Updated August 24th, 2021
22 YouTube channels to launch your child’s curiosity & inspire their sense of exploration! Learning CAN be fun! Inspire them to be life-long learners & watch them GROW!
Typically, we watch 1 or 2 educational videos before watching TV in the evening as a family.
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| 1) Bright Side | 11) Vsauce2 |
| 2) Smarter Every Day | 12) Veritasiam |
| 3) Mark Rober | 13) The King of Random |
| 4) Science Channel | 14) TED Ed |
| 5) Top Think | 15) D!ng |
| 6) Science Max | 16) 3 Blue 1 Brown |
| 7) Raising da Vinci | 17) Minute Physics |
| 8) The Action Lab | 18) asap SCIENCE |
| 9) Kurzagate-in a nutshell | 19) Physics Girl |
| 10) Vsauce | 20) It’s OK to be Smart |
| Bonus Channels | |
| 21) ColdFusion | 22) Stuff Made Here |
| 23) Animagraffs | 24) CGP Grey |
1) Bright Side
Hey! Are you looking for answers to life’s biggest questions? Whether you’re into recent discoveries, space exploration,, true stories, fitness, fun tests, and riddles, or useful tips for self-improvement, psychology, gadgets, or just your day-to-day routine, there’s something for everyone! Fostering your sense of curiosity and stoking your thirst for knowledge!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 41.5 Million | 4,162 | March 15th, 2017 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 8,938,043,288 |
2) SmarterEveryDay
Exploring the world using science!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 9.96 Million | 344 | April 4th, 2006 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 971,402,435 |
3) Mark Rober
Science & engineering.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 19.5 Million | 100 | October 19th, 2011 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 2,335,652,791 |
4) Science Channel
Science – Duh! (Mythbusters Jr.) Learn about outer space, leading scientific exploration, new technology, earth science basics, & more.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.9 Million | 1,838 | December 4th, 2006 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 891,853,750 |
5) TopThink
Infotainment & Self-improvement. Always something interesting!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 2.13 Million | 366 | June 22nd, 2016 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 151,179,105 |
6) Science Max
Have you ever done a science experiment and wondered “What would this be like if it were HUGE?” That’s Science Max, the exciting new series that turbocharges all the science experiments you’ve done at home.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 214K | 196 | October 4th, 2016 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 61,668,918 |
7) Raising da Vinci
A place to share ideas and activities for parents who want to really engage their children and teach them through new experiences.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 48.9K | 49 | December 19th, 2015 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 13,637,794 |
8) The Action Lab
The Action Lab is a channel dedicated to performing exciting experiments and answering questions you never thought to ask! He’ll put things in my hydraulic press, vacuum chamber and perform countless other experiments just to watch cool phenomenon. He experiments on the world and objects around us. You’ll be so amazed that you’ll forget you are even learning anything!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.55 Million | 668 | May 12th, 2016 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 722,953,103 |
9) Kurgazate-in a nutshell
A small team who want to make science look beautiful. Because it is beautiful.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 15.9 Million | 144 | July 9th, 2013 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 1,529,340,569 |
10) Vsauce
Just exploring our amazing world – with a LOT of personality!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 17.1 Million | 382 | April 16th, 2014 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 2,134,258,296 |
11) Vsauce2
Explores recreational mathematics including, paradoxes, math games, riddles and more to uncover the surprising complexity beneath seemingly simple concepts.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 4.37 Million | 394 | December 7th, 2010 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 670,751,934 |
12) Veritasiam
Videos about science, education, and anything else they find interesting.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 9.9 Million | 318 | Jul 21st, 2010 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 1,215,199,478 |
13) The King of Random
Videos dedicated to exploring life through all kinds of life hacks, experiments, and random weekend projects. Excitement is found in discovering the unknown.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 12.6 Million | 1,365 | January 3rd, 2010 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 3,235,927,473 |
14) TED Ed
Lessons worth sharing.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 14.7 Million | 1,848 | March 1st, 2011 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 2,618,649,538 |
15) D!ng
Science videos presented with enthusiasm!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 1.83 Million | 255 | September 2nd, 2015 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 176,110,359 |
16) 3Blue1Brown
A combination of math and entertainment, depending on your disposition. The goal is for explanations to be driven by animations and for difficult problems to be made simple with changes in perspective.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.88 Million | 115 | March 3rd, 2015 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 212,747,022 |
17) MinutePhysics
Simply put: cool physics and other sweet science.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 5.37 Million | 257 | June 20th, 2011 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 484,120,380 |
18) asapSCIENCE
Making science make sense!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 9.73 Million | 374 | May 28th, 2012 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 1,534,895,850 |
19) Physics Girl
Adventures into the physical sciences with experiments, demonstrations, and cool new discoveries. Physics Girl has videos for every atom and eve.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 2.02 Million | 182 | October 21st, 2011 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 146,413,996 |
20) It’s OK to be Smart
Joe Hanson, Ph.D. is a curious group of atoms in a curious universe, and he’s here to tell you how it all works.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.98 Million | 331 | March 17th, 2012 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 356,507,273 |
21) ColdFusion
This channel aims to let you experience the cutting edge of the world around us in a relaxed atmosphere. Learn the captivating stories about how our world came to be and also learn what’s happening in the cutting edge today.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.07 Million | 398 | December 3rd, 2007 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 280,607,263 |
22) Stuff Made Here
Shane builds some incredibly complex and amazing things! He has a passion for engineering and is intent on showing the world that engineering is, in fact, cool! He hopes to inspire others to embrace engineering.
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 3.26 Million | 24 | March 3, 2020 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 158,061,302 |
23) Animagraffs
Jake O’Neal makes great animated 3D videos that help explain how the world around us works!
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 377 Thousand | 15 | May 9th, 2016 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 25,746,637 |
24) CGP Grey
| Subscribers | # Videos | Start Date |
| 5.5 Million | 182 | August 12th 2010 |
| Total Channel Views | = | 835,109,137 |
I hope you find something of interest within this list of YouTube Channels!
Sincerely,
