Welcome to OLogy!
The science website
for kids from
the American Museum
of Natural History.

  • Game
    The Amazing Mundo

    Mundo Shamundo! Can you help Mandy study for her geology test?

    OLogy Pick
  • Video
    Ask A Scientist: Brain

    Scientist Rob DeSalle answers kids' questions about the brain!

    OLogy Pick
  • Hands-on
    Make Your Own Creatures of Light

    Create land and sea animals that "glow" in the dark!

    OLogy Pick
  • Story
    What's This? Mythic Creatures

    What animal does this long, spiraled tooth belong to? Take a guess!

    OLogy Pick
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Find out how to use OLogy with your students

OLogy iPad App!

A selection of activities available offline!

OLogy Card of the Day

Patagotitan mayorum
Total cards: 377
What are OLogy Cards?

OLogy Card of the Day

Patagotitan mayorum
Total cards: 377
What are OLogy Cards?

Educators, click here!

Find out how to use OLogy with your students

OLogy iPad App!

A selection of activities available offline!

Explore by Activity Type

Games
Stories
Hands-on
Videos

Educators, click here!

Find out how to use OLogy with your students

OLogy iPad App!

A selection of activities available offline!

OLogy Card of the Day

Patagotitan mayorum
Total cards: 377
What are OLogy Cards?

"OLogy" means "the study of" Choose an OLogy!

Anthropology

People and cultures in the past and today

Archaeology

People and artifacts from ancient time

Astronomy

The Universe and everything in it

Biodiversity

The rich variety of life on Earth 

Brain

The organ inside our skulls

Climate Change

Long-term changes in global temperature

Earth

The dynamic planet that we call home

Genetics

How genes are passed down generations

Marine Biology

Life in the ocean

Microbiology

Bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms

PaleontOLogy

Dinosaurs and other things that lived long ago

Physics

Matter and its motion through space and time

Water

The liquid that makes life on Earth possible

Zoology

All animals from insects to mammals

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Games
Stories
Hands-on
Videos

Popular Topics

artifact • bacteria • bird • coral reef • dinosaur • DNA • ecosystem • endangered • extinct • fish • fossil • gravity • greenhouse effect • ice • insect • mammals • Mars • myth • neuron • rock • star • volcano