Because a democracy is a government led by its people, voting to elect our leaders is a vital responsibility. With November's presidential election just four months away, the campaigns are heating up. Here are some online resources for kids and teens to l
Created to mobilize twenty million potential voters under the age of the thirty, Choose or Lose is one part education, one part entertainment, and one part promotion.
This PBS site for grades three to six is evergreen because it does not specifically cover the 2004 elections, but rather the process itself.
Rock the Vote makes "political participation cool" by "incorporating the entertainment community and youth culture into its activities.
Scholastic: Election 2004 is my pick-of- the-day for grades three through eight.
On August 13, 2004 the XXVIII Olympiad will begin in Athens, Greece, the 776 BCE birthplace of the original games and host of the first modern Olympic Games in 1896. This year, nearly 10,500 athletes will compete in twenty-eight sports, vying for 903 meda
The Internet address (or URL) of the kids section of the official Athens 2004 site is so long, that the easiest way to get there is simply to click on Youth 2004 from this front page.
The five interlacing rings of blue, yellow, black, green, and red became the official Olympic logo in 1913.
Scholastic covers the 2004 Games in six sections.
I've been reviewing educational websites for eight years. Over that span of time, finding good topics to write about has gotten much easier, since the entire Web has grown so much. But true quality, in both content and design, is still rare; and I still g
This page from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam is a favorite because it includes the arty multimedia Van Gogh & Gauguin exhibit (it's not sequential, so just click around and enjoy), a nice selection of van Gogh e-cards, and an amazing 3D tour of the per
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