Hunting
Outdoor & Survival Skills
Art & Music
Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge
National Gallery of Art provides videos covering a range of topics from ancient art to the twentieth century and studies of individual artists.
Smithsonian Folkways Recordings
Cooking
Chefs in Training
Menu planning, grocery shopping, setting the table, or mixing ingredients, no matter your age, you can help in the kitchen!
Nutrition.gov's recipe collection includes kid-friendly recipes such as Pita Pizzas, Apple Nachos, Crunchy Chicken Nuggets, and more!
Team Nutrition Cooks! is a series of cooking-based nutrition activities for out-of-school and afterschool programs, for children around ages 8 to 12 years old.
STEM At-Home Projects
Great Outdoors
National Parks
National parks are great places to explore anything kids can imagine. Go on an outdoor adventure. Walk in the footsteps of famous people. Take in unique scenery. Explore new interests. Experience real places you may have only heard about. But most of all, national parks are places where you can have fun and create memories that last a lifetime.
Oklahoma State Parks
From gorgeous gypsum caves and towering sand dunes to breathtaking waterfalls, Oklahoma's state parks have plenty of stress-reducing, soothing scenes that you can experience from home.
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
USACE gives you an inside look at people, projects, and the initiatives they are working on.
History
America’s Story from America’s Library is a multimedia site produced by the Library of Congress where you can learn more about amazing Americans, historical facts and features, state information, and much more.
Cornerstone Documents from the U.S. Government Publishing Office has links to primary documents from our Nation’s past and present, such as the Bill of Rights, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution.
Explore your family's history with a family tree from the National Archives
Expand your knowledge of American history with Smithsonian's History Explorer
Today in History is a Library of Congress presentation of historic events illuminated by items from the Library’s Digital Collections. 
Virtual Tours
Death Valley National Park, CA,NV
Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park, AK
Lassen Volcanic National Park, CA
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Oklahoma Nature Conservancy Preserves
Smithsonian 3D
Statue of Liberty National Monument, NY
Travel Oklahoma List of Virtual Tours
U.S. Department of Energy National Laboratories
USDA 'As If You Were There' 360° Demonstrations
Virtual Tours in Oklahoma
Discover the top attractions across Oklahoma from the comfort of your home.
Yellowstone National Park, ID, MT, WY
Apps
NGAkids Art Zone
Discover the world of art in a fun and easy way. Explore and learn about some of the most famous works from the Gallery's collection, make your own art, and share it with friends.
Contests
Enter a contest to showcase your talent, or learn a new skill!
Carl Sandburg Student Poetry Contest
Students in grades 3-12 are encouraged to write poetry based on a theme which changes each year. Educators are invited to submit original poems written by their students. Poems must be submitted by a teacher (homeschool teachers included).
Congressional Art Competition
Each spring, the Congressional Institute sponsors a nationwide high school visual art competition to recognize and encourage artistic talent in the nation and in each congressional district
George Washington Art Contest
The National Park Service hosts the George Washington Art Contest to celebrate George Washington’s birthday at Fort Necessity.
For 4th & 5th graders.
George Washington Carver Art & Essay Contest
The 3rd & 4th grade Art and Essay Contest celebrates Black History Month while encouraging students' creativity through essay writing and creating original artwork.
Guadalupe Mountains Annual Youth Poster Contest
Guadalupe Mountains National Park holds an annual youth poster contest to celebrate public lands.
Musical Theater Songwriting Challenge
This national contest is for high school students with a passion for writing songs that could be part of a musical theater production and the wide range of musical styles represented in contemporary musicals.
NASA Langley Student Art Contest
The NASA Langley Student Art Contest is open to all children grades K-12 attending public, private, parochial and homeschools who are residents of the United States, and children grades K-12 of U.S. military members stationed overseas.
NASA Solve
National Fossil Day Art Contest
The National Park System covers a diverse range of sites that have a rich and unique fossil record. A different theme is selected each year to celebrate National Fossil Day.
Oklahoma Aeronautics Commission art contest
The state-level Aviation Art Contest, sponsored by the Aeronautics Commission, encourages youth, ages 6 to 17, to reflect on aviation by designing a piece of art based on the year’s chosen theme.
Oklahoma Agriculture in the Classroom contest
Oklahoma Council on Economic Education
OCEE is the leading organization in Oklahoma focusing on the economic and financial education of students from kindergarten through high school. Their programs include Drawing for Dollar$, and Student Entrepreneurship Challenge.
Oklahoma Department of Transportation Trash Poster
The Statewide Trash Poster Contest is your chance to show off your creativity talent, win prizes, and have your work featured in ODOT's printed annual calendar.
Poetry Out Loud
Games
Ben's Guide
Test your knowledge of U.S. geography, and the three branches of the U.S. Government.
CIA Spy Kids
See if you can solve puzzles, crack codes, and discover clues like a real CIA officer in these spy games.
NIH Kids Environment Kids Health Games
NOAA Planet Arcade
Ready Kids
Are you ready? These games will test your know-how in a wide range of emergencies and teach you how to build the emergency kit.
SciJinks
Games all about weather! Make lightning, grow snow crystals, and simulate hurricanes, tornadoes, and rainbows. 
Smithsonian Institute Activities & Games
U.S. Mint
Play games online and learn more about coins from the U.S. Mint.
Government
Declassified government documents
Free resources for finding declassified government documents from the Library of Congress.
FBI Vault
Bigfoot, D.B. Cooper, UFOs, and more!
Science
Awesome Discoveries You Probably Didn't Hear About
Illusions
Illusions trick us into perceiving something differently than it actually exists, so what we see does not correspond to physical reality. (more illusions)
Library of Congress Everyday Mysteries
Have you ever wondered why a camel has a hump? If you can really tell the weather by listening to the chirp of a cricket? Or why our joints make popping sounds? These questions deal with everyday phenomena that we often take for granted, but each can be explained scientifically.
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Launch rockets, build robots, explore your world and beyond! These projects will take you into space without ever leaving Earth.
National Science Foundation Recent Discoveries
Science - How It Works
Science may seem like it’s a strange thing — complicated, even a mystery. But really, science is all about finding out about nature and how things work, the reasons behind every-day things. So it’s more about questions and answers than anything. How? Where? Why?
Spy Kids
Think you know the real CIA? Secret gadgets? Sneaking around in trench coats? Danger around every corner? There’s a little of that, but the real CIA is more complex and interesting than you can imagine.
Weather
NASA Earth Observatory
The Earth Observatory shares images, stories, and discoveries about the environment, climate, and Earth systems that emerge from NASA research.
National Weather Service
What is science without the experiments? Enjoy five fast experiments brought to you by Science Museum Oklahoma that focus on the weather!
NOAA JetStream
National Weather Service online school for weather
SciJinks
SciJinks is all about weather!
College
College Navigator
College Scorecard
Search and compare colleges: their fields of study, costs, admissions, results, and more.
Financial Aid & Scholarships
Study Abroad
Career Exploration
O*Net
O*NET has detailed descriptions of the world of work for use by job seekers, workforce development and HR professionals, students, researchers, and more.
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
The BLS's Student Desk includes great resources such as Career Exploration, Turning the Gears on Careers, and STEM Occupations.
Youth.gov Career Exploration & Skill Development
Entrepreneurship
Job Training
AmeriCorps is for youth ages 18 to 24. Serve your community for one year, earn a small stipend, and get health insurance as well as help paying for college.
Job Corps offers free job training for low-income youth ages 16-24; live on campus, receive health care, counseling, and job placement.
National Guard Youth Challenge helps youth ages 16 to 18 complete a high school diploma, and enroll in college, trade school, the military, or a job.
YouthBuild trains youth in construction skills by building housing for homeless and low-income people. For ages 16-24 who are not in school or employed. 
Jobs Under 16
Agricultural and Non-Agricultural Jobs - Under 16
Youths can gain valuable experience working, but there are limits to the kinds of jobs that you can do.
Oklahoma does not have regulations limiting child labor in the agricultural industry, such as minors working as farm hands, harvesting fruit or vegetables, etc. The Federal Department of Labor's agricultural child labor laws apply, and the Fair Labor Standards Act lists 17 "hazardous occupations" in which the minor must be at least 18 years of age to be employed, even if the parent owns the business.
Youth Employment Laws
Food Handler Permit
Tulsa Health Department works to safeguard public health through education on safe food handling practices and the regulation of food service establishments.
Minimum Wage
Find the minimum wage rate by state.
Oklahoma Department of Labor
Learn Oklahoma's minimum age for employment, how many hours a child can work, and more.
Safety and Health
The Department of Labor works to educate both employers and teenage workers about on-the-job safety.
Work Permit
A work permit is required for children under the age of 16 working non-agricultural jobs.
Young Worker Toolkit
This comprehensive toolkit will help you make the most of your work experiences, and learn about your rights and responsibilities. These resources will also help your parents, educators, and employers better understand federal laws involving youth employment.
Youth Rules
The YouthRules! initiative promotes positive and safe work experiences for teens by providing information about protections for young workers to youth, parents, employers, and educators.
