# Educational children's websites

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 27, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440 "2006-04-27T12:46:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440/1 "2006-04-27T12:46:19Z")

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A friend of mine is looking for fun and educational websites for a four year old boy who is a little advanced for his age. He is getting bored with Sesame Street and Bob the Builder so I decided to come here and enlist the help of you folks.

So can you help me…huh, huh, can ya, can ya?

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**Author:** ![Cordial\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/94ad74/32.png) [@Cordial\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cordial_Jim)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440/2 "2006-04-27T14:02:47Z")

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[http://www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm](http://www.scholastic.com/kids/games.htm)

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**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440/3 "2006-04-27T14:58:02Z")

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I would recommend the [PBS Kids](http://pbskids.org/) site. The [Boohbah](http://pbskids.org/boohbah/boohbah.html) website is definitely something to check out there as well. At first glance it may seem a tad juvenile but if you actually go through it, the site deals with rather advanced pattern recognition techniques. Since he is advanced, however, he will likely power through that specific site rather quickly. There should be enough on PBS kids to keep him occupied for a bit though. When he gets bored with that I would head over to the [Smithsonian Kids](http://www.si.edu/kids/) site. The Smithsonian site should be able to take him through a few levels of growth.

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**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\
**Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440/4 "2006-04-27T18:43:20Z")

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[nickjr.com](http://nickjr.com) is good, as is [bigideafun.com](http://bigideafun.com) (the official Veggie Tales website). [Noggin.com](http://Noggin.com) is good, too.

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**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\
**Post date:** [April 28, 2006, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/educational-childrens-websites/354440/5 "2006-04-28T07:03:21Z")

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Thanks for all the great suggestions. I will definitely pass these on to my friend.