Science for kids, grade by grade

What science does Maya teach?

50 written lessons, from grade 1 to grade 10. In grade 2: the five senses, what lungs and bones do, what animals need, sinking and floating, shadows. In grade 3: solids, liquids and gases in the kitchen, magnets, light travelling in straight lines, sound as a shake. In grade 4: day and night, soil for plants. In grade 5: energy changing form, and what happens to food after a bite.

In science, a wrong idea often matches what children see with their own eyes. Maya’s lessons are built around exactly those ideas.

How does a lesson with Maya go?

A science lesson with Maya starts from what the class did today — say, why there is night — and goes like this:

• Your child tells Maya what the class learned today, or shows her a photo of the worksheet.
• Maya teaches that topic with them, in short steps, at their grade.
• She asks questions they answer with a tap — no typing, no blank page.
• When an answer is wrong, she does not just say “try again”. She explains why that answer was tempting, and what was missing to reach the right one.
• She remembers what did not land, and comes back to it in later lessons.

Which children are the science lessons for?

Children in grades 1 to 6, roughly ages 6 to 12, and especially children who ask “why?” and want an answer that holds. The explanations are short, and Maya uses things every home has: ice, a kettle, a torch and kitchen foil.

The science lessons are written in Hebrew and in English, so your child can learn them in the language they study in at school.

What science mistake does Maya catch?

Ask a fourth grader why there is night, and a common answer is that the sun goes to sleep. It is tempting because from the ground that is exactly what it looks like: the sun goes down and disappears.

Maya explains why it looks that way, then shows what is really happening: the Earth spins, and the side facing away from the sun has night — while on the other side the sun keeps shining.

You can try it at home with a torch and an orange in a dark room. Your child sees for themselves that the light never goes out; only the side turns.

Is Maya safe for a young child?

Maya is built for children with a parent nearby, and the rules are written into her legal pages, not just promised on this one.

• Maya does not ask a child for an email address, a precise location or a friend list.
• There is no chat between children, no public feed and no ads in the lesson.
• Lessons that go through a language model stay locked until a parent confirms a link sent to their email.
• From the parent screen you can pause those lessons and delete the copy kept in the cloud.
• Children’s information is not sold, and there is no targeted advertising.

The full details are in the children’s privacy notice and the safety page, linked at the bottom of this page.

Maya or a private tutor: which does your child need?

Both help, but they answer different needs. Here they are side by side:

A human tutor is the better choice for exam preparation, for teenagers, for practising a spoken language, and for a child who needs a person beside them. Maya is for the everyday: the evening after school, when a topic did not land and nobody is free to explain it again.

You can also have both: if your child sees a tutor once a week, Maya can cover the other evenings.

Questions parents ask