Actively Learn is a digital curriculum platform for grades 6-12 ELA, SS, and Science. Our catalog includes over 3,000 texts, videos, and simulations that include embedded questions, scaffolding notes, and multimedia to support all learners. Seamlessly integrates with Google Classroom.
Alchemie: The Mechanisms app allows students to learn and practice reaction mechanisms by moving and manipulating individual bonds and electrons. Instructors can assign specific puzzle problems through the Epiphany Dashboard. Students will be able to access those puzzles through the App on their phone or tablet. Demos of the Mechanisms and Epiphany Dashboard are available for free.
BSCS Science Learning Online: Free resources that offer interactive, online learning experiences for students, and materials designed for the classroom that are available for free download.
Challenger Center's STEM at Home: A collection of lessons and activities that can be modified and completed at home. Each STEM at Home category includes at least one at-home lesson. These activities require common household items or products that are readily available online.
CK-12 Foundation: Each lesson has a reading passage, videos, optional review questions, and self-graded practice questions in Science, Math or Social Studies. The lessons can be assigned to Google Classroom and it puts the grade in that students got on the practice questions (students must get 10 practice questions correct to get 100%).
Discovery Education - Visit the Discovery Education page on this site for tutorials. ALL WL students and teachers now have accounts AND you can easily assign content in your GC Classroom.
FossWeb - Module aligned resources. Contact John if you need help setting up your account or module access codes.
Legends of Learning offers 2,000 3rd through 8th-grade math and science games and simulations correlated to state standards. Teachers create playlists of games based on standards and students work through completing each one, while the teacher receives real-time data from each student.
MichMathSciLeadershipNetwork - Link to resources, online tools, other helpful information on this document
MobyMax offers complete and comprehensive K-8 curriculum for 27 subjects, including math, reading, phonics, language, vocabulary, spelling, writing, science, social studies, and state test prep. MobyMax‘s digital courseware solution can be used at any time, on any device with an internet connection, whether it’s a desktop at school or a tablet at home.
Newsela - See the Newsela page on this site for more information regarding our district license, how to log on, and how to access the Newsela Science resources.
Oakland Schools - Resource document from Oakland Schools-ALL GRADES and ALL SUBJECTS
https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/ - A ton of articles and resources!
https://science.howstuffworks.com/ - WOW! Kids will love this site
PBS Education - Resources by grade band to support Earth and Space Science
Picmonic is a research-proven online web and mobile visual learning platform. Picmonic enables anyone to create, share and learn highly effective “picture mnemonic” video-quiz lessons proven to increase long-term memory recall. Free Access to 1,000+ Science Education Videos
ReadWorks.org - Free registration for teachers. Searchable database by topic and grade level.
Science News for Students: A free online science magazine aimed at kids ages 9-14
Science News for Students
Stay up to date on the latest news and science discoveries with articles written in a kid-friendly way. Science News for Students offers helpful resources for at-home learning, including:
Experiments. Learn science by doing science! Using real scientific research projects as a guide, Science News for Students shows kids how to apply the scientific method to make their own experiments at home.
Explainers. Ever wonder how scientists read brain activity, or how the greenhouse effect works? Use this series of articles to explore core science concepts behind the news, including the new Coronavirus.
Discussion Questions. Some articles come with questions that students can answer before, during and after reading to enhance comprehension.
Let’s learn about. This new series mixes STEM learning and fun. Stories are paired with relevant educational resources, a new word find puzzle and fun content such as videos from elsewhere on the Web.
For more info on the free resources Science News for Students offers, check out our guide for kids and parents.