Educational Links

Kid Sites

Environmental Education for Kids
EEK! An online magazine created by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, is packed with short articles and activities about animals, plants and environmental issues. It’s a place to share stories about your outdoor experiences, make nature-inspired art projects and find out about seasonal events. Target Grades: 4-8.

(Highlight) Global Warming Is Hot Stuff

EduGreen
Wonderful international kids’ site created by The Energy and Resources Institute, New Delhi, India. Interactive features include games, quizzes and networking with others. Target Grades: 3-9.

(Highlight) Explore/Climate Change: Well-written backgrounders; Network: Students share their stories; Enrich your knowledge: Through quiz, story time, maps, a time line, environment laws, multimedia resources, and an environment calendar.

UNFCCC Children’s Page
Good animation on basic concept of atmospheric and global warming, “Why will the earth become hot?” Target Grades: 3–8.

EPA Global Warming Kids’ Site
Educational but not overwhelming, the site provides definitions of each scientific term used and features simple global warming-themed games. Grades: 4-9.

(Highlight) Climate Animations: Animations of how Global Warming occurs and how it is linked to the Carbon and Water Cycles

EPA: Environmental Explorers Club
Kids can explore their environment and learn about neat things to protect it. There are games, pictures, stories, and other fun things.

(Highlights) On the Trail of the Missing Ozone: This comic book features a reporter who uncovers some surprising facts about air pollution; Recycle City: A game, an interactive storybook, and other puzzles will teach you hundreds of ways a whole town can reduce, reuse, and recycle.

U.S. Department of Energy Kids’ Zone
Fun kids’ site with good information on both renewable and non-renewable energy including crosswords, riddles, and experiments. Target Grades: 4–8.

Professor Polar Bear's Education Center
This website, created by the Department of Energy's Atmospheric Radiation Measurement Program, explains global warming in simple, straightforward language. Target Grades: K-12.

(Highlight) Study Hall - Global Warming: Featuring a polar bear that's concerned about melting ice and the warming environment, the site offers up facts on the causes of climate change, weekly quizzes, and an "ask a scientist" section.

Dr. E's Energy Lab
A monkey named Dr. E will teach about renewable energy and energy efficiency at this U.S. Department of Energy site.

Roofus’ Solar Home
At this site, meet a dog named Roofus who's an expert on solar energy and energy efficiency. As you visit different parts of Roofus' energy smart house, you'll find energy saving tips and simple experiments to help you understand how energy works.

Solar School
A fun, animated site for kids created by University of New South Wales, Australia that gives excellent background information on climate change and renewable energy, plus some interesting Australian examples of solar energy projects. Target Grades: 3–9

Planet Slayer
"Greena, the Worrier Princess" is an animated Australian teenager with a sense of purpose-she's going to save the earth. This website does provide lots of fun facts and a greenhouse Q & A.

Clean Air Kids
This site offers information fact sheets and games for 5 to 11 year olds regarding acid rain, air quality, global warming, ozone hole and recycling.

(Highlight) Global Warming Kids Page Greenhouse Breakout GAME
Do Your Bit -- Clean Air Kids Switch off the Lights -- GAME

EcoKids Clubhouse
There are games, news and facts about animals, special guests, gallery of children's art, and a discussion area.
(Highlight) The CO2 Effect -- GAME
The Case of the Warming Planet Eco-Quiz Challenges Puzzlers

Energy Hog
Energy efficiency activities and games created by Energy Outreach Colorado and the NEED Project. According to this website, energy hogs are "nasty critters that hide all over your home and pig out on wasted energy." Battle the energy hogs online by playing games at this website; completing all five games earns you the title "Hog Buster."

Nature Challenge for Kids
The site starts out with ten simple ways you can protect nature, followed by four challenge activities that offer first-hand experience with the natural world.

Kids For A Clean Environment (Kids FACE)
Provides information on environmental issues to children, encourages and facilitates youth's involvement with effective environmental action and to recognize efforts that result in the improvement of nature. There are more than 2,000 club chapters in 15 countries and more than 300,000 individual members, making it the world's largest youth environmental organization. Membership is free to children and teachers.

UNEP – TUNZA for Children
A fun site for children with information on nature, tips to help the environment, environmental stories, and games and contests. Includes a listing of events and competitions for children.

Contact Info: Theodore.oben@unep.org

Cool Kids for a Cool Climate
This is a project created to minimize the pollution produced by airline flights. The goal is to plant trees to offset the carbon dioxide emitted by traveling. The site explains climate change and features stories by real kids making a real difference.

Contact Info: coolkidsforacoolclimate@yahoo.co.uk

ESA Kids – Global Warming
The European Space Agency created this site providing information for kids. Issues range from aerosol can use, hurricanes, global warming, and destruction of the ozone layer.

International Carbon Bank and Exchange – Carbon for Kids
A section of the ICBE website that provides basic facts about greenhouse gases and global warming. Also includes a number of movies about CO2 and links to other ICBE fact pages.

DEFRA for Kids Global Warming Website
A site aimed at kids, providing facts on global warming, along with games, activities, and quizzes to test their knowledge.

Leonardo DiCaprio for Kids!
This is the Kids section of Leonardo DiCaprio’s Eco-Site. The Kids section provides recycling tips, recommended books, games, and ideas from the National Geographic to help save the environment.

Tiki the Penguin
An extensive site detailing all aspects of climate change. Explains the arguments and evidence for and against climate change, and twelve actions to help stop it. There are lots of fun features throughout this website.

Dr. Seuss’s Save the Trees Game

A Kid's Guide to Understanding the Health Impacts of Global Climate Change (PDF, 3.03MB)

A Kid's Guide to Understanding the Health Impacts from Air Pollution (PDF, 2.37 MB)