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Interesting and Educational Web Pages for Children?
watashiwananashidesu asks: "I am a teenager with no siblings and a a good number of little cousins. Being something of a nerd, I'm incredibly popular with these cousins, especially the ones who are 8-11. Recently, when my first cousin (female, 8) was over, I began a collection of links that she might enjoy--sites that were appropriate and fun.
Now that the Cold/Flu season is over, I can expect more visits from my first, second, and third cousins, and I'm left with a dismally small collection of links (eight, to be specific) for them to peruse. Also, the few I have are unsatisfactory; they're mainly corporate sites like Barbie.com and Lego.com with a few non-corporate games mixed in. None of the sites have any educational value, least of all about the things that I really want to expose them to--science, math, literature, and computers. In fact, I especially need sites that will teach them about computers, so that they'll be able to better keep in touch with me, when we're all older. What are some good sites I can bookmark for my cousins that are: educational, appropriate for children aged 5-11, (mainly three boys and two girls), fun, not a security threat, non-corporate (though this last one is optional)
Also, how can I make my friends/protégé(e)s/cousins make the best of what few links I have or manage to find?"
What could be more educating then slashdot.org. Your cousins will learn how to spell and use appropriate grammar from CmdrTaco and other certified instructors. They will post the same story more then once to make sure you have learned everything you can from the article.
Welcome to being a teenage nerd.
Fortunatly you have started reading slashdot at a young age so you will learn all sorts of incredibly cool and geeky stuff and probably make a decent living and have cool tech toys.
Unfortunatly being popular with cousins aged 8-11 will be a theme for your entire life.
Enjoy!
-=SiGH=-
Umm...so what, pray tell, are the rest of them?
Isn't that enough? Minus the homework, I mean.
Send them to the whitehouse.com (http://www.whitehouse.com/). It's an excellent site for learning more about the United States government. It's fun for kids too!
Great....
Now you've sucessfully wasted another 3-20 hours of my life...
And please my girlfriend (she loves simple games, being somewhat simple herself (don't tell her i said that)).
Double-sided blade i guess.
I got nothin'.
Buy Steampunk Clothing Online!
What 8-12 year old is complete without watching StrongBad's Email weekly?
Nice (Flash) cartoon site. Very appropriate for kids, especially the very young, impressionable ones.
(ok that last one is getting into indoctrination but you've already done the corporate damage, why not a little humor in the process... :-)
anyway, i'm always glad to see people teaching others through their good deeds. bravo! (basically the only lesson you need to teach is that you yourself know how to enjoy learning -- that is an example that sticks -- and what better way to learn than to debug --er-- program?)
Nice. Can't wait to see the news editorials in 5 years:
"Kids Can't Add, 8 + 5 = D"
A new study released today shows that kids with glasses are suffering from a strange syndrome which affects the brain. The syndrome, named DDD (decimal defecit disorder), causes children to include the first 6 letters of the alphabet into mathematical answers, making the answer completely wrong. What else is disturbing is that even the answers that don't contain letters are still completely wrong. The most common answer for the problem 8 + 8 was 10. Researchers are looking into finding ways of early diagnosis and ways of treating this illness. Pharmacutical companies are already developing a new drug called 0xRitalin that will hopefully rid our youth of this terrifying handicap.
"Uh, that might be his personal site.. but the site he was referring to is http://volcano.und.edu/"
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