We have compiled some great back-to-school resources for kids in any grade, parents and teachers. We even have some resources on how to prepare children who have not yet started school.

Fundraising for Your Local School - Here are 4 great and relatively easy ways to get your school some extra funds. Collect box tops from General Mills products, recycle printer cartridges, collect Campbell soup labels and buy books and software for your kids from Scholastic at great prices. Just think of the extra equipment, books, software, furniture etc. that your school could get with these extra funds. 

Get Back To School Safety - This is a great article at the Safetyalerts site, contributed by Kansas Safe Kids Coalition. The article gives some important tips about school bus safety, walking to school, riding bikes to school or driving children to school. My son is just starting kindergarten, so I'll be spending some time going over these tips with him. 

Getting Involved In Your Child's School - This article was written by Marilyn Murray expressly for Parenthub.com. The article gives you ideas on how to help out at your child's school and how valued such help really is. The article also has links to some great homework resources on the web. 

There's No Such Thing As Ratting - Another article by Marilyn Murray that today more than ever probably affects us parents. The article gives you insights on how to deal with kids who feel they can't "rat" out their peers, even if they are being hurt by them. It is short but sweet<g>.

Back to School Organization - This article will give you some tips on how to save time and get and stay organized for the coming school year. The author submitted the article to get publicity for her magnetic fridge calendars, but hey, the tips are great, they're useful and her fridge calendars can come in quite handy as well. A good resource.

Freeworksheets.com - This site offers over 6000 free educational worksheets to print or download and save. Categories include: phonics, math, reading, writing, history and more. You can also download hundreds of free educational software programs for phonics, math, reading etc. This is a great resource for parents, teachers or homeschoolers.

Ask Dr. Math - Ask Dr. Math is a question and answer service for K-12 math students and their teachers. A searchable archive is available by level and topic, together with a faq.

HomeWork Center - Specially designed for K-12 homework problems, the Homework Center provides you with authoritative references to help you answer your questions.

Britannica Internet Guide - This is Encyclopedia Britannica's Internet effort. It is a World Wide Web navigation service that classifies, rates, and reviews more than 65,000 Web sites. Web resources, are described, rated according to consistent standards, and indexed for easier searching.

The Why Files? - This is a site that tries to explain the science behind news stories. Want to know the science and the cold hard facts about Mars? Mad Cow Disease? Cloning? Migration? Forensic Science and more? They also have an online forum you can participate in.

Homework Central - This site is for homework and school research. Search through their many categories such as: Biography, Countries of the World, Science, Religion, Health, Government & Civics, History and others. Use their search engine, ask one of 140 experts, visit links to find out about college scholarships, K-12 newspapers, listings of all the Colleges and Universities in the U.S., college newspapers and much more.

The Homework Doctor - Find resources for topics such as biology, French, business, English, Computer Science, Math, Visual Arts, Religion and much more.

Helping Your Child Get Ready For School - This is a resource by the U.S. Department of Education. Here they have great activities for children from birth through age 5 to get them ready for school, what skill level children at certain ages are at and what they need to learn and how to do it. They even have step-by-step instruction to activities and how to do them.

Helping Your Child Learn to Read - This is another article from the U.S. Department of Education. This one focuses on activities with children from infancy through age 10 and how to help them read. This site also has activities listed according to age group.

Alphabet Superhighway Challenge Chaser - Some fun ways to learn. Enter into writing contests, do word puzzles and scrambles, improve vocabulary, answer challenging questions based on maps, join a treasure hunt and other great fun.

NetGuide's Back-to-School - Here you can find resources for elementary, high school and college aged students. Resources includes shareware games, educational resources, virtual field trips, homework help, lesson plans, scholarships and grants, college prep resources and much more.

 The Science Center - This site is helpful to both students and teachers. It is a site intended to help make chemistry fun and understandable with quizzes, lesson activities, links, mailing lists, a teacher lounge where teachers can share resources, experiences and teaching that works.

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