Awards
North American Association for Environmental Education (NAAEE)
Earth Day Canada, of which EcoKids is part, won the 2004 award for “Outstanding Service to Environmental Education by an Organization.” The NAAEE is the world’s largest association of environmental educators, with members in over 55 countries.
The American Library Asociation
The ALA has selected ecokids.ca for inclusion in their "Best Sites For Kids" directory.
Education World.com
EcoKids is now featured on Education World.
Highlights' Teacher Net
"The premier online community for K-8 educators" chose ecokids.ca as their Site of the Week for the week of February 25, 2002.
The School Page
EcoKids was chosen as one of the monthly "Hot Sites For Teachers" in January 2002.
Macromedia Site of the Day
"Celebrate Earth Day every day with interactive, fun, educational games and activities for children and adults alike."
EduNet Choice
Award for providing and maintaining valuable educational content. Also chosen as "Site of the Week" for the week of January 29th, 2001.
Golden Web Award
In recognition of creativity, integrity and excellence on the Web. Awarded by the International Association of Web Masters & Designers.
2000 Web Award
Awarded Best Non-Profit Web Site in the 2000 WebAward Web Site Competition by the Web Marketing Association.
Study Web Excellence Award - August 1999
"Your web site has been selected as one of the Net's finest informative [sites] and is included in StudyWeb's listing of educational links."
New Media Invision Award 1998
Silver Award in the Information -
Young Adults category placing second only to MicroSoft
Encarta '97.
Berit's Best Sites
For Children
"What a fun place to celebrate Earth Day. There are games, activities, contests & a section for parents & educators. My rating: 5/5."
Planet Pals "Clean Planet Award"
This award is given to sites that promote concern for the environment by encouraging recycling, ecology and earth sciences, either through school projects or valuable web site content.
Featured on Yahooligans in the "Animals" section
"[EcoKids is a] cool site that teaches you all about the planet and its animals."
iNet Silver Award
EcoKids scored 88/100 for basic web site design quality (as defined by the iNet Award Criteria)
Medaille d'Or for Web Site Excellence
"This is a well designed environmental education site for children and an invaluable resource for educators and parents..."
2002 WebAward - Outstanding Web Site
"What a wonderful site for grade school children. I loved the graphics, sound effects, rich content, interactivity, member home pages and the excellent navigation. I kept looking for something wrong and could find nothing - even tech help is included. First-rate."
