Science
Peep and the Big Wide World
Preschoolers watch Peep the chick and friends poke at how the world works, then play simple games about sound, light and motion.
Peep and the Big Wide World centers on Peep, a just-hatched chick, who wanders about with Chirp the robin and Quack the duck, figuring out how their patch of the world behaves. On the website, the animated episodes sit beside short live-action clips of real kids testing the same ideas. The kids area holds science and math games plus videos grouped under headings like The Way Things Move, Sound, Animals and Plants, Light and Color, Numbers and Measuring, and Shapes and Patterns. Over in the grown-up area there are Anywhere Activities written by a preschool teacher, home science handouts and printable coloring pages. The tone throughout is soft and unhurried. Preschoolers are plainly the audience, and the activities lean on noticing, asking and trying things out.
- Ages
- Preschoolers
- Works on
- Web browser
- Topics
- Science, Early learning, Nature
- Languages
- English, Spanish
- Listed
- 2026-10-18
What kids do
- Watch Peep figure out how things move
- Play a game about sound or light
- Sort animals and plants
- Try an Anywhere Activity with a grown-up
Who it suits
Preschoolers.
Notes for parents
Produced by GBH and 9 Story with National Science Foundation funding. The whole site has a Spanish version, and the parent pages hold a good stack of at-home science ideas.
What you need
- Web browser
- Internet connection
Visit Peep and the Big Wide World
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