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Local (Greater Victoria and BC) Stuff: Individual Hangouts

• British Columbia Archives Presents the Amazing Time Machine
• Beacon Hill Children's Farm, Beacon Hill Park (GreaterVictoria.com)
• British Columbia Ministry of Energy and Mines Educational Resources - learn about earthquakes, landslides, mines, and rockhounding
• British Columbia Parks Kid's Page
• British Columbia's Parliament Buildings: 1898-1998, an entertaining and educational Web site
• CRD Parks with downloadable brochures and nature program information (Capital Regional District)
• CRD Recreation includes the Panorama Recreation Centre and the Juan de Fuca Recreation Centre (Capital Regional District)
• CBC4Kids (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation)
• Circus Magicus, Royal BC Museum exhibition, October 5, 2000 to March 4, 2001 (courtesy of VancouverIsland.com)
• City of Victoria Parks and Recreation Online Program Registration
• Damagotchi! Game (BC Hydro) requires the Shockwave plug-in; learn how to play from this page
• District of Saanich Leisure Services (Parks and Recreation)
• Dodo Land in Cyberspace (Swiftsure Arcade, Victoria, BC)
• Erdos for Kids: On-Line Resources for Working on Open Problems In Mathematics (Mathmania Society)
• Eric Wilson's Website
- he's a popular writer of kids' mysteries who lives in Victoria
• Esquimalt Parks and Recreation Home Page includes online program registration
• Fair Start Program For Kids, Mustard Seed Church (GreaterVictoria.com)
• Family Games Web Center (AHA! Software Inc., Victoria) distributes non-violent shareware and freeware programs for families; all programs are available only for Windows 3.1 or Windows 95
• Greater Victoria Public Library Youth/Children's Services
• Industrial Art Internet Group's Portfolio Online will take you to their many heritage, educational and museum Web sites
• KIDiddles{TM} is devoted to children's music and entertainment.
• Kids in Victoria (Non-Sequitur Productions).
• Kid's Stuff! (Association for the Promotion and Advancement of Science Education)
• Kidsvancouver.com: What Shall We Do Today? "Kidsvancouver.com is your best resource on what to do with kids in the Greater Vancouver area."
• Mansion Madness: Mystery at Gyppeswyk is set in the house that houses (pardon the pun) the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. Boo!
• Net Generation: The Greater Victoria Public Library Youth Web Site. Note: Different content than GVPL's Youth/Children's Services
• Recreation Oak Bay (Oak Bay Municipality)
• Royal British Columbia Museum
• ScienceWeb (Starry Messenger Communications for the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory, Victoria)
• Science World (Vancouver)
• University of Victoria VIKES Summer Camps are for ages 5 to 18 years
• Vancouver Island Regional Science Fair
• Victoria Haunted House (Boys & Girls Club Services, 1260 Yates St.) ~ ONLY OPEN DURING HALLOWEEN TIME
• YES-VACC (Youth Engineering and Science (YES) Camps of Canada and Virtual Adventures Camps Canada (VACC)) operates the Science Venture Science Camp For Kids at the University of Victoria

Local Stuff: The Big Picture

• BC Ministry for Children and Families
• BC Office of the Child, Youth and Family Advocate (AdvoKids)
• Camp Connections: "Your B.C. Camp Activity Tour Guide" will help you find different kinds of camps throughout the province for all age groups
• Christmas and the Holiday Season on the Internet (Victoria Telecommunity Netwok)
• Cool Safe Links For Kids Parents and Teachers by Karscot Distributors / Fun Zone (Nanaimo)
• Discover Learning (Telus) has lots of great links for learners and players
• Easy Internet for Families by Tia Leschke who publishes the column "Family Net" in the Victoria Times-Colonist.
• Educational WWW Resources for K-12 Students and Teachers (by Subject) -- might sound boring, but you can quickly locate a variety of fascinating resources -- compiled by the Community Learning Network, Open School, Open Learning Agency, Victoria.
• Greater Victoria Public Library, Youth/Children's Services
• Heritage for Kids (Heritage Society of British Columbia)
• Kid Friendly! (West Vancouver) helps you plan visits to businesses and other places that are "kid friendly"
• Kids' Room (BC Ministry for Children and Families)
• Kidz Stuff is a directory/guide to children's Web sites from the Virtual Reference Desk (VRD) of BC Public Libraries
• Youth Options B.C. (BC Minister Responsible for Youth) has lots of information on finding work, getting better educated, and sharing your opinions with your peers and elders.

Out There

• Aboriginal Youth Network is sponsored by Indian and Northern Affairs Canada
• The Academy Program is an educational service of the Organization For Community Networks.
• American Library Association's Great Sites over 700 sites picked by librarians who care about kids
• BBC Kids
• Berit's Best Sites for Children compiled by Berit Erickson (on Cochran Interactive Inc., home of Theodore Tugboat's Home Page).
• Billy Bear's Playground (Loraine Wauer Ferus, Tipton, MI)
• The Brainium: Interactive Adventures in Science
• Canadian Children's Museum (Canadian Museum of Civilization, Hull, Quebec)
• Canadian Geographic CGKids (Canadian Geographic for Kids). Site requires Macromedia Flash 5 or higher and Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.5 or higher.
• Canadian Kids Page. Established in 1994 and originally hosted by ONRAMP Network Services Inc., Markham, Ontario, this is one of the oldest Canadian Web guides to Canadian youth content.
• Canadian Museum of Civilization: Resources for Kids (Hull, Quebec)
• Canadian War Museum: The Kid's Page (Ottawa, ON)
• Children's Music Web is a delightful compendium of music and audio resources
• Definitely Not for Adults (DNA from Sympatico)
• Health4Kids (Health Canada)
• HomeworkCentral.com means there's no excuse now for not finding the best sites on the Net for your schoolwork
• Internet Detectives (Madison Metropolitan School District, Wisconsin) replaces the K.I.D.S. Report (Internet Scout Project) and consists of student-evaluated Web sites
• The K.I.D.S. Report: Kids Identifying and Discovering Sites, a project of the Internet Scout Project, was replaced by Internet Detectives
• Kids' Stop (Indian and Northern Affairs Canada)
• KidsConnect: Favorite Web Sites for K-12 Students (ICONnet, American Association of School Librarians)
• Kidsurfer For Kids and Teens (National Children's Coalition, USA)
• KinderArt.com brings you free K-12 art lessons and art history information
• Our Kids Publications Ltd. "Founded in 1997, we are Canada's leading publisher of magazines dedicated to assisting readers and their families make informed decisions regarding private and independent education, leisure time and family vacations, and retirement living and health-care options."
• OWLkids Online (Bayard Press Canada)
• Sky Watchers Program (Environment Canada)
• Torah Tots: The Site for Jewish Children (Torah Tots, Inc., Brooklyn, NY)
• TVO Kids (TV Ontario)
• The Ultimate Children's Internet Sites (UCIS) is a service of the Vividus Corp., Palo Alto, California.
• Uncle Bob's Kids Page by Bob Allison
• www.4Kids.org is published in the Sunday comics of many North American newspapers and back issues are available the following week at this address.
• Yahooligans!: The Web Guide for Kids from those folks who brought you Yahoo!
• Youth Net by Linda Delzeit is managed by the person who organized and managed AcademyOne, a service of the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN).

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