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NASA Learning Resources

NASA student and educator resources with STEM activities, missions, videos, challenges, careers, and family learning ideas.

WebsiteDownloadableYouTube channel
5–18 · Free95
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NASA Kids Science

NASA’s child-friendly Earth and space science hub with games, videos, activities, articles, and multilingual links.

Website
7–14 · Free94
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American Museum of Natural History Learn & Teach

Family programs, OLogy science activities, educator materials, virtual field trips, and museum learning from AMNH.

WebsiteDownloadableAndroid app
2–18 · Free with paid options94
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NOAA Education Resource Collections

Ocean, weather, climate, marine life, freshwater, and Earth science collections with activities and educator resources.

WebsiteDownloadable
7–18 · Free93
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Nature Lab

The Nature Conservancy’s youth curriculum platform with virtual field trips, family guides, lesson plans, and hands-on nature activities.

Website
5–18 · Free92
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Edusim 3D

A free 3D learning world where children build, explore science topics, and code with blocks or JavaScript.

Website
6–14 · Free92
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USGS Educational Resources

Natural science lessons, activities, maps, podcasts, videos, and data resources from the U.S. Geological Survey.

WebsiteDownloadable
8–18 · Free92
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NOAA Education

Ocean, weather, climate, and Earth science activities, lessons, and resources from NOAA.

Website
7–18 · Free92
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NOAA Ocean Service for Students

Free ocean science tutorials about corals, tides, currents, coastal pollution, estuaries, and navigation from NOAA.

WebsiteDownloadable
8–18 · Free91
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Science.gc.ca Educational Resources

Free science activities, experiments, videos, lesson plans, and activity books for children and teens from the Government of Canada.

WebsiteDownloadable
6–18 · Free91
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NOAA JetStream

Weather and atmosphere lessons, explanations, activities, and visual learning from the National Weather Service.

WebsiteDownloadable
8–18 · Free91
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EPA Students

Free K–12 environmental homework help, games, quizzes, videos, lesson plans, and project ideas from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

WebsiteDownloadable
5–18 · Free90
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The Nat Learn and Explore

Natural history lesson plans, online activities, family projects, community science, and nature learning from the San Diego Natural History Museum.

Website
5–18 · Free90
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Auckland Zoo Education Resources

Free animal, conservation, nature, and science learning resources with age-separated lesson plans, videos, experiments, and activity packs.

WebsiteDownloadable
0–17 · Free90
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Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips

Free virtual field trips and DE Docs that take K-12 learners to real places and topics with educator guides and hands-on activities.

Website
8–18 · Free89
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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.

Website
8–13 · Free89
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Living Oceans Foundation Education

Ocean science, conservation, marine life, and classroom resources from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.

WebsiteDownloadable
8–18 · Free88
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Cutty Sark Family Fun

A Royal Museums Greenwich family guide to exploring the historic tea clipper through interactive games, character stories, play boxes, and hands-on ship discovery.

WebsitePhysical place
4–14 · Paid admission88
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National Trust Best Natural Play Areas

A National Trust guide to outdoor play spaces where children can climb, swing, build dens, explore woodland, and connect with nature.

Website
3–12 · Free guide with paid options88
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NOAA Ocean Service Just for Kids

NOAA Ocean Service’s Just for Kids hub offers ocean and climate activities, activity books, videos, marine-debris learning, sanctuary resources, hands-on science, and weather and ocean topics for children of different ages.

Website
6–14 · Free website, activity books, and videos88
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NOAA Hands-on Science Activities

NOAA’s hands-on science collection provides short earth, ocean, weather, and technology activities, including buoyancy, clouds, sea foam, marine-mammal insulation, ocean motion, plate tectonics, and tornado models.

Website
8–14 · Free activities; adult supervision may be needed88
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NOAA Ocean Acidification Resource Collection

NOAA’s ocean-acidification collection helps learners explore changing ocean chemistry, marine life, experiments, data, and the effects of carbon dioxide on ocean ecosystems.

Website
School-age children and teens; educator-supported · Free public resources88
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National Trust Family-Friendly Walks

A National Trust guide to family-friendly trails, natural play, wildlife spotting, den building, and pushchair-accessible outdoor exploration.

Website
3–12 · Free guide with paid options87
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Weather Wiz Kids

Meteorologist Crystal Wicker explains weather, natural disasters, experiments, and climate topics in a child-friendly science resource.

Website
7–14 · Free86
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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.

Website
5–12 · Free84
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