Below are some fun, ready to go games and activities in a variety of subjects for all grades. Come back as additional resources will be added!
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Worksheets and Printables
STEM Outreach Activities– STEM Outreach activities you can do at home!
Hands-on, space-themed activities to challenge and engage your brain. |
Meet our STEM Superheroes and join on their adventures by doing these fun activities. |
All the tools you need to help you become the CEO at your school. |
Food is a science! Make these 5, 4, 3, 2, & 1 ingredient recipes at home! |
Use this stationary to help track your exercise skills to keep up your strength and flexibility |
Learn all about the wildlife in New Mexico through these wild activities! |
STEM Outreach YouTube Channel – Visit our YouTube channel! We will be posting various educational series, hosted by teachers and experts!
Daily Nature Walks – 2-week daily nature walk activities, provided by Nature Matter Academy. Available in English and Spanish
MindWorks Resources – MindWorks created and collected an activity booklet for afterschool programs to share with the families for educational support and guidance.
Friends Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks – Nature weekly lesson plan created in partnership with Friends of Organ Mountains.
Aggie Play – Here are some simple exercises that you can do with your child at least five times a day. Each day consists of eight activities that could take roughly between 10 and 15 minutes to complete, including the 5 min. stretching warm-up.
All Subjects
Scholastic Learn at Home – Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. PreK-9th
Arcademics – Arcade + Academics = Fun Learning. Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multilayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more! 1-6th
K-12 Interactive (Utah Educational Network) – Interactive games including, reading, science, writing, music, brain games, health, and technology. K-12th
Sheppard Software – A variety of educational games, activities, quizzes, science games, and many more. K-8th
BrainPOP – Science games, English games, art and music games, engineering games, and math games. 4-8th
ABCYa – Language arts, math, strategy games, and skill games. Pre K-6th
FunBrain – Multiple activities from math to reading. K-8th
JumpStart – Educational activities such as math, reading, science, social studies, and art. K-5th
Kid friendly live streams – Various live streams including art lessons, DIY projects, The Cincinnati Zoo, and reading with authors. K-5th
STEM Activities – Different activities for students, science, technology, engineering and math. All Grades
STEAMsational – If you’re interested in science, technology, engineering, and math, then you’ll love this list of STEM activities for your kids that you can do in the classroom or at home. K-5th
Open Culture – Free educational resources such as video lessons, apps, books websites and more. All Grades
50 Fun Activities for Kids Will Keep Them Entertained for Hours – Test out these DIY projects that’ll bust boredom for good. All Grades
Fuel the Brain – High quality educational games, guides and printables that relate to core standards in elementary education. All Grades
MackinVIA – Free eBooks spanning a variety of topics with content pages created specifically for students from Elementary to High School to help kids read online during this trying time. Ebooks are available to anyone and will be free until September 20, 2020 for reading and download. You do have to create a MackinVIA account, but it is free! All Grades
Art
Recycled Bottle Bubble Art with Kids – Art project with plastic bottles. K-5th
Scrap Coloring – A website with coloring activities for kids to engage in art. All Grades
Engineering
PBS Engineering – Explore different planets in space exploration. K-5th
Entertainment
PBS Kids – Interactive games and videos for kids. K-5th
Nick Jr. – Preschool games, Nick Jr. show full episodes, video clips on Nick Jr. PreK-K
161 Science Documentaries You Can Watch Right Now – (No membership required) Enriching documentaries available to watch instantly without a membership. Just click the links and press play. You can also find them on the free PBS Video app on your favorite devices.
Math
Math Snacks – Educational animations, games, and interactive tools that help middle-school learners better understand math concepts. 4-7th
Multiplication – Memory building strategies, auto-scored quizzes, games, worksheets and more! K-7th
Math Playground – Explore hundreds of free math games. 1-6th
Coolmath Games – Love math? Hate math? Need homework help? This site’s for you! 1-7th
Fold Origami from Lined Paper – Different origami instructions using lined paper. 6-12th
Prodigy – The engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform loved by over 50 million students, teachers and admins. No cost, ever. 1-8th
Math Careers – Did you ever wonder when you’re going to use math in real life? This website on math careers has more than a few answers! All Grades
Mystery Math Town – Mystery Math Town will require you to use all your math skills to save the fireflies! Its available on the App Store and Google Play.
Coolmath4kids – This website has a lot of fun math games for students and parents to play. K-8th
Numbers League – The numbers league website tasks you with building a team of superheroes to defeat super villains using math! K-5th
Coolmath Games – Different math games to improve math skills! All Grades
Math is Fun – We offer mathematics in an enjoyable and easy-to-learn manner, because we believe that mathematics is fun. All Grades
Math Games – We offer mathematics in an enjoyable and easy-to-learn manner, because we believe that mathematics is fun. PreK-8th
IXL Math Practice – IXL is personalized learning. With a comprehensive K-12 curriculum, individualized guidance, and real-time analytics, IXL meets the unique needs of each learner. All Grades
Hooda Math – This is a website for math games divided by subject. Students K-12 and math lovers of any age can learn about numbers while having fun. All Grades
JumpStart Games – JumpStart Games produces creative, educational mobile and multiplayer online games under its flagship brands – JumpStart®, Math Blaster® and School of Dragons® – as well as with partners such as DreamWorks Animation. All Grades
Math Chimp – Free online math games, videos & worksheets. Each math activity is aligned with the Common Core. Enjoy Math Chimp at home or in the classroom! 1-8th
Youcubed at Home – Youcubed has adapted and created brand new activities, updating every week. Their goal is to continue sharing tasks and videos to support math learning at home! All Grades
Programming/Coding
Codespark – Self teaching resources for coding. All Grades
Girls Who Code – Girls Who Code is making CS educational activities available for download free of charge, to anyone who wants to access them. All Grades
Code.org – Learn how to build an iPhone game, write your first computer program, draw in JavaScript and much more. All Grades
Puzzle
Disney Junior – Disney games, puzzles and activities for all ages! All Grades
Reading
Starfall – The program emphasizes exploration, play, and positive reinforcement—encouraging children to become confident and intrinsically motivated in language arts and mathematics. K-3rd
Epic! – Instantly access 35,000 of the best books, learning videos, quizzes & more. K-6th
Vooks – Animated storybooks for teachers and parents. All Grades
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities – Many of our favorite authors are offering online read alouds and activities on social media. All Grades
CommonLit – Free reading passages and literacy resources. 3-12th
Funbrain – Games, videos and books for kids. K-8th
StoryKit – Free iOS app for story book creation. 2-8th
Harry Potter at Home Hub – JK Rowling, in collaboration with her publishing houses, has created a hub for students and teachers to access resources during this trying time. Partnering with companies such as scholastic and audible, students will have access to Harry Potter and the philosophers stone for free. Additionally, teachers will have access to online copies of all of the Harry Potter books and can record themselves reading to post for their students as read alouds. There are also many gateway pages to instructionals for STEAM activities and Harry Potter themed fun. The website will continuously be added to and updated throughout the year to help educators and students stay creative and connected to literacy during the pandemic. All Grades
Science
Flinn At-Home Science – Lab demonstration videos, DIY activities, and science explanations for middle and high school students. 6-12th
NASA STEM @ Home – Building activities, space flight activities, puzzles, and printable board games. K-4th
Learn 4 Good – interactive science games, educational physics games, chemistry games, biology games, and brain teaser games. K-12th
AsapSCIENCE – Science videos on various science topics. 5-12th
Tinkercast Podcast – Podcasts about stories in science, technology, and innovation. All Grades
Science Bob – “Science Bob” Pflugfelder is a science teacher, author, maker, and presenter that knows how to share the world of science like never before. 3-12th
Science Buddies – This website has a ton of ideas for science fair projects, project guides, project kits and detailed profiles of STEM careers. All Grades
Citizen Science Month – Citizen Science Month is an annual effort in April focusing on all things citizen science: amazing discoveries, incredible volunteers, hardworking practitioners, inspiring projects, and anything else citizen science-related! All Grades
STEM Works – A student focused activity site. Lots of different activities for the students with a section on the different jobs in the STEM fields. All Grades
NASA Kids’ Club – A place to play games and learn about NASA! All Grades
Science Kids – Learn more with fun science experiments, cool facts, free games, activities, lesson plans, quizzes, videos, photos and science fair project ideas. All Grades
CSI the Experience – Learn forensic science and apply your knowledge. 5-12th
Engineering Go For It (eGFI) – If you’re looking to find more info about engineering and meet students like you, you’ve come to the right place. This blog is all about the latest and greatest in engineering, so come on in and take a look around. 6-12th
Extreme Science – Here you’ll find world records in natural science, including earth science and the plant and animal kingdom, as well as extreme weather records, and much more wild, weird, and out-there stuff. K-5th
Lifeboat to Mars – Explore the world of biology with this free online game. In one simulation (Microland) you control hungry microbes. In another (Ecoland), you have to balance out the space station’s ecosystem. K-5th
Wonderville – Wonderville has a little of everything for elementary school students – science experiments, comics, videos, activities on topics such as solar energy and aerial fire-fighting. K-5th
Go Science Kids – Fun and creative science activities for kids. K-5th
Cold Spring Harbor DNA Learning Center – Students will learn about organisms, genotypes, phenotypes and bioinformatics. 5th-12th
Kinetic City – A collection of science experiments, games, activities, and challenges and more! 3-12th
STEM @ Home Activities – Pitsco’s 2019-2020 Elementary STEM catalog shares some great STEM activity ideas, many of which can be slightly modified to use readily available household items. K-5th
Technology
Tynker – A fantastic website focused on teaching and learning how to code programs. It’s used extensively in the Drone camps and has a lot of lessons for learning the different aspects of object oriented coding. 6-12th
Computer Science Education Week – A website focused on different activities and games using coding. All Grades
Scratch Jr – ScratchJr is an introductory programming language that enables young children to create their own interactive stories and games. K-3rd
Minecraft – Minecraft is offering some of its popular Minecraft: Education Edition lessons for free in the Minecraft Marketplace until June 30, 2020. All Grades
At Home Field Trips
30 Virtual Field Trips – Links with free virtual field trips. Safe Travels! All Grades
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