- CoBuildAtHome - a wealth of online maker activities, a Facebook group, and suggestions from luminaries in the maker world - appropriate for all ages.
- Community Science Workshop Network - engaging and not technologically complicated; has low-cost projects using inexpensive or recycled materials.
- Science Friday – This site’s maker challenge has everything from “The Many Uses of Mucus” to “Fossilize Me” – upper elementary and older.
- San Francisco Exploratorium - this amazing museum's site investigates everything from skateboarding engineering to using Orea cookies to explore plate tectonics - upper elementary and older.
- MakerEd – A compilation of projects and learning approaches designed for educators and parents.
- MakeCode – This Microsoft program has physical and virtual coding and app development – upper elementary through middle school.
- 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.
- 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.
- Blockscad – A simple block coding program to make 3-D objects and teach math concepts – middle school and older.
- Google Experiments – An archive of experiments that require little or no equipment, entertaining and with firm curriculum foundations – middle school and older.
“On-Screen and Hands-On” by Idamae Craddock in School Library Journal, October 2020 (Vol. 66, #10, p. 17)
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