Experiments & projects
Curated experiments & projects resources within engineering for curious kids and their grown-ups.
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Science Museum Group Early Years Foundation Stage Resources
The Science Museum Group provides playful science, technology, engineering and maths activities for children aged 4–7, with ideas for museum visits, online exploration and learning at home.
JPL Education
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory STEM resources, lessons, projects, videos, and activities for K-12 learners and educators.
Royal Institution
Science demonstrations, talks, short films, and explainers from the Royal Institution for curious older children, teens, and families.
ESA CanSat
The European Space Agency CanSat program challenges teams to design, build and launch a soda-can-sized satellite, then collect and analyse mission data.
micro:bit
A creative physical-computing platform with block coding, Python, classroom projects, guides, videos, and teacher courses.
Royal Institution Explore Science
Science videos, stories, podcasts, and collection highlights from the Royal Institution for curious learners and families.
The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
Tinkercad
A free browser-based Autodesk app for 3D design, electronics, and coding with hands-on projects and classroom curriculum.
NASA JPL K-12 Educator Resources
A searchable NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory library of K-12 lessons, projects, videos, collections, and teachable moments.
Sick Science!
Hands-on science experiments and STEM ideas from Steve Spangler for families, educators, and science enthusiasts.
NASA JPL STEM Activities for Families
A NASA JPL collection of family STEM activities spanning engineering, science, technology, computer science, mathematics, rockets, space missions, and design challenges.
Science Museum Group Rocket Mice
Rocket Mice is a Science Museum Group hands-on activity about air pressure, air resistance and gravity in which children make and launch a paper rocket from a plastic bottle.
FIRST LEGO League
A guided robotics and STEM program where children build, code, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges.
KID Museum
A hands-on maker museum with coding, robotics, engineering, electronics, woodshop, textiles, and design challenges.
Morris Museum Spark!Lab
A Smithsonian invention workspace where children ages 5 to 12 imagine, design, test, and improve ideas.
NASA For Students Grades 5–8
NASA’s middle-grade collection organizes current challenges, space and Earth science stories, games, builds, videos, interactive experiences, and stargazing activities for grades 5–8.
UT Austin Academy for All
UT Austin Computer Science offers a free residential summer academy for rising high-school seniors, combining Arduino or Python/AI projects with teamwork, campus life, and technology-career exploration.
MIT Museum Learning Lab
Hands-on science and engineering activities using microscopy, imaging, and real museum demonstrations.
KidsSTOP
An early-years science centre with more than 20 interactive exhibits about flight, space, the human body, and everyday science.
Putnam Museum Science in Action
Interactive science exhibits and engineering challenges exploring motion, energy, magnetism, circuits, gears, and more.
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, workshops, shows, and galleries for children, families, and school groups.
Space to Learn Home Education Workshops
National Space Academy’s Space to Learn page offers free UK Space Agency-funded home-education workshops with hands-on student masterclasses, rocket-design challenges, and take-home resources for families.
Coding with Kids
Coding with Kids provides live online and in-person classes, camps, school programmes, robotics, engineering, game design, Python, Minecraft modding, and age-progressive coding and AI projects for children and teens.
National Children’s Museum Learn
National Children’s Museum’s learning hub brings together K–5 field trips, hands-on programs, a children’s STEAM podcast, short STEAMwork activity videos, and environmental-science virtual field trips.
MinutePhysics
Short, energetic physics and science explainers using animation, drawing, and thought experiments.
Discovery Cube
Hands-on science museums in Southern California with exhibits, field trips, free online activities, STEM events, and family learning.
London Museum of Water and Steam for Families
Hands-on water and engineering discovery with working steam engines, a Waterworks Gallery, a Splash Zone, and family trails.
Science Friday Try This
A free archive of hands-on science and engineering challenges that help kids investigate real-world questions through experiments and making.
Science Max
Big, energetic science experiments and explanations from the official Scholastic Science Max channel.
NASA For Students Grades 9–12
NASA’s high-school collection connects students with STEM challenges, career spotlights, interactives, NASA+, Artemis activities, podcasts, and space-science projects.
StarCode
A free robotics and coding environment that lets children build robot programs with blocks and move toward Python, C++, and Java on web, desktop, Android, and Chromebook.
Avanza STEM Interactive Labs
A free set of browser-based STEM labs covering physics, coding, chemistry, engineering, and virtual experiments with no installation or sign-in.
ESA Education YouTube
The European Space Agency’s education video hub offers space-STEM explainers, experiments, student mission documentaries, expert interviews, and behind-the-scenes learning videos.
KID Museum Invent the Future Expo
KID Museum’s Invent the Future Expo showcases young people’s creative technology and making projects, encouraging children and teens to imagine and build solutions to real-world challenges.
ESA Back to School Student Space Projects
The European Space Agency’s teacher page presents student projects including Astro Pi, Moon Camp, and CanSat to inspire classroom space and engineering learning.
National Children’s Museum STEAMwork
National Children’s Museum’s STEAMwork presents short activity videos that invite children and families to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math through playful projects.
ESA Education
The European Space Agency’s education portal shares space-science projects, classroom activities, student opportunities, and STEM stories connected to ESA missions.
COSI: Center of Science and Industry
COSI is a science center with hands-on exhibits, family learning, educator programs, and science experiences designed to make discovery active and approachable.
Spaghetti Structures
A Science Museum Group engineering challenge where learners build a tall, strong tower from spaghetti and marshmallows while exploring structure and design.
RHS Build a Mini Wormery
RHS Build a Mini Wormery is a free classroom activity with learning objectives, equipment, and step-by-step instructions for observing decomposition, soil life, composting, and sustainability.
Mark Rober
Engineering builds, science demonstrations, problem-solving, and curiosity-driven experiments from former NASA engineer Mark Rober.
TechEd4Kids
Free interactive science and math experiments, games, and lessons designed for learners in grades 6-12.
LearnerKits
Free browser-based science simulations and virtual experiments for students in grades 6-12.
Sciencenter Exhibits
A science museum in Ithaca with more than 250 interactive exhibits covering weather, space, engineering, animals, oceans, physics, and hands-on early learning.
TinkerPy
TinkerPy is a kid-focused coding and robotics platform with block and Python coding, browser simulators, app building, games, projects, and courses for young makers.
NASA Join the Artemis Mission to the Moon
NASA’s official Artemis learning page offers ways for students and families to make, launch, compete, and learn about the missions returning humans to the Moon.
Fort Worth Homeschool Family Science Club
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Homeschool Family Science Club offers hands-on science sessions for children and an accompanying adult, with engineering, animal adaptations, and chemistry themes.
PrepOK
Free interactive science and math explorables that let learners change variables, observe results, and build understanding.
The Action Lab
Hands-on demonstrations and experiments exploring materials, physics, chemistry, light, motion, and surprising everyday science.
ExplorationWorks
A hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits, early-childhood programming, family events, and science learning for children and families.
Wonder Workshop Coding Apps
Wonder Workshop’s official app collection supports coding with Dash and Cue robots through block-based puzzles, traceable paths, JavaScript and Python transitions, lesson plans, and creative projects.
Arludo
A free STEM platform where children ages 8–12 explore science through learning islands, experiments, games, challenges, scientist stories, and career pathways.
EDC IDEAS Maker Program
Education Development Center’s IDEAS project is an inventing, designing, and engineering maker program for students and informal STEM learning.
FIRST LEGO League Technical Resources
FIRST LEGO League technical resources support teams with robot-building, programming, engineering design, and challenge-season guidance.
MadaTech Summer-Tech
MadaTech’s Summer-Tech programme offers daily summer workshops for children in grades 1–6, combining museum-based experiments, technology, and hands-on STEM activities.
VisualModder
A free browser-based coding environment where children program inside Minecraft Java using drag-and-drop blocks and Python.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
What Is the Space Launch System? (Grades 5-8)
NASA’s grade 5-8 explainer shows how the Space Launch System works, how its rocket stages support Artemis missions, and which careers help build and operate it.
SmarterEveryDay
Curiosity-driven science and engineering videos that investigate how the world works through experiments and observation.
The Engineering Family
Family-friendly engineering and science videos with experiments, builds, challenges, and explanations for curious children.
QwikXR
A browser-based coding platform where learners explore 3D worlds through Blockly, JavaScript, and Python simulations, with ready-made missions and remixable projects.
RoboNinja
RoboNinja is a free student-built guide to competitive robotics, with self-paced lessons in building, CAD, programming, engineering notebooks, and interactive simulations.
Sphero Robotics Missions
Sphero Robotics Missions are age-banded robotics challenges for indi, BOLT, RVR, and the Sphero Robotics Competition, combining programming, engineering, and hands-on robot work.
Discover Coding
Discover Coding offers hands-on and online coding programs from block coding through Python, Minecraft, web, app, 3D, and design projects.
P3 Robotics & Coding Programs
P3 offers age-banded robotics and coding tracks including RoboKIDS, RoboKIT, Scratch, Python, and Young AI Makers.
STEMA Learning Centre
STEMA Learning Centre offers a progressive STEAM pathway from ScratchJr and first builds through Python, JavaScript, AI, robotics, drones, and 3D design.
Code-it-Hacks Kids
Code-it-Hacks Kids offers a multi-year STEM journey through early play-based robotics, coding, circuits, engineering, AI, game development, 3D animation, and maker projects.
Snapology Alpharetta Programs
Snapology Alpharetta offers playful STEM classes including Junior Builders, coding, robotics, FIRST LEGO League, gamebots, and invention challenges.
SAM LMS
SAM LMS is a South African early-years coding and physical-computing platform using local stories, hands-on projects, and multilingual support for young learners.
STEM Little Explorers
A STEM video channel with accessible science, technology, engineering, and math explainers and activity-oriented videos for curious learners.