Middle School: Recommended Websites

GENERAL RESEARCH 

• American Museum of Natural History
• BBC Bitesize
• DK FIND OUT
• Ducksters
• Exploratorium Magazine: The Body
• 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 

NEWS & CURRENT EVENTS

THE ARTS

• Art Project Google
• British Library Archival Sound Recordings
• Art Instute Chicago 
• Free Music Archive
• DigCCMixter (music)
• Guggenheim Art Books

CODING 

KID-FRIENDLY SEARCH ENGINES

READING ONLINE

CREATIVITY

• Haiku Deck
• Canva

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!

• Art Institue Chicago millions CC0 images
• Compfight
• Wikimedia
• NOUN project Clipart for info graphics
• Pexels
• Pixabay
• Photos for Class
• NASA library
• Creative Commons
• Sound Clips
• Unsplash
• Gratisgraphy
• Free Clip Art Library
• Negative Space
• Pics4Learning
• Simple CC images by Flicker with Citation
• Smithsonian Open Access images and 3D models

LEARNING LANGUAGES 

SCIENCE

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