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  • Canada Safety Council is a national, non-government, charitable organization dedicated to safety. Their mission is to lead in the national effort to reduce preventable deaths, injuries and economic loss in public and private places throughout Canada. They serve as a credible, reliable resource for safety information, education and awareness in all aspects of Canadian life - in traffic, at home, at work and at leisure.
    www.safety-council.org

  • Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety promotes a safe and healthy working environment by providing information and advice about occupational health and safety. The "OSH Answers" area of this web site presents health and safety information in a question and answer format.
    www.ccohs.ca

  • Office of Boating Safety is responsible for the regulatory, enforcement and technical services that apply to recreational vessels. The Office of Boating Safety actively promotes boating safety through its prevention program and is also responsible for setting national standards for operator competence, education and training.
    www.nfl.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/CCG/OBS

  • Stay Alert Stay Safe promotes safety awareness for children. Adults will also benefit from this site's information on the SASS program, links to resources and newsletters, and tips on Internet safety.
    www.sass.ca

  • Safety Print Me Pages: Sesame Street Muppets make safety fun with this collection of print and color activity pages, sponsored by Ford, and including an excellent car bingo game!
    www.ctw.org/parents/safecruising/justforkids/printme/0,3691,61003,00.html

  • Saskatchewan: the official home page of the government of Saskatchewan.
    www.gov.sk.ca

  • Science Net of the Toronto Reference Library is a service that makes it easy for teachers and students to find general and Kindergarten to Grade 12 science websites on the Internet. We select the best sites we can find.
    http://sciencenet.tpl.toronto.on.ca

  • Cornell Math and Science Gateway provides links to resources in mathematics and science for educators and students in grades 9-12, although teachers of other levels may find these materials helpful. The Math & Science Gateway has won numerous awards and hopes to increase its success with input from the Internet community.
    http://www.tc.cornell.edu/Services/Edu/MathSciGateway

  • SciCentral is a gateway to the best science and engineering online resources and breaking research news. The site is divided into the difference areas of science such as: biological, health, engineering, physical and chemical, etc.
    www.scicentral.com

  • Great Canadian Scientists In this website, you will meet some Great Canadian Scientists and learn about their sciences. Whether you're a kid at home, a researcher in the field, a teacher, parent or librarian, you will find the information from the Great Canadian Scientists Project valuable.
    www.science.ca

  • 4000 Years of Women in Science This site includes biographical information about over 125 women inventors, scholars, writers, mathematicians and astronomers.
    www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

  • The Why Files page presents the science behind the news, and is funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation.
    http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu

  • The Alchemy Web Site and Virtual Library: 90 megabytes online of information on alchemy in all its facets. Divided into over 1300 sections and providing tens of thousands of pages of text, over 1700 images, over 200 complete alchemical texts, extensive bibliographical material on the printed books and manuscripts, numerous articles, introductory and general reference material on alchemy.
    www.levity.com/alchemy/home.html

  • Internet History of Science Sourcebook provides a collection of public domain and copy-permitted historical texts presented cleanly (without advertising or excessive layout) for educational use, as well as links to other related sites.
    www.fordham.edu/halsall/science/sciencesbook.html

  • Albert Einstein Online provides links to many resources on Einstein, including photographs, biographies, and explanations of relativity theory.
    www.westegg.com/einstein

  • Newton.org.uk provides a collection of material about Sir Isaac Newton, as well as many links to other resources.
    www.newton.org.uk

  • The Galileo Project is a hypertext source of information on the life and work of Galileo Galilei (1564-1642) and the science of his time. The project is supported by the Office of the Vice President of Computing of Rice University. The initial stages were made possible by a grant from the Council on Library Resources to Fondren Library.
    http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo

  • 4000 Years of Women in Science This site includes biographical information about over 125 women inventors, scholars, writers, mathematicians and astronomers.
    www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html

  • Science Fair Project Resource Guide Do you need to do a science fair project? This list of web sites provides the basic materials to do just that. The HOW TO DO A SCIENCE FAIR PROJECT articles explain the different parts of science fair projects. SAMPLES of completed science fair projects will show some successful projects for different age levels. The IDEAS section will help you decide what kind of science fair project you want to do. The sites may include questions which can be developed into projects or full explanations of projects you can do.
    www.ipl.org/youth/projectguide

  • The Tale of the Trebuchet provides detailed plans to make a table top trebuchet as well as a larger model. With links to related sites.
    www.fyi.net/~kordite/trebstry.htm

  • Mousetrap Car: a set of basic instructions and tips on how to get started building a mousetrap car out of balsa wood.
    http://mlanham.home.mindspring.com/mousetrap/basic/basic.html

  • Reeko's Mad Scientist Lab is your source of free science experiments for parents, teachers, and children of all ages. Kick off your shoes. Pull up a chair. Make yourself comfortable. Oh yeah, did we mention that protective goggles are required...
    www.spartechsoftware.com/reeko

  • International Year of Older Persons The General Assembly of the United Nations decided to observe the year 1999 as the International Year of Older Persons (IYOP). This is in recognition of humanity's demographic coming of age and the promise it holds for maturing attitudes and capabilities in social, economic, cultural and spiritual undertakings, not least for global peace and development in the next century.
    www.un.org/esa/socdev/iyop

  • InfoSeniors This site provides Canadian Senior Citizens and their families with easy access to valuable information on programs, services, and events available to seniors.
    www.infoseniors.com

  • Elderhostel Home Page Elderhostel is an educational adventure for older adults looking for something different. The later years should be a time for new beginnings, opportunities and challenges. Elderhostel offers you a way to keep expanding your horizons with people who are interested in the same things you are.
    www.elderhostel.org

  • American Association of Retired Persons Enormous senior advocacy organization providing a wealth of information including a guide to internet resources related to aging.
    www.aarp.org

  • Retire.Net Includes a variety of retirement-related interests such as a hobbies section.
    www.retire.net

  • Sexual Assault Care Centre is an online sexual assault resource created by youth, for youth. Statistics Canada says half of all sexual assault victims in Canada are under 16. Sexual Assault is any type of sexual activity that is unwanted, by someone to whom you have not given your consent. A sexual assault may include the use of physical force, threat or intimidation. Sexual assault is a crime.
    www.sacc.to

  • Centres For Disease Control Web site of the branch of the Centres for Disease Control (CDC) concerned with sexually transmitted diseases.
    www.cdc.gov/nchstp/dstd/dstdp.html

  • Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet is an award-winning guide to Shakespeare resources available on the Internet, including: biographies, timelines, study guides, critical resources, concordances and searchable on-line editions of his works.
    http://daphne.palomar.edu/shakespeare

  • The Plays of William Shakespeare offers the complete plays with introductions, concordances, a character guide, and well-known quotations for each play. The online concordance allows users to instantly search for all occurences of any particular word or phrase in each play -- a useful means of examining motifs and themes. The extensive, searchable glossary is also helpful for looking up unfamiliar Elizabethan vocabulary, and an online forum allows users to share their thoughts on the Bard with other readers.
    www.theplays.org

  • RMS Titanic Web Site Titanic web site set up by NASA, with links to many other Titanic sites.
    http://seawifs.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCEAN_PLANET/HTML/titanic.html

  • Molly Brown House Museum Molly Brown survived the Titanic disaster with style, then selflessly assisted with rescue and relief efforts. This web site tells the story of her life.
    www.mollybrown.com

  • RMS Empress of Ireland: MAY 29, 1914...this proud ocean liner collides in fog with the Norwegian collier Storstad and sinks in fourteen minutes in the St. Lawrence River, taking 1,012 passengers and crew with her in the worst maritime disaster in Canadian history. This site has a vast amount of information as well as links to other sources.
    www.rmsempressofireland.com

  • Bluenose II Preservation Trust is a volunteer organization established to preserve and operate Bluenose II . The purpose of the trust is to preserve the schooner and ensure that the legacies of traditional seamanship skills and the craft of building great wooden ships are maintained for future generations. Bluenose II was built from the identical plans as Bluenose, in the same shipyard of Smith and Rhuland and by some of the same men, and is identical to Bluenose in design of hull, rigging and sail plan. Bluenose II was sold to the government of Nova Scotia for $1 in 1971 by the Oland family of Halifax, and represents Nova Scotia as a sailing goodwill ambassador
    www.bluenose2.ns.ca

  • East of the Web Short Stories provides a good online collection of famous short stories, organised into nine categories: fiction, romance, crime, sci-fi & fantasy, humour, horror, hyperfiction, children's and non-fiction.
    http://www.eastoftheweb.com/short-stories

  • Classic Short Stories features the full text of famous short stories, such as: "The Lady or the Tiger?", "The Monkey's Paw", "Leiningen Versus the Ants", "The Most Dangerous Game" and many more. There are also links here to other short story web sites.
    http://mbhs.bergtraum.k12.ny.us/cybereng/shorts

  • Classic Horror Short Stories provides an extensive online collection of famous spine-tingling tales, all of which are in the public domain, and can therefore be printed out and copied without restriction.
    http://atoledo.freeyellow.com

  • 201 Short Stories by Anton Chekhov: One of Russia's greatest writers, Chekhov began his career writing jokes and anecdotes for popular magazines to support himself while he studied to become a doctor. Between 1888 and his death he single-handedly revolutionized both the drama and the short story.
    www.freespeech.org/chekhov

  • The Fairy Tale Project is a set of text and image archives containing many versions of some classic fairy tales from the English-speaking world in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. The materials were drawn from the de Grummond Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Southern Mississippi.
    Archives currently available:
    The Cinderella Project
    The Little Red Riding Hood Project
    The Jack and the Beanstalk and Jack the Giant-Killer Project.
    http://www-dept.usm.edu/~engdept/dept/webpubl.htm

  • Symbols.com contains more than 2,500 Western signs, arranged into 54 groups according to their graphic characteristics. In 1,600 articles their histories, uses, and meanings are thoroughly discussed. The signs range from ideograms carved in mammoth teeth by Cro-Magnon men, to hobo signs and subway graffiti.
    www.symbols.com

  • One Parent Families Association of Canada is a Canadian Association of approximately 1,100 separated, divorced, widowed or never married parents. Membership is open to both custodial and non-custodial parents. As a volunteer Association, the contribution of our time is part of our membership fee. Although many Singles Groups offer a wide variety of social activities, few are as focused as we are, on the children in a one-parent family unit. We are a learning resource where one-parent families develop a healthy, positive attitude toward their single parent status. Based in Pickering, Ontario, with links to many other resources.
    www.tcn.net/~oneparent

  • SleepNet has everything you wanted to know about sleep disorders but were too tired to ask, as well as links to other sleep and dream related sites.
    www.sleepnet.com

  • Sociology Web Hawg (from the University of Wisconsin) provides a jumpstart of internet resources for students of Sociology, Economics, Political Science, Crime and Criminal Justice or Law Enforcement.
    http://rock.uwc.edu/~pgroth/sochawg.htm

  • International Lyrics Server The International Lyrics Server is a non-profit server located in Switzerland, Europe. It provides over 70,000 lyrics of all music styles such as Rock, Pop, Oldies, Folk and many more.
    www.lyrics.ch

  • Mojo's Musical Mouseum a place where you can find the lyrics to your favorite kids' songs, send out a request for a long lost song, or maybe help somebody else find the one they're looking for. Anywhere you see the musical notes image, it means the music is included.
    www.kididdles.com/mouseum

  • National Anthem of Canada Information Page presents the history, official lyrics and sheet music for "O Canada".
    www.pch.gc.ca/ceremonial-symb/english/emb_anthem.html

  • Song Lyric Links This music resource list is offered as a service of the William and Gayle Cook Music Library, Indiana University.
    www.music.indiana.edu/music_resources/songlyr.html

  • ANC Biography of Nelson Mandela African National Congress biographical sketch of Nelson Mandela.
    www.anc.org.za/people/mandela.html

  • Nelson Mandela: The 100 Best Links to All WWW Resources on Nelson Mandela. His life, his nation, his marriage -- it's all here. This is your complete source for Nelson Mandela information.
    www.taxpolicy.com/mandela.htm

  • Canadian Astronaut Office (of the Canadian Space Agency) provides information on Canadian Astronauts and other Canadian contributions to the Space Program.
    www.astro.space.gc.ca

  • Storytime Central provides book lists and read-aloud recommendations based on a wide variety of themes. Click on a theme for picture book suggestions and teaching hints. Please note: it was not my intention to list all books available on the subject; instead, I am sharing books that have ACTUALLY WORKED FOR ME as great read-alouds, lifted from my actual lesson plan book! The crafts and activities and teaching hints have also been TRIED HERE ON PLANET EARTH! NOT JUST IN THEORY!!!
    http://pages.ripco.net/~esme/storytimecentral.html

  • Sesame Street Central provides material for toddlers and and preschoolers. Lots of web pages especially designed to print out and color. The alphabet, numbers, and shapes pages also include pictures of all the Sesame Street characters. Links to simple online storybooks.
    www.ctw.org/sesame

  • Alphabet Coloring Pages provided by LearningPlanet.com.
    www.learningplanet.com/parents/alphabet

  • DLTK's Printable Crafts for Kids features a variety of fun children's crafts, coloring pages and more including projects for holidays, educational themes and some of our children's favorite cartoon characters. There are lots of printable templates suitable for ages 2 and up.
    www.dltk-kids.com

  • Create-A-Book Coloring Pages: Now you can publish your very own coloring book for your children that will spell their name. Click on each letter you want to print, and it will enlarge to full size 8-1/2 by 11. Then select print. You can print on laser or inkjet. Make as many as you wish, this coloring book is free from Create-A-Book!
    www.books-4u.com/freebook.htm

  • Webtime Stories an annotated collection of web sites for people who love children's literature. Though there is nothing quite like reading a good book, the internet combines the printed word with graphics, sounds, interactivity and animation to create rich and memorable reading experiences. Though there are literally hundreds of web sites on Children's Literature, Webtime Stories is not a comprehensive collection. Instead, think of it as a "best of" list, a gathering of sites that are truly worth a look. Whether your interest is picture books, science fiction, fairy tales or just plain fun, Webtime Stories has something for you. Each site has an introduction that describes its personality and details highlights.
    www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/webtime/index.html

  • ChildFun.Com is the premier site for crafts for kids, preschool activities & parenting advice! This site includes hundreds of pages of ideas, curriculum plans and activities, including several galleries of coloring pages.
    http://childfun.com

  • Berenstain Bears Website provides lots of activities and games with the Bear Family.
    www.berenstainbears.com/

  • Preschool Activity Sheets provides many links to free coloring and activity sheets on the Web.
    www.jontay.com/parenting/printout.htm

  • Ivy's Coloring Pages Click on the picture to make it bigger and then print it for coloring. Don't miss my Dinosaur Coloring pages. Check out my links to lots of print and color, online coloring pages, PDF coloring books and online art galleries & lessons. You can find even more sites with the print and color search engine.
    http://ivyjoy.com/coloring

  • Free Worksheets by the thousands, arranged by themes and age groups.
    www.freeworksheets.com

  • Arthur: the World's Most Famous Aardvark provides extensive information, activities, games and pages to colour.
    www.pbs.org/wgbh/arthur

  • Safety Bear and Safety Cub help the Alaska State Troopers teach safety to children. Great set of coloring and activity sheets focusing on child safety. Links to other child safety sites.
    www.dps.state.ak.us/AST/safetybear

  • The Real Mother Goose is one of the larger collections of rhymes for children. It has wonderful pen and watercolor illustrations by Blanche Fisher Wright. In 1989, The Real Mother Goose was 20th on the list of All-Time Bestselling Hardcover Children's Books, having sold 3,600,000. This book was originaly copyrighted in 1916, which now makes it in the public domain.
    www.designwest.com/Johanna/MotherGoose

  • Fact Sheet on Teen Suicide in Canada prepared by the Canadian Institute of Child Health.
    www.cfc-efc.ca/docs/cich/00000012.htm

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