It’s no secret that kids love screen time, and as a parent it can be such a sanity saver to help you get things done! If you don’t want your kids watching mindless YouTubers, there’s a whole host of educational channels on YouTube, aimed specifically at kids! To save you scrolling through the billions of videos on there to find the right ones, we’ve done the hard work for you. Hand over the tablet, and let your kid’s settle into some guilt-free screen time that they will learn from too.
Crash Course Kids
Crash Course Kids is an educational show for kids, which is all about primary school science. They look at Earth, habitats, space, chemical reactions, engineering, and much, much more with host Sabrina Cruz. Go back through their archives and let your child follow their interests.
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Geno Kids
Meet Einstein, Greta Thunberg, Neil Armstrong, Cleopatra, Nikola Tesla, and many others on this YouTube channel. Their cartoons are aimed to engage children from the age of 2 to 8 years old, with each episode featuring interesting songs and episodes.
SciShow Kids
SciShow Kids is an educational YouTube channel for kids that explores all those curious topics that make us ask “why?” Jessi and her robot rat Squeaks answer your questions and explain fun, complex science concepts for young, curious minds. Whether conducting experiments, researching new questions, or talking with experts, there’s always something new to discover with SciShow Kids, no matter what your age!
Science Channel
Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more with science videos & news from Science Channel.
Nat Geo Kids
Nat Geo Kids is a YouTube channel that makes it fun to explore your world with weird, wild, and wacky videos! Videos featuring awesome animals, cool science, funny pets, and more, are made just for curious kids. So pick a topic you love and start watching today. Visit the National Geographic Kids website for more games, photos.
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GEOgraphy Focus
The GEOfocus channel is all about geography! Maps, flags, culture, languages, and travel. The videos created for this channel include profiles of countries and regions, descriptions of important landmarks and geographical features (both natural and man-made), and discussion of international issues. Get to know planet Earth and how mankind interacts with it!
SciShow
SciShow explores the unexpected. Seven days a week, Hank Green, Michael Aranda, and Olivia Gordon delve into the scientific subjects that defy our expectations and make us even more curious! Schedule:
- Monday – Tune in for a short dose about our weird world.
- Tuesday – Find answers to their most asked Quick Questions.
- Wednesday – Hank or Michael dive deep into a long-form infusion episode, or an unscripted talk show or quiz show with a guest!
- Thursday – Another new dose about the wonders of the world.
- Friday – Learn the latest in science News.
- Saturday – Get your quick questions answered!
- Sunday – Learn about the amazing topics we can’t quite make a stand-alone show about in SciShow List Show!
Kids Learning Tube
Kids Learning Tube educates kids through music and animation in a fun and unique approach to learning.
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Geek Gurl Diaries
Geek Gurl Diaries is a kids educational channel on YouTube that’s all about technology! Do you like Raspberry Pi, Arduino, python, programming, computer science, logic, electronics, and being geeky and awesome? Welcome to the Geek Gurl Diaries, where us gurls discuss, create, demo and interview all things geek.
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Oliver and Lucas – Educational Videos for Kids
Welcome to Oliver and Lucas – Educational Videos for Kids, a YouTube Show where we learn and have fun along the way.
We love an adventure but we also love to learn! We prefer experience and knowledge over things and want to encourage you to be curious about the wondrous world we live in so that you have stories to tell and not things to show. Come on a journey with us as we learn through play. Our kid-friendly videos are easy to understand documentaries for kids, toddlers, preschool and primary school children.
Filmed in Melbourne, Australia and new video released every Tuesday!
Science Max
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” Welcome to Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.
Houston Zoo
If your kids love animals, then they will love this channel full of videos from Houston Zoo.
The Learning Station
Visit The Learning Station for a full serving of learning fun and educational videos for children brimming with active participation. The channel features Learning Station songs filled with active participation, nursery rhymes, brain breaks for the classroom, learning videos, camp songs, dance, holiday songs, action songs, and their very popular move and freeze dance songs for children. Also, ESL songs for children combined with music and movement galore! The channel is geared towards babies, toddlers, preschoolers and primary age children.
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Kids Science
Kids Science is the home of science & technology on the Internet for children around the world. Learn more about the amazing world of science by enjoying our fun science experiments, sports, cool facts, do it yourself science projects and more. This is co-produced by Beyond Television Productions and Penguin Television and WTFN on both the Seven Network, Network Ten and ABC.
MinutePhysics
Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science. “If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.” ~Rutherford via Einstein? (wikiquote).
SoulPancake
SoulPancake was created for the joy spreaders, deep thinkers, and change makers of the internet.
The Spangler Effect
Steve Spangler is a best-selling author, educator and Emmy award-winning science communicator who finds the most creative ways to make science fun. Spangler has made more than 1,800 television appearances as an expert on inquiry-based science and strategies for making science fun. Steve is currently the host of the nationally syndicated television series DIY Sci (airing on FOX affiliates) where viewers learn how to use do-it-yourself experiments to amaze friends. Steve’s books and online experiments are widely used by parents and educators to inspire young scientists to learn more about STEM-based careers.
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Blippi
Fun educational videos for children! Kids will learn colours, learn shapes, learn numbers, learn letters, the alphabet, abcs and so much more with Blippi’s nursery rhymes, educational songs, and educational videos! Blippi ties in things children love like backhoes, tractors, planes, trains, animals, boats, unicorns, construction equipment, firetrucks, horses, and the list goes on! Incorporating cartoons and animation with real life footage!
