# External Online Resources ### Overview We’ve curated dozens of educational resources available for free online. These sites offer valuable and engaging articles, instructional videos, interactive games, and much more to supplement learning at home. ### Benefits Parents, students, and teachers can access a wealth of information and interactive learning experiences for research and inquiry, as well as to supplement coursework, deepen understanding, and foster further exploration. ### Using External Resources Many of these resources are available without an account. Sometimes, parents must set up a free account to use the resource.
Parents should preview resources to ensure suitability for their students.
### Accessing External Resources #### Kindergarten to Grade 5**[Curiosity Machine](https://www.curiositymachine.org/challenges/)** | Design challenges across various subject areas |
**[Design Squad Global](http://pbskids.org/designsquad)** | Compete to create solutions to engineering challenges |
**[Instructables](https://www.instructables.com/)** | Learn how to make anything, one step at a time. |
****[Little Inventors](https://www.littleinventors.org/challenges/)**** | Design challenges and resources that encourage children to think up and draw great invention ideas. |
**[Makers Empire](https://www.makersempire.com/download/)** | 3D design tool to create, download, and print original or community-based objects |
**[The Tech at Home](https://www.thetech.org/athome)** | STEM and design challenge activities for K-12 learners |
**[The Young Inventors](https://www.theyounginventors.org/)** | Challenges designed to demonstrate how inventions can improve people’s lives |
**[Tinkercad](https://www.tinkercad.com/)** | Three workspaces where students can design: 3D Design, Codeblocks, and Circuits |
**[8notes.com](https://www.8notes.com/)** | Sheet music and resources for musicians, including tuners, chord charts, and lessons |
**[Blob Opera](https://artsandculture.google.com/experiment/blob-opera/AAHWrq360NcGbw?cp=e30.)** | Create your opera-inspired song; no music skills required |
**[GarageBand](https://www.apple.com/ca/mac/garageband/)** | Music creation studio with a complete sound library |
**[Institute for Arts Integration and STEAM](https://educationcloset.com/units/)** | Arts-integrated online learning experiences for students that include videos and lesson plans |
**[MetKids](https://www.metmuseum.org/collection/metkids/)** | Whimsical, kid-friendly intro to the wide art world with videos and interactive activities |
**[PBS Learning Media’s Arts Education](https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/subjects/the-arts/)** | Resources, videos, and interactive lessons in dance, music, theatre, and visual arts |
**[TedEd Visual Arts](https://ed.ted.com/lessons?category=visual-arts)** | Instructional videos with comprehension and guided discussion questions |
**[Art For Kids Hub](https://www.youtube.com/@artforkidshub)** | Online YouTube videos teaching young children to draw |
**[Bankaroo](https://www.bankaroo.com/)** | A virtual bank for kids where you can teach them about the value of money in a safe environment |
**[EVERFI](https://everfi.com/k-12/)** | Standards-aligned, research-based digital lessons to teach students to thrive in an ever-changing world. |
**[Thrively](http://www.thrively.com/)** | Guides students through a student-centred journey to discover their strengths, increase their self-awareness, set goals and track progress, build skills, and learn real-world problem-solving |
[**SignalHill**](https://thesignalhill.com/) | Life-building teaching tools to help you inspire and equip your K-12 students |
**[Lino](https://en.linoit.com/)** | A sticky-note tool to organize and collect information and can be shared with parents and teachers |
**[Screencastify](https://www.screencastify.com/)** | Empowering students to demonstrate and share their learning |
**[Seesaw](https://seesaw.com/)** | Students share their learning with others through digital portfolios |
**[Wakelet](http://www.wakelet.com/)** | Save, organize, and share any content from across the web |
**[Code.org](https://code.org/)** | Hundreds of computer science activities and tutorials |
**[Codeable Crafts](https://www.codeablecrafts.com/)** | Animate stories with accessible drawing tools and coding blocks |
**[CS First](https://csfirst.withgoogle.com/s/en/home)** | Makes coding easy to teach and fun to use |
**[Scratch](https://scratch.mit.edu/)** | Code, share, and remix stories, games, and animations |
**[ScratchJr](https://www.scratchjr.org/)** | As above, for ages 5-7 |
**[National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo)](https://ywp.nanowrimo.org/)** | Draft an entire novel in just one month in motivational virtual spaces |
**[Quill](https://www.quill.org/)** | Free writing and grammar activities and tools |
**[ReadWorks](https://www.readworks.org/)** | Differentiated reading passages designed to improve comprehension |
**[StoryJumper](http://www.storyjumper.com/school)** | an easy way for students to write, narrate, and illustrate their stories. Find informative, expository, collaborative, narrative, and creative writing project ideas, suggestions on topics to write about and digital storytelling ideas. Your students can then use our tools to create and narrate a book, print it on-demand, and publish a book they can hold and hear |
**[Storyline Online](https://www.storylineonline.net/)** | read-along books read via video by actors and authors. Each book includes a supplemental curriculum a credentialed elementary educator developed to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners |
**[Whooo’s Reading](https://www.whooosreading.org/)** | a website with a clear mission: to help students think more critically about whatever they read through open-ended rather than multiple-choice reading quizzes. |