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NASA Learning Resources
NASA student and educator resources with STEM activities, missions, videos, challenges, careers, and family learning ideas.
TED-Ed
Animated educational lessons that turn science, history, culture, and big questions into short, discussion-ready videos.
Khan Academy
Free educational videos from Khan Academy covering math, science, history, grammar, and many other subjects.
National Geographic Education
Explorer Classroom, interactive lesson plans, maps, free resources, and geography learning from the National Geographic Society.
Royal Institution
Science demonstrations, talks, short films, and explainers from the Royal Institution for curious older children, teens, and families.
3Blue1Brown
Animated mathematics explanations from Grant Sanderson, covering visual intuition, calculus, linear algebra, probability, and more.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
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.
Math Antics
Visual math lessons covering arithmetic, fractions, geometry, measurement, percentages, and algebra basics.
World Book Day
Official World Book Day videos, author content, reading inspiration, and book-related activities for children and families.
Sick Science!
Hands-on science experiments and STEM ideas from Steve Spangler for families, educators, and science enthusiasts.
Khan Academy Kids YouTube
Khan Academy Kids videos support early literacy, math, social-emotional learning, stories, songs, and school readiness for young children.
Young Mathematicians Math Games
Early-math games and printable mini-books from Education Development Center that help young children practise counting, patterns, number sense, and spatial skills.
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.
Smile and Learn English
English-language educational videos, stories, songs, and games for children ages 3–12.
Be Smart
PBS Digital Studios science videos answering everyday questions about biology, physics, Earth, climate, and the universe.
PBS Space Time
PBS Digital Studios explainers about astrophysics, space, cosmology, quantum mechanics, and the possibilities beyond Earth.
NASA eClips YouTube
NASA eClips videos connect students and educators with NASA missions, scientists, engineers, and classroom-ready STEM ideas.
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.
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.
National Portrait Gallery Families
Family resources from the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, including art story time, home workshops, coloring pages, portrait exploration guides, bilingual activities, and the Explore! children’s space.
AMNH Discovery Room
A hands-on American Museum of Natural History learning space where children can explore animals, fossils, minerals, and earth science through guided and drop-in activities.
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.
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.
Science Friday Educational Resources
Science activities, games, experiments, and explainers from Science Friday for curious learners, families, and educators.
Nemours KidsHealth for Kids
A child-friendly health education site with body questions and answers, videos, handwashing guidance, and everyday wellbeing tips.
Ms Rachel – Toddler Learning Videos
Interactive toddler and preschool videos focused on speech, language, songs, play, and early milestones.
SciShow
Science explainers and curiosity-driven videos about biology, chemistry, physics, Earth, space, and everyday phenomena.
Periodic Videos
Chemistry demonstrations and element-by-element explorations from the University of Nottingham’s official chemistry channel.
Brains On!
An expert-checked science podcast where curious kids co-host episodes answering listener questions about animals, bodies, technology, the environment, and everyday life.
Experience CS
A free integrated computer-science curriculum for grades 3–8 with cross-curricular units, teacher support, and English, Spanish, and French access.
MoMA Family and Kids Guides
The Museum of Modern Art’s family resource page combines kids audio, an art activity guide, sensory and social guides, downloadable guides, and kid-focused gallery labels.
The Met Kids & Families
The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s family hub combines #MetKids digital exploration, family guides, an audio guide for ages 6–12, and interactive museum programs for children and caregivers.
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.
MoMA At-home Activities
The Museum of Modern Art’s family activity hub offers art-making ideas, film screenings, book ideas, and on-demand programs for kids and families, including a direct official YouTube playlist.
MoMA Art Lab
The Museum of Modern Art’s Art Lab is an interactive creative space where children and adults can experiment with art-making ideas inspired by the collection.
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.
Tumble Science Podcast Teacher Resources
Tumble’s teacher page provides classroom-facing ways to use its science podcast, with episode context, science stories, scientist voices and free public listening resources for educators.
Natural Inquirer
USDA Forest Service science readers, activity books, lesson material, and virtual learning adventures for PreK through grade 12.
Homeschool Pop
Elementary learning videos from a homeschool educator covering history, science, geography, civics, and seasonal topics.
Learn Bright
Teacher-style children’s lessons covering science, health, language, math, social studies, and general knowledge.
BrainPOP
Official BrainPOP videos introducing school subjects and learning topics for children and educators.
Computerphile
Interviews and demonstrations about computers, programming, cybersecurity, algorithms, hardware, and computer science.
Mysteries at Madatech
Madatech’s children’s science podcast follows Or, Roni, and Bucky the Hamster as they solve mysteries connected to science, technology, and the museum.
Hubble's Cosmic Adventure
A NASA Hubble game lets children choose a journey through the universe, answer questions, and follow their choices to destinations from nearby planets to distant galaxies.
Eureka! The National Children’s Museum
A UK children’s museum with six interactive zones and hundreds of hands-on exhibits designed for children ages 0–11 to explore themselves and the world around them.
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.
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.
Kahaku Children’s Education
The National Museum of Nature and Science in Tokyo’s children’s education hub, with family exploration programs, at-home observation and craft activities, VR, worksheets, and digital science content.
New York State Museum Collections Portal
A museum resource portal bringing together virtual field trips, digital collections, videos, lessons, teacher guides, and research-based activities for students and families.
Naperville Public Library Children’s Digital Library
A public-library digital collection with children’s ebooks, audiobooks, animated storybooks, read-alongs, movies, language resources, and kid-focused streaming platforms.
Reach Out and Read Is On the Air
Reach Out and Read’s official podcast connects childhood health, early literacy, books, and family relationships through conversations with pediatricians, librarians, and other experts.
Michigan Learning Channel
Michigan Learning Channel provides on-demand educational programs, family learning resources, literacy and math shows, DIY science videos, and selected Spanish and Arabic content through its website and YouTube channel.
In It Podcast
Understood’s podcast about supporting kids who learn and think differently, with conversations about reading, math, focus, ADHD, dyslexia, school support, and family life.
StoryKind
StoryKind is a free children’s literacy podcast hosted by authors Kelly Yang and Kate DiCamillo, with storytelling advice, young-reader questions, author perspectives, and new episodes for kids ages 8 and up.
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.
Little Wonders Online
The University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History’s youth and family programs page links to Little Wonders Online, science and culture adventures for preschoolers and their adults, plus broader family museum learning.
ESA Teach with Space
The European Space Agency collection offers classroom-ready space activities, resources, and videos with filters for age, subject, and language.
National Museum Fairfax Discovery Centre
The Fairfax Discovery Centre at the National Museum of Australia offers hands-on early learning sessions, storytime, sensory play, and mini makers activities.
Literacy LIFTER
The Iowa Reading Research Center’s free LIFTER tool supports handwriting and early reading with evidence-based letter instruction, videos, assessments, and English/Spanish worksheets.
MoMA Heyman Family Programs
MoMA’s Heyman Family Programs provide family art adventures with free admission for children 16 and under, kids’ audio, activity guides, family gallery talks, hands-on spaces, and online programmes.
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.
TheDadLab
Family science experiments, art, and interactive activities that children can try at home with an adult.
KidsCanCode
Python, game-development, and creative coding lessons for children and teens, with beginner pathways and classroom programs.
FunScienceTools
Free science simulations, visuals, citizen-science tools, and teacher-recommended resources organized by school level and topic.
Reactions
American Chemical Society and PBS science videos connecting chemistry to food, materials, medicine, technology, and everyday life.
Museum of Fine Arts Boston Digital Learning
The MFA Boston’s digital learning collection provides art activities for children and families, age-labelled home programs, storytelling, studio tutorials, videos, and art connections cards.
Kodable Hour of Code
Free K–5 coding activities that introduce children, including pre-readers, to sequencing, algorithms, and problem solving through short game-like lessons.
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.
Miami Children’s Museum
An interactive museum in Miami where children ages 0–6 explore arts, science, and culture through exhibits, programs, play, and family learning experiences.
Auckland Museum — For the Kids
A museum-backed at-home hub with interactive games, quizzes, videos, downloadable activities, science-at-home projects, and kid-friendly cultural stories.
Children’s Museum Houston Game Quest
An all-time-access collection of strategy and math games including Mancala, Gomoku, Shisima, Achi, Bagh Chal, and probability games with visible age-group and player guidance.
North Vancouver City Library Children’s Community Hub
A public-library children’s hub with storytimes, take-and-make kits, kid-friendly meditation, homework help, digital picture books, and family programs.
Rolling Meadows Library Storytime at Home
A public-library storytime hub with free read-alongs, interactive storybooks, recommended storytime channels, Spanish options, and direct links to children’s reading platforms.
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.
ISRO Students
The Indian Space Research Organisation student hub connects children and teens to space videos, quizzes, a virtual museum, STEM resources, and school programmes.
Queensland Museum at Home
Queensland Museum’s free at-home collection includes science and nature activities, colouring, scavenger hunts, videos, and Little Learners projects.
Texas State Parks Junior Ranger
Texas Parks and Wildlife’s Junior Ranger programme uses journals, explorer packs, nature observation, drawing, and state-park activities to help children explore the outdoors.
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.
NC Literacy at Home
North Carolina’s Department of Public Instruction Literacy at Home hub provides grade-level family activities from pre-kindergarten through fifth grade covering phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and oral language.
University of Michigan Museum at Home
The University of Michigan Museum of Natural History’s Museum@Home collection offers science experiments, research projects, scientist demonstrations, space content, expert talks, and virtual exhibits.
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.
Bell Museum Family Activities
The Bell Museum’s family activity collection brings together at-home experiments, story times, stargazing tips, astronomy challenges, rover activities, DNA experiments, and science videos for curious children.
Science At Home
Science Centre Singapore’s Science At Home collection offers age-banded science videos, sustainability activities, self-directed badge work, science reading, experiments, and family-friendly online programmes.
Baltimore Museum of Art Family Activities
Baltimore Museum of Art’s family page combines free online art activities, family programmes, visit tips, and open-ended prompts that help children and adults look closely, tell stories, and make art together.
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.
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.
PBS Origins
PBS Digital Studios history shows exploring overlooked people, movements, and stories from the past.
SciShow Psych
Science explainers about the human brain, behavior, memory, emotion, perception, and psychology research.
Horrible Histories Official
The official Horrible Histories channel brings comedy, songs, sketches, and stories to historical people, events, and everyday life.
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.
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.
San Francisco Public Library Virtual Library for Kids
San Francisco Public Library’s virtual library for kids brings together ebooks, audiobooks, streaming media, homework help, STEM resources, language learning, storytimes, and family learning links for children and caregivers.
District of Columbia Public Library Kids
DC Public Library’s kids hub connects families to digital books, audiobooks, read-alongs, Kanopy Kids, science and homework databases, reading lists, Books from Birth, and educator support.
Heckscher Museum Kids & Families
The Heckscher Museum of Art’s family page highlights Digital Action Painting, an in-gallery activity station, family events, and its virtual H@H Kids art activity video series.
National Gallery Prague Families and Kids
National Gallery Prague’s Families and Kids programme offers playrooms for young children, art studios, weekend workshops, summer studios, and family ways to explore original artworks.
Todo Math
Todo Math is a conceptual math app for ages 4–9 with personalized lessons covering counting, arithmetic, place value, geometry, measurement, fractions, multiplication, and division.
Cairns Museum Kids and Families
Cairns Museum’s family page combines free self-guided activities, interactive exhibits, children’s activity areas, holiday programs, at-home ideas, and an official video playlist.
South Australian Museum Discovery Centre
The Discovery Centre is a hands-on museum learning space where families can explore fossils, specimens, microscopes, and science activities.
Nebraska Family and Early Literacy Resources
Nebraska Department of Education’s family literacy hub collects read-aloud guidance, food-themed literacy toolkits, bilingual family resources, videos, and downloadable reading plans.
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.
Museum of the American Revolution At-Home Activities
The Museum of the American Revolution’s at-home collection combines a virtual museum tour, historical timeline, children’s readings, crafts, coloring pages, virtual field trips, and family-friendly history resources.
American Chemical Society
Official American Chemical Society videos about chemistry, scientific careers, discoveries, and the people behind chemical science.
Southeast Arkansas Regional Library Kids Activities
Southeast Arkansas Regional Library’s kids hub combines ready-to-go activity packets, digital literacy and learning links, story resources, reading apps, and family library services.
Putting Mathematics into Family Life
Jamaica’s Ministry of Education family maths guide helps parents use everyday routines, dice, dominoes, cards, and simple games to develop children’s mathematical thinking at home.
PBS Documentaries
PBS Digital Studios documentary films and short-form reporting about science, history, society, culture, and real-world issues.
AsapSCIENCE
Science explainers about biology, physics, chemistry, health, and everyday questions presented through short animated videos.
Airbotix
An AI and creative-coding learning platform for children ages 5–17, with free browser demos, coding projects, classes, and parent controls.
FUNetix
FUNetix is a free reading app and browser module for children ages 5–9, using a game-like 12-hour curriculum to move from alphabet knowledge toward an approximate second-grade reading level.
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.
DrawTogether
A low-pressure drawing podcast with bite-sized art adventures that explore artists, observation, imagination, and drawing confidence for kids of all ages.
Sumburst
Sumburst is a browser-based math game collection for grades 1–12 with free arcade games, printable worksheets, and practice in arithmetic, fractions, percentages, times tables, and money.
Mr. DeMaio
Mr. DeMaio’s educational videos use songs, history, science, geography, and classroom-friendly explanations to make learning memorable.
Reading With Power
Free read-aloud videos, live reading sessions, and family guidance designed to make children’s reading more accessible.
Codorex
A browser-based game creator for ages 7+ where children describe a game in plain English, play the generated HTML and JavaScript instantly, and iterate without needing coding syntax.