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Ages 6–8
Apps and websites for kids 6 to 8
Reading practice, early math, first coding, science and creative play for kids in the first years of school.
Math
- Numberblocks World: Counting games, number quizzes, songs and episodes featuring the Numberblocks characters.
- Beast Academy Online: A self-paced elementary math curriculum built around comic-style guides, video lessons and puzzles.
- Prodigy Math: Prodigy Math is a fantasy game in which answering math questions helps players win battles and finish quests.
- Multiplication Games Kahoot!: More than 20 multiplication mini-games with an adaptive progression.
- Todo Math: Early number activities plus shapes, clocks and calendars.
- Kahoot! Geometry by DragonBox: Shape puzzles that introduce angles, geometric properties and the steps behind a proof.
- Kahoot! Numbers by DragonBox: Interactive number play for exploring quantities and how numbers relate.
- MathTango: Math Games for Kids: Arithmetic practice combined with monster collecting and world building.
- Kahoot! Algebra by DragonBox: Puzzles that introduce equation-solving and algebraic ideas, 200 of them across ten chapters.
- Monster Math: Kids Fun Games: Arithmetic missions with visual number strategies and no time limits.
- SplashLearn: A browser catalog of math games sorted by concept and grade, from early counting and shapes to later elementary topics.
- Quick Math: Mental Arithmetic: Timed mental-arithmetic challenges, answered by writing directly on the screen.
- Moose Math: Counting smoothie ingredients, matching pets by dots and solving number problems in bingo.
- DoodleMath: Elementary Math: Placement questions set up a practice program spanning arithmetic, measurement, geometry and fractions.
- ABCya: ABCya has a large catalog of short browser games for kids, covering math, reading, art, typing and other elementary subjects.
- NRICH: Mathematical investigations from a University of Cambridge project, built around spotting patterns, testing ideas and explaining reasoning.
- Math Playground: A browser library of math games, logic challenges and problem-solving puzzles, sorted by grade.
- Bedtime Math: A short daily story, factual or playful, followed by math questions for a family to talk through.
- The Math Learning Center Math Apps: A set of visual math tools, from geoboards to number lines, that run in a browser.
- Topmarks Maths Games: Topmarks math games and teaching tools, sorted by age group and then by topic, from counting to fractions.
- Toy Theater: Short learning games mixed with virtual manipulatives, creative tools and classic puzzles.
- MathGames: Math games combined with skill practice, printable worksheets and short explanatory videos.
- Timestables.com: A site devoted to multiplication tables, where children pick one table and practice it.
- Arcademics: Short arcade-style games for elementary subjects, with a sizeable math selection sorted by grade and skill.
- ictgames: ictgames has math and English browser games and teaching tools for ages 5–10, tied to the UK primary curriculum.
- Education.com: A searchable library of games, worksheets, lesson plans and hands-on projects.
- Sheppard Software: A broad collection of short learning games across early concepts, math, geography, animals, science and language arts.
- IXL: Practice organized into detailed skill lists for math, language arts, science and more.
- Matific: Interactive math activities with three ways in: an adaptive adventure, a topic-based Training Zone and a Multiplayer Arena.
- Math for Love Lesson Library: A lesson library that turns math ideas into games, conversations and open-ended investigations.
- Teach Your Monster Number Skills: A character-led game in which young children explore early number ideas.
- Khan Academy Math: Khan Academy’s main math site, with arithmetic laid out as a structured course.
- Zearn Math: Math lessons that pair short fluency activities with interactive video instruction and quizzes.
- DREME Family Math: Adult-led activities that bring numbers, shapes, patterns and measurement into everyday family life.
- BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.: Animated explanations followed by quizzes, drawing and vocabulary activities on the same topic.
- Sumdog: Adaptive math and spelling practice set inside game-based challenges.
- DreamBox Math: Interactive math lessons delivered in a personalized sequence, for school or home.
- Thinkrolls: Kids roll round characters through physics mazes, play logic and math games, and design puzzle levels of their own.
- Mathseeds: Kids move along a map of short animated math lessons and games, from first counting to early problem solving.
- Math Antics: Kids watch short animated lessons that walk through one math idea at a time, with printable practice sheets alongside.
- Times Tables Rock Stars: Kids answer rapid times tables and division questions, earning coins to dress up a rock star avatar.
- NumBots: Kids help a rusty robot rebuild itself by solving addition and subtraction challenges.
- Kahoot! Big Numbers by DragonBox: Kids gather and trade resources in the land of Noomia while getting to grips with place value and column addition and subtraction.
- Slice Fractions 2: Kids slice blocks into fractions so the right pieces drop into place, across more than 100 wordless puzzles.
- SolveMe Mobiles: Kids balance hanging mobiles of shapes to figure out what each shape is worth.
- KenKen: Kids fill small number grids using arithmetic clues, a bit like Sudoku with sums and products.
- Monument Valley: Kids rotate and shift impossible buildings so a silent princess can walk paths that only line up from the right angle.
- Osmo Genius Starter Kit: Kids move real tangram pieces, number tiles and letter tiles in front of a tablet, and the games react to what they build.
- Daily SET Puzzle: Kids hunt for sets of three cards that match or differ in color, shape, number and shading, with a new puzzle each day.
Coding
- Code.org / CodeAI: Guided coding activities alongside open tools for making games, animations, apps and web pages.
- ScratchJr: Picture-based programming blocks for making characters move and telling interactive stories.
- Kodable Basics: Maze-style coding challenges that begin with sequences and patterns.
- codeSpark: Coding for Kids: Coding puzzles that don’t rely on reading, leading into tools for making stories and games.
- Tynker: Coding for Kids: Guided coding puzzles, game-making and Minecraft-related projects.
- Tynker Junior: Coding for Kids: Picture commands, voiceovers and themed adventures that introduce sequencing, loops and conditions.
- Sphero Edu: Program a physical Sphero robot by drawing paths, arranging blocks or writing text code.
- Coding For Kids: Learn To Code (KidloLand): Themed challenges, firefighting among them, that introduce sequences, loops and debugging.
- Coding Games for kids: Dino (Yateland): Dinosaur robots and space missions frame 108 visual block-coding challenges.
- PBS KIDS ScratchJr: Graphical programming blocks, drawing tools and recorded voices for PBS character stories.
- Code Karts: Pre-coding Logic: Route-planning puzzles in which children give a car the directions it needs to reach its destination.
- Code for Life: Rapid Router: Block-coding puzzles about programming a delivery van’s route.
- CodeMonkey: Game-like coding courses that run from block puzzles to typed CoffeeScript and Python.
- CS Unplugged: Computing ideas explored with cards, puzzles and movement, away from the screen.
- Bitsbox: Kids type the code for small apps, run them in a browser, then change the code.
- Dash Robot by Wonder Workshop: Kids appear to stack picture and block code that sends Dash, a small rolling robot, driving, flashing and talking around the room.
- Osmo Coding: In Osmo Coding, kids line up chunky physical coding blocks on the table and watch an on-screen character act out the sequence.
- Minecraft Education: Kids appear to roam familiar blocky worlds built around coding, math, science and history lessons.
- LEGO Education SPIKE App: With the LEGO Education SPIKE App, kids build LEGO models with motors and sensors, then code them with icon blocks, word blocks or Python.
- Bee-Bot: Young children tap forward, back and turn arrows to steer a cheerful bee across a grid toward a flower.
- Edison Robot: Kids program a compact LEGO-compatible robot using printed barcodes, picture blocks, Scratch-style blocks or Python.
- mBlock: Kids appear to code games, animations and robots with Scratch-style blocks, then see the same program as Python.
- PictoBlox: Kids drag blocks to make games, stories and robot programs, and appear to train simple AI models along the way.
- Rodocodo: Code Hour: Kids lay out arrow and action commands to steer Rodocodo the cat through five worlds of grid puzzles.
- Ozobot: Kids draw lines and colored codes with markers for a tiny robot to follow, then try block coding on a screen.
- Marty the Robot: Kids program a walking, dancing humanoid robot, starting with simple commands and moving on to blocks and Python.
Early learning
- Khan Academy Kids: An early-learning app of books, reading and math activities, videos and creative play.
- PBS KIDS Games: Games and videos from PBS KIDS programs, gathered in one browser destination.
- Montessori Preschool: A Montessori-inspired app covering early reading, numbers, art and practical-life activities.
- Kiddopia: Number and language games share the app with pretend jobs such as chef, doctor, farmer and musician.
- HOMER: Fun Learning For Kids: Letter activities, stories, number games and creative tasks are arranged into a single learning path.
- Lingokids: Games, stories, songs and movement activities touch on number sense, literacy, science and everyday social skills.
- ABCmouse: Kids Learning Games: A step-by-step learning path combines early reading, numbers, science, songs, puzzles and art.
- TRT Çocuk: A Turkish-language children’s site with games, program episodes, short videos and a live TV section.
- Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, Play: Kids wind down with bedtime stories, sleep sounds, music and breathing exercises featuring the Moshling characters.
- Avokiddo Emotions: Kids dress up, feed and hand toys to four funny animals, then watch how each one reacts.
- Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.
- Hungry Caterpillar Play School: In Hungry Caterpillar Play School, kids trace letters, count, paint, make music and listen to stories with Eric Carle’s caterpillar.
- Sesame Street Games Club: Preschoolers appear to bake with Cookie Monster, climb a beanstalk with Elmo and tinker with the Mecha Builders.
- Budge World: Kids hop between more than 100 games, from ABCs and early math to coloring, cooking and dress-up with familiar characters.
Creative play
- Pok Pok: Open-ended digital toys for drawing, building, making music and pretend play.
- Vooks Creator: Storybook Maker: Children make their own digital book from drawings, text, stickers and a recorded voice on each page.
- Kids Drawing Games & Coloring – Drawing Academy: Tracing templates, animal and vehicle drawings, and finished pictures that come to life as animations.
- Kids Coloring & Drawing Games – Draw & Dance: Voice hints and dotted outlines guide children through drawing characters that then dance.
- Draw and Tell HD: Draw a scene, add stickers, then record the story aloud while moving the stickers around.
- Sago Mini World: Character creation, baby care, bakery treats and pretend towns in one play world.
- Crayola Create and Play: Digital crayons, paint, stamps, glow art and pixel art for making pictures.
- LEGO DUPLO World: Digital DUPLO bricks and themed scenes with animals, vehicles and familiar places, for building and wandering around.
- Toca Boca Hair Salon 4: Kids cut, curl, color and regrow a character’s hair, pick outfits and photograph the finished style.
- Bimi Boo: Build & Create: Children put up houses, towers and bridges stage by stage, starting from the foundations and using construction tools and vehicles.
- Toca Boca Jr: A collection of play activities spanning pretend cooking, block building, nature shaping and dance-making.
- Crayon Club: A coloring app with character pages, a blank canvas, and tools that run from crayons and paint to stamps, glitter and patterned tape.
- Toca Boca World: Kids move characters between apartments, shops and a salon, dressing them up and acting out stories of their own.
- Bluey: Let’s Play!: Kids wander the Heeler family house, finding surprises and replaying Bluey games room by room.
- Mekorama: Kids steer a tiny wobbly robot home through mechanical dioramas, then build levels of their own.
- Dr. Panda Town Tales: Kids wander a town of shops, homes and odd corners, moving characters around to invent their own stories.
- Pepi House: Happy Family: Kids seem to play house across four floors, cooking, running the laundry and tinkering with the family car.
- My Town World: Kids roam a sprawling doll-house city of homes, shops and an airport, steering a crowd of characters into stories of their own.
- Fiete World: Kids sail, fly and drive with Fiete the sailor through places drawn from five countries, making up adventures as they go.
- Thomas & Friends: Let’s Roll: Kids drive Thomas and friends across the Island of Sodor and lay out their own train tracks.
- Smash Boom Best: Kids hear two guests argue a playful matchup, like Pikachu vs. Mario, then pick a side themselves.
- MakeBeliefsComix: Kids build comic strips from ready-made characters, speech bubbles and story prompts.
Live classes
- Outschool: Teacher-led online classes in subjects such as art, coding, science and schoolwork.
- Cuemath: One-to-one live lessons for kindergartners on counting, shapes, patterns and small-number arithmetic, using stories and visual activities.
- CodeWizardsHQ: Children make Scratch animations and games with a live teacher, then move toward text-based coding and websites.
- Codingal: Live one-on-one lessons in which early primary children sequence steps and build small Scratch and block-coding projects.
- The Little Scientists: Live science lessons, one-on-one or in small groups, where children investigate a question, try experiments and talk through what they notice.
- Bambinos.Live: In the Unbox Chess program, a coach teaches piece movement, works through tactical puzzles and reviews full games.
- Preply: Children practice English vocabulary, pronunciation and sentences with an individual tutor through stories, games and conversation.
- BrightCHAMPS: One-on-one live robotics lessons centered on building a model connected house with sensors, motors and a door mechanism.
- Varsity Tutors: Individual tutoring or live classes in elementary math topics such as place value, multiplication and fractions.
- Create2Discover: Live classes in which kids build Roblox games or Minecraft mods alongside an instructor.
- Codeyoung: One-to-one live coding lessons that begin with Scratch and branch into Python and web development.
Reading
- Epic – Kids' Books & Reading: A digital library where children browse stories and nonfiction, listen to Read-To-Me books and audiobooks, and look up words with an audio dictionary.
- Reading.com: A parent and child go through scripted phonics lessons together, followed by decodable stories and practice games.
- Reading Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
- Teach Your Monster to Read: Children design a monster and take it through games that match letters to sounds, blend words and read sentences.
- Hooked on Phonics Learning: Guided reading activities come with an ebook library meant to go alongside the lessons.
- Teach Monster: Reading for Fun: Recipes, signs and instructions are the reading material in a village adventure where helping characters earns books for a monster’s shelf.
- Vooks: Animated storybooks with narration, where each word is highlighted as it is read aloud.
- Endless Reader: Animated words are built letter by letter, dropped into short sentence puzzles and then acted out in a little scene.
- Starfall: Starfall offers a sequence of clickable reading activities that move from letter sounds to short words and connected stories.
- Endless Alphabet: Kids drag wiggly, talking letters back into place to rebuild a word, then watch monsters act out its meaning.
- Night Zookeeper: Kids draw a magical animal, then write stories, poems and articles inside an adventure set in the Night Zoo.
- Alphablocks World: Kids watch Alphablocks clips, sing phonics songs and read interactive books that use the sounds they just heard.
- Circle Round: Kids appear to settle in for folktales from many cultures, performed as radio plays with a cast and music.
- Story Pirates Podcast: Kids hear stories dreamed up by other kids performed as sketch comedy and songs, and some go on to write their own.
- Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.
- Lions and Legends: Kids listen to myths, fables and folktales from many cultures, retold as fantastical audio adventures.
- Classics Clubhouse: Kids hear classic books like Around the World in 80 Days retold as serialized family audio adventures.
- Novel Effect: Kids hear music and sound effects chime in as a picture book is read out loud.
- Bookbot: Kids read decodable books out loud while the app listens along and steps in on tricky words.
- Ello: Kids read aloud to Ello, a friendly elephant tutor who listens, helps with slips and adjusts the next session.
- Libby, the library app: With Libby and a library card, kids borrow ebooks, audiobooks and read-along picture books from their public library.
- Yoto: Kids slot a card into a screenless speaker to play audiobooks, music, podcasts and stories themselves.
- Phonics Hero: Kids help superhero Zak rescue his friends by playing phonics games that build from letter sounds to sentences.
- StoryJumper: Kids write and illustrate their own storybook, record their narration and can turn it into a printed book.
- Rebel Girls: Kids listen to audio stories about real women from history and around the world, plus sleep stories and creative activities.
- Storyberries: Kids read and listen to bedtime stories, fairy tales, poems and chapter books sorted by age and reading time.
- Storyline Online: Filmed readings of children’s books, with actors reading aloud while the illustrations appear on screen.
- StoryWeaver: A multilingual picture-book library from Pratham Books, covering everyday life, adventures, science and nature.
- International Children’s Digital Library: A simplified archive of children’s books from around the world, kept online after an earlier closure announcement.
- Free Kids Books: A collection of downloadable picture books, stories and educational texts gathered from many contributors.
- Oxford Owl for Home: A children’s eBook library paired with guidance on phonics and reading at home.
- Unite for Literacy: Short picture books with narration available in many home languages.
- Gus on the Go: A set of language apps that introduce vocabulary through illustrated lessons, reviews and games.
- Storynory: An audio-story site and podcast with original adventures, fairy tales, myths, poems and some factual stories.
- African Storybook: Illustrated reading material in African languages, with tools for finding, using and adapting stories.
- Let’s Read: Let’s Read is a digital library of children’s picture books drawn from communities across Asia and the Pacific.
- Literacy Cloud: Room to Read’s Literacy Cloud is an online library of children’s books, with read-aloud videos and material for adults who help children read.
- Storybooks Canada: Storybooks Canada offers illustrated stories with text and audio in English, French and many immigrant and refugee languages.
- Indigenous Storybooks: Indigenous Storybooks gathers illustrated stories, text and, where it exists, audio for children, families and educators.
- Nal’ibali Stories: Nal’ibali’s audio-story page collects recorded stories in South African languages.
- British Council LearnEnglish Kids: LearnEnglish Kids is the British Council’s site of English-language games, songs, stories, videos and printable activities.
- The Fable Cottage: The Fable Cottage retells well-known tales for language learners, with narration, optional parallel English text and videos for many stories.
- Duolingo ABC: Duolingo ABC is an early-reading app for learning to read and write in English.
- Read Along by Google: Read Along by Google pairs stories and word games with an on-screen reading companion that listens as a child reads aloud.
- Little Fox: Little Fox is a library of animated stories and songs for children learning English, sorted by level and series.
- VL2 Storybook Apps: VL2 Storybook Apps are illustrated digital books that pair signed storytelling with written text, made by Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University.
- Start with a Book: Start with a Book pairs themed booklists with activity guides, writing ideas and links to multimedia.
Science
- Science for Kids by Tappity: Interactive science videos, questions and a science journal, covering topics such as magnets and volcanoes.
- Coral Reef by Tinybop: Children explore a reef food web, hide an octopus and follow food through a jellyfish to see how ocean life connects.
- The Earth by Tinybop: Volcanoes, earthquakes, fossils and shifting sediment, all on screen, showing how the Earth’s surface changes.
- Space by Tinybop: An interactive solar system model where children compare planets, tilt the Earth and follow the phases of the Moon.
- Plants by Tinybop: Children move through the seasons in forest, desert and grassland habitats, looking at plant life above and below the soil.
- The Human Body by Tinybop: A working model of the human body that children can investigate, covering digestion, breathing, circulation and the senses.
- Mammals by Tinybop: Children feed and race five mammals, then compare their skeletons and body systems.
- States of Matter by Tinybop: A virtual thermometer controls whether materials melt, solidify or turn to gas, with a view of how the molecules move.
- Simple Machines by Tinybop: Kids tinker with levers, pulleys, ramps, wedges, wheels and screws to launch, lift and topple things.
- Wow in the World: Kids listen to weekly audio adventures that spin real science news into silly, sound-effect-filled stories.
- Brains On!: Kids listen as host Molly Bloom and a kid co-host chase down a listener’s science question each week.
- But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids: Kids send in their own big questions, and host Jane Lindholm seeks out experts to answer them on air.
- SciShow Kids: Kids watch host Jessi and Squeaks, a robot rat, work through one kid-sized science question per short video.
- Crash Course Kids: Kids follow fast, animated explainers on Earth, space, habitats and engineering pitched at upper elementary science.
- The Kid Should See This: Kids and grown-ups wander through a huge, hand-picked collection of short videos on science, nature, art and how things get made.
- Google Earth: Kids spin a 3D globe, zoom down to a single street and ride along on guided story tours of reefs, parks and cities.
- Seterra: Kids click places on blank maps against the clock, learning countries, capitals, states, flags and rivers.
- Stellarium Web: Kids pull up tonight’s sky for any spot on Earth, switch on constellation art and fast-forward time to watch the stars wheel.
- Tumble Science Podcast for Kids: Kids hear working scientists tell how a discovery happened, from T. rex’s tiny arms to a robot built for hugging.
- Smithsonian: Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens: The Smithsonian’s kids and teens hub gathers activities from across its museums for use at home.
- Science Buddies: Elementary STEM Activities: Science Buddies has an elementary-school collection of hands-on building and experimenting projects.
- NASA Space Place: NASA Space Place collects articles, animations, games and crafts about space and Earth.
- NASA Kids Science: Earth: NASA Kids Science’s Earth page gathers explanations and activities for children about the planet.
- ESA Space for Kids: ESA Space for Kids is the European Space Agency’s children’s site about space, with reading, games, things to do and multimedia.
- Mystery Science: Mystery Science organizes elementary science around questions meant to open discussion and hands-on work.
- Generation Genius: Generation Genius teaches science and math through video lessons with related materials.
- OLogy: OLogy is the American Museum of Natural History’s science site for children, organized by subject and activity type.
- Science Sparks: Science Sparks is a collection of hands-on science ideas spanning chemistry, biology, physics, seasonal themes and fairy-tale challenges.
- Science Fun: Experiments for Kids: Science Fun’s experiment library uses familiar materials to explore liquids, plants, weather and motion.
- DK Learning Activity Packs and Worksheets: DK Learning’s activity packs are downloadable projects and worksheets on nature, STEM, history and creative subjects.
- NASA StarChild: NASA StarChild is a small astronomy site with two levels of material on the solar system, the universe and space exploration.
- Explorify: Explorify uses images, video and open questions to start conversations about science.
- ACS Adventures in Chemistry: The American Chemical Society’s Adventures in Chemistry matches small experiments with explanations of the science behind them.
- Royal Institution ExpeRimental: ExpeRimental is the Royal Institution’s collection of short family science videos and practical activities.
Music
- Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
- Incredibox: A music game in which kids drag sounds onto animated performers to build a mix.
- Blob Opera: In Blob Opera, a Google Arts & Culture experiment, kids drag four opera-singing blobs to change their notes while the others join in.
- Piano Maestro: Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the iPad seems to listen in and light up the notes they hit.
- Classics for Kids: Kids hear composer stories on a weekly radio show, play note and rhythm games, and write little tunes of their own.
- Prodigies Music: Kids sing, use hand signs and ring colorful bells along with short video lessons.
- Hoffman Academy: Kids learn piano a step at a time from Mr. Hoffman’s video lessons, with songs, ear training and practice games.
- Carnegie Hall Musical Explorers: Young kids sing, dance and learn songs from musical traditions around the world with Carnegie Hall artists.
- GarageBand: Kids play touch instruments, trigger loops and record songs, beats and their own voices on an iPhone or iPad.
- Groove Pizza: Kids build drum beats by placing toppings on a spinning pizza and hearing the patterns play.
- Simply Piano: Kids play a real piano or keyboard while the app listens to each note and responds.
- Noodle Loaf: Kids sing, clap rhythms and dance along with short, playful music episodes led by educator Dan Saks.
Art
- Art for Kids Hub: Art for Kids Hub has step-by-step drawing videos for kids, with a parent and child drawing the same subject side by side.
- MoMA At-Home Art Activities: Art-making ideas from MoMA, each starting from a work in the museum’s collection.
- National Gallery of Art Paint ’n’ Play: A digital painting tool with brushes and palettes based on artists in the National Gallery of Art collection.
- Jarrett Lerner Creative Activities: Printable comics, story starters and drawing prompts from author-illustrator Jarrett Lerner.
- Getty Drawing With Kids: A short Getty article with five drawing ideas tied to artworks in the museum’s collection.
- V&A Make & Do for Kids: Design activities from the V&A, from a fantastic creature to a patterned tile or a story setting.
- Tux Paint: A children’s drawing program with a penguin mascot, sound effects and an open canvas.
- Crayola Crafts: A library of Crayola craft projects that can be searched by materials, theme and age.
- New Victory Arts Break: A video activity in which children make a paper puppet of themselves and take it on an adventure.
- Tate Kids: Tate Kids is a place to paint, draw and spray digital street art, play art games and quizzes, and find art projects to make at home.
- Aqua – Adobe for Kids: Kids draw, color, design outfits, make comics and turn drawings into 3D objects on a map of creative islands.
- Quick, Draw!: Kids sketch a named object in 20 seconds while a computer tries to guess what it is.
Making
- LEGO Education Lesson Plans: Classroom lesson plans built around design challenges with specific LEGO Education sets.
- Exploratorium Tinkering Projects: Hands-on tinkering projects from the Exploratorium built around motion, balance and chain reactions.
- LEGO Builder: Kids follow LEGO building steps as 3D models they can spin and zoom, sometimes sharing one set with family.
- Makey Makey: Kids clip wires to bananas, play-dough or pencil drawings and turn them into keys for computer games and music.
- KiwiCo DIY Projects: Kids build, tinker and experiment through step-by-step projects that mostly use materials found around the house.
- Brick Car 2: Kids build cars, trucks and buses out of colorful bricks, then take them out to drive and race.
Movement
- GoNoodle: GoNoodle has short movement and dance videos for kids, built around music, characters and simple instructions.
- Cosmic Kids: Story-led yoga and movement videos in which kids follow a presenter through an adventure.
- Smiling Mind: Kids listen to short guided sessions of breathing, body scans and calming stories grouped by age.
- Danny Go!: Kids jump, dance and freeze along with Danny’s high-energy songs, games and make-believe adventures.
- Peace Out: Kids breathe, stretch and picture calm scenes while a gentle host tells mindfulness stories.
- Active Arcade: Kids jump, duck, dodge and dance through camera-powered games where their body acts as the controller.
Chess
- ChessKid: Chess lessons, puzzles, computer opponents and games against other children.
- Kahoot! Learn Chess: DragonBox: Kids follow Grandmaster Max through six worlds, meeting each chess piece in puzzles before playing full games.
- Story Time Chess: Kids learn how each chess piece moves through silly stories about characters like King Chomper, using a special board and pieces.
Typing
- TypingClub: Short typing lessons with on-screen finger guidance, games and story-based courses.
- Typing.com: Self-paced keyboard lessons and typing practice with game-like elements.
- Dance Mat Typing: Kids learn touch typing from a troupe of dancing animals across four levels of short stages.
- TypeTastic: Kids get to know the keyboard through playful games, from building a keyboard map to typing words on an island adventure.
- Nessy Fingers Touch Typing: Nessy Fingers teaches kids touch typing with real words, building their spelling along the way.
Languages
- Studycat: Young kids tap, match and sing their way through first words in Spanish, French, German, Chinese or English.
- Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.
- Little Pim: Little ones watch five-minute episodes in which a cartoon panda and native speakers introduce words in a new language.
- Salsa: Kids watch puppets act out familiar fairy tales entirely in Spanish and pick up words from context.
Nature
- Seek by iNaturalist: Kids seem to spend their time aiming a camera at leaves, beetles and birds, then filing each find into a growing collection.
- Merlin Bird ID: Kids hold a phone up to birdsong or snap a photo, and Merlin suggests which birds might be around them.
- Cornell Lab Bird Cams: Kids watch live cameras trained on real nests and feeders, with hawks, ospreys, albatrosses and toucans going about their day.
- Ranger Rick: Kids meet wild animals through Ranger Rick’s stories, photos, reading games, videos and a wildlife podcast.
- Journey North: Kids report the monarchs, hummingbirds and other migrants they spot, then watch sightings sweep across a live map.
- National Geographic Kids: National Geographic Kids mixes animal profiles, short videos, quizzes and puzzles on a browsable discovery site.
- San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Explorers has animal and plant profiles, zoo stories, facts and printable activities.
- Natural History Museum: Activities for All: The Natural History Museum’s Activities for All page lists ways to explore nature at home or close by.
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Online Courses: Monterey Bay Aquarium runs online courses built around marine animals, with observation and making activities.
- National Park Service Junior Ranger Booklets: The National Park Service’s national-theme Junior Ranger booklets cover subjects that span many parks.
History
- Ben’s Guide to the U.S. Government: Ben’s Guide introduces children to the U.S. government through learning adventures, a glossary and games.