Games & interactives
Curated games & interactives 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.
ORISE STEM Lesson Plans for K–12 Teachers
The Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education provides a library of free K–12 STEM lesson plans, PDFs, activities, games and student opportunities.
The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 Activities
The Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 activities page gathers official space games and classroom or home activities, including Mission: Astronaut, Future of Food, K–12 ISS materials, Tomatosphere, astronaut cutouts, and live space links.
FIRST LEGO League
A guided robotics and STEM program where children build, code, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges.
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.
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.
Canadian Space Agency Toolkits for Youth and Educators
The Canadian Space Agency’s toolkit hub brings together official space learning materials, activities, games, videos, and reading resources on astronomy, the Moon, eclipses, engineering, rovers, climate, health science, and space history.
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.
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.
CodingTeading
CodingTeading is a nonprofit education group that shares free browser-based coding and AI programmes, from early block coding and no-reading puzzles to game making, science, maths, and AI exploration.
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.
PhysicsFella
A free virtual physics lab with browser simulations and live equations covering forces, gravity, electricity, light, sound, energy, and space.
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.
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.
View-Physics
A browser collection of interactive physics simulations for forces, electricity, waves, energy, astronomy, and radioactivity, designed primarily around UK GCSE Physics.
PrepOK
Free interactive science and math explorables that let learners change variables, observe results, and build understanding.
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.
Giving STEAM to Learning Through Play
National Children’s Museum’s official initiative page describes a multi-year effort to connect classrooms, museums, and families through playful early-childhood STEAM learning and planned free resources.
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.
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.
Sunja Learning
Sunja Learning is a browser-based collection of interactive concept worlds where children explore science and technology ideas through simulations and linked experiences.
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.