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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.
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Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 Activities
The Canadian Space Agency Crew-13 activities page gathers official space games and classroom or home activities, including Mission: Astronaut, Future of Food, K–12 ISS materials, Tomatosphere, astronaut cutouts, and live space links.
National Science Week Early Childhood Resources 2026
Australian National Science Week’s 2026 early-childhood pack offers sound, bubbles, and robots activities for young children, with educator instructions and postcards for carers.
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.
AlifLaila Kids’ Digital Library
A multilingual children’s digital library created to widen access to reading through Urdu, English, and Arabic stories, with guest and offline access described by UNESCO.
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.
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.
Ready Kids Games
Free U.S. government emergency-preparedness games that help children practice disaster safety, kit building, first-aid choices, and decision-making.
USGS Solar System Education
The U.S. Geological Survey solar-system education page connects elementary classroom lesson plans with planetary geology, lunar resources, Astrogeology, and additional official Earth-and-space materials.
National Weather Service Education
The National Weather Service Education portal provides weather and climate learning for children, educators, and families through JetStream, student opportunities, citizen science, classroom data, safety materials, videos, outreach, and virtual field-trip links.
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