America's Test Kitchen: School-age kids can learn the ins and outs of measuring and reading recipes and try their hand at making French toast for free thanks to America's Test Kitchen weekly program.
Arcademics: Designed for students in first through sixth grade, the free Arcademic Skill Builders website has dozens of games that aim to improve your child's knowledge in math, geography, typing, spelling, and language arts.
Backpack Sciences: Parents with elementary-age students can access Backpack Sciences's free video series, which teaches kids hands-on science concepts.
BrainPOP: BrainPOP, a lesson-planning tool, is a great resource for parents of both big and little kids. It's chock-full of helpful resources that span topics like arts and music, English, science, and technology.
CENTURY: The folks over at Century are allowing parents to access all their resources for free over the next few weeks. Designed for students of all ages, kids can brush up on their math, science, and reading skills.
Breakout EDU: Whether you have a child in kindergarten or high school, Breakout EDU has a slew of educational games that touch on subjects like science, math, and language arts.
Deep Sea Duel: Deep-Sea Duel is a game of math skill, speed, and strategy. This comes with two versions; the easier one is the 9-bubble version and the harder 16-bubble version. Deep-Sea Duel is made to align with standards for grades 3 to 5 and 6 to 8. In this game, two players take turns to grab a number bubble to get the desired sum before their opponent can. This game is available at zero cost.
Prodigy Math: Prodigy, an online fantasy game, is designed especially for kids up to Grade 8. They can create their own tiny wizard character, engage classmates, friends, or computer-generated foes in math battles to earn stars and new items for their character. During each math battle, there are instructions and tools tweens can use to help solve the problems. This game is free, can be used in school or at home, and has membership subscription options if desired.
GeoGuessr: Geoguesser is an addictive puzzle-based game that tasks students with guessing the location of Google Street View and Mapillary images from around the world. Students investigate the image area, scour it for clues and think critically about what they see, and work to narrow down where in the world they might find it. The game comes with five rounds where they guess the right place, get award points if the answer is right, or are closer to the answer. Users are allowed to use either or free or pro account to play with maps.
Educational Games - Middle School : this website is a complete directory for middle school appropriate games of all genres.