Activities/Resources—Science Festival—Michigan State University

University of Michigan Museum of Natural History

Explore natural history from the comfort of your home! Our Museum@Home page will be updated regularly while the museum is closed.

Activities from Matthaei Botanical Gardens and Nichols Arboretum

Check out spring nature activities that you can do at home or on a walk in a local park or nature area.

Exploratorium

From educational media to classroom activities, from a behind-the-scenes look at ideas we’re tinkering with to the vast riches of our Explore section, our teaching tools support educators and provide hundreds of ways to play and learn. For all ages, in both formal and informal learning settings, these essential tools spark curiosity, exploration, and understanding.

NASA

Let NASA bring the universe into your home.

NOAA

Here’s a quick roundup of NOAA’s most popular educational resources to help you safely hunker down while learning about the ocean and atmosphere.

Science NetLinks

Science NetLinks is a premier K-12 science education resource produced by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. At Science NetLinks, you'll find teaching tools, interactives, podcasts, and hands-on activities, and all of it is free!

National Geographic Kids

Collection of games, videos, and other education resources from National Geographic designed for kids.

Ology

A science website for kids from the American Museum of Natural History.

Science at Home from Museum of Science and Industry Chicago

Keep learning in place and at your pace with science activities and topics you can access anytime.

PBS Learning Media

WGVU and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more.

NOVA Education

NOVA Education supports STEM education and engagement nationwide through the creation of resources from NOVA's broadcast and digital productions.

Association of Science and Technology Centers Online Programming

As most science and technology centers and museums are closed to the public temporarily, many are finding ways to continue to serve their communities by offering educational programming, resources and materials. Follow them on social media for a steady stream of ideas for exploring science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).

Story Time From Space

STEM & Literacy - Astronauts on Space Station read books and conduct science experiments for kids!

Captain Planet Foundation

Explore the Captain Planet Foundation's recommended resources for learning at home! Filter by grade band, topic, and type of activity.

National Weather Service Education Resources

Need help while kids are at home with you? Check out our lessons, games, and videos to keep them engaged in science. Click on the link or thumbnail below to get things started.

SEERIH Innovations

We have lots of resources for you to explore: science 4 families, enquiring science 4 all, tinkering for learning and more.

PBS Nature

Looking for inspiration, boredom-relief, or lesson plans to keep kids busy? Here are some PBS NATURE resources for children of all ages.

Michigan eLibrary

Range of free online eBook providers.

GoOpen Michigan

Explore our library of open education resources and join a network of Michigan educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly-licensed educational resources.

CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer

CS Unplugged is a collection of free teaching material that teaches Computer Science through engaging games and puzzles that use cards, string, crayons and lots of running around.

Discovery Education Daily DE

The Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home!

Mystery Science

Popular science lessons for K-5.

Bedtime Math

A new fun math problem every day for you and your kids.

SEADAE Arts Instructional Resources

Explore learning ideas for dancers, artists, actors, musicians, and artistic technicians.

Amazing Space

Amazing Space uses astronomical discoveries to inspire and educate about the wonders of our universe. Explore a list of Space and science related resources.

LabXChange

LabXchange is a free science education platform created at Harvard University with support from the Amgen Foundation.

Educational Resources from WWF

Choose from a variety of toolkits featuring information guides and activities about some of WWF’s priority species and conservation goals.

Learn to Love Nature from WWF Uk

Educational activities to enjoy from home to learn about nature.

Chester Zoo Learning Resources

Explore our range of resources to help with teaching and learning at home and at school.

4-H Science Blast Activities

4-H Science Blast activities teach youth participants important science concepts.

Project Learning Tree

Avoid going stir-crazy during self-quarantines with these simple family activities; they’re the perfect way to keep kids engaged through active participation as they learn about nature, and suggest ways we can lessen our environmental footprint at home and beyond.

Parents And Educators Spaceplace NASA

Lots of space related resources.

4-H Animal Science Anywhere - 4-H Animal Science

Learn more about the science and life skills involved in animal and veterinary science through projects.

KBS K-12 Education Resources

Since 2006 Fellows and K-12 Partnership Teachers have been creating lessons, many of them based on science taking place at KBS.

Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center Educational Resources

Activities to learn about biofuels and more.

Lessons & Activities - K-12 Education

From free curricula to all-inclusive kits, the Cornell Lab of Ornithology has a wide variety of lessons and activities to captivate learners of all grade levels.

At home Activities

Learning Resources from the Science Museum Group.

Natural History Museum Try this at Home

On this page you'll find activities and ideas to occupy yourself and family at home, in your garden or local outdoor space.

Peabody Museum @ Home

Welcome to your hub for digital resources, educational tools, and interesting online curiosities of the Peabody Museum!

USGS Learning from Home

Your first stop for learning resources from USGS! We will be updating this weekly throughout the spring of 2020, so keep coming back.

Learning Space With NASA at Home | NASA/JPL Edu

Looking for space and science activities you can do with NASA at home? Here, you can find instructions for making things like rockets, Mars rovers and Moon landers out of materials you have at home – or with templates you can print out.

Educational Resources from Energy Department

For kids of all ages, there is always something new to learn about science and technology. The Energy Department supports science education through educational online content, resources for parents and teachers, and more.

Lessons and Activites from Madison Audubon

Madison Audubon's education team has developed a variety of active, engaging, and artistic activities and projects for students to learn about the environment, wildlife, and birds! Use any of these single lessons to get your students (or kids) excited about nature!

Lessons and Resources from Olivia V. Sanderfoot

To support stay-at-home learning, I thought I’d post the lesson plans, presentations, and activities I’ve put together over the years as a guest scientist and environmental educator. Please feel free to download these resources if they’d be useful to your family in continuing your children’s education during this challenging time.

Let's Talk Science | STEM At Home

Encourage active learning and discovery outside of the classroom - discover hands-on activities using materials commonly found at home, and watch an engaging web series or videos from around the web, curated by subject.

Children's Museum Virtual Activities

Check out this list of virtual activities offered by children’s museums, which will be updated regularly!

Cranbrook Institute of Science Learning Resources

Cranbrook Institute of Science has curated some useful learning resources, linked by topic on the right, that can be used to help augment the "home school" experience.

National Inventor's Hall of Fame STEM Activities

Thanks to the hard work of our expert education team, the National Inventors Hall of Fame® (NIHF) regularly publishes STEM activities that encourage students to pursue their innovative dreams.

Maker Mania: STEM Resources

With the mounting disruption in our society as a result of COVID19 the PAST Foundation is here to provide parents/guardians and educators with access to some of our STEM educational resources!

Howtosmile

Search almost 3,500 of the very best STEM activities on the web. Find handpicked activities from your favorite science museums, public television stations, universities, and other educational organizations. All activities are available to anyone, free of charge. After launching in 2010, and serving millions of web visitors, howtosmile has become the largest and longest running online collection of STEM activities for educators and learners from all over the world.

talkSTEM

talkSTEM works hard to make unique and high quality STE(A)M educational content freely available to all children.

STEM Resources from Texas Instruments

Encourage students to explore, evaluate and explain the world around them with project-based classroom activities, interactive technology and educator professional development that helps teachers put it all together in the classroom.

STEM Gems

STEM Gems are short discovery-based experiences. They involve little or no materials and may be easily implemented by educators who are not STEM specialists.

STEM Activities for Kids

Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Explore our favorite experiments, engineering challenges and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities! Materials are easy to find, most activities take an hour or less, and the STEM learning is limitless.