Experiments & projects
Curated experiments & projects resources within reading for curious kids and their grown-ups.
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Learning Adventures
Free, no-sign-up games and interactive storybooks for grades K-5 across math, science, English, history, and mixed skills.
National Archives Discovery Center
An interactive museum learning experience where children explore American democracy through games, documents, stories, and hands-on activities.
Te Papa Discovery Centres
Free museum discovery spaces with games, books, art activities, and hands-on learning for children and families.
InquiryMind
Free primary learning with read-aloud lessons, science and maths simulations, games, practice questions, and worksheets for kindergarten through Grade 5.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
BBC 500 Words
A children's story-writing project for ages 5-11 with prompts, classroom resources, story inspiration, and annual submissions.
National Archives DocsTeach
Primary-source history activities that help students investigate documents, photographs, maps, and other records from the past.
Leap into Science
Open-ended science activities paired with children’s books for young learners and families from The Franklin Institute.
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.
Highlights Kids
Stories, puzzles, crafts, jokes, games, and creative activities from Highlights for children.
Science News Explores
Accessible science news, explainers, experiments, and stories for readers from middle school onward.
Diffy
A calm, ad-free learning world with short browser games and illustrated books for math, science, coding, geography, and reading.
SciShow Kids YouTube
SciShow Kids answers children’s questions about animals, nature, science, technology, and the world with friendly explanations.
NASA Earth Observatory for Kids
A NASA digital magazine collection for young learners aged 9–14, combining Earth-observation stories with downloadable hands-on activities about satellites, climate, land, water, and weather.
BrainPOP Jr.
Animated lessons, activities, and learning resources for young learners across science, math, reading, health, social studies, and the arts.
Small Fry Games
Free browser games for curious children, with playful practice in early learning, reading, addition, science, and observation.
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.
Smithsonian American Art Museum Look, Talk, Play!
Look, Talk, Play! uses Smithsonian objects and everyday materials to help young learners build literacy, creativity, and communication through family activities.
Take One Picture
Take One Picture is the National Gallery’s national primary-school programme, using one artwork from the collection to inspire cross-curricular classroom work, project stages, teacher learning, and exhibitions.
Science Central TOTS
Science Central’s TOTS program introduces children ages 3–6 to monthly STEM themes through hands-on activities, storytime, and museum exploration.
Stoopkid Stories
Stoopkid Stories is a children’s story podcast and live-storytelling project following young Black characters through friendship, family, school, and community adventures that invite social-emotional conversations.
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.
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.
Skybrary
Skybrary by Reading Is Fundamental is an ad-free reading app for children ages 3–9 with more than 1,000 ebooks and virtual field-trip videos designed to build reading enjoyment and discovery.
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.
Literacy Quebec Family Literacy Toolkit
Literacy Quebec’s Family Literacy page explains intergenerational literacy and provides a toolkit with practical reading tips, family activities, and guidance for building literacy habits together.
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.
Project Sahitya
Project Sahitya provides a free literacy toolkit with lessons, songs, flashcards, and worksheets designed for early reading support.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Glazer Children’s Museum
Glazer Children’s Museum is a hands-on learning museum where children and families explore play-based exhibits, storytime, camps, field trips, and STEAM programs.
CommonLit
Digital reading lessons, text sets, and discussion tools for building comprehension and literacy.
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.
Cambridge Public Library Online Resources for Kids
A public-library guide to children’s learning and reading resources, including Britannica Fundamentals, Craftsy, Encyclopedia Britannica, PebbleGo, Hoopla, digital collections, and family games.
Build Learning
A family of early-learning apps that teaches reading, math, and writing through small guided steps, voice support, read-along sentences, and creative practice.
Loving2Learn
Loving2Learn is a free collection of hands-on activities, sing-along videos, stories, and printables across early learning, reading, maths, science, music, crafts, and family routines.
Turtle Diary
Interactive educational games, videos, quizzes, worksheets, experiments, and activities for preschool through grade 5.
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.
Duotale
Duotale provides short audio stories in one or two languages, helping children listen together while building language confidence through everyday storytelling.
EarlyActivity
EarlyActivity provides printable worksheets, colouring pages, puzzles, stories, science activities, and browser-based worksheet makers for children ages 2–12, families, and classrooms.