Online Resources
- Rio Parent Resources – A website built by Rio Teachers with resources by grade level and by subject. This site also contains worksheets and other downloadable materials.
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CoBuildAtHome – A wealth of online maker activities, a Facebook group, and suggestions from luminaries in the maker world – appropriate for all ages.
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Community Science Workshop Network – Engaging and not technologically complicated; has low-cost projects using inexpensive or recycled materials.
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San Francisco Exploratorium – This amazing museum’s site investigates everything from skateboarding engineering to using Oreo cookies to explore plate tectonics – upper elementary and older.
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Science Friday – This site’s maker challenge has everything from “The Many Uses of Mucus” to “Fossilize Me” – upper elementary and older.
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MakerEd – A compilation of projects and learning approaches designed for educators and parents.
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MakeCode – This Microsoft program has physical and virtual coding and app development – upper elementary through middle school.
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Scratch – An archive of hundreds of math and visual arts activities with examples and stories to help build classroom community and support curriculum content – elementary through middle school.
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Algodoo – This free download allows students to create, alter, and run engineering simulations, changing gravity, adding gears, planes, ropes, and wheels to see how they will interact – middle school and older.
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Blockscad – A simple block coding program to make 3-D objects and teach math concepts – middle school and older.
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Google Experiments – An archive of experiments that require little or no equipment, entertaining and with firm curriculum foundations – middle school and older.
- Online Writing Prompts – The 826LA website has numerous suggestions to get students writing, organized by grades 1-5 and 6-12.