The Internet offers children access to a vast array of educational resources, including news, reference materials, museum exhibits, tutorials, poetry readings, lectures, collaborative projects, and thousands of subject matter experts. The Internet also provides children with instant access to sites containing inaccurate and biased information, violence, and sexual content. How can they tell the difference? Today's lessons will help!

Join HLN as we celebrate Computer Learning Month! It's an opportunity to take a look at the important roles computers, software and the Internet play in our lives, and particularly in our children's education and their future.

Your kids can win fabulous trips and millions of dollars by participating in the awesome kids' contests available online! ... Well, not really. In fact, most contests for kids offer only modest prizes -- if they offer any prizes at all. They do, however, provide lots of fun and a little glory too. Invite your kids to go for the gold by competing in a contest, sharing their work at an online gallery, or submitting to an online organization.

If it weren't for Melvil Dewey, finding the books you want in the library might be as frustrating as looking for a needle in a haystack. Dewey invented a system of grouping books of similar subjects together, classified by numbers. His invention, called the Dewey Decimal System, brought much-needed order to libraries.

There are many books on many different subjects on the shelves of libraries all over the world. Most libraries use the Dewey Decimal Classification System to categorize their nonfiction collections, making it easy for the user to locate the materials they need. How does the Dewey Decimal System work?

Would you eat a mackinaw? How do you correctly spell Hanukkah? Is gladiator a French word? What does it mean when someone says she heard it straight from the horse's mouth? Can you sit on a jodhpur? Everyday people all around the world open a dictionary for help in answering questions like these. Learn how to use this powerful reference tool with ease and efficiency in HLN's Dictionary Resources unit.

Did you ever wonder what games boys and girls in Australia play? Are you curious about life in China? Do you want to meet homeschoolers in other states? Do teenagers in Europe do the same things for fun on the weekends as you? You can get these answers along with other interesting information when you become an e-pal.

The portfolio process is a delightful way to peek into your past learning experiences, and is also an excellent way to be accountable and track your learning. While you read through old binders and boxes you will find yourself living in the past. You will see with your own eyes how much you have actually learned! Wouldn't it be great to put those past experiences to work for you? Well you can! Join HLN and its adventure into creating portfolios! BONUS! This unit includes 25 Homeschool Record Keeping forms!

Home schooling, once enjoyed by the founding fathers of our country, is now being recognized as a successful option for educating children with the best learning style that fits their needs. Homeschooling creates passionate, caring and adjusted learners. Explore home schooling and its wonderful possibilities for you and your family in this thematic unit!

Are your children bored with field trips to local landmarks and attractions? Are you running out of ideas for trips and adventures that make learning relevant to "real life?" Get your children out of the house, out of your town, or out of this world through the magic of online field trips and real-life scientific expeditions!