cool free stuff
Free books & audiobooks
Free books & audiobooks
ALWAYS FREE:
Become a book reviewer for LitPick and get free ebooks
Internet Archive - free access to out-of-copyright titles (good for finding "classics")
Project Gutenberg - Out of Print books ("Classics")Huge selection -- start with the "Top 100 Downloaded Titles & Authors" to make it easier, but there are a ton more!
Free ebooks and audiobooks from your local public library (here's how to find them)
Free short stories, ebooks and audiobooks (not just for kids - so some might be inappropriate)
Read all of Shakespeare's Plays and Sonnets
PODCASTS:
Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls
Forever Ago (history)
RadioLab (science)
THINGS TO DO 0R SEE
THINGS TO DO 0R SEE
ALWAYS FREE:
Solve Riddles (TEDEd)
Youth Speaks: Brave New Voices Competition(there WILL be some swearing and content that some may find inappropriate for kids)
Play Scattergories
Anne Frank House - an interactive tour of the secret annex where she and her family lived in hiding during the Holocaust.
Where does your family live on "Dollar Street"? - Find out where you fit - from richest to poorest in the world. Be sure to check out "Toilet Paper."
Free online tours of famous museums worldwide
Free interactive tour of the British Museum (install the app to make it interactive)
Ideas for starting a cool writing notebook
60 Second Docs - watch some, and then try making one of your own
Google Experiments
learn new stuff
learn new stuff
ALWAYS FREE:
Imagineering in a Box
Computer Science Express Course
Beginner: Teach yourself how to juggle
Teach yourself how to write an argument like a journalist (& enter the contest in the NY Times)
App Inventor (MIT)
TEDed Student Page - make your own talk, or find one to watch
Beginner: Learn how to cook simple & cheap meals
Pro: Make your own sourdough starter and then bake bread!(You can use whatever flour you have in these recipes.)
NY Times: What's going on in this graph?
NY Times: What's going on in this picture?
NY Times Film Club
TEDed: The Art of the Metaphor
TEDed: How Fiction can Change Reality
IAR Practice Test with answer key
Greek & Latin Roots
Quizlet: First 30 Roots - practice
Apostrophes - explained!
Kahoot: Apostrophes - practice
Homophones - stop mixing them up!
Quizlet: Homophones - practice
Beginner: Learn how to Knit
Free digital audio learning (Earsketch)