Tinkercad is a free, easy-to-use app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. It's used by teachers, kids, hobbyists, and designers to imagine, design, and make anything!
This site is full of free (and paid) resources to help teachers and students.You can filter by age, grade, subject, and more.Search everything from back to school, orange shirt day, and subject specific topics to find great resources.
This extensive list of virtual field trips allows you to explore different parts of the world, see all kinds of animals in action, visit a wide variety of places in the US and explore outer space! All of the videos are in 360 so you can look all around you!
Visit another of Canada's wonderful art galleries. Virtual tours of this colourful location are available through Google Streetview, which lets you walk past geometric landscape paintings and a melting steel structure, among other art pieces.
Be sure to click on the "Home" and "Explore" tabs at the top of the page to discover even more great learning opportunities on a wide range of topics.
Veritasium explores puzzling scientific concepts, discussing them with experts and the public to uncover intriguing ideas.
*Math
*Physics
*Engineering
*Astronomy
*Misconceptions
A perfect field trip for K-2! This virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History takes children through a 360 video as they observe butterflies and compare their patterns.
This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.
Geared towards students in grade 3-5, this virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History explores how animals adapt to their environments in order to survive.
This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.
Geared towards students in grade 6-8, this virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History explores how plate tectonics explains specific Earth formations.
This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.
Here is a list of 30 virtual field trips that students could enjoy, including:
San Diego Zoo - The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games.
Yellowstone National Park - including Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs, and so much more
MARS!!! - Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover. They are updating from WEBVR to WEBXR now, but 360 Mode offers a digital view!
Animal Cameras - Live Cams at the San Diego Zoo
Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams
Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta
6 Animal Cams at Houston Zoo
Georgia Aquarium has Jellyfish, Beluga Whales, and more
Virtual Farm Tour - This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL - See the Saturn 5 Rocket on YouTube and more on this tour thanks to a real father/son outing
Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips - A few of the field trip topics include:
Polar Bears and the Tundra
Social Emotional Skills
STEM
manufacturing
The Louvre - Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip
The Great Wall of China - This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life
Boston Children’s Museum - Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum thanks to Google Maps! This virtual tour allows kids to explore 3 floors of fun.
Designed for ages 9-15 but customizable for all ages, virtual field trips allow students to travel the world and explore natural environments without leaving the classroom. Each virtual field trip contains a video, teacher guide, and student activities.
Enjoy these virtual field trips and accompanying materials:
1. The Secret Life of Corals - Learn how fragile reefs are being damaged by human activity and climate change, and how scientists are developing ways to restore corals.
2. View from a Canoe - Can you imagine a place with 100 million acres of forest and 30,000 miles of coastline? It exists. The Emerald Edge is home to the largest intact coastal temperate rainforest.
3. The Coral Reefs of Palau - Join our expert scientist, marine biologist Stephanie Wear, on a virtual field trip to the coral reefs of Palau where you'll explore amazing underwater cities.
4. China's Great Forests - Join our expert scientist Yue Wang, a conservation planning officer for The Nature Conservancy, on a virtual field trip across the world to two stunning provinces in China.
5. Powering the Planet: Renewable Energy - Join scientist Alex Wegmann as we embark on a Virtual Field Trip to explore a compelling question: How can we get the energy we need without harming nature?
6. Journey of Water: Colombia’s Páramo - In this virtual field trip, we will explore the magical páramo ecosystem and the stunning mountain landscapes found just beyond the capital city of Bogotá.
7. Peru: A Coastal Ecosystem - Join fisheries scientist Matias Caillaux to explore the Humboldt Current Ecosystem off the coast of Peru while learning about the area’s amazing diversity and productivity.
This site offers many virtual field trips that students and adults would enjoy.
Virtually dissect an owl pellet.
A channel focused on science, featuring videos and playlists covering topics such as science experiments, optical illusions, aliens, human behavior, mathematics, artificial intelligence, art, and many other fascinating subjects.
From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather. Be sure to check out the section on experiments.
Welcome to the best place to discover all the fascinating stories and amazing facts about trailblazers, legends, places, and events.
12 episodes are on Netflix – click on the "For Educators" tab to access episode guides and activities.
On the home page, scroll to the bottom to find downloadable activity sheets to add to the lesson and spark discussions.
There is a free app available at the iTunes store.
Explore. Imagine. Laugh. Share. Create. Learn. Smile. Grow.
"Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Each day, we pose an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and explore it in a variety of ways.
Wonderopolis was created by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL) in 2010, and it has become one of the most popular education sites today."
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World Atlas offers interactive maps, clocks, flags and videos. Find interactive maps on all of the continents as well as the countries within. Explore to discover the flags and information about all countries. Watch videos and view pictures on the environment, world facts, travel, geography and did you know facts. Other topics to explore include history, science, economics, politics and society.
This is episode 4 of Mr. Smith’s science lessons from his basement during the COVID-19 social isolation period. This is grade 7 science, the earths crust
This site offers news that is relevant for kids. Categories include:
World News
Science
Technology
Our Earth
History
Society/Arts
e-Learning For Kids is a great site with some wonderful interactive learning games that are engaging and fun.
Click - Kids Start Here to get students directed to the activities.
You can use the icons/tabs across the top of the page to filter the activities by subject and grade!
This site is for K-6.