Educational Websites & Resources for STudents

During this uncharted time in education when students are at home, feel free to check out our list of educational websites. Caregivers can use these sites as an enrichment for your students.

Student Websites and Resources

Grades K–6

ABC Mouse

Use redeem code AOFLUNICE or SCHOOL7771 for free access to the following sites:
- ABCmouse - for children preschool through second grade
- Adventure Academy - for children in third through eighth grade
- Reading IQ - for children preschool through sixth grade

ABCya

ABCya provides over 400 fun and educational games for grades Pre-K through sixth grade. Our activities are designed by parents and educators, who understand that children learn better if they are having fun. ABCya categorizes games by grade and subject and covers topics such as multiplication, parts of speech, typing, pattern recognition, and more. We even have games that are just plain fun (and safe) to play! With so much variety, there is sure to be something for kids at all learning levels and styles.

BBC History for Kids

Games, quizzes, and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time. Kids can set off on a learning adventure when they walk through ancient history, world history, and histories of specific countries on BBC History for Kids.

BrainPOP

Another trusted, free educational website for children is Brainpop. It helps children to stay creative and constructive in almost all subjects like social studies, English, arts, health, and music. It also adds a bit of humor and fun to encourage children to learn and study in their own unique ways. The content on the site stimulates curiosity in children, making them eager to explore new topics.
BrainPOP is also useful if you want your child to learn other languages like Spanish, French, and Italian. Lastly, it contains an English proficiency test for all ages, which includes grammar, reading, listening, vocabulary, and handwriting.

Coolmath

Coolmath calls itself an amusement park of math and more. Children can play online math games that help them with addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, decimals, money, and more.
Coolmath is geared toward ages 13 and up.
Sister-site CoolMath4Kids is appropriate for ages three through 12.
CoolMath-Games includes math games for preschoolers.

Disney Jr.

Fans of Mickey and friends will love visiting Disney Jr. educational games, coloring pages, and videos are a few of the highlights. The games focus on memory, hand-eye coordination, color matching, and other important skills for developing minds.

Ed Helper

Ed Helper is providing daily free worksheets for students K–6 in varying subjects.

Exploratorium

It's hard to narrow the list of science websites because there are so many great resources. San Francisco's Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts showcases a website that teaches kids about science and art in new ways. The departments let kids tinker with gadgets, go below the sea, rocket into the galaxy, and also learn about the science of gardening, animals, and cells, to name a few.

Fun Brain

One visit to Fun Brain and you'll want to bookmark it for your kids. Math, reading, online books, and learning games are just some of the site's many treats. Fun Brain caters to preschoolers through eighth-graders.

Highlights for Kids

The magazine for kids that's been around for more than 60 years now offers online ways to play, read, and craft with your children. Matching games, art activities, animated stories, and science experiments are just a few ways kids can learn while having fun on the Highlights for Kids website.

How Stuff Works

When your child wants to know why the sky is blue, how a tornado forms, or any number of other questions she can come up with on a daily basis, head on over to How Stuff Works. The articles break down subjects like autos, culture, entertainment, science, money, technology, and more. Games, quizzes, and videos also round out your children's learning experience.

I Know It

Free access
Our hearts reach out to the many communities affected by the COVID-19 virus. As many schools in these communities close, we understand that teachers and administrators are in need of online, remote learning tools. We would like to offer our online math practice tool, I Know It, free of charge, to any schools affected by the virus related closures. Please fill out the online form to request an application for unlimited complimentary access.

Learning Games for Kids

The name of the site says it all. Learning Games for Kids is all about games that teach kids almost every subject you can think of. Word, spelling, social studies, brain, science, art, vocabulary, literature, and keyboarding games will get your kids started on a learning adventure.

National Geographic for Kids

Watch animal cameras, learn interesting tidbits about animals, see and share photos of nature, learn about different countries, and try science experiments on National Geographic Kids. These activities don't even begin to scratch the surface of the National Geographic Kids website. There's also a little kids section for the younger explorers in your home.

Nick Jr.

If you can look past the ads, you'll find printables, games, and other activities your kids will enjoy at Nick Jr. The games allow your children to explore their creativity, play dress-up, learn new music, put together puzzles, and work on numbers and shape recognition.

Old Farmers Almanac for Kids

It's learning with a twist. The Old Farmer's Almanac for Kids features riddles, puzzles, a question of the day, a timeline of interesting history facts, sky events, and weather conditions to track at home with your children.

PBS Kids

Each of the educational shows your children watch on PBS has its own learning section through PBS Kids. Try sing-along songs, sorting and counting games, watch videos, and more.

Scholastic

Scholastic is one of the more unique educational websites for kids. This site, from the publishers of the educational books you find in schools, contains activities broken up by grades. Pre-K learners all the way up to seniors in high school can find learning activities geared toward them.

Scratch

With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations — and share your creations with others in the online community. Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Scratch is a project of the Lifelong Kindergarten Group at the MIT Media Lab. Scratch is free of charge.

Sesame Street

Younger children will love everything about Sesame Street's online home. They can choose from hundreds of the show's video clips and play games that help them learn letters, animal sounds, rhymes, colors, and more.

Sight Words

Sight Words is a comprehensive sequence of teaching activities, techniques, and materials for one of the building blocks of early childhood literacy. Sight Words designed this collection of resources to help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. We combine the latest literacy research with decades of teaching experience to bring you the best methods of instruction to make teaching easier, more effective, and more fun. Sight words build speed and fluency when reading. Accuracy, speed, and fluency in reading increase reading comprehension. The sight words are a collection of words that a child should learn to recognize without sounding out the letters. The sight words are both common, frequently used words and foundational words that a child can use to build a vocabulary. Combining sight words with phonics instruction increases a child’s speed and fluency in reading.

Splash Learn - Study Pad

StudyPad’s vision is to transform K–12 learning by making it fun and personalized for every child and to prepare them for skills required in the 21st-century. StudyPad is uniquely poised to harness the rapid growth in the education technology space using the backdrop of the ubiquitous adoption of smartphones, tablets, AR, and VR.

Starfall

When a mom mentions she's looking for some great educational websites for her kids, it's not long before someone mentions Starfall. The site has been online since 2002 and works with your children from letter recognition to reading plays, nonfiction, and comics.

The Kidz Page

The Kidz Page has more than 5,000 pages of learning games and activities. Online coloring pages, jigsaw puzzles, and word games are just a few sections of this massive site. Each holiday has its own section of activities and games to enjoy with your children.

Time for Kids

From the publishers of TIME magazine, TIME for Kids is loaded with interesting articles, photos, and videos. Politics, the environment, entertainment, sports, and health are just some of the topics covered. TIME for Kids isn't as interactive as most of the other websites on this list of educational websites for kids, but the site does tackle subjects that are in the news now while being written for an audience of children.

Grades 7–12