The Curiosity Corner 🧠
FUN THINGS FOR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KIDS TO LEARN AND DO!
- The Kids Should See This: This is an award-winning collection of over 5,000 kid-friendly videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and at home.
Chrome Music Lab: Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments to explore music and its connections to science, math, art, and more.
TypingClub- learn or practice your typing skills with Typing Club. There are 650 FREE typing games, assessments, and videos to help you!
How Stuff Works- Are you a curious person? This site has tons of curiosity questions ("How far can the human eye see?"), riddles to solve, and more.
- Storyline Online: The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.
- Scholastic Home Base Summer Reading Challenge: Scholastic Home Base is a safe, free, 3D interactive world that celebrates favorite stories through book-based games, live author events, and a large community of readers.
- Lower Merion Library Summer Reading: This year's theme is Color Our World and it runs from June 23 to August 16, 2025. Read any print or listen to any audiobook in the timeframe mentioned above and then record it in the "Beanstack" where you registered online. Earn virtual badges for logging your reading, qualify to earn prizes and be entered into the end-of-summer raffle.
NASA STEM Engagement- Activities and opportunities selected by NASA STEM Experts.
NASA Kids Club- Are you an aspiring astronauts? NASA Kids' Club is a place to play games and learn about NASA.
Greg Tang Math Summer Challenge: A math challenge game board for students to complete during their summer break, using the online games and books at TangMath.com. Students who complete the challenge can be entered into a prize drawing by their parent. Have a grown up sign you up here.
PBS Kids Design Squad: DESIGN SQUAD GLOBAL includes hands-on activity challenges that focus on the engineering design process. They use simple materials, allow for multiple solutions, and are ideal for ages 9-12.
Science Bob: Here's a list of great science experiments with instructions that you can do right at home or at school. In order for your science experiment to be safe and successful, be sure to get your parent’s permission, and their help and follow the directions as written.
Science Snacks- Check out these low-cost, teacher-tested activities for curious kids.
Tinker Ball- Playing around with objects and ideas helps us see that there may be more than one solution. Tinker Ball provides you lots of puzzles to help develop thinking skills and have fun!
Free Rice: Each time you answer a multiple-choice vocabulary question correctly, you generate enough money for the United Nations World Food Programme to buy 10 grains of rice to help reach Zero Hunger.
iCivics: This site puts a flashy twist on civics-related topics, puts a ton of resources in teachers’ hands, and lets you play REALLY fun games. This site is great for older elementary students.
National Geographic Kids: Play games, watch interesting videos, learn about animals, science, geography, and culture, and explore Weird but True! stories.
Rewild the World: Meet four threatened wildlife species in their natural habitat, and help heal their environment. NOTE: this activity needs to be played on a laptop with a camera.
San Diego Zoo: kids can learn about wildlife and conservation efforts through live animal cams, videos, and interactive activities hosted by the San Diego Zoo.
Where in Google Earth is Carmen Sandiego?: Explore the world in Google Earth with the famous super-slueth Carmen Sandiego! There are 3 different games to play.
*Note: Many of these websites involve creating accounts for your children. It is recommended that you review the sites you want your child to use and create accounts with them.
- Code.org- Grab a grown up to help you create an account to save your progress and projects. Or just start coding - no account needed. All courses are available at no cost.
- Scratch- Grab a grown up to help you create an account so you can create and save your own stories, games, and animations!
- Tynker- Coding Made Easy! Everything needed to learn computer programming the fun way! Grab a grown up to help you create an account so you can save your work.
- Code Monster: This simple platform teaches about Javascript by using two boxes, one for you to code in and one that shows them the results of what you entered. There's also a friendly monster that acts as a guide if you need help or get stuck. This site is great for older elementary students.
PBS Nova Cybersecurity Lab: In this Lab, you’ll defend a company that is the target of increasingly sophisticated cyber attacks. Your task is to strengthen your cyber defenses and thwart the attackers by completing a series of cybersecurity challenges. You’ll crack passwords, craft code, and defeat malicious hackers.
Bits and Bricks- Visit the Kingdom of Cybit and meet the 'Bits' who are the little LEGO robots who solve puzzles and learn programs.