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Hey parents: Although the links above take you out of the @ugusta site, they've been tested and rated kid-safe!
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Express Yourself - Write
If you like to read, then maybe you like to write, too. Some kids turn
writing into a lifelong passion, using their skills to tell tales,
entertain people, and inform the public. If you want to learn about writing
for cartoons, magazines or the theater, there are tips and tales here just
for you. The Young Writer's Resource contains advice from professional
writers along with a forum for young writers to talk to each other. It
also tells you about writing opportunities for kids across the globe. Bring
a pen and paper to http://www.interlog.com/~ohi/inkspot/young.html and find
out if you're a poet or a playwright, or both!
You can hear the breaking news about politics and get all the sports scores
from the boob tube, but do you know where to get the scoop on science and
technology? If you said Yes, you're right! The Yes Mag at
http://www.islandnet.com/~yesmag/homepage.html has news briefs on what's
happening in the sci and tech world from outer space to the rain forests
and under the ocean. The Yes Mag asks and answers questions like: What do
birds, ants, beavers and spiders have in common? Answer, they all build
structures. At Yes Mag, you can do things, too. Check out "Build a Leaning
Tower of Pasta." If you are born to build, perhaps your spaghetti and
marshmallow tower can hold a baseball, a basketball or even a cannonball!
Beam Me Back to the Stone Age, Scotty
With a click of the mouse, you can send yourself to
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/~nantiq/menu.html and head back to the Stone Age. Take
the timeline link and read a scroll of Stone Age accomplishments to find
how far back in history you've gone. Then imagine a time when large ice
sheets covered the land and the sea. In order to survive, you had to hunt
for game and gather fruits and berries along with the herds of animals your
tribe followed.
Do you think you would make a good gatherer of food? Which
berries or mushrooms taste good and are nutritious? Beware, some of them
are not safe to eat. Staying alive takes more wit than simply digging
through the refrigerator for a snack. This site clubs the myth that Stone
Age people were the dim-witted, hairy brutes we have been lead to believe.
Join the 4Kids Detectives
When you know the answers to these questions, go to 4Kids Detective!. Here are the questions:
- Who wrote The Possible Dream?
- Yes Mag is whose Science Magazine for Kids?
- What is the leader of Stone Age people called?
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Dear Amy:Everyone uses the Internet these days, and someone must be
paying the bill for the long-distance calls. But who? -Grant, Fultondale,
AL
Dear Grant:Everyone says the Internet is like having free long-distance
calling, but, you're right, someone is paying for it. We all pay a tiny bit
of the total cost to our Internet service providers (ISPs) each month. But
the big question is who pays for the long-distance to all the faraway
places like Hawaii, Australia and Japan? Governments and major
communication companies lease the major overseas cabling and satellite
bandwidth to the Internet service providers. The ISPs own the server
computers that transfer all of our e-mail and WWW files back and forth
around the world.
Dear Amy:: What kind of things can you put on the Internet, and what kind
of pictures can you put on your own Web page? -Emily, Mt.Vernon, IA
Dear Emily: As you know, you can put pictures and words on your homepage.
You can make a list of links or insert hypertext links that can send
readers to more of your pages or off to another Web site altogether. The
World Wide Web is so cool, there seems to be no limit to the things you can
do. There are precautions and practices you should know about before
publishing your homepage. So check out http://web66.coled.umn.edu/ to see
what other kids have done.
Send your comments or questions
about the WWW to Amy at:
Ask Amy, 2021 Dole Center, Lawrence, KS 66045
or askamy@www.4Kids.org
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