STEM at home

Scorpion

Ages: 10+ years

What if the kid who never quite fit in turns out to be exactly who you need to solve an impossible problem? Scorpion is loosely based on the real story of Walter O'Brien, one of the world's highest-recorded IQs, who assembles a team of brilliant outliers — a behaviorist, a mechanical prodigy, a statistics genius — to tackle the threats no one else can. It's a rare show that treats being different as a superpower rather than a punchline.

Why we love it: Your kid sees themselves in these characters — the ones who think differently, ask too many questions, and don't always get the social stuff. And they watch them save the day, every episode.

Mythbusters

by Discovery TV

Ages: 8+ years

How hard is it to find a needle in a haystack? Can water dripping on your forehead actually drive you mad? MythBusters takes questions like these seriously — then blows them up (sometimes literally) to find out. Equal parts science experiment and comedy show, it's the rare program where your child will be genuinely entertained and quietly learning how to think like an investigator.

Why we like it: It makes the scientific method feel like something worth doing — not something worth memorizing.