The Children's CIA

While looking up something at the CIA World Factbook today, I noticed that they have a kids' page. On that kids' page are some neat games, including one in which the player analyzes a photograph to produce useful information.

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/aerial-analysis-challenge/index.html

Once you are done with that, there is the Photo Analysis Challenege, in which you compare the differences between two similar photos of the "same" stretch of a city street.

https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/photo-analysis-challenge/index.html

More Games: https://www.cia.gov/kids-page/games/index.html

- Jason Carter

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The Librarian's Guide to Gaming

An online toolkit for building gaming at your library.
This site was just posted (Mar 2, 2009)by ALA and includes tools and resources, best practices, and even a calendar of conferences and events relating to gaming: traditional, electronic, theory, and education.

And here is a pdf file with a few board games for a wide range of ages, mostly elementary.

Video Game Gives a Tip O' the Hat to Libraries

Pokemon teaches kids to respect libraries.
Originally uploaded by Klara Kim

Games

Games - Use this label to discuss the use of games in your library, whether board games, traditional games like chess or checkers, or video games. For example, "The other day I whipped up a Dance Dance Revolution Tournament when the kids were bored. Learn from my mistakes!..."