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But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids
Vermont Public’s child-led podcast answers questions from young listeners about science, nature, civics, health, history, technology, and everyday life.
Ask A Biologist
Arizona State University biology stories, games, activities, videos, podcasts, and selected Spanish learning resources for curious children.
PBS KIDS Podcasts
PBS KIDS Podcasts brings family listening off-screen with story, music, problem-solving, and educational series including Arthur, Molly of Denali, Odd Squad, and Work It Out Wombats.
Fun Kids Science Quest
Fun Kids Science Quest is a children’s science podcast covering dinosaurs, space, nature, Earth science, medicine, and questions from young listeners.
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.
STEAM Daydream Podcast
National Children’s Museum’s short-form podcast uses children’s questions, expert guests, and imaginative stories to explore science, technology, engineering, art, and math.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Constant Wonder KIDS
BYUradio’s children’s podcast turns nature, animals, earth science, archaeology, and exploration into short, family-friendly audio adventures with fresh episodes and companion printables.
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.
Orbit — Science podcasts for kids and parents
Cumbre Kids’ Orbit page presents science podcasts for children and parents, offering family listening built around curiosity, explanation and kid-friendly science stories.
Earth Rangers Conservation Learning for Kids
Earth Rangers is a conservation charity for children with free membership, interactive missions, animal-saving actions, a podcast, an app and educator pathways.
Solve It! for Kids
A science and engineering podcast that introduces children to real scientists, engineers, and experts, then invites listeners to tackle a problem-solving challenge of their own.
Süßes oder Saurier
The Museum für Naturkunde Berlin’s German children’s podcast explores animals, nature, fossils, and questions about the living world through museum storytelling.
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.
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
A science podcast where real scientists explore big questions through story-driven episodes for kids and families, with English and Spanish options.
NSW Learning Every Day Through Play Podcasts
The NSW Department of Education’s family podcast series explains how children learn through play and everyday routines, with episodes on early learning frameworks, play-based learning, family support, and letting children lead.
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.
The Brain Bus
A free, ad-free road-trip podcast for ages 2–13 with age-banded shows designed for screen-free science, history, and curiosity listening.
Tumble Podcast Research & OCEAN Kids
Tumble’s official research hub explains how teachers use science podcasts and presents the free OCEAN Kids audio-and-citizen-science course for elementary learners, supported by research partners.
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.
Spacepod
Spacepod is a children’s astronomy podcast where kids’ big questions are answered by astronomers and science guests across a large episode library.
Wild Critters USA
Wild Critters USA is a family wildlife podcast series from PBS Nature, Orbit, and the National Wildlife Federation that follows children’s questions into America’s animals and habitats.
Imagine This with Niraj Lal
Imagine This with Niraj Lal is an ABC Kids listen science podcast that turns children’s questions into conversations with scientists and other experts.
Association of Children’s Museums Empowering Young Minds
The Association of Children’s Museums Empowering Young Minds podcast explores playful learning, children’s museums, childhood education, belonging, access, and ways families and educators can support children’s curiosity.
What’s Happening Inside Me?
What’s Happening Inside Me? is a kid-friendly educational podcast about the human body, health, and science, created with medical and biomedical teaching expertise for young listeners.
Wild at Home
Wild at Home is a nature podcast from NHPR and the Harris Center that turns children’s questions into short natural-history adventures with experts, jokes, and outdoor activities.
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.
Wild & Kind Kids
A screen-free nature podcast with animal facts, original stories, movement prompts, riddles, and simple missions that help children care for the planet.
Jobtastic
Jobtastic is a children’s podcast that answers “who does that?” by introducing the people and work behind everyday things, from astronaut snacks and candy flavours to video games and rides.
The Bedtime Scientist
A calm free bedtime podcast that tells real science softly, with layered explanations intended to work for young children and older listeners.
WonderWise
A science podcast for ages 4–7 that answers big questions through narration and original songs about volcanoes, weather, space, nature, and the body.
Kids Learning Lab
A free educational podcast created by 13-year-old Eshaan, with frequent short episodes about science, technology, history, and other curiosity topics.
NSW Early Learners Podcasts
A New South Wales Department of Education collection of podcasts and transcripts about early literacy, numeracy, creative arts, STEM, inquiry, and learning with young children.
Dexplorers
Dexplorers is a screen-free history adventure podcast for children and families, using mystery stories, real historical settings, short episodes, and free colouring pages.
PopSciFun Podcast
PopSciFun Podcast is a science-trivia show for kids and families with short, accessible episodes about surprising questions and facts.
Sleep Tight Science
A gentle science podcast for curious children that answers listener questions about the natural world in short, bedtime-friendly episodes.
Not Just Because
Short family podcast episodes for curious kids, with science, nature, dinosaurs, vehicles, oceans, space, and other big-question topics.
Story Problem Podcast
A story-driven podcast that uses everyday situations to make maths and science understandable, memorable, and useful for families.
Science for Kids / Science’s Not Boring
Science for Kids / Science’s Not Boring is a clean children’s science podcast with short episodes and AI-hosted presenters explaining science topics.
Nature and Science 4 Kids
Nature and Science 4 Kids is an active children’s podcast with short stories and facts about animals, ecosystems, and science for family listening.
RTÉ Kids Nature / Ecolution
RTÉ Kids Nature is an official nature-media hub featuring Ecolution podcast episodes about outdoor life, biodiversity, climate, and nature restoration for children and families.