A short science video about interspecies animal friendships, helping children think about cooperation and unusual relationships in the animal kingdom. 

A gentle book-style video exploring different kinds of animal friendships and partnerships.

A warm, beautifully illustrated book by Sophy Henn that introduces animal friendships and the different ways creatures can help one another.

A gentle story about a shark and a remora friend, opening up conversations about companionship and ocean partnerships.

Cut out and mix up the cards, then match each animal with its partner. An answer key and questions to wonder about are included.

Explore cleaner wrasse and reef fish, goby fish and pistol shrimp, ants and acacia trees, and honeyguide birds and humans.

Do you think friendship in nature always means both partners benefit equally, or can helping look different for each one?

Use this slot for a child-friendly video about Anna Comstock’s life, her nature study work and why she encouraged children to learn by observing nature directly.

Learn about why Anna Comstock is a cool scientist.

A practical introduction to monoprinting that helps children explore shape, texture and pattern through a one-of-a-kind print.

A beautiful picture book about Anna Botsford Comstock, who helped children learn by stepping outside, observing carefully and discovering the wonder of the natural world for themselves.

A fun Kahoot helping children remember what they discovered about Anna Comstock.

Choose one small natural object, study it for five quiet minutes and record three details you had not noticed before.

Choose one tiny thing outdoors, such as a leaf, feather, flower, insect or stone, and draw it carefully. What do you notice when you slow down?

Keep a nature journal for one week. Learn the name of one bird, one tree and one wildflower near your home, then record what changes each day.

Get down low and look carefully beneath your feet. Explore the grass, soil, leaves, bark and stones to see what hidden details nature reveals.

A child-friendly look at animals that produce light and the different reasons they glow.

Meet ocean creatures that make their own light and discover why bioluminescence is useful underwater.

See real deep-sea animals and learn how and why they create light in the darkness.

A beautiful story that introduces children to the concept of bioluminescence and the wonder of creatures that can make their own light.

A flip through review of Glow: The Wonders of Bioluminescence

Use non-toxic glow paint or highlighter ink to make glowing artwork, then compare the effect with true bioluminescence. Use only child-safe materials with adult supervision; never open or ingest highlighters.

A family quiz about glowing creatures, deep-sea survival and living light.

Discover why water mixed with highlighter dye or tonic water glows under ultraviolet light, while ordinary tap water stays dark.

Why is the deep ocean dark? How do fireflies use light to communicate? Could glowing organisms inspire safer lighting or new scientific tools?

If you could make your own light, when would you use it and what message would your glow send?

A short introduction to Esperanto, its creator L. L. Zamenhof and the idea of an international language.

Hear how Esperanto sounds and explore its origins, spelling, simple grammar and a few useful expressions.

Mara Rockliff’s illustrated picture-book biography follows L. L. Zamenhof from his multilingual childhood to the creation of Esperanto and his hope that a shared language could bring people closer together.

A short animated story with subtitles that offers a gentle first experience of hearing Esperanto in context.

Review Zamenhof’s story, Esperanto and the lesson’s central ideas with a short family quiz.

Practise saluton (hello), dankon (thank you), jes (yes), ne (no), amiko (friend) and bonan matenon (good morning). Which phrase would you like to use first?

Create new words for hello, friend, please, thank you and goodbye. Decide how they sound, how they are written and which patterns might help somebody else learn them.

Can a shared language build understanding on its own, or do people also need patience, kindness and a willingness to listen?

A child-friendly introduction to fungi, how they get food and why children should never eat wild mushrooms.

A simple overview of the fungi kingdom and how fungi differ from plants and animals.

A clear explanation of fungi and their important role in the natural world.

Christine Nishiyama’s child-friendly book introduces mushrooms, yeast, mould and the surprising places fungi live.

An article about one of the largest living organisms on Earth, useful for curious older children and adults.

A supervised activity for observing the patterns made when a mushroom releases its spores. Wash hands afterwards and do not eat the mushroom.

An interactive family quiz about fungi, mushrooms, spores and forest science.

Explore mushroom-based fabrics, fairy rings and penicillin, then look for more examples of fungi changing the world.

If fungi disappeared, what changes might we notice first in a forest?

A clear visual introduction to how warmer, less-dense air allows a balloon to rise through cooler air.

Travel back to 1783 and meet the people, ideas and surprising animal passengers behind an extraordinary first flight.

Watch dozens of balloons take to the sky and notice the shapes, colours and preparations involved.

A wonderful read-aloud about the Montgolfier brothers and how curiosity, observation and experimentation led to one of the first human flights.

With close adult supervision, stand an empty paper teabag tube on a heatproof plate and ask an adult to light its top edge. Observe how heated air can lift the very light paper briefly.

An online quiz to review what children have learned about hot air balloon basics and flight.

Balloon pilots cannot steer left or right like aeroplane pilots. Investigate how changing altitude helps them find winds moving in different directions.

If you had lived in 1783, what would you have needed to understand before you felt brave enough to fly?

A short introduction to Jadav Payeng and the extraordinary forest he helped create.

A child-friendly overview of forest habitats and why they matter to life on Earth.

A picture-book telling of how one person’s patient planting helped a forest grow on Majuli Island.

Plant a suitable local seed or care for an existing tree, then record small changes over time. Ask an adult to help choose a species and place that will not harm the local environment.

A family quiz about Jadav Payeng, forests and caring for the Earth.

Draw the same place before planting, after one year and after fifty years. Which plants, insects, birds and larger animals might arrive at each stage?

What could happen if each person cared for one small piece of the world for a very long time?

A child-friendly introduction to Kandinsky, abstraction, colour and music.

Explore synesthesia and how some people experience one sense through another.

Create an original abstract picture using rhythmic lines, geometric shapes and colour.

A beautiful introduction to Kandinsky’s childhood, imagination and the way he connected colour with music.

A playful book that helps children think about colour, expression and whether art always has to look realistic.

Play instrumental music and draw marks that respond to its speed, volume and mood. Avoid planning a recognisable picture; let the music guide each mark.

Choose colours for joy, calm, worry, excitement and wonder. There are no wrong answers: explain why each colour feels right to you.

Look at one Kandinsky artwork for a full minute. Which shapes do you notice first, and where does your eye travel next?

Create two pictures for the same song: one for its quietest moment and one for its loudest. What changed?

If a feeling had a shape, colour and sound, what would yours look like today?

An animated visit to Leonardo’s studio and his remarkable flying-machine ideas.

A concise child-friendly biography covering Leonardo’s art, inventions and scientific interests.

Discover why Leonardo is remembered as an artist, scientist, inventor and engineer.

A beautiful story to introduce Leonardo’s fascination with flight and invention.

A useful activity resource for exploring Leonardo’s art and scientific thinking.

Measure a child’s height and arm span to explore Leonardo’s ideas about human proportion.

Challenge your family with an online quiz about Leonardo da Vinci.

Fill a page with questions, mirror writing, close observations and a labelled invention of your own.

Is curiosity more powerful when art and science work together?

Looking for fun facts for kids about solar eclipses? This video explains what a solar eclipse is and shares interesting facts to help kids understand this celestial event.

Have you ever seen an eclipse before? Eclipses happen when one celestial body moves into the shadow of another. And there are two types of eclipses that can be observed from Earth: solar eclipses and lunar eclipses.

Encourages young readers to safely learn about solar eclipses

Explore the science and mystique of lunar and solar eclipses

Uncover the science behind these beautiful natural events.

Read along to A Few Beautiful Minutes With Meredith

Materials you will need: a cardboard box, white paper, aluminium foil, scissors, Sellotape, a push pin, a pencil

A short National Film Board documentary about Maud’s life, home and art. Watch together because it discusses illness and hardship.

An accessible overview of Maud’s life and colourful folk paintings.

A guided project using simple shapes and joyful colour to make an original folk-art scene.

Discover the story of Maud Lewis as told by Kathy Stinson and how she became one of Canada’s most beloved folk artists despite facing many challenges throughout her life.

Learn how Maud turned the surfaces around her into art and why her tiny house is now preserved in a museum.

A concise Canadian government biography introducing Maud’s life and legacy.

A family quiz about Maud Lewis, her art and the story A Tulip in Winter.

Choose an ordinary place you know well and repaint it with brighter colours, repeated shapes and one playful surprise.

Can a small, ordinary life create something extraordinary?

Tate Kids explains how careful observation and a humble apple helped Cézanne challenge art rules.

A deeper look at how Cézanne slowly constructed paintings with form and colour; best for older children or shared viewing.

Visit the objects and spaces that inspired Cézanne’s still-life paintings.

Follow along as we read Cézanne and the Apple Boy.

An online game about the life of Cézanne and his place in art history.

A comprehension quiz connected to the Cézanne read-aloud by Laurence Anholt.

Arrange three ordinary objects, study them from two positions and draw the shapes you notice rather than what you think they should look like.

Draw one apple from above, from the side and very close up. Which view feels most surprising?

Can looking at an ordinary object for long enough change the way you understand it?

Compare droppings from different animals and discover surprising clues about their diets.

Follow food through the digestive system and find out how the body turns leftovers into waste.

A silly and memorable story to introduce children to animal poo, zoo life and the animals who live there.

A funny classic that children love, with lots of opportunity to compare different animal droppings and talk about how animals are different.

Match photographs or drawings of tracks and droppings to their animals using shape, size and diet clues. Never handle droppings; observe real examples only from a safe distance with an adult.

Sort animals into herbivores, carnivores and omnivores, then predict how their waste might differ.

Draw food travelling through an animal’s body as nutrients are absorbed and waste is left behind.

Investigate how dung beetles, fungi and microbes recycle waste and return nutrients to soil.

What can something as silly as poo teach us about an animal’s whole life?

The True Story of How Eugenie Clark Became the Ocean’s Most Fearless Scientist

A concise introduction to Clark’s life, research and work protecting sharks.

A fuller tribute from the marine laboratory Clark founded; best for older children or shared viewing.

Hear the true story of the child who followed a love of sharks into a life of science.

A quiz for reviewing shark facts and what children have discovered about these ocean animals.

A quiz based on the book Shark Lady by Jess Keating, helping children review Eugenie Clark’s story.

Choose one question about shark behaviour, then decide what a scientist would observe and record without disturbing the animal.

Investigate how gills, fins, skin and senses help sharks survive in different habitats.

What becomes possible when we study an animal we once feared?

Watch a joyful demonstration of katajjaq, a vocal game and musical tradition practised by Inuit women and girls in parts of the Canadian Arctic.

Explore the landscape and notice the snow, ice, light and wide-open spaces.

Discover how packed snow and trapped air can insulate a temporary snow shelter. Inuit families today live in many kinds of modern homes.

CAUTION: When I was Eight is a story about the first hand experience of a young Inuit girl who was taken to a residential school to become ‘Christian’. This opens up big questions and challenges what role some humans have in oppressing other cultures. It is an important part of learning about the world but needs to be presented in a gentler manner.

A short explanation of how the singular word Inuk differs from the plural word Inuit.

A helpful starting point for talking carefully about Indigenous peoples, identity and culture.

Choose an Arctic tool or design and explain how its materials and shape respond to local conditions.

Find the Arctic Circle on a map and investigate which peoples and languages are connected to different regions.

A family quiz to review what children have learned about Arctic peoples and respectful language.

How can traditional knowledge and modern technology work together in a changing Arctic?

TED-Ed explores why placebos are used and how expectation can affect what people feel.

A clear introduction to how context, belief and brain signals may influence symptoms.

The story about Benjamin Franklin, mystery, science and the power of careful investigation.

A Kahoot based on the read-aloud, helping children review the story and its scientific mystery.

Sort statements into predictions, observations and conclusions, then ask what evidence would make each claim stronger.

Design a pretend study using two identical cups of coloured water and decide how to keep the test fair—without swallowing or testing any medicine.

Explore a safe illusion and compare what you first expected to see with what closer observation reveals.

If someone feels better after a placebo, what has changed—and what would scientists still need to know?

See red, green and blue light overlap in a simple demonstration, revealing how coloured light can combine to appear white.

Discover how rods, cones and the brain work together—and why people and animals do not all see colour in quite the same way.

Explore wavelengths, prisms, rainbows and reflected light in a clear introduction to the science behind the colours we see.

Let's read this colourful lift-the-flap book by Julia Donaldson and Sharon King-Chai called Colours, Colours Everywhere.

Susie Brooks and Sirjana Kaur explore how colours appear in nature, history and culture, from saffron and flamingos to indigo and ochre.

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A clear explanation of how light, rods, cones and the brain create our experience of colour, with a thoughtful introduction to colour-vision differences.

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Read about rods and cones, then try a simple blind-spot activity from Neuroscience for Kids. Best explored with an older child or adult.

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An interactive quiz for older children who would enjoy reviewing light, colour and waves together.

Investigate what colours bees can see, why rainbows keep their order, what colour a mirror is or why screens use red, green and blue light.

Explore why some people see colours differently and how colour-vision differences can change the way the world appears.

Meet an animal with twelve colour receptors and discover why more receptors do not simply mean seeing more colours.

Follow a search for the biggest number and discover why infinity is not a number we can eventually reach.

Travel from stars and galaxies to the observable universe, then consider how much may lie beyond what we can see.

Kate Hosford and Gabi Swiatkowska follow Uma as she asks friends and family how they imagine infinity—and finds an answer through love.

Discover why infinity is not a very large number, why counting never reaches a final number and how different infinities can appear.

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Look closely at a fern, pine cone, snowflake or romanesco broccoli and notice how similar shapes repeat at smaller and smaller scales.

Infinity and Me compares love with infinity. Can love be counted, measured or used up—or do we need a different way to understand it?

Can something be endless even if we cannot count or measure it?

Find Italy on the map and meet its capital, ancient ruins, volcanoes, food, artists and inventions in a lively introduction.

Glide along the Grand Canal, pass the Rialto Bridge and discover why people in Venice travel on water instead of roads

Visit Pisa’s famous bell tower and discover how soft ground beneath its foundations caused the building to lean.

Nancy Castaldo’s story follows a Neapolitan pizza maker preparing a special pizza for Queen Margherita using tomatoes, mozzarella and basil.

Hear the ancient legend of Romulus and Remus. It includes abandonment, threats and a brother’s death, so preview it for younger or sensitive children.

A quiz for younger children to review what they have learned about Italy.

A deeper interactive quiz for older children exploring Italian geography, history and culture.

Investigate how pizza is made in Naples, what happened at Pompeii, how Venice stands on water or why so much Renaissance art began in Italian cities.

How can the landscape and history of a place shape the way people live there today?

Meet children in Mongolia and begin exploring everyday life, landscapes and culture through a child-centred introduction.

A quick overview touching on Mongolia’s geography, capital, currency, history and distinctive landscapes.

Look inside a portable round home and notice how its lattice walls, roof poles, felt covering and central opening work together. In Mongolia, this home is called a ger.

Laurence Yep retells a lively Mongolian folktale in which a shepherd named Mongke hopes to marry the Khan’s daughter and learns that good fortune is not the same as wisdom.

A cinematic visit with Kazakh nomadic families in western Mongolia, including horses and eagle hunting. Preview for children who may find hunting scenes difficult.

See how suutei tsai is prepared and discover why this everyday Mongolian tea is milky and savoury rather than sweet.

An interactive quiz to revisit Mongolia’s geography, landscapes, homes and culture.

Investigate how a ger can be packed and moved, why Mongolian horses are small and hardy, how two-humped camels survive the Gobi and what happens during a dzud.

How might your home, food and daily routines change if you lived through Mongolia’s grassland summers and very cold winters?

A quick introduction to Peru’s location, languages, landscapes, history, food and well-known places.

Travel across Peru from home and gather questions about the Andes, Amazon, cities, wildlife and culture.

Discover the fine fibre of the wild vicuña and explore how animal fibres, natural dyes and textile traditions connect with Andean life.

Laurie Krebs’ rhyming story follows travellers moving through the Andes towards Cusco for the Inti Raymi festival.

A cultural food video about cuy. Preview it before sharing because it discusses—and may show—an animal many children know as a pet being prepared as food.

An interactive quiz to revisit Peru’s geography, landscapes, wildlife, history and culture.

Investigate how Inca stonework fitted together, how woven-grass bridges cross deep gorges, why vicuñas thrive at altitude and how water travels from the Andes into the Amazon.

How can altitude change the weather, farming, homes and animals within the same country?

Review one common seven-continent model before asking how Türkiye can have land in both Europe and Asia.

Find the country and explore introductory facts about its geography, cities, language and culture. The video uses the English name Turkey; Türkiye is now the country’s official English name.

See Cappadocia from above and notice the valleys and rock formations shaped from volcanic material over millions of years.

Demi retells a Nasrettin Hoca folktale in which a shabby coat, a grand coat and a feast reveal the foolishness of judging people by appearance.

Listen to the rhythm and sounds of Turkish while learning to count from one to one hundred.

Watch children taste several packaged snacks, then compare their reactions and wonder which foods are everyday, regional, homemade or celebratory.

An interactive quiz to revisit Türkiye’s geography, culture, language and history.

Investigate how Cappadocia’s soft rock formed, why Istanbul has had several names, how carpets are woven, why tea glasses have a narrow waist and how Iznik tiles are made.

What changes—and what stays connected—when a city grows on two continents?

A child-friendly biography covering Einstein’s early life, work, major ideas and lasting importance.

Build a foundation for Einstein’s work by exploring how gravity acts between masses and shapes motion in the universe.

An animated first look at light, motion and why time behaves differently at extremely high speeds.

Jennifer Berne’s picture-book biography follows Einstein from a curious child with a compass to an adult imagining journeys alongside light.

Author Brad Meltzer reads a lively biography about asking questions, persistence and thinking differently.

Imagine travelling beside a beam of light. What would you see? Then compare clocks on a fast train and at a station, drawing or discussing your predictions before learning what relativity says.

Investigate why light has a speed limit, how gravity can bend light, why moving clocks tick differently, what E = mc² actually means and how Einstein’s ideas help GPS work.

Which matters more at the beginning of a discovery: knowing an answer or imagining a better question?

A child-friendly introduction to Coco Chanel’s life, exploring how her practical ideas and distinctive designs helped reshape twentieth-century fashion.

An animated biography tracing Coco Chanel’s journey from a difficult childhood to becoming an influential designer who challenged traditional fashion.

This funny video shows how women before Coco brought her new designs out dressed.

A short illustrated biography following Gabrielle Chanel from a difficult childhood to work as a designer.

Eva Byrne’s picture-book biography introduces Chanel’s childhood, imagination and determination.

A colourful video-book tour of Paris that introduces children to the city’s famous landmarks, culture and everyday life.

A practical introduction to fashion design, including how designers develop an idea and create a fashion sketch.

Sketch an outfit for a real activity—climbing, dancing, travelling or creating. Choose fabric, shape, fastenings and pockets, then explain how each decision helps the wearer.

See how much you have learnt about the life of Coco!

Who made fashionable clothes? How did jersey move from underwear to outerwear? Why did pockets matter? How do brands shape desire? And how should we remember influential people who also made harmful choices?

How can changing the design of clothing change what people feel able to do?

A child-friendly introduction using photographs and examples of Dalí’s famous artworks to explain his life and unusual ideas.

A concise explanation of dreamlike art featuring Dalí alongside René Magritte, Dorothea Tanning and other Surrealists.

A grade-school art lesson introducing Dalí and Surrealism, followed by instructions for an imaginative watercolour project.

A picture-book biography following Dalí from an imaginative child in Figueres to a world-famous artist.

Anna Obiols and Joan Subirana imagine young Dalí travelling through a landscape shaped by dreams and curiosity.

If you have ever need motivation to be your most authentic self, Salvador Dali inspires all to be true to themselves and follow their dreams.

Choose two unrelated objects and combine them into one new invention, creature or landscape. Draw it carefully enough to look believable, then give it an impossible job.

Test your knowledge of who Salvador Dali was with this Kahoot game.

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Meet more Surrealists and compare how artists used dreams, unexpected combinations, chance and strange changes of scale.

Explore Surrealism with Tate Kids

Step inside a museum-made virtual environment inspired by one Dalí painting. Preview first if a child finds dream imagery unsettling, and remember that this is a modern interpretation rather than the original artwork.

If you painted a dream, which parts would you make look real—and which would you make impossible?

A playful introduction to digestion, gut bacteria and why gas needs a way out.

A more detailed animation about swallowed air, microbial fermentation and the gases produced during digestion; best for older or especially curious children.

A funny read-aloud by Dawn McMillan that gives children a playful way to talk about body sounds

Shinta Cho’s reassuring picture book explains where gas comes from and reminds children that everyone passes it.

Test what you remember about digestion, microbes and gas.

Discover why researchers collected evidence about which animals pass gas—and how a funny question can open the door to anatomy, biodiversity and climate research.

Explore the animal gas database story

How can creatures too small to see change what happens inside your body?