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Early Childhood -- Where Learning Begins: Geography
Offers interesting and fun family activities that can help young children ages 2-5 learn about their relationship to the big, wide world. Prepares parents to introduce developmentally appropriate ideas about orientation and location before vacations involving maps and travel. Includes activity suggestions for children with disabilities.

Kidspsych
Games designed to enhance cognitive thinking, deductive reasoning, spatial orientation, and creative intelligence. The site is divided into two sections based on age level. This site, developed by the American Psychological Association, requires a Shockwave plugin.   

Jan Brett's Home Page
This award winning page is a great resource for teachers and parents. Teachers and librarians can write Jan Brett and receive a teacher's pack. Go to the activities page for printable educational materials, calendars, bookplates masks and more, all illustrated by this well known children's author. You'll find audio files, videos and free screensavers too.

Alvarado Cyber Explorers
Alvarado Elementary School students and teachers have put a collection of links at their website that is an example of a "roadmap" (or in this case a "starmap") of Internet destinations customized for a particular group's needs. This school is participating in The Road Ahead Project along with 21 other schools. Read about them at the National Foundation for the Improvement of Education.

Solar Oven
One of the younger members of New Horizons for Learning's network is Ethan Clancy, 11, who sent us a link to his new website.  He writes, "This is a website I created about an experiment I did.  I discovered a way to make solar ovens more effective and I thought your viewers might be interested."