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Dance
Instruction Manuals
Music Division of the Library of Congress presents a collection
of over two hundred social dance manuals. The list begins with a
rare late fifteenth-century source, Les basses danses de Marguerite
d'Autriche (c.1490) and ends with Ella Gardner's 1929 Public dance
halls, their regulation and place in the recreation of adolescents.
Along with dance instruction manuals, this online presentation also
includes a significant number of antidance manuals, histories, treatises
on etiquette, and items from other conceptual categories.
Dear
Librarian
Find out the answers to questions that kids ask Dear Librarian.
It may help make your next visit to the local public library more
interesting and fun! Sponsored by the Los Angeles Public Library.
Devices
of Wonder
This multimedia-rich site explores our long and playful entanglement
with the artful instruments and wonderful technologies we have placed
between our eyes and the world. Featuring dozens of objects from
the 17th century to the present selected from the collections of
the Getty Museum, the exhibition demonstrates how old and new visual
technologies foster new perceptions of our universe.
Dictionary
- Your Dictionary.com
Features thesarui, rhyming, abbreviations, writing systems, grammar
guides, lexical databases, speech synthesis, multilingual options,
word of the day, Spanish word of the day and more!
Dinosaur
Jokes
Little kids love to tell jokes to each other and to almost anyone
else that will listen. This Web site is full of silly dinosaur jokes
that younger children can understand.
Dinosaurs
Zoom Dinosaurs is one of a host of educational websites produced
by Enchanted Learning that are aimed at children. This website meets
our expectations of excellence in information and interesting presentation.
This site is nearly a must-see for teachers, students, and parents.
It is extremely well organized and thorough. There are archives
of dinosaur drawings (best for elementary- and middle-school levels)
and texts on all aspects of the beasts and their behavior, and much
more. It is up-to-date.
Discovery
Channel Discovery Cams
This is a wonderful site in which to watch animals, LIVE. The featured
cams at this time are sharks, gorillas, and polar bears. You can
also access video cams located in different areas, such as a satellite
view of the world which tracks hurricanes, volcanoes, and building
constructions. Other sites with video cams can be accessed through
this site as well. These include Animal Planet, Kids Cams, The Learning
Channel, and Travel Channel. This is a fun way to watch from the
safety of your own home, things that are educational and exciting.
Discovery
Channel Online
The online counterpart to the Discovery Channel
Discovery
Channel School
A site with kid-tailored content from the Discovery Channel.
Doctor
Bob's Interesting Science Stuff
This is a great site for kids. "Dr. Bob" has created a
site that is informative, fun, and thought provoking, though a little
limited in the number of items covered. The site covers just what
its title says: interesting science stuff. For example, there's
an article on the death of the sun and another on boulders that
mysteriously slide across the desert. The science is solid and accessible,
and there are links to related (and unrelated) science sites. There
is also a kids' activities area that contains some science-related
games, optical illusions, and so forth, and another area with ideas
for science fair projects.
Doctors
Over Time
Grades: 4 & up. This PBS Science Odyssey activity uses interactive
Shock Wave technology to show how a doctor working in 1900, a doctor
working in 1950, and a doctor working in 1998 would diagnose and
treat three different medical ailments. The activity is available
in a non-Java-based version for users with older browsers.
Frederick
Douglass
Frederick Douglass, the "father of the civil rights movement,"
was an abolitionist, human rights and women's rights activist, orator,
author, and social reformer.
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