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CBC4Kids News
Just looking for a small dose of daily news? CBC4Kids is for you! Find out what's new one story at a time, with daily updates of student-centered news. You can watch accompanying video clips or play a word search with vocabulary from the day's news.

Discovery Online News
Get the latest updates about news in, on, under, and around the earth. In addition to summaries of discoveries, Discovery News provides links to national and foreign news and special features such as Live Cams.

Exploratorium Online Magazine
Published weekly by the Exploratorium, each issue of this e-zine takes an in-depth look at a single topic, explaining the underlying science of the everyday world. Issues focus on paper, language, space, and chocolate.

Kids Post
This special publication of the Washington Post just for kids includes Newsflash and Features sections for students who want to stay in the know. Also play games, join the Kids Panel, or guess what's going on in the Shutterbug picture. For a fun way to get homework help, watch made-for-kid Brain Food movies.

National Geographic News
Cool photographs and exciting writing make the National Geographic News a must-see stop. Learn what is happening in the areas of adventure and exploration, archaeology and paleontology, environment and conservation, medicine and health, nature and wildlife, people and cultures, and more.

New York Times Learning Network Student Home Page
Especially for students, the Students Connections Home Page from the New York Times can help you catch up on current events and keep up-to-date on hot issues. Read news summaries, take a news quiz, ask a reporter a question, or send a letter to the editor.

PBS Online NewsHour Extra
This extra section contains cutting-edge coverage of news stories with a student-centered spin. Take a look a top stories, find out what "the buzz" is about, and get other news headlines.

Sports Illustrated for Kids
This special online edition of the definitive sports source, Sports Illustrated, allows kids to sound off in an opinion poll, test their sports trivia I.Q., challenge their friends with online games, and read the Shorter Reporter's sports recaps.

Time for Kids
Time for Kids publishes two online sources for students. Younger students can get the latest updates from the News Scoop edition, while upper elementary grades can check out the World Report edition. Both sources highlight top stories, showcase special people in the news, publish cartoons and games, and allow students to "talk back" to Time for Kids.

Yahooligans! News
Each week, Yahooligans! News gathers top stories to give you the "Big Picture" of news from the U.S. and around the world. In addition to national and international news, you'll find links to entertainment and holiday news, sports news, and science and nature news.



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