Childhood subject links
Art and Music
Behaviour
Books and Literature
Children and Family
Child Safety
E-Journals
General
Health
Teaching and Learning
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Art and Music
The Children's Music Web
The Children's Music Web has lots of good music links for kids, parents and educators.
Early Childhood.com
Early Childhood.com is a site with articles, resources, art and craft ideas, projects and advice from experts in this area.
Kidzpage
Kidzpage is a site containing links to the words of many favourite nursery rhymes, verses and songs.
Kinderart.com
Kinderart.com is a collection of comprehensive online art lessons searchable by subject categories including multicultural activities.
Behaviour
Child and Adolescent Psychological and Educational Resources (CAPER)
This Australian site has information about various topics including stress, teaching and bullying and resources available on these topics. The "What's New" link provides many links to more sites which focus on stress, teaching and bullying.
Books and Literature
The Children's Book Council of Queensland
The Children's Book Council of Queensland site has in favourite links, information on Australian authors and illustrators.
The Children's Literature Web Guide
The Children's Literature Web Guide has categorized Internet resources related to books for children.
Children and Family
Early Childhood Care and Development
Early Childhood Care and Development is an international site with resources to support children 0-8 and their families and includes good information on child development theories.
Parentbytes
Parentbytes.com provides information and support to all parents so that they may more confidently meet the numerous challenges of parenthood. Includes a fortnightly e-bulletin, feature article, book review, child friendly recipes, creative parenting online shop, community forum and a growing bank of information.
Parenting South Australia
The Parenting South Australia site includes 'parent easy guides' which provide hints and tips on topics faced by parents.
Queensland Community Infonet
This Queensland Department of Families site has information about child care services, the child care industry, legislative requirements and careers in child care.
Child Safety
The Child Safety Web
A site developed as a community service to increase awareness of child accident prevention.
Workplace, Health and Safety, Department of Industrial Relations
This is the Queensland Department of Industrial Relations, Workplace, Health and Safety webpage that includes the relevant legislation, advisory standards, codes of practice and general information on health and safety.
E-Journals
Early Childhood Research and Practice
Early Childhood Research and Practice is an internet journal on the development, care and education of young children which has full text articles.
General
The Australian Early Childhood Association
The Australian Early Childhood Association is a non profit organisation that acts in the interests of children from birth to eight years and their website has lots of good information including lists of publications and prices and conference details.
The Australian Institute of Family Studies
The Australian Institute of Family Studies website contains information about AIFS, its resources, research, conferences, links etc., that relate to various factors affecting family stability and well being in Australia.
Kidslife
This Australian website provides extensive information about pregnancy, babies and children. It covers many topics including health, safety, development and education. There is a search facility available and contributors to the site include The Nursing Mothers' Association, St. John Ambulance Australia and Kidsafe.
Health
Child and Youth Health
Child and Youth Health is a S.A. government website offering the latest news on parenting; child and youth health and a search facility.
Medem.com
Medem.com provides a medical library link that includes children's health and development, diseases and conditions with a search function.
MyDr
This web site provides a variety of informative pages related to health for parents and teachers. There is a Health Tool Kit, a selection of Health Centres with information about illnesses, disease, and conditions, articles and a search engine.
youthealth.com
This is a very interactive, vibrant site with lots of good information about health, development, conditions and first aid aimed at the youth market. There are activities and multimedia pages to educate young people about health topics including the human body. There is also a section for parents and a search facility.
Teaching and Learning
Abcteach
This site has free printable material and activities for kids, parents, student teachers, teachers and home schoolers. The material can be printed directly from the screen. Teachers have permission to reproduce these pages for classroom use. The site contains thematic resources, games, baby-sitting materials, recipes, puzzles and activities.
Early Childhood Educators' and Family Web Corner
This is a good U.S. based site that has articles and links for teachers and parents covering subjects including child development, craft recipes and multiple intelligences.
Texas Education Network
The Texas (U.S.A.) Education Network site provides resources and links for teachers, parents and students including curriculum resources and The Hall of Early Childhood link from the TENET Halls of Academia link from the elementary teachers page.
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