Education for Youth Online

The Power Of Imagination

~ Sir Ken Robinson

We Need to Teach Kids Creative Thinking - Lawrence Krauss

All Children are Scientists! ~ Neil DeGrasse Tyson

We believe in the transformative power of online education for young people as there is the great potential to learn anything no matter where you are, at one’s own pace and autonomously of bad educators. You don’t need to go to an exclusive school or be in a lecture hall of an expensive university anymore to change your life with new knowledge and these online tools are increasingly becoming an important building block tool for teaching.

SweetSearch ~ a Search Engine for Students.

Sweet Search tackles the problem of unreliable (and countless) results by providing answers to your search query that are educational and geared toward students. There are over 35,000 websites on this search engine, and every single one has been approved to provide the most informational and accurate data that will truly benefit your kids.

SweetSearch helps students find outstanding information, faster. It enables them to determine the most relevant results from a list of credible resources, and makes it much easier for them to find primary sources. We exclude not only obvious spam sites, but also marginal sites that read well, but lack academic or journalistic rigor. As importantly, the very best Web sites that are often buried on other search engines appear on the first page of SweetSearch results.

Wonderopolis ~ Where the wonders of learning never cease!

What are you wondering? A place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Wonder is for everyone. It can happen anywhere and at anytime.

Connecting the learning we do in our schools, our homes, and our communities, Wonderopolis walks the line between formal and informal education with multi-disciplinary content. Each day, we pose an intriguing question and explore it in a variety of ways. Our approach both informs and encourages new questions, sparking new paths of wonder and discovery in family and classroom settings. Teachers can use the daily Wonder to jumpstart their students’ critical thinking, or dip into our ever-growing collection of Wonders for content that relates to specific themes and student interests.

School in the Cloud

The global experiment in self-organised learning ~ Help design the future of learning

Educational researcher Dr. Sugata Mitra’s “Hole in the Wall” experiments have shown that, in the absence of supervision or formal teaching, children can teach themselves and each other, if they’re motivated by curiosity and peer interest. School in the Cloud allows learning to happen anywhere by supporting children all over the world to tap into their innate sense of wonder and ability to work

National Geographic Kids

National Geographic Kids uses tons of fun games, interesting videos, puzzles and cool photos to make the world feel like a smaller, exciting place.

National Geographic Kids explores the fascinating world we live in with fascinating facts and incredible information about our planet's amazing animals, places, history and more! Have loads of fun exploring the exciting world around us via our website.

Discovery Education

Discovery Education transforms classrooms, empowers teachers and captivates students by leading the way in providing high quality, dynamic, digital content to school districts large and small, rural and suburban and everything in between.

Accelerate student achievement by capturing the minds and imaginations of students with the fascination of Discovery, tapping into students' natural curiosity and desire to learn. Discovery Education offers a portfolio of opportunities to meet students where they want to learn in the digital age. With award-winning digital content, interactive lessons, real time assessment, virtual experiences with some of Discovery's greatest talent, classroom contests & challenges, professional development and more — Discovery is leading the way in transforming classrooms and inspiring learning.

Encyclopaedia Britannica

Explore the updated online encyclopaedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

The web is filled with all kinds of user-created reference material. You write a research paper based on what the first passer-by on the street says, so when you want quality, researched information at your fingertips subscribing to Encyclopaedia Britannica is a good idea.

Wikipedia Encyclopaedia

A free Encyclopaedia built collaboratively using wiki software. It is a multilingual, web-based, free-content encyclopedia project supported by the Wikimedia Foundation and based on a model of openly editable content.

Wikipedia is written collaboratively by largely anonymous volunteers who write without pay. Anyone with Internet access can write and make changes to Wikipedia articles, except in limited cases where editing is restricted to prevent disruption or vandalism. Users can contribute anonymously, under a pseudonym, or, if they choose to, with their real identity.

Help My Kid Learn

This website is packed full of ideas to help your child learn every day!

Help My Kid Learn is one of the best resources—period—for targeted learning according to age and skill level. The simplicity of its design makes it a breeze to navigate, and its large variety of lessons, topics and exercises makes this a one-stop site that will suit most of your child’s needs.

Google Lit Trips ~ Reading the World

Google Lit Trips is a completely free service that allows you to capture the visual and experiential minds of kids by allowing them to ‘walk’ the shoes of famous literature characters in a virtual world. You’ll see what they saw in these awesome “trips,” ensuring a learning experience that actually sticks with your child.

The mission of GLT Global ED is to provide support for implementation of the paradigm shifting pedagogies necessary to educators, so they may continue to meet the challenge of engaging student interest and learning, while remaining in compliance with current educational reform; integratiing cross-cultural, cross-curricular, and technological evolutions. It is, in essence, a pedagological interface for educators.

Vocabulary

The quickest, most intelligent and fun way to improve your vocabulary.

Vocabulary combines the world's smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning game to improve your vocabulary and have you mastering new words in no time ~ explore language.

Free Rice game

For each answer you get right, we donate 10 grains of rice through the World Food Programme to help end hunger.

A non-profit website run by the United Nations World Food Program. It’s essentially a vocabulary challenge that donates rice to the needy with every question you get right.

ReadWriteThink ~ Printing Press

Providing educators and students access to the highest quality practices and resources in reading and language arts instruction.

A great tool to help kids harness the creativity of writing and design, which they can do on ReadWriteThink. Kids are encouraged to design their own newspapers, flyers, or even brochures with tools for writing and image placement. They’re not just learning how to write; they’re learning design and layout skills that can actually translate into a real career, making this a fantastic resource for future publishers.

Rhymes & Chimes

Rhymes is a unique online dictionary that contains a huge collection of rhyme entries for almost any given word in English. The database is divided by syllables and can be rated, heard using voice pronunciation and even translated to many common and not so common languages.

Useful for poetry and writing classes, Rhymes helps kids find new words that match even the trickiest phrases, introducing them to the advanced mechanics of creative writing. The website also generates citations based on its ample nursery rhymes, teaching kids how to use the internet without plagiarizing!

Poem Hunter

Best poems and quotes from famous poets. Read romantic love poems, love quotes, classic poems and best poems. All famous quotes.

Poems from different poets all around the world. Thousands of poems, quotes and poets. Search for poems and poets using the Poetry Search Engine.

Fun Word Puzzle Games on Dictionary.com

Looking for a fun way to train your brain?

Challenge yourself to new puzzles and games every day in our unique collection of brainteasers. Maybe you’re looking for a mathematical game, a crossword puzzle, or a word search.

Learn Your Tables

Once you know your times tables, you have made a great step towards success in this world.

Learn Your Tables was created to provide a visual resource for helping kids learn even the trickiest equations. It also tests them on their tables to make sure they’ve got it down, thanks to an interactive “drag” system that they control.

Funbrain

This website is packed with games, comics, reading tools and more that are all geared toward being just as entertaining as they are useful for learning.

Funbrain's games help students build on what they have learned in class and acquire new skills in reading, math, literacy, grammar, science, spelling, history and problem solving. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site.

BrainPOP

BrainPOP engages students through animated movies, learning games, interactive quizzes, primary source activities, concept mapping, and more.

BrainPOP is a fantastic website for kids who learn at a fast pace. It’s rich with content that is image and video based, and pretty much every essential subject is covered. BrainPOP’s best feature is that it makes the experience very fun for kids, and the site is updated frequently, making sure that they come back for more. They cover topics within Science, Math, Social Studies, English Language Arts, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Music, Health, Reading, and Writing.

Starfall

Free site to teach the basics of reading. Features interactive books and phonics games.

Starfall has been teaching children to read with phonics for well over a decade. Our systematic approach, in conjunction with audiovisual interactivity is perfect for preschool, kindergarten, first grade, second grade, special education, homeschool, and English language development (ELD, ELL, ESL). Starfall is an educational alternative to other entertainment choices for children. Our low-cost membership program expands the free content you already enjoy to include delightfully animated songs, mathematics, and reading activities spanning pre-k to 2nd grade.

HeartMath: Smart Brain Wise Heart Boys & Girls e-Learning Program

HeartMath has developed an important online platform for helping kids be their best and learn valuable life skills needed to succeed in today's changing world.

The primary goal of this program is to have participating youth learn self-regulation skills and improve their focus, motivation and decision-making. Smart Brain Wise Heart (SBWH) introduces tools and strategies for youth to learn how to respond to stress in positive ways and helps enable young people to reach their full potential by learning about their own heart wisdom. Click here if you want the link to the General HeartMath eLEARNING Center.

Magic Tree House

The Magic Tree House series introduces young people to different cultures and times in history, as well as the world’s legacy of ancient myth and storytelling with mix of magic, myth, history and mystery to inspire children all over the world.

Magic Tree House captures the fun of the famous books in an interactive and engaging website. Kids will play games that introduce them to new cultures and stories that actually make history and social studies a blast to learn.

Pora Ora

Pora Ora is a colourful universe of interconnected games and apps designed to add sparkle to learning.

Pora Ora is a free, 3D, virtual world that allows your child to build their own character and embark on an educational adventure (though they probably won’t realize they’re learning). Like a video game, children will be motivated to keep playing (and learning) as they explore this fun and engaging world.

Scholastic Games

Scholastic has been delivering literacy resources for kids and outstanding children's books to schools, teachers, and families for more than 90 years.

What better way to help your child fall in love with learning websites than showing them one with all of their favorite characters? Scholastic books come alive on this website, where kids can play educational games based on Magic School Bus, Clifford the Big Red Dog, and other classic characters they already love.

CliffsNotes ~ study guides

Explore, study, review CliffsNotes ~ the original (and most widely imitated) High School study guides

Ideal for high school and college students, Cliffsnotes provides valuable resources like study guides and test prep for standard books and subjects you’ll have to read anyway. The site also provides resources for math and science, giving you the chance to finally master the dark arts of homework.

Spatulatta ~ kids also need to learn how to cook properly!

Spatulatta will encourage children to eat well, to take pride in their accomplishments in the kitchen and to understand the connection between farm and dinner table.

A fun and compelling website that will help foster a whole new generation of young cooks, not only by introducing cooking skills via their ample guides and recipes geared toward beginners, but also through modeling behavior for using healthy, fresh, basic ingredients with a minimum of processing.

YouTube EDU »Science & Education Videos

90 + YouTube Science and Education video Channels with 1000s of related videos

Whether you're doing research for a project, need help with homework, or just want to learn something new, these YouTube channels feature some of most popular Science and educational videos across YouTube automatically generated by YouTube's video discovery system.

Science Bob

Science Bob shares the world of science like never before, providing instructions and videos for interactive science experiments on his web site.

Find easy science experiments, watch experiment videos, and get Science Fair ideas from Science Bob! It teaches kids how to pick a great topic and use the scientific method to develop a project that will make sense and benefit their chances at winning big. The website also provides fun experiments and exercises that will teach kids how to research and think scientifically, even if their name isn’t Bob.

Make Me Genius

Science Videos - Grade 1 to 7 - Everything is free at this website. Its purpose to spread science education, to make it easier & to make it accessible to everybody

Kids need to learn more of the advanced material they’re bound to struggle with as they get older, especially when it comes to science and even traffic rules. Make Me Genius is a great platform for this, providing multiple types of teaching exercises that range from videos and PowerPoints, to tests and easy-to-read articles.