Websites

Choose Your Own Course

  • cK-12
    • Free learning materials for students K-12 – Even college!
    • Adaptive practice available
    • Teachers can set classes or students can just explore
    • Videos, reading, and simulations
    • Math, Science, English, Writing, Social Studies, and More!
  • Crash Course
    • Target audience: secondary
    • 32 clusters of courses included artificial intelligence, navigating digital information, sociology, statistics, theater, and world history
    • YouTube videos providing information regarding topic
    • Now produced by PBS
  • Crash Course Kids
    • Target audience: 5th grade and below
    • Focus on science with host Sabrina Cruz (produced by PBS)
    • Earth Science, Physical Science, Biology, Geography, Engineering, and Astronomy
  • Khan Academy
    • Khan Kids app up to 1st grade (no ads or subscription!) – iPad, Google play, Amazon
    • Math, Test Prep. Science, Arts & Humanities, Computing, Economics, Life Skills, Reading & Language Arts

Coding

  • Code.org
    • Incorporates other platforms such as Scratch
    • Available for beginners to more advanced users
    • Self-learn through video tutorials and hints as needed
    • Includes various types of coding language including JavaScript and Python
  • MIT App Inventor
    • Create phone apps with pdf and/or video guided tutorials or create your own
    • Follows block style coding
  • Microsoft MakeCode
    • Hands on coding for micro:bit, adafruit, Minecraft, Lego Mindstorms, Cue, Arcade, and Chibi Chip
    • Some code apps utilize hardware apps but coding can still be explored (Check out Minecraft and Arcade!)

Exploring the Arts

  • Google Arts & Culture
    • Create your own opera with the Blob Opera
    • Explore Art around the world through museums and pictures
    • Experiment with the arts through games
    • Discover amazing cultural sites around the through stories, art, history and more
  • The Metropolitan Museum of Arts #metkids
    • Explore exhibits around the The Metropolitan Museum of Arts
    • The site includes videos and ideas for art projects at home
    • Use the map or time machine to move about the museum
    • Videos include kids and art experts
  • The Kennedy Center Digital Resources
    • Resources to infuse the arts into the classroom
    • Collection of hundreds of digital learning resources including lesson plans, articles, performance guides, how-tos, and more
    • Appeal to students’ learning interests and cultures
    • Variety of learning platforms including reading, video, music and more!
  • The Louvre Museum
    • Visit different galleries in the Louvre Museum in France
    • Updated exhibits are added frequently
    • Explore the Egyptian Antiquities or the Patite Galerire for a closer look at the Classical period to the work of the Renaissance.
    • See works by Delacroix, Rembrandt, and more
  • FitLara
    • A YouTube channel
    • Dance and fitness
    • Includes workouts and dance routines
    • Perfect for all levels
  • KidsPop YouTube (Dance)
    • A YouTube Dance
    • Dance and Movement
    • Popular movements to current songs

Virtual Field Trips

  • NASA Glenn Virtual Tour
    • Tour inside the Glenn Research Center at NASA
    • Visit the Simulated Lunar Operations Laboratory (SLOPE), Supersonic Wind Tunnel and Ballistics Lab- Just to START!
    • Videos and captions provide great information on the self-guided tour
  • Zoos: San Diego Zoo
    • Behind the scenes videos and stories
    • Live webcams of various animals
    • Variety of printables, games, animal trivia
  • George Washington’s Home in Mount Vernon
    • Explore the mansion, outbuildings, garden & landscaping, distillery & gristmill, library
    • VR Tour option
    • Facts and video with captions are included

Content Specific

  • iCivics
    • Remote Learning Toolkit
    • 14 simulation games about government and civics
    • Games last 30-45
    • Involves decision and critical thinking skills
  • Prodigy
    • Free for teachers
    • Differentiate learning  with adaptive algorithm to deliver math content
    • Motivate and engage students to practice in a fantasy world
  • Phet: Interactive Simulations
    • Project from University of Colorado offering free science interactive, research-based simulations
    • Physical phenomena
    • Include measurement instruments such as rulers, stop-watchers voltmeters and thermometers
    • Manipulate variables to illustrate cause-and-effect relations
  • Toshiba: ExploraVision
    • Generally due around the first of February (but would need to start much earlier)
    • Science competition for K-12 students
    • Encourages students to use imaginations to create and explore a vision for the future
    • Students work in teams of 2-4 (guided by a coach and optional mentor)
    • Select a technology relevant to lives, explore what it does and how it works. THEN project what it would look like in 10 years and what future breakthroughs it will have!
    • Students create a presentation according to a template (new) in our classes.
  • Newsela
    • Current news articles from a large variety news sources
    • Adaptable reading levels
    • Variety of content: Science, Technology, Politics, etc

Just for Fun!

  • GeoGuessr
    • Play free once per day (monthly subscription available)
    • 3 levels of game play: World, Famous Places, United States
    • Use Google photos and maps to guess where you are!
    • Do this as an individual, groups, or a whole class
  • Duolingo
    • Completely free online or mobile devices (can upgrade)
    • Over 36 languages available including Spanish, French, Chinese, Russian (even High Valyrian and Klingon!)
    • Set individual goals and progress at an individual pace
    • Practice identifying, listening and speaking

Mindfulness

  • GoNoodle
    • Designed for the younger learners
    • Features activities for mindfulness and movements
    • Dance along videos
  • Calm for Schools
    • Library of meditations, stretches, relaxing music, and nature sounds, including nature landscapes
    • Website and app is developed to create mindfulness practices
    • Available to teachers for free through the Calm Schools Institute
    • Reduce stress and assists in the social / emotional aspect of the classroom
    • Improve focus and increase calm