Interactive Playgrounds
In our playground, student have been actively engaged with with each of these websites throughout the school year. Students in Kindergarten , 1st grade and 3rd-5th grade have individual accounts with activities and assignments uploaded. If you you would like your child's login information please contact me.
This educational website is a place where kids of all ages can head to learn how to code.Some of the tutorials include making a Dance Party, building worlds on Minecraft, writing a game, programming droids and more. A number of the activities may be completed in just 10 minutes.
There are countless videos that round out the site and some that are even entire episodes focusing on the natural world. Some of the more interactive components of the site are the quizzes, and games. The games teach basic principals like coding, geology, planetary systems, geography, travel, sports, and more while the quizzes encourage kids to think about how they as individuals fit into the grand scheme of it all..
The STEMWORKS website focuses on the following topics- crime scene investigation, extreme weather, medical innovations, robotics, space, the animal kingdom, under the sea, wind energy, and other STEM subjects.
NASA Space Place is a colorful and fun website that encourages kids to “explore Earth and Space!” This is a great source for any child who is fascinated with Earth and Space or for any novice who may just be getting started.
Funology is “the Science of Fun” and this website is packed with great activities that “offer the cure to boredom.” The experiments section of this website is one of our favorite parts and most of the experiments require very few materials- a number of which may be found around the home.