Animal
Information Database
http://www.bev.net/education/SeaWorld/homepage.html
Sea World USA/Busch Gardens' educational service for teachers and children has games, teaching guides, and quizzes about animals children love, such as whales, dolphins, dugongs, gorillas, lions, tigers, and walruses. Its interactivity attempts to inject some fun into biological science study.
The
Asylum's Lite-Board
This is fun. Insert coulered pegs into a board, one couler at a time, to create a pretty picture. After you've finished, you can title it and then submit it to the gallery for others to admire. Hours of gainful employment.
The Bug
Club
Creepy crawly fan club with e-pal page, newsletters, and pet care sheets on how to keep your newly bottled tarantulas, cockroaches, and stitch insects alive.
Carlos'
Colouring Book
http://www.racena.com/coloring/
Select a segment of a picture, choose a colour and then shade it in. You don't need to be Leonardo.
Fractal
Explorer
http://www.vis.colostate.edu/~user1209/fractals/
A fractal is a complex self-similar and chaotic mathematical object that reveals more derail as you get closer. You can explore a famous example, the Mandelbrot set, by zooming in on the image and changing the colour palette. Even if you can't understand how this complex iteration works, you can still generate funky graphics.
Graffiti
Capital
http://darkwing.uoregon.edu/~econpeer/graffiti/graff.html
"Spray" your thoughts in HTML for all the Web to enjoy. Like all graffiti, it'll get off and sprayed over by someone else sooner or later.
Kids
Web
http://www.npac.syr.edu/textbook/kidsweb/
Choose from a range of 20 main educational subject categories and explore a heap of stuff.
Make a
Map
http://ellesmere.ccm.emr.ca/wnaismap/naismap.html
Tailor-make your own Canadian map. You can specify all sorts of multiple constraints, layers, and relief projections, like political boundaries, geological provinces, and even the grizzly bear range.
Math
Magic Activities
http://www.scri.fsu.edu/~dennisl/topics/math_magic.html
These card, rope, and calculation tricks require no mirrors or sleight of hand, just a basic understanding of mathematic principles.
Mr
Edible Starchy Tuber Head
http://winnie.acsu.buffalo.edu/potatoe/
Create your own, customised Mr Potato Head.
The
Yuckiest Site on the Internet
Crawl behind the walls with Rodney the Roach, get all the dirt from Wendell the Worm Reporter, mouth off in strong Words, or kick with the New Jersey Youth soccer team.
White
House for Kids
http://www.whitehouse.gov/WH/kids/html/kidshome.html
Follow Socks through the White House to revover its previous inhabitants, including the kids and pets. Once done, you can write to Socks and get the goss on what goes down in DC after dark.
Yahooligans
Kid-friendly Web guide intuitively organised onto subject groups like dinosaurs, hobbies, and homework answers. Like big brother Yahoo, but without the dodgy and heavy stuff.
