Welcome to Herd Time! Use your time to improve yourself or the world! Try exploring one of the options in the columns below or submit a site to use during flex. We're looking for good typing sites and things that learn, serve, or improve your mind. Click here to submit a suggested site. (P.S. I don't check this every day, so if you want it checked sooner, email me and let me know you submitted a suggestion.)
Click here for a copy of the Herd Time Learning goals and accomplishment sheet.
Volunteering is fun, fulfilling, and profitable for future education and job hunting! Click here for some volunteering ideas in the area.
Catholic Community Services: Help a refugee and other opportunities!
Learn about the Rotary Club opportunities in Lehi
Familysearch indexing: Help digitize records from around the world so people can search for ancestors. Bonus if you speak a different language!
Earth is Amazing!- Check out this site and play with settings to see wind, currents, and waves all over the world. See any patterns?
NASA- Games, explorations and more!
Play the Bad News Game! Click on this link to see how well you can create a "news" following with nearly no evidence!
freelearninglist.org connects to lots of fun educational sites.
Google Kurgesagt to find videos like this
Google Smarter Every day to find videos like this
Google Veritasium to find videos like this.
Google Crash Course Kids for videos like this.
There's also an adult version of Crash Course for World History, US History, Chemistry, games, mythology and lots of other subjects. If you watched one or two a day, you would be quite a bit more educated by the end of the year....
Tom Scott- Learn about cool stuff. From cheese to bullet trains.
Jerry Rig Everything- Test stuff out. Re-engeineer the world.
Google TED ED and then include history, mythology, literature, science, or any other topic you choose and you'll likely find something interesting there!
RedNile- Doing weird stuff with science and engineering
Built for Science- Enjoy some science adventures with Tom Scott
Railroad restoration Amazing how much you can learn from a train.
Test or practice your typing speed with one of the following: NitroType, MonkeyType, or Typing Test. Remember- look at the screen, not at your fingers!
Worldle or a timed version at Geoguesser to test your location sleuthing skills.
Unlimited Wordle- Guess a word in 6 tries- no daily limit.
Super Wordle- More tries, but lots more words!
NEW! Human Benchmark- Scroll down for brain tests. Nerdle- Discover a math equation through trial, error and reasoning.
The Game of Life follow mathematical patterns as they grow and receede.
Line Rider- create a sled run
Connections: How well can you discover connections between words?
Seterra: Quiz yourself on maps close to home and around the world!
Coding: Learn to Code with a Google Doodle
Think like a Coder- a TedEd dystopian game. 10 episodes.
Scratch: Code your own games using this MIT website.
Math Slither: Pick a good challenge level for yourself here. Good luck!
Password Security? Try your password out here to see how long it would take a computer to crack it.
Population Solutions? More people need better solutions. Propose your video solution and win up to $600! (Herd time would be great to plan and make a video!)
Duct Tape Prom Scholarship. Yup. You can get a scholarship for building a prom outfit out of duct tape.
Try your favorite hobby in a google search with the word "Scholarship" and see what comes up. Include "middle school" if you don't find anything open to you right now.
Learn through Games- Yes, it's OK to explore and learn through games! Use the link above if you think you have a particularly educational one to add to the list below: