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Improve and develop your typing skills with Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with typers from around the world. Compete against your friends, earn new cars, track your scores, and so much more.
Clockwords is a hectic word game set in Victorian London. You are a genius inventor who discovers plans for a mysterious machine that runs on the power of language. Then your lab is infiltrated by mechanical insects that have come to steal your secrets!Mix of a word game with speed, strategy, and steam-powered bugs! Use your vocabulary to defend your laboratory.
Listen And Write is a language dictation tool to help improve your listening skills by using news articles.
Typing Skills
Language Assistance
Need help conjugating a spanish verb? Conjugating can be tricky! Check out 1, 2, 3, Teach Me's Spanish Conjugation tool for help.
Qué Onda ® is the award-winning app that makes learning Spanish simple and fun! Quickly learn essential vocabulary, phrases, and grammar concepts.
Chinese Mandarin resources for children to learn words, phrases, symbols and sounds and familiarise themselves with the culture.
This site was created to help kids learn Chinese Mandarin. You can also learn about Chinese culture, foods, history, people, listen to Chinese music, and more!
Latin learning resources gathered and presented by the United Kingdom's National Archives. lLessons and documents cover the type of Latin used in official documents written in England between 1086 and 1733. This can be quite different from classical Latin, as used by the Ancient Romans.
Type in the form of the word that you would expect to find in a dictionary or a truncated form of the word (e.g., stem only). If you want help with the ending of a word, type the ending in the space provided. (If you prefer, you may leave this space blank). To see all the words in the dictionary that begin with "q", search for "q" as the stem. You can also translate English to Latin.This dictionary defines about 15,600 words.
The News
Youngzine is an online News Magazine for school age children. It provides an educational, entertaining, yet safe way for kids (and adults) to get the latest newsit is a community of children, parents and teachers who recognize the importance of living in this highly interconnected age where our actions have far reaching impact.
Brought to you by the Society for Science, science news and feature stories covering all fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
TIME FOR KIDS is a news magazine geared toward students in grades K-6.
The leading source for current events, news and non-fictional content for Common Core ELA, Science and Social Studies. With thousands of news articles and new original content added daily, we are the leading online source of current events for students, teachers and schools.
Science Math & Tech.
Play games, watch videos, learn about animals, and places, and get fun facts on theNational Geographic Kids website.
KIDSTHINKDESIGN.ORG is a website that promotes design thinking and provides a showcase for kids' original projects.
Learn about real women scientists, follow the Time Travel Timeline, or play games based off of things that other scientists have wondered. Have a question? Ask it, and it may get answered by a real scientist! Presented by the National Academy of Sciences.
Features ways to look at our sun and earth, solar system and the universe beyond. Filled with great games, media, crafts and activities.
Interested in knowing more about: Arts; Astronomy & Space Exploration; Chemistry; Color; Earth, Ocean, & Atmosphere; Electricity and Magnetism; Engineering and Tinkering; Geology; Light & Seeing; Mathematics; Motion & Matter; Sport Science, waves and resonance or any other amazing topic within science technology engineering arts and math? This is the site for you.
Smart educational animations, games, and interacive tools that help mid-school learners better understand math concepts. Try a snack!
Welcome to Sparticl - the best science on the web! web and mobile service for teens, a collection of the very best the web has to offer in science, technology, engineering, and math or STEM. Sparticl includes answers to science questions, images, videos, games, and hands-on activities, all curated by a team of experts.
Get the Math is about algebra in the real world. See how professionals use math in music, fashion, videogames, restaurants, basketball, and special effects. Then take on interactive challenges related to those careers.
Literature and the Arts
I have been sent to. Earth on a mission to. explore modern art. So, I'm going to The Museum of. Modern Art in New York City! Later, I'll go to P.S.1. Contemporary Art Center.
Explore the tools visual artists use - like line, color, and balance - to create visual art.
Be creative and help people with engineering at DESIGN SQUAD. Watch videos, play games, try activities, and design inventions to share with the community.
From the Metropolitain Museum of Art- Discover fun facts about works of art—from dragons to dancers, and from mummies to masks and more! Watch behind-the-scenes videos that feature kids just like you, Try out creative projects for at home or in the galleries, and Stay up-to-date with our #MetKids blog!
Contains many short plays and skits for young people to put on.
Shakespeare is for children of all ages! Activities, materials, and games for kids about Shakespeare, his plays, his life, and his times.
A place where children can engage and participate with the built environment. Offer various building projects and information about architecture.
The National Building Museum is America’s leading cultural institution devoted to the history and impact of the built environment. We do this by telling the stories of architecture, engineering, and design.
See Brave Producer Katherine Sarafian discusses creating Pixar's first period film and the research trips her team took to Scotland, which greatly informed the story and look of the movie, or Jay Schuster, character designer for WALL•E and character art director for Cars 2 discusses the unique challenge of designing a tractor for Cars and looking deep into the eyes of a cow. Pixar's Behing the Scenes can give you great insights into what it takes to make the computer animated movies we love.
Environment
Garbology is the study of what we do with our waste. All the things we throw away each day—where do they end up? Many of us know that we can reuse, recycle, and compost to help keep waste out of landfills, but how do you know what goes where? Why is it important to reduce the waste we put in landfills? All of this and more is Garbology.
Like all great endeavors, gardening is both a science and an art. See how the plants we tend feed our bodies, our minds, and our senses.
Field Trip Earth is the global resource for teachers, students, and proponents of wildlife conservation.
General Interest
Education resources and information, lesson plans, field trips, and interactive activities based on Smithsonian museum collections and research.
Play games that involve Scince, Math, Reading Spanish and more with characters such as Curious George and Elmo!
The Smithsonian asks and answers questions about science, art, history and culture, exciting the learning in everyone, every day.
Hardwood and Softwood? We wish you WOOD join us today in Wonderopolis for a walk through the forest!
The quickest, most intelligent way to improve vocabulary.
Vocabulary.com combines the world's smartest dictionary with an adaptive learning game that will have you mastering new words in no time.
Book Recommendations
Goodreads is the world’s largest site for readers and book recommendations. Find and share books you love based off of your reading preferences.
LibraryThing connects people with the same books, comes up with suggestions for what to read next, and so forth.
Features information about children's literature including book reviews, reading lists and author interviews. Kids can learn about new titles, participate in contests, and more!
The largest website for book reviews by-and-for kids. It is where kids discover, review and share their thoughts about books. All reviews are moderated.
A site dedicated to Graphic Novel book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews and more!
A site dedicated to YA book lovers providing a forum to discover and share commentary about the books and authors they enjoy. Author interviews, book reviews, and more!
LitPick Student Book Reviews (the sister site of Flamingnet Student Book Reviews) is a worldwide network of preteen and teen book reviewers offering book reviews written by students on preteen and teen books.
History & Biographies
Every life has a story. Biography.com captures the most gripping, surprising and fascinating stories, with over 7,000 biographies and daily features that highlight newsworthy, compelling and surprising points-of-view, we are the digital source for true stories about people that matter.
From the Roman invasion of Britain to Victorian children in coal mines visit Primary History and find out more about Ancient Greeks, Anglo-Saxons, Romans, and more!
Kids.gov is the official kids' portal for the U.S. government. We link kids, parents and teachers to information and services on the web from government agencies, schools, and educational organizations, all geared to the learning level and interest of kids.
TimeMaps' FREE interactive World History Atlas is the most comprehensive history atlas on the internet. Inside you will find over 1,500 maps, well-written historical overviews, depth-articles, images and much more.
Information on recent and historical government documents. The “Document of the Day” is updated daily. Documents can be viewed close up and printed. Also includes a variety of online exhibits and access to archival databases.
Search millions of items in many formats and languages. Explore a growing treasury of digitized materials. Consult with staff online or in one of the research centers to find what you're looking for.
