Have you ever dreamed of exploring Mars? On the interactive website MarsQuest Online, kids can send a spaceship to the Red Planet, explore Mars’ volcanoes and canyons, see images from the rover, and investigate the possiblity of life on Mars. This educational website is recommended for space enthusiasts 8 and up.
Kids solve science based mysteries on Access Excellence’s interactive educational website AE Mystery Spot. Find out what Piper is allergic to, who is spreading a deadly disease, what is going wrong in a Mars simulator, why a town’s frogs are dying, and more. AE Mystery Spot is recommended for detectives over 9.
On the New York Hall of Science’s interactive Biochemistry Discovery Lab website, kids do experiments to find out what atoms are in sour foods, what molecules are in scabs, and what molecules make the holes in bread. This educational website is recommended for biochemists 9 and up.
Questionaut is a fascinating puzzle/quiz game set in a beautiful, unusual fantasy world. Players lead the hero on a quest for his friend’s lost hat. Solve puzzles on each island to get questions to appear. Correctly answer questions in the areas of language arts, math, and science to fuel your balloon to take you to [...]
Kids learn about whales, dolphins, and porpoises on the Kids Interactive – Whales educational website. Learn about whale migration, the sounds different whales make, how to identify whales, and much more while touring The Discovery, an Australian whale research ship. Visit the research center, bridge, science lab, library, and office. This website is best for [...]
Kids can be organic chemists on the zany educational website Molecularium. Combine Hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon in the nanolab to make common molecules. Learn about the states of matter by observing the way molecules move when you change their temperature. Understand how small a nanometer is by zooming from space to a 1 nanometer view [...]
Kids experiment with light, forces and motion, energy transfer, and electricity and magnetism to solve puzzles on Science Museum’s interactive Launchball website. Place special blocks into the puzzle that will cause the ball to go into the box. Test and make changes until you succeed. Then you can make your own levels to play and [...]
Kids use simple machines to solve problems on the Museum of Science and Industry’s educational website Simple Machines. Help Twitch collect the parts to repair a robot by using 4 different types of simple machines: an inclined plane, lever, wheel and axle, and pulley. Select the equipment that will use the least amount of force [...]
Kids can interact with fun optical illusions on Exploratorium’s Optical Illusions website. Click on Changing Illusions to see if you can make two circles the same size, center a dot on an arrow, line up lines, and make lines parallel. Optical illusions trick your eyes and make these tasks difficult. There are many other illusions [...]
Water Life is a fun interactive educational website that teaches kids about estuaries. Oscar the otter is your guide as you learn about why estuaries are important, and the plants and animals that live in them. The focus of this game is caring for estuaries by keeping them clean. Water Life is recommended for kids [...]