ADOT Kids

Blogs/News articles tagged as ADOT Kids

December 15, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Steve Elliott / ADOT Communications
ADOT Kids produced activities designed to engage children and, we hope, inspire the next generation of transportation professionals. Spend a few minutes with the ADOT professionals behind this important effort.
October 28, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications

Hey, Pumpkin! Halloween is coming, and we’ve created a fun activity for kids of all ages to find the differences between two littered landscapes. Check out the activity here.

We’ve worked hard to emphasize the super-obvious fact that litter is ugly. And we need you to get wrappers from all that Halloween candy you’ll be collecting into wastebaskets and not onto roadsides.

So, what do you costumed kiddos have to do with litter? Well, hold onto your wrappers and water bottles!

September 10, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Bill Lamoreaux / ADOT Communications
Calling all ADOT artists. Here is another way to let your artistic energy out while staying cool indoors. Coloring specialty license plates!
August 3, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Kelsey Mo / ADOT Communications

Hey kids! Have you seen the creative safety messages that are sometimes displayed on the highway overhead message boards? The messages sometimes relate to concerts and sporting events happening in the Valley or they’ll reference certain holidays like Halloween or Thanksgiving. 

July 4, 2024 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications

Have you ever wondered what it takes to move mountains?

Let’s dig in and learn more! 

The I-17 Improvement Project corridor is one example of an ADOT project that required entire sections of the mountainsides to be blasted and excavated to make way for additional lanes. That includes 15 miles of widening and 8 miles of flex lanes along the entire 23 miles from Anthem Way to Sunset Point.

September 5, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

Here’s a little history: When the automobile was invented, there were so few of them that license plates were not necessary. As cars started to outnumber the horse and buggy, many states began to require license plates to identify the car and owner. 

August 22, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications
As with any important project (think writing a report for school), the first thing to do is plan. ADOT starts planning for new roadways by studying where a new roadway is most needed.
August 3, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Bill Lamoreaux / ADOT Communications

Hey ADOT Kids (and parents)!

July 10, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

As an Arizona kid, you are likely used to many days of hot, dry weather. When we get the occasional rainstorm, do you celebrate by dancing in the rain (but never during a thunderstorm), rather than heading indoors to stay dry? 

You may have learned about the earth’s water cycle and how water moves from the earth to the atmosphere and back to earth.

July 3, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications
Hey kids — and big kids, too! Headed to northern Arizona this summer to enjoy the high country’s cool weather or stake your claim to a favorite fishing hole? We’ve got the map that may help plan your trip and help save travel time by revealing a more direct route to your intended location. 
June 20, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

People litter when they throw their garbage somewhere instead of putting it in a trash can. Sometimes people litter when they don’t care about the place where they’re throwing their trash, or when they think someone else will come and clean up after them. 

Not only is litter unsightly to see on the ground, along our highways or in waterways, but this type of pollution hurts people and the planet in multiple ways. 

May 23, 2023 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

ADOT Kids is a website created to spark children’s curiosity in how things work and what makes things go, tapping into their interest in science, technology, engineering and math in a fun way!  ADOT Kids has lots of free, downloadable activity sheets, links to videos and more!   

January 3, 2022 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

Hey, ADOT Kids! There’s a lot that goes into constructing roads, like our highways in Arizona. And we’re here to give you the details.

November 1, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

Engineering is the creative use of science and math to design or make things to solve a problem. Engineers, like the ones we have at ADOT, design, build and test things. Do you want to give this fun build-and-test activity a try —  like an engineer? To take the candy-toothpick building challenge, start with the following items.

Supplies Needed

September 27, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, physical inactivity is a major contributor to health problems in the United States.
August 27, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Mary Currie / ADOT Communications

Don't let others talk trash or trash our highways! Check our our new ADOT Kids litter game. 

August 3, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

There are almost as many type of engineers as there are branches of math. Learn how math plays an important part in engineering. 

July 26, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Lori Baker / ADOT Communications

A recent ADOT-sponsored transportation institute fosters learning about transportation engineering careers. 

June 7, 2021 | Blog Articles
By David Rookhuyzen / ADOT Communications

Hey, ADOT Kids, do you know how to get started on an engineering career? For this ADOT employee, his love for building things started when he was kid.

May 17, 2021 | Blog Articles
By Audrey St. Clair / ADOT Communications

For the #ADOTKids out there, bicycles are how you get around. Since we are interested in all forms of transportation at ADOT, here are some tips to remain safe while riding through your neighborhood!