6-8 DL Resources

There are so many amazing video lessons and interesting things to learn. The videos tend to be short and of a very high educational quality. 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.

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.

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.

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."