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Sick Science!
Hands-on science experiments and STEM ideas from Steve Spangler for families, educators, and science enthusiasts.
Raspberry Pi Learn to Code
Raspberry Pi’s free learning hub connects children and educators with Code Club, code-at-home projects, AI and hardware activities, Astro Pi, and Coolest Projects.
NASA at Home: For Kids and Families
NASA’s family collection of space and Earth-science activities, videos, crafts, coloring resources, and age-banded student materials for learning together at home.
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.
Periodic Videos
Chemistry demonstrations and element-by-element explorations from the University of Nottingham’s official chemistry channel.
The Garden at the Science Museum
The Science Museum’s Garden is a free interactive gallery for young children, with play-based construction, water, light, and sound activities that encourage observing, predicting, testing, and drawing conclusions.
Science Max
Big, energetic science experiments and explanations from the official Scholastic Science Max channel.
Children’s Museum Houston 3D Virtual Field Trips
A museum collection of all-time-access 3D virtual field trips with videos and hands-on activities about water, physical science, invention, city life, matter, and math missions for ages 5 and up.
10+ Things to Do with NASA at Home
NASA Science’s family article curates at-home rockets, moon-phase activities, videos, space exploration, citizen science, podcasts, ebooks, and hands-on STEM projects.
Early Start Discovery Space
The University of Wollongong’s Early Start Discovery Space is a research-backed children’s museum with interactive play experiences, public programmes, and learn-through-play opportunities for young children and their adults.
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.
TheDadLab
Family science experiments, art, and interactive activities that children can try at home with an adult.
Mark Rober
Engineering builds, science demonstrations, problem-solving, and curiosity-driven experiments from former NASA engineer Mark Rober.
KidsCanCode
Python, game-development, and creative coding lessons for children and teens, with beginner pathways and classroom programs.
Reactions
American Chemical Society and PBS science videos connecting chemistry to food, materials, medicine, technology, and everyday life.
The New Children’s Museum Creative Resources
The New Children’s Museum’s Creative Resources page offers hands-on design challenges, printable coloring, lesson plans, virtual art experiences, and museum-inspired ideas for making at home.
Queensland Museum at Home
Queensland Museum’s free at-home collection includes science and nature activities, colouring, scavenger hunts, videos, and Little Learners projects.
Cleveland Museum of Art Engage and Create
The Cleveland Museum of Art’s Engage and Create collection offers weekly creative challenges, drawing prompts, games, music, stories, and family activities inspired by the museum collection.
Art For Kids Hub
A family-made library of step-by-step drawing lessons, painting projects, origami, crafts, and art videos for children.
The Action Lab
Hands-on demonstrations and experiments exploring materials, physics, chemistry, light, motion, and surprising everyday science.
MinuteFood
Short food-science videos explaining cooking, ingredients, nutrition, taste, and the science of what people eat and drink.
Stemoto
A free directory of curated STEM, coding, cognitive-skill, and hands-on activities for children, organized into three progressive stages.
Kids Art Studio — Museum of the City of New York
A hands-on drop-in art program inspired by the Museum of the City of New York’s exhibitions and collection, with collage, drawing, fiber art, and storytelling for children ages 3 and up.
Niantic Children’s Museum
An interactive children’s museum with imagination, discovery, outdoor play, science, arts, and world-culture exhibits for children ages 9 months to 9 years.
Markham Public Library Kids Makerspace
A library makerspace guide featuring screen-free programmable toys such as Botley and Code-a-Pillar, with instructions and recommended ages for hands-on coding play.
Buffalo AKG at Home
Buffalo AKG Art Museum’s at-home collection offers kids’ and family art activities, virtual events, collection exploration, public-art videos, and inquiry-based lessons.
PrimaSTEM
A screen-free coding and mathematics system in which children program a physical robot with tokens to solve mazes, sequences, geometry, and drawing challenges.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
The Engineering Family
Family-friendly engineering and science videos with experiments, builds, challenges, and explanations for curious children.
Airbotix
An AI and creative-coding learning platform for children ages 5–17, with free browser demos, coding projects, classes, and parent controls.