For teachers, parents & kids
Science Resources
Tools we like for keeping the curiosity going — places to look things up, take a course, build something, and start sciencing as a verb.
Start here
Your guide to science fair success
Shawn Carlson’s guide to picking a great project and winning your science fair — how to choose a project that fits your interests, why a good notebook matters, and why trying to disprove your own hypothesis is the heart of the scientific method.
Look it up
Research the literature
Consensus
An AI search engine for peer-reviewed research — search over 250 million papers and see where the science agrees.
Bohrium
An AI research hub for academic search and reading, built to help you work through real papers.
Take a class
Courses & interactive learning
Open Yale Courses
Full Yale lecture courses, free and downloadable — video, audio, syllabi, readings, and problem sets.
OpenMAIC
An open-source AI interactive classroom. Upload a PDF and it builds an immersive, multi-agent lesson around it.
Simulate & play
Simulations & experiments
PhET Simulations
Free interactive math and science simulations from the University of Colorado Boulder.
NOBOOK Virtual Laboratory
Run virtual physics, chemistry, and biology experiments — no lab or cleanup required.
Stella Nova
A space-colony simulator built on real physics — orbital mechanics, gravity, and time dilation.
Poke at it yourself
Explore & build
Zperiod
An interactive periodic table with all 118 elements, 3D atom models, and chemistry tools.
NIAID BioArt
A free NIH library of thousands of scientific and medical illustrations, animations, and 3D models.
Tinkercad
Free, beginner-friendly 3D design, circuit building, and block coding in the browser.
muted.io
Interactive music theory tools — notes, scales, chords, intervals, and rhythm. Sound is physics you can hear.
Available on Amazon
My Science Diary
The first activity book by The Gateway Science Project, Inc. Designed to hone the natural, often insane, curiosity all kids have, and to turn playtime into an opportunity to build critical thinking skills and scientific literacy. Available in paperback, hardcover, and Kindle.
“The only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down.”
— Adam Savage
