Humanities

  • Link: BBC History For Kids


    Age Group: Elementary & Middle School


    Description: Explore a wide selection of historical games and activities in history topics


    Strengths: Educational & Engaging


    Weaknesses: Limited Scope

  • Link: BBC Learning English


    Age Group: All ages


    Description: Provides resources for learning English, including grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation, and test preparation


    Strengths: Interactive & Resource-rich


    Weaknesses: English-centric

  • Link: Digital Civic Tool Kit


    Age Group: High School


    Description: A collection of resources for educators to help high school youth explore a range of civic opportunities and dilemmas with modules focused on Exploring Community Issues, Investigation, Dialogue, Voice, and Action


    Strengths: Innovative & Practical


    Weaknesses: Complexity for beginners

  • Link: Ducksters


    Age Group: Elementary & Middle School


    Description: Provides fun and educational content in history and science


    Strengths: User-friendly & engaging content for children


    Weaknesses: Limited depth of topics

  • Link: History Classroom


    Age Group: Middle & High School


    Description: Series of history videos feature fascinating historical facts. They are updated weekly and feature interactive activities as follow-up lessons


    Strengths: Comprehensive Content & Multimedia Learning


    Weaknesses: Navigation Complexity & Limited Interactivity

  • Link: Fun Brain


    Age Group: Elementary & Middle School


    Description: Funbrain offers hundreds of games, books, comics, and videos that develop skills in math, reading, problem-solving, and literacy


    Strengths: Games & Learning Variety


    Weaknesses: Ad Distractions & Complex Navigation

  • Link: Grammarly


    Age Group: All ages


    Description: Advanced spelling and grammar checker with browser plugins


    Strengths: Writing Improvement & Real-time Feedback


    Weaknesses: Premium Features

  • Link: National Geographic


    Age Group: Elementary, Middle, & High School


    Description: Videos and articles in science, history, and geography


    Strengths: High-quality Content & Credibility


    Weaknesses: Paywalled Articles

  • Link: National Geographic Kids


    Age Group: Elementary & Middle School


    Description: Online games, science activities, quizzes, funny fill-ins, videos about amazing animals and fun facts, free resources about space, history, science, U.S. states, and so much more


    Strengths: Kid-friendly & Educational


    Weaknesses: Simplistic Content

  • Link: OER Project


    Age Group: High School


    Description: A free introductory history course that establishes an interdisciplinary foundation of historical thinking practices, and a free standards-based world history course that builds upon those foundational skills in preparation for AP, college, and beyond


    Strengths: Resources & Collaborative


    Weaknesses: Requires Guidance

  • Link: Online Thesaurus


    Age Group: All ages


    Description: Dictionary


    Strengths: Vocabulary Enhancement & Easy-to-Use


    Weaknesses: Lacks Context Usage

  • Link: Project Gutenberg


    Age Group: All ages


    Description: Offers tens of thousands of free ebooks


    Strengths: Ebooks & Extensive Library


    Weaknesses: Outdated Interface

  • Link: Quill


    Age Group: Elementary, Middle, & High School


    Description: Provides free literacy activities that build reading comprehension, writing, and language skills


    Strengths: Interactive Lessons


    Weaknesses: Limited Free Content

  • Link: Sheppard Software


    Age Group: Middle School


    Description: Offers hundreds of free learning games in subjects including Geography, Math, Science, & Language Arts


    Strengths: Variety of Games & Educational


    Weaknesses: Outdated Design

  • Link: Starfall


    Age Group: Elementary School


    Description: Offers free math games and language arts games for kids


    Strengths: Early Learning & Phonics Focus


    Weaknesses: Basic Interface

  • Link: The Smithsonian Institute


    Age Group: Elementary, Middle, & High School


    Description: Built-in content library of interactive games and academically enriching content that can be used for class lessons


    Strengths: Cultural Wealth & Diverse Resources


    Weaknesses: Overwhelming Content

  • Link: TIME for Kids


    Age Group: Elementary & Middle School


    Description: Articles, photos, and videos covering various topics in a kid-friendly way


    Strengths: Current Events & Kid-Friendly


    Weaknesses: Limited Depth