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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.
NOAA Education Resource Collections
Ocean, weather, climate, marine life, freshwater, and Earth science collections with activities and educator resources.
National Geographic Education
Free maps, videos, interactives, events, and classroom resources that help learners explore geography, science, and the world.
Nature Lab
The Nature Conservancy’s youth curriculum platform with virtual field trips, family guides, lesson plans, and hands-on nature activities.
NOAA Ocean Exploration Learn & Discover
Ocean exploration facts, activities, virtual events, educator materials, and discoveries from NOAA Ocean Exploration.
USGS Educational Resources
Natural science lessons, activities, maps, podcasts, videos, and data resources from the U.S. Geological Survey.
NOAA Education
Ocean, weather, climate, and Earth science activities, lessons, and resources from NOAA.
U.S. Botanic Garden Field Trip Experiences
The U.S. Botanic Garden offers free self-guided, instructor-led, and virtual field trips from Pre-K through high school, with plant-science lessons aligned to Next Generation Science Standards.
AMNH Science Investigations Summer Program
The American Museum of Natural History Science Investigations Summer Program gives learners entering Kindergarten through grade 5 week-long hands-on science experiences with museum educators, collections, exhibits, scientists, and live animals.
Natural History Museum Schools Learning
The Natural History Museum London schools programme offers museum visits, virtual workshops, curriculum-linked learning resources for ages 5–14, nature and climate activities, and dinosaur and natural-history collections.
RSPB Education and Inspiring the Next Generation
The RSPB provides nature-learning activities, Wild Challenge, Big Schools’ Birdwatch, teacher resources, and school-visit guidance that connect children with wildlife.
Hong Kong Science Museum Education Resources
Hong Kong Science Museum offers downloadable activity sheets and teachers’ guides connected to exhibitions including living technology, AI, biodiversity, Earth science and environmental conservation.
Science.gc.ca Educational Resources
Free science activities, experiments, videos, lesson plans, and activity books for children and teens from the Government of Canada.
Museum of the Rockies Online Learning
Free museum videos, lessons, activities, digital collections, and exhibits covering dinosaurs, geology, astronomy, and cultural history.
Natural History Museum of Utah Online Learning
Free museum learning resources with printable activities, virtual field trips, video lessons, 3D models, and junior naturalist guides.
Field Museum Learning Resources
Family-friendly lesson plans, activities, games, and collection-based learning from the Field Museum.
California Academy of Sciences Education & Learning
Science lessons, activities, field trips, games, videos, and family learning from the California Academy of Sciences.
San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Education Resources
Animal, plant, and wildlife conservation learning resources with activities, live cams, videos, and age-based lessons.
Exploratorium
Museum-backed science learning with hands-on activities, Science Snacks, tinkering projects, videos, and teaching tools.
The Kid Should See This
A curated collection of 8,300+ smart, creative, and unusual videos for children, families, teachers, and curious learners.
Science Learning Hub
New Zealand science learning resources with articles, activities, videos, experiments, and teacher support for school-age learners.
EIA Energy Kids
Kid-friendly explanations, games, activities, and teacher materials about energy, sources, history, and saving energy.
EPA Students
Free K–12 environmental homework help, games, quizzes, videos, lesson plans, and project ideas from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Education
Wildlife, conservation, and outdoor-learning programs for children, families, educators, and schools from the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Zooniverse Education
Classroom-friendly citizen science projects with research participation, educator resources, and a dedicated schools route for ages 9-12.
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.
National Park Service Learn and Explore
National Park Service history, nature, Junior Ranger, classroom, and Every Kid Outdoors learning links for children and educators.
Project Learning Tree
Environmental education activities, family projects, lesson plans, and forest literacy resources for preschool through grade 12.
Auckland Zoo Education Resources
Free animal, conservation, nature, and science learning resources with age-separated lesson plans, videos, experiments, and activity packs.
NYBG At Home for Kids & Families
Plant science, nature observation, gardening, art, recipes, videos, and lesson ideas from the New York Botanical Garden.
KidsGardening Resource Library
Gardening activities, lesson plans, growing guides, nature projects, and family learning resources for children.
WWF Wild Classroom Toolkits
Species, climate, biodiversity, ocean, and food-waste teaching toolkits with activities for home and school.
Denver Zoo Family Nature Play
Outdoor family play where children climb, dig, observe bugs, explore natural materials, and connect with nature alongside zoo educators.
NOAA Educational Resources Guide
An official NOAA guide explaining how its free Earth-system education collections and Sea to Sky database are organized and reviewed.
Smithsonian National Zoo Kids and Families
The Smithsonian National Zoo offers free Conservation Classroom lessons, under-five Head Start programs, nature play, animal conservation content, and family video resources.
USGS Water Science School
The U.S. Geological Survey Water Science School offers water information, diagrams, maps, quizzes, interactive learning, and educator resources for students and teachers.
US EPA Lesson Plans and Teacher Guides
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency provides topic-based lesson plans, teacher guides, and online environmental resources for students and educators.
NOAA Discover Your Changing World Activity Book
NOAA’s official climate activity book gives students and educators hands-on activities for exploring climate change, evidence, observations, and actions connected with a changing world.
NOAA NESDIS K-12 Education
NOAA NESDIS learning resources that help students and educators explore Earth systems, environmental data, weather, oceans, and the Sun through a K–12 lens.
Science World
A Vancouver science centre with hands-on exhibits, live shows, family programs, digital learning, and educator resources.
Science First Class
Free spoken and interactive science learning adventures for children, with lessons about evidence, nature, matter, motion, and space.
Science North
Museum-backed science learning with exhibits, family science, school resources, and hands-on discovery from Science North in Northern Ontario.
Science Friday Educational Resources
Science activities, games, experiments, and explainers from Science Friday for curious learners, families, and educators.
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.
FarmFood 360
Interactive 360-degree tours of Canadian farms and food production sites, with classroom and family-friendly agriculture learning.
Georgia Aquarium At-Home Learning
Free aquarium learning with animal guides, webcams, live streams, lesson ideas, and activities for curious children and families.
Cincinnati Zoo Education
Zoo education programs, family activities, camps, school programs, and conservation learning for children and educators.
New England Aquarium Educational Resources
Ocean activities, animal observations, conservation projects, and classroom resources from the New England Aquarium.
Toronto Zoo School Visits
School visits, virtual programmes, wildlife learning, and classroom resources from the Toronto Zoo.
Dublin Zoo Conservation Education
Curriculum-linked wildlife programmes, school visits, workshops, and online activities from Dublin Zoo.
Shaver’s Creek Nature Activities to Go
Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center offers guided nature activities for home or classroom, including amphibian life cycles, backyard birdwatching, biodiversity, watersheds, weather, and plant growth.
Auckland Zoo Virtual Education Sessions
Auckland Zoo brings wildlife, conservation science, sustainability, wetlands, birds, animal adaptations, and wellbeing learning into classrooms through interactive online sessions.
Botanic Gardens of Sydney Teacher Resources
Botanic Gardens of Sydney provides free curriculum-expert activity plans, videos, images, and virtual excursions for primary and secondary learners exploring the natural world.
NOAA Ocean Exploration Educator Resources
NOAA Ocean Exploration’s educator hub provides ocean-literacy themes, classroom materials, lesson plans, fact sheets, expedition content, multimedia, and professional-learning links.
Discover Your World With NOAA
NOAA’s official activity book for educators and students offers hands-on activities that connect ocean, Earth, weather, and environmental science with curiosity and observation.
MinuteEarth
Animated science and Earth stories that explain animals, ecosystems, geology, bodies, and everyday natural phenomena.
Early Science Matters
Free hands-on science activities, lesson plans, videos, and expert guidance for children from birth through age five.
Natural Inquirer
USDA Forest Service science readers, activity books, lesson material, and virtual learning adventures for PreK through grade 12.
Waikiki Aquarium Virtual Experiences
Free marine science videos, webcams, virtual lectures, ocean spotlights, drawing lessons, and classroom resources from Waikiki Aquarium.
Living Oceans Foundation Education
Ocean science, conservation, marine life, and classroom resources from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
National Marine Aquarium Virtual Learning Experiences
Curriculum-linked virtual aquarium tours with live questions, marine science stories, and follow-up activities.
Canadian Museum of Nature Education Resources
Museum-backed school programmes, gallery learning, workshops, and activity guides for science and natural-history learning.
Sydney Zoo Education
School, family, virtual, excursion, vacation-care, and free downloadable wildlife learning resources from Sydney Zoo.
WonderLab Learning Resources
National Geographic’s WonderLab collection gives educators and older children activities, videos, and observation-based learning tools inspired by Explorer and photographer Anand Varma.
Project Learning Tree: Walking in the Forest
Project Learning Tree’s Walking in the Forest collection gives families and educators easy nature activities about trees, seeds, ecosystems, forests, and seasonal observation, including a tree-identification app activity.
Canadian Museum of Nature Learn and Explore
The Canadian Museum of Nature’s Learn and Explore hub brings together family activities, science stories, videos, nature topics, and educator resources for learning at home, in class, or outdoors.
NASA at Home Activities
NASA’s at-home activities page collects space and Earth-science activities, projects, videos, and family learning ideas that can be explored outside a classroom.
Maine Nature-Based Educational Activities
Maine’s Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife offers nature activities, worksheets, coloring pages, posters, and educator materials for children exploring local wildlife and habitats.
Philadelphia Zoo to You
Philadelphia Zoo’s virtual learning gateway offers wildlife discovery and curriculum-focused materials built around student-led environmental topics.
Omaha Zoo Virtual Learning
Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium offers live virtual field trips with zoo experts, animal cameras, keeper footage, interactive conversations, and curriculum-aligned programs.
Aquarium of the Bay K–12 Programs
Aquarium of the Bay provides NGSS-aligned classroom programs, self-guided tours, eLearning modules, a high-school 3D Print Lab, and Project WATERS focused on San Francisco Bay conservation.
US EPA Community Service Environmental Projects
EPA’s community-service collection gives students and educators ideas for watershed protection, waste reduction, recycling, composting, water monitoring, and environmental service learning.
US EPA Science Fair Environmental Projects
EPA’s science-fair page offers environmental project ideas about surface-water quality, waste reduction, reuse, and recycling for students and teachers.
EarthX K–12 Environmental Education Curriculum
EarthX and Big Thought provide a free K–12 environmental curriculum covering ecology, climate change, sustainability, and environmental action.
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.
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.
Creative Science for Kids Podcast
Creative Science for Kids is an Australian science podcast for children ages 8–12 and their adults, pairing science facts, discoveries, scientist interviews, and hands-on activities with a teacher worksheet.
Science Learning Hub Topic Library
The University of Waikato’s Science Learning Hub topic library organizes science learning content across topics such as astronomy, animals, ecology, engineering, climate and citizen science.
Earth Rangers Conservation Learning for Kids
Earth Rangers is a conservation charity for children with free membership, interactive missions, animal-saving actions, a podcast, an app and educator pathways.
Met Office Learning for Children and Young People
The Met Office’s official learning page connects children and young people with curriculum-linked weather and climate learning resources and public education materials.
New York State Museums Online Education Portal
This New York State Museum portal brings together virtual field trips, Museum Moments, online exhibits, at-home activities, lessons, teacher guides, and digital collections.
Kids for Nature
Singapore’s National Parks Board provides a Primary 1–2 outdoor education programme with lesson plans, worksheets, guidebooks, and park-based nature activities for teachers.
Carnegie Museum To Go
Carnegie Museum of Natural History’s Museum To Go brings virtual field trips, online classes, Super Science Saturday activities, science videos, coloring pages, animal videos, and digital programmes to families and educators.
Learn Science with NASA
NASA’s learning resources hub helps children, families, and educators explore space and Earth science through activities, stories, missions, and classroom-ready materials.
Wild Willows Classroom Kits
Free classroom kits built around the Wild Willows game, including an ecosystems and habitat science kit and an introductory APIs and web-development coding kit.
Outdoor Classroom Day
Learning through Landscapes’ official campaign page supports a global movement for outdoor learning and play, with campaign dates and practical ways for families, schools, and educators to participate.
Open OutDoors for Kids 2026–27
The National Park Foundation’s 2026–27 Open OutDoors for Kids program supports field trips, classroom engagements, virtual learning, and park-partner experiences for students across more than 90 national parks.
National Geographic Explorer Mindset
National Geographic’s Explorer Mindset introduces exploration attitudes, skills and knowledge through educator-facing learning frameworks, explorer profiles and downloadable English and Spanish resources.
Willow Brain
Free interactive learning adventures for curious children across science, nature, geography, history, math, and logic.
Weather Education
Free weather experiments, curriculum, and science learning activities from the National Weather Museum.
AumSum
Animated science and general-knowledge videos for children about the natural world, bodies, space, and everyday questions.
ESA Space for Kids
The European Space Agency’s kid-focused learning library with articles, lessons, games, and stories about space, Earth, astronauts, and technology.
Nature Explore Free Offerings and Resources
Nature Explore’s official free-resources page gathers free family and educator offerings, outdoor classroom resources, events, and practical nature-learning tools.
Rainforest Alliance Kids & Teens
Rainforest Alliance Kids & Teens provides free environmental education resources for ages 5–18, including downloadable lesson plans with videos, quizzes, worksheets, and links to math, art, and sustainability topics.
Tumble Podcast Research & OCEAN Kids
Tumble’s official research hub explains how teachers use science podcasts and presents the free OCEAN Kids audio-and-citizen-science course for elementary learners, supported by research partners.
Science World Classroom Activities
Science World’s official educator hub with classroom activities, coding and engineering ideas, biology and sustainability activities, professional development, and school outreach programs.
Switch Zoo
Animal games, habitat activities, animal profiles, music, and teacher resources for exploring animals and ecosystems.
What If Kids
What If Kids is a curriculum-based science program for grades 1–4, using animated episodes, real-world science questions, and simple activities children can try at home.
Science Everywhere
New York State Education Department’s Science Everywhere initiative supports inquiry-based preschool science explorations and adaptable activities for kindergarten through grade 2.
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.
SuperPod Kids
SuperPod Kids is an ocean adventure podcast about a young orca and her pod, combining calm imaginative stories with friendship, feelings, nature, and parent/teacher activity resources.
Froebel Trust: Children and Nature
The Froebel Trust’s Children and Nature resource page brings together a podcast episode, an outdoor-learning film, and a presentation about children’s connections with nature and outdoor play.
Science4Us
An elementary science curriculum and activity platform with lessons, investigations, resources, and teacher support for young learners.
AmblesideOnline
A free homeschool curriculum and resource guide organized by year, subject, books, and Charlotte Mason-inspired learning plans.