Experiments & projects
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NASA Space Place
Games, crafts, stories, animations, and activities that make space and Earth science approachable for kids.
NASA Kids Science
NASA’s child-friendly Earth and space science hub with games, videos, activities, articles, and multilingual links.
Canadian Space Agency Youth and Educators
Space books, experiments, digital games, printables, toolkits, and classroom ideas from the Canadian Space Agency.
Learning Adventures
Free, no-sign-up games and interactive storybooks for grades K-5 across math, science, English, history, and mixed skills.
Edusim 3D
A free 3D learning world where children build, explore science topics, and code with blocks or JavaScript.
Experimentarium Copenhagen
A hands-on science centre with interactive exhibits, water play, movement, bubbles, technology, and a dedicated early-years area.
NASA Space Place Activities
NASA Space Place Activities offers printable and interactive space-science activities for children, including science-fair projects, mazes, planet games, rockets, sound, maps, and Earth science.
RSPB Wild Challenge for Families
Free family nature activities that build observation, wildlife-care, and outdoor science skills through awards and challenges.
Code Club
Free coding clubs, projects, and community support that help young people create with code.
CKSTEM Let’s Bloom
Fifty free in-browser math, English, science, and strategy games for grades 3-12 from a Canadian non-profit.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
Block Buddy
A free block-coding playground where children build small games and learn loops, variables, and logic.
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
Code.org Computer Science for Ages 5–11
Code.org’s elementary student hub provides free AI literacy and computer science activities for ages 5–11, including Hour of AI, pre-reader courses, programming challenges, Music Lab, Sprite Lab, and curriculum links.
Kodu Game Lab
A visual game-making environment for children to build 3D worlds, stories, and games with simple programming tiles.
Howtosmile
Free, searchable STEM activities from museums, public media, universities, and educational organisations for families and educators.
Field Day Learning Games
Free narrative learning games from a University of Wisconsin–Madison lab, designed with researchers and educators to explore science, history, journalism, and environmental topics.
f19.org STEM Playground
Browser simulations and daily puzzles that make physics, probability, math, waves, and algorithms playful.
Peabody Learning Games
A free browser arcade for kindergarten through grade 8, with reading, math, science, typing, building, and puzzle games.
Play It My Way
Forty-nine hand-built learning games for ages 2-14, covering early learning, literacy, math, geography, coding, science, and logic.
Launch
A playful coding platform where children build real apps and games with guided projects.
Canadian Museum of History Games and Activities
Free history games, puzzles, quizzes, craft activities, scavenger hunts, and family projects from Canada's national museum.
Children's Museum of Atlanta
Hands-on exhibits, making, art, science, and family learning experiences for children ages 2 to 8.
CodeAI Students
CodeAI’s student hub offers free self-paced tutorials, videos, and hands-on activities in computer science, AI science, and data science for learners from elementary school through high school.
NOAA Boulder Kids Corner
NOAA Boulder’s Kids Corner offers at-home experiments, weather-safety learning, Ask a Scientist videos, coloring books, and downloadable activities covering weather, oceans, and space weather.
ScratchJr
ScratchJr is a free introductory programming environment for young children. The official MIT project page describes a block-based app for ages 5–7 that lets children create interactive stories and games.
Scratch Foundation
The Scratch Foundation supports Scratch as a free creative-learning community where young people make stories, games, and animations and share projects in a moderated environment.
Math in a Box
Math in a Box is a student-led nonprofit project creating screen-free hands-on puzzle kits for children experiencing homelessness, with math explanations designed to be read independently.
Highlights Kids
Stories, puzzles, crafts, jokes, games, and creative activities from Highlights for children.
Science First Class
Free spoken and interactive science learning adventures for children, with lessons about evidence, nature, matter, motion, and space.
Research Quest
Interactive science investigations from the Natural History Museum of Utah that help middle-school learners examine real-world questions.
Kids in Parks
Free outdoor adventures, TRACK Trail activities, e-Adventures, brochures, and nature challenges that help families explore parks together.
Wildlife Watch
Nature activities, quizzes, spotting sheets, awards, and wildlife projects that help children discover and care for animals and habitats.
Diffy
A calm, ad-free learning world with short browser games and illustrated books for math, science, coding, geography, and reading.
Explore & More Children's Museum
Play-based exhibits and family learning experiences that invite children to explore, imagine, and build confidence.
KidsSTOP
An early-years science centre with more than 20 interactive exhibits about flight, space, the human body, and everyday science.
Royal Alberta Museum Children's Gallery
A playful gallery for children six and under with objects, tools, sensory areas, digging, building, and imaginative exploration.
Boston Children's Museum STEAM Lab
Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities that encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
KidsDoMath: The Scientific Method
KidsDoMath’s Scientific Method is a focused browser game for grades 3–6 that asks children to order science steps, predict outcomes, observe experiments, and explain conclusions.
Power Up at the Science Museum
A hands-on gaming history gallery with 160 consoles spanning five decades, including video games, VR, and family play.
NASA Mission: Biomes
An interactive NASA Earth-science mission where children investigate climate, plants, animals, and world biomes, then complete graph-matching and plant-placement challenges.
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit is a browser coding environment with block-based and text programming, tutorials, games, projects, search, import, and optional account features for young makers.
Alice
A creative programming environment for building 3D stories, animations, and games while learning computational thinking and object-oriented programming.
Kids Doing Science
Science games, at-home experiments, videos, and research explanations from New York University researchers.
MusicplayOnline
A broad music-learning library with songs, interactive activities, games, and teacher resources from early years through middle school.
Small Fry Games
Free browser games for curious children, with playful practice in early learning, reading, addition, science, and observation.
Star Stuff Edu
A free browser coding game that builds sequencing, pattern, loop, and problem-solving skills.
Topeka Zoo Education Resources
Zoo learning videos, worksheets, crafts, scavenger hunts, and coding puzzles for children and families.
Museum of Life and Science Play to Learn
Early-childhood play experiences that explore light, shadows, patterns, gravity, building, sensory discovery, and pretend play.
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.
Minecraft Education
A game-based learning platform with K–12 lesson libraries, coding, STEM, digital citizenship, and educator training.
National Gallery of Art: Fun and Games
The National Gallery of Art’s free family-friendly collection of digital painting, art puzzles, printable coloring pages, artist facts, and interactive art exploration.
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.
Element Fusion
A free hands-on chemistry sandbox where children combine elements to discover real compounds, reaction explanations, and chemistry in the world around them.
House of European History Families
A free family visit resource with museum trails, the Daily Spy activity for ages 6–12, Discovery Spaces, and intergenerational history learning.
Kids Environment Kids Health
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ kid-focused hub combines environmental-health science, games, stories, and activities for curious learners.
PlayMath.org Games
PlayMath.org is a free math-game library organized by grade, with games for kindergarten through middle school covering numeracy, problem solving, spatial reasoning, and math makers.
Wonderlab+
The Science Museum Group’s free online family science hub with videos, make-and-do activities, games, quizzes, space, and Earth content.
Ready Kids Games
Free U.S. government emergency-preparedness games that help children practice disaster safety, kit building, first-aid choices, and decision-making.
Wave Combinator
A free Field Day Lab science game where learners adjust wavelength, amplitude, and offset to investigate how sound waves interact.
Mystery Tubes
A Science Museum Group hands-on logic activity that asks learners to reason from evidence and investigate how an unseen system works.
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.
Boston Children’s Museum Online Games
Free online games from Boston Children’s Museum that invite children to create stories, build a museum, and practise memory.
Shoebox Lab
Free hands-on science kits and captioned videos that help children investigate gravity, matter, and motion.
Code Club World
The Raspberry Pi Foundation’s free coding game hub helps children make characters, T-shirts, music, games, art, websites, and more while earning project badges.
Tutorfic Code Club
A free browser coding club with guided lessons and projects spanning blocks, HTML, JavaScript, SQL, and Python, with no sign-up or ads.
Word Quest
A free word adventure that builds vocabulary, spelling, and reading comprehension through a short browser game with no account.
Stackadoo
A browser-based educational building game where children in grades 2–5 solve maths, reading, spelling, and grammar challenges to earn blocks and build 3D worlds.
Science for Kids
A South Australian Department for Education science collection with free experiments, games, facts, quizzes, projects, lessons, images, and videos for home learning.
National Air and Space Museum Online Games
The National Air and Space Museum’s online games give young learners playful ways to explore rockets, aircraft, weather, motion, gears, and airplane parts.
Magnet Hunt
Magnet Hunt is a free middle-school science game from Vault and Field Day Lab where players use magnetic fields, compasses, iron filings, and magnetic film to find hidden magnets.
Early Family Math Games
Early Family Math’s game collection gives families playful ways to build number sense, spatial reasoning, measurement, and mathematical conversation at home.
PrepOK
Free interactive science and math explorables that let learners change variables, observe results, and build understanding.
London Children's Museum
Hands-on play, art, science, early learning, family programs, and child-led exhibits at a children's museum in London, Ontario.
CodePaw
A free coding app for iPhone, iPad, and Mac with guided lessons, quizzes, labs, and projects in web development, Python, Swift, and data.
OctoStudio
A free mobile coding app from the creators of Scratch that lets children create animations and games with block-based code.
My World Quest
A free learning world for children ages 4–15 with a 36-week journey across maths, science, English, history, geography, art, music, coding, stories, games, and creative activities.
KokeLab
KokeLab offers kids learning games and projects in programming, math, science, and drawing, with a free-to-start browser experience aimed at ages 4–12.
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.
Toronto Public Library Ready for Reading: Playing
Toronto Public Library’s Playing collection gives caregivers simple games, letter hunts, sound hunts, rhymes, fingerplays, and sorting activities that build early language and reading readiness through play.
Luminova Kids
Luminova Kids is a volunteer project offering open English lessons, interactive exercises, audio, reading, listening, games, and worksheets for Ukrainian children in grades 1–7.
Try It and See
A free Apar Academy science mini-game for ages 5–7 that teaches fair testing, one-variable experiments, float-or-sink predictions, and systematic troubleshooting.
CoddyKit Learn JavaScript for Kids
CoddyKit’s beginner coding app starts with tappable JavaScript, then builds through block puzzles, short courses, missions, and a code editor for young learners.
Arludo
A free STEM platform where children ages 8–12 explore science through learning islands, experiments, games, challenges, scientist stories, and career pathways.
MathHappens Open Play Kits
MathHappens open play kits give families, educators, and community programs hands-on materials and prompts for playful mathematical exploration.
Sesame Workshop Art Exploration
An interactive artmaker for toddlers, preschoolers, and kindergartners that supports creative exploration through marks, shapes, symmetry, and drawing.
VisualModder
A free browser-based coding environment where children program inside Minecraft Java using drag-and-drop blocks and Python.
Storytime Builder
A free set of browser activities for letter recognition, tracing, first words, counting, ten-frames, and addition, with a storybook studio in development.
Thought Zoo
A voice-friendly animal deduction game for ages 6–12 that builds questioning, habitat knowledge, and spoken English or Croatian practice.
Matobur
Matobur is a math practice app for ages 5–10 where children solve addition, subtraction, multiplication, comparison, and division challenges while building a virtual town and collecting animal friends.
Science Kids
Fun science facts, experiments, projects, games, videos, and quizzes for elementary and middle-grade learners.
codeSpark Academy
A game-based coding platform for children with coding challenges, creative projects, and activities designed for early learners.
Livermore Public Library Fun & Games
A public-library collection of family activities including neighborhood bingo, book-title scavenger hunts, secret messages, and Creative Kids at Home videos.
ClearWater Kids
ClearWater Kids is an interactive nature-learning website from the Ontario Water Centre with games, videos, trading cards, experiments, challenges, curriculum-linked resources, and prompts to explore the outdoors.
Madderverse
A browser collection of creative games and tools for children, including pottery, coloring, beat-making, and other playful maker experiences. The landing page is usable without signup.
Artsology
A free arts education hub with more than 100 art games, arts investigations, printables, art videos, and art-adventure activities for children, teachers, and homeschool families.
Khalifah
A gentle browser building game for Muslim children where players build a village, learn through age-appropriate exploration, and play without accounts, ads, or purchases.
Kubrio Learn
Short free courses for ages 6–13 that turn drawing, animation, comics, games, robots, and coding into paper-first making projects.
Discover Coding
Discover Coding offers hands-on and online coding programs from block coding through Python, Minecraft, web, app, 3D, and design projects.
Kids Coding School
Kids Coding School offers encouraging, project-based coding classes in Auckland for children who learn at their own pace with coaches and supplied equipment.
Turtle Diary
Interactive educational games, videos, quizzes, worksheets, experiments, and activities for preschool through grade 5.
algo.kids
An AI-assisted coding platform where children describe and build games, stories, and websites while learning how the code works.
Tappity
An interactive science learning app with videos, experiments, quizzes, and guided exploration for elementary-age children.
CodingMarble Kids
A free early-learning website for children ages 2–6 with picture-and-audio games, early literacy and math, science experiments, crafts, printables, and Hindi-English learning.
Snapology Alpharetta Programs
Snapology Alpharetta offers playful STEM classes including Junior Builders, coding, robotics, FIRST LEGO League, gamebots, and invention challenges.
Tynker
Project-based coding courses and creative activities covering games, animation, robotics, and web creation.
A-Lotl Games
A free browser arcade made by a young developer, with dozens of original games that run without downloads and a separate collection of creative coding experiments.
Whyville
A long-running virtual world with more than 100 games and activities spanning science, maths, creativity, and community play.
PlayMMOMA
An educational online game from the Moscow Museum of Modern Art that introduces children to contemporary-art concepts, museum works, and making their own artworks.