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Youtube is an amazing resource. Its algorithm probably knows your kid better than you do, meaning it can feed them exactly what they want, from toy unboxings to video game streams to cartoons. There are a few steps you should take before letting your little one loose on the Internet, like setting your parental controls and downloading a child-focused YouTube app for kids. Once those safeguards are in place, you can explore the endless assortment of kids’ channels.
Youtube Educational Channels for Kids
Luckily, there are a number of kids’ YouTube channels that make excellent company for your little one. These are ten of our favorites.
1. Alpha Blocks
Subscribers: 1.1 M
Videos: 922
Alphablocks is a channel focused on making learning fun while bringing the alphabet to life. Alphablocks offers a nice way to augment and reinforce lessons little ones might be learning at home or in preschool. Alphablocks is originally BBC kids show that can now be found on YouTube. Alphblocks provides parents a resource for their young children that makes learning fun with original songs and dancing. For the sake of convenience, the videos are broken down into categories where kids can learn about phonics, letter recognition, spelling, and reading.
2. Sesame Street
Subscribers: 22.3 M
Videos: 3,175
Sesame Workshop maintains its own YouTube channel featuring various clips from Sesame Street. In July 2008, Sesame Workshop launched the channel under the user name SesameStreet. From its launch, the channel’s video uploads have included segments or excerpts from Sesame Street episodes, home videos, and other related productions.
Sesame Street is a colourful community of monsters, birds, grouches, and humans. It’s a place where everyone counts.
Sesame Workshop is the nonprofit educational organization behind Sesame Street that has been reaching and teaching children since 1969. Today, Sesame Workshop is an innovative force for change, with a mission to help kids everywhere grow smarter, stronger, and kinder.
3. Math Antics
Subscribers: 2.24 M
Videos: 83
Math Antics is a site that provides videos and supplementary materials covering five math topics: arithmetic, fractions, geometry, percents, and algebra basics. The concepts covered and the supporting materials provided are great and highly useful to any teacher or parent.
All of the videos on Math Antics are available for free and are great for introducing or reinforcing math concepts for students. They can be used as a whole-class introduction to a lesson or with individual students who may be struggling with certain skills. The other resources (exercise handouts, explanation videos, worksheets, and answer keys) make it easy for teachers to incorporate the videos into their lessons. These resources are available for free for some lessons, but most are accessible only with a $20-per-year subscription.
4. Numberock
Subscribers: 306 K
Videos: 123
Have you ever experienced the magical power of hearing a song from the past, and then suddenly being transported back to distant memories? Using NUMBEROCK videos in this way, you’ll transform your classroom into a multi-sensory learning environment, resulting in an amazing amount of energy and enthusiasm being brought into your math lessons. The goal is to find the perfect blend of pure fun and emotional engagement, while never sacrificing the educational merit of the lesson.
Numberock is a collection of music videos that teach and reinforce elementary school-level mathematical concepts and primary grade numeracy to make learning math fun in a whole new way.
5. Khan Academy
Subscribers: 6.82 M
Videos: 8,126
Khan Academy offers free courses for Mathematics, Science & Engineering, Computing, Economies & finance, Arts & Humanities, Test Preparations, and much more. Khan Academy was founded in the year 2007 and currently, it has over 60 million students from all across the world and provides world-class learning with more than 10,000 videos and 40,000 interactive questions from a renowned team of specialists. Khan Academy has a partnership with top institutions like MIT, NASA, California Academy of Sciences. It has specialized content for all age groups as well as a free tool for teachers and parents to analyze the learning of their kids and a dashboard for the overall performance of the class with a profile of every student with all the content and study material available in over 36 languages.
6. It’s Okay To Be Smart
Subscribers: 4.03 M
Videos: 334
It’s Okay To Be Smart is a PBS Digital Studios channel perfect for exploring science, physics, and more in a way that’s easy to understand. It’s an educational channel that explores science, our universe, and the excitement of learning new things. It’s especially great for kids, but you’ll find that you learn a lot too watching these videos.
7. National Geographic Kids
Subscribers: 566 K
Videos: 825
National Geographic Kids wants to help children explore the world through its fun, often wacky, videos. Whether your child wants to learn about venomous animals or try an experiment involving baking soda, you’ll find excellent, engaging material.
8. Finding Stuff Out
Subscribers: 35.2 K
Videos: 60
Finding Stuff Out gives kids what they want: answers to the questions that matter to them! Each video answers questions from real kids like “Why does the moon follow you?”, “Do plants think?”, “Why do we have to eat?” and “Why can’t everything be solar-powered?”. The host digs up the answers by doing experiments, getting the coolest guests, and researching the most incredible facts ever. On Finding Stuff out viewers will see the most amazing things.
9. PBS Kids
Subscribers: 1.61 M
Videos: 2,663
Long known for its innovation in the online space, US pubcaster PBS KIDS is now offering learning resources for kids ages 6 to 8. The channel also offers full episodes of web-original series such as Fizzy’s Lunch Lab, Oh Noah!, Ruff Ruffman: Humble Media Genius, Chuck Vanderchuck’s “Something Something” Explosion, and Plum Landing. New content will be added to the channel on a weekly basis.
10. SciShow Kids
Subscribers: 718 K
Videos: 423
The SciShow started as a Youtube Original Channel but now finances itself through voluntary contributions by viewers via Patreon. It comes in four versions:
- SciShow: it is hosted by the two video bloggers Hank Green and Michaela Aranda and covers topics such as natural sciences, nutrition, and computer science. (Visit SciShow on Youtube.)
- SciShow Kids: this channel aims at younger children. One episode that we would like to recommend is Happy Birthday, Sir Isaak Newton! A disadvantage of SciShow for Kids is that advertisement is shown at the beginning of each video. The advertisement is not even geared at children. (Visit SciShow Kids on Youtube.)
- SciShow Space: What is the shape of the universe? Where can we find water in space? Why can’t the universe be totally explained by physics? SciShow Space explores the secrets of the universe in a few minutes at a time. We consider it suitable for older children. (Visit SciShow Space on Youtube.)
- SciShow Psych: this channel teaches young learners about different areas of psychology. Can you really change your personality? Why do we still teach Sigmund Freud? Can positive thinking backfire? Visit the channel of SciShow Psych to find out! (Visit SciShow Psych on Youtube.)
