Alcumus is specifically designed to provide high-performing students with a challenging curriculum appropriate to their abilities. Alcumus offers students a customized learning experience, adjusting to student performance to deliver appropriate math problems and lessons. Many of the problems are from major national math competitions such as MATHCOUNTS, MOEMS, the American Mathematics Competitions, and the Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing competitions. Accounts are free.
Created by Mitchell Moffit and Gregory Brown, ASAP Science is a YouTube video series on a mission of "Making science make sense." They also take on such challenges as Yanny or Laurel? and which is better Paper Towels or Hand Dryers and solve them with SCIENCE!
Simulations, virtual labs, and games for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
Vanessa Hill is your friendly neighborhood science educator and psychology specialist. On BrainCraft she makes videos about your brain, body and behaviour to help you better understand yourself and the world. Her mission is to empower you with evidence-based information you can use to enrich your everyday life – to boost well-being, to strengthen relationships and to increase productivity.
Created by teachers, this highly interactive tool provides an easy-to-use workspace where students can practice proofs while exercising their deductive reasoning muscles.
With all of the attention right now on the Coronavirus, this is a great time to play disease detective with the interactive online game from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. This has long been available as an iPad app, but now it is available to play online.
ChemMatters online magazines feature a variety of topics and articles may be read online or printed. Articles are also available in Spanish. In addition to chemistry, there are biographies of chemists, and historical articles. Videos are also available.
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.
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!
Online monthly mini-magazine and a collection of more than 950 websites with physics images, activities, and info
Science Friday partners with educators and scientists to create free STEM activities, lessons, and resources for all learners.
Created by John Green and Hank Green, Crash Course is a video series that proves that learning can be very, very entertaining! According to the site, "From courses like Astronomy to US History and Anatomy & Physiology it's got you covered with an awesome variety of AP high school curriculum topics. With various witty hosts at your service, you won't even notice you're getting smarter."
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
Jason Reynolds, seventh National Ambassador for Young People's Literature, presents his new series "Write. Right. Rite." as part of his "Grab the Mic: Tell Your Story" platform.