This is a free resource of online learning experiences that has been vetted by those at Common Sense Education. It is organized into 16 distinct categories and it’s not too overwhelming.
Students can easily browse to find scheduled live events and the site provides an easy-to-use daily planner that can be used to plan any given day.
Online Learning Opportunities - Free database by Sofia Joffe
This is a student-curated database of 300+ learning sites so you can accelerate your online learning. It was created by a senior at a high school in Canada.
Her name is Sofia Joffe, and her work has been featured in the NY Times, and multiple radia, TV and news outlets.
Math & Science
Twig World
All students in our Middle School now have a username and password.
Interested in exploring how math and science explain our world? Thought about how graphing points in three dimensions can be very risky? Or how much does the actual Internet weigh? Or better yet, what is probably the most important chemical reaction that allows life on earth? Try looking at these videos: Vectors: Air Traffic Control, How much does the Internet weigh? or Photosynthesis
www.twig-world.com gives short, precise math and science videos that show connections with our world. Your child has a username and password so your family is all set to go. Have fun exploring!
STEM: Learn, Design & Make
Science Max: Educational experiments
Space Station Explorers: STEM learning with the International Space Station National Lab
SciShow explores the unexpected in science and shares the discoveries
BrainPOP Games can search by grade level and subject. Login with through Google Apps
Abu Dhabi Children's Library: Scholastic GO! Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more
Abu Dhabi Children's Library: Scholastic TrueFlix Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more
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Podcasts
Tumble Science Podcast for Kids
Brains On! Science podcast for kids
We Got You is a weekly advice podcast where teens answer the biggest questions from middle schoolers across the country on life, loneliness and an uncertain future.
Find out more about 30 animals that made us smarter.
Following Harriet - a podcast that takes a closer look at the life of Harriet Tubman
#Herstory - podcasts that promote more visibility of female leadership and female history makers.
Invisibilia - Unseeable forces control human behavior and shape our ideas, beliefs, and assumptions. Invisibilia—Latin for invisible things—fuses narrative storytelling with science that will make you see your own life differently.
Reading & Writing
90 Second Newbery Film Festival: enter in an annual video contest in which young filmmakers create weird short movies that tell the entire stories of Newbery-winning books.
