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Ages 9–12

Apps and websites for kids 9 to 12

Coding, math, science, languages and creative tools for kids who are ready to go deeper.

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.
  • Kahoot! Geometry by DragonBox: Shape puzzles that introduce angles, geometric properties and the steps behind a proof.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Polypad: A math canvas full of movable objects, from fraction bars and number cubes to 3D solids.
  • Math is Fun: Illustrated math explanations alongside puzzles, games, worksheets and reference pages.
  • 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.
  • BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.: Animated explanations followed by quizzes, drawing and vocabulary activities on the same topic.
  • YouCubed Activities and Tasks: A library of math tasks to explore through discussion, drawing and hands-on work.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Alcumus: Kids tackle adaptive challenge problems from Art of Problem Solving, unlocking achievements as they climb.
  • 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.
  • Euclidea: Kids build geometric figures with a virtual compass and straightedge, hunting for the solution with the fewest moves.
  • Kahoot! Algebra 2 by DragonBox: Kids solve visual equation puzzles that gradually become real algebra, from like terms to factoring.

Coding

  • Code.org / CodeAI: Guided coding activities alongside open tools for making games, animations, apps and web pages.
  • Scratch: Interactive stories, animations and games built by snapping visual coding blocks together.
  • 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.
  • Hopscotch: Programming for Kids: Tutorials and open creation tools for building games and other interactive projects.
  • Sphero Edu: Program a physical Sphero robot by drawing paths, arranging blocks or writing text code.
  • Coding Games for kids: Dino (Yateland): Dinosaur robots and space missions frame 108 visual block-coding challenges.
  • Swift Playground: Interactive Swift lessons and puzzles that lead toward building apps.
  • Blockly Games: A series of programming puzzles that start with visual blocks and lead toward JavaScript.
  • CodeCombat: Game-based coding challenges in which kids type Python or JavaScript to make things happen on screen.
  • Microsoft MakeCode: Microsoft’s set of block-and-text coding editors for making arcade games and programming small devices.
  • 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.
  • VEXcode VR: Code a virtual robot to drive through mazes, draw shapes and take on challenges.
  • Raspberry Pi Foundation Projects: Step-by-step projects for making things in Scratch, Python and web code.
  • Snap!: A visual programming editor for building programs, drawings, animations and games from blocks.
  • Code Monster: Short JavaScript examples sit beside a drawing area, so every edit changes the picture right away.
  • 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.
  • micro:bit Make it: code it: Projects for coding a micro:bit board to use its LEDs, buttons, motion sensor and sound.
  • Kodu Game Lab: A Windows program for building a 3D game world and programming its characters with visual rule tiles.
  • 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.
  • Machine Learning for Kids: Kids teach a computer to sort words, pictures, numbers or sounds, then put what it learned to work in Scratch.
  • Rodocodo: Code Hour: Kids lay out arrow and action commands to steer Rodocodo the cat through five worlds of grid puzzles.
  • Pencil Code: Kids steer a drawing turtle with code to make pictures, tunes and games, flipping between blocks and typed text.
  • Human Resource Machine: Kids drag commands to make a little office worker shuffle, sort and add boxes in puzzles that quietly teach programming.
  • 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.
  • GDevelop: Kids build their own 2D and 3D games from events and ready-made behaviors, then export them to share.
  • Teachable Machine: Kids record their own pictures, sounds or poses with a webcam or microphone and watch a model learn to tell them apart.
  • Alice: Kids drag code tiles to make 3D characters act out animated stories and small games.
  • LightBot: Kids program a small robot with picture command tiles to light up every blue square in a 3D puzzle.
  • Baba Is You: Kids push word blocks around to rewrite the rules of each level, turning WALL IS STOP into something new.

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.

Creative play

  • Vooks Creator: Storybook Maker: Children make their own digital book from drawings, text, stickers and a recorded voice on each page.
  • Draw and Tell HD: Draw a scene, add stickers, then record the story aloud while moving the stickers around.
  • Toca Boca Hair Salon 4: Kids cut, curl, color and regrow a character’s hair, pick outfits and photograph the finished style.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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 Eggs: Pre-reading, first reading, systematic phonics and later comprehension are split into separate programs aimed at different ages.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Book Club for Kids: Kids listen as three young readers talk over a book they all read, then hear from its author.
  • Stories Podcast: Kids wind down with a weekly story, from retold fairy tales to serialized classics and original tales.
  • The Unexplainable Disappearance of Mars Patel: Kids follow 11-year-old Mars Patel and his friends through a three-season audio mystery.
  • Six Minutes: Kids follow Holiday, an 11-year-old with no memory and unusual abilities, through a long-running audio adventure.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Lit2Go: Lit2Go has classic stories and poems as audiobooks, so kids can listen while following the text on the page.
  • 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.
  • Duolingo: Language practice through short exercises with words, sentences, listening and speaking.
  • Storynory: An audio-story site and podcast with original adventures, fairy tales, myths, poems and some factual stories.
  • 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.
  • Digital Dialects: Digital Dialects is a language-learning site with vocabulary games, word lists, flashcards and audio exercises in a long list of languages.
  • Little Fox: Little Fox is a library of animated stories and songs for children learning English, sorted by level and series.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Frontiers for Young Minds: Kids read science articles by working researchers, each one reviewed for clarity by kids their own age.
  • Science News Explores: Kids read science news written at their level, from fresh dinosaur finds to robots, space missions and the human body.
  • SciJinks: SciJinks is NOAA’s weather site for kids, with articles, games and videos on how weather works, from hurricanes to rainbows.
  • TÜBİTAK Bilim Genç: TÜBİTAK Bilim Genç is a Turkish-language science site with articles, questions, videos and making activities.
  • 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.
  • PhET Interactive Simulations: PhET is a library of interactive science and math simulations that run in a browser.
  • 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.
  • Exploratorium Science Snacks: Exploratorium Science Snacks are hands-on investigations of real phenomena using physical materials.
  • 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.
  • Ask A Biologist: Ask A Biologist, from Arizona State University, mixes biology stories with games, activities, videos and conversations with scientists.
  • 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.
  • EIA Energy Kids: Energy Kids, from the U.S. Energy Information Administration, explains energy sources, electricity, energy use and the history of energy.
  • 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

  • musictheory.net: Short lessons and drills on reading notes, rhythm, scales and chords.
  • Chrome Music Lab: A collection of browser experiments for playing with sound, pattern and rhythm.
  • Ableton Learning Music: Browser lessons from Ableton on how beats, basslines, chords and melodies fit together.
  • 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.
  • 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.

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.
  • Stop Motion Studio: An app for making stop-motion films by photographing small movements one frame at a time.
  • 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.
  • Piskel for Kids: A pixel-art editor for drawing small characters and turning them into animated sprites.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • BlocksCAD: Kids snap together code blocks that build 3D shapes and objects, ready to send to a 3D printer.
  • Poly Bridge 3: Kids design bridges from wood, steel, rope and hydraulics, then send cars and trucks across to see if they hold.
  • Tinkercad: Kids stack and cut simple shapes into 3D models, wire up virtual circuits and build designs from code blocks.

Movement

  • GoNoodle: GoNoodle has short movement and dance videos for kids, built around music, characters and simple instructions.
  • Smiling Mind: Kids listen to short guided sessions of breathing, body scans and calming stories grouped by age.
  • 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.
  • Lichess: A general chess site with a learning area for the basics, plus puzzles and practice tools.
  • 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

  • Dinolingo: Kids watch animated lessons, sing songs and play games in any of 50 languages.

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.
  • Earth Rangers: Kids pick real-world conservation missions, earn badges and hear wildlife stories through the Earth Rangers app and podcast.
  • 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.

Early learning

  • Moshi Kids: Sleep, Relax, Play: Kids wind down with bedtime stories, sleep sounds, music and breathing exercises featuring the Moshling characters.
  • Pango Kids: Kids tap through soft interactive stories with Pango and friends and play small puzzles, sorting and dot-to-dot games.

History

  • Stack the States: Kids answer questions about U.S. states and pile the cartoon state shapes into a wobbly tower aiming for the finish line.
  • Mission US: Kids play young people living through turning points in U.S. history and make choices that steer each story.
  • iCivics: Kids run a presidential campaign, take on court cases and push bills through government in short civics games.
  • Ducksters: Ducksters offers short reference articles on history, biographies, geography and science, with games alongside.
  • 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.