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NASA Space Place
Games, crafts, stories, animations, and activities that make space and Earth science approachable for kids.
NASA Learning Resources
NASA student and educator resources with STEM activities, missions, videos, challenges, careers, and family learning ideas.
OLogy: Science Website for Kids
Museum science activities, games, stories, videos, and hands-on projects for curious kids.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free interactive science and math simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder, with activities for exploring ideas through play.
NASA Kids Science
NASA’s child-friendly Earth and space science hub with games, videos, activities, articles, and multilingual links.
American Museum of Natural History Learn & Teach
Family programs, OLogy science activities, educator materials, virtual field trips, and museum learning from AMNH.
ESA Back to School 2026–27 STEM Projects
The European Space Agency’s 2026–27 Teacher’s Corner collection brings together Climate Detectives, Mission X, Astro Pi, CanSat, and Moon Camp, connecting school students with hands-on space science, coding, Earth observation, engineering, and design.
ESA Climate Detectives
ESA and ESERO’s Climate Detectives programme guides children ages 5–13 through Earth-related activities, evidence collection, investigations, galleries, and badges.
Science Museum Group Early Years Foundation Stage Resources
The Science Museum Group provides playful science, technology, engineering and maths activities for children aged 4–7, with ideas for museum visits, online exploration and learning at home.
NASA Kids Science: Earth (formerly NASA Climate Kids)
NASA’s kid-focused Earth science hub with explainers, activities, games, and multimedia about our home planet.
NOAA Education Resource Collections
Ocean, weather, climate, marine life, freshwater, and Earth science collections with activities and educator resources.
Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem Make and Learn
Make and Learn is a Bloomfield Science Museum Jerusalem hybrid education initiative combining curriculum-linked teaching units, interactive mini exhibits, maker-inspired after-school learning, and at-home science and technology challenges.
Millennium Mathematics Project
The University of Cambridge mathematics outreach initiative connects ages 3–19 and the public with NRICH problem-solving resources, Plus maths magazine, events, and STEP support.
Exploratorium Science Activities
The Exploratorium offers more than 300 teacher-tested science activities for children from preschool through high school, with practical ways to investigate science at home or in educational settings.
JPL Education
NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory STEM resources, lessons, projects, videos, and activities for K-12 learners and educators.
Canadian Space Agency Youth and Educators
Space books, experiments, digital games, printables, toolkits, and classroom ideas from the Canadian Space Agency.
Learning Adventures
Free, no-sign-up games and interactive storybooks for grades K-5 across math, science, English, history, and mixed skills.
Science Museum Group Learning Resources
Museum-backed science activities, experiments, objects, and downloadable learning resources for children and educators.
Nature Lab
The Nature Conservancy’s youth curriculum platform with virtual field trips, family guides, lesson plans, and hands-on nature activities.
Natural History Museum LA Family Activities
Dinosaur crafts, nature journals, games, scavenger hunts, and family science activities from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County.
Edusim 3D
A free 3D learning world where children build, explore science topics, and code with blocks or JavaScript.
EPA Environmental Games and Activities
Environmental games, quizzes, videos, activity books, and hands-on learning ideas from the U.S. EPA.
USGS Educational Resources
Natural science lessons, activities, maps, podcasts, videos, and data resources from the U.S. Geological Survey.
NASA eClips
NASA videos and learning resources that connect space science with classroom and family STEM learning.
NOAA Education
Ocean, weather, climate, and Earth science activities, lessons, and resources from NOAA.
Te Papa Discovery Centres
Free museum discovery spaces with games, books, art activities, and hands-on learning for children and families.
Experimentarium Copenhagen
A hands-on science centre with interactive exhibits, water play, movement, bubbles, technology, and a dedicated early-years area.
Royal Institution
Science demonstrations, talks, short films, and explainers from the Royal Institution for curious older children, teens, and families.
NASA Space Place Activities
NASA Space Place Activities offers printable and interactive space-science activities for children, including science-fair projects, mazes, planet games, rockets, sound, maps, and Earth science.
Australian Science Week Early Childhood Resources 2026
National Science Week and the University of Canberra provide EYLF-aligned science activities, instruction sheets, and family postcards for young children.
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.
National Children’s Museum Programs
National Children’s Museum in Washington, DC offers current early-learner, STEAM storytime, tinkering, fine-art, and family programmes that pair hands-on play with science, technology, engineering, art, and making.
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.
Nature Lab: Grades K–5
The Nature Conservancy’s Nature Lab provides elementary lesson plans that help children investigate ecosystems, wildlife, conservation and environmental questions through classroom-ready activities.
Code.org The Hour of AI
The Hour of AI is Code.org’s global collection of more than 250 free, one-hour AI and computer-science activities across grades and settings, including AI for Oceans, creative AI projects, Minecraft, music, and web development.
ESA CanSat
The European Space Agency CanSat program challenges teams to design, build and launch a soda-can-sized satellite, then collect and analyse mission data.
micro:bit
A creative physical-computing platform with block coding, Python, classroom projects, guides, videos, and teacher courses.
MicroBlocks
A free, live block-programming environment for making interactive projects with microcontrollers, sensors, lights, and motors.
Royal Institution Explore Science
Science videos, stories, podcasts, and collection highlights from the Royal Institution for curious learners and families.
NOAA Ocean Service for Students
Free ocean science tutorials about corals, tides, currents, coastal pollution, estuaries, and navigation from NOAA.
Science.gc.ca Educational Resources
Free science activities, experiments, videos, lesson plans, and activity books for children and teens from the Government of Canada.
InquiryMind
Free primary learning with read-aloud lessons, science and maths simulations, games, practice questions, and worksheets for kindergarten through Grade 5.
RSPB Wild Challenge for Families
Free family nature activities that build observation, wildlife-care, and outdoor science skills through awards and challenges.
Inquiry in Action
Free K-5 physical science lesson plans, student activity sheets, animations, and hands-on investigations from the American Chemical Society.
The Tech Interactive
A family-friendly science and technology center with hands-on exhibits, experimental labs, design challenges, and youth engineering programs.
CKSTEM Let’s Bloom
Fifty free in-browser math, English, science, and strategy games for grades 3-12 from a Canadian non-profit.
Open Learning Labs
Free video lessons, browser games, and learning puzzles in math, science, reading, and social studies for children ages 5-11.
NOAA JetStream
Weather and atmosphere lessons, explanations, activities, and visual learning from the National Weather Service.
Discovery Children's Museum Resources
Free family and educator activities from Discovery Children's Museum, including STEM, coding, math, creative projects, books, games, and accessibility resources.
Ontario Science Centre At Home
Science experiments, family activities, virtual events, and K-12 learning resources from the Ontario Science Centre.
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.
Hamilton Children's Museum
Hands-on galleries and self-directed play that help young children learn through imagination, movement, and discovery.
Technisches Museum Vienna Kids and Families
Family activities and playful technology learning for young children, school-age visitors, and grown-ups in Vienna.
Science Museum Oklahoma
A large hands-on science museum with interactive exhibits, science shows, a planetarium, creative challenges, and family learning experiences.
Tinkercad
A free browser-based Autodesk app for 3D design, electronics, and coding with hands-on projects and classroom curriculum.
NASA JPL K-12 Educator Resources
A searchable NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory library of K-12 lessons, projects, videos, collections, and teachable moments.
National Trust 50 Things to Do Before You’re 11¾
A nature and outdoor-learning challenge with 50 activities including den building, wildlife spotting, stargazing, wild art, and safe adventure ideas.
Sick Science!
Hands-on science experiments and STEM ideas from Steve Spangler for families, educators, and science enthusiasts.
NASA JPL STEM Activities for Families
A NASA JPL collection of family STEM activities spanning engineering, science, technology, computer science, mathematics, rockets, space missions, and design challenges.
Canadian Space Agency Space Brain Hack
A Canadian Space Agency challenge collection for grades 6–12 that asks learners to design solutions for astronaut mental health, food production, and sustainable satellites.
U.S. Botanic Garden On-Site Activity Resources
The U.S. Botanic Garden’s plant passports and field journals turn a family or school visit into a guided investigation of plant parts, food plants, native plants, sustainability, and plant collections.
Elachee Nature Science Center
A nature and science center with a large preserve, animal and ecology learning, camps, homeschool programs, and hands-on family discovery.
Museo Scienza Playlab
A museum learning space for children ages 3–6 where art, science, technology, storytelling, tinkering, light, sound, nature, and imaginative play meet in five interactive rooms.
Space Cadets Online
The National Space Centre’s Space Cadets Online is an expert-led online space club for ages 7–11 with 60-minute science sessions, talks, craft ideas, interactive activities, and downloadable resources.
Science Museum Group Bouncy Egg Activity
A Science Museum Group hands-on KS2–KS3 chemistry activity uses vinegar and an egg to explore chemical reactions, osmosis, observation, and materials science.
Primary Science Teaching Trust Resources
The Primary Science Teaching Trust catalogue provides classroom activities, teacher toolkits, assessment support, and topic-filtered science resources for primary education.
Science Museum Group Rocket Mice
Rocket Mice is a Science Museum Group hands-on activity about air pressure, air resistance and gravity in which children make and launch a paper rocket from a plastic bottle.
NPS Science for Students of All Ages
The National Park Service connects students and teachers with park-based science labs, lesson plans, experiments, citizen science and other learning activities.
ESA Mission X 2026–2027
ESA Mission X combines astronaut-inspired fitness challenges with scientific investigations about health, nutrition, human biology, movement, and space travel for students and educators.
NIH STEM Teaching Resources: Healthy Living
Free NIH STEM teaching materials for pre-K through grade 12 that use health and biology topics to build scientific understanding and inquiry.
British Science Week 2027 Resource Packs
British Science Week’s free resource packs provide hands-on science and STEM activities for children from under 5s to around age 14; the 2027 taster pack is available now.
ESA Moon Camp Challenge 2026/27
The ESA Moon Camp Challenge invites students aged 5–16 to design a space habitat using creative tools such as arts and crafts, 3D design, robotics and videogames while exploring how people could live on the Moon or another celestial body.
KIPP NYC Computational Thinking Curriculum
KIPP NYC’s free open-source K–8 curriculum integrates computational thinking, coding, engineering, science, maths, and ELA through hands-on project-based mini-units.
ESA Education 2026–2027 School Projects
The European Space Agency’s 2026–27 school-project overview connects children and teens with space-themed science, coding, environmental investigation, astronaut training, and design challenges.
Exploratorium
Museum-backed science learning with hands-on activities, Science Snacks, tinkering projects, videos, and teaching tools.
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.
Science Learning Hub
New Zealand science learning resources with articles, activities, videos, experiments, and teacher support for school-age learners.
Kodu Game Lab
A visual game-making environment for children to build 3D worlds, stories, and games with simple programming tiles.
Monterey Bay Aquarium Crafts & Printables
Ocean-themed crafts, coloring pages, stencils, drawing activities, and printable learning projects for children.
EPA Students
Free K–12 environmental homework help, games, quizzes, videos, lesson plans, and project ideas from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Australian Museum Kids
Free kids activities, science programs, exhibitions, and family learning from the Australian Museum in Sydney.
Natural History Museum London Family Activities
Family activities, dinosaur discoveries, nature learning, and hands-on science ideas from London’s Natural History Museum.
Howtosmile
Free, searchable STEM activities from museums, public media, universities, and educational organisations for families and educators.
Leap into Science
Open-ended science activities paired with children’s books for young learners and families from The Franklin Institute.
Field Museum Visiting with Kids
Family museum visits, adventure guides, and hands-on natural history experiences at Chicago’s Field Museum.
Children’s University of Manchester
Interactive science, history, health, environment, and student-life modules for primary-age learners from the University of Manchester.
CU Museum Family Activities
Free science, nature, art, and family activities from the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History.
Eden Project Learning
Nature, sustainability, science, and school learning resources from the Eden Project in Cornwall.
Museum of Science Boston Learning
Museum educator resources with STEM activities, family engineering, science games, and classroom-ready learning ideas.
Franklin Institute Science and Education
Science activities, engineering ideas, youth programs, videos, and classroom resources from The Franklin Institute.
FIRST LEGO League
A guided robotics and STEM program where children build, code, collaborate, and solve real-world challenges.
Children's Museum of Manhattan
A hands-on museum for young children with interactive learning, arts, science, culture, daily experiences, and early-childhood classes.
Field Day Learning Games
Free narrative learning games from a University of Wisconsin–Madison lab, designed with researchers and educators to explore science, history, journalism, and environmental topics.
Children's Museum Houston
A hands-on children’s museum with exhibits, science and math activities, arts, workshops, and family events in Houston.
f19.org STEM Playground
Browser simulations and daily puzzles that make physics, probability, math, waves, and algorithms playful.
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.
Launch
A playful coding platform where children build real apps and games with guided projects.
Zooniverse Education
Classroom-friendly citizen science projects with research participation, educator resources, and a dedicated schools route for ages 9-12.
Ask A Biologist
Arizona State University biology stories, games, activities, videos, podcasts, and selected Spanish learning resources for curious children.
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.
Project Learning Tree
Environmental education activities, family projects, lesson plans, and forest literacy resources for preschool through grade 12.
Sciencenter Science in Your Home
Free at-home science activity guides for young children, elementary learners, families, and caregivers from the Sciencenter.
Auckland Zoo Education Resources
Free animal, conservation, nature, and science learning resources with age-separated lesson plans, videos, experiments, and activity packs.
Museum Wales Family Learning at Home
Museum activities for families, from dinosaur nests and bee hotels to crafts, nature projects, toddler play, and Minecraft.
NYBG At Home for Kids & Families
Plant science, nature observation, gardening, art, recipes, videos, and lesson ideas from the New York Botanical Garden.
Brooklyn Botanic Garden Children's Garden Activities
Nature projects, games, recipes, crafts, and videos from Brooklyn Botanic Garden for children and families.
Science and Industry Museum Learning Programme
Science, engineering, and museum learning resources from the Science and Industry Museum in Manchester.
Royal Institution Learning
Science shows, experiments, workshops, and educational resources from the Royal Institution.
KidsGardening Resource Library
Gardening activities, lesson plans, growing guides, nature projects, and family learning resources for children.
Museum of Science Teaching STEM
STEM teaching resources, curriculum ideas, and hands-on learning support from Boston's Museum of Science.
Experimentorium Science Museum
A hands-on science museum in Tbilisi with interactive exhibits, chemistry activities, Digital Lab sessions, and family programmes.
The Planetary Society Space for Kids
Space activities, videos, images, and astronomy learning from The Planetary Society.
KID Museum
A hands-on maker museum with coding, robotics, engineering, electronics, woodshop, textiles, and design challenges.
Children's Museum of Atlanta
Hands-on exhibits, making, art, science, and family learning experiences for children ages 2 to 8.
Morris Museum Spark!Lab
A Smithsonian invention workspace where children ages 5 to 12 imagine, design, test, and improve ideas.
Bell Museum Activities for Kids
Science activities, videos, field journals, astronomy challenges, ecology projects, and nature observation for children.
Questacon Early Childhood Activities
Hands-on science experiences and activity ideas for young children in Canberra, with play-based investigation and discovery.
Science Oxford Centre
A hands-on science centre with an Exploration Zone, woodland, ponds, family days, STEM clubs, and science activities for children.
Deutsches Museum Family Visits
Family visit guidance for a major science and technology museum, including Kids Kingdom, interactive exhibitions, and family-friendly planning tips.
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.
Royal Institution Science Shows and Activities for Children
The Royal Institution’s family science page brings together spectacular science shows and activities designed to get children and families excited about science.
NASA Science at Home
NASA’s Science at Home collection brings together online, hands-on, outdoor, citizen-science, and age-banded activities, with multilingual learning routes for students and families.
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.
Smithsonian Visiting with Kids
Smithsonian Visiting with Kids helps families plan free and paid Smithsonian experiences, with child-focused activities across museums and the zoo including Spark!Lab, Wonderplace, planetarium experiences, family art activities, and interactive learning spaces.
Raspberry Pi Code Club Projects
More than 200 free step-by-step coding and creative-technology projects covering Scratch, Python, web development, AI, physical computing, nature, music, art, and science.
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.
Draper Spark!Lab
The National Museum of American History’s Spark!Lab invites children to create, collaborate, test, experiment, and invent through hands-on STEM and art activities.
Field Museum PlayLab Programs
The Field Museum’s PlayLab programs invite young scientists ages 3 through first grade to learn through workshops, free drop-in PlayDates, camps, and field trips.
Wonderlab at the Science Museum
An interactive science gallery with 50 exhibits, live science shows, and hands-on exploration of forces, electricity, space, light, matter, sound, and maths.
micro:bit Teach Featured
The official micro:bit Teach Featured hub gathers age-banded units of work, coding projects, AI-literacy lessons, design challenges, classroom resources, events, and free professional-development courses for young learners and educators.
Peterborough Museum Learning Resources
Peterborough Museum & Art Gallery offers free online and downloadable resources spanning Roman coins and pottery, historic toys, Windrush history, geology and fossils, videos, and hands-on activities.
Montréal Science Centre
An interactive science museum with hands-on exhibitions, creative technology challenges, family events, and bilingual visitor information.
University of Bath Mathematics Outreach
The University of Bath offers mathematics outreach through school visits, workshops, Maths Circles, public projects, and related science activities.
Science Museum Group Bottle Top Shapes
Bottle Top Shapes uses bottle tops or jar lids to help children investigate geometry, position, direction, symmetry and patterns through creative problem-solving.
Curious George: Let’s Get Curious
National Children’s Museum’s Curious George exhibit invites young children to explore science, engineering and problem-solving through playful, hands-on museum experiences.
NPS Science Labs
The National Park Service Science Labs catalog lists hundreds of park-based science activities with student and teacher formats, grade levels and subjects.
LPI Explore Space Science Activities
The Lunar and Planetary Institute’s Explore collection provides hands-on space science activities for children and pre-teens in libraries, camps, museums, planetariums, clubs, and family programs.
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.
FoodMASTER
A free, teacher-friendly curriculum using everyday food to teach applied mathematics, biology, chemistry, nutrition, measurement, geometry, and problem solving.
RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch 2027
The RSPB Big Schools’ Birdwatch invites schools to observe birds on their grounds, build data skills and submit results to a national picture of school-ground wildlife.
Chrome Music Lab
Hands-on browser experiments that help children explore rhythm, melody, sound, drawing, and the connections between music, science, math, and art.
Science News Explores
Accessible science news, explainers, experiments, and stories for readers from middle school onward.
Aquarium of the Pacific
Family-friendly ocean learning with animal exhibits, hands-on programs, conservation stories, and children’s educational activities.
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.
Research Quest
Interactive science investigations from the Natural History Museum of Utah that help middle-school learners examine real-world questions.
Audubon for Kids
Bird and nature activities, games, coloring pages, and family learning ideas from the National Audubon Society.
STEM for Others General Science
A free grades 3 to 6 science course with hands-on labs and lessons covering chemistry, physics, and engineering.
Kids in Parks
Free outdoor adventures, TRACK Trail activities, e-Adventures, brochures, and nature challenges that help families explore parks together.
Wildlife Watch
Nature activities, quizzes, spotting sheets, awards, and wildlife projects that help children discover and care for animals and habitats.
e-learning for kids
Free digital learning for children worldwide, with separate Math World and Science World portals plus support for parents and teachers.
CK-12
Free K–12 learning with digital textbooks, flashcards, adaptive practice, simulations, and Flexi support across math and science.
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.
Diffy
A calm, ad-free learning world with short browser games and illustrated books for math, science, coding, geography, and reading.
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.
MBARI Science at Home
Ocean science and deep-sea learning resources, articles, videos, and activities from the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute.
Kohl Children's Museum Home Zone
Stories, experiments, STEAM activities, and playful learning videos from Kohl Children's Museum for families at home.
New England Aquarium Educational Resources
Ocean activities, animal observations, conservation projects, and classroom resources from the New England Aquarium.
Science Fun
Hands-on science experiments, STEM activities, and kid-friendly science programs for families and schools.
National Museum of Nature and Science
Japan's national science museum with nature, space, technology, collections, exhibitions, and learning routes for young visitors.
MIT Museum Learning Lab
Hands-on science and engineering activities using microscopy, imaging, and real museum demonstrations.
Spark! Imagination and Science Center
A hands-on children's museum and science center where young children experiment, create, build, and explore.
Explore & More Children's Museum
Play-based exhibits and family learning experiences that invite children to explore, imagine, and build confidence.
KidsSTOP
An early-years science centre with more than 20 interactive exhibits about flight, space, the human body, and everyday science.
Putnam Museum Science in Action
Interactive science exhibits and engineering challenges exploring motion, energy, magnetism, circuits, gears, and more.
Chicago Botanic Garden Family Activity Guide
Nature-inspired family activities for planting, science, art, wildlife observation, outdoor learning, and cooking.
Garden Museum Families
Nature, art, and garden activities for children and grown-ups, including trails, explorer backpacks, toddler sessions, and family workshops.
Royal Alberta Museum Children's Gallery
A playful gallery for children six and under with objects, tools, sensory areas, digging, building, and imaginative exploration.
Catalyst Science Discovery Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, workshops, shows, and galleries for children, families, and school groups.
Oslo Science Centre
Interactive science and technology exhibits, creative workshops, and family learning at Norway's Museum of Science and Technology.
Boston Children's Museum STEAM Lab
Hands-on science, technology, engineering, art, and math activities that encourage creativity, curiosity, and critical thinking.
Oxford University Museum of Natural History Families
Family activities, crafts, events, and child-friendly discovery at Oxford University Museum of Natural History.
Periodic Videos
Chemistry demonstrations and element-by-element explorations from the University of Nottingham’s official chemistry channel.
SciShow Kids YouTube
SciShow Kids answers children’s questions about animals, nature, science, technology, and the world with friendly explanations.
Curieux de sciences
A French science podcast for ages 7–12 from the National Museum of Natural History and Bayard Jeunesse, where children investigate questions about life, humans, and Earth with museum scientists.
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.
CU Museum Field Trips
CU Museum of Natural History field trips provide interactive tours, hands-on workshops, and self-guided visits for K–2, 3–5, and 6–8 groups.
Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh Early Learning Programs
The Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh offers early-learning programs for babies, toddlers, preschoolers, and caregivers, alongside museum@home activities and sensory-friendly options.
KidsDoMath: The Scientific Method
KidsDoMath’s Scientific Method is a focused browser game for grades 3–6 that asks children to order science steps, predict outcomes, observe experiments, and explain conclusions.
Lawrence Hall of Science Play
The University of California, Berkeley’s Lawrence Hall of Science Play hub brings together interactive apps, hands-on activities, science videos, and astronomy experiences for learners and families.
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.
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.
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit
Microsoft MakeCode for micro:bit is a browser coding environment with block-based and text programming, tutorials, games, projects, search, import, and optional account features for young makers.
Space to Learn Home Education Workshops
National Space Academy’s Space to Learn page offers free UK Space Agency-funded home-education workshops with hands-on student masterclasses, rocket-design challenges, and take-home resources for families.
GEM Children’s Museum
The Grand Egyptian Museum’s children’s museum uses ancient Egyptian themes, hands-on learning, interactive games, technology, and family programmes to spark curiosity.
Sciencenter Resources for Educators
Sciencenter’s educator hub provides group-visit planning guides, hands-on activity guides and professional materials for using museum-based science learning with children.
National Children’s Museum Learn
National Children’s Museum’s learning hub brings together K–5 field trips, hands-on programs, a children’s STEAM podcast, short STEAMwork activity videos, and environmental-science virtual field trips.
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.
NASA STEM Opportunities and Activities for Students
NASA’s official opportunities hub collects student challenges, robotics and coding activities, design projects, internships, and other STEM pathways for middle-school, high-school, college, and university learners.
Carbon Cycle Caper
A Science Museum Group climate-science activity that helps learners investigate the carbon cycle and think about how carbon moves through Earth systems.
Tinkercast Out of This World Space Curriculum
Tinkercast’s Out of This World collection pairs kids’ space podcasts with hands-on podjects, experiments, worksheets, coloring, and classroom-ready activities covering rockets, planets, gravity, stars, and space junk.
Wildlife Watch Activities
Wildlife Watch’s activities library provides nature crafts, wildlife investigations, spotter sheets, colouring pages and outdoor projects for children.
Microsoft MakeCode
Browser-based coding environments for micro:bit, Minecraft, Arcade, and other creative projects.
MinutePhysics
Short, energetic physics and science explainers using animation, drawing, and thought experiments.
Science Sparks
Hands-on science experiments, STEM challenges, printable activities, and science explanations for children and families.
Kids Doing Science
Science games, at-home experiments, videos, and research explanations from New York University researchers.
Early Science Matters
Free hands-on science activities, lesson plans, videos, and expert guidance for children from birth through age five.
Science Buddies
Hands-on science and engineering project ideas, experiment guides, and teacher resources for home and school.
BrainPOP Jr.
Animated lessons, activities, and learning resources for young learners across science, math, reading, health, social studies, and the arts.
National PTA STEM at Home Activities
Family STEM activities, experiments, videos, and printable guides from National PTA, including hands-on challenges using common household materials.
Small Fry Games
Free browser games for curious children, with playful practice in early learning, reading, addition, science, and observation.
Discovery Cube
Hands-on science museums in Southern California with exhibits, field trips, free online activities, STEM events, and family learning.
Year in Nature
Free nature-based learning activities, guides, seasonal projects, and family resources that help children build a lasting connection with the outdoors.
Waikiki Aquarium Virtual Experiences
Free marine science videos, webcams, virtual lectures, ocean spotlights, drawing lessons, and classroom resources from Waikiki Aquarium.
Miami Children's Museum At Home
Step-by-step videos and activity guides from a children's museum to spark playful learning, making, and discovery at home.
We The Curious
A science experience with interactive exhibits, workshops, planetarium shows, and family discovery in Bristol.
DOE STEM
U.S. Department of Energy STEM opportunities, activities, and learning resources for students, educators, and families.
Ingenium Science at Home
Hands-on science and engineering activities from Canada's Ingenium museums for learning at home and in the classroom.
Living Oceans Foundation Education
Ocean science, conservation, marine life, and classroom resources from the Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation.
Topeka Zoo Education Resources
Zoo learning videos, worksheets, crafts, scavenger hunts, and coding puzzles for children and families.
Museum of Life and Science Play to Learn
Early-childhood play experiences that explore light, shadows, patterns, gravity, building, sensory discovery, and pretend play.
Nova Scotia Museum Wee Wild Ones
Nature play for children under five with stories, puppet shows, real specimens, building, and caregiver-supported discovery.
Canadian Museum of Nature Education Resources
Museum-backed school programmes, gallery learning, workshops, and activity guides for science and natural-history learning.
London Museum of Water and Steam for Families
Hands-on water and engineering discovery with working steam engines, a Waterworks Gallery, a Splash Zone, and family trails.
Sacramento Zoo Education
Camps, field trips, nature explorers, home-learning videos, and family programs about animals and conservation.
San Diego Botanic Garden Youth and Family Activities
Children's gardens, nature play, seasonal family programs, exploration stations, and hands-on activities for young naturalists.
Minecraft Education
A game-based learning platform with K–12 lesson libraries, coding, STEM, digital citizenship, and educator training.
Science Friday Try This
A free archive of hands-on science and engineering challenges that help kids investigate real-world questions through experiments and making.
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.
Science Max
Big, energetic science experiments and explanations from the official Scholastic Science Max channel.
Science Bob
Hands-on science experiments, demonstrations, science-fair ideas, and explanations designed to make discovery approachable for children and families.
Australian Museum Activities for Kids at Home
The Australian Museum’s family activity hub brings together science, nature, culture, experiments, crafts, videos, factsheets, and app-linked activities for curious kids.
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.
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
A three-floor children’s museum with interactive exhibits and hands-on cultural and science programs for children ages 6 months to 10 years.
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.
Iowa STEM Teachable Moment
A Department of Education collection of grade-banded STEM activities, lessons, virtual field trips, and videos for learners, caregivers, and educators.
Vienna Museum of Science and Technology Kids & Family
The Vienna Museum of Science and Technology’s Kids & Family guide brings together child-focused exhibitions, playful technology experiences, birthday programs, and a free English children’s tour in the TMW ToGo app.
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.
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.
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.
Avanza STEM Interactive Labs
A free set of browser-based STEM labs covering physics, coding, chemistry, engineering, and virtual experiments with no installation or sign-in.
Element Fusion
A free hands-on chemistry sandbox where children combine elements to discover real compounds, reaction explanations, and chemistry in the world around them.
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.
Kids Environment Kids Health
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences’ kid-focused hub combines environmental-health science, games, stories, and activities for curious learners.
CU Museum Children and Family Programs
The University of Colorado Museum of Natural History offers hands-on science and art activities, family programs, Discovery Corner access, and English/Spanish resources.
Smithsonian STEM²D Activities
The Smithsonian Science Education Center’s STEM²D collection provides interactive, standards-aligned science, technology, engineering, math, manufacturing, and design activities for ages 5–18.
University of Alaska Museum Family Programs
The University of Alaska Museum of the North offers hands-on family learning programs and home activities connecting children with science, history, culture, art, and Alaska collections.
Greater Boston STEM Program
The Greater Boston STEM Program provides free introductory computer science, math, engineering, and science enrichment for elementary and middle-school students through remote or in-person small-group classes.
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.
UArizona Girls Who Code Club
The University of Arizona’s Girls Who Code club offers free Saturday coding classes for grades 6–12, including Python, Arduino, robotics, AI, website development, and game projects.
ESA Education YouTube
The European Space Agency’s education video hub offers space-STEM explainers, experiments, student mission documentaries, expert interviews, and behind-the-scenes learning videos.
Wonderlab+
The Science Museum Group’s free online family science hub with videos, make-and-do activities, games, quizzes, space, and Earth content.
Wave Combinator
A free Field Day Lab science game where learners adjust wavelength, amplitude, and offset to investigate how sound waves interact.
FizziQ Junior
A free offline digital experiment notebook for ages 7–12 that turns tablet and phone sensors into tools for measuring colour, sound, light, motion, dimensions, and environment.
Exploratorium Science Snacks
Low-cost, teacher-tested hands-on science activities from the Exploratorium, with searchable activities and collections for classrooms and curious families.
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.
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.
Ontario Science Centre
A government science-centre program with hands-on science play, kids’ programs, maker activities, pop-up events, and do-it-yourself science resources during its transition to a new home.
Johnson Nature Center TreeSchool
A nature-centre learning programme using forests, wetlands, wildlife, and seasonal outdoor exploration to build children’s understanding of the natural world.
Kids in Space 2026
Makers Empire’s 2026 Kids in Space programme showcases primary-school design-thinking and STEM projects addressing astronaut and space-exploration challenges, supported by Australian space and education partners.
Contagious Maths
The Millennium Mathematics Project’s Contagious Maths collection uses infectious-disease modelling to teach school students and the public how mathematics helps understand and respond to epidemics.
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.
Science Museum Destination Space
Destination Space is the Science Museum’s family-facing space program and guide to space-inspired activities, live experiments, workshops, galleries, and online space stories.
National Children’s Museum STEAMwork
National Children’s Museum’s STEAMwork presents short activity videos that invite children and families to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math through playful projects.
Science Museum Space Gallery
The Science Museum’s Space gallery brings together spacecraft, satellites, rockets, and stories about human spaceflight for family and school visits.
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.
American Museum of Natural History Explore
The American Museum of Natural History’s Explore hub offers science stories, collections, videos, activities, and digital ways for families and students to investigate the natural world.
ESA Education
The European Space Agency’s education portal shares space-science projects, classroom activities, student opportunities, and STEM stories connected to ESA missions.
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.
Spaghetti Structures
A Science Museum Group engineering challenge where learners build a tall, strong tower from spaghetti and marshmallows while exploring structure and design.
Mystery Tubes
A Science Museum Group hands-on logic activity that asks learners to reason from evidence and investigate how an unseen system works.
More PEAS Please Teaching Guides
Preschool Education in Applied Sciences (PEAS) teaching guides with hands-on life-science activities featuring healthy foods, science practices, and teacher support materials.
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 Museum Group Shape Detectives
Shape Detectives is a Science Museum Group hands-on maths activity for KS1 children that uses cut-out shape finders to explore geometry, patterns and the shapes found in everyday objects.
National Air and Space Museum Programs
The National Air and Space Museum’s official programs page gathers family, educator, student, planetarium, astronomy, and hands-on aviation and space learning opportunities at the museum and online.
Newcastle Museum Little Bang Discovery Club
Newcastle Museum’s four-week Little Bang Discovery Club is a play-based hands-on science program for preschool children and their carers.
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.
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.
TechEd4Kids
Free interactive science and math experiments, games, and lessons designed for learners in grades 6-12.
LearnerKits
Free browser-based science simulations and virtual experiments for students in grades 6-12.
Shoebox Lab
Free hands-on science kits and captioned videos that help children investigate gravity, matter, and motion.
FunScienceTools
Free science simulations, visuals, citizen-science tools, and teacher-recommended resources organized by school level and topic.
Denver Botanic Gardens Online Learning
Online activities, family learning ideas, plant science, nature projects, and educational resources from Denver Botanic Gardens.
Reactions
American Chemical Society and PBS science videos connecting chemistry to food, materials, medicine, technology, and everyday life.
Exploratorium DNA Files Workshops
The Exploratorium’s DNA Files workshops provide downloadable, hands-on family and informal-education activities about DNA, evolution, genetics, and climate change.
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.
Sciencenter Exhibits
A science museum in Ithaca with more than 250 interactive exhibits covering weather, space, engineering, animals, oceans, physics, and hands-on early learning.
Queensland Museum at Home
Queensland Museum’s free at-home collection includes science and nature activities, colouring, scavenger hunts, videos, and Little Learners projects.
TinkerPy
TinkerPy is a kid-focused coding and robotics platform with block and Python coding, browser simulators, app building, games, projects, and courses for young makers.
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.
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.
Ingenium Science at Home
Ingenium’s official science-at-home hub offers family-friendly experiments, activities, and science learning prompts connected to Canada’s national museums of science and innovation.
Science for Kids
A South Australian Department for Education science collection with free experiments, games, facts, quizzes, projects, lessons, images, and videos for home learning.
CU Museum Discovery Corner
Discovery Corner is a hands-on children’s exhibit at CU Museum where young visitors can investigate fossils, Colorado animals, bones, artifacts, puzzles, puppets, and books.
National Air and Space Museum Online Games
The National Air and Space Museum’s online games give young learners playful ways to explore rockets, aircraft, weather, motion, gears, and airplane parts.
University of Sydney Museum Kids and Families
The University of Sydney Museum’s Kids and Families program combines hands-on activities, talks, online resources, and a family trail that introduces children to museum collections.
Magnet Hunt
Magnet Hunt is a free middle-school science game from Vault and Field Day Lab where players use magnetic fields, compasses, iron filings, and magnetic film to find hidden magnets.
Natural History Museum Indoor Science and Crafts
The Natural History Museum’s indoor science and crafts page offers family activities and ideas for exploring nature at home, in a garden, or in a local outdoor space, including craft projects, dinosaur activities, and educational resources.
Science Museum Bubble Explorers
Bubble Explorers is the Science Museum’s 30-minute interactive live show for young children and families, using bubbles, experiments, demonstrations, and questions to spark early science curiosity.
NASA Join the Artemis Mission to the Moon
NASA’s official Artemis learning page offers ways for students and families to make, launch, compete, and learn about the missions returning humans to the Moon.
Montshire Museum of Science Online Resources
Montshire Museum of Science’s online-resources page gathers family science activities, experiments, and ways to explore science at home.
USGS Data in Schools
USGS Data in Schools helps educators use real Earth-science data, maps, and investigation questions to support classroom learning.
Cornell Lab Science and Nature Activities
Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s K–12 activity collection helps children investigate birds, nature, observation, and science through simple at-home and classroom activities.
Community Science Podcast For Kids
The Children’s Hour Community Science episode introduces children to citizen and community science, with a free learning guide and practical ideas for observing local habitats, collecting data and contributing to scientific research.
Fort Worth Homeschool Family Science Club
The Fort Worth Museum of Science and History’s Homeschool Family Science Club offers hands-on science sessions for children and an accompanying adult, with engineering, animal adaptations, and chemistry themes.
Hong Kong Science Museum Little Scientists Exploration Programme
The Hong Kong Science Museum’s Little Scientists Exploration Programme uses hands-on experiments to introduce senior primary students to science topics such as electromagnetism.
NASA Experiments in Space
NASA Experiments in Space is a NASA Science kids hub that introduces space experiments and points families toward Space Place, StarChild, Camp Landsat, EO Kids, and Mission: Biomes.
National Park Service Kids
A gateway to Junior Ranger badges, citizen science, camps, service projects, and outdoor learning across U.S. national parks.
PrepOK
Free interactive science and math explorables that let learners change variables, observe results, and build understanding.
Weather Education
Free weather experiments, curriculum, and science learning activities from the National Weather Museum.
Science History Institute Education
Chemistry and science history activities, museum tours, virtual classrooms, and trustworthy resources for older students.
Museums Galleries Scotland Digital Learning Resources
A curated guide to free museum and gallery activities, quizzes, games, STEM ideas, arts, climate, and wellbeing resources for young people.
London Children's Museum
Hands-on play, art, science, early learning, family programs, and child-led exhibits at a children's museum in London, Ontario.
Crayola Learning
Creativity-focused lesson plans, thinking sheets, project plans, and learning videos from Crayola for classrooms and home learning.
The Action Lab
Hands-on demonstrations and experiments exploring materials, physics, chemistry, light, motion, and surprising everyday science.
Weather Wiz Kids
Meteorologist Crystal Wicker explains weather, natural disasters, experiments, and climate topics in a child-friendly science resource.
Canadian Space Agency Kids and Teens
Space learning resources from the Canadian Space Agency, including space books, games, experiments, crafts, videos, and virtual visits.
Stemoto
A free directory of curated STEM, coding, cognitive-skill, and hands-on activities for children, organized into three progressive stages.
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.
ExplorationWorks
A hands-on science center in Helena with interactive exhibits, early-childhood programming, family events, and science learning for children and families.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan Mobile Guide
The Children’s Museum of Manhattan’s Bloomberg Connects mobile guide offers a PlayWorks audio tour, at-home art projects, parenting resources, and activities that extend museum learning beyond the building.
KokeLab
KokeLab offers kids learning games and projects in programming, math, science, and drawing, with a free-to-start browser experience aimed at ages 4–12.
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.
Leeds City Museum Family Guide
Leeds City Museum’s official family guide introduces animal displays, archaeology, mini dig zones, costumes, music, hands-on interactives, reading areas, and family-friendly events.
Try It and See
A free Apar Academy science mini-game for ages 5–7 that teaches fair testing, one-variable experiments, float-or-sink predictions, and systematic troubleshooting.
SciKidz
A free online STEM program for children with science lesson videos, experiment instructions, tutorials, and teacher notes. The official site includes hands-on topics such as electricity, magnetism, life science, and simple machines.
Oregon Coast Aquarium Virtual Programs
Oregon Coast Aquarium offers live virtual programs including Shark Talk, Marine Storytime, Plankton Investigation, enrichment design, and career exploration for school groups.
SEA LIFE Sydney Virtual Aquarium
SEA LIFE Sydney’s virtual aquarium hub combines keeper streams, activity sheets, craft activities, downloadables, and family wildlife challenges.
Arludo
A free STEM platform where children ages 8–12 explore science through learning islands, experiments, games, challenges, scientist stories, and career pathways.
University of Sussex Mathematics Outreach
The University of Sussex mathematics outreach programme offers free school and university visits, talks, hands-on small-group activities, and public engagement events that connect mathematics with real-world questions.
Purdue Mathematics K–12 Outreach
Purdue University Mathematics K–12 Outreach promotes student interest in mathematics and science through hands-on activities, problem-solving learning environments and teacher collaboration.
EDC IDEAS Maker Program
Education Development Center’s IDEAS project is an inventing, designing, and engineering maker program for students and informal STEM learning.
USGS Ecosystems Education
USGS ecosystems education resources help learners investigate habitats, biodiversity, ecological change, and the science behind conservation.
Tinkercast Science Podcast for Kids
Tinkercast’s official science podcast hub brings together curious-question audio shows and kid-friendly science storytelling, including Wow in the World and related family listening from the Tinkercast network.
MadaTech Summer-Tech
MadaTech’s Summer-Tech programme offers daily summer workshops for children in grades 1–6, combining museum-based experiments, technology, and hands-on STEM activities.
ComPaSS at Japan’s National Museum of Nature and Science
ComPaSS is a museum exploration area designed for children and guardians, combining natural-history stories, interactive exploration, picture books, and optional hands-on workshops.
Science With Sophie
Science With Sophie is a science comedy series for girls and everyone, using questions, experiments, and humor to invite children into everyday science.
Minnesota Children’s Museum Experiences
Minnesota Children’s Museum presents three floors of interactive experiences and exhibits designed for children and families, including toddler-friendly, sensory, science, art, and maker-style play.
Robo Wunderkind
Robo Wunderkind combines modular robotics kits with a companion app so children can build robots, control them, and progress through visual coding levels at home or school.
Mystery Science
Hands-on elementary science lessons built around intriguing questions, videos, and investigations.
Physics Girl
Physics experiments, demonstrations, puzzles, and space videos hosted by science communicator Dianna Cowern.
Museo Pambata
The Philippines’ first interactive children’s museum, using exhibits, programs, and events to make cultural and environmental learning fun and hands-on.
Science.gc.ca Activity Books
The Government of Canada’s Science.gc.ca Activity Books collection offers free science games, experiments, and activities assembled from Canadian departments and agencies for different age groups and skill levels.
Queensland Sciencentre
Queensland Sciencentre is an interactive science museum experience with hands-on exhibits and family-friendly science exploration.
NSF Educational Resources: Mathematics
The U.S. National Science Foundation mathematics resource page connects families and educators with mathematics learning materials, projects, and educational opportunities across grade levels.
NSF Educational Resources: Computing
The U.S. National Science Foundation computing resource page points to computing and computer-science learning materials, projects, and educational opportunities for learners and educators.
Nova Scotia Nature Learning & Play Space
A government nature-learning and play resource that encourages children and families to explore outdoor environments through play, observation, and hands-on discovery.
Children’s University Activities at Home and Online
Children’s University curates activities from its network and partners so children can keep learning at home and online through challenges, projects, and family activities.
What Is Pi? (Grades 5-8)
NASA’s grade 5-8 math explainer uses spacecraft, planets, parachutes, and fuel tanks to show how pi supports geometry, physics, engineering, and space exploration.
What Is the Space Launch System? (Grades 5-8)
NASA’s grade 5-8 explainer shows how the Space Launch System works, how its rocket stages support Artemis missions, and which careers help build and operate it.
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.
LEGO Education
Hands-on STEM, robotics, and coding curriculum built around LEGO Education sets and classroom projects.
Science Kids
Fun science facts, experiments, projects, games, videos, and quizzes for elementary and middle-grade learners.
Science! KIDS
A PBS science series for children with fun experiments and science explanations from experts at the Orlando Science Center.
SmarterEveryDay
Curiosity-driven science and engineering videos that investigate how the world works through experiments and observation.
The Engineering Family
Family-friendly engineering and science videos with experiments, builds, challenges, and explanations for curious children.
Imagine This
An ABC Kids listen science podcast that turns children’s questions about animals, nature, bodies, and everyday phenomena into imaginative investigations with scientists.
CMLH at Home
Children’s Museum of La Habra activity ideas for little learners, including nature walks, storytelling, crafts, sensory play, engineering, science, math, music, and movement.
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.
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.
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.
QwikXR
A browser-based coding platform where learners explore 3D worlds through Blockly, JavaScript, and Python simulations, with ready-made missions and remixable projects.
CSMVS Children’s Museum
Mumbai’s CSMVS Children’s Museum is a creative cultural lab with interactive exhibits, programmes, workshops, digital interactives, and hands-on family learning.
Museum of Solutions
Mumbai’s Museum of Solutions is a large hands-on learning space where children explore STEAM, sustainability, design, systems thinking, and real-world challenges through exhibits and programmes.
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.
KiwiCo Activities
Hands-on science, art, engineering, and craft activities with instructions for family projects.
Maker Camp
Project-based making activities that combine science, engineering, art, and creative problem solving.
Turtle Diary
Interactive educational games, videos, quizzes, worksheets, experiments, and activities for preschool through grade 5.
Tappity
An interactive science learning app with videos, experiments, quizzes, and guided exploration for elementary-age children.
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.
Education.com Learning Library
Education.com’s resources library offers more than 40,000 worksheets, lesson plans, games, interactive worksheets and hands-on activities across core subjects for pre-K through grade 8.
Kide Science
Kide Science is an inquiry-based early-years science program with playful experiments, lesson resources, and educator support for young children.
STEM Little Explorers
A STEM video channel with accessible science, technology, engineering, and math explainers and activity-oriented videos for curious learners.
DIY
A kid-focused creative platform for building games and projects with AI-assisted tools, challenges, and guided making experiences.
National Children’s Museum
Hands-on museum exhibits, maker activities, and family learning experiences in Washington, DC.
Whyville
A long-running virtual world with more than 100 games and activities spanning science, maths, creativity, and community play.
Science4Us
An elementary science curriculum and activity platform with lessons, investigations, resources, and teacher support for young learners.
EarlyActivity
EarlyActivity provides printable worksheets, colouring pages, puzzles, stories, science activities, and browser-based worksheet makers for children ages 2–12, families, and classrooms.