Our picks
Our honest picks from the list, one or two per subject. A judgement call, not a ranking, and nobody paid to be here. 20 resources.
Reading and writing 3
Khan Academy Kids
A playful, guided app for early reading, maths and social skills, with stories and drawing as well as practice.
Storyline Online
Actors read children's picture books aloud, with the book on screen. Run by the SAG-AFTRA Foundation.
Free to watch
CommonLit
A large library of stories, poems and non-fiction for lessons, with questions and teacher guides attached to each text.
Maths 2
Khan Academy
Free courses and practice from early maths through school and exam prep, with videos and mastery challenges. Science, computing and humanities sit here too.
Bedtime Math
A daily maths story with questions at three difficulty levels, meant to be done together at the end of the day, plus a free app.
Free daily problems
Science and nature 2
NASA Space Place
NASA's site of games, crafts and plain-language articles about space and Earth, written for children and the adults helping them.
Free to use
PhET Interactive Simulations
Free, research-based simulations of science and maths ideas, from the University of Colorado Boulder, that you can run in a browser.
Free simulations
Coding and computing 3
Code.org
A nonprofit that runs full computer-science courses from the first years of school upward, plus the Hour of Code / Hour of AI puzzles.
Free courses
Scratch
MIT's visual programming language and community, where children snap blocks together to make games, stories and animations, then share them.
Free to use
ScratchJr
A younger sibling of Scratch for early readers: picture blocks on a tablet, used to make characters move and tell short stories.
Free app
Arts and music 2
Chrome Music Lab
A set of tiny, joyful experiments for playing with sound, rhythm and melody in a browser, from Google.
Free to play
Tate Kids
Games, things to make, and a look at art from the Tate collections, written for children.
Free to use
Languages 1
Duolingo
Short, game-like lessons in many languages. The core course is free with ads; Super removes ads and adds extras. Fine for older children who will stick to a streak.
History and the world 2
BBC Bitesize
The BBC's free study site for UK schools, covering almost every subject from early primary through GCSEs and Nationals, with short explainers and activities.
Free to use
Mission US
Free historical role-playing games in which you take a character through a moment in U.S. history, made for classrooms and for home.
Free games
Shows and video 2
Typing and study skills 1
TypingClub
A popular, lesson-by-lesson typing tutor that you can start without an account. The title on the site calls the basic course free.
Free typing course
For parents and teachers 2
Common Sense Media
Independent reviews of films, apps, games and books, with age guidance written for parents and a separate education arm for schools.
Free reviews
PBS LearningMedia
A large, free-to-use library of classroom videos and lessons drawn from public-television programmes, for many subjects and ages.
Free lessons
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