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Museum scientists are your video guides challenging students with real-world scientific mysteries.

Scientists demonstrate how tools and critical thinking skills are essential in gathering and reasoning with evidence.

Digitized museum collections and data allow students to explore and uncover evidence.

Students record their evidence and reasoning before testing their findings with fellow classmates.

Investigation Options

Can Research Quest help me meet new science standards?

Research Quest has continued to earn support from the Joseph and Evelyn Rosenblatt Charitable Fund, the IJ and Jeanné Wagner Foundation, the Utah State Legislature's Informal Science Education Enhancement program, and garnered a $1.3 million grant from the National Science Foundation.

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What Will Research Quest Look Like in My Classroom?

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Research Quest in the classroom Museum scientists are your video guides challenging students with real-world scientific mysteries.Scientists demonstrate how tools and critical thinking skills are essential in gathering and reasoning with evidence.Digitized museum collections and data allow students to explore and uncover evidence.Students record their evidence and reasoning before testing their findings with fellow classmates.Investigation OptionsCan Research Quest help me meet new science standards?Yes!

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Educational resources and games now free... there is a subscription site and app, but this one is now free forever!

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Mr. Nussbaum - Educational Games, Activities, Resources for Kids Ages 5-14 and Teacher Tools.

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MrNussbaum.com is a kids website that features over 10,000 online and printable activities including over 400 games, tutorials, simulations, videos, interactive maps, research tools, and much more for kids ages 5-14. Established in 2003!

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Check out this foldable paper “fortune teller” that will teach you all about clouds - thank you NASA!

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NOVA Online presents Secrets of Easter Island

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Fun, informative and captivating talks to inspire young minds.

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At Crash Course, we believe that high-quality educational videos should be available to everyone for free! Subscribe for weekly videos from our current courses! The Crash Course team has produced more than 45 courses on a wide variety of subjects, including organic chemistry, literature, world history, biology, philosophy, theater, ecology, and many more!

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Classical Music Activities for Kids | San Francisco Symphony

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Music Connects at the San Francisco Symphony. Fun facts, activities, and lessons that support music education at home. Free education resources.

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Classroom Resources for Educators from The Kennedy Center

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Classroom Resources for Educators from The Kennedy Center

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For educators looking to infuse the arts into their educational practices, we’ve developed hundreds of free learning resources: lesson plans, articles, learning guides for performances, how-tos, and much more. Kennedy Center Education is here to help you succeed with newly revised lesson plans and…

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LiveStream Activities Calendar by Michelle Jones

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LiveStream Activities Calendar by Michelle Jones

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This is a great listing of cross-cultural activities for younger kiddos... check it out!

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Welcome Back! Classics for Kids has returned with our new Fun Facts videos, worksheets and lesson plans!https://youtu.be/7BjOMa7NvzIFun Facts: Marian Andersen https://youtu.be/OBnHXKNDqXUFun Facts: Yo-Yo Ma Explore More Composers Learn More Worksheets [...]

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A giant list of things around the web... being updated regularly.

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A fun, interactive music experience
Incredibox is a music app that lets you create your own music with the help of a merry crew of beatboxers.Choose your musical style among 9 impressive atmospheres and start to lay down, record and share your mix.

Where making music is child's play!

Part game, part tool, Incredibox is above all an audio and visual experience that has quickly become a hit with people of all ages. More than 80 million players worldwide have already enjoyed it. The right mix of music, graphics, animation and interactivity makes Incredibox ideal for everyone. And because it makes learning fun and entertaining, Incredibox is now being used by schools all over the world.

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HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!

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HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand.

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Interland is an adventure-packed online game that puts the key lessons of digital citizenship and safety into hands-on practice. Play your way to being Internet Awesome.

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Fast Facts about every topic under the sun...

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DK Find Out! | Fun Facts for Kids on Animals, Earth, History and more!

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Visit DK Find Out! to learn about dinosaurs, space, animals, nature & more. Fun learning activities for kids with videos, quizzes & galleries at DKFindOut.com

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Let yourself think every single day!

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Have you ever tasted an Arab taco?

When was the Arab taco invented?

What is shawarma?

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How are currency exchange rates determined?

What was the gold standard?

Which type of currency exchange rate system does the U.S. use?

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Which of the following is usually NOT a factor in determining currency exchange rates?

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How can I use Wonderopolis?

What are the parts of a Wonder?

How do writers make a Wonder?

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Based on information from the Wonder, what was Lou Castro known for when he was alive?

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What is an okapi?

Where do okapis live?

What do okapis eat?

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease | Wonderopolis

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Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease

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Mini-Lessons by Grade Level

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Stress-free science lessons for K-5 distance learning

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Want to write, but don't know how to start? This site is for you!

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...now provides 274,400 story starters for kids.

Write your story starter sentence on a piece of paper or copy and paste it into your favorite word processor and start writing your story! Please bookmark and link to this page and come back again to use The Story Starter.

The Story Starter was selected as one of the T op 101 Websites for Writers by Writer's Digest Magazine in 2008, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016 and 2017!

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now provides 274,400 story starters for kids. Write your story starter sentence on a piece of paper or copy and paste it into your favorite word processor and start writing your story! Please bookmark and link to this page and come back again to use The Story Starter.

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USGS

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A student doing an experiment in the rock physics lab.

A trench dug across a fault to learn about past earthquakes.

A GPS instrument measures slow movements of the ground.

A scientist stands in front of a fault scarp in southern California.

Damage to badly-constructed buildings after an earthquake.

Scientists doing field work and looking at their notes.

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USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

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Explore, have fun and learn some science along the way!

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Find a good topic, form a hypothesis, control groups, and more.

What is a mineral? How to identify common minerals.

What is a rock? Igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic, plus the rock cycle.

Types of microscopes. Making wet and dry mounts. Explore microscopic life.

Producers, Consumers, Decomposers and more.

Try some questions, to see how much you know about science.

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Cool Math Games - Free Online Games for Learning and Fun

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Coolmath Games is a brain-training site for everyone, where logic & thinking & math meets fun & games. These games have no violence, no empty action, just a lot of challenges that will make you forget you're getting a mental workout!

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Learn to program droids, and create your own Star Wars game in a galaxy far, far away.

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Some digital games that really make you think!

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In the event that your school is closed for an extended period of time as a result of recent events, we've put together a collection of digital games that students can play at home. Students can click on any game and start playing!

If you are a parent or teacher, you can learn how to share these or any digital game on the Breakout EDU Platform by clicking here.

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Short videos and activities across content areas for kids in Grades 3-6

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BrainPOP - Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology

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Short videos and activities across content areas for kids in Grades K-2

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STEAM Padlet by Teacher/Librarian Tammi Truax

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STEAM Padlet by Teacher/Librarian Tammi Truax

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One picture, one teaching resource, every day.  "If the image itself doesn’t spark a thousand ideas, simply scroll down and use the activities we provide."

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Access a free inspiring image, story starter and short burst writing activities, every day! Inspire your most reluctant writers and improve writing stamina

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Science podcasts and neat stuff for kids!

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Science podcasts for kids..

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Brains On Universe is an independent media company for kids and curious adults. We make podcasts, books, videos and more. Our goal is to fill the world with stuff that is smart and funny, silly and serious, all at once -- just like the people in our audience.

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Sing along w/ Emily and her ukulele "Bow" M-F @ 1pm... best for young kiddos.

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National Junior Park Ranger Badges Online

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National Junior Park Ranger Badges Online

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It's been four years since the kids first discovered the Junior Ranger program at Badlands National Park, and thus began their obsession. I'm never one to let an educational experience go, so since that first thrilling day, I have deliberately organized ALL of our US vacations to include as many Junior Ranger programs as possible, and I've included all of the Junior Ranger programs that it's possible to earn by mail into our homeschool plans.

"How did you figure out where all of the Junior Ranger programs are?" you ask.

Friends, I made a giant freaking map:

Yes, that is EVERY SINGLE NATIONAL PARK SITE WITH A JUNIOR RANGER PROGRAM. I put them all in by hand. I went to every single national park's website, searched for its Junior Ranger program, and if it had one I put it on my map.

When I plan road trips, I check my map for all the nation park sites with Junior Ranger programs that we could detour to, and then we detour to them. During our upcoming road trip, for instance, we're visiting Saint Croix Island and Acadia National Park, primarily for their Junior Ranger programs.

But the kids' enthusiasm for earning Junior Ranger badges is unceasing, and yet we cannot spend our entire year traveling to various national parks. If only!

So I went back through every one of those websites, and I noted every park that permits children to earn their Junior Ranger badge by mail. Most of these parks provide the badge book as a downloadable pdf for kids to complete using internet or book research (often the park's own website, but we've also found useful park videos on YouTube). They mail their completed badge books to the park, and in return, the park rangers mail them back their badges and certificates.

It's always, eternally thrilling.

The kids have been doing this for years now, and still have tons of Junior Ranger badges left to earn by mail. They've learned geography, history, and several sciences in the process, experienced the breadth and depth of the national experience in ways they haven't had the opportunity to do in person, and have an intense appreciation for the variety of cultural, historical, and geographic artifacts and monuments that must be explored, preserved, and protected.

Not every national park, or even most national parks, allow their Junior Ranger badges to be earned by mail, mind you. You'll know if one does, because it will say so on its website or on the book, and it will have the book available as a downloadable pdf and include a mailing address for the completed book to be sent to. Many parks will state, kind of pissily in my opinion, that they do NOT allow badges to be earned by mail, and that's their right, but I think everyone loses when they do that--why stifle a kid's desire to learn? Why refuse an opportunity to grow someone's knowledge and love of your national park?

Before you get your kid all revved up on earning these badges by mail, you should know that since you've got to mail the completed badge books to each park, you'll be paying a few bucks for postage and manila envelopes each time. If you're conserving resources, check out the online badges that I've noted in my list--those let kids either do or submit their work online, so you don't have to pay for either supplies or postage.

Fortunately, MANY national parks are happy to have more kids interested in them and working to learn more about them! Here are all the national park Junior Ranger badges that you can earn by mail:

Jimmy Carter National Historic Site (Georgia). This is another badge that had a profound effect on Will. She was unexpectedly moved by the story of Jimmy Carter, and now longs to meet him.

This is one of my absolute favorite activities that we do in our homeschool, but it's partly so wonderful because it's so adaptable. Sure, it can be your entire geography curriculum, or just an enrichment to another spine. You can include it in your history studies, or in the natural or earth sciences. Even if you don't homeschool, these Junior Ranger books are so fun that kids can simply DO them for fun. My kids do, and they think it's a nifty trick that I also let them count them for school!

If your kids love earning Junior Ranger badges, then they'd likely be interested in learning about the national park system as a whole--there's so much to explore there, from history and culture to geology and the sciences. Here are some of our favorite resources for learning about and exploring the national park system:

P.S. Want more obsessively-compiled lists of resources and activities for kiddos and the people who want to keep them happy and engaged? Check out my Craft Knife Facebook page!

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Here's Every National Park Junior Ranger Badge You Can Earn By Mail

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It's been four years since the kids first discovered the Junior Ranger program at Badlands National Park, and thus began their obsession. I'm never one to let an educational experience go, so since that first thrilling day, I have deliberately organized ALL of our US vacations to include as many Junior Ranger programs as possible, and I've included all of the Junior Ranger programs that it's possible to earn by mail into our homeschool plans.