PBS
Pbs Kids Design Squad: Power Up!
Engineers work on many different kinds of projects and some even design video games! The coolest part about being an engineer is that they look at normal everyday objects in new and creative ways.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Peg + Cat Collection
The Peg + Cat on-air series and online resources provide many opportunities for educators to introduce or reinforce early math concepts. In each 11-minute on-air episode of this animated, math-based series for 3-8 year olds, Peg and Cat...
A&E Television
History.com: Why This Pioneering Hopi Soldier Has a Mountain Named After Her
Lori Ann Piestewa was the first woman to die on the front lines in Iraq and the first American Indian woman to die serving the U.S. Armed Forces. Piestewa has became synonymous with patriotic Native American sacrifice. In 2008, a...
Chateau Meddybemps
Chateau Meddybemps: Animal Riddles
Who-am-I riddles that have young learners using clues to figure out what kind of animal is being described. "I have wings but I'm not a bird." "I can breathe through a hole in the top of my head." Simple language and colorful...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Math: Wild Park: Subtraction
Go on safari with Jamal and Jana. Help them with subtracting numbers of all kinds of animals to see in the Wild Park!
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation: Dirt Detective
Archaeologists study artifacts and soil and they use post holes to determine just how old the layers of soil is. Based on the location of post holes, archaeologists can determine if they are finding a house, or a wall or even a fort....
NASA
Nasa: Space P Lace: Play Migration Concentration!
View a short clip of migrating geese and discover interesting facts about why geese migrate and animated pictures of the different kinds of geese n the USA. Coupled with this great information is an interactive game of concentration that...
Other
Klasse Wasser
This very basic site is about water -- all kinds of water: rainwater, drinking water, even toilet water. Includes water-themed games. In German.
Love To Know Media
Your Dictionary: Adjective Lesson Plans
This article discusses spicing up your lesson plans for teaching adjectives with adjective worksheets, games, and adjective lists all of which can be located online. It suggests the use of Art and Music in your classroom to provide...
ABCya
Ab Cya: First to Five
First to Five is a fun dice game for children to practice their addition math facts! Swipe the screen, add the sum of the two dice, and click on the correct sum on the chalkboard as you compete against Snake Eyes the dice tossing robot...
ABCya
Ab Cya: Milk It Dairy Match
Milk It - Dairy Match is a fun matching game for kids. Click on the windows of the barn to reveal the friendly cows and match two of the same kind. Watch out for the strawberry ice cream though! It will move the windows around on you. Do...
British Council
British Council: Learn English Words for Different Jobs
Play Job Mixer. Learn the English words for different kinds of jobs while helping each man or woman dress in the clothes needed for each job.
Other
Brooklyn Children's Museum: Pattern Wizardry!
Interactive exhibition answers all kinds of questions about patterns, symmetry, and tessellations. With games that reinforce concepts and loads of great illustrations. [Requires Shockwave.]
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Rock Cycle
This tutorial explains the rock cycle--from beginning to end! It is full of activities, assessments, games, slideshows and all kinds of interactive material. Learn what rocks are made of and how they change from one form to another....
San Diego Natural History Museum
San Diego Natural History: Kids' Habitat: The Eyes Have It: Visual Basics
Vision or sight is one of the most important senses that animals can have. Learn about the anatomy of the different kinds of eyes .. simple, single-lens, and compound. Puzzles and games are included.
Media Smarts
Media Smarts: Lesson: Representing Ourselves Online
In this lesson plan, young scholars talk about dressing up and taking on identities that are similar to or different from them. They are then introduced to the idea of avatars as a kind of "dressing up" inside video games and consider...
PBS
Pbs Kids Afterschool Adventure!: Operation: Lights, Camera, Action Activity Plan
Let's take it from the top! This week's adventure, Operation: Lights, Camera, Action!, takes children to a movie set where they work behind-the-scenes and explore different kinds of jobs such as production assistant (keeps track of the...
Other
University of Kansas: Quarked!: Baryon Blaster
Try to fill each SUV with the right kinds of quarks as it travels across the screen, in order to make different types of baryon particles. The game becomes more challenging as you progress through the levels.
University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge: Maths and Sports: Now and Then
Look at the changes in results on some of the athletics track events at the Olympic Games in 1908 and 1948. What will the results be in 2012? This slightly more challenging activity encourages children to examine data and consider...
American Museum of Natural History
American Museum of Natural History: O Logy: Biodiversity
A great introduction to learning about biodiversity. It explains the different kinds of biodiversity and offers links to games, stories, videos, and hands-on activities.
Quia
Quia: Food/la Comida Flashcards
Learn the Spanish words for different kinds of food by playing this flashcard game. On one side of the card is a food item in Spanish and when you click the card it turns over and displays the food item in English. Review the words the...
Toy Theater
Toy Theater: Math Flashcards
You decide what you kind of flashcards you want to practice: addition, subtraction, multiplication, or division. Type in the answer and click "Get Answer". Click "Next" to get the next flashcard. The game keeps track of the number right,...
Curated OER
Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Clip Art Etc: Lampadephoria
Lampadedromia, torch-race, and often simply, Lampas, was a game common throughout Greece. At Athens we know of five celebrations of this game: one to Prometheus at the Prometheia, a second to Minerva at the Panametheia, a third to Vulcan...
Curated OER
Chabad.org: Chanukah
This site offers all kinds of information on Chanukah (Hanukkah). Read the tales of light, the story of Chanukah, explore a complete "how-to" guide on Chanukah, play games, and more!