Energy Star® Kids Activities and Resources
Improving your home's energy efficiency can help to lower high energy bills, improve comfort and reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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Energy Literacy Activities and Puzzles
Energy awareness activity book provides learning tools to make smart energy choices that help kids energy efficiency for saving money.
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Earth Protector Smart Energy Puzzles
Be an Earth Protector! One of the greatest energy resources we have at our fingertips is energy efficiency that would otherwise be wasted.
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Kids Energy Efficient Coloring Book
This coloring book's mission is to save energy. How many kids does it take to change a light bulb and save some energy? Just one—YOU!
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Green Home Energy Efficiency Audit
Before making upgrades, the first step toward increasing your home’s energy efficiency and comfort is to conduct a whole house energy audit.
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Energy Saver Educational Home Guide
The suggestions in this guide and on the EnergySaver.gov website can help you save energy, save money, and improve the comfort of your home.
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Explore and build a foundation for future academic or career pursuits. Top universities and organizations in the world to offer courses online for anyone to take, for free.
Vote printable learning worksheets and videos for student and adult learners. You have an obligation to know the facts about candidates before casting your ballot.
Educational resources for athletes, parents and coaches helpful tools in the handbooks on playtime safety. Outdoor play areas, equipment, and surfacing safety checklist.
Educational Safety
Do not be a victim to the scams. Parents & Teachers can find resource fact sheets for all the lessons to teach children about about the marketplace and FTC’s role in it.
Become Heroic, Prevention
Awesome People
"Check out the new collection of external sources involved in making a difference in our Global Moral Obligation to each other. Join globalist & advocates! "
Community Service, Messengers
Democracy
Explore and discover actions to take and be of service in government. Participation in elections is one way citizens can make their government accountable.
Change-makers, Take Action
Preparedness
Learn financial preparedness, gather financial and critical personal, household, and medical information before a disaster happens, you can protect yourself.
Be SMART, Be PREPARED
Simply Amazing
Civic duties and responsibilities educational games. iCivics was founded in 2008 by retired Supreme Court of the United States Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Change-makers, Active Citizens
Smart Voters
Students, adult learners, and teachers printable educational worksheets and videos. Pick an issue, lead a campaign, grow a movement, and make a difference.
Change-makers, Resources
Browse free downloads for educational activity books, communtiy resources, kids’ environmental learning activities, and other helpful tools with climate change information. The site is designed for personal use. All items are free to view, share, and download.
These activities educate and raise awareness of the dangers encountered as a pedestrian. If you travel to school daily by walking, cycling or, as a passenger, you must always be alert and aware of your surroundings to ensure that you stay safe.
Safety Steps ages 4-11
Bike Smarts Manual
Safety Activity Lesson
Safety in a Comic Book
Safety Activity Kit
Getting Ready to Drive
Countdown2drive Presentation
Road Safety Quiz
Road Safety Workbook
Resources for Schools
Bus Safety Activity Book
Railroad Safety Activity Book
Pedestrian Safety Activity Book
Traffic Safety Activity Book
Safety Videos
Free to share with family members and your community.
All items are free to view, share, and download.
Public Downloads - Español (Spanish)
When available, we provide all our content with a Spanish version in our public download section.
You can find additional material from sources listed in all our articles.
Tools for friends and siblings of children with special needs.
Nature Explorers
National Parks video series and learn that there are many wonderful and interesting things to observe and discover in nature.
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Camping Adventures
When you plan your trip, match the interests and physical fitness of your group with the activities you choose. Remember, safety first!
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State Parks
All downloads in this category include any Junior Ranger activity books available in each state park resources, information and videos.
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Park Residents
Do not feed wildlife. Start with leave no trace activities. Protect the outdoors by teaching and inspiring people to enjoy it responsibly.
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Web Ranger
WebRanger programs let you become a Junior Ranger from home, school or anywhere to receive an official badge you earn at home!
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Junior Ranger
Junior Ranger activity books can be fun, environmental games, coloring sheets, and free to explore additional subcategories, share, and download.
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Park Finder
"Explore, Learn, and Protect!" The Junior Ranger motto is recited by children around the country; each taking an oath to protect parks
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Centennial Badge
Even though the Centennial has passed, you can still download the Centennial Junior Ranger Activity Book and then it to us for a badge.
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Lesson Plans
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Activities for Nature Explorers
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Amazing Animals Activity Book
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Wildlife Refuge Coloring Book
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Wildlife Behavior Activity Book
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Wild and Scenic Rivers
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Stuff to Do Outside
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Wetlands Coloring Book
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Environmental Games
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Elmo and Murray Activities
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Junior Ranger Activity Book
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People & Wildlife
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Every bear has a story. Since the late 1980s, biologists have closely monitored the habits and behaviors of bears that frequent Brooks River.
These eBooks provide a unique opportunity to gain insight into their dynamic lives.
Download the Bears of Brooks River eBook to help you identify the bears and read about their stories.
The park and preserve offer unique opportunities to explore vast wilderness and watch brown bears.
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service works with others to conserve, protect and enhance fish, wildlife and plants and their habitats. The vast majority of habitats are on non-Federal lands.
Download the National Park Service Index, a complete administrative listing of the National Park System’s areas and related areas. It has been revised to reflect congressional actions.
Wildscreen Arkive is an online resource, cataloguing the stories of species, ecosystems and everything to do with the natural world. It is the world’s most comprehensive collection of its kind.
At Risk: food, recreation, energy and minerals, and so much more
Takeout or Delivery
Our single-use items aren't helping the fight against climate change but there are easy hacks to reduce and reuse.
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Plastic Pollution
How Humans are Turning the World into Plastic. Why has plastic turned into a problem and what do we know about its dangers?
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Disposables
Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world.
Life Cycles, View Clip
Coastlines Marine Litter
Marine debris is human-created waste that has deliberately or accidentally been released in a lake, sea, ocean or waterway.
Coastlines, View Clip
First Lady Michelle Obama
The challenge invited kids ages 8-12, in collaboration with a parent or guardian, to create an original, healthy, affordable, and delicious lunch recipe.
Young Chefs, Download Cookbooks
Let's Move! Initiative
Five annual Kids’ “State Dinners,” with over 6,000 recipes were submitted and more than 270 young chefs and their families were welcomed at each event.
Young Chefs, Download Cookbooks
Kids' "State Dinner"
Fifty-six young chefs representing each U.S. state, five territories, and DC joined First Lady Michelle Obama.
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Judging of the Challenge
Go behind the scenes as decisions are made and a winner is picked to earn a trip to the White House Kids State Dinner.
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Through The Eyes of The Eagle (Book 1) - Mr. Eagle tells Rain That Dances he needs to remember ancestors healthy ways.
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Knees Lifted High (Book 2) - Mr. Eagle encourages and shows the boys how much fun it can be to be physically active.
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Plate Full of Color (Book 3) - Miss Rabbit teaches the children the value of eating a variety of colorful healthy foods.
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Coyote tries to trick the children into eating unhealthy foods. The children learn the importance of healthy snacks.
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Grades 5–8: Download Coyote and the Turtle’s Dream (Book 1) – The children meet fossil poachers and the tricky coyote.
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Grades 5–8: Download Hummingbird’s Squash (Book 2) – Hummingbird, a 12-year-old girl, hopes to grow vegetables.
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Grades 5–8: Download Trickster of Two Rabbit Mountain (Book 3) – Rain, Rain’s dad, and Boomer meet “the Two Rabbit” during a trip.
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Download Coyote and the Turtle’s Dream Graphic Novel This four-volume, comic book–style adaptation of the original books.
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Download amazing graphics and a script for a theater production with suggestions for props, staging, and intermission snacks.
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The Wiz is a 1978 American musical adventure film produced in collaboration between Motown Productions and Universal Pictures, and released by Universal on October 24, 1978. An urban reimagining of L. Frank Baum's classic 1900 children's novel The Wonderful Wizard of Oz featuring an entirely African-American cast, The Wiz was loosely adapted from the 1974 Broadway musical of the same name
Community and home educational activities, guides, and resources.
Safety Around Railroad Tracks Activities and Videos
Free list of coloring sheets and activity books for railroad safety and railroad track rules for motorists, pedestrians, and people at station platforms.
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Your Journey to School and Community Events
These activities educate and raise awareness if you travel to school daily by walking, cycling or, as a passenger to protect kids from unintentional injuries.
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Child Passenger Safety and the Ultimate Car Seat Guide
These safety actions confront the greatest cause of preventable deaths and injuries to children by addressing car seats, booster seats and seat belts.
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Recreational Safety and Kids Injury Prevention Activities
Remember, safety first! One of the most important things we can do to protect our children’s future is make sure they grow up in a healthy environment in or outside the home.
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Stay Safe and Have Fun Activities for Teaching kids
Not paying attention could result in a serious collision that could cause devastating consequences for you, your friends/family, and the community.
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Dedicated to Protecting Kids from Unintentional Injuries
If you travel to school daily by walking, cycling or, as a passenger, you must be alert and aware of your surroundings to ensure your safety.
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This a free collection of activity guides and gun safety action plans can give you the tools and information you need to avoid a lot of misinformation and bad advice on this topic.
During the last school year, more than 4 million students participated in at least one lockdown, and these perceived threats, psychologists say are causing students trauma.
No other developed country in the world has anywhere near the same rate of gun violence as America. The US has nearly six times the gun homicide rate as Canada.