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