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3D Twirler - Design and texturize three-dimensional shapes. Learn how artists create these special effects without a computer. (Shockwave required)

Activities - NASA Kids' Club - Build a gingerbread robot and make a pop rocket!

Activity Sheets - Smithsonian Education - These activities sheets include word and number games, art exercises, and fun quizzes.

Air Quality Mystery Activity - Read this book and find out how Coco and his friends solve this mystery as they learn about air quality and how to stay healthy when the air quality is bad.

Art Zone - What is a collage machine? Or a 3-D twirler? This site from the National Gallery of Art has interactive art that you can make online.

Beach Kids - Games - Shoot bacteria in the water, test you memory, or read a good story.

Ben's Interactive Games - Try out these wordfinds, mazes and map games to help you learn more about our government. To play any of these games, you need the Macromedia Flash Player.

BRUSHster - NGA Kids - BRUSHster is an online painting machine. This shockwave interactive includes more than forty brushes and customizable size, transparency, texture, and stroke options.(Shockwave required)

Coast Guard Coloring and Activity Books - Learn about the U.S. Coast Guard through these coloring and activity books.

Collage Machine - NGA Kids - Create your own collage of using shapes, flowers, animals, instruments, faces and more. (Shockwave required)

Collage Machine II - NGA Kids - Create your own collage of using signs, shapes, flowers, sculptures, colors, faces and more. (Shockwave required)

Color NASA - NASA Kids' Club - Choose an image you'd like to color and create your own masterpiece.

Cosmic Corridor - NASA Kids' Club - Play this game where you jump from disc to disc while shooting your laser. When you hit your target, you learn a fun fact about NASA.

CryptoKids - Peer into the secret world of cryptology: making and breaking codes. Play lots of games and activities at this site too!

Defense Intelligene Agency Kids Site - Choose your mission (or game). This page includes Hangman, Simon, puzzles and more.

Digging for Answers - Tests your research skills as well as your expertise; with each question, you have the choice of answering on your own or trying to beat the clock as you search for the answer on a Smithsonian website. (Flash required)

Drinking Water & Ground Water - Games and Activities - Play word scrambles, a matching game and a game that lets you control the water cycle.

Drug Abuse Prevention for Kids - The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information advises - - be smart - - don’t start! Learn the facts on just saying no to alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.

Energy Kids Page - Fun and Games - Did you know that ink and crayons are made from fossil fuels? Check out this site and find out other facts. Check out the energy riddles page!

Energy Star Kids - Be an Energy Star! Find out how you and your classmates can make big changes and help save the world.

Environmental Health Kids' Page - Learn how the environment affects your health. Get ideas for science projects, tackle some brainteasers, and more.

Farm Service Agency for Kids - This site has fun games to teach you more about farming, crops and ranches.

Fish Kids - Learn to identify fish that are healthy to eat. (Flash required)

Flow - NGA Kids - Flow is a motion painting machine. Choose a picture and create a path for the motion. (Shockwave required)

Food and Nutrition - BAM! - Find recipes for quick, easy, tasty, and healthy treats. Play games on making good eating decisions. Find out about healthy snacks.

Fun Activities - Best Bones Forever - Choose a physical activity and learn more about that sport.

Fun Activities from the Department of State - Did you know that the U.S. Department of State gives people passports so they can travel to and from the United States? Learn more about the passport process by playing these games.

Fun Games about Money - Try playing these online games about coins.

Games - TreasuryDirect Kids - Play Save Perry's Pennies and Money Memory and learn about U.S. Debt.

Games - VA Kids, K - 5th Grades - make medals, beat the blocks, color, and more

Games and Activities - Small Step Kids - What can healthy eating do for you? Find out by playing around with these cool games and activities.

Garfield's Comic Creator - You can create and print your very own Garfield comic strips.

GEOINT Games - Connect the dots, make a map, word search, and more.

Get a Clue About Collecting - Learn about coin collecting.

Grind Your Mind - BAM! - Skateboard with Matt through this animated quiz on peer pressure! Get the questions right and check out Matt performing some cool tricks on his skateboard.

Habitat Adventure: Panda Challenge - Use binoculars, field guides, a camera, and other tools, as well as talk to local people to help you make decisions about a fictional forest reserve in this educational game.

Ice Cream Inc. Game - Play this game and have fun running your own ice cream business.

Join the Lorax and Help Protect the Earth from Global Warming - Do your part everyday by making easy changes at home and at school and help stop global warming; this book has fun activities, games and puzzles.

Kids Saving Energy - Games and Activities - Fun games and activities for kids who want to save energy.

Kids.gov's YouTube Channel - Check out these great videos and watch local events and meet people with cool jobs.

Learn to Grow Your Own Food - Work with your mom or dad and you can grow your own fruits and vegetables at home.

MapStats for Kids - You can learn concepts about maps and statistics through games, graphs and more.

Meet Me At Midnight - After a field trip to the Smithsonian American Art Museum, you are magically taken to the galleries at night. To get back home, you have to solve mysteries and help your new friends find their artworks

Memory Game - Census for Kids - Play the memory game and learn how everyone counts.

Michael's Inside Scoop on Genetics - Your genes are instruction codes for your body - telling cells what to do. These instruction codes do everything, from telling your body when to start puberty to determining the shape of your nose.

Montana - Bug Recipes - Are there bugs in your food? Read through the recipes and see what you think. Just remember that these recipes are ONLY for fun.

MyPyramid.gov Blast Off Game - Kids can reach Planet Power by fueling their rocket with food and physical activity. Fuel tanks for each food group help you keep track of how your choices fit into MyPyramid. (Flash required)

NASA Kids Club - This site has games to help you learn about exploring space, building and launching rockets, exploring Mars, keeping airplanes on schedule and helping a comet travel through the solar system.

NGA Kids - Choose from a variety of activities or projects from the National Gallery of Art, enjoy an animated musical adventure, take a tour through the sculpture garden, and more.

NROjr.gov - Learn about the wonders of science, math and space in a fun and interactive site.

Peace Corps Challenge - This game gives you the opportunity to work in the fictional village of Wanzuzu as a Peace Corps Volunteer.

Pixel Face - NGA Kids - Choose a portrait and use different colors and brushes to change the picture. (Shockwave required)

Planet Protectors Club - Planet Protectors create less waste in the first place! This site has games, activities and reading materials to help save our planet from too much waste.

Playtime for Kids - This site provides links to all kinds of sites with information on weather, science, and space.

Portrait for Kids - Using your special spyglass tool, you’ll uncover hidden layers of this George Washington painting and learn fascinating facts about the portrait. (Flash required)

Put It Together - NASA Kids' Club - Play this fun puzzle game where you can choose the number of pieces and image.

Sea-Saws - NGA Kids - Select photographs of natural and man-made objects, then assemble the pieces to create a seascape or an abstract composition. The BUILD tool helps you construct animated characters and set them in motion.

Sing-Along - NIEHS has included this sing-along section to teach environmental health science through song.

Stamp Collecting - Stamp collecting can be a lifetime hobby. It's fun and educational for all ages and it's easy to start without a big investment.

Thomas Jefferson's Recipe for Vanilla Ice Cream - Among the most popular recipes at Monticello (Thomas Jefferson's home) was this one for vanilla ice cream - written by Jefferson, with his own recipe for Savoy cookies to accompany the dessert on the back.

Tough Choices - BAM! - Play against other contestants to prove you can deal with tough choices.

Water Sense Game - Move the water-efficiency hero Flow through water pipes and answer water- efficiency questions while avoiding water-wasting monsters.

WaterLife: Where Rivers Meet the Sea - Learn about estuaries using this online game.

Where's Smithy? - Meet a border collie named Smithy; figure out where Smithy is and then follow him by visiting Smithsonian museums in Washington, D.C.

Word Find - Census for Kids - Have fun playing with these 4 word finds.

You Are Here - Become a money master by learning all the ways advertisers try to influence your decisions!

Other Resources

Animaland Activities - This site from the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) has great information on caring for you pet, humane education, games and cartoons and much more.

ArtGames - Artgames is an interactive website designed to engage children in playful, interactive learning about works of art in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York.

Clifford the Big Red Dog - Everyone's favorite big red dog! You can read along with Emily Elizabeth, visit T-Bone's Town, get to know the Islanders, or play with Clifford!

Coloring Book - National Geographic Kids - Pick a picture of an animal, print it out and color it in. Print 'N' Go from National Geographic Kids.

Coloring Pages - Crayola - Over 1,000 free coloring pages for you to pick from.

Crayola - Games and Fun - All kinds of fun activities to help you express your imagination.

Create Your Own Adventure - Fill in the blanks and create a funny story with you in it!

Cub Scouts - Fun and Games - Enjoy this arcade of online games, designed especially for Cub Scouts.

CyberChase Online - Companion site to CYBERCHASE, PBS’s new animated math adventure series, intended to foster math literacy and problem-solving skills. Play interactive games and crack challenging puzzles, meet the characters, and experience original adventures.

Day at the Beach - Curious George - George is at the beach and would like some help making sand castles, but there's a science to it. Experiment by mixing sand and water, in various shaped containers, to determine the consistency needed to make a solid shape. (Flash required)

Destination Modern Art - An interactive online gallery and offers an introduction to The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Look carefully at works of art and learn about artists and their techniques.

DiscoveryKids - Play games and solve puzzles; find answers to some of your common questions.

EekoWorld - EekoWorld invites you to explore, experiment, and collaborate as you learn about conservation and the environment.

EnergyHog.org - Hog Busters Training Camp - Become Official Hog Busters by playing cool games and learn about saving energy.

Family Ice Cream Sandwich Night - Ask your parents to join you when you make these homemade, ice cream sandwiches!

Games - National Geographic for Kids - Play fun games like Recycle Roundup, Weather Word Search, Virtual Pet, and Baby Animal Memory. To try some of these activities, you need the latest version of Flash.

Geography Games - National Geographic Kids - Boost your knowledge of the world with the GeoBee Challenge, GeoSpy game and learn the continents with Copycat.

Georgia Aquarium - Kids Corner - A variety of fun Atlanta kids activities that you can do before, during and after your trip to the Aquarium.

Highlights Magazine - Highlights Magazine has been around for kids for long time. It's packed full of stories and activities.

Internet Smart Kids - Do you like to surf the net? Learn how to be safe and have fun while surfing the World Wide Web. Lots of games, too! (Flash required)

Kids’ Bill of Rights - PBS Kids Go - Here are collected ideas from kids all across the country, with their suggestions for the Kids Bill of Rights.

Mouth Health - Experiment to find the healthiest choices about food, tobacco, and cleaning habits then create your own poster about healthy mouth habits. (Flash required)

Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood - Are you unsure about some ot the scary (violent) things you see on TV or read about? Make sure to talk about your concerns.

Music Around the World - Sesame Street Playlist - Learn with Grover and his global love for music. (Flash required)

Music Games - Play match games, a scavenger hunt, and try out the minuet mixer!

Music, Art and Creativity - Sesame Street Playlists - Browse and learn from different videos about art.

National Aquarium Exhibits - The Aquarium features hundreds of exhibits featuring more than 16,500 animals. Find out what's happening now.

National Geographic Kids - Wanna hear about current events? National Geographic gives you the top news stories on animals and nature, people and places, and science and space, where you can listen to a song about the order of the planets.

PBS Kids Go - At this fantastic website you can play with your favorite PBS characters! Check out lots of cool games or be a history detective!

Playmusic.org - A cool site for kids from the American Symphony Orchestra League. Learn all about classical music and the different instruments that make it.

Reading Planet - Reading is Fundamental - This site has read-along stories and songs help you with spelling and pronunciation. You can also learn about illustrators and authors.

Sesame Street Videos - Watch videos and learn about numbers, the alphabet and much more.

South Carolina Aquarium - Kids' Page - Learn about sea turtles and watch them eat and check out Carly's Sea Star Captain's Log.

Thomas Jefferson - A Day in the Life - Ice Cream At Home Activity - See Jefferson's recipe for ice cream, found in Jefferson's Papers at the Library of Congress.

What’s the Word - Play word scramble and word search games with vocabulary words you need to know when talking about the economy.

Page Revised - 11/8/2011