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NEA Works4Me Tips Library

All Academic Areas: For a listing of more than 5,000 educational resources for all academic subjects, including free, inexpensive and valuable resources for teachers, check out www.reacheverychild.com . Designed to help teachers and parents get information and materials, the site provides mailing addresses, phone numbers, e-mail addresses and links to entities offering resources for teachers, parents and students. Plus there are sample lesson plans to show teachers how they can use these resources in the classroom and an e-mail link with a nationally recognized educator for ideas and feedback.

At-risk students: For up-to-date statistics on troubling issues facing young people and society today, check out the Reality Clock TM, an informational feature on the Bureau for At-Risk Youth's website (http://www.at-risk.com). The statistics cover such topics as the number of children killed by handguns, the number of babies born to unwed teenagers, the number of students assaulted, the number of deaths resulting from smoking, and other issues.

Kansas Parent Information Resource Center

Educational technology: Parents' Guide to the Internet is a new U.S. Educational Department guide to help parents understand the Internet and get more Involved with promoting technology In schools. The booklet includes family friendly web sites. For a free copy call (800) USA-LEARN or check the department's web site at (http://www.ed.gov/pubs/parents/internet).

Interdisciplinary: A&E Network has expanded its Biography (R) database (http://www.biography.com) to 22,000 names. The database offers biographical summaries of prominent people from antiquity to the present. There Is no charge for access to the database.

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Interdisciplinary: The Pleasant Company for American Girls website (http://www.americangirl.com) offers interactive features for girls including a column offering daily activities, an interactive advice column, nonfiction features, in formation on significant historical events for girls and women on specific days, and Information about fictional characters from specific times In U.S. history. The area also links to such historic sites as Colonial Williamsburg, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, and African American Heroes to encourage girls' interest in history and their use of the World Wide Web to explore history.

Parental involvement: The U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Education Statistics has released Parent Involvement In Children's Education: Efforts by Public Elementary Schools, which can be accessed at (http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=98032). The report provides information on ways schools are engaging parents in their children's education and the extent to which parents are responding to the opportunities schools provide. The report (stock #065-000-01104-2) also can be purchased for S4.75 from New Orders, Superintendent of Documents, P.O. Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.

Safety: The Federal Emergency Management Agency uses games, student artwork, activities, and graphics to deliver the message of disaster preparedness on Its new FEMA for Kids website (http://www.fema.gov/kids). The interactive page for students in preschool through eighth grade is designed to support classroom-wide use. It includes sections that show hazards possible In each state, current disasters, how to prepare for disaster, how to ensure safety of pets, what feelings children may experience after going through a disaster, information on natural disasters, list teacher re sources, as well as post artwork, essays, and poems by students who have lived through disasters.

Social studies: USA Weekend has a searchable database of selected news stories. (http://www.usaweekend.com/).

Urban education: The Urban and Minority Education Web - IUME - (http://iume.tc.columbia.edu/) is dedicated to urban and minority students, their families, and urban educators.

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