German Language Resources for Students and Teachers: Kinder lernen Deutsch

Blinde Kuh is a mega site for children. It contains games and activities and also has a search engine that can be used by different age groups. Small children can click on images that identify content, and they receive age-appropriate content.

The Literacy Center's web site offers a variety of online games to help children learning languages.

This site has resources for children learning German, including games, quizzes, stories, songs, activities, and recipes.

fragFinn is a monitored Internet search engine and resource for school children. Participants must submit a permission form signed by their parents.

This site offers children's songs and nursery rhymes from around the world. Learners can hear the lyrics in both English and the target language.

This site offers the lyrics to children's songs and rhymes in more than 20 languages. Users can add information to the songs if they choose.

Kindernetz is learning and social networking site just for children maintained by Germany's Südwest Rundfunk. The site can be used by pre-literate and literate children, and it offers a variety of information sources, including links to TV programs, chat forums, and e-cards.

Produced by the Bundeszentrale für Politische Bildung, this web site provides access to many activities and resources for children, including a dictionary, books, comics, and games. Under the "Spiele" tab, learners can find the Trixomat, which allows them to produce animated cartoons.

The Kinderzeitmaschine is a site maintained by various offices of the German Bundesministerium für Familie, Senioren, Frauen und Jugend. It offers "trips" through time from prehistoric eras through 1890.

Zeitklicks allows learners to back in time and experience the twentieth century, divided into decades and beginning in the late nineteenth century.

This site provides a full-immersion environment with music, games, and other activities to encourage natural learning.

This site provides information on news topics in German for children; it's written on a relatively sophisticated level and could be used profitably by language learners.