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Cool Content & Activities from our partner DiscoverE - View and download free materials from our educational partner DiscoverE

Fossil Fuels to Products - Students learn about exploration, production, refining, chemical manufacturing, transportation, marketing, and uses of petroleum, natural gas, and their products in the industrial sector, with background information and hands-on activities.

Smithsonian Institute  - The Smithsonian Science Education Center has developed the following STEM resources to support “Distance Learning” needs for students in grades K-8. We designed this site for everyone—students, teachers, and caregivers. It includes standards-aligned educational games, simulations, videos, eBooks, and hands-on lessons that require simple materials found at home.

Children at Risk - Daily updates on COVID-19, education and health and wellness programming for parents and families.  Information is also available in Spanish.

Commonsense Media provides a number of resources for parents, educators, and advocates including media ratings and reviews so children can thrive in a digital world.  Programing is also available in Spanish.

DiscoveryE - Provides strategies and support with unique features like “Ask Me Anything” office hours, virtual field trips, and daily home lessons by age group. 

Khan Academy - K-12 - Standards-aligned practice and lessons covers math K-12 through early college, grammar, science, history, AP®, SAT®, and more. It’s all free for learners and teachers.

Brain POP™ - K-12 - Educational animated movies for K-12 created to help explain concepts and to demystify math, science, health, technology, and English topics in an entertaining way for both children and adults.

Bamboo Learning - K-12 - This free Alexa platform provides an education-focused game that showcases notable but less-known historical figures. By saying to your device “Alexa, Luminary of the Day” you activate a search through Bamboo video database of influential people from diverse fields. Kids can enjoy Bamboo video books, math lessons, and music. To get started, just say “Alexa, open Bamboo Luminaries.”

Bedtime Math - PreK - Grade 5 Bedtime Math’s mission is to introduce math as a fun part of children’s daily routine, as common and beloved as the bedtime story. Bedtime Math provides free apps, books and printable activity pages. The platform is targeted toward children age 2 through elementary school.

CSTEMbreak - PreK-12 - CSTEMbreak is a free social network, ecosystem, that supports engagement and connectivity to STEM learning and opportunities. There are downloadable supplemental activities that can be done anywhere and tool-kits are available and can be mailed to support the activities.

CS First - PreK-12 - A free computer science curriculum that makes coding easy to teach and fun to learn.