Science for Kids

NASA provides a safe place for children to play as they learn about NASA and its missions.

On this site, you will find games of various skill levels for children pre-K through grade 4. These games support national education standards in STEM -- science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

An interactive visualization of earthquake seismic waves traveling through the Earth's interior and radiating outward on the surface and simultaneously being recorded on seismograms. Choose from 10 major earthquakes. Hosted by the Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology (IRIS).

US Geological Survey website covering everything you wanted to know about earthquakes from cool earthquake facts to science fair project ideas to how to become a seismologist.

The aim of NRICH is to nrich mathematical experiences by giving students the opportunity to explore and engage with mathematical ideas. The NRICH Project started in 1996* and is based in both the University of Cambridge's Faculty of Education and the Centre for Mathematical Sciences. The site is republished every month with new content. The problems are carefully chosen and prepared by the editorial team and supporting articles, games and other resources are produced to support and complement the problems.

If you are a fourth grader, or age equivalent free-choice learner, you and your family can receive an Every Kid in a Park pass that will give you free access to hundreds of parks, lands, and waters for an entire year. Get your pass.

ActionBioscience.org is a non-commercial, educational web site created to promote bioscience literacy. To meet these goals, the web site provides articles by scientists, science educators, and science students on issues related to seven bioscience challenges: environment, biodiversity, genomics, biotechnology, evolution, new frontiers in science, and bioscience education. In addition, the web site provides educators with original lessons and resources to enhance bioscience teaching. Up-to-date external links are provided at the bottom of each article to help the reader "learn more" about or "get involved" in the issue. Selected articles are translated into Spanish.

The LIGO e-Lab provides an online environment in which students experience the excitement of scientific collaboration by investigating seismic behavior. Seismic energy from earthquakes, wind, ocean waves and human activity will become visible and meaningful as students plot data from seismometers at LIGO Hanford Observatory

Seismic processes influence the behavior of LIGO's gravitational wave detectors. Inquiry-based e-lab investigations, designed and conducted by students, will connect to LIGO in exciting and authentic ways. Students will learn about LIGO's quest to detect gravitational waves as they analyze the vibrations of the ground underneath LIGO's ultra-sensitive interferometers. The LIGO e-Lab addresses ALL science practices in the Next Generation Science Standards.

Atoms are the basic building blocks of matter that make up everyday objects. Elements are made up of atoms. A desk, the air, even you are made up of atoms! There are 90 naturally occurring kinds of atoms. Scientists in labs have been able to make about 25 more. Click to continue.

Check out the GEMS line of award-winning home science kits for kids! All are based on some of the most popular activities developed at the Lawrence Hall of Science. Soda Pop Science is the winner of the Oppenheim Platinum Science/Crafts Best Toy Award, and FamilyFun Toy of the Year (T.O.Y.) Award. Oobleck was selected as a Top 20 Toy for 2002-2003 by The Lion & Lamb Project, an initiative to stop the marketing of violence to children. Every kit has been designed, tested, and refined by GEMS staff for maximum fun and learning potential. Use one of these kits for your next science fair project.

A resource for junior high school science teachers and students.

Join the Math Cats in a land of creative, open-ended math explorations! Math Cats games, crafts, art, projects, story problems, and much more!

What picture comes to your mind when you think of agriculture? Do you see some guy in overalls plowing the dirt with an old tractor, or women picking corn in a field? Maybe what you should picture is a scientist using a satellite-linked computer program to examine global climate changes or a researcher developing a new product that can absorb 1,600 times its own weight in water. This site is all about agricultural science and is developed by the US Department of Agriculture.

An interactive, multimedia educational site for kids featuring games and movies about math, reading, and grammar. The site also includes materials for parents and teachers and offline educational activities for kids.

The Home Page features three main sections of the site: TEACHERS, STUDENTS, and EXPLORERS. The TEACHERS section includes a listing of Teaching Resources in nearly 30 topic areas. Teachers looking for materials on a variety of topics, from archaeology to water resources, should check here for links. The Teacher section also includes a listing of more than 75 classroom activities on related subjects, and a correlation of several of our activities to national standards of learning for education. Most of the material here is based on our long-running series of in-depth articles that have appeared since 1992 in Science and Children magagzine, published by the National Science Teachers Association. STUDENTS has links to several student-oriented BLM sites, as well as a special section called Homework Helpers with links on more than a dozen "hot topics" such as dinosaurs and fire. We have scoured BLM's state and field office web sites to find the best information for student projects. EXPLORERS is designed for explorers of all ages. It has links to several of the BLM-managed National Conservation Areas and National Monuments, and two sections with links: Get Out and Join In highlights volunteer opportunities, urban campouts and field trips, and detailed information on service projects and internships on BLM lands. Lifetime Learning is similar to the Homework Helpers in the student section. It includes BLM resources on such topics as mapping and the transcontinental railroad.

AIMS Education Foundation creates hands-on, standards-based activities and curricula that are engaging, affordable, and easy-to-use. AIMS supports these activities with professional development workshops and resources. AIMS Education Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the teaching and learning of math and science through a meaningful, integrated approach.

SciEduNet is the website of the Education Department of the New York Academy of Sciences. Our goal is to provide a link between the K-12 educational community and myriad science enrichment programs and resources throughout the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut tri-state region. SciEduNet provides concise, accessible information for K-12 teachers, students, and parents seeking science education programs, activities, news, literature, teaching tools, and web resources.

Make magazine's online blog has hundreds of do-it-yourself science and technology projects, from growing an edible lawn to making a solar engine.

DiscoverySchool.com is dedicated to making teaching and learning an exciting, rewarding adventure for students, teachers, and parents. To that end we provide innovative teaching materials for teachers, useful and enjoyable resources for students, and smart advice for parents about how to help their kids enjoy learning and excel in school.

The animated series PEEP and the Big Wide World gives wings to the innovative idea of teaching science to preschoolers. Wry and distinctive visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters combine with a comprehensive science program to attract and engage kids three to five years old. Set in and around a pond, a bush, and a tin can, the show follows a newly hatched chicken named Peep, and his friends Chirp and Quack (a robin and a duck), on their daily adventures. Surrounding them is a large urban park a place of great wonder and mystery, a place they are forever eager to explore, a place they call "the big wide world." The accompanying website contains online interactive games such as Paint Splat, anywhere science activities, printables, and science resources related to the program.

A resource for and by elementary science students in grades 3 through 6. Read the results of student science fair projects. Look for ideas for their own projects. Share the results of their projects with other students