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EDITOR'S CHOICE WEB LINKS Each of the provided links is an excellent source of essays and resources regarding family issues. Most also include a list of additional links. Please report broken links to Dale McGowan at familyissues1@yahoo.com. www.snopes.com No rationalist toolkit is complete without a reliable way to deal with all the nonsense that comes over the Internet or is passed around the schoolyard or workplace. Snopes.com is the ultimate second opinion on urban legends and other such rumors and tall tales. Next time one of your kids comes home with a tale that smells like an urban legend, go to Snopes.com, type in a few key words, and be amazed. The folks who run this magnificent site do significant research, all of which is annotated in full. If you haven't seen this site before, be prepared to lose an afternoon glued to it. Especially satisfying when you get a Godspam. Positive Atheism magazine If you and your kids need a deep well of secularist heroes and the literature and quotes to give them context, look no further than this astonishing website. Check out the Big List of Quotations and the Historical section in particular. Serves as a dynamic resource for school papers: just imagine plugging some of the given excerpts into your standard seventh-grade bio on Jefferson or Edison (or Susan B. Anthony, or Carl Sagan, or Mary Wollstonecraft...). The ongoing struggle against christian historical revisionism is joined! MagicalJourneys.com for Children This is a website devoted to promoting travel in Greece, but embedded within it (at the link provided) is an excellent collection of books on Greek mythology for children. Sigma Publications Click on to the various categories provided to see collections of Greek mythology and Greek folktales written for various readerships, most by Menelaos and Giannis Stephanides -- Greek writers of children's books by the Greek publishing house Sigma. Humanitas Netherlands http://www.humanitas.nl Earthward, Inc. http://www.earthward.net Parent's Corner on the Secular Web http://www.infidels.org/families/parents/ Freethought Families Project http://www.infidels.org/people/ffp/ American Atheists Youth and Family Site http://www.atheists.org/family/home.html Atheism Central for Secondary Schools http://www.eclipse.co.uk/thoughts/ Atheist Kiddie Korner http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Rhodes/3548/kiddie.htm The Godlessheathen Page -- Kid's Section http://www.infidels.org/~godlessheathen/kidshome.html Secular Family Network Home Page http://www.secularhumanism.org/family/ Families in Reason http://www.families-in-reason.org/FIR.html Raising Independent Thinkers discussion forum http://www.aimoo.com/raisingindythinkers www.EnchantedLearning.com Staggering amount of high-quality stuff for kids: astronomy, dinosaurs, birds, butterflies, geography, ecology, sharks, whales, explorers, inventors... High marks for accuracy and effectiveness in the presentation of concepts in science and elsewhere, including evolution. Two pages within the site are specifically relevant to this month's featured book review and essay: Whale evolution Part of EnchantedLearning.com's exploration of science education for children... (see our August 2002 essay!) The peppered moth Part of EnchantedLearning.com's exploration of science education for children... (see our August 2002 essay!) Teaching Your Child Philosophy Provides resources to aid in the teaching of children by means of Socratic dialogues. Philosophy for Kids (P4C) The website presence of Matthew Lipman's extraordinary P4C program. As Director of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children, Dr. Lipman has created a worldwide educational model integrating philosophical methods, critical thinking, and reflective discussions of values and morality into K-12 classrooms. The Society for the Advancement of Philosophical Enquiry and Reflection in Education SAPERE is an educational charity in Great Britain seeking to build on Lipman's work and promote his and other approaches to developing better reasoning, more reflective consideration of values and the development of communities of enquiry at all levels of education and in a wide variety of contexts. Erratic Impact Philosophy Research Base: Philosophy Resources for Everyone Especially recommended are the following two pages within the site: Atheism Philosophy for Children Scouting For All Outstanding, thoughtful site dealing with all issues around the Scouts' exclusionary policies, including organizational history, legal precedent, FAQs, channels for activism, and more. |
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