RGV Homeschooling Connections
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Helpful Websites & Links for Homeschoolers
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Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments.
Online Learning - Supplemental
Infoplease is a reference and learning site, combining the contents of an encyclopedia, a dictionary, an atlas and several almanacs loaded with statistics, facts, and historical records. Our editors regularly update and refine this enormous body of information?as well as adding new discoveries and identifying trends?to bring you reliable and authoritative information. The content is written and edited by professional editors, and the site has received numerous awards and accolades since launch. Parents, teachers and librarians turn to Infoplease for information on an array of topics, including current events, pop culture, science, government and history. They can also confidently point students and children to our COPPA and kidSAFE-certified sister site, Fact Monster, assured that it's a safe place for kids to explore.FREE
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Lessons teach coding, of course, but they also touch on important topics such as online privacy & digital citizenship. Engaging videos and fun games & activities enable students to learn at their own pace and stay challenged.
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Tons of free activities for each subject and level, designed with flexibility, so it can be tailored to your child's unique interests and needs. They can follow it step-by-step, jump around out of order, or dive deep into favorite areas.
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Whether you want to develop as a professional or discover a new hobby, there's an online course for that. You can even take your learning further with online microcredentials and degrees.
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Fact Monster combines essential reference materials, fun facts and features, and homework help for kids. From the solar system to the world economy to educational games, Fact Monster has the info kids are seeking. Our site is COPPA and kidSAFE-certified, so you can rest assured it's a safe place for kids to explore.
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Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. We tackle math, science, computing, history, art history, economics, and more, including K-14 and test preparation (SAT, Praxis, LSAT) content. We focus on skill mastery to help learners establish strong foundations, so there's no limit to what they can learn next!
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The Original Online Geography Resource.
WorldAtlas was launched all the way back in 1994 (back when there were only about 2700 websites on the internet) as the passion project of cartographer John Moen and his wife Chris Woolwine-Moen. Today, WorldAtlas is one of the largest publishing resources in geography and other topics it covers, including sociology, demography, environment, economics, politics, and travel. In 2019 alone, WorldAtlas has served over 165 million readers from around the world.
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The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, environment, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
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Maps that Teach take advantage of the fact that geography is spatial. They also utilize the way kids learn best, by actively participating in their learning; learning by doing. As students assemble the maps, they build a permanent mental picture of their world. From Maps that Teach, a student will learn about the continents and where they are in relation to each other; the countries of the world, their capitals and major cultural landmarks, physical features; what is far and what is near. For the United States, students will learn the states, their capitals, major physical features, and important historic routes that established connections between parts of the country.
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Awesome Library organizes the Web with 37,000 carefully reviewed resources.
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Providing Free Ideas For Preschool Teachers Since 1998. For twenty years, The Perpetual Preschool has provided teachers and parents with over 50,000 free daily preschool themes, curriculum, preschool lesson plans, and online workshops to further early childhood education.
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This is an on-going list of sites that offer information for and about kids. Among other things, it includes a lot of stuff for them to play with, information for adults, and info about schools and education. The goal of this page is to collect, in one place, a body of information that people can use either to let kids play with stuff on the Internet, or to find the things they need for their work related to the care and education of children.
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National Geographic is where education meets exploration. We are transforming the learning experience for young people and the educators who reach them with the tools, resources, and support they need to feed their curiosity and become the explorers of tomorrow. Through immersive experiences, interactive lesson plans, maps, and other free resources – there are endless ways to learn with National Geographic.
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Our site might not be Hogwarts, but we think that learning is pretty magical, and once you click around here a bit, we hope you'll start to agree with us. Come on in and explore!
So what sort of content will you find here? Think science, math, geography, music... We've got a pretty great variety and we hope you will agree!
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RoomRecess.com is dedicated to providing children with free learning games that are fun. Our online games reinforce important skills that are vital to elementary students and their educational process. RoomRecess.com was developed entirely by an elementary school teacher with the goal of reinforcing fundamental learning concepts in math, reading, spelling, language arts, typing, and problem solving. Because our learning games are free, students do not have to sign up or hold an account with us. Children can simply load up an activity and have fun learning online while they play!
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Links to free resources for homeschooling high schoolers and other learners. Because we want to share what we've found with others.
