curriculum guides and teaching resources to make
planning easier. This website provides access to some of these resources
as a free online option.
Time for Kids
This site
provides a simplified reading level access to current issues as well as links
for homework help through Rapid Research, Writing Help, and Around the
World. It is coordinated with resources on the Time for Kids - Teachers
page.
KidsPost
The
Washington Post for Kids provides links to current news, great articles, and
resources like "the unboring, illustrated story of the Washington area, from 1600 to now."
LA Youth News
This is a newspaper
written by kids from Los Angeles
Channel One News Online
This site
features both kid-friendly versions of the daily news and a streaming video of
a story every day.
Kids Newsroom
Kidsnewsroom's
number one goal is to provide educational material useful to its primary user
groups: students, teachers and parents.
New York Times Student Edition
Find features like
news summaries, daily news quizzes, word of the day, test prep question of the
day, science Q & A, Letters to the editor, and ask-a-reporter. The
site is designed for kids in grades 6 through 12.
PBS News Hour Extra
The kids' version
of PBS show News Hour with Jim Lehrer.
PBS Kids
Games, music,
and coloring activites, as well as information on all the kids shows on PBS.
Yahooligans news for kids
A very
interactive and visually engaging news for kids from Yahoo
Dig! Magazine
The kid's
version of Archeology, this online magazine is fun and informative,
Earth and Sky for kids
A beautifully
designed and intriguing introduction for kids to the things around them.
A sample topic: If we found alien life, would we know it?, and the last
words of Alex, the African Grey Parrot who changed people's minds about the
intelligence of birds and who died on September 20th, 2007: "You be
good. See you tomorrow. I love you."
Exploratorium
This fascinating
online magazine has a different focus every issue, including such topics as
paper, language, space, hair, chocolate, and memories!
National Geographic
Magazine for Kids
A well organized
and beautifully set up site, including videos, activities, games, stories, and
a chance to join the National Geographic Kids group on the imbee.com social
interaction site,
Smithsonian Magazine Kids'
Castle
A lovely site with
excerpts from the print magazine, this requires a pretty competent reader.
Kids Running
The kid's version
of Running Magazine
Sports Illustrated for Kids
Speaks for itself -
no swimsuit issue, though . . .
BBC School
This site from British public television has many links to
online educational games.