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4-H at Home
4-H at Home is a free website full of fun and educational activities kids and teens can try at home. Organized by grade range and topic, projects explore the hands-on nature-based STEM learning for which the organization and its cooperative extension programs are known. Available in English.
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Animal Antics (for Families)
Animal Antics is a free app designed to give children and their caregivers the opportunity to create a story together. Each participant chooses a character and records their voice. Prompts are given along the way to model conversation between child and caregiver, and to encourage joint media engagement while building early literacy skills. Available in English.
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Civics! An American Musical
Civics! A Hollywood Musical is a game created by Fablevision, an educational website aimed at classrooms to teach research methods. Civics! allows an educator to select one of four American history topics, then students learn how to conduct research by assisting various theater employees in selecting correct primary sources, studying each resource carefully, then offering observations and reflections. The result: a musical, complete with a song, costumes, and reviews. Available in English.
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Daniel Tiger for Parents
2018: Songs and videos from the popular children's show guide parents to help their children develop social and emotional skills.
2023: Daniel Tiger for Parents is a free app library of songs and videos from the PBS KIDS series Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood. The content is simple, educational, and entertaining and includes songs on social-emotional topics and skills such as feelings, self-control and responsibility. Also included are video clips, conversation starters, and tips for parents that model and help with how to use these songs with their children in everyday life. Available in English and Spanish.
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Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read
Duolingo ABC: Learn to Read is a free app designed to help beginning readers explore the alphabet and build early literacy skills. The app’s games focus on letter recognition, writing skills, and comprehension skills. High-quality graphics and user-friendly gameplay make this app a fun and engaging way to learn the alphabet. Available in English
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Google Arts and Culture
Google Arts & Culture is a comprehensive high-quality resource of primary source materials for families, students and teachers. The website, and it's companion app, allow for the exploration of a wide range of content from over 2,000 museums and archives across 80 countries. Music, art and culture from around the world is accessible through interactive exhibits, tours, and games. Enjoy a wide range of activities in 3D, augmented and virtual reality. Available in English.
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Grasshopper: Learn to Code for Free
Grasshopper is a free coding app for beginners developed by a team of passionate coders from Google. Using your smartphone, learn JavaScript coding fundamentals like functions, variables, ‘if’ statements, operators, and more in progressively challenging levels. With a few taps get started programming with these fun, quick games. Available in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
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How Do Animals Work?
Interactively explore the biology of seven animals from the Amazon Rainforest and learn what makes each animal unique, from the pink river dolphin’s use of echolocation to the extraordinary night vision of the jaguar. Available in seventeen languages.
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JigSpace
Curious seekers of all ages can explore dozens of interactive 3D educational presentations, or "Jigs". This simple and easy-to-use app uses augmented reality (AR) to bring hands-on learning through step-by-step instructions on a variety of topics and concepts. Available in English.
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Math Land
Kids and adults can practice math, everything from simple addition and subtraction equations to more complex equations, with the use of different strategies in a pirate game setting. Available in multiple languages.
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Mindful Powers
Mindful Powers is a free, kid-first, holistic approach to building social-emotional learning through play. Through mindful play and focus time, the Mindful Powers app empowers kids (PreK-Middle School) to bring calm to their lives and build a healthier relationship with life, stress, and anxiety. Available in English.
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Moshi Twilight Sleep Stories
Relax into bedtime with calming stories, specifically created to help children drift off to sleep with soothing music, audio effects, and narration.
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NFL Play 60
NFL Play 60 is a free app that encourages and challenges kids to get at least 60 minutes of physical activity per day. Kids can choose their own avatars and then earn coins to buy cool avatar gear by jumping, running, and turning while holding onto a device to log their movements. Available in English.
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Novel Effect
Enhance storytime through voice-activated special effects. Choose from a comprehensive list of stories to read aloud and the app will do the rest. Available in English and Spanish.
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OurStory Kids
Created by We Need Diverse Books, this website and app recommends diverse titles to readers based on an extensive number of customizable preferences. The site may be used to purchase titles from a variety of vendors. Available in English.
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Sago Mini First Words
This paid, subscription-model app, created in consultation with speech-language pathologists, provides learning games that create opportunities for young children to practice speaking skills such as articulation and pronunciation. Activities - updated monthly - center around topics that children are naturally interested in, helping to build vocabulary and create curiosity. Available in English.
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Seek by iNaturalist
Encouraging meaningful joint media engagement in an exceptional way, Seek enables budding naturalists ages 4+ and their caregivers to embrace curiosity and explore the natural world in their communities and beyond. Seek harnesses image recognition technology to identify flora and fauna while including background information on organisms observed.
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Sesame Street Family Play: Caring for Each Other
Developed as a shared play experience for caregivers and young children, the Sesame Street Family Play app provides over 130 screen-free activities that encourage kids to stay busy, move their bodies, and calm themselves. Customizable game ideas and a simple design invite families to play together at home using everyday objects. The app is available in both English and Spanish.
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Sesame Street in Communities
A free website that provides activities, videos, and tips for parents in family interactions and conversations, from the everyday to the more difficult. Topics include grief, divorce, daily routine, eating well, family bonding, and more. Each video or activity is accompanied by a helpful list of opportunities and suggestions for conversation. Available in English and Spanish.
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Sky
Explore this expansive and ever-changing world with friends and family through cooperative play and exploration. Your challenge is to restore light to the constellations by solving puzzles, helping others, building friendships, and finding collectibles throughout the seven realms. Available in English and Japanese.
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Small Wonders (for Families)
Small Wonders is a free app designed to encourage children and their caregivers to learn together by exploring various topics. Each topic has a song and some simple games with questions for the caregiver to read, encouraging dialogue between child and caregiver. Available in English.
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Smithsonian Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens
Smithsonian's Fun Stuff for Kids and Teens is a curated collection of interactive activities, games and exhibits. Discover and explore art, history, culture, nature and science with many of the Smithsonian's museums: meet the Zoo's animals, create with the Learning Lab, bring a treasured object "home" through the wonders of augmented reality, and play and learn through games from the Smithsonian Science Education Center.
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Stop, Breathe & Think Kids
Practice mindfulness, meditation, and compassion-building from a selection of preset guided meditations. Track emotions pre and post-mediation to build emotional regulation skills.
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Tinybop: The Human Body
The Human Body by Tinybop supports children’s curiosity in how the human body works. In this interactive app, children will discover how hearing works, how food travels through the intestines, and how the eye sees when they dive into the skeletal, muscular, nervous, circulatory, and digestive systems with seven interactive, animated, layered models. To learn how to play, Tinybop website offers instructions and ideas on how to use this app effectively, or you can download the free handbook within the app. Available in multiple languages.
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Wonder Weeks
The Wonder Weeks app helps parents and caregivers understand their baby's developmental leaps and provides tips for how they can support and stimulate their baby's development. The app allows parents and caregivers to track their baby's milestones (noting that not every baby accomplishes every skill or shows all the signals at that specific age), personalize schedules, and look back on past moments through the diary feature. Available in sixteen languages.
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Zigazoo
Zigazoo is a free, safety-focused social streaming app for kids. Top brands, libraries, museums and other children offer many different prompts for kids to respond to in video format. A fun, safe way for kids to experience healthy online relationships in an appropriate social media-type platform. Available in English.