Educational Websites for Families

Amazing Kids Magazine EPA Environmental Kids Club Ocean Portal mag.amazing-kids.org www.epa.gov/students www.ocean.si.edu A kid-created online magazine Learn about pollution, global warming, Discover the sea through a fun-filled blog, dedicated to helping kids realize and recycling at this site from the media gallery video, and current museum their amazing potential. Environmental Protection Agency. happenings.

AppInventor Helping Your Child Series SciGirl www.appinventor.org www2.ed.gov/parents/academic/help/hyc.html www.pbskids.org/scigirls This site helps beginners program Provides parents with tools and A great site for girls interested in . mobile apps for android by offering information to help their children SciGirls includes games, project ideas, tutorials and an on-line book. succeed in school and life. videos and more.

Between the Lions Kids Reads Starfall www.pbskids.org/lions www.kidsreads.com www.starfall.com Based on the the award-winning television Offers reviews of the best new books A great site for early readers that offers program; this site combines fun games, & authors for kids. reading games and tools. songs, and stories for early readers. Money as You Grow for Kids Building Big www.moneyasyougrow.org www.timeforkids.com www.pbs.org/wgbh/buildingbig/index.html Learn important lessons about finanical This site offers news articles, games, polls, Explore the history behind the worlds responsibilty for all ages. and a homework help section. greatest feats of engineering and the learn about the architects who designed them. Mocomi Volunteer Match www.mocomi.com www.volunteermatch.org CIA for Kids-Games This website is packed with A safe and secure site where teens can find https://www.cia.gov/kids-page educational content, interactive stories, volunteer opportunities. Kids can find out what the CIA is all about, and fun activities. by playing games and solving puzzles. Wildlife Filmmaker NASA Kids Club www.animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals Discovery Education www.nasa.gov/audience/forkids/home From National Geographic, this site allows www.discoveryeducation.com/parents Junior astronauts will have a blast kids to make animal movies using short Free family resources that provide exploring this fun and exciting website. clips of a wide variety of animals. high quality, relevant material for parents and children.

National Geographic Kids Elementary Level Middle School Level kids.nationalgeographic.com High School Level DOGOnews Kids can read the newest edition of this www.dogonews.com magazine on-line, check out the contests, Kids can catch up on current events with polls, games and even virtual adventures. Parent news stories written just for children. Engagement Program

The listed resources are not endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education but offered as possible tools for Title I schools and school districts to utilize with families. Educational Apps for Families

Bill Nye the Science Guy Marble Math Lite: Multiplication Sushi Monster An interactive, multifaceted science This app combines the fun of a An entertaining and stimulating app that will get kids excited about maze game with the challenge of math app from Scholastic that science. Available for iPhone, iPad practicing multiplication skills. provides clever and challenging Touch, and iPad. Available for iPad. addition and multiplication practice. Available for iPad. Blue Tales Monster Physics Lite Offers an educational approach Colorful graphics and fun missions SwipeSpeare to the past with read along stories make this app engaging, as kids This app puts Shakespeare plays that include brightly colored explore principles of physics. into plain and simple English. It and attractive characters children love. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. also has engaging features such Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, as a searchable Shakespeare Dictionary, and Androd. a biography, study guides and lesson

NASA App plans. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Official NASA app, jam-packed Androd, and Apps for Windows. BrainPOP Featured Movie with information on the U.S. space Each day, there is a new animated program and astronomy. Available documentary spanning everything for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Androd. VideoScience from planet Mars to Mexican artist A growing library of over 80 hands- Frida Kahlo. Available for iPhone, iPod on Science lessons that demonstrate Touch, iPad, Androd, and Apps for Windows. News-O-Matic easy to recreate experiments This kid-friendly current events designed to inspire and excite kids of all app boils down the daily news into ages. Available for iPad. Duolingo simple articles that are appropriate PC Magazine awarded this app for kids. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, the Editors’ Choice for Language and iPad. Weird but True Learning. Available for iPhone, iPod This app, by the National Touch, iPad, and Androd. Geographic Society, teaches kids Parent Toolkit about all their favorite subjects — This app helps parents to animals, weather, space, history, and more. navigate their child’s growth Google Earth Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Allows kids to explore the globe and development from pre- with a touch of a finger.Available for kindergarten through 12th grade in the iPhone, iPad Touch, and iPad. classroom and beyond. Text TOOLKIT to WWF Together 33733 to get the app on your mobile device! The app offers information on tons of species, including elephants, iTunes U whales, and kids can learn how far This app offers access to free Read Me Stories they live from their favorite animals, play With this app, a new eBook for educational content from top with on-screen origami animals, or try out kids is added every day. Each schools and prominent libraries “tiger vision.” Available for iPhone, iPod word is highlighted as the voice around the world. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. Touch, and iPad. tells the story so that kids can along. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, and Androd. Kapitall Elementary Level Middle School Level Teaches students about the stock High School Level market by allowing them to practice SAT Word Slam Free trading with a $100k virtual This app helps build SAT Parent portfolio. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, vocabulary by providing helpful and iPad. pneumonic hints in the form Engagement of rhymes, audio, and signature Program “Remember This” clues. Available for iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. The listed resources are not endorsed by the Georgia Department of Education but offered as possible tools for Title I schools and school districts to utilize with families.