Resources for Parents

Enchanted Learning: This site “produces children’s educational web sites and games which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment.”

FEMA for kids: The Federal Emergency Management Agency hosts this site dealing with disasters, terrorism, school and fire safety.  There are links to resources for parents and teachers.

KidsHealth for Parents: Find articles specifically written for parents concerning the health of their children.

ALA Especially for Young People and Their Parents: This page includes links to online safety rules and suggestions, designed-for-children search engines, all ALA great sites, and other great sites for parents and young people.

DiscoverySchool.com for Parents: Find features at this site that are helpful for parents and students as well as teachers. These include product reviews and educational advice to study tools.

Dr. LeBeau’s  HomePage: A resource for teachers, students and curious adults.

FunBrain.com: This site contains games and activities for kids and parents.  It covers areas such as math, vocabulary words, weather, music, and interactive educational games.

Health Sites for Children and Families: A portal to over 100 health sites can be found here.

Kids Health: This site is sponsored by the Nemours Foundation, a nonprofit organization devoted to children’s health. There are many links found here for kids, teens, and parents.

KidsPsych: A site for parents to spend quality time with their younger children, ages 1-5 and 6-9. Includes many fun games involving cognitive thinking skills and deductive reasoning.

Library Spot: A free virtual library resource center for students and educators, librarians and parents.

Virtual Middle School Library: “Open 24 hours a day.”  Find web sites for students, resources for teachers and parents, a virtual wall calendar, daily newspapers and magazines, resources for school librarians and more.

Quiz Hub:  Have your children practice SAT vocabulary at this site through a matching game.

Families Connect: A site for kids and parents to learn together about the Internet, from the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).

Figure This: Find 80 math challenges for families at this fun site, which is a joint project of the National Council of Teacher of Mathematics, the National Science Foundation, and the U.S. Department of Education.  Grades 4-12.

Math Forum @ Drexel:  Sponsored by Drexel University, this site is one of the best, most complete sources for math materials and resources on the Internet.  Grades K-12 and beyond.

ADHDNews.com: This is an online newsletter with up-to-the-minute news, reviews, and research for parents.

CHADD (Children and Adults with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder): This is an advocacy organization founded by a group of parents whose children have ADD or ADHD.

Internet Mental Health: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: This site features a great links collection to sections on description, diagnosis, treatment, research, booklets, magazine articles, and other web pages.

KidsHealth: This is a great pediatric health web site.  Type in “ADHD” into the QuickSearch box to bring up articles for kids, teens, parents, or a general audience.

WeatherEye: Find all kinds of weather information at this site including lesson plans, activities, and experiments.

Study Skills: Links: This collection of study skill links helps students overcome homework stress and test anxiety with a wide variety of study-skills tips, from when and where to study to setting goals and taking great notes.

Study Skills Topic Pages:  This site offers online workshops for students in elementary school up through college on how to listen better, how to improve your note-taking skills, keep track of assignments, prepare for oral presentations, and more.