Civics, Social Skills, Society

  • Digital Compass game from Common Sense Media. "Learn the fundamentals of digital citizenship through animated, choose-your-own-adventure interactive experiences, designed for grades 6-9."
  • Reign of Aquaria - Flash game designed to teach negotiation skills to girls 7-12.
  • Games at iCivics.org. "A web-based education project designed to teach students civics and inspire them to be active participants in our democracy." (ages 9-18; younger with help).
  • Quandary - shape the future of a new society while learning how to recognize ethical issues and deal with challenging situations in life.
  • That's Your Right at Annenberg Classroom. US Constitution Bill of Rights quiz game - match everyday scenarios with the correct amendment.

Money

Things still to investigate:
Tried, not very good:

Spanish

Maker/DIY


Origami

Science

MinutePhysics YouTube channel. Created by Henry Reich. (Chronological Order playlist.)






Chemistry and Periodic Table
Videos, TV, YouTube channels, etc

    Typing



    Dance Mat Typing from the BBC




    Other possibilities:
    Tried it, didn't find it useful:
    Haven't tried yet:

    History and Geography

    Logic Puzzles


    Bart Bonte's games (www.bontegames.com) - our favorite!
    More physics games:

    Design Squad Nation at PBS Kids: Fidgets, String Thing

    Chess:

    Logic and Rhetoric:

    Math

    The incomparable Victoria "Vi" Hart, recreational mathemusician. Her blog; her YouTube channel Vihart; her other YouTube channel vihartvihart; her spot on Khan Academy.
    Math lecture videos
    Math Kangaroo

      Big Piles of Stuff

      Videos:

      English

      BBC Shakespeare Animated Tales - have gone offline :(

      Storymaking/bookmaking:

      Computer Programming

      CodeCombat - very awesome

      Code.org Learn page (aka The Hour of Code page) - an excellent entry point

      MIT Scratch - a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab
      Blockly - an open-source visual programming editor (like Scratch) - including maze (a introductory teaching game), turtle (drawing), graph (graphic calculator), and code (export a Blockly program into JavaScript, Python or XML). Paikea won Honorable Mention in a March 2013 Turtle Graphics Contest for making cool graphics in Blockly (her design is #5 of 22 in the
      slideshow).

      Pencil Code - another Scratch-ish project. Blocks, CoffeeScript, Javascript, HTML, CSS.

      DIY.org n00b skills challenge. "Becoming a n00b is the first step to becoming a programmer."

      Gaming-centered:

      • Kodu Game Lab - "Kodu is a visual programming language made specifically for creating games. It is designed to be accessible for children and enjoyable for anyone." Requires download/install. Tutorial videos on this website (scroll down).
      • Gamestar Mechanic - online game teaching video game design (not programming per se)
      • Sploder 

      Al Sweigart:

      Nice lesson books, about high school level, free to download:

      iPad apps:

      • CargoBot - learn programming logic skills via a graphical puzzle game
      • LightBot - learn programming logic skills via a graphical puzzle game
      • Codea - an app the provides a cool programming environment (based on Lua language).

      Logo:

      MSWLogo, including links for downloading and lessons; also Logo Workshop, with ten lessons. (We had fun with this, although I guess Logo is outdated - use the Python Turtle module etc instead.)

      Other:

      • TouchDevelop by Microsoft - web-based programming environment works well with tablets (Android or iPad) as well as browser. Includes fun beginner tutorials
      • Codecademy.org 
      • Made with Code - a "Girlie" gateway page. Programming in pink.
      • Ruff Ruffman PBS Kids digital media literacy program
      • Stick Animation:

      Misc/unexplored:

      Philosophy

      Sophie's World is a book about a 14 year old girl learning the history of Western philosophy.

      Videos excerpts from the movie:

      Trailer

      The Trial of Socrates

      Arcade Games



      Physics games:

      Online virtual "worlds" for kids/Multiplayer games:


      Historic:
      • Colossal Cave Adventure, the first text "interactive fiction" game. You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike...

      Ed Mouse and other online "school" programs




      Time4Learning.com - online K-8 homeschooling curriculum. Paid subscription.

      Study Island. (Test prep for California Standards; paid membership via Connecting Waters public charter school.)

      BrainPOP (gr.3-12) and BrainPOP Jr. (K-3)

      Khan Academy

      Also try:

      Mandarin Chinese


      New Spouts Chinese School:

      More YouTube fun:



        Art

        DIY.org Illustrator skills challenge
        Canva cloud design website app

        The Metropolitan Museum of Art
        EduWeb:
        Other

        YouTube videos on How to Draw:

        PBS Kids & CBBC


        PBS Kids Games
        BBC - CBBC


          More Videos

          • Princess Natasha - "Student. Secret Agent.  Princess." - no longer online :(
          • Sixty Symbols

          Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli

          Avatar: the Last Airbender

          (Free, but with many offensive ads. Block your pop-ups!) - Book One: Water - Book Two: Earth - Book Three: Fire

          Inuyasha: a Feudal Fairy Tale

          Episode 1-167 on AnimeFreakTV
          Episode 127: "Don't Boil It! The Terrifying Dried-Up Demon Yōkai // Nichadame! Kyōfu no Himono Yōkai" (煮 ちゃダメ! 恐怖の干物妖怪) - a favorite.

          More
          • Pokemon Season 4 on Animecrazy.net
          • From the Ashes of Disaster Grow the Roses of Success!
          • Friend HappyArtMaker on Xtranormal
          • The Mozart Band cartoon on BRB International. "Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin and Verdi form an inseparable gang of contemporary boys who share both their boyish pranks and their passion for music. They are The Mozart Band. They make classical music accessible and easily understood using a symphony of humour and adventures. (1995)" 24 episodes, 25 mins each.

          ASL - American Sign Language



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