Wednesday, April 29, 2020
Mensa for Kids 30-day Challenge
Looking to change things up a bit? Try the Mensa for Kids (works for big kids aka adults, too) 30-day Challenge!
Sunday, April 26, 2020
ABCYA for K-8
In 2004, Alan and Lisa started new jobs as public school teachers in New Jersey. Like many teachers, they were excited to share the joys of education with their classrooms. Unfortunately, like many teachers, they quickly discovered that finding quality resources to help students succeed was a challenge, and that the school’s budget was stretched too thin to purchase new learning software to supplement their lesson plans.
With a plan to gamify educational lessons, Alan developed several learning activities for his computer classes. He came up with a fun domain name—ABCya.com—to host his games, and began using them with his students. Before long, he noticed that other teachers were also using his website in their own classes, not realizing that its creator was one of their colleagues!
Alan continued to develop and perfect games for ABCya.com, eventually venturing into the creation of stand-alone apps.
As VP of ABCya, Lisa relies on her experience as an educator, and as a parent, to keep ABCya dedicated to the company’s founding principles: creating educational games that keep learning fun.
For more information, please visit https://www.abcya.com/
Wednesday, April 22, 2020
Funbrain - Fun for Your Brain!
Games, Reading, Videos, Math Practice for pre-K through 8th grade
For more information, please visit https://www.funbrain.com/
Sunday, April 19, 2020
World Food Programme - Freerice
How does Freerice work?
As you play Freerice and answer questions right, advertisements appear on your screen. When you see one of these advertisements, you trigger a financial payment to the World Food Programme (WFP) to support its work saving and changing lives around the world.
In the game, these payments are represented via grains of rice. The amount of money generated when you see an advertisement can vary, but is roughly equivalent to what the World Food Programme spends to purchase 10 grains of rice.
By playing, you are generating the money that pays for this rice. This money is used for many types of assistance — not just rice — depending on where needs are greatest. Regardless of the type of assistance, you can be sure that 100% of all funds generated on Freerice go to the World Food Programme, and 93.5% of every payment received by the World Food Programme goes directly towards helping children and their families. Freerice does not earn or keep any money it raises. You can learn more about the different ways the World Food Programme is funded here.
For more information, please visit https://freerice.com/
Wednesday, April 15, 2020
Sunday, April 12, 2020
Virtual Reality Tours
Step inside world class museums with Google Arts & Culture...
For more information, please visit https://artsandculture.google.com/project/virtual-tours
Wednesday, April 8, 2020
Sunday, April 5, 2020
GoNoodle!
GoNoodle® engages 14 million kids every month with movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts. Available for free at school, home, and everywhere kids are!
For more information, go to https://family.gonoodle.com/
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Learn to Code with Code.org!
We are facing an incredibly challenging time with the global outbreak of COVID-19, grappling with growing concerns over health, our communities, and the economy. Safety measures have brought widespread school closures across the country.
We want to support teachers, students, and families in any way we can. Below is a set of resources to help your student learn computer science at home. Parents – if you're considering creating a Code.org account for your student or helping them access an existing account, please read this primer.
We are also working on resources to help teachers mid-course to continue teaching computer science when their students are remote.
For more information, go to Code.org.
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