The best free educational resources in science during lockdown

Last updated on 12 February 2025

Continuation of my selection of free online resources that can be useful to you during this new period of confinement. We are interested in teaching tools and resources in science. Many digital tools exist. They are often remarkable.

Here is a complete list of sites that will interest science teachers. Nine great online educational resources to create or offer science activities to your students.

If you know of other tools with the same characteristics, send me an email to fidel.navamuel @toolstice.com. This will allow me to enrich this resource and share it with as many people as possible. Thank you.

Unisciel

Unisciel is one of the seven French thematic digital universities. It is devoted to the following disciplinary fields: mathematics, computer science, physics, chemistry, SVT. An online college that lists no less than 5,000 educational resources in chemistry, computer science, mathematics, physics, life sciences, earth sciences. Around a central search engine, Unisciel offers thematic entries for high school students, students and teachers.
Link: Unisciel

City of Science and Palace of Discovery

Universcience has just reactivated its device #LaScienceEstLà and offers many scientific resources for children and young people. A virtual tour is required in these two reference institutions, which have been closed to the public since the announcement of the second lockdown. You have to search here and there to find your happiness but the resources are many and well done. A special mention for the Blob. An online media supported by the two museums that offers in addition to a science newsfeed regularly updated a new video every day, a complete survey file every month and a database of more than 400 videos. A special mention for the resource file related to the Espions exhibition, to discover for example the techniques used to code a secret message. College and high school students should love it.
Links: Palace of Discovery – City of Science 

The hand in the dough

The foundation on May with the dough could not miss this general mobilization. Week after week, it will propose activities so that teachers (and possibly parents) can make students work on scientific topics. An excellent resource to help you best accompany students from a distance.
Link: The hand in the dough

Kezako

We were talking here a few days ago about this great initiative of popularization of science. Kezako is a platform that offers a whole series of videos that try to answer the questions of everyday life under the prism of science. Mathematics, physics, chemistry, computer science, life sciences and earth sciences, sciences answer questions that we do not always know how to answer.

Clipedia

CLIPEDIA is a project based on the lessons of Marc Haelterman, professor of physics at the Ecole Polytechnique de Bruxelles (ULB). Since 2002 Marc Haelterman has been offering his first-year students the method of the inverted class. It was the success of this method in terms of the progress made by its students that motivated it to develop it for secondary school students. The result is great. CLIPEDIA is a free site science education intended for teenagers and their teachers. The lessons are taught using video clips full of animations, illustrations and pedagogical tips.
Link: Clipedia

VittaScience

Vittascience aims to bring together and mobilize students from all walks of life around scientific projects. The project highlights experimentation as the primary vehicle for learning. The site offers innovative kits for the implementation of educational projects based on experimentation. It also offers a particularly well-provided resource section.
Link: VittaScience

Wiki Fog

A very nice resource proposed by small resourceful people particularly adapted to the period. This real collaborative Wiki offers essentially achievable experiences with material that everyone surely has at home, but also sheets that describe the material, applications, pedagogical paths, webographies of scientific sites on the Internet etc … Formidable and free.
Link: Wikidefog

LaboLycee

For senior students, a site proposed by an association of the same name created by three teachers of Chemistry Physics. You will find no less than 800 corrected exercises of the physical chemistry baccalaureate. They are classified by theme, examination centre and year. Rich.
Link: LaboLycee

The CEA

The CEA offers many educational resources in Science. Take a tour through the Médiathèque. You will find a large number of materials for young people and the general public. The CEA offers many multimedia resources: photo reports, interactive animations, videos, thematic files, podcasts and posters to understand fundamental concepts such as atoms or radioactivity and discover the CEA’s research work.
Link: The CEA

Academy of Paris

The Paris Academy, like many other academies across the country, offers lists of resources by subject. That of Paris presents a particularly rich and complete list for what conceives the pedagogical continuity in SVT. Resources for college, resources for high school, you can also enter by class level and/or part of the program. Useful.
Link: Page SVT Paris Academy

So much for these first resources. Thank you for help me complete this list for exhaustive sharing.