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Kide Science

Engaging hands-on science education for 3-8-year-olds with online guidance for educators and parents

Kide Science develops young children’s scientific thinking skills through engaging hands-on experiments that solve real science problems. Its scalable online platform provides teachers and parents with training and story-based lesson plans to lead playful STEAM education for 3-8 year-olds.

HundrED 2022
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Overview

HundrED has selected this innovation to

HundrED 2022

HundrED 2021

HundrED 2020

Web presence

2017

Established

1M

Children

33

Countries
Target group
Teachers
Updated
September 2024
Educators feel that planning science activities is difficult and even if they have well-developed knowledge in science they struggle to introduce science in a way that is appropriate for young children. We know play-based programs support achievement and well-being that is why science should be learned through play also. We hope to see the change that science is part of early years education!

About the innovation

Scientific Thinking Skills - Highway to a Better Future

Our contemporary society is going through groundbreaking changes. Never before has the climate warmed as quickly as it does now, and access to information has never been as open as it is now. What skills and knowledge children will need to cope in the future?

Science and technology strongly drive the change in our society. Not only will we need more people who strive towards science and technology-related careers, but more importantly, we will need remarkably more people who are able to think scientifically and critically to back up their daily decisions with scientific knowledge.

Kide Science is a Finnish pedagogical STEAM innovation that provides educators and parents with top quality and scalable curriculum materials to implement early science education in a playful way. Kide Science's pedagogy is grounded on rigorous scientific research by our founder PhD Jenni Vartiainen, and follows the acknowledged Finnish philosophy on early education. When children do science with the Kide curriculum, they feel like they're playing and enjoying themselves, while in fact, they are building highly important skills needed in the scientific process and thinking. For educators and parents, Kide Science is an easy plug-and-play method to ensure that children will gain the skills needed in the future.

Kide Science uses storytelling as a powerful tool to motivate children to participate in science activities. The story world of Kide sessions is free of cultural stamps because it stems from the imaginary world called Supraland, located in a different dimension. In Supraland forests are made from crystals and animals are geometric shapes, for instance. That kind of world celebrates children’s natural curiosity and imagination without binding it to a specific cultural environment. Through play, children will be able to relate scientific concepts and practices to their cultural worlds and therefore, make science relevant for themselves.

Kide Science has online platform for educators and parents in English, Chinese and Finnish. In Finland Kide Science founders have co-created also a science TV show series "Tiedonjyvä" (Reach 300 000 families) with Finland’s national public service broadcaster. Kide Science has also published children´s book series "Tiedeseikkailu" (25 000 books) with Sanoma.

Impact & scalability

Impact & Scalability

Kide Science is an innovative program to foster a love of science in children. It applies a world-class, research-based pedagogical model from Finland for early Science education for 3-to-8 year-olds all over the world. It has been rapidly scaling since 2017 and is showing a high degree of traction all over the world.

HundrED Academy Reviews

Feeling and acting like real scientists (or writers, or mathematicians, or historians…) is key to the development of the 21st century skills.

I love the holistic nature of the curriculum and that it is play based for younger children.

- Academy member
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Implementation steps

Register for free trial
https://teachers.kidescience.com/en
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