A HUGE list of educational TV shows & book series for elementary kids!

This post is part of a blog series entitled ADHD Homeschooling: Hacks, Tricks, and Tips for Making It Work. While this post is not in anyway ADHD specific, this list of our favorite TV shows and book series something I’ll be referencing a lot in the posts to come.

On top of having some great homeschool curriculum, we heavily supplement our learning with books, book series, and TV shows that cover the same content in our lessons. (I will be discussing how this helps ADHD kids in an upcoming post.)

TV Shows:

• Ready, Jet, Go
• Nature Cat
• Zoboomafoo, Kratt’s Creatures, and Wild Kratts by Chris & Martin Kratt
• The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That
• Leo the Wildlife Ranger
• Jonathan Bird’s Blue World
• Mary Stouffer’s Wild America
• Hard Hat Harry
• Lots and Lots of…
• *Owlegories
• *Wonders of God’s Creation
• The Magic School Bus – bonus, there are both pictures books AND chapter books that you can read that go along with the shows!

Book Series About Science:

• Let’s Read and Find Out Science
• A True Book
• ABDO Kids
• Amazing Science by Picture Window Books
• Cat in the Hat’s Learning Library
• First Facts by Capstone Publishing
• Pebble Plus by Capstone Publishing
• PowerKids Readers: Nature Books
• Rookie Read About Science
• See it Grow (Bearport Publishing)
• Smithsonian’s Backyard Books
• Look Once, Look Again by David M. Schwartz
• Life Cycles by David M. Schwartz
• Start to Finish by Lerner Press
• The Magic School Bus Chapter Books
• On My Own: Science
• All Aboard Science Readers
• Animal Groups Are CATegorical
• Graphic Library: Max Axiom
• Smithsonian’s Oceanic Collection
• Suzanne Tate’s Nature Series
• You Wouldn’t Want to Live Without…

Book Series About History:

• Childhood of Famous Americans
• *Adventures in Odyssey Imagination Station
• America By the Numbers from Sleeping Bear Press
• Discover America State by State from Sleeping Bear Press
• American Girl
• Blast to the Past
• Capital Mysteries
• Graphic Heroes of the American Revolution by Gary Jeffrey
• Graphic History by Graphic Library
• Graphic History by Graphic Planet by ABDO Kids
• History’s Kid Heroes: Graphic Universe
• Jr. Graphic American Legends
• Jr. Graphic Founding Fathers
• If You
• If You Were a Kid
• Magic Tree House
• On My Own: Biography
• On My Own: History
• Our American Symbols by Cloverleaf Books
• Real Kids Real Places (America’s National Mystery Book Series)
• Rush Revere
• Rookie Biographies
• Tales of Young Americans by Sleeping Bear Press
• The Family Heritage Series from Vermont Folklife Center
• WHO HQ
• You Choose: History
• You Wouldn’t Want To
• *The American Adventure Series
• *The Christian Heritage Series by Focus on the Family:
  • The Salem Years
  • The Williamsburg Years
  • The Charleston Years
  • The Chicago Years

*Christian resources

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