Middle School: Recommended Websites

GENERAL RESEARCH 

• American Museum of Natural History
• BBC Bitesize
• Ducksters
• Researching in German
• How Stuff Works
• KHAN Academy
• National Geographic Kids
• The Kids Should See This – Smart videos for curious minds
• Wonderopolis

DICTIONARIES & THESAURUSES 

INDIVIDUALS & SOCIETY 

SCIENCE

• BBC Terrific Science
• How Stuff Works
• NASA
• NASA Kids Club
• NASA library of images and videos
• New Scientist 
• Scientific American 
• Wow in the World (Podcast)

THE ARTS

• Google Arts & Culture
• British Library Archival Sound Recordings
• Art Institute Chicago 
• Guggenheim Art Books

CODING 

• Code.org
• Scratch

KID-FRIENDLY SEARCH ENGINES

• Junior Safe Search
• Kids Search
• Kid Rex
• Kiddle (Visual Search Engine)

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

CREATIVITY

• Canva
• Sound Clips
• Free Music Archive
• Literacy Shed (Writing prompts)
• DigCCMixter (music)

IMAGES

Here are some websites where you can find Creative Commons images labelled for "reuse." Don't forget that CC images still need to be cited in Noodletools!

• Pixabay
• Art Institue Chicago millions CC0 images
• Wikimedia
• NOUN project clipart for info graphics
• Pexels
• Photos for Class
• Creative Commons
• Unsplash
• Pics4Learning
• Simple CC images by Flicker with Citation
• Smithsonian Open Access images and 3D models

Don't forget you have access to images in Britannica, Gale Elementary, Gale Middle School & Worldbook!

LEARNING LANGUAGES