Environment Games at ARKive

You want your children to care about the environment, but you don't want to bore them to tears with lectures. So how can you get them interested without it seeming like more work? Show them a fun website where they can play environment games, of course.

ARKive Education offers a nice selection of Flash games for kids ages 7-11. Keep sand lizards and ladybird spiders alive, or solve sliding puzzle pictures of various animals. Design a habitat for a ferret, or play a traditional word search game.

There's enough on the site to keep kids occupied for awhile, and they're likely to absorb enough information from the games to bombard you with "Did you know..." comments for some time after that. I know I'm looking forward to that with my youngest.