Digital Learning
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!
KidNation was built on the foundation of enrichment through entertainment for the next generation. With everything going on in this world, KidNation felt extremely passionate about releasing “Get Along” early. The message is simple but needed now more than ever. We tell our kids how important it is to lead with love. Somewhere along the way, we sometimes forget that. KidNation is going to let the kids remind you.
“Trauma Informed Care: Perspectives and Resources” is a comprehensive web-based, video-enhanced resource tool.
KID smART, a creative youth development education-based nonprofit organization, has created a video series for K-8th grade students to continue engaging in the arts. Currently, they have over 64 videos that are free to the public on their YouTube channel.
Take a virtual trip to the National Inventors Hall of Fame (NIHF).
Take part in Numerade’s online prep STEM camp sessions taught by top educators covering SAT test prep, precalculus, physics, chemistry, and more.