Student Educational Websites

A tremendously large list of companies are offering free use of their programs due to the COVID-19 situation. The following list represents a few of these companies that parents are encouraged to explore for additional resources for their student(s) during Distance Learning.

• https://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/
• https://www.greatschools.org/gk/coronavirus-school-closure-support/

Math

• Spacey Math: http://www.learningplanet.com/sam/sm/index.asp?contentid=177
• Math is Fun: https://www.mathsisfun.com/
• Khan Academy:  https://www.khanacademy.org
• Hippocampus: https://hippocampus.org/

Reading

• https://elibrarymn.org/ebooks

Science and Engineering:

• Science Museum of Minnesota: https://new.smm.org/learn
• A Touch of Class (classifying organisms): http://sciencenetlinks.com/interactives/class.html
• Edheads (perform surgery, weather, design a cell phone, etc): https://edheads.org/
• NASA - https://eyes.nasa.gov/
• Nasa: https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
• Khan Academy: https://www.khanacademy.org
• Crash Course: https://thecrashcourse.com
• PhET Simulations https://phet.colorado.edu/
• Hippocampus: https://hippocampus.org/
• Get Body Smart (Human body systems geared for upper grades): https://www.getbodysmart.com/
• Biology Corner: https://www.biologycorner.com/
• Anatomy Arcade: http://www.anatomyarcade.com/
• HHMI Biointeractive: https://www.biointeractive.org/
• Biomanbio (biology-themed video games): https://www.biomanbio.com/
• ACS Middle School Chemistry - http://www.middleschoolchemistry.com/multimedia/
• The Happy Scientist - http://thehappyscientist.com/
• PBS – Science  - https://tpt.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/science/
• Scholastic - https://classroommagazines.scholastic.com/support/learnathome/grades-6-12.html
• Science Buddies - https://www.sciencebuddies.org/middle-school-science
• How Stuff Works - https://science.howstuffworks.com/
• Citizen Science - https://www.zooniverse.org/projects
• Periodic Table of Videos - http://www.periodicvideos.com/
• Minute Physics - https://www.youtube.com/user/minutephysics?reload=9
• Science Court – Popular Videos -  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLGEOVbW0c0BwAjMy-mzdtbeg2slpYnpDG
• Journey North - https://journeynorth.org/
• Scratch - computer programming - https://scratch.mit.edu/
• Learn to Code - https://www.codecademy.com/
• One Hour of Code - https://code.org/learn
• Khan Academcy - computer programming - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming
• Amazon Future Engineer - https://www.amazonfutureengineer.com/free-courses

Social Skills

• Centervention: https://www.centervention.com/

Social Studies

• Smithsonian Institute: https://www.si.edu/
• Crash Course US History: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL8dPuuaLjXtMwmepBjTSG593eG7ObzO7s
• Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/
• The Gilder Lehrman Institute: https://www.gilderlehrman.org/
• American Experience PBS: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/
• iCivics: https://www.icivics.org/

Spanish

• Verb conjugation: conjuguemos.com
• Vocab: quizlet.com
• Learn Spanish by topic: studyspanish.com
• Learn Spanish through games: duolingo.com
• Activities with the textbook series: classzone.com
• News in Spanish (upper levels): bbcmundo.com
• Preterite Tense: https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/spanish-preterite-tense-forms

Typing

•  https://www.freetypinggame.net/Default.asp

Other

• http://www.prongo.com/games/
• https://www.funbrain.com/
• https://www.ixl.com/(includes math, language arts, science, social studies, Spanish for K-12):
• eLibrary Minnesota https://elibrarymn.org/?b=g&d=a
• Openlearn:  https://www.open.edu/openlearn/
• Blockly:  https://blockly.games
• Ted Ed:  https://ed.ted.com
• National Geographic Kids:  https://www.natgeokids.com/uk/