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Animals & Wildlife Classes for Kids

100 free animals & wildlife classes for kids (Ages 6–12) on Wunder — short, fact-checked courses and lessons with narration and a quiz. Filter by age — each link is its own page, not a JavaScript toggle.

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How to make roast chicken

Salt the bird, flatten it, roast hot. A first roast tonight, with the science that keeps breast meat juicy.

Polar Food Chains

Follow the food chains of the Arctic and Antarctic, from tiny phytoplankton and krill all the way to whales and polar bears.

Meet the great white bear of the frozen north and learn how it stays warm, swims, and raises cuddly cubs.

How Polar Animals Beat the Cold

Discover the clever ways polar animals stay toasty warm in the coldest places on Earth.

Comparing Polar Ecosystems

The Arctic and Antarctic look alike but are opposites, an ocean ringed by land and a continent ringed by ocean. Compare their worlds and wildlife.

Arctic vs Antarctic

Meet the two coldest, iciest places on Earth and learn why polar bears and penguins never say hello.

Energy from the Sun to Food

Follow energy on its amazing journey from the Sun, into green plants, and along a food chain to the animals that eat them.

Why Offspring Look Like Their Parents

Discover why baby animals and plants resemble their parents, and why every living thing is still a little bit different.

What Living Things Need

Every living thing needs food, water, air, shelter, and space. Discover what keeps people, animals, and plants alive.

Variation and Survival

Why no two living things are exactly alike, and how those tiny differences can decide which animals survive, thrive, and pass their traits on.

Why you have different-shaped teeth for cutting, tearing, and grinding — and how an animal's teeth reveal whether it eats plants, meat, or both.

Pollination and Seed Dispersal

How flowers swap pollen to make seeds, and the clever ways seeds travel by wind, water, animals, and even tiny explosions.

Naming Plants and Animals

Learn the names of the plants and animals all around you, from pets and farm animals to flowers and trees.

Herbivores, Carnivores, and Omnivores

Discover which animals eat plants, which eat meat, and which eat both, and learn to sort them by what they eat.

Body Parts, Plants, and Animals

Meet the wonderful bodies of people, plants, and animals, and discover what makes something a living thing.

Animal Nutrition and Classification

Explore how animals get their food through food chains, and how scientists classify animals into groups.

Animal Life Stages

Watch animals grow from tiny babies to grown-ups, and follow the amazing life cycles of butterflies and frogs.

Animal Adaptations and Nutrient Transport

The clever body parts and behaviours that help animals survive anywhere, plus how blood and plant tubes deliver food and water to every living part.

Whales and Dolphins Are Mammals

They live in the sea and look a bit like fish, but whales and dolphins are mammals like us. Find out how they breathe air and feed their babies milk.

Ocean Food Webs

One ocean animal usually eats many foods, and is eaten by many others. See how dozens of food chains link together into a tangled ocean food web.

Ocean Food Chains

Follow the sun's energy from tiny sea plants all the way up to the hungry shark, and see how every ocean animal is a link in the chain.

Ocean Animals and Their Adaptations

From streamlined sharks to glowing anglerfish, discover the clever body features and tricks that help ocean animals swim, breathe, hide, and hunt in the sea.

Ocean Animal Migrations

Follow whales, turtles, and salmon on some of the longest journeys any animal makes across the open sea.

Deep-Sea Creatures

In the cold, crushing, pitch-black deep sea live some of the strangest animals on Earth. Meet glowing anglerfish, giant squid, and creatures that thrive with no sunlight at all.

Showing Math with Objects and Words

Turn math into something you can touch and talk about! Use bears, blocks, and buttons to show numbers, then learn the math words that tell the story.

Animals of the Ocean

Dive into the big blue ocean to meet friendly fish, playful dolphins, gentle turtles, and a wiggly octopus!

Why There Are So Many Insects

Insects outnumber every other animal on Earth. Discover the clever tricks, tiny bodies, and big families that make them so successful.

Protecting Insects

Insects like bees are in trouble, but there is lots we can do to help. Learn why they matter and how to be a friend to insects.

Insects in Ecosystems

Tiny insects do enormous jobs, pollinating flowers, feeding other animals, and recycling waste. See how they hold nature together.

Insect Anatomy Up Close

Zoom in on the amazing bodies of insects, from their three body parts to their compound eyes, six legs, and wings.

How Insects Communicate

Insects send messages with scent, sound, dance, and even flashes of light. Discover the secret languages of the insect world.

Complete and Incomplete Metamorphosis

Some insects change completely as they grow, and some change bit by bit. Compare the two ways insects grow up, from caterpillars to nymphs.

The Insect Body

An insect is three chunks, not one lump: head, thorax, and abdomen, plus six legs and a shell it has to moult.

Record-Breaking Insects

Meet the champions of the insect world: the heaviest, strongest, fastest, longest, and loudest bugs of all.

Minibeasts in the Food Chain

Follow the food from a sunny leaf to a hungry bird and meet the tiny minibeasts in between.

Insects vs Other Minibeasts

Learn the six-leg rule that tells a true insect apart from spiders, woodlice, worms, and snails.

Insect Adaptations

Discover the specialised tools, from nectar straws to grabbing legs to air bubbles, that help insects survive anywhere.

Common Minibeasts

Meet the friendly little creatures you can find in any garden, from spotty ladybirds to slow snails and busy bees.

Camouflage, Warning Colors, and Mimicry

Discover three clever ways insects stay safe: vanishing, shouting danger with color, and faking a sting.

Bees, Ants, and Their Colonies

Go inside the buzzing hive and the underground ant city to see how social insects work as one team.

Life Cycles and Reproduction

Follow living things from the start of life through growing up and making new life, in plants and animals alike.

Classifying Living Things

Discover how scientists sort the living world into groups, from kingdoms down to the five groups of animals with backbones.

Words for Habitats

A habitat is the home where a plant or animal lives. Learn the words for forests, deserts, ponds, oceans, and icy lands.

Why Animals Live in Groups

From wolf packs to penguin huddles, many animals live together. Discover how groups help animals stay safe, find food, and raise their young.

Where Plants and Animals Live

Every plant and animal has a special home called a habitat. Come and see where they live and what they need to be happy.

Simple Food Chains

The Sun feeds the plants, the plants feed the animals, and one animal can feed another. Follow the food and see how a food chain works.

Plants and Animals Near You

You do not have to travel far to find nature. Meet the trees, flowers, birds, and bugs living right outside your door.

Habitats and What Animals Need

Every animal needs food, water, shelter, and air. See how each habitat gives its animals exactly what they need to live.

Grouping Living Things

Scientists sort animals into groups by their shared features. Meet the mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, amphibians, and insects.

The Two Dinosaur Families

Every dinosaur belongs to one of two great families, and the secret is in the hips. Meet the lizard-hipped and bird-hipped dinosaurs.

The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs

About 66 million years ago a giant asteroid struck Earth. Follow the evidence for the day the age of dinosaurs ended.

How Living Things Change Their Homes

Animals and plants do not just live in the world. They change it! Meet busy beavers, wiggly worms, and more, and see how living things make their homes just right.

How Life Has Changed Over Time

From tiny microbes to dinosaurs to us, life on Earth has transformed over billions of years. Take a journey through deep time.

Birds Evolved from Dinosaurs

The sparrow at your window is a living dinosaur. Follow the fossil evidence that shows birds are the feathered cousins of T. rex.

Types of Fossils

Not all fossils are dinosaur bones! Discover the different types — from bones turned to stone and molds and casts, to insects trapped in amber and footprints left behind.

Symbiosis in Nature

All across nature, different animals team up to survive. Meet the clownfish and its anemone, cleaner fish, and other surprising partners, and learn the three ways living things share their lives.

How Fossils Form

How does a soft, living animal end up as solid stone millions of years later? Follow the whole amazing journey — burial, turning to stone, and discovery — that makes a fossil.

Endangered Animals

Some of Earth's most amazing animals need our help. Learn why animals become endangered, meet real species fighting to survive, and discover the good news of animals brought back from the brink.

Dinosaurs Were Real

Dinosaurs were not make-believe monsters — they were real animals that truly lived long, long ago. Discover how we know they were real, from the bones in the ground to the birds in the sky.

Animal Intelligence

Meet the cleverest creatures on Earth — tool-making crows, puzzle-solving octopuses, and elephants that never forget — and discover how scientists measure animal smarts.

Animal Adaptations

Why does a camel have a hump and a polar bear such thick fur? Discover the amazing body parts and behaviors that help animals survive in the toughest places on Earth.

Multi-Step Problems with Large Numbers

Work through problems that stretch into the millions and include decimals, choosing between mental math, written methods, or a calculator - and defending your choice.

The Black Death

Learn what the plague of 1348 was, how it spread, and how a disaster that killed millions ended up giving surviving workers new power and better pay.

The World of Minibeasts

Get up close with insects, spiders, worms, and snails, the most numerous animals on Earth, and see how they pollinate plants, recycle waste, and feed other creatures.

Savanna and Grassland Animals

Roam the open grasslands with lions, zebras, elephants, and bison, and learn why huge herds gather there and how predators and prey share the wide plains.

Rainforest Animals

Journey through the layers of the tropical rainforest, meeting toucans and monkeys in the treetops and jaguars and frogs on the floor of Earth's richest habitat.

Predators and Prey

See the hunting tricks predators use, from wolf packs to ambushing crocodiles, and the clever defenses prey rely on, from porcupine spines to a skunk's spray.

Explore the frozen Arctic and Antarctic, home to polar bears, penguins, seals, and walruses, and see how thick fur, blubber, and huddling beat the extreme cold.

Meet the camels, fennec foxes, scorpions, and meerkats of the desert, and learn the clever tricks that keep them alive in blistering heat with almost no water.

Animal Migration

Follow the incredible journeys animals make, terns flying pole to pole, monarchs crossing a continent, whales swimming between oceans, and learn why they travel so far.

How Animals Communicate

Discover the amazing ways animals send messages, birdsong, whale calls, the honeybee's dance, wolf howls, and flashing fireflies, and why talking to each other keeps them alive.

Wild, Farm, and Pet Animals

Sort out the difference between wild animals that fend for themselves, farm animals people raise, and pets we keep for company, and why wild animals are best watched from afar.

Nocturnal Animals

Find out which animals sleep by day and come alive at night, and see the special big eyes, large ears, and sensitive whiskers that help them hunt in the dark.

How Animals Have Babies

Learn that some animals lay eggs and others give birth to live young, and meet babies that look nothing like their parents, like a tadpole and a frog.

Animals Everywhere

See how animals live all over the world, on land, in water, and in the air, with even icy Antarctica home to creatures suited to life there.

Animal Record-Holders

Meet the world's animal champions, the giant blue whale, the speedy cheetah, the tiny bee hummingbird, the towering giraffe, and compare their sizes to things you know.

Explore the many homes animals build and find, nests, burrows, hives, webs, and shells, and see how each one keeps animals and their babies safe.

Animal Camouflage

Discover how animals use color and pattern to disappear into their surroundings, from a leaf insect hiding on a branch to an Arctic hare turning white for winter.

Ancient Egyptian Society and Beliefs

Meet the gods with animal heads, climb the social pyramid from farmer to pharaoh, and see how tomb paintings and artifacts reveal how Egyptians really lived.

Pyramids and the Great Sphinx

Learn why Egyptians built giant stone pyramids for their pharaohs, and meet the Sphinx — the lion with a human head that still guards them today.

Meet the platypus, a furry animal with a duck's bill that lays eggs, senses electricity, and glows in the dark, so strange that scientists once thought it was a joke.

Stretch up to meet the tallest animal on Earth and discover the surprising science of its neck, its uphill-pumping heart, its purple tongue, and its secret hum.

Meet the furry builder with orange teeth who chops down trees, builds dams you can see from space, and makes homes for hundreds of animals.

Meet the biggest animals that walk the Earth, from their amazing 40,000-muscle trunks to their wise grandma leaders and rumbles you feel in your feet.

Toys Through Time!

Travel from ancient Egyptian dolls to the teddy bear, the Slinky, and LEGO to discover where toys come from and what makes a toy truly great!

Flap into the amazing world of bats, the only mammals that truly fly, and discover how they see with sound and help our planet.

From Farm to Table!

Follow your food on its amazing journey from farms and fields all the way to your plate, meeting the plants, animals, giant machines, and hardworking farmers along the way.

Mushrooms & Fungi!

Fungi are not plants and not animals but their very own kingdom, and this course reveals their hidden world of underground threads, billions of spores, giant record-breakers, and helpful friends.

Meet all eight kinds of bears, from the tiny sun bear to the giant polar bear, and find out how they really live, sleep, and eat.

The Microscopic World

Zoom into a world too small to see: pond monsters, your own cells, unkillable water bears, and the tiniest life of all.

Roar into the world of lions, tigers, cheetahs, jaguars, and snow leopards, and learn how we can help save them.

Discover real penguins: birds that fly underwater, stay toasty in Antarctica, hatch eggs on daddy's feet, and slide on their bellies where you'd never guess.

My First Spanish Words

Hola, colors, ten fingers, animals, family, and the words you need at the table.

Animal Camouflage

See how animals hide in plain sight with nature's cleverest disguises.

Animal Migration

Follow animals on epic journeys across oceans, skies, and grasslands.

Discover the tiny animals that build the ocean's most colorful cities.

Furry, warm, and clever — explore the wonderful world of mammals!

Scaly, cool, and ancient — get to know the world of reptiles!

Feathers, beaks, and flight — discover the amazing world of birds!

The Insect World

Six legs, three parts, a million species: explore the buzzing insect world.

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