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Government Sites for Kids
- Air Force Link, Jr.
Visit the game room, media lab, air field, and post office to learn more about the Air Force. You can also review instructions to make a delta wing or a broad wing paper airplane.
- Consumer Product Safety Commission
Find out how to help save lives and learn about bike safety.
- Energy Department's Education Community
Go on an energy quest, join the Explorers Club, read lighting information and safety, watch the Kinetic City Super Crew movie.
- Environmental Protection Agency Explorers' Club
Learn about your environment—air, water, plants, animals, garbage—and visit Recycle City!
- FBI
(Federal Bureau of Investigations)
Learn about forensics, polygraph testing, and fingerprints. Guard yourself with information regarding child abduction and learn Internet safety tips. Become a Junior Special Agent.
- FEMA
(Federal Emergency Management Administration)
Become a Disaster Action Kid by learning about floods, wildfires, hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, winter storms and other natural disasters in the United States. You can learn important details for helping your family prepare for a disaster.
- Health and Human Services
Read stories and poetry for and by kids who are very ill. Help a budding scientist find answers about how drugs affect the brain.
- Herbert Hoover Presidential Library and Museum
See digital images of important Hoover documents, look at presidential cartoons, read about pioneering journeys of the Ingalls family.
- Interior Department
Learn about wildlife species, shorebirds, great American landmarks, coal mining, the Pacific offshore, Alaska, and the Hoover Dam. Be a Junior Ranger.
- Justice Department
Get involved in crime prevention, learn what goes on inside a courtroom.
- NASA
(National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
See pictures of the space shuttle crew in-orbit, learn about the nine planets, and check for space station sighting opportunities in your city.
- National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Find out why science is fun here!
- National Science Foundation Students and Educators
Read about doing science at home. The National Science Foundation is the sponsor of the Magic Schoolbus and Bill Nye, the Science Guy.
- Native Americans Planet Youth
Learn about Native American customs, traditions, artists, and featured youth.
- Smithsonian Education
- Social Security
Animals tell a story about how people work and give money to social security so that when they get sick, retire, or die social security pays money back. Visit "Hot Questions for Cool Teens" for information about social security.
- US Geological Survey's The Learning Web
Color butterflies or a Leopard Darter. Learn about volcanos and why they erupt and what happens when they do!
- White House
Learn about the President, history of the White House, kids and pets in the White House, and write a message for the President.
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