Since Sandra has posted links to sites with brainy games for kids*, and Karmen is working on her list of science education web sites for children, I thought I'd mention one of my favorite online destinations for kid-strength chemistry. Luddite that I am, what I like best is that the site isn't hypnotizing your child with a virtual chemistry experiment, but actually gives you activities to do with the child in the three-dimensional world.
The site is chemistry.org/kids, a portal of the American Chemical Society website aimed specifically at kids, parents, and teachers.
For summer (here in the Northern hemisphere), when splashing around is a fun way to beat the heat, the site is featuring a number of activities related to water and its properties. The PDFs available for download include:
- A set of activities about surface tension: Water Walkers, Testing Water's Skin Zippy Zappy Boats and Water Digs It.
- Wondering about Water, which looks at solubility and what the world might be like if water weren't such a good solvent.
- For those who must have interactive online games, there's one about different ways to clean a sample of water. But then you might want to dirty up some actual water and play around with ways to remove the impurities.
There's lots of good stuff on the site, so it's worth checking out.
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*These sites won't check to make sure you're a kid, which means grown-ups can play the games, too!