The Best Online Government Sites for Kids
One site that caters to kids and teens is located at www.afcrossroads.com/kids/index.cfm For teens there’s hobbies, homework help, how things work and games. For younger kids there’s reading, sports, interesting world info and more. Preschool kids will find something they like here as well.
The American Library of Congress has over 130 items of interest. Kids can visit here at www.loc.gov/exhibits and view pictures and facts about The Declaration of Independence, the cartoon strip Blondie, and even the Wizard of Oz. This is a fantastically interesting site for kids and adults.
If your kids love art send them to www.nga.gov.kids/zone/zone.htm where they can participate in interactive art works. This is a great site if you’re a teacher who has started kids learning about different types of art or if you’re a parent who knows your kids love to draw.
Art Games are designed to get children to learn as they play. The interactive site features Albright-Knox art effects. Go to www.albrightknox.org/artgames/index_launched.html
Kids can find career information at http://www.bls.gov/k12 where there’s info on scientific careers, math careers and other jobs.
Career information for women in the fields of science and technology: www.girlpower.gov/girlarea/sciencetech/jobs/index.htm
One of the first sites a child should visit, when learning the internet, is www.cybercrime.gov/rules/kidinternet.htm covering cyber crimes, cyber etiquette and other important net-surfing info.
Similar sites include www.fbi.gov/kids/k5th/safety2.htm or www.ftc.gov/bcp/conline/edcams/kidzprivacy/kidz.htm
A brief history of the internet: www.isoc.org/internet/history/brief.shtml
FBI Junior agent program for children 6 to 12: www.fbi.gov/kids/6th12th/6th12th.htm
Kids can learn important safety information by playing fun games at www.mcgruff.org
Games and activities from the Department of Education: http://nces.ed.gov/nceskids/Games.asp
Create and print your own Garfield comic strips: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/public/sleep/starslp/missionz/comic.htm
At www.mypyramid.gov kids can fuel rockets and blast off. This site is loads of fun.
Learn facts about space by playing out-of-this-world games at www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home/index.html
Learn all about cryptology by making and breaking codes: www.nsa.gov/kids/intro.htm
There are lots of activities and projects like musical adventures or touring sculpture gardens at www.nga.gov/kids/kids.htm
From the National Gallery of Art kids can become the sleuth while learning about portraits at this fun and interesting site: http://georgewashington.si.edu/kids/portrait.html
Learning all about collecting, what to collect, how to start a collection and more at www.smithsonianeducation.org/students/ideal/abs/amazing_collections.html
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has a fun way for kids to learn about endangered species, national wildlife refuges, migratory birds and ways kids can help preserve our wildlife: www.fws.gov/kids
Play lots of bubble games at www.bubbles.org
Fun math games: www.figurethis.org
The Hands On Children’s Museum is an interactive site where kids learn creativity through fun exhibits and shows: www.hocm.org
Scholastic Kids Fun: www.scholastic.com/kids/index.htm
Kids who learn differently than other kids will love this site: www.sparktop.org where they’ll find out that there’s more than one way to learn.
Watch a movie or play a song from our past: www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/sh
For any kid’s questions on science, travel, space and other topics, this place has the answers: www.kidscastle.si.edu
See awesome photos of outer space at NASA’s Observatorium: http://observe.arc.nasa.gov/nasa/entries/entry_2.html
Amazing facts and fun activities about space: http://spaceplace.nasa.gov/en/kids
Kids love the internet and you’ll love the way they want to learn when they visit some of the government sites available online. There are thousands of government sites that are safe and informative for kids. They’ll enjoy it and you will too.
