Kids Sites of the Month Archives
The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids Activities and stories to explore.
National Baseball Hall of Fame: Missing Opening Day? Explore the history of our national pastime.
DKFindout-Women’s History: March is Women’s History Month. Learn about generations of women who made an impact in history.
KidsNationalGeographic: Information about the world, its people, and its wildlife. Fins polls, games and virtual adventures.
TheToyMaker: The artist provides samples of her work in the form of printable paper toys and crafts. Stories and the artists online journal are available to read.
The Food Timeline: From water and salt to tear-free onions, food has played a big role throughout history.
Scratch: Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning.
Tate Kids: Play free art games and fun quizzes, find art activities, read about artists and share your art.
Amazing Space Learn about astronomy, space, telescopes, stars, discoveries. Includes “Tonight’s Sky” constellations, deep sky objects and planets.
NASA Space Place Games, animations, projects, and fun facts about Earth, space and technology.
All About Birds Learn all about birds in this website created by the Cornell Lab of Orinthology. Bird names, species, location and history are all featured. Also included are bird songs and videos.
Baby Radio Spanish online radio station for babies and toddlers, that includes a diverse programming, music, stories, activities, and podcasts
Women’s History Month Learn about the generations of women who have made an impact in history.
Mo Willems Play games, print coloring pages, learn more about pigeon’s pals, and find more books by author Mo Willems.
Bob the Builder Based on the PBS TV show, this website features online games, videos, activities and printables. Learn about machines and construction.
Capstone Kids Recipes and instructions for some really fun projects!
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History: Find an endless amount of information regarding American history, from the American Revolution to the Civil War to the Great Depression and into the Present.
Arcademic Skill Builders: Fun and free online multi-player educational math games and language arts games.
Classics for Kids: Learn about some of world’s greatest classical composers and listen to amazing music!
Bug Guide:Creepy crawlies are everywhere! Trying to identify some in your backyard? This is the place to look!
Butterflies and Moths An extensive and growing resource about the types of butterflies and moths that are found in North America, as well as where they are found. You can also learn how to identify butterflies and moths, find a list of which species live in your area, and report ones that you see in your backyard!
Ask a Biologist Explore the fascinating world of biology through puzzles,quizzes, and games! A real biologist will also answer your biology questions.
Color with Leo Explore the world of art through interactive games, hands-on activities, and lessons with a young Leonardo da Vinci.
Martin Luther King, Jr. An Extraordinary Life. Seattle Times’ online information about Martin Luther King Jr.
Civil Rights Museum Explore the museum’s student resources to learn more about the struggle for freedom and justice around the world. Take a virtual tour of museum exhibits.
http://mag.amazing-kids.org Amazing Kids MagazineExplore the museum’s student resources to learn more about the struggle for freedom and justice around the world. Take a virtual tour of museum exhibits.
Plimoth Plantation: What really happened at the First Thanksgiving in 1691? Be a history detective and discover for yourself, as you learn more about the lives of the English colonists and the Wampanoag people.
DK Find Out: DK Find Out! is a general interest site with fun facts, quizzes, games, and activities on a wide variety of topics.
Switchzoo Animal Games: Play animal games, solve animal puzzles, take a guided tour, and join a zoo quest while you make new animals at this virtual zoo.
Girl on a Whaleship: Explore the journal of Laura Jernigan, a girl who traveled aboard a whaling ship in 1868. Learn more about Laura, and about the historical practice of
TweenTribune: Looking for articles about science, history or current events? Created by the Smithsonian primarily for teachers, but great for families too, this interactive site features fantastic, vetted content for grades K-12 in a variety of reading levels.
Spaghetti Book Club: The Spaghetti Book Club website is a place for kids who love to read and talk about books! Want to find out what other kids your age are reading? What their favorites are and which ones get a “thumbs down”? Take a look at this site with its own “clubhouse” book reviews by kids, for kids, where students can post comments and share opinions about books.
Star Wars: Get out your light sabers and join in the excitement as the Force Awakens! Everyting Star Wars for fans old and new of all ages.
Smithsonian Tween Tribune Junior: Looking for articles about science, history or current events? This interactive site features all of that and more for Tweens. Used by over 200,000 registered teachers in their classrooms, the site features: Twice-daily AP news articles * Critical thinking questions * Student commenting * and much more!
OwlKids: Owlkids’ magazines offer quality, engaging, timely, and FUN content. Chirp, chickaDEE, and OWL are bursting with activities, animal facts, jokes, comics, feature stories, puzzles, and more, all designed with a single,vitally important aim: to engage and entertain kids and get them reading, exploring, and having fun… while helping them develop a lifelong love of learning.
StoryBlocks: Songs and Rhymes that build readers. Children get ready to read long before they start Kindergarten. You can help them get ready by singing, talking, and playing with the children in your care. Watch short videos modeling songs, rhymes, and fingerplays, and learn how they help build readers. Each video includes helpful early literacy tips. Sorted by age groups (babies, toddlers, and preschoolers).
Liberty’s Kids: This is the companion site for Liberty’s Kids, the animated adventure television series, whose primary goal is to provide a fresh and exciting experience of the extraordinary period of 1773 to 1789 in American history for children ages 8-14 .
The Liberty’s Kids website includes a broad range of entertaining educational activities for kids (Check out the Fun & Games link), plus valuable information for caretakers. From the site’s main page, users can access the six main sections of the site.
My Hero Project: The mission of the MY HERO PROJECT is to use media, art and technology to celebrate the best of humanity and to empower people of all ages to realize their own potential to effect positive change in the world.
The freely accessible, not-for-profit project is supported by visitors of all ages who share stories, art, and short films on the award-winning multimedia journal and digital library.
ChessKid: Learn and play Chess with kids from around the world. It’s fun for kids, safe and smart for parents, and has great tools and materials for teaching.
Major League Baseball: Spring is in the air, finally… and that means (among other things) that baseball season is upon us and opening day is just around the corner. We’re honoring America’s national pastime by making MLB the FML site of the month for April.
Amazing Kids1 Magazine: Take a look at this kid-created, award-winning monthly Online Magazine. There’s the well-written, thoughtful, and often thought-provoking articles and creative writing contributed by kids and teens from around the world each month, and art lovers will want to check out the awe-inspiring portraits, paintings and photography created by some of our internationally acclaimed amazing young artists.
Presidents of the United States: What better place to learn about all of the US Presidents than at www.whitehouse.gov! And that’s just the beginning of all the great information available there for kids…. and their parents too!
Games for Change: Used as a testing ground for new games, this site offers single-player and multi-player games focused on social issues, such as human rights, economics, politics, and more. Run a farm, save ocean creatures, or investigate your animal instincts as a wolf. The list of games can be filtered by age range. Their mission is, “Catalyzing Social Impact Through Digital Games”
New York Philharmonic Kidzone: Discover the world of the New York Philharmonic and go backstage to learn about their music and instruments. Explore famous composers, play games, and create music of your own
Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government. Kids aged 4-14 years and up can learn about our government, how laws are made and elections work, Ben Franklin’s life, and the importance of historical documents; and play related games.
African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History and Culture. You can find reproductions of original documents, personal stories, and ex-slave narratives.
Girls, Inc. : Girls Incorporated is a national youth organization dedicated to helping every girl become strong, smart, and bold
BaseballRox: It’s Baseball Season! This site is for anyone who loves baseball or wants to learn more about the game. Videos provide coaching instruction and tips for all aspects of the game. Baseball related links (quotes, video game reviews, players, etc.) and online games such as Guess the Stadium provide more depth for the true baseball fan
ClimateKids: Climate Kids offers kids clear answers to questions on global climate change through sections on weather, air, the ocean, fresh water, carbon, energy, plants and animals and technology. Includes educational games, activities, crafts, videos and information on green careers