Crossroads is a special website for students, teachers, and anyone interested in the heritage of the communities of Castro Valley, Hayward, and San Lorenzo. Visit Crossroads   Make an IPod Case... Choose fabric colors to match your school, sports team, or your favorite color. How to Sew an iPod Carrying Case  Click Here for step-by-step instructions with photos     FactCheckEd.org is an educational resource for high school teachers and students. It’s  designed to help students learn to cut through the fog of misinformation and deception that surrounds the many messages they’re bombarded with every day. This site is a sister to the award-winning Annenberg Political Fact Check, which goes by the Internet address FactCheck.org. and monitors the factual accuracy of what is said in the nation’s political arena. Both websites are projects of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, with funding for FactCheckEd.org provided by a grant from the Flora Family Foundation.         Ask.com upgrades its search site for children The company’s kids site — askkids.com — grew out of an older iteration called “Ask Jeeves for Kids” which reflected the company’s former name. The new site features bright graphics and is meant to list results in a way easier for children to understand and navigate. Ask has made the site easier to use by mouse and cursor, since children tend to be better at that than typing. The site allows searches for movies rated PG-13 or below and for safe selections of videos from channels like Animal Planet, BBC, PBS and Discovery. It also has reference links to dictionaries with pronunciation help and information on word origins.  An icon of a pair of binoculars beside each search result allows a quick peek at what a site looks like without actually going there. Go to Askkids.com

Wrigley's Candystand  Wrigley's Candystand... The hottest games online.  Multiple player games, too. An awesome selection of games to play online. This site is recommended by my granddaughter. Helpful Links: Kids Sites Kids.gov  Official U.S. kids site Great Sites for Kids American Library Assoc. Netwise SafeKids   Tips For Kids Just Me Music A book or CD with personalized with your name.  Songs are sung using your name in the songs. Books are written starring your name name throughout.  Choose from: Veggie Tales®, The Wiggles® and Barney® Have your parent visit Just Me Music and Books! A + Math - This web site was developed to help students improve their math skills interactively with games, flash cards, math word puzzles and more.   Cool Math For Kids - An amusement park of math and more -- especially designed for kids and FUN! Recommended by one of my granddaughters. Ask Dr. Math - Here's help with math for elementary school, middle school, high school, college and beyond. This is a great math helper. And, you can ask a math question and get an answer e-mailed to you. Chemistry For Kids - Learn about Reactions, Elements, Atoms, Matter, Biochemistry, ETC.  Transistorized - The history of the Transistor, Interactive Science and Amazing Technology. How the transistor was created. How it came to be used in everything from early radios to the integrated circuit. Games to help you learn. Verrrry interesting.  StarChild - A Leaning Center for Young Astronomers. You can listen to the audio versions on the various pages. This is so neat! Think Quest - Multiple web based learning materials for children of all ages.  Word Central - A Merriam Webster site for kids and adults. Learn a new word every day, stump your friends with a daily buzzword, build your own dictionary and have lots of fun with words.  It's a Net Nanny Approved site. How Things Work - The physics of  everyday life.  Think of this site as a radio call-in program that's being held on the WWW instead of the radio. Have a question? Ask it and you'll get an answer. Nasa for Kids - Learn about space and space travel. Search and build a habitable planet. Talk live to Nasa personnel. Adults like this site, too.   Ben's Guide - to the United States Government for Kids by grade range: K-2, 3-5, 6-8, 9-12 plus a section for Parents and Teachers. Learn about the government through interesting activities and interactive games. Fact Monster - is brought to you by the Learning Network and is designed to help young people learn about a vast number of subjects, especially helpful for school projects and homework.  4-Kids.Org - Your link to the latest technology on the web. A real cool site for kids and adults. Science a Go Go -  Get your brain into gear with the latest science news, offbeat technologies, scientific hot topics, bizarre scientific research and cryptic experimental results. Transistorized - The history of the Transistor, Interactive Science and Amazing Technology. How the transistor was created. How it came to be used in everything from early radios to the integrated circuit. Games to help you learn. Verrrry interesting.  Logic Mazes - Here are the links to the puzzles and to everything else about mazes.  National Geographic for Kids - Play the road trip game, take online adventures, enter contests, see quick flicks, and, there's a section for your teacher, so tell him or her about it. Funology - Boredom busters from the word go! Brain Drains, The Laboratory, In The Kitchen, Abracadabra!, Tummy Ticklers, Hot Stuff, That's Odd, Crafts, Trivia and more. PBS for Kids  - Did you know, Behind the scenes, Get real, Games, Stories, Music, Coloring. Home of Arthur, Jay Jay, Barney, Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street and your other favorites. Sports Illustrated for Kids - Up to the minute information on sports plus games, trivia, e-cards, fantasy sports and more. Disney on the web - where the magic comes to you. Site suggested  by one of my granddaughters. Lego on Line - Official site with Interactive Comics, Games, Building and more.  Seussville - Specially designed site for both High Bandwith or Low Bandwith. Interact with Dr. Seuss and his friends. A whole lot of fun!  Yahooligans - "The Web Guide for Kids" is a fun source for interactive games, jokes, movies, sports, dictionary, news, reference and links to other cool sites for kids. Crossword Puzzle Games This web site offers 32,400 free crossword puzzles and fun tools for people who enjoy word games. Get some help with a puzzle or create your own, free.    Nick.com is the place in cyberspace where fans of Nickelodeon can come to find out more about their favorite Nick stars, play games and have their opinions heard. Nick.com believes in the power of kids and they urge both kids and their parents to use and enjoy their web site.   Animal Information Database  - Animal Resources, Shamu TV, Teacher Guides, Educational Programs, Adventure Camps, and more. Presented by Sea World and Busch Gardens. Games. Com - Play other people online. Tons on games, including: Yahtzee, checkers, Chinese checkers and so much more. This site is geared for older children and adults.   Howrse.com - Create your first horse, look after him and train him to be the best!  Build your equestrian center, from meadows to boxes. Lodge horses, hire staff to run your center, organize competitions, and try to have the most famous center on Howrse!   Cartoon Network This site is similar to nick.com and has fun games made out of all the characters from the cartoon network channel.  If you know of a good site for kids, big or small, ask your parents if you can send it to me to be included on this page.   I hope you enjoy the links we have so far.  And remember, do not tell anyone online where you live or give them any of your personal information. For information on buying or selling east bay homes, please contact me at 510-429-4800 or send me a note on the Contact Joanne form. Thank you, Joanne P.S.  Be sure to add us to your favorite places. ~ Joanne L. Gardiner, Broker, e-PRO Realtor Advantage Realty Advantage Mortgage Associates 3205 Whipple Road - Union City, California 94587 (510) 429-4800 Contact Joanne  San Francisco Bay Area  ~ San Francisco East Bay Real Estate

 

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