Digital Learning
Using this scavenger hunt created by Scholastic, students can find their next reading book from their bookshelf.
Calculation Nation® uses the power of the Web to let students challenge opponents from anywhere in the world. At the same time, students are able to challenge themselves by investigating significant mathematical content and practicing fundamental skills. The element of competition adds an extra layer of excitement.
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!
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.
Keep your kids learning (and having a great time) this summer with Camp Wonderopolis, a great free program that incorporates science, music, reading comprehension, and more. Choose from themes including space travel, the Olympics, and city building.
At CODE, there are plenty of free resources that provide information to teachers, volunteers, parents, etc. to learn about coding and how to teach it to students of all ages.
Code with Google helps educators give their students confidence in computer science, advance their skills, and prepare them for the future. CS First is a free computer science curriculum that anyone can teach. Designed for students ages 9-14 of all interests and experience levels, students learn collaboration and core computer science concepts as they create their own projects. Educators lead the way with easy-to-use lesson plans, tutorials, activities, and resources.
After signing up for this free website, anyone can learn how to code better! Here, students can learn and practice how to build websites and web pages, something that can give them an edge in our technology driven culture.
CodeHS provides training and information to students at school or at home to learn how to code correctly.
These are some free resources available on the internet to help children learn to code either in your classroom or in your own family. If your school participates in Hour of Code, these are some awesome sites to use with your students. The younger groups may need a little more assistance understanding directions as sometime things can be written at a higher reading level that they may be. This site has broken the list out by K-8 resources and 9-12 resources. They highly suggest anyone starting out to start with some block programming or drag and drop websites as this can help ease frustration with spelling errors or mis-typed characters. So, even if you’re an adult some of the younger kids resources might help you a bit!
This page is where you can find resources related to presentations about creating effective blogs and websites to complement instruction.
As part of ExcelinEd, Digital Learning Now supports digital learning initiatives in the classroom to provide students with the knowledge and equipment they need to be successful in the future.