Here is a list of Science TV Shows that will help improve science knowledge for your kids.
Children’s watch too much television! Is it really good for them to watch TV for long hours!? Can we make their screen time more interesting and educational!? I say, ‘Yes’.
Now a days, children are interested to imitate the characters that they watch in television. Those characters might be with violent behaviour and notorious from which parents get pissed off!! Too much exposure to pure entertainment and violent content in particular puts your child at higher risk for poor academic development and poorer cognitive achievement. Do not panic, we have a great solution for your kids to learn some science and educate themselves while watching TV. Yes, switch to the science TV shows from the useless programs. Science TV shows can be a great help to improve natural curiosity in our kids about the world. There are some interesting kid’s science TV shows that explain scientific concepts in age-appropriate ways. The recent studies revealed that these educational science TV shows play an important role in enhancing child’s cognition and knowledge.
Recommended Age Group: Science TV shows are available for all age groups of children. Children of all age groups are benefited from science TV shows as the directors and producers release different shows based on the age groups.
Science TV Shows for Kids
Here is the list of science TV shows that enhance your kid’s knowledge and would be very helpful for those who wants to get your kid in to science.
Bill Nye the Science Guy
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Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American live action science program telecasted in Walt Disney television, a local TV station. It was originally telecasted from September 10 1993 to June 20 1998. It is also aired on PBS from 1994 to 1999. But who is the host!? The show is hosted by William Sanford Nye, popularly known as Bill Nye the Science Guy, is an American television presenter, science communicator, and mechanical engineer. He is very popular in the media as a science educator and is best known as the host of PBS as well as some children’s science shows such as ‘Bill Nye the Science Guy’ and the Netflix show ‘Bill Nye Saves the World (2017-present)’. The show explains the basic concepts of science in a humorous and understandable manner to help young children understand them better.
Blaze and the Monster Machines
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Blaze and the Monster Machines is everyone’s favourite TV show or series with friendly characters and STEM content. It is an animated preschool TV series to comprehensively cover the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Math as well as trajectory and buoyancy through the adventures of monster truck and friendly human characters. Mainly kids are encouraged to help characters to solve problems through color recognition and number sense which enhances the pre reading skills in the children especially young kids.
Earth to Luna
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Earth to Luna is a Brazilian animated children’s TV show which is premiered in American channel Sprout on August 16 2014. It is created and directed by Celia Catunda and Kiko Mistorigo. It is debuted in Brazil on October 13 2014 on Discover Kids. It is telecasted in 52 episodes each lasting 15 minutes. Children between the ages of 3 and 5 years old are benefited much more than the rest. Luna, a young and imaginative kid in love with science and nature, learns how things work with her little brother, Jupiter and the pet, Ferret Clyde. Luna is an inspirational character to all young kids (by following her adventures) as she shares her passion for science.
Popular Mechanics for Kids
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Popular Mechanics for Kids is a wonderful TV series created in 1997. Jay and Elisha are the amazing hosts for this amazing TV show travel to different locations to bring educational information about how technology works in this world. There is something to learn in each and every episode as the hosts take an adventurous trip around North America targeting to get some information about technology.
F.A.Q
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F.A.Q is a mixture of fun and science as it educates and entertain your children at the same time. The show is hosted by ‘Prateek’ and his friendly robot ‘Crash’. It mainly targets to enhance the kids knowledge in science in a fun way. They answer the most frequently asked and posted questions through simple and easy experiments. They also perform amazing activities with amazing tricks and hilarious pranks. This encourages and inspires your children to perform their own simple and fun activities on their own.
Dinosaur Train
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Dinosaur is a Canadian, American and Singaporean children’s animated series created by Craig Bartlett. This TV series features a young and curious Tyrannosaurus Rex, named Buddy along with his adopted family takes a dinosaur train trip to explore the multiple habitats and time periods in detail. The series is hosted by the show’s science advisor, palaeontologist Dr Scott D. Sampson.
Nutri Ventures
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Nutri Ventures is a Portuguese food themed adventurous TV series that promotes healthy eating habits. In this series the featured characters Lena, Theo, Ben, and Nina go on adventurous trip to food-group kingdoms. They collect the nutri powers of lost foods while travelling from one food group kingdom to another food group kingdom. They basically aims the Obesity issues and spread a positive and inspirational message on healthy eating for young people suffering from obesity.
How it’s Made
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By the name itself, you will get to know what is all about the show. Yes, this fascinating fact-based educational series is all about learning how ordinary products and tools are made. It keeps your children’s attention and interest through visual demonstration. This science show is not only enjoyed by kids but the adults who are interested in knowing how the daily used items are made.
Beakman’s World
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Beakman’s World is an American television show based on an award winning comic strip named ‘You Can with Beakman and Jax’. The show starred Beakman, played by puppeteer Paul Zaloom, as he answered questions from viewers with a zany tower wig and a green lab-coat and also constantly experimenting to visually demonstrate the effects of natural phenomena, like gravity, and volcanoes. The inventions also include light bulbs, engines, and microscopes. If your kids are favorites of Bill Nye, then they should definitely watch out Beakman too!
The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That
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‘The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That’ is currently airing on PBS in United States. The series mainly focusses on teaching children about the nature around from the changing seasons to plant and animal life. It also aims at improving kid’s personal behavioural development like pro-socio lessons like behaving and being polite to others, and working as a team etc. The characters Sally and Nick, who go on adventures in learning with The Cat in the Hat and his pal, Fish, via a magical device called the Thinga-ma-jigger. The series is broadcasted in Canada on Treehouse TV.
Sid The Science Kid
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Often introduced as Jim Henson’s Sid The Science Kid after its creator, the show is a massively admired amongst the age group of 3-5 yr olds. The show is massively popular for its ability to provide a comedic take while answering numerous questions that concern basic scientific problems. The antagonist of the show is Sid, the eldest child of Mort and Alice. With the help of his friends, family members, and his traits, Sid solves the problems and imparting the knowledge to the audience. The show’s popularity also stems from its ability to teach via cognitive learning theory while encountering topics from the preschool science curriculum as well. Here is a short preview of an episode:
Xploration Earth 2050
Xploration Earth 2050 is one of the various shows aired under the Xploration Station Block. Created on a three-hour requirement as defined by the Federal Communications Commission, the show promotes the various concepts of STEM amongst the students in practical life. Every episode showcases a particular niche of STEM, explores it further, and explains to the audience watching the show. Furthermore, the show brings in experts from the niche, who go-ahead to talk about the importance of technologies in the lives of other people. As a result, people who aren’t overly innovative about the field become mesmerized with the show.
The Magic School Bus
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The Magic School Bus is another children’s animated television series which is based upon a series of books by the same name. Created by Joanna Cole and Bruce Degen, the show focuses on a class of students led by their teacher, Valerie Fizzle, as they embark on a series of exciting adventures. On their endeavors, these young adventurers discover new locations, scientific facts, and the other wonders of science. The magic school bus is, in fact, really ‘magical’ in nature. For the bus can modify itself into various shapes and sizes as required. Historical episodes have shown the bus to travel to outer space or the human body.
Science Court
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Science Court is quite different from other television series. The crux of the series is based within the confinements of a court. Whenever a person sues another, he or she is brought to the court where the parties try to solve the case by implementing scientific principles. Created in the form of half-hour consumables, the show combines courtroom drama, science experiments, and humor to appeal to the audience and educate them regarding the various concepts that are normally taught to middle and elementary grade kids. Additionally, the series also discusses the misconceptions that students are often acquainted with.
The Magic School Bus Rides Again
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The Magic School Bus Rides Again started again in 2017. The series serves as a continuation of the earlier series that had its run from 1994-1997. Owing to the massive popularity of preliminary seasons, the series was rekindled to innovatively reteach the scientific principles. This series features a retired Valerie Frizzle passing on the keys of her trusty bus over to her younger sister, Fiona Frizzle, who commences onwards to various adventures with her class students. The show imparts a sense of nostalgia as it breathes a fresh breath of life into educative shows while teaching about the various wonders of science.
DragonflyTV
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DragonflyTV focuses on the prime objective of teaching the wonders of science by propelling the audience to participate in the activities. The 7-season series features 30-minute episodes in which the show tries to teach real scientific concepts by the means of discoveries and investigations that they perform on the show. The main objective of this is to propel the audience to get out of their houses and explore the world around them. They want the audience to learn more about various scientific principles and concepts by physically interacting with the world around them, essentially allowing them to grow.
Crash! Bang! Splat
Crash! Bang! Splat! is an innovative educational program which teaches its students the simple way to learn natural science. The show redefines science, for it teaches kids that they don’t essentially need huge scientific equipment or an advanced apparatus for performing experiments. All that people need to know more about the various niches are the means of fun do-it-yourself experiments. The show is hosted by a group of inquisitive kids themselves which allows the viewers to elegantly relate with. Additionally, children can then perform those experiments at home.
Lab Rats Challenge
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The Lab Rats Challenge is an educative television program which has its origins in Australia. This show has been curated in the form of a game show to make the show even more interesting while teaching the various notions to kids. To implement the same, the show features several fixed challenges that are placed within the confinements of the show. It all starts with the Nano Challenge after which it proceeds over to What’ll Happen if, Method Madness, and Rat Race. Finally, every episode of Lab Rats Challenge ends with a final challenge known as The Labyrinth wherein each of the teams goes through a series of physical and mental challenges.
Brain Games
Brain Games is a television series which is meant for a slightly more mature group of children. The show primarily focuses on teaching children about cognitive science by focusing on a variety of illusions, psychological experiments, and counter-intuitive thinking. The show is hosted by a wide variety of hosts that range from Neil Patric Harris, Jason Silva, Keegan-Michael Key, and more. Apart from presenting such celebrities, the show also interacts with volunteers to further the cause of engaging the audience to the show. Moreover, these volunteers also assist in proving the points that the show is based upon.
Xploration Awesome Planet
Xploration Awesome Planet is another educational television series which serves as the constituent of the Xploration Station Block. The series is hosted by the Phillipe Cousteau Jr., the grandson of Jacques-Yves Cousteau. A man of innumerous skills, Jacques Cousteau was a legendary naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, photographer, author, and much more. The show involves Philippe exploring the most spectacular and mesmerizing places present on our earth and above it. As the show takes the viewers from the varying heights of the mountains to depths of the rivers, it mesmerizes them while educating them about the various associated concepts of STEM.
SciGirls
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Created to serve as an educational outreach program, SciGirls focuses on elementary and middle-school children to teach them about the various concepts of STEM. Aimed particularly to create awareness of STEM subjects amongst girls, the show focuses on two characters, namely Jake and Izzie. Apart from showcasing the aforementioned, the program also introduces the viewers to numerous groups of girls, who eagerly perform tasks to answer the problems posed in a particular episode. Such an eagerness propels the children watching the show to become inquisitive and explore the world around them, enabling them to discover the presence of science and technology all around.
Nina and The Neurons
Aimed particularly at the age group of 4 to 6-year olds, Nina and The Neurons teaches the students about the basic concepts of science. The show focuses primarily on a neuroscientist Nina who often registers five of her neurons to help her in figuring out the answers towards the problems which have been posted in a particular episode. The Neurons are essentially five of Nina’s senses which go by the names of Felix, Belle, Luke, Ollie, and Bud. Each of these senses plays an individual role in tackling the problems and finding a solution to them while entertaining and teaching the concepts to the viewers.
Backyard Science
Backyard Science is a television show which was formed into existence owing to another pioneer science show. The show is a recreation of the Crash! Bang! Splat!, which was earlier broadcast in the USA. Backyard Science comprises of numerous curious children who explore the world and learn about the everyday scientific aspects without needing any additional or advanced apparatus. As a result, they propel children to make fun and practical applications of the show with the help of everyday objects to provide them with newer insights within their world.
Xploration Outer Space
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A lot of television shows which are present on this list explore the learning opportunities that are present on this earth. Xploration Outer Space, on the other hand, takes the viewers beyond the atmosphere of the earth and brings them to additional learning opportunities that lie in wait. Hosted by former NASA employee, Emily Calandrelli, the show explores some of the most prominent celestial bodies that are present out there in space. Not only does this show promote STEM learning for children, but, being a family show, it also grapples the attention of the other members of the family. This facilitates a full-fledged source of education for the entire family.
Nova
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Nova is one of the most widely watched television series on American television. The series has been created in the form of a documentary focusing on the various aspects of the field of science since the beginning. Not only does it explore the historical aspects of science, but the award-winning documentary series also focuses on the numerous applications of sciences which have been developed throughout the ages. Moreover, Nova often interviews scientists who are witnessed performing researching a particular field. A few of the various subjects which are often covered in the field include Colditz Castle, elementary particles, the eruption of Mt. St. Helens in the 1980s, global warming, and much more.
Odd Squad
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A Canadian live-action television series, Odd Squad is an educational program which focuses primarily on educating their viewers about the basic concepts of mathematics. The show involves an organization known as Odd Squad which is run entirely by children. With the help of their mathematics skills, the children practically employ their skills to solve the problems that they posed with every episode. Each episode of the Odd Squad show is of generally of 10-12 minutes. Two episodes of such are often paired up to create a 30-minute long show.
Mythbusters
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Mythbusters is an American-Australian science television show which was first aired in the December of 2003. The main purpose of the show was to use scientific elements and methods to test how much truth there is to the various rumors, myths, movie sciences, internet videos, and other hoaxes that we often find floating within our midst. Initially, the television featured Adam Savage and Jamie Hyneman who explored through the various myths with the help of various special effects. As the series further progressed, it began to feature various other members regularly to test the viability of the various rumors.
Xploration Nature Knows Best
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Xploration Nature Knows Best is one of the most prominent shows from the Xploration Station Block. Hosted by marine biologist Danni Washington, the show primarily focuses on how nature has been inspiring people to develop the most notable technologies of our ages. Xploration Nature Knows Best is one of the most fascinating STEM series. Not only does it offer a fun and clever insight into the ways by which the world’s most advancements depend on nature for their creation. A few of the creations which the show has showcased involve the dependency that airplanes had in birds and dragonflies in their creation. Moreover, the show also introduces viewers to those people who were involved in creations.
Curious George
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Curious George is television which serves as an adaptation from a popular series of books by the same name. The series features a chimp by the name named George who was brought to live in a giant unnamed city from his natural habitat of Africa. George has often been witnessed to be a curious chimp who often causes unintentional problems. And it is while solving such problems that show teaches its viewers regarding the various newer concepts to the newer audience. Usually, the show uses George to explain the various features of maths and science by engaging the students in various forms of experiments.
The Blue Planet
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Created and produced by BBC, The Blue Planet is a British nature documentary. Premiering on the 12th September 2011, the show was narrated by David Attenborough and is often described as one of the most comprehensive series which described the natural history of the world’s oceans. The series also features numerous sea creatures which had never earlier been discovered. Owing to an exemplary range of music and cinematography, the series was acclaimed several Emmy and BAFTA TV awards. The popularity of the series sparked the creation of a sequel series referred to as Blue Planet II.
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