International organization that fights for children's rights, improvements in living conditions, and long-term development.

Read these amazing reports of children in conflict around the world. This site helps students to understand the reality of life for children all over the globe. Archived.

The media plays a significant role in the improving of the quality of life for children around the world. This activity draws students' attention to the role the media plays and helps them explore the significance and impact of this role.

Incredible site containing personal statements from children around the world about their hopes and dreams for what is to come in the 21st century. Read these stories to gain perspective on the status of children around the world. Archived.

Have you ever wondered how you can become more socially aware of human rights in our world? This site features links to several resources with social action options. Come and discover how you can make a difference.

This site from the Human Rights Web is the United Nations Convention, passed in 1989, which outlines the basic needs and rights of children everywhere.

This is an online photocopy of the original text of the children's book Young Benjamin Franklin or The Right Road Through Life by Henry Mayhew (1861). This story shows how young Benjamin Franklin learned the principles he lived by.

Workshop lesson plan to help children understand the importance of healthy eating. Geared to both teachers and parents, this plan provides activities, book titles that are relevant, and charts and pictures to print out.

The internet offers LGBT children and young people a sense of belonging, community and support as well as providing new ways to create, entertain, express themselves, find allies and be activists. All young people's experiences are...

This attractive site from the German Ministry for Families, Seniors, Women and Children provides kids with a look into what this government agency does. Includes a section on children's rights, information about the federal minister, and...

Abigail Smith Adams was born in Massachusetts, a descendant of the distinguished Quincy family. She married young lawyer John Adams in 1764. They settled on a farm in Braintree, Massachusetts. The couple had four surviving children,...

This sites provides a wealth of information regarding issues that surround educational rights. PACER works with parents of children with disabilities to insure educational equity.

The fourth of seven children born to Quaker parents, Benjamin Rush was the most famous physician of his time. Known and respected by many of the Founding generation, Benjamin Rush treated illnesses such as yellow fever and smallpox,...

Article and questions for discussion on the slave trade. Students read about how Europeans captured, transported, and sold African men, women and children into slavery.

Using this resource, children learn about food and children around the world. Links to various nations and their resources, or lack thereof of, are included.

Collection of visual resources designed to engage learners in historical thinking; that is, learning to think like historians. Activities and visuals focus on a forty-year period in American history, from 1880 to 1920, making relevant a...

Learn how to cross the street and train tracks safely in your neighborhood. Includes audio narration in 7 additional languages with text in English.

A list of children's book titles and authors that offer good examples for students to follow when learning to write both narrative and expository texts. Being arranged according to the six traits of good writing makes it easy to find the...

Did you know that there are more than 1.5 million species of named bugs? You can find so many bugs right in your own back or front yard and you can have some fun of your own playing the two Bug Bingo games.

This is a teacher's guide for Any Pet Will Do, a novel written by Nancy Shouse. The novel looks at a child's quest to find the right kind of pet. It includes a book summary, teaching ideas and the author's reflections on writing the book.

"The Other Side," by Jacqueline Woodson, is a children's book on the Civil Rights movement. This website provides links on Black History that are related to the book.

Children's rights and their empowerment. Highly recommended interactive site. Teacher resources, lesson plans, and WebQuests for all age levels are included.

Children mining coal in Kingston, Pennsylvania, circa 1900.

Although the papers of William B. Wilson cannot be accessed on this site, the background about Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of Labor is very informative. As the first Secretary of Labor, his philosophy shaped the department. [pdf]