Free Time Links

Ted Talks

Have your headphones? Listen to a fun, inspiring Ted Talk!

The 10 part series will challenge viewers with programming puzzles, as the main characters attempt to save a world that has been plunged into turmoil

Learn computer science. Change the world.Every student has the potential to change the world. Help them get started. #CSforGood

15 Amazing Volunteer Ideas to Inspire Kids and TeensEasy social good projects that help kids gain important SEL skills.

Applications of Mathematics | MathigonLearn about the countless hidden uses and applications which mathematics has in everyday life: From weather prediction to medicine, video games and music…

Number Games

https://www.mathsisfun.com/games/games-number-flash.html

Lots of different games to choose from!

High Stakes Heist

How it works: Crack the safe by solving an equation, one step at a time, using the correct order of operations. If you make a mistake, you can go back to the previous step to fix it.

What students practice: Order of operations

Website: http://www.abcya.com/order_of_operations.htm

Math Playground:

Make sure to choose something that is from 6th grade and math!!

https://www.mathplayground.com/grade_6_games.html

Math Game Time

http://www.mathgametime.com/grade/6th-grade

(only choose 6th grade or higher!)

Making Change

How it works: Help Harvey the cashier make change for his customers by clicking the correct coins and bills to place them on the counter. If you get the wrong answer, the computer prompts you to correct your error.

What students practice: Subtraction, money skills

Website: https://www.mathplayground.com/making_change.html

Math Snacks

Shadows are corrupting the land. Restore the balance of nature using number operations and place value.

http://mathsnacks.com/gate.html

Monster School Bus Overview

The goal of Monster School Bus is to fill up the bus with kids in each neighborhood and to deliver as many full busloads of students to the school as possible.

http://mathsnacks.com/monster-school-bus.html

Pearl Diver Overview

Navigate the number line while diving among shipwrecks and sunken ruins. Will you find a pearl, or an old boot? Watch out for the electric eel! Pearl Diver teaches properties of numbers, how to plot numbers, how to visualize quantity on the number line, how to order numbers, and how to use the number line as a visual model for mathematical operations.

http://mathsnacks.com/pearl-diver.html

Brain Teasers!!

https://illuminations.nctm.org/BrainTeasers.aspx?id=6013

Estimation 180

Building number sense one day at a time

http://www.estimation180.com/

STEM_Book-List_2018.pdf

Check out this list for some new books!

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