SCIENCE NEWS FOR KIDS

Science News for Kids is a new Web site devoted to science news for children of ages 9 to 14.

Our goal is to offer timely items of interest to kids, accompanied by suggestions for hands-on activities, books, articles, Web resources, and other useful materials.

Our emphasis is on making the Web site appealing by offering kids opportunities to comment on and grade the subject matter, get ideas for science projects, and try out mathematical puzzles. At the same time, we offer teachers creative ways of using science news in their classrooms.

Background

Society for Science & the Public, the publisher of Science News, is a nonprofit corporation based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 1921, Society for Science & the Public has the mission of advancing the popular understanding of science through publications and educational programs. The organization administers the Intel Science Talent Search, the Intel International Science and Engineering Fair, the Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge, and other programs in science education.

Published since 1922, Science News is an award-winning weekly newsmagazine covering important research in all fields of science. Its 16 pages are packed with short, accurate, timely articles that appeal to both general readers and scientists. Each issue of the magazine now reaches about 140,000 subscribers and more than 1 million readers. Audible.com distributes a weekly audio edition of Science News.

Since 1996, Science News has had a presence on the Web as Science News Online. Updated weekly, this site offers a free sampling of stories from the print edition of Science News. Subscribers to the magazine can access all of the print articles online and view a digital edition of the magazine. Science News Online also provides blogs and articles written specifically for the Web. These cover two areas: food, including nutrition, and mathematics. The site attracts more than 50,000 visitors per day, including many students and teachers.

The Science News for Kids Web site, funded by grants from several corporations and foundations, enhances the usefulness of Science News in the middle-school classroom and offers recreational reading and activities for students interested in science.

A section of the Science News for Kids Web site is devoted to particular interests. At present, we have six such zones: a weekly brainteaser for those who enjoy solving and inventing puzzles (PuzzleZone), entertaining science-fiction composition exercises for those interested in writing (SciFiZone), and weekly science fair profiles along with science project ideas and tips (ScienceFairZone). The GameZone contains a small selection of logic and memory games, implemented as Java applets. The TeacherZone has materials, including question sheets related to the feature article of the week, so that teachers can bring science news topics to the classroom. The LabZone features a weekly hands-on activity or science project idea . In the future, we might add additional zones, for example, for kids interested in robotics, the environment, computers, mathematics, or veterinary medicine and animals.

Staff

• Tom Siegfried, Editor in Chief, Science News for Kids
• Emily Sohn, Writer, Science News for Kids

Contact us at editor@snkids.com.

Science News for Kids
1719 N Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20036
Phone: 202-785-2255
Fax: 202-659-0365

For information on supporting Science News for Kids, or other Society for Science & the Public programs, please contact Rick Bates, Director of Development & Corporate Relations, at 202-872-5136.

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