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These free educational websites for kids are awesome!  Just like my list of the best educational shows for kids, these are great for curious minds.  These are my favorite free sights & they are only free right now due to school closures. 

I have other posts with specific topics, like How to Learn States and Capitals with a list of websites, videos & songs to teach them.  Today, however, I am sharing a general list of all of my favorite free educational websites and free educational subscriptions.

These were submitted to YourModernFamily.com by contributors, readers, parents & teachers.  If you have more ideas, please leave them in the comments,  I’d love to hear about your favorite games, books, educational shows & more,

FREE EDUCATIONAL WEBSITES DUE TO PANDEMIC

You can also download this list here:
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TIP:  Once you print the list, keep it by the computer for quick reference

Science at Home – Free, downloadable instructions for science activities you can do at home! 

Emotional ABC’s – This research-based curriculum empowers children with the tools they need for social and academic success.

Inkjets.com – Printable Learning! These free worksheet packs are so fun and cover topics from dinosaurs to world flags to puppies!

Ted-Ed@home – I’m sure you’ve heard of TED talks- these Ted-Ed videos are lessons for students, parents & teachers covering all topics.

Duolingo – free app to teach another language.  It starts with a personalized quiz to help you learn where to start.

Kindergarten Sight Word List (download & print the list for free)

BBC Bitesize– Free site with small lessons to support the National Curriculum: geography, history & more.  Ages 3 – 16+

KiwiCo.com: Quick & easy at-home science, building & DIY projects curated for kids 2-18

ABC mouse (Age of Learning)  For children Pre-k-2nd grade.  Game & activities to teach all subject areas

Literacy Trust’s Family Zone – Engaging activities for reading, writing & language development.  Includes audiobooks & activity sheets.

Khan Academy – Our kids use this for math & it’s so helpful! See their suggestions & website resources here.

Raz Kids – Free for 90 Days  (books, comprehension & more)

Beanstalk – Free (fun) video & interactive lessons, experiments & more (cooking, reading, math, health, etc…)

Basho and Friends – Free Spanish Lessons for 3 months

MathScore.com Free home use account for online math practice and assessment.

Xtra Math – Math games for kids!

Prodigy:  Prodigy is an engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform for students and teachers from 1st – 8th grade. 

Belouga online learning platform where students & teachers learn about the world, with the world

Achieve 3000 read great articles and stories and then complete activities that will help you build your skills

BedTime Math Engaging, research-proven math activities for kids 

Dreambox– Award-winning K-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.  90 days free if you sign up by April 30.

Mystery Science – Digital video mini-lessons for science subjects K-5. 

Scholastic  They are providing the equivalent of three hours of learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, etc..  Scholastic learn at home is awesome! 

Pebble Go – Safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students K-3.

Virtual Field Trips – let kids K-8 travel anywhere with virtual field trips. Email info@virtualfieldtrips.net for 60 days free.  

Zearn – Kids learn the same math concepts twice: once with their teacher & once independently in self-paced digital lessons.

Arcademic free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more!

✅Time Management Course Time Management mini-course from Bigger Brains

Discovery Education– free access to Discovery Education (digital textbooks & more) for the remainder of the school year

BrainPop.com Animated Educational Site:  Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, & Technology.

Busy Kids Piano – Free month of piano lessons with coupon code PIANOATHOME

✅Circle Time Fun – Follow along through preschool lessons for kids 0-6 years – free with code homefun1

Colosky’s Math Academy – free 3-week Math course for each grade

Cool Math Games – Math Games for kids

Country Reports – Learn about every country (culture, food, location & more)

Kahoot! A game-based learning platform: Easy to create, share & play learning games or trivia quizzes in minutes.

Times Tables Rockstars – Free multiplication help for 60 days with daily times tables practice

Numbots – Addition & Subtraction practice 

Starfall.com/h/ – Learning letters & reading skills 

Seterra: Seterra is the ultimate map quiz site (countries, states, capitals & more!)  

Pronto: connects people via chat and video, so they can learn faster, work smarter, and communicate seamlessly

BookCreator App  An easy digital book-making tool with limitless options (k-12)

Typing Club:  A typing course online to teach letter location on the keyboard & which fingers to use to type. 

Twig Education – Watch videos  about science & see the provided lessons for K-5

Tynker Everything needed to learn computer programming the fun way.  Ages 5+

Buncee Build media-rich lessons, reports, newsletters, presentations and so much more

Pear Deck (free semester!) Lets students interact with teacher presentations from any device.  (Google Slides, PDFs…)

Kamian online document annotation and markup tool to highlight, underline, and strikethrough text. 

Reading Eggs – Free for 30 days (Helps kids learn to read in 4 weeks)

Parlay Ideas Students read prompt & then submit a response to the discussion area. Peers join in on the discussion. 

Elementari– Learn coding beginning w/ simple picture books, then code the stories to play music, sounds, & animations

EdPuzzle– Video Platform that collects data as students watch and interact with the video

Wakelet– Teachers can save articles, videos, images, Tweets and more in one place to share with students. 

Twinkl lesson plans, schemes of work, assessment, interactive activities, games, resource packs, PowerPoints, etc. 

Hapara Enables teachers to organize their students and their assignments, track their activity and progress and dynamically personalize instruction across different metrics.

MangaHigh game-based learning platform for primary and secondary school mathematics.

Vooks – A streaming library of animated children’s storybooks (like Netflix for books)

Listenwise  Collection of podcasts & public radio stories.  Build student listening skills. (English, SS, Science, ESL)

MobyMax provides K-8 teachers with content, assessments, and activities for all topics in 27 subjects 

ARCademics – Interactive Math and language games 

Seterra GeographyMap Games for states & countries! 

We Video  online video editor designed to make it easy to capture, create, view and share movies

HeadSprout– Free for 90 days

Mystery Science – my sister in law just told me about this one!

Wonderopolis  A fun, educational site that helps kids ask and answer interesting questions about the world. 

Age of Learning

HippoCampus– 7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas

HOMER – Free Learning app for kids ages 2-8  (great coloring pages, daily schedules, learning games & more) 

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Carmen Sandiego – Free lessons, posters, activities, etc. for subjects & growth mindset

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Math at Work– Videos and Lesson Plans 

ICivics– educational online games & lesson plans to encourage students to become active citizens.

Ideas Roadshow– Lessons in all subjects. (Learn how to use their temporarily free resources with their free webinar)

iCompute– Teaching computer games & skills for kids ages 3-11 (look for the red “COVID-19” button).  

IDEA– Free online classes on coding, social media & online skills

IDE Corp. – activities, worksheets & lessons for all subjects

InThinking – Help students to prepare effectively for exams.

Inq-ITS – Free virtual labs (must sign in by April 1, 2020)

InScribe – College Q&A with experts: free access through spring term

InScribe Continuity Planning and Support Community– A teachers community forum

i-Ready– free printable K-8 Math and Reading packets for students

i-Ready Practice Packs At-home packs are free for K-8 Math & Reading

IXL – Free k-12 subscription for 90 days plus a webinar to learn how to homeschool your children. 

Inventing Heron – curriculum about career discovery

Writing Legends – lesson plans & help for writers Grades 3-8

Izzit.org– entertaining & educational videos come with tons of additional resources

Jen Henson ACT Prep – ACT/SAT punctuation guide and ACT practice tests (high school students)

JoVE – Education video content free to use in STEM teaching efforts through June 15th.

K12MovieGuides – free maps & free movie reports/comparison worksheets 

K-5 Math Teaching Resources – printable math resources for K-5

K5Technology Curriculum- 3 weeks of free access to 18 technology lessons and activities

Kami- access to all tools & features available in Kami:  Integrations w. Google Classroom, Schoology and Canvas.

2Simple – Purple Mash:  Spelling & grammar ideas & games, Math tools, writing templates & more.

✅The San Diego Zoo–  Website for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! 

Yellowstone National Park Virtual Tour

Access Mars Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.

FarmFood 360:  11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs. 

Switch Zoo is a place to play educational games about zoo animals

PBS Kids – games, videos & ideas. 

The Lourve Virtual Tour  Virtual Tour to Paris, France to explore The Louvre.

✅The China Guide allows you to explore the Great Wall of China with this virtual tour.

British Museum –  Virtual Tour of the London Museum filled with ancient artifacts

Seussville  Play with Dr. Seuss: Read books, play educational games & activities.

Kids National Geographic -Geography and animals

MathScore –  Math practice for Pre-K through 12th grade.

Story Line Online – Your favorite Kid’s books read by famous people including actors, authors, singers & more. 

All Kids Network: Crafts, mazes, games &  activities 

ACS.org– Chemistry for teachers & students (browse by age)

ABCya – Fun educational games for kids to teach math & reading skills 

Back Pack Science – Hands-on Elementary science videos 

HighLights  – Highlights for kids has some great resources!  Fun games, recipes, crafts, activities 

ClickSchooling brings you daily recommendations by email for entertaining websites that help your kids learn. 

Reading Ecb Games that go along with books for reading comprehension 

Big History Project – Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults 

Biology Simulations online 

Breakout – Educational games K-12 

Bunk History – online archives of events in History

Can Figure It – Geometry Help & lessons online  

Defusion – Resources for Spanish practice 

Chalk Academy – Chinese learning activities 

Music Lab – Music ideas & activities  for all ages

CK-12: Science, Math, History, Social Studies, Photograph & Science

Club Science Kid– Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home.

Play Mada Games: Chemistry Games for Highschoolers online 

Common Lit: Stories that focus on comprehension & discussion.  Grades 3-12

ConJugueMos – Learn another language:  Vocabulary, grammar, listening activities and games in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Latin. 

Curriki:  ages 3-18: Digital learning content for preschool through high school 

Delta Math A wide range of math content from middle school through AP Calculus. 

Scholastic Classroom: Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. 

Dog-on-a-Log-Book: Printable board games, activities and more for phonics and reading all using evidence-based methods. It can be customized to any student’s needs including creating flashcards for other subjects.

Dreambox: K-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.

Squigglepark: Engaging reading games for grades 2-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.

EveryDay Earth Interactive video earth science-based curriculum supplement. 

Facts4Me.com is offering free access for elementary-level students.  Go to Log In & then enter the username read & password read

App Fiveable – Resources for AP students (reviews, trivia, study maps & guides)

Fluency and Fitness –  Getting the kids moving while reviewing math & reading skills.  Over 900 videos for children ages 4-8

GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.

✅Hippo Campus  7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas. 

Math Videos with lessons, real-life uses of math, famous actors

Izzit Entertaining & educational videos for all levels and subjects

Little Spark Printables: Free printables library with activities for children 0-6 

Little Twisters Yoga: Free at-home kids yoga lesson plans 

BrainBox Magic Spell is a carefully crafted spelling adventure. 

Marco Learning Resources for AP students 

Math Celebrity: Search math problems or terms to see the step-by-step process and answer.  Grade 2- college. 

Math Playground: K-6 Math games, logic puzzles, and educational resources 

The Well: Mindful Poetry and music


✅Edgerton: 3D printing projects and Coding projects, involving math and other K-12 subjects

Music Theory: Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators. 

NGPF: Free resources, games, learning resources & plans for understanding personal finance 

Nitro Type:  Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with up to 5 people from around the world. 

Nomster Chef: Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook with their grown-ups. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, math, and science. 

No Red Ink:  Writing Practice & Online curriculum that builds better writers. 

Supercharged:  All topics/lessons are covered daily.  Activities included.

Scootpad: Curriculum in Math and ELA for Grades K-8

Novel Effect:  As you read out loud from print books (or ebooks!) music, sound effects and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice. 

Paragraph Punch: Teaches students how to write a paragraph through an interactive online tutorial 

PBS Learning Media: PreK-12 digital media service with more than 30,000 learning materials 

PebbleGo Curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students.

Phet Science and math labs and simulations 

Positive Physics: An online physics problem and video bank designed for conceptual, standard, honors or AP1 physics. 

Prodigies Music:  A colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music! 21 for free 

Project Explorer: Free videos from around the world from grade 3-12

QuaverMusic is offering free access to general music activities to all impacted schools, including free student access at-home

Quizlet: For students to practice and master whatever they are learning: History, Wordly-Wise & more.

ReadWorks is an online resource of reading passages and lesson plans for students of all levels K-12.

Rock: Music Based Spanish Learning

Sepuplhs Science simulations, scientist profiles, and other digital resources for middle school science and high school biology

Shurley English program for grades K-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts. 

Sight Reading Factory – Sight-reading and sight-singing practice exercises. 

Smart Music: Music practice transformed 

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Swork-it: Kid-friendly workouts — choose from Strength for Kids, Agility for Kids, Flexibility and Balance for Kids, Warm-Up for Kids, Cooldown for Kids, Stand Up and Move for Kids, OR create your own custom kid workout. 

Learn A collection of hundreds of free K-12 STEM resources, from standalone models and simulations to short activities and week-long sequences of curriculum materials. 

Good & Beautiful: Course sets (Levels 1–5) that combine and thoroughly cover phonics, reading, writing, spelling, literature, grammar, punctuation, art, and geography—all in one easy-to-use, beautiful course. 

Science Spot – Science projects that can be completed with or without Internet access

SpellingTraining Spelling Practice for grades 1-4 grade

EdX.org  2,500+ online courses from top institutions 

Turtle Library: PreK – 5 games for all subjects

Coloring Sheets Online digital coloring pages 

All in one HOMEschool: Every course you could possibly want to homeschool preschool – 8 

All in One Highschool Every course you could possibly want to homeschool for high school 

FunFonix Phonics worksheets for kids 

Free stories online ages 3-12 

National Geographic Kids (Young Explorers)  Grades K-1. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.

EarthQuake: Learn all about earthquakes 

ChemiCool Learn all about the periodic table 

Almanac: Farmer’s almanac for kids… Date, weather, moon phase, etc. 

MangaHigh Website allows students to play basic games to reinforce math skills and compete against the computer or others

Nasa for Kids Space science for kiddos 

BBC history for kids (UK):  Games, quizzes and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time. 

NGAkids interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history. 

YoungZine.com News and more for kids 

The Story Starter:  Randomly generates 356,300,262,144 story starters

CryptoClub: Immerse yourself in cryptography 

GridCLub Math games galore 

Jigsaw Explorer – Online photograph jigsaw puzzles You can set the pieces from 6-1000+ 

LIFE: Bible story resources early childhood – 6th grade

Steve Spangler Science Tons of science experiments that you can do at home

✅Mission.Org An interactive history site for kids 

Happy Scientist – Explore science, have fun, and learn some science along the way. 

Magic Tree House– Interactive games based on the book series

Grammaropolis Work on the 8 parts of speech 

Cells Alive: Learn all about cells & biology 

Google Earth – Explore all over the world!

Scratch.MIT : Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning. 

MetMuseum A wonderful, endlessly detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art. 

Geoguessr Tests kids’ geography skills. Using images from Google’s Street View, it plops players down in the middle of the street and asks them to figure out where they are. 

What Was There: Allows students to type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents. It’s a unique way to help them learn about history.

NumberPhile Short videos about numbers that help kids explore complex math topics and make math more fun.

Human Studio by BioDigital:  A human visualization platform that allows students to explore the human body in really cool ways.

Artsology: Helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art. 

Virtual Music Instruments: Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos. 

Preschool Express: Crafts, activities, bulletin board designs, and fingerplays for early education teachers and parents to use with kids.

Songs for Teaching: Preschool & Kindergarten songs to teach lessons.

Super Simple: Resource section includes free flashcards, coloring pages, worksheets, and other resources for children, teachers, and parents.

Overcoming Obstacles: Life skills curriculum for students in grades K-12. Their resources include strategies for teaching social and emotional skills. 

KoDable Coding for ages 4-10 

Smithsonian Learning Lab Fun stuff for kids! Awesome interactive games & videos. 

Cool Kid Facts gives your child access to educational videos, pictures, quizzes, downloadable worksheets, and infographics about geography, history, science, animals, and even the human body.

Ben’s Guide: This interactive website, hosted by the U.S. Government Publishing Office, allows your child to see the ins and outs of the U.S. government by taking a series of learning adventures with none other than Benjamin Franklin. 

Climate Kids This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals.

Ask Dr. Universe is a science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.

Mangahigh Math: Assign math lessons and assess students’ performance online.

Prodigy:  Prodigy is an engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform for students and teachers from 1st – 8th grade.

2Simple – Purple Mash:  Spelling & grammar games, Math tools, writing templates & more.

Adventure Academy Elementary and middle-school aged children with thousands of learning activities

US MINT – Your child can play games, learn fun facts, and find out how to turn coin collecting into a hobby. 

WeatherWizKids From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather. 

Kids Think Design– explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design. 

Ocean.si.edu – This educational website hosted by the Smithsonian Museum takes a deep dive into ocean life. 

Brainscape offers over a million flashcard decks for every subject, entrance exam, and certification imaginable. 

✅The Theta Music Trainer offers a series of online courses and games for ear training and music theory.

Teach Banzai exposes students to real-world financial dilemmas to teach them the importance of smart money management.

Innerbody explores the 11 bodily systems in depth. With interactive models and detailed explanations, this website will help them learn more about the internal mechanics of the amazing human body.

Alcumus Art of Problem Solving  is specifically designed to provide high-performing students with a challenging curriculum appropriate to their abilities 

Moby Max – Find and fix learning gaps 

Dragon Box Math – Algebra games for kids 

Freddy’s Fractions: Fractions practice 

Ducksters: Education for kids all topics

A Plus Click:  Math and logic problems for ages 5 and up to adult

Alaskan Wildlife cameras (live) 

Coding with Star Wars  – Build a galaxy with code. 

CrazyGames Tons and tons and tons of fun learning games

FunOlogy – Crafts, projects, science, recipes for young children 

Premeditated Leftovers Amphibian unit studies

States & Capitals of the US – videos, websites & games to teach kids about the States, including the location, abbreviation, facts and the capital of each state.

free educational websites for kids

FREE LESSON PLANS & SOFTWARE FOR TEACHERS:

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Carmen Sandiego – Find free lessons, posters, reading aloud activities, etc. for subjects & growth mindset

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt: Math at Work– Videos and Lesson Plans
Biology Simulations Biology Simulations helps students to learn about biology and practice data analysis skills.
Civics– educational online games & lesson plans to encourage students to become active citizens.
Ideas Roadshow– Lessons in all subjects. (Learn how to use their temporarily free resources with their free webinar)
IDE Corp. – activities, worksheets & lessons for all subjects
InThinking – Help students to prepare effectively for exams.
Kindergarten Sight Words Printable Sheet – Printable list of Kindergarten Sight Word List & tips on how to teach them.
Cool Math – Math Lessons


Curriculum Associates – Printable at-home Activity Packets for Math & Reading Grades K-8
Country Reports –  Teaching them about every country (culture, food, location & more) with articles & more
Inq-ITS – Free virtual labs (must sign in by April 1, 2020)
Pronto: connects people via chat and video, so they can learn faster, work smarter, and communicate seamlessly
Google for Edu – Tools to give teachers the freedom to spend more time personalizing the learning experience, and less time managing it.
Classroom Cereal – Free teacher-created, printable short stories that double as grammar exercises. Enjoy the story and find the errors.
Buncee Build media-rich lessons, reports, newsletters, presentations and so much more
Pear Deck (free semester!) Lets students interact with teacher presentations from any device.  (Google Slides, PDFs…)
Kamian online document annotation and markup tool to highlight, underline, and strikethrough text.

✅Parlay Ideas Students read prompt & then submit a response to the discussion area. Peers join in on the discussion.
EdPuzzle– Video Platform that collects data as students watch and interact with the video
Wakelet– Teachers can save articles, videos, images, Tweets and more in one place to share with students.
Dreambox– Award-winning K-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.  90 days free if you sign up by April 30.

Twinkl Create lesson plans, schemes of work, assessment, interactive activities, games, resource packs, & PowerPoints so students can practice the skills they have been learning in school (ex: multiplication, phonics & more)
Hapara Enables teachers to organize their students and their assignments, track their activity and progress and dynamically personalize instruction across different metrics.
Listenwise  Collection of podcasts & public radio stories.  Build student listening skills. (English, SS, Science, ESL)
MobyMax provides K-8 teachers with content, assessments, and activities for all topics in 27 subjects
We Video  online video editor designed to make it easy to capture, create, view and share movies
GoGuardian.com for Teachers:  help teachers manage Chromebook usage in their classrooms and monitor student activity on the device. The goal of the tool is to help keep students on-task and away from inappropriate content.


BombBomb – Video Email for teachers – so you can communicate assignments, lessons, and feedback via video on email.
Education Learning monitor students, comment on their progress and reassign tasks based upon their understanding.  Includes a library of curriculum-aligned lessons and assessments.
Slido Education  Web-based interactive polling and Q&A platform. Students access teacher-created polls via a simple join code, and teachers activate polls one at a time for student response.
Breakout Edu –  Games, activities & more! Students work together to find and solve clues around the room to open each of the locks. As soon as students see the locked box, they are immediately driven by the challenge to get it open.  (Available for all subjects)
Microsoft Education provides an online classroom so students and teachers can find new ways to continue to focus on learning.  It brings together virtual face-to-face connections, assignments, files & conversations into a single place.
NearPod  A teacher can create presentations that can contain Quiz’s, Polls, Videos, Images, Drawing-Boards, Web Content and so on. They can also access over 7K k-12 standards-based & standards-aligned lessons.


Boddle Math – Give assignments & assign games.  Then watch through live monitoring to see which students are online when they are online, and what they are working on, plus how long they are on each problem & how well they do.   (If common core state standards are confusing students, many of these games are helpful to engage students and help them understand.)
Zoom –  This is used mostly for video conferencing.  You can record a meeting with no participants & record it, then send it out… or you can have a group discussion with your students. Everyone can join in, either via video or the chat option.
Loom: (my favorite) You can narrate a video recording of your computer screen (with or without your face in the video, too). Once you’ve created your video, it gives you a URL that you can share.  You can even password protect the video.
Beed.World –  education technology company that specializes in experiential learning, which is learning through the process of real-world experience and reflection.
Brainbot Delivers workflow training and training reinforcement through Microsoft Teams, Slack, Facebook, or email.
Bitescis – Simulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
Edmodo:  As educators, you can send messages, share class materials, and make learning accessible anywhere.
Flipgrid Educators create grids, which are the meeting place for your class, and then discuss the topics you have uploaded.  Your students can share their ideas, stories, and work by recording short videos based on the assigned topics and share them within the app.


G Suite: G Suite for Education allows educators to facilitate learning, keep track of tasks, and create opportunities for critical thinking.
Hāpara: Your students see what you see.  You can monitor the webpages that your students have open during the session.
Edpuzzle: Edpuzzle is a platform that allows you to take any video and make it interactive!  You can track what they watch. Use videos from YouTube, Khan Academy & more. Fill out this form to get it for free.
Explain Everything: Virtual tools can be utilized for online scenarios by helping you create explanation videos.
Nearpod: Create interactive lessons in minutes, add in virtual field trips, create quizzes and polls, and even use matching pairs activities.


Screencastify:  Blend learning by adding the Google Chrome Add-on to recording full or partial lessons, recording assignment solutions & explanations, and provide verbal student feedback.
TechSmith:  FREE TechSmith Snagit (screen capture & recording tool) & TechSmith Video Review (online video discussion)
Mangahigh Math: Assign math lessons and assess students’ performance online.
Prodigy:  Prodigy is an engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform for students and teachers from 1st – 8th grade.
2Simple – Purple Mash:  Spelling & grammar games, Math tools, writing templates & more.
ABC mouse (Age of Learning)  For children Pre-k-2nd grade.  Game & activities to teach all subject areas
Adventure Academy Elementary and middle-school aged children with thousands of learning activities
ReadingIQ: Digital library and literacy platform for children 12 and under.  Designed by reading experts to improve literacy skills


Shmoop – Over 10,000 educational videos, 400 digital learning courses, personalized test prep, and thousands of study guides.  (High School & Middle School) Free until May 31, 2020. Email support@shmoop.com to get started.
Covid19 Educational Resources App – an app for teachers by teachers where they can share ideas.   It can be used for professional development ideas, conversations about the national council of teachers, teaching tolerance, sharing lesson plans, sharing websites, ideas for the best tools & online teaching apps, etc…
Zearn – Kids learn the same math concepts twice: once with their teacher & once independently in self-paced digital lessons

Check out this list of Educational Geography Resources for kids, too! 
YOUTUBE VIDEOS, SONGS & WEBSITES TO TEACH US STATES & CAPITALS

I turned this list into a document that you can download &/or print so you can keep it for a quick reference.free list of educational websites for kids

Hi there!

I’m Becky, a former elementary school teacher turned certified child development therapist and blogger. I work at home with my husband and together we are raising (and partially homeschooling) our four children in the Carolinas. I love diet coke, ice cream, and spending time with my family.

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    The USATestprep platform is aligned to each state’s standards — important to be able to keep kids on track when testing resumes.

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