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Computer Science Education (CSEd) Week is an annual opportunity to advocate for computer science education for youth as well as celebrate the contributions made by those in the field. This resource, sponsored by Google, provides simple resources leading up to the week to engage youth in Computer Science.
Browse free books for kids and download free eBooks online in a variety of subjects and genres. Choose from over 5,000 free eBooks for kids from Barnes & Noble.
This toolkit is designed to help education authorities, school leaders, and teachers create thoughtful guidance to help their communities realize the potential benefits of incorporating artificial intelligence (AI) in primary and secondary education while understanding and mitigating the potential risks.
With guidance, an education system may realize the potential benefits of AI to improve learning outcomes, support teacher instruction and quality of life, and enhance educational equity. Without guidance, teachers and students can be exposed to privacy violations, inconsistent disciplinary consequences, and counterproductive AI adoption practices.
The Summer Activity Guide is a suite of fun and engaging activities and challenges that are perfect for groups or individuals.
Summers are for fun and engaged learning. The Summer Activity Guides were developed to help engage youth with supportive adults in a range of places. Originally designed to accommodate COVID-19 summer, we hope that the suite activities and challenges will help young people learn and thrive in the summer of 2022 and beyond.
TypeTastic is an easy and flexible online typing tutor which gives the students the tools to learn fluent touch-typing technique through a variety of games and activities.
Camp Candlewick is a monthlong online program for avid young readers who may be staying home this summer. Young people in grades K-8 can engage in a virtual book camp that encourages them to take part in shared reads, activities, and streaming events with prominent creators.
The NASA Kids Club has lots of games and videos where students can learn about space exploration, and learn the answers to important questions “Who is On the Space Station?” and “Why Do We Explore?” They also have games like the “Space Lunch” game and an activity where students can design a stained-glass earth.
Everyday challenges are part of life. Providing your love and support is the most important step in helping children develop the confidence to overcome anything they face. Committee for Children has collaborated with Sesame Workshop to bridge the divide between what children learn in school and what they learn at home with their families. Sesame Street’s Little Children, Big Challenges initiative provides tips and strategies to help adults and children (ages 2 to 5) navigate challenges and build lifelong skills for resilience.
It’s an online interactive English dictionary and visual thesaurus that helps you find the meanings of words and draw connections to associated words. You can easily see the meaning of each by simply placing the mouse cursor over it. This free resource can help you or your students learn how words associate in a visually interactive display.
LabXchange is a global science classroom open to every curious mind. Created at Harvard University with support from the Amgen Foundation, this powerful digital platform makes high-quality science education accessible, connects learning to careers, and gives everyone, everywhere, the opportunity to chart a path in science—for free. Through collaboration, personalization, and contextualization, LabXchange offers an integrated teaching and learning ecosystem in which tomorrow’s thought leaders can build knowledge, contribute unique perspectives, and engage with a diverse, global community to develop a sense of belonging.
Can’t make it to the Academy? We offer a wide breadth of resources that can impact your teaching from afar. Whether you are looking for kits of classroom materials, lesson plans, science videos, distance learning programs, or full courses, the Academy has science teaching resources galore.
Looking for ideas to spice up your science teaching? Our activity database features full-period lessons to integrate into your normal curriculum, activities to focus your field trip or ideas for extending the museum visit into the classroom.
Based on years of experience training upper elementary school teachers in the Bay Area, we’ve designed a how-to resource for teachers everywhere to illustrate how you can easily and successfully integrate science notebooks into your own classroom.
Get ready to use science notebooks for scientific reasoning and meaning-making, in a way that supports hands-on scientific inquiry!
Open worlds of discovery with Mizzen by Mott.
Mizzen by Mott is a new app that provides high-quality, engaging learning content to the afterschool and out-of-school time field.
Featuring exciting content from premier organizations like NASA, Jazz at Lincoln Center, California Academy of Sciences, After-School All-Stars, and others, Mizzen brings you activities and lessons that boost STEM learning, language arts and literacy, and 21st-century skills. From exploring the colors of Mars to the elements of jazz improv, Mizzen activities will challenge, delight, and inspire awe.
To help you meet the unique and varied needs of this moment, Mizzen includes modules and playlists of activities that foster student health, well-being, and social and emotional learning, as well as activities that can be done in small-group settings or at home. Mizzen also features Pro Tips and messaging and scheduling tools designed to help you hone your skills, streamline planning, and strengthen your program.
Download Mizzen by Mott today from the App Store or Google Play. Through support from the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation, this all-in-one tool is free to afterschool and out-of-school time professionals who are empowering young people everywhere.