Fine Arts:
(Grades K-12) This interactive website provides students, educators and parents with access to more than 40,000 artworks from 250 museums from around the world.
Library:
Find the right kind of book or genre while playing hangman.
OPAC: Online resource for looking up materials in the library.
Find the genre of each kind of book by unscrambling the words.
Free online educational sites and resources for teachers, students, and parents.
USERNAME: worthington; PASSWORD: library
The largest library in the world. Great for primary sources.
Read a poem a day for the month of April.
Raz Kids (Purchased by the district)
Online guided reading program with interactive e-books, downloadable books, and reading quizzes.
Fun reading and math activities for grades K-3 students.
An online streaming video project with members of the Screen Actors Guild reading children's books.
In-Orbit readings and science to encourage STEM in the classroom.
The public library offers databases that are reliable resources for research. Students can choose from thousands of ebooks and more.
Teacher:
Common Core State Standards Initiative.
The Educator's Guide to Copyright and Fair Use
Educational use of copyrighted materials guidelines.
An inquiry-based STEM curriculum that teaches students thinking and reasoning skills needed for success. Built around the engineering design process, EiE teaches kids how to solve problems systematically . . . creating skills, optimism, and attitudes important for their futures. (Grades Pre-K-8)
Internet access to hours of fun, standard-based videos, reading material, quiz games, simple DIY activities and more!
Seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people. Lesson plans, professional development, magazine and publications.
Offers high-interest news articles that can be customized to match a student's reading level. Newsela's over 14,000 texts come from more than 175 publishers, including supplemental instructional materials, including assessments, lessons and professional development.
A digital ecosystem that makes learning science fun! Resources and tools give teachers new ways to engage students in STEM.
Connecting educators and parents with the tools and resources they need to help kids explore and understand the world around them. Together we can inspire the next generation to build a future where people and nature thrive!
Internet Safety:
Provides information and education for people to thrive in a world of media and technology.
A program for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children geared for ages 5-17, parents and guardians, educators, and law enforcement. Interactive with videos, games, e-books, and free stuff.
Math:
Free math games to master fact fluency and curriculum standards.
Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles.
Math Challenges for Families. Take a challenge, visit the teacher's corner, or explore the indexes.
500 cool math games.
Games for grades K-8 designed to build math fact fluency.
Science:
Who's on the space station? Why do we explore? Kids' club picture show and play games.
Animals, games, videos, and Magazines for Kids.
Inspire and educate students of all ages with hands-on STEM explorations that reflect their unique personal interests. By providing highly personalized educational experiences, we drive student discovery, engagement, and learning in STEM subjects.
A free open source planetarium for your computer. It shows a realistic sky in 3D, just like what you see with the naked eye, binoculars or a telescope.
Social Studies:
We work to inspire life-long civic engagement by providing high quality and engaging civic resources to teachers and students across the nation.
Resources, training, and support to assist caregivers, teachers, and students as they face new learning challenges.
Technology:
Learn computer science (specifically coding).
Students can practice the skill of using a mouse.
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations - share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps students learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. It is provided free of charge.
Typing:
Keyboarding Without Tears (Purchased by the district for grades K-5)
Keyboarding Without Tears prepares students in more than just typing. They learn the rules of the online world, developing flexible skills and confidence to help them succeed. This online, game-based curriculum for K-5 helps students learn typing, general computer readiness, online test prep. Students can also access an award-winning digital citizenship curriculum from Common Sense Education.
Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with up to 5 typers from around the world. Compete against your friends, earn new cars, track your scores and so much more... all for free!
It is web based and highly effective. TypingClub is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools. There is an optional paid school edition.
Allows people to race each-other by typing quotes from books, movies, and songs. It is the first multiplayer typing game on the web.
There are four levels to play, each divided into three stages.
You start by learning the home row keys. Each stage builds on previous lessons, introducing new letters as you progress. You’ll soon be touch typing like an expert! At the end of each level you can test your typing speed and get a fun reward.
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Other Educational Sites:
Free educational computer games and and activities for students in grades K-5.
Games, videos and activities on topics like data, the environment, fractions, holidays, measurements, money, patterns, problem solving, science & engineering, shapes, sports and using numbers.
Engineering with Kids-Science for Kids
Free games, cool science fair projects, fun experiments, interesting facts, amazing videos, quizzes, worksheets and more!
Online educational games for students in grades K-8.
The place for children of all ages to play games and discover new jokes, surveys, puzzles, answers to science questions and fun crafts and recipes.
Site that provides practice in math and language arts for students in grades K-12.
Reinforces skills in math, science, history, language arts, and geography.
Ology: A Science Website for Kids
Find out about fossils, the universe, animals, and much more! Kids of all ages can play games, do activities, collect cards, and meet scientists.
From the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, this site helps tweens, teens, their families and educators connect science with everyday experiences.
Flashcards, tests, and study games make learning fun and engaging for students of all ages.
Videos:
A non-profit organization's mission to provide an education for anyone, anywhere.
Free video lessons.
Click "Math Videos" to view. Click "Common Core" tab for games.
Science videos and stories about our awesome planet!
A free starter list of K-5 science lessons that are easy to do at home.
A library of short videos on mathematical subjects that can be used for grades 5-12.