Websites & Interactives

Engaging Content Ideas for Online Learning - Elementary (K-5)

  • ABCya! - Literacy activities and games focused on elementary learning.

  • Activities from the National Science Foundation - The National Science Foundation supports numerous programs for students from Pre-K to Grade 12.

  • Educreations - Have an iPad? Create, demonstrate, and record just any anything on your iPad and share videos anywhere!

  • Desmos - Online interactive calculator and graphing tool.

  • Go Noodle - Awesome "brain breaks" through games, videos, and dance-along songs.

  • Google Earth Education - Guides for creating interactive stories and maps in Google Earth. Also includes a Carmen Sandiego game using Google Earth

  • iCivics - Social Studies and Civics Education Games and Lessons for students!

  • Hour of Code - Explore computer science and coding with interactive coding challenges based on popular video games

  • Mystery Science - Free science videos and investigations with host "Mystery Doug"

  • PBS Learning Media - Videos, lessons, and activities from a wide range of PBS' educational content.

  • Project Noah - "Citizen" powered science research focused on helping others identify wildlife

  • Purpose Games - Interactive games, simulations, and quizzes for every age level and content area.

  • Read, Write, Think - Interactives and activities focused on student writing and reading

  • Storyline Online - Celebrities and other notable personalities reading from children's picture books.

Engaging Content Ideas for Online Learning - Secondary (6-12)

  • Activities from the National Science Foundation - The National Science Foundation supports numerous programs for students from Pre-K to Grade 12.

  • Collaborative Mathematics - 16 mathematical problem solving challenges, presented via a short video

  • Educreations - Have an iPad? Create, demonstrate, and record just any anything on your iPad and share videos anywhere!

  • Explore Ellis Island - A virtual online interactive tour of the history of Ellis Island and immigration in the United States

  • Desmos - Online interactive calculator and graphing tool.

  • Google Earth Education - Guides for creating interactive stories and maps in Google Earth. Also includes a Carmen Sandiego game using Google Earth

  • Hour of Code - Explore computer science and coding with interactive coding challenges based on popular video games

  • iCivics - Social Studies and Civics Education Games and Lessons for students!

  • New York Times Learning Network - Lessons and activities that ask students to respond to news articles and enhance media literacy

  • PBS Learning Media Interactive Lessons - Interactive Lessons with Share to Google Classroom button across curriculum areas many with supporting materials as well

  • Purpose Games - Interactive games, simulations, and quizzes for every age level and content area.

  • PHET Labs Interactives - Free interactive labs and ideas to teach Science and Math topics from the University of Colorado at Boulder.

  • Read, Write, Think - Interactives and activities focused on student writing and reading

  • Redistricting Game - A fun game that teaches gerrymandering and can be tied into the 2020 Census.

  • Zooniverse - Research projects created by everyday people looking for help from all corners of the globe. Projects from every content area looking for volunteers to help collect and/or analyze data

  • Writing Across the Curriculum with R.A.F.T. - Writing prompts for History and Social Studies that challenge students to select a Role, Audience, a given Format, and Topic.