EGFI is sponsored by American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The website has numerous lessons that can be done offline that strengthens understanding of the engineering process.
NASA is helping inspire the next generation of STEM professionals with these free, at-home, hands-on Build It! Solve It! Launch It! Play It! Color It! Read It! projects.
Broken down by grade level and specific skill, open middle features a series of equations with missing numbers. Students solve them using their critical thinking, number sense, and math concept knowledge. Even better – printable number tiles so students can create their own bogglers for friends and family!
Breakout EDU brings the challenges of an escape room through online games.
The Smithsonian Learning Lab offers teachers and parents access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. Includes pre-packaged collections that contain lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators. Includes self-directed learning modules for teens and tweens.
HippoCampus.org is a free, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. The site collects a wide range of content resources from other sites and organizes them in a central location that can be browsed by subject area. Includes full courses.
Khan Academy is a personalized learning resource that offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empowers learners to study at their own pace. It tackles math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. The math missions guides learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps.
An online collection of over 500 spontaneous problems from Odyssey of the Mind. Directions for many quick and fun creative problem solving activities using everyday items.
The twist on this classic visual task is that an argument can be made for ANY answer. Use the online puzzles to get the hang of it, then have your children create their own grids with items from around the house, on a nature walk, from magazine pictures, or by using a camera and PicCollage.
SET, Quiddler, and Karma DAILY online games to challenge the whole family. Tutorial videos on how to play are super easy to understand to get started quickly! Perfect for a morning warm-up of the brain!
Resources for engaging young gifted learners’ minds and to promote learning at home, including free eBook of Thinking Skills Activities for Grades 3-6 free featuring 35 pages of logic puzzles, math bafflers, word bogglers, and more.
Each video lesson is accompanied by a series of questions to make the viewer think as well as additional resources to explore in the Dig Deeper section. Perhaps best of all, you can customize any of the lessons.
An educational alternative to YouTube, The Kid Should See This is a collection of kid-friendly (not Made-For-Kids) videos, curated for teachers and parents who want to share smarter, more meaningful media in the classroom and home.
The Museum of Discovery and Science (MODS) in Fort Lauderdale hosts virtual learning videos with accompanying activities weekdays, with playback on YouTube. Content includes school program lessons, outreach classes, Makerspace activities, Slime of the Day, storytelling, early childhood education, science shows, and animal meet and greets.
Wonderopolis provides over 2000 different “wonderings” that students can explore and discover through inquiry. Students can search by content or choose a topic of interest.