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Welcome to The World Around Us page. Below you will find a variety of websites to help your child explore our planet in many different ways. Please be aware that the links below range from Pre-School - High school. Please choose the appropriate link for your child.
How Stuff Works is geared toward older children. It is a site filled with articles, podcasts, games, quizzes, and polls. There is a wealth of information on this site, which makes it useful for homework projects.
Maggies Earth Adventures gets kids thinking and learning about the world and its vast ecosystems. It is a free site that teaches kids about the earth.
Real life situations are presented in short videos. Then kids play games that touch on the subjects of animals, earth, recycling, and injustice.
Some of the skills that they can acquire on this site include cultural understanding, global awareness, reading comprehension, spelling, vocabulary, investigation, prediction, and thinking critically.
Space Racers is based on the show. The site is designed to get young children excited about space and science.
The learning on this site is based on STEM curriculum (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). It comes through games, coloring pages, videos, music segments, lesson plans, and printouts from the lessons.
National Geographic Kids website teaches kids about animals, space, the natural world, dinosaurs, insects and more. They use games, videos, and online activities to connect children with learning about our natural world.
News-O-Matic is a news website geared for kids. The content helps them learn about the world and its happenings, in a website that is made for kids.
PBS Kids engages children in activities and videos that teach them about citizenship, different cultures, geography, global awareness, hypothesis testing, investigating, self-reflection, personal growth, empathy, respect for others, labeling feelings and more: https://pbskids.org/
Chrome Music Lab - You must use Google Chrome with this site.