Podcasts for Kids & Teens
For Elementary School Aged Kids
This production, from Vermont Public Radio, tackles such topics as Why Do People Have Nightmares?, Do Animals Get Married?, and Why Do Lions Roar?
Their mission statement says it all: “To engage the next generation with news that will inform without fear and educate without opinion.”
Hosts Mindy Thomas and Guy Raz guide curious kids and their grown-ups on a journey into the wonders of the world around them. They go inside our brains, out into space and deep into the coolest new stories in science and technology.
Brains On! is an award-winning science podcast for kids and curious adults from American Public Media.
An online treasure-trove of free audio stories. Listen to a mixture of original stories, fairy tales, and specially adapted myths and histories.
A fun-filled podcast for kids all about ethical questions that get kids and adults thinking.
For Tweens in Middle School
This podcast is perfect for tweens into hip-hop. Episodes follow the main character, Antoine, a boy who is bullied, who finds a magical book that transports him to another world.
Neil deGrasse Tyson talks about all things space: stars, planets, humans in space, and much more. He also interviews a lot of interesting people, from Buzz Aldrin to Alan Rickman.
This podcast explores the English language, with all its oddities! Filled with good humor, it helps the listener explore the roots of words and phrases that we use every day.
Learn about people and events that are often overlooked in a typical history class.
Youth Radio is a podcast for teens, published by teens. It was created to showcase the power of young people as makers of media, technology, and community.
This podcast features middle schoolers talking about a popular middle-grade or YA book and sharing their favorite book recommendations. Public radio figure Kitty Felde runs the discussion
For Teens in High School
This is a twice-monthly podcast in the style of community updates for the small desert town of Night Vale, featuring local weather, news, announcements from the Sheriff's Secret Police, mysterious lights in the night sky, dark hooded figures with unknowable powers, and cultural events.
The podcast that brings you the “ins and outs of everyday things” from the Pledge of Allegiance to Mexican Jumping Beans to “Your Limb is Torn Off.
Stories of people who’ve done wrong, been wronged, or gotten caught somewhere in the middle. Phoebe Judge explores topics from owls killing people to how to fake your death to the life of a police dog.
Malcolm Gladwell, author of Outliers and The Tipping Point, looks back through the overlooked and misunderstood in history, re-examining the past and asking whether we got it right the first time.
Each episode of This American Life centers around a theme. Most are journalistic at the core, but some are comedic. This podcast is hard to generalize, but it’s massive popularity, speaks for itself.
This weekly podcast from NPR covers the latest and greatest in new music with a particular focus on emerging artists and indie musicians. It covers a wide range of genres and includes artist interviews and live performances