Websites for Kids & Caregivers

AtoZ Maps Online provides a wide variety of city, state, and country maps – both current and historical. You can find climate, ecology, and topographic maps. There are historical maps and maps about empires and exploration. It even includes a section about world flags!

Britannica Moderna es Enciclopedia española para estudiantes mayores y educadores. Incluye artículos, imágenes, mapas, tablas, cronologías, así como un completo diccionario y atlas. | Britannica Moderna is a Spanish encyclopedia for older students and educators. It includes articles, images, maps, tables, timelines, as well as a complete dictionary and atlas

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

With Hoopla, you can stream or download popular movies, television shows, musical albums, audiobooks, ebooks, or comic books! You can check out videos (movies & TV) for 3 days, music for 1 week, and audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 3 weeks.

InfoTrac Student Edition is a periodicals database designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.

Gale Interactive: Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the science lab online. High-value, multi-media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students in middle school and high school grades.

Kids InfoBits covers 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.

Lingo LITE offers basic vocabulary training in 30 different languages, perfect for travelers and beginning language learners. Users can choose both the interface language and the language of study, and the instructional video and audio is presented by native speakers. You can also access Lingo LITE through their app, available in your smart device’s app store for free.

Watch staff from the public library and public schools read picture books on The Chelmsford Library’s TV show. Tune into Chelmsford Telemedia every evening at 7:00 pm for stories on the Educational Channels: Comcast 22 or Verizon 36. There are times that live programming may be shown rather than the stories. Tune in again the next evening, or check CTM’s online schedule.

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book, which can also be read to you.

Bedtime Math is a math enrichment site that provides a fun math fact daily with questions at different levels.

Dance Mat Typing helps you learn to type with the BBC.

Genealogy for the Next Generation includes information on how to interview relatives, scavenger-hunt and word-search games, craft activities like making a journal or a family keepsake, and information to help kids learn family-history terms and create a family chart or tree.

PBSkids.org is a companion website for PBS shows with games and more!

Red Ted Art has a variety of fun craft and art projects for kids.

Scratch helps you learn to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations—and share your creations with others in the online community.

With PBS Kids, kids can learn to read with favorite characters like Daniel Tiger, Super Why, and more.

Reading Rockets is dedicated to helping parents understand ways to help children learn to read.

Starfall provides a fun online phonics approach to learning to read.

US Dept. of Education – Help my Child Read is great resource to help children learn to read.

Common Sense Media provides reviews of apps, movies and games for children.

Every Child Ready To Read provides the basis for many literacy practices at the Chelmsford Library.