For Parents and Teachers
The Children’s Department maintains a Parent/Teacher Collection which contains a variety of materials for home and classroom use.
What can be found here for parents?
- Information on developmental stages of children
- Toilet training techniques
- Ideas for children’s parties for home and school
- How to discuss the facts of life with your child
- Help in handling discipline issues
- Ideas and ways to help your child with homework
- Activities to do with children
- Homeschooling ideas
Browse our list of sites of particular interest to parents, including KidsHealth, PBS Parents and many more.
- The Children’s Literature Web Guide: Internet resources related to books for children and young adults. Includes book awards, best book lists, and links to authors and stories on the web.
- The Children’s Partnership Online Resources for Parents: A listing of non-commercial resources and sites for parents.
- Family Fun: From Disney, this site includes activities, education, food, health, travel, and more.
- Idea Box: Early childhood education and activity resources.
- iVillage.com: Pregnancy & Parenting: Parenting news topics include health, family, baby, and pregnancy.
- KidsHealth: From the medical experts of The Nemours Foundation, the parenting section includes articles relating to children’s growth, diet, emotions, behavior, etc.
KidSource OnLine: A source for in-depth and timely education and healthcare information.
- Parents Talk: Games, recipes, technical tips, links, advice, and more.
- PBS Parents: Guides for parents in all things kid from development to going to school to birthday parties.
- Surfing the Net with Kids: A list of favorite sites for kids, reviewed and rated by newspaper columnist Barbara J. Feldman.
What can be found here for teachers?
- Information on using the Internet with students
- Curriculum ideas
- Materials to enhance the classroom experience
- Multicultural materials
What can the Children’s Staff do for you?
- Let us know if your class is doing a special assignment and we can put aside books for students to use
- Tours of the library to meet the needs of your class
- A visit to your classroom, based on your needs
- Kid Packs – books based on your criteria, selected for you by staff
- Special assignment collection, for checkout or in-house use
Browse our list of sites useful to educators, including Kathy Schrock’s (Web) Guide for Educator’s, PBS Teachers and many more.
Selected Web Sites of Interest to Teachers
- Book Awards: From the Children’s Literature Web Guide, the most comprehensive guide to English-language children’s book awards on the Internet.
- Center for Education, Integrating Science, Mathematics, and Computing: A site by the Georgia Institute of Technology with listings of programs for the K-12 educational community.
- Discovery Channel School: Kathy Schrock’s extensive guide to educator’s sites.
- Early Childhood: Information for educators and those interested in improving the life of a young child.
- Education World: Their database of 115,000+ sites has links to curriculum ideas, lesson plans, employment listings, site reviews and more.
- Knowledge Network Explorer: Pacific Bell’s site that lists sites by topic and gives each site a rating.
- Math Central: A K-12 math education web site.
- McREL Lesson Plans: From Mid-continent Research for Education and Learning, internet resources for lesson plans, activities and curriculum.
- PBS Learning Media: Teacher standards-based resources, as well as professional development.
- Science Education: From the U. C. Berkeley Space Sciences Laboratory.
- Teacher’s Guide to the Holocaust: An overview of the people and events of the Holocaust from the Florida Center for Instructional Technology. Includes student activities and teacher resources.
- Teachers Net: Teacher chatrooms, catalogs, lesson plans, etc.
- Web Sites and Resources for Teachers: Two professors have collected sites and curriculum resources for teachers to use in the classroom.