Curated OER
Kids Health: Extracurricular Excitement
This is a very general overview of the benefits to be obtained through joining extracurricular activities.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Making Math Real
Parents strive to open the doors for their children into the vast halls of learning. How to start! Family-friendly ways to incorporate math concepts at home are given here.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Guides From Reading Rockets
Colorful bilingual guides (downloadable as PDFs) with tips for parents on how to encourage reading, work with schools, and find great reading resources for their children. The guides are short, with straightforward, common-sense activity...
The College Board
College Board: Extracurricular Acitivities; Life Outside the Classroom
Here are some thoughts on how colleges look for extracurricular activities or a "passion for an activity outside of the academic setting."
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Simple Ways to Encourage Learning
This site offers several simple ways to encourage learning in your child.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets: Strategies for Every Child to Read
What are some strategies for achieving the goal of every child reading? This site features several activities to achieve this goal with your readers.
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: I'm Not in Range
In this role-playing activity, students learn how cellular phone service works, its advantages and its limitations. Students also learn about the advantages and limitations of satellite phone service. Phone communication involves many...
Texas Instruments
Texas Instruments: Exploring Families of Functions
This activity provides students an opportunity to discover the similarities involved in shifting the parent functions for absolute value, quadratic, cubic, radical, exponential, and logarithmic functions. Students will also be given the...
TeachEngineering
Teach Engineering: Mice Rule! (Or Not)
Students explore the relationships between genetics, biodiversity, and evolution through a simple activity involving hypothetical wild mouse populations. First, students toss coins to determine what traits a set of mouse parents...
US Environmental Protection Agency
Epa: Earth Day, April 22
Save the world one step at a time. A fantastic tribute to Earth Day events and what students, teachers and parents can do to make a difference by going green. Learn about the various activities across the country and discover how you can...