Science
Google sky is a platform that shows you outer space. It is completely free and has tabs where you can chose to see the sky, moon, and mars. At the bottom of the screen, there are tabs that will show you different things when you click on them. For example, the first tab is the solar system. If you click on this tab it shows you a picture of the moon and then each planet in the solar system. Also, if you hover over one of them it will tell you the name of the planet you are on. This website also has a tab that allows you to listen to short podcasts about the earth and sky.
Chemistry
Playmadagames.com is a website that offers many different education games. This link will take you to a system called collisions. This system has different digital games that show you the ground rules for chemistry. This can introduce, teach, and review key concepts to your child or students. This is a free website but you can get the app for download on iPad or android tablets. Collisions makes abstract concepts tangible, provides a safe space to make mistakes and learn from them, and easily integrates into your curriculum. This link brings you to seven games: atoms, ions, covalent bonding, ionic bonding, IMFs, acids and bases, and phase changes.
https://www.chemicool.com/?fbclid=IwAR3FZcK0G6iRsLZpBxCpUanhIfnwPIF3ibPZ4Ly4hNyMH9TLiTATJga0ELM
Chemicool.com is a free website that show a you a picture of the periodic table and a key to help you navigate the table. The cool thing about this website is that you can click on any of the element s and it will bring you to another page that tells you all about that element. For example, if you click on the element Copper/Cu, it will show you a data zone that tells you all about the element copper.
https://preparatorychemistry.com/Bishop_animations.htm
Preparatorychemistry.com is a web page that allows you to navigate through An Introduction to Chemistry by Mark Bishop. This online book contains different chapter that will tell you all about the topic you need. For example, if you need to learn Charles’s law, you would go to chapter thirteen and click on the title you need. Then it would bring you to an animated lesson for you to navigate and learn about chemistry.
AP
https://app.fiveable.me/?fbclid=IwAR2yXSczaNrSp3eUs3R77Z_1dSfJUNf3WcoHvtZPwzmR512rQLBGjRsEgbM
Fiveable is an app that is available for students to have access to free AP exam prep materials. Students can learn, practice, and discuss this content anytime for free. There is weekly live streams, stream replays, review slide decks, live trivia battles, trivia question bank, study guides, and a Q & A library. This link will bring you to a page that wants you to choose a subject so it can narrow down the results to help you with what is needed.
Positivephysics.org is free through July 2020 due to the coronavirus. You will need to create an account to use this website. Also, after you create an account you will be able to pick a unit and get started on some physics problem. In the tables, there is there yellow rectangles that say notes, if you click on that it will pull up some notes that will show you a sample question, big ideas, hint and tips.
Innerbody.com is a free website that allows you to choose between all of the human anatomy systems. For example, if you click on the skeletal system, it will take you to a page that tells you about this system. Then, if you scroll down it has an interactive skeleton that lets you click on different parts of the skeletal system. Then when you click on one part it will take you to a page that tells you all about that part. This website also shows you some of the ligaments that are in the human body.
https://www.cellsalive.com/?fbclid=IwAR2ADs6QPvu8kqWIxQWD90g2U5Tx1U1nvT1oADTRCqOmybGhMdpyNufY-n8
Cellsalive.com offers interactive cell models (plant, animal, bacteria), cell puzzles and games (match, jigsaw, crossword), interactive eukaryote cell cycle (mitosis, meiosis, cell cycle), how big is… (virus, bacterium, immune cell), genetics alive (genes, inheritance, virtual lab), microbes (dividing bacteria, human immunodeficiency virus, parasites), immune responses (ouch!, antibodies, allergy, cytotoxic T-Cell), Microscopy (gallery, videos, microscopy methods), and classroom assets. This website is completely free and super interactive and fun!
https://www.activelylearn.com/?fbclid=IwAR1HUyYbDtt6W7un-zl2bOc8VO2VwA-XnhUQkwdDqGmpss5b5jQL_VksOPA
Activelylearn.com is a place for students to come and learn. This program is going to be free for the remainder of the year due to COVID-19. They offer texts and videos for English Language Arts (ELA), Science, Social Studies with scaffolds and higher-order thinking. The curriculum units for this website is 3rd through 12th grade but they do have 20+ genres and themes. At the top of the screen you can choose your child’s grade level and-or their Lexile reading levels.
Elementalscience.com is a blog page that has over eighty free science activities for your child to play and learn from while at home. You just scroll through the page and there are links for each activity and experiment that you can do with your child.
https://arvr.google.com/tourcreator/
Virtual Tour with google is a web-based storytelling tool that lets you take tours around the world. It lets students see an area they might not ever get to see. It helps students see, feel, and bring to life places they are learning about. What you see on the tour are 3D models that google has created of what the actual locations look like. The virtual tour can have photos, videos, and descriptions of the place, as well as content. It lets you put multiple locations on a field trip and students can travel and navigate to various places. Enhances learning by taking students outside of the classroom. Take students on a journey and allows them to move at their own pace. It is free and easy to understand.