Fifth Grade Art Class Needed For Cooperating Mail Art Project

By Doug, Grade 5, Hassayampa Elementary School, Wickenburg, Arizona, USA Our fifth grade class would like to swap "mail art" with your fifth grade class. All postage will be paid for by our school. Any educators interested? Write to: mrartmac@yahoo.com

Great Job Kids!

By Janice, USA

I was surfing the web and came across the Bursting Fourth online magazine. GREAT JOB KIDS! Keep up the good work. I'm Janice, a 28 year old woman living in Red Bank, New Jersey. Keep writing! It will help you all your life. Its a great way to express how you feel, and believe me...when you get older, and you have a career, employers really value someone who can put words together.
My 2 favorite stories on the site are "Defend A Friend?" by Eric W. and "My Giving Tree" by Michael N.
Take care kids!

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I Need Your Help!

By Nikki, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Illinois, USA

Help! I am a volunteer for the Big Brother, Big Sister program and I need some advice from kids. I need to know what kids that are around eleven years old like to do for fun. I need some creative ideas because it has been a long time since I was eleven. If anyone can help me I would be so grateful to you! Thanks for your time.

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What do you want to be when you grow up?

By Glenda, Sacramento, California, USA

Hi everybody! I work for a local PBS station, and am looking to develop a children's program. I stumbled across your wonderful website! What a plethora of information there is! Thanks for this great website!

Kids: I was just wondering, have you thought about what you want to be when you grow up? And why have you chose that particular profession or career? I'd really be interested in hearing your answers!
Glenda Klensch: yiahta@msn.com

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Paper and Pencil penpals

By Dawn, Teacher, Beulah Academy of Science, Pensacola, Florida, USA

I have read many of the requests of kids looking for pen pals, and I wondered if anyone would be interested in pen pals via written correspondence (regular mail). I teach at a school where I direct an equestrian club and have quite a few students who would be interested in writing to a pen pal but who do not have internet access. Please e-mail me at happytrails@prodigy.net with your answer. Thank you in advance for your reply.

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Social Studies Project

By Mrs. Chandler, Grade 3, Alpine Elementary School, Alpine, Texas, USA

We are third graders in Alpine, Texas USA. We live in the mountains of West Texas in the Big Bend of the Rio Grande River that divides the United States from Mexico.
We are going to map the progress of this email message and see where it travels between today, October 25 and November 22, 1999. Please help our Social Studies project by doing two things:

1) Email us and tell where you live. (do not send addresses please)
2) Forward our message to as many people as you can!

Our email address is tchandler@alpine.exc18.net

Your new friends,
Mrs. Chandler's Third Grade
Alpine Elementary School
Alpine, Texas USA

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Oceanfriends, The Voyage

By Grace, Dearborn , Michigan, USA

Hello, I am contacting you from the United States. My friend, Jim Sullivan, is sailing around the world and is due to arrive in Brisbane within two weeks. Our project is called Oceanfriends, The Voyage. Our website is located at Ocean friends. Jim is sailing around the world visiting children in hospitals, schools and child care centers. He shares slide shows and story time about his sailing trip. On the website are pictures and stories of the people he has met along the way. Please take the time to visit our website and feel free to contact us to arrange a visit to your classroom. Visits by Oceanfriends are free of charge, as this project is funded by private donation. You may reach me at my e-mail address or through our website e-mail address. Thank you for your time and we hope to hear from you.

Grace A. McCallum, R.N.
Event Coordinator
E-mail

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Help Keep the Dragon Books, by Jackie French Koller, on the Shelves

By Jean, Virginia, USA

Hi, I'm a mother of 2 kids (ages 5 & 8) in Virginia and I'm sort-of on a crusade. Recently, I stumbled across a series of books by Jackie French Koller (The Dragonling, A Dragon in the Family, Dragon Quest, Dragons of Krad, Dragon Trouble, Dragons and Kings/geared to grades 2-5) and I read the first few books to my kids.

They (and I) loved the adventures of Darek and his pet dragonling Zantor! So I contacted Ms. Koller via her webpage (http://www.geocities.com/~jackiekoller/z-books.html) to tell her so - only to learn that her publisher is allowing these books to go out-of-print because they haven't sold as well as the more popular series like Goosebumps. Now, I know this type of thing happens often, but there just aren't that many really good fantasy/adventure books for kids and these books are entertaining and fun. I'd hate to see other kids miss the chance to enjoy them.

Would you consider printing a blurb about this. I'm asking people who know and love these books to visit Ms. Koller's homepage & use her link to her publisher (on her Books about Dragons page) to protest his decision. Also, there is a spot for kids to post their own reviews of books by Jackie French Koller. Anything you can do to help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

--Jean Johnson, a mother in Virginia

P.S. If you'd like to see a sample of the books, most library's carry at least the first two. Also, I've found the books at SuperCrown and Amazon.com. But they won't be there for long unless the word gets around and people speak up.

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Why is the Mona Lisa Smiling

By Steve, Grade 9-12, John F. Kennedy High School, Bronx, New York, USA

I would like to suggest a worthy site for your KidNews website. Learning About Leonardo is a web based project which was developed by computer graphics students at John F. Kennedy High School in the Bronx with their partners in Sweden, as part of a ThinkQuest project to explore the mystery of the Mona Lisa.

The site features original music composed by Leonardo da Vinci and compares the theories of Dr. Lillian Schwartz and Rina de Firenze, author of Mystery of the Mona Lisa, through scientific inquiry.

There are a dozen da Vinci diversions to explore through random research, multilingual musical postcards to create, and a multigenerational guestbook that's been signed for every day for over 16 months.

We are part of the Getty Museum Digital Experience, ArtsEdge, the Exploratorium, the Seattle Art Museum, the Franklin Institute, the Boston Museum of Science, the National Museum of Science and Technology of Milan and the National Museum of Science and Technology of Israel.

The site became a GII US Award Education Semifinalist.

The Well Connected Educator has published several articles about our project. We are also included on the International Society for Technology in Education web site and we were featured as Cool School of the Month at Newsday in Education for August and September.

Our site is currently featured on the Children's Commission of Queensland in Australia.

The site is accessible to the hearing impaired and is viewable with any browser. Click on the signing hand to find Hard of Hearing resources.

The address is http://library.advanced.org/13681/data/davin2.shtml

Teachers at Kennedy High School have contributed online curricula resources for our Study Helper for English, Social Studies, Math, Special Education. Health amd Business Education.

I look forward to hearing from you. Thank you for your taking time to review and evaluate our successful project created with 15 year old computers. We are currently Cool School of the Week on MSNBC. http://www.msnbc.com/news/237602.asp

May 1999 bring health and prosperity.

Sincerely,
Steve Feld, Computer Graphics Instructor

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Kids games in the Republic of Panama

By Jean, Herndon, Virginia, USA

Our Brownie troop will be presenting information on Panama for Thinking Day this year. We're short on games that are native teo Panama & I wondered if you might know of some. So far, I am aware of:

Juego de Pepitas de Maranon, a Panamanian Indian game

Another game where a Spanish number is called out and the children duck in groups of that number (but I don't have a name for the game)

And I've been told that Panamanian children like to play jacks. Any other suggestions for games we can demonstrate at Thinking Day?? Thanks. If you don't mind, please write to me at: jtsmjohnson@hotmail.com with information.

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Looking for Writing Workshops for Middle School Students

By Anonymous, Connecticut, USA

Hi! I am a parent of a seventh grade girl who enjoys writing. I am wondering if you know of any writing workshops for middle school students. We live in Connecticut, about one half hour south of Hartford. Thank you for your response!

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Kids learn

By Evelyn, Corporate University, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I am doing some studies on how kids or youth learn, anyone of you are interested to let me know what kind of education will interest the young kids today?

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Forgotten World: A Writing Contest!

By Mihkel

Dear KidNews,
Launch of Collaborative International Internet Contest October 13, 1998 Press Release: For Immediate Release

"The Forgotten World: An eTemplate Concept" http://www.miksike.com/contest
Launch Date: October 15, 1998
Ages 6-18
Multidisciplinary: Computer Skills, Art, Science, Language Arts, Foreign
Language, Multi-subject
A Visionary Concept in Global Online Learning:
International Internet Project Introduces eTemplates

Miksike Learning Environment http://www.miksike.com , The Third Millennium Education Project http://www.millennaire.com and School World http://www.schoolworld.asn.au announce the launch of an International online contest: The Forgotten World http://www.miksike.com/contest

Imagination. Research. Creativity. Resourcefullness. Here's your chanced to showcase your talents online. Just what was life like in the days of the dinosaurs? What other animals and plants existed in their world? Students from around the world are invited to create learning resources-eTemplates- for fellow students to showcase their research and pictures they make. After the contest submitted eTemplates become permanent learning modules in the Miksike Learning Environment.

Miksike eTemplates are electronic HTML worksheets which can be modified, edited and created using remote publishing options. They can also be used for used as printed worksheets. The mission of this unique project is to involve students in editing, multi-language translations, modification, and creation of eTemplates and of course explore the forgotten world.

An elite cache of international online educators will evaluate the
submissions. Along with online publication of their designs, winners
will receive $50 in cash and/or software and other prizes. The Contest is for students of regular schools and homeschoolers and has four different age levels: 6-8, 912, 13-15 and 16-18 years-old
students. Contest language is English. The deadline for entries is January 10, 1999. Winners will be announced February 1, 1999.

How can we help you?
Along with a consortium of online educators and students, Miksike, an Estonian-based education project, hosts a Student Factory, a virtual workplace for students featuring online resources and free disk space.
***
--
Mihkel Pilv
MIKSITE: Email: info@miksike.ee
WWW: http://www.miksike.ee (Eesti) http://www.miksike.com (English)

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A Free Guide Sheet for Writing About Art

By Art Teacher on the Net, University Prof, UCSD Extended Studies, University of Phoenix, San Diego, California, USA

You will find a free resource guide for writing about art at http://www.artmuseums.com

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Resource for teachers on world events in the news

By Anne, Grade , Teacher Adviser on global Education, Manchester , England

The Development Education Project (UK) and the Panos Institute (UK) are developing a project to encourage teachers to look at world events in the news in the classroom. They are producing a series called Global Express available on subscription. Back editions are available on the GE web site: http://www.dep.org.uk/globalexpress/ Past issues have looked at El Nino, Smog in SE Asia, Montserrat, democracy. Each edition has background information on the story and student activities.

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Fitness and Health for Kids

By Sarah, Grade Y7 students, Oamaru Intermediate, Oamaru, North Otago, New Zealand

My year 7 class (10-11 year olds) are going to be studying a unit on Fitness and Health. They will be collecting data about their own fitness and would like to exchange data with another class of students around the same age, using email. If you're interested I'd love to hear from you.

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Third Graders want to share

By Lauren Keaney, Grade third/teacher, West Tisbury School, West Tisbury, Massachusetts, USA

This year our third grade class has spent a great deal of time learning about Native Americans around the United States and the African American experience in the 1800s. We are currently learning about different cultures and reading folklore from around the world. We'd love to have penpals from different areas of the world who would like to share their interests, hobbies, and general information about themselves and community. Please let us know if you are interested in learning about third graders living on the island of Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts. We hope to hear from you soon.

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Science Project!

By Erin, Lackey High School, USA HelloÉMy name is Erin. IÕm currently a freshman at Lackey High School. For my science project next year, IÕm taking a survey of all 3 school level students and parents regarding their feelings on Science Projects (Love Ôem or Leave Ôem). My hope is to receive hundreds of responses so I can accurately chart the results, which is why I ask you to please help me out. All responses are anonymous. Would you mind helping? I need both students and parents responses; not necessarily at the same time.

Here's the website for my questionnaire: http://members.tripod.com/~fun4u_2/science.html

Thanks,

Erin

P.S. Your site is cool!

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Future Educators Looking for Classroom Pen Pals

By Alison, Grade College, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, Chittenden

Hello. My name is Alison. I am part of a program here at the University of Vermont. A program is a suite or group of suites that share a common theme. Everyone who lives in the suite must apply to that suite based on their intrests. My program is Future Educators. Right now there are approximetly 10 college students involved in the program. Next year I will be co-driecting the program with two other students (all programs are student designed and operated). We are looking for classroom pen pals for next year (98-99). We hope to have about 20 members then. Any age group would be fine. We have several educational fields represented (early childhood, elementary, secondary, art). If you would like any more informatin about the program or the Living and Learning Center where our program is located you are welcome to email me or go to the University's home page (www.uvm.edu).

Thank you for your consideration.

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Solar Eclipse: Special Post!

By Writer, USA

I'm currently researching topics to write fiction stories for children. What do kids who visit KidNews like to read? What story ideas appeal to them? This would be a great help to me as I continue my research into what "drives" today's kids.

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Solar Eclipse: Special Post!

By Mark, USA

The Total Solar Eclipse A classroom experience on the world wide web http//www.stellarimages.com/kidseclipse

Link your classroom to the exotic Caribbean island of Aruba. This is ground zero for the total eclipse of the sun on Thursday, February 26, 1998, -- and you can be there!

StellarImages brings this incredible natural phenomenon to your classroom or home in an exciting, educational event designed for children K-6. Only on the world wide web.

Some highlights:

* Kids can become e-mail pen-pals with Aruba schoolchildren and enjoy this remarkable, mystical event together. Come visit as they share their views and reactions to the eclipse.

* Watch the sun disappear -- live -- behind the moon. You will never forget seeing the sun's corona form a fiery crown around our moon.

* StellarImages joins New York City school teacher Delores Peterson to present a K-6 lesson plan, including astronomical facts, history, safety and activities to explore the eclipse.

* Scientist Jay Pasachoff of Williams College performs experiments on the eclipse and shares them with kids in a way they understand.

*E-mail your questions directly to the researchers -- and receive personal replies!

* Award-winning photographer Richard Horwitz gives tips on making unforgettable pictures. His images will be shown from Aruba.

For more information, call or e-mail:

Mark D. Phillips
718*522*1341
mdphillips@tuna.net
www.stellarimages.com

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A Rotten Day

By Martha, Grade 1, New Lane Elementary, Selden, New York, USA

Dear Teachers, I am a first grade teacher and I am hoping to find a class to correspond with my students. I have 22 students ages 6-7 years old. We are about to start studying Australia and I am hopeful that we will be able to exchange letters or other writing. The class is to begin reading Alexander and the No Good, Terrible, Horrible, Very Bad Day by Judith Viorst. Perhaps your students would be interested in sharing writing about what sometimes goes wrong in their day. Please write if you are interested or if you have other ideas for an exchange of writing. mkennell@suffolk.lib.ny.us

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Wanted: class/school to exchange e-mails with Japanese Students

By Masao, Grade Assistant Prof., Kagoshima National College of Technology, Kagoshima, Japan

Dear faculty staff/school teachers reading this message:

I am an assistant college professor of English, and now teaching some comprehensive English courses to my students aged 17-18. My students (about 80 in total) are highly interested in e-mailing English messages to the U.S., and they did it before for the first time. Since their major is computer-related engineering, they are familiar with using computer. To improve their English abilities as well as expanding their global vision, my students are eager to do email-communication (sending and receiving messages) with American students.

If you, or your students are interested in exchanging school news, students' opinions on a certain subject, or something academical, please e-mail me immediately at: kanaoka@kagoshima-ct.ac.jp

Note: mindful of my students grade, high school level is preferable.

I look forward to hearing from you soon. Thank you.

Masao Kanaoka, Assistant Professor of English.
Kagoshima National College of Technology

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Kids' Poems Wanted

By Susan, USA

Children's writer, Susan Katz, author of the middle grade novel Snowdrops for Cousin Ruth, is looking for elementary and middle school poets to enter the Kids Can Write contest at http://www.netaxs.com/~katz Please visit and send poems! A special teacher's section too, with classroom poetry activities related to each bimonthly contest

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Kids Thoughts are Welcome at Cherry Valley Books

By Marilyn, Boulder, CO, USA

Dear Editor: What a great idea! This note is to let your readers know about Cherry Valley Books (http://www.cherryvalleybooks.com), a book site and store devoted solely to kids, parents, and teachers (grandparents are welcome, too!). We now have over 2,000 annotated and reviewed books, and have a feature that lets our readers, of any age, add their own opinions.

We hope that you'll let people know about us.

Happy New Year!

Marilyn Walker

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Desparate working mom

I need an idea for my kid's science fair project. My son is on a IEP and needs help in creating something easy to research and which is fun for him. He likes k-nex and dinosaurs.

Any ideas?

Desparate working mom. RUDYRACER@aol.com

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100 Students in Moscow, Russia seek keypals

By Steve, Grade K-3 Teacher, Anglo-American School, Moscow Russia, Moscow, Russia

Hi, I'm the computer teacher for Pre-K to Grade 3 at an international school in Moscow, Russia. We have 4 sections of 15 students each in Grade 2 and Grade 3 with their own email addresses. Please send us class letters or individual letters of introduction and we will write asap.

Thanks,
Steve Plumb
Anglo-American School, Moscow
e-mail: postmaster@aasmail.msk.ru

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What are wuzzels?

Do you know anything about wuzzels and where I can find them?

Dave Williams
Science Department Chair
Valencia Community College, East Campus
701 N. Econlockhatchee Trail
Orlando, FL 32825
407-299-5000 Ext. 2443
e-mail: profdhw@aol.com

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Seeks 5th grade penpals

I teach fifth grade in Massachusetts. If you receive any messages from other teachers looking for pen-pals please forward me e-mail addresses at Cancun@gis.net. It can be any grade/country.

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Family Tree Maker for Kids?

My name is Bridey Baring, I am a first yr university student of a Bachelor of Education. I am currently developing a unit on the family and I am required to include a Internet based activity in writing my activites for grades 3 &4 children. I am interested in programs on the net which allow children to develop their own , simplified version of a family tree. Could you offer any advise of relevant sites I could use? I appreciate your time,

Yours sincerely Bridey Baring
bbari01@zaphod.riv.csu.edu.au

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Penpal success

I don4t know if you remember me from Colombia, a teacher looking for penpals for her school kids?

Just let me tell you it was a success and my kids are corresponding with Canadian kids and having a ball.

There are kids' jokes going around in internet and I thought you would like some of these (below).

See you,

Alice

Kids say the darnedest things. Some grade school teachers must agree with that, because they keep journals of amusing things their students have written in papers. Here are a few examples:

• The future of "I give" is "I take."
• The parts of speech are lungs and air.
• (Define H2O and CO2.) H2O is hot water and CO2 is cold water.
• The spinal column is a long bunch of bones. The head sits on the top and you sit on the bottom.
• The four seasons are salt, pepper, mustard and vinegar.
• Iron was discovered because someone smelt it.

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Superb stories by kids

Hello!

I was looking for information about Middle Schools. I happened to click onto your Website. What a wonderful surprise!

I am a Senior at University of Mary Hardin-Baylor in Temple, Texas. I am going to become an Elementary or Middle School teacher. I guess I will know when I graduate (December 1998) and begin going to interviews.

I really enjoyed browsing through your Webpage. I went to your Language Arts section and I read the stories that were created by the students! They were superb. Thanks for sharing!

I hope to visit your Website again!

Sincerely,

Alis M. Arechiga :)

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Chosen for Children: 400 on-line books

Dear KidNews,
You have done a tremendous amount of work coordinating these links and your pages are fun and engaging to youngsters.

My client, Chosen for Children has created a very interesting Website that is dedicated to reading. The site has a powerful search engine to search easily through over 400 delightful books online. The purpose of the site is to create "lap readers". The idea is that if you create a lap reader now, you will have a reader for life.

Site: http://www.chosenforchildren.com

Please review the site. We love your site and would like to be a resource for your audience. If you have any questions, please contact me at LWingate@worldnow.com.

Warm Regards,
Lauryn Wingate
LWingate@worldnow.com

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Small school is off to a great start.

By Cathy, Grade 8 teacher, Elmwood Junior High, Elmwood, Illinois, USA

My students and I would like to hear from all of you.

We are a small midwestern school of about 110.

We have a new principal this year who is very enthusiastic. We are starting a junior high Student Council and Pep Club. The boys' baseball team won regionals, and our girls basketball team started off 2 - 0.

Write to us at cberes@roe48.k12.ilus

Hope to hear from you.

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21 4th Graders Sulphur, Louisiana, USA

By Mrs. Dorry, Grade 4, R.W. Vincent Elementary, Sulphur, Louisiana, USA

We are interested in key pals for the 97/98 school year. We would like key pals from another state or another country. Mail us at: mdory@hal.calc.k12.la.us

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Blue Ribbon site

KidNews has been selected as a "Blue Ribbon Learning Site" by Pacific Bell's Blue Web 'N Knowledge Network Explorer, an index of quality educational sites on the Web.

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Writing Contest For Kids

By Chris Barnes, All-American IronKids Bread Team

We are conducting a national search for the All-American Ironkids Bread Team -- eight of America's outstanding youths who best represent the spirit of determination and pride that drives them to be the best they can be.

To enter, kids ages 7-14 should submit a 200- to 300-word essay based on the theme "You Can Do It!" Eight winners will be chosen to receive a $2,500 savings bond for college and a visit to their school by four-time olympic gold medal swimmer Janet Evans, who will conduct a school assembly.

In their essays, the kids should explain what they do to be the best they can be in all areas of their lives, specifically in the areas of exercise/nutrition, schoolwork, and other interests and activities. They should also explain what obstacles they have overcome to reach their goals, what inspires them and why it is important for them to believe in themselves.

Essays will be judged by Olympic Gold Medalists Janet Evans, Mia Hamm, Evelyn Ashford and Mark Gorski.

All Essays Must Be Postmarked No Later Than October 1, 1997. Kids should mail their essays, which must include the child's name, age and birthday, address, phone number and photo (optional) to:

All-American IronKids Bread Team P.O. Box 190950 Dallas, TX 75219

Or, entries can be e-mailed to IronKids97@aol.com. Please be sure to include all requested information in your e-mail.

For more information, visit the IronKids website at http://www.ironkids.com.

Good Luck!!!

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Keep up the good work!

Very good stuff! Keep up the good work! I especially like the feature stories.

Junior Tay
Teacher, Nan Hua Primary School-Singapore.

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Human Anatomy and Auto sites

Just a brief note to let you know about two new educational sites that are interactive and intended for non-technical audiences. I thought you might be interested in these new programs. Human Anatomy On-line covers the subject of the anatomy and Automotive Learning On-line covers the subject of automobiles. They include hundreds of graphics, educational information and animations. These two programs are free to the Internet community. This is a great resource that delivers educational material for schoolchildren to adults. I hope that you will find them to be of high quality and educational.

Thank you for your time.

Human Anatomy On-line is located at http://www.innerbody.com
Automotive Learning On-line is located at http://www.innerauto.com

Kevin Keil
Webmaster
Informative Graphics Corp
Webmaster@innerbody.com

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West Smith County, Kansas seeking 6th grade penpals from Canada

By Mrs. Chris Kirchhoff, Grade 6, West Smith County Elementary, Kensington, Kansas, North America

We are studying the book HATCHET and learning about Canada. We are seeking other 6th graders from Canada that would be willing to be our pen-pals for this school year 1997-98. We have 13 students in our classroom. We need to use regular mail at this time in order to communicate back and forth. Please respond if anyone would be able to do this for us? Thank you here at Kensington, Kansas!!! 238dist@ruraltel.net

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Teacher seeks 'story pals'

I am a teacher in a resource class for gifted children ages 7-9. I am interested in them finding pen friends for story writing instead of the traditional e-mail. If you could connect me in any way with a similar class, we would be interested. Also, we will be willing to experiment with your homepage this year. It seems it would be read more than us creating one of our own. Any suggestions, please send to Nancy Gordon at: Hogordon@mindspring.com

Our class is in Memphis, Tennessee. Thanks

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Catholic Educators open Web site in Australia

I am writing on behalf of Rev. T.M. Doyle, Executive Director of the Catholic Education Commission of Victoria (CECV), announcing our Internet site from the CECV and the Catholic Education Office (CEO) Melbourne, Australia, Home Pages.

The CEO URL is http://www.ceo.melb.catholic.edu.au. The CECV site should be operational in early September 1997.

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Do we need e-mail to use penpal service?

I am a teacher in North Carolina. I am going to be presenting a workshop to teachers about websites to use with their students. I would like to include your website as one of them. I am also wondering, in order to use and find pen-pals does your school have to have e-mail or can you do it through your own personal e-mail.

Thank you,
Jeff Kautz
Youth replies

We are happy to have you use Youth You may submit a penpal permission slip for conventional mail provided that you:

1. Use a school address.
2. Monitor any return mail before giving it to children.

We will not, under any circumstances, provide home addresses of children.

Thanks,
-Claudia

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Penpal Information

Hello I am a Speech-Language Pathologist, working with 1st -3rd grade languge impaired students. My students enjoy writing and using the computer. I thought of doing a penpal unit next year for my students, as a on-going unit throughout the school year. I was looking up information on penpals while I was on line and came across kidnews. One of our school themes next year is mulitcultural, so having my students write to other children from different places in the world, would tie in nicely with our theme.

Can you please send me information on how I can go about doing a project like this with my students. Thank you for your time and I hope to hear from you soon. Thanks again...

Youth Response

If you'll look in our Web Link section you'll see several PenPal magazines. You sound like a good candidate for this approach which has worked well for various schools and classes.

Have each child write a brief statement describing his or her interests or favorite things using the following format:

1. A title (eg. Likes to sing)

2. Child's first name

3. Child's grade and school

4. Statement of interest

5. Return e-mail address

If you or a teacher are screening all in-coming e-mail, you may submit one permission form for the whole class. A list of the names will suffice. Our "permission" form is posted in various locations in Youth, including our "help and info" section. Any home e-mail address posting requires a parent signature on our permissions form.

Submit these as one e-mail message. We'll create a magazine and post it. We'll also run a group message in our "hellos" section pointing to your magazine.

Thanks.

--Claudia

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New WWW Educational Site: vocabulary.com

I want to bring to your attention a brand new site that we just put on the WWW (as of May 4) at http://www.vocabulary.com. Thankyou for delivering this email to the person responsible in your organization for evaluating new educational sites.

We have been on the WWWeb since February 1995 with monthly word puzzle contests where we award gift certificates to the contest winners (http://syndicate.com). Many teachers and parents have asked if we would do vocabulary word puzzles for specific grade levels and.... now we've done it with www.vocabulary.com.

We came up with the idea that we could create a"Vocabulary University" on the WWW as a spot where anyone could do graphically pleasing, root-based, word puzzles at grade-level. The correct answers are given back immediately as well as the use of the words in context. As the participants came back to try the new sets of puzzles we would keep records of their participation and eventualy give them a "diploma" from VOCAB U and other gifts from our sponsors!!! We went to the CUE Conference in Palm Springs, CA two weeks ago and had extraordinary feedback from virtually every one (the ESL and LEP-Limited English Proficiency- teachers we met were especially excited). We will be a participant at the NECC '97 conference (National Educational Computing Conference) in Seattle 6/29/97.

Carey Cook aka "Rich Encounter" and the VOCAB Team

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FREE Educational Technology For Schools Available

By Bob, Grade 10, Milford High, Milford, MA, USA

Copied From Press Release on FREE Educational Technology STUDENTS, PARENTS & CITIZENS CONCERNED ABOUT EDUCATION: The A+America FREE Technology for Schools Program has just announced that it now has over 80 corporate sponsors who will donate up to 10% of any purchase you make to the school of your choice. Schools can get FREE software, computers, TVs, VCRs and virtually any kind of educational technology. Sponsors include Sprint, Hit or Miss, Pep Boys, Lillian Vernon, Chadwick's of Boston, Linens N' Things, Bob's Stores, The Big Party, Men's Wearhouse, Duracell, The Sharper Image and many others. By saving patronizing these companies and saving your receipt you can help your school, or companies can even "adopt a school" at no cost just by collecting these receipts from employees. These receipts are worth lots of money to your local school!! Please pass this message on to your school PTO/PTA or call them. Visit the Web site at WWW.APLUSAMERICA.ORG for complete information or call 800-256-9469. Anyone can also register their existing or new Sprint residential long distance account to any school by calling 800-233-6080 and a percentage of every residential long distance phone bill registered will be donated to the school of your choice automatically every month. Sprint points are worth almost 5 times as much as AT & T's! program!

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If all e-mail goes to school?

I intend on introducing the Pen Pals idea to my grade seven and eight students. Our students do not have individual E-Mail accounts. Is it possible to have all their letters sent to and from my E-Mail address? If so, does every child still require to send and sign the permission forms?

Thanks,

Vincent Charbonneau

Youth response: 

You may send one permission form signed by you provided that you will monitor incoming e-mail. If this involves several classes, please include the following in their messages to be posted in Youth:

Title of message
Childs's first name, grade, school
Child's message

We will probably create a penpal magazine for you which you may want to name before sending the messages.

-Claudia

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NASA Space Handbook

Please consider THE SPACE EDUCATORS' HANDBOOK as a link from your site:
http://tommy.jsc.nasa.gov/~woodfill/SPACEED/SEHHTML/seh.html At the site are HTML files of NASA space education resources. Among them are Space Movies, Science Fiction as a Space Technology Teaching Tool, A Space Calendar, Space Comics and other educational resources dealing with space exploration and science.

Jerry Woodfill
woodfill@cheers.jsc.nasa.gov

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Students seek books for students

Youth readers,

Our purpose with this letter is to ask for your help in order to solve the following problem. We have to provide text books to Greenwood elementary school children located in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. We are a group of four students from ITESM International High School and we are studying here at Northeastern State University thanks to the agreement that both Universities made. As a part of our Thinking Abilities Development class, we have to make this project come true which is helping Greenwood Elementary School with this problem

The project consists on getting the largest number of books possible, so that each child can take one and read it that same night. The parents of the Greenwood Elementary School children can't afford those books so it is the duty of someone to help the community, in this case, Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

As teachers, you must know better than anyone else that to introduce children to the reading world will provide them great benefits in a future. Those children are not too far away from being adults and to be someone very important one day, maybe a president of the United States that takes wise decisions thanks to the reading habit that he or she got in childhood. Unfortunately this dream cannot be achieved without your collaboration. I'm sure these children may be very grateful to you if you would like to help them now. If you would like to donate some books please let us know as quickly as you can, for the sake of these children future and career preparation, We'll really appreciate your collaboration as well as those young children.

If you want to help, call us to the following extension on Willy Hall:

(918) 456-5111 ext: 758 dorm 3165 or (918) 456-5111 ext: 757 dorm 3124

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ToonaCat's Kids Club

By Laurie, La Crescenta, California, USA

Dear Friends 

I recently put up a noncommerical web site to promote creativity for elementary age kids, called ToonaCat's Kids Club.

http://members.aol.com/toonacat/

I'm a former 4th grade teacher who taught kids how to write stories with structure, as well as imagination, and I feel it's important to encourage kids to participate in a site as well as to give them encouraging feedback.

I understand your time is limited, so thanks for reading this.

--Laurie Hansen Weaver
La Crescenta, CA

P.S. In case you're wondering ToonaCat is a character I created as a teacher when I gave out hand drawn good work awards. I always drew cats and soon the kids smooshed the words a+cartoon+cat together until he became ToonaCat.

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SchoolNet News

SchoolNet News (SNN) is a National Internet newspaper in Canada for K-12 students. We take writing from all across Canada for our newspaper and we publish once a month.

We are loacted at: http://www.stemnet.nf.ca/snn/

You may wish to link our site into yours as well because it contains good stuff for young journalists and teachers wanting to include journalism into the classroom. If you would like more information please contact.

snn@calvin.stemnet.nf.ca

SchoolNet News
C/O STEM~Net, E5038, Education Building
Memorial University, St. John's, NF, A1B 3X8

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8th graders seek international correspondence

From Bonnie Smith, grade 8 teacher, Trask Middle School, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Our class would like to communicate with students in other countries.

Please e-mail us at: traskms@wilmington.net

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An unbelievably powerful message

I would love to be able to get a message to one of the children who submitted an unbelievably powerful message. She is "Julia Brown, 8th Grade, James Lick Middle School, San Francisco, California, USA" I was wondering if you could send a message along to her for me?

I was weeping openly when reading her submission entitled "A Mother's Voice", and when I shared it with my husband, he was moved as well. I lost my father to a tragic accident when I was 5 years old and still wish for all the things that young Miss Brown does. I want her to know that her heartfelt words reached out and touched other lives and that she will be remembered in our prayers. I hope that she is someday able to have her wishes come true, and others will share memories that will make her Mother more "real." Most of all, I wish her heart peace.

If you could pass this along, I would sincerely appreciate it. If you or Miss Brown would like to contact me, I would welcome the correspondence.

Again, thank you.
Debra Prince, prince@narrows.com

Note: Youth does not have Julia's e-mail address but is publishing this letter, with Debra Prince's permission.

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Safe browser blocks adult sites

We have a new browser, Socrates, that dramatically changes who can safely use the internet. It is a fundamental break from previous internet filter approaches that have proven ineffective. Socrates has been designed for the classroom. It completely blocks access to adult sites. If you have a chance, take a look at it. If you have any comments or suggestions, I'd like to hear from you. It is currently available at no cost for Windows 95 in a test version at:

http://www.correl.com/Socrates

Duncan Lindsey
Professor
School of Public Policy and Social Research
3250 Public Policy Building
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1656
(310) 206-2973
www.childwelfare.com

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ESL teacher from Luxembourg seeks penfriends

By Liane, Lycee Technique de Bonnevoie, Luxembourg, , Luxembourg

I'm an English teacher from Luxembourg and I'm looking for penfriends for my second year pupils (age 15-16-17). Anyone interested in a correspondence with a Luxembourgish student can send me an e-mail at: liane.lamesch@ci.educ.lu and I'll forward the address to my students. Unfortunately they only have restricted access to Internet so most of the correspondence would have to be by paper.

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Earth Day site

The Wilderness Society has launched an Earth Day web site that includes an interactive kids page, an environmental quiz, a message from the Founder of Earth Day, and much more. The Address: http://earthday.wilderness.org

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Bogota teacher seeks 'paper' pen-pal exchange

I'm a ESL teacher from Bogota, Colombia very interested in PenPals. I teach 5th graders between the ages 11-12 and would love for them to have the opportunity of meeting new kids from all over. Unfortunatedly the school I teach in does not have e-mail yet. I was wondering if normal postal mail could be used and if possible how do I go about it.

Would love to hear from any teachers interested in a penpal exchange!

Alice Fajardo
fajamant@openway.com.co
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National Elementary Schools Press Association

I'm a fifth grade teacher in North Carolina and started publishing a newspaper with my students a few years ago. The experience and excitement was so great that I felt I need to share what I had learned and was learning with other teachers and schools. So a few years ago and I founded and launched NESPA, the National Elementary Schools Press Association. We serve as a clearinghouse for elementary and middle schools who publish or want to publish school or classroom newspapers. Currently we have 235 members from across the U.S. We have 41 states represented in our organization.

By the way, I've just had a book published by Good Apple called, "Kids in Print - Publishing a School Newspaper." The book started out as our NESPA how-to source book.

Anyhow, I just wanted to give you this brief introduction.

What you're doing sounds wonderful.

Mark Levin
National Elementary Schools Press Association
NESPA1@aol.com
Carolina Day School
1345 Hendersonville Road
Asheville, NC 28803
704/ 274-0858 X397

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Reading Room

Hello! We like your web site so much that we have included it in our site Come visit us at http://www.readroom.com.

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Amelia Earhart Project

By Diane , Grade 6, Atchison Middle School, Atchison , Kansas, USA

Looking for students of all grades interested in a simple project celebrating the 100th birthday of Amelia Earhart this summer. Project requires students to do minimal research and compose a birthday greeting, prose or poetry, and send it via email or snail mail to us. In return, we'll send participating classes bookmarks and information about the Amelia Earhart Centennial being planned in Atchison, Kansas. For project information, send message to AmeliaProj@AOL.com
Aim high!
Diane Liebsch
Atchison Middle School
Atchison, Kansas....Birthplace of Amelia Earhart

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Internet skills for the home

The February, 1997 issue of From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal includes the article "Parents and Students Together on the Web: A Dozen Information Skills for the Home." Some excerpts:

The Internet is deceptively easy. You can log on pretty much automatically. You can find information without much trouble at all. Finding truth is quite another matter.

This is a great opportunity to support your children, helping them to identify reliable sources, notice bias, resist propaganda and develop their own independent ideas based upon research.

If you raise your children on a steady diet of Internet information well leavened with lessons on how to browse, sort, sift, cull and synthesize, you will see a tremendous pay-off as they pass through school and into the job market.

In this article, we offer a dozen activities you might enjoy exploring with your daughter or son.

1. The Question is the answer

Explanation: The better your children are at generating questions, the more capable they will be when building answers. In the old research, teachers provided questions while students searched for answers. In an Information Age students must create their own answers out of a puzzling world. The most important tool for building answers, ironically, is questioning. The more thorough and thoughtful the questions posed before and during the research, the greater the chance that the investigation will lead to insight.

Activity:

Begin with a choice your family is about to make. Let's say your family wants to buy a new car or a new TV. Maybe you are thinking of a vacation.

Before you jump onto the Internet and begin your search for information, challenge your child to think of as many questions as possible while you type them or write them down. Questions beget questions. They are like families. For most important questions, you can easily list a hundred or more subsidiary questions, many of which can be grouped by category. In the case of a new car, questions might group under cost , performance , styling options , etc.

Once you have a healthy list of questions, keep your list open so you can enter relevant findings as you encounter them. Your child learns the importance of planning before researching. In addition, the act of searching becomes more structured as the skills of note-taking are introduced - note-taking which is channeled by the questions posed. When children are quite young, the parent can do most of the typing. As they reach upper elementary and middle school, they should be performing most of this questioning and note-taking themselves.

For the remaining eleven strategies, check out http://fromnowon.org

-- Jamie McKenzie
Editor - "From Now On - The Educational Technology Journal"
mckenzie@FROMNOWON.ORG
http://FROMNOWON.ORG
Network 609
562 West Lake Samish Drive
Bellingham, WA 98226
(360) 647-8759

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New kids' site opens

I think you might enjoy looking at Bonus.com the SuperSite for Kids . Bonus.com, which just opened to the public this week, offers hundreds of fun and interactive attractions for kids. Kids can choose activities or "field trips" from a variety of fun categories like: The Lab, Natural Disasters, How it Works, It's Magic, Brain Busters, Animal Show-Offs, Word Play, Famous Places, Fantasy Land and many more.

To create a kid-friendly place on the WWW, Appaloosa has developed a Contour technology which allows the inclusion of selected sites in Bonus.com and the editing of content that is not appropriate for children. WebScooter, our colorful navigational method, makes exploring in the protected environment of Bonus.com simple for kids.

Kim Goeller
Appaloosa Interactive
Bonus.com the SuperSite for Kids

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National Geographic launches kids' site

National Geographic Online has set sail with a new addition, http://www.nationalgeographic.com/kids When visiting the interactive site young online explorers will discover a world that is designed with their interests in mind. The debut expedition is Pirates! where kids can don an eye-patch, stow away on a pirate ship and streak along the Atlantic and Indian Oceans plundering gold. Other upcoming adventures include a visit to National Geographic's online zoo to wrestle a Siberian tiger, and the possibility of being caught in the lava-flow of an erupting volcano. GeoBee Quiz will offer daily geography quizzes and a chance to win the GeoBee grand prize to be announced at the National Geography Bee finals in May.

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Teens sought for Website help

Kidsites 3000, Inc. is a producer of sites for teens on the World Wide Web. We have been involved with co-productions with both CBS News and America Online. We are currently looking for young writers interested in becoming the subjects of a website we are developing to launch in mid-February of '97.

We will follow selected teenagers over the course of the school year as they react to the world around them in pursuit of their dreams. They would be heavily involved in producing the content for the site, as well as developing valuable experience working in new media. Exposure will be substantial.

If you have a demonstrated interest in pursuing a career in one of the following areas, are able to articulate your thoughts, opinions, point of view in writing and want to participate in this project, please e-mail (post3@aol.com.) NOT LATER THAN MONDAY, JANUARY 27:

1) Sports
2) Applyinto college - must be applying to at least 7-10 colleges
3) Writing journalism
4) New Media pursuits - web design, programming
5) Looking in the job market full-time - Not going to college

We look forward from hearing from you.

Sincerely,

John Postley
Senior Producer
Kidsites 3000, Inc.

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10th grade students need keypals

By Pam, Grade Teacher, Wawasee High School, Syracuse, IN, USA

My students will be doing an ecology project in 2 weeks. I want them to "interview" another student who lives in the ecosystem they are researching. If you have students who would be willing to "chat" with my students please send e-mail to sch10322@kconline.com

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Do other LS teachers contribute student writings?

By Sue, Grade 9-12, Corry Middle-Senior High School, Corry, PA, USA

I happened upon this web site and was so excited to find a place that would publish student writings. As a teacher for Learning Support students I would be interested to know if other LS teachers would be interested in publishing their students work or if they might be interested in pen pals. My students had pen pals in the past and loved it.

Hope to hear from someone soon.

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Interactive Girl Site launched

Simon & Schuster Interactive has launched The Interactive Girl: an online club for today's interactive girl aged 10 - 14. Right now, girls from all over the world are contributing to the Interactive Girl unofficial profile -- answering questions both fun and serious to help create a profile of just who the average Interactive Girl is. The Interactive Girl is located at: http://www.aboutme.com

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Open only when supervised

By Angely, Educator, Global Internet Learning Site, Worthington, Ohio, USA

We have just opened Kidsnation, an interative site for children, adults and educators that is supervised the entire time it is open.

Our webpage is: http://www.kidsnation.com/

Our interactive 2-D, graphical, chat site and educational site is only open when supervision for the site is provided. Currently hours of operation are noon-10pm EST.

If you have any question, please don't hestitate to contact me: angelynk@infinet.com

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San Francisco 5th graders seek pen pals

By Mrs. Cowan, Grade 5, St. Charles School, San Francisco, California, USA

Our class is looking for pen pals. We are a co-ed class. Please write to us at: stchas@ricochet.net.

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Dannish Sixth Graders Seek Penpals

Some pupils in 6th grade and I have chosen to write with other pupils from English-spoken countries, in order to understand the penpal's way of life and to improve their written English. You can find our home-page at http://www.image.dk~buddinge

We invite kids requesting Pen Pal responses to submit profiles to Youth introducing themselves and their interests. Please use the Youth writing forms for submitting profiles and other writing. In the meantime, you might suggest to your child to respond to other children whose addresses are posted at the site or write directly to:

Buddinge Skole

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LD person finds new interest in reading

I recently discovered your page. It's great. I am a volunteer tutor. This year I have an LD student. I am a business person not an educator. Between the short stories on your page and my personal e-mail we have sparked his interest in reading. Keep up the good work.

Pat Donahue:)

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Philadelphia third and fourth grade classes seek keypals

From the third and fourth grade classes at Springside School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Hi, we are looking for keypals from around the world. Please write to us at Lani Smith at springside1@icdc.com

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Soon to-be-teacher looking to write a second grade class

By Jennifer, senior, Grand Valley State University, Allendale, MI, USA

I would like to contact a second grade class to write back and forth with. After I graduate I will be student teaching and hopefully have my own second grade classroom someday. I would love to talk to some kids or even a teacher who could give me some pointers!! THANKS!!

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Simon and Schuster launches kids' site

Simon & Schuster Interactive has launched Teach Your Children, a new showcase for award-winning educational software for children.

The Site features fun and innovative Web-based counting and coloring games for children, as well as ongoing contests and sweepstakes.

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Internet control for teens

By Bobby, parent, employee, Austin, Texas, USA

I would like to know if any internet software exists for kids, specifically teens. What I mean by software, is something like Netscape, but with limited access to family locations. I would appreciate any thoughts on this subject.

Bobb

Youth Reply

Bobby, Try reading "Safety on the Internet" in the Edusource Newsletter posted on our Youth home page. It may be helpful for you.

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New Vision Edition

Philips Electronics has recently launched a new issue of the webmagazine < href="http://www.philips.com/design/vof">Vision of the Future, this time on toys and tools for the children of 2005.

Thanks,

Bas Raijmakers
Philips Vision of the Future Team

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Share Musical Experiences

By Brent, Teacher, Folsom Elementary School, Tampa, Florida,

If you are at all interested in sharing your musical experiences with my elementary school school students. Please send me your e-mail address and I will get back to you ASAP.

Thanks. See you on the net...

Brent

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The Meadow News and The NEWSONTARIO project

Please visit our online newspaper The Meadow News and The NEWSONTARIO project.

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YES! International youth Web site

My name is Gene Stout and I am with Rogers Communications Inc. We sponsor a website for youth called YES! International (Youth Empowered Solutions) that you might find interesting. The URL is www.yesintl.com YES! International creates a Global Interactive Communications Network for young people around the world to deal with and generate totally youth-oriented solutions to life's challenges.

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Edventures stresses hands-on projects

PCS Edventures! is an educational system combining the communication tools of the Internet with hands-on projects. Students use LEGO( products, ordinary household items, and master software to create projects that help them learn about engineering, physics, chemistry, life sciences, computer graphics, and lots more. PCS Edventures! offers projects from preschool through high school. The system may be used by homeschoolers, as a supplement to regular school curricula, or installed inside a school as a lab.

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Web Workshop kids' program launches

I wanted to let you know that Vividus will be setting up a download program for their Web Workshop program and this will be launching on Thursday. They set up an advance preview and you can view this at:

http://www.vividus.com/beta/

Web Workshop is a full-featured Web design tool developed exclusively for kids that enables them to quickly and easily design and create personal Web pages, share them with friends or family, and take part in the wonderful, worldwide Internet link to kids anywhere on the globe.

Please feel free to download the sample version of the program and let me know if you would like the full version.

Peter Suciu
Connors Communications

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Teen Court Site Opens on Web

Two Galesburg High School students have just completed a website containing many valuable resources used in our highly successful Teen Court program. The site contains explanations of this program for first time juvenile offenders, statistics, mock trials used in training, a judge's manual, and other important documents. Many students in our area have particiapted in the volunteer services connected with Teen Court.

We hope that you will examine the Teen Court site listed below and link it to your site. We strongly believe that this program can help communities. One community reports that their previous repeat offender statistic was 50%. After Teen Court was established, that dropped to 9%! That is not unusual for communities that adopt his program.

Teen Court site address: http://tqd.advanced.org/2640

Nathan Tauber
Editor-in-chief of the Budget

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Using e-mail for classroom research

Dear Mr. Owens:

I am a computer teacher and this the first message I've sent for my machine. I am very new at this and would like some information. I am working with a fourth grade teacher at Valley Central Schools who would like to have pen-pals for his students for the seven regions in New York State. He is doing a research project and would like his students to get direct information from other students using the Internet. Could you please help. I would appreciate any information you have. Thanks. ndesole@popmhv.net

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CyberSurfari '96

The Software Publishers Association (SPA), co-host Yahooligans! and ten other prominent companies, are gearing up for the exploration of a new frontier -- the World Wide Web. CyberSurfari '96, the Internet treasure hunt with a difference, is seeking Cyber hunters and Cyber-hunting school teams from across the globe to search for and discover new places on the World Wide Web. With more than $100,000 in prizes, CyberSurfari is a fun and educational adventure both for the classroom and home.

CyberSurfari registration is taking place now electronically on SPA's Web site, http://www.spa.org/cybersurfari.

SPA is the leading trade association of the desktop software industry, representing the leading publishers as well as many start-up firms in the business, home office, consumer, education and entertainment markets. Its 1,200 members account for 85 percent of the sales of the U.S. packaged software industry. SPA press releases are available on SPA's Web site at http://www.spa.org or through fax on demand at (800) 637-6823.

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Prevention of Youth Problems Web Site

The Texas Youth Commission Office of Prevention has just published the first and largest online worldwide directory of programs, resources, references and research on the prevention of youth problems and the promotion of nurturing children. It's called The Prevention Yellow Pages, and it's located at

http://www.tyc.state.tx.us/prevention/40001ref.html

The Prevention Yellow Pages offers over 1,000 links to the best available prevention material, including books, forthcoming books, journal articles, research reports, program descriptions, government documents, dissertations, online resources, web sites, streaming multimedia, etc.; and provides, for the first time, a five-star ranking system to highlight effective prevention programs.

John D. Walker, M.D. Texas Youth Commission
Office of Prevention
4900 North Lamar Boulevard
Austin, Texas 78765-4260
TEL: (512) 424-6199
FAX: (512) 424-6300
prevention@tyc.state.tx.us

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