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.
Simulations, virtual labs, and games for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
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.
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.
Downloadable copies of complex math problems used in previous Math Counts competitions for middle school students. Answer keys provided.
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.
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!
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 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.