Computers for Girls
On this page you will find links to resources that are on the Internet. Other good information can be found on this computer and does not need an Internet connection.
Potential & Growth
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Catapult is a "crowd sourcing" web site where women can seek financial support for projects in their communities. Funds come from individuals and groups who want to support your work. You can access Catapult here. Audience: 14-18 years old |
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Global network of teachers and youth use the Internet to collaborate on projects to enhance learning and make a difference in the world on iEarn. You can access the iEarn training here. Audience: 5-18 years old |
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WorldPulse is an action media network powered by women from 190 countries. Through programs (online communities, magazine and online campaigns), WorldPulse seeks to lift and unite women's's voices to accelerate their impact for the world. Click here to enter the site. Audience: older teens and adults |
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UNGEI is the UN Girls Education Initiative. They provide many good sources of information for teachers and administrators on developing programs for girls' educations, which you can access here. Audience: 14-18 years old |
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Vital Voices highlights the women who have overcome obstacles to make a difference in the world. Hear and watch their stories. Audience: 14-18 years old |
Science, Technology, Engineering & Math
Science
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Web Adventures links to six interactive adventures in science where you will help solve a problem. They are:
Virtual Clinical Trials Audience: 12-18 years old |
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The National Geographic Kids' site has many resources on different kinds of animals and their environments. Audience: 5-13 years old |
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The Museum of Science + Industry Chicago has a series of games, apps, videos, and activities that teach science in an interactive, easily accessible way. Topics range from biology to chemistry and physics. Audience: 8-15 years old |
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Sheppard Software's Science learning activites contain over 12 games to help students learn about chemistry, the periodic table, deep sea science, and animals. In addition to quizzes and games, students can dive deeper by reading the many illustrated articles! Audience: 5-11 years old |
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The Center for Education Technology's Exploring the Environment module is a problem-based learning approach to studying climate change and weather. Students will use data from NASA and various climate science data sets to study different aspects of global warming Audience: 8-11 years old |
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Weather Wiz Kids is a website made just for kids so that they can explore the fascinating world of weather. It has explanations of many different weather phenomena, and a large variety of games, jokes, and quizzes about weather! Audience: 7-11 years old |
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The UK Power Network's Power Up site gives children 11 and under information about how electricity works, where it comes from, and, most importantly, how to stay safe. There are fun, interactive games where kids can build their own circuits, trace how electricity travels to homes, and take quizzes to test their knowledge. Audience: 5-11 years old |
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Purpose Games's Skeletal System Game is a timed activity that challenges students to name all of the bones in the human body! Audience: 7-13 years old |
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The BBC Science Bites site has fun, short science activities for students to learn about health, electricity, solids, and liquids. Each unit contains an interactive experiment and a quiz. Audience: 4-11 years old |
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The University of Illinois's Food Fun: From Apples to Zucchini site contains resources to help students learn about nutrition. This program is interdisciplinary and is designed to introduce students to produce they may not be familiar with by talking a little bit about fun facts and nutritional information. The website will also help to enhance students' math, reading, writing, and creative arts skills. Audience: 6-11 years old |
Technology
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Code.org provides tools to help students learn computer coding. A good collection of tools can be found here. Audience: 8-18 years old |
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Codecademy offers free online course on HTML/CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Python, Ruby, PHP, and various APIs Audience: 14-18 years old |
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GCF Learn Free hosts a nice colllection of online learning tools in mostly technology and math. Audience: 8-18 years old |
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Rails Girls aim to give tools and a community to women to understand technology and to build their ideas. They offer workshops and tools to download to learn programming in Ruby on Rails. Audience: 14-18 years old |
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Computer Science (CS) Is Fun offers a large variety of online actitivities that teach programming to students. All activities are grouped by age. Audience: 6-18 years old |
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CoderDojo is an international group of coding clubs for youth. Audience: 14-18 years old |
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CyberSmart Kids gives many resources and tools to help students stay safe on the Internet. It talks about being aware of your digital footprint, and accessing resources to help with cyberbullying. Audience: 8-16 years old |
Engineering
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PBS Kids has many engineering games that allow students to solve mysteries with Curious George, build robots, and create their own engineering challenges to solve. Audience: 6-12 years old |
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Science Kids has an Engineering for Kids site that contains many different resources for students to learn about the various concepts of engineering. There are fun project ideas, quizzes, experiments, and videos to engage kids. Audience: 8-16 years old |
Math
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Kidport has many offers lots of "think-and-learn" math activities for grades K-8. There are also links to information from other subjects, such as English, history, and science. Audience: 5-13 years old |
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Founded in 1998, APlusMath has been providing interactive math activities to help students improve their math skills. Aplusmath.com has become one of the top math web sites in the world and contains many useful resources for parents, teachers and students. Audience: 5-13 years old |
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Multiplication.com contains many fun games, learning modules, and quizzes to help students learn multiplication skills! Audience: 5-10 years old |
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IXL has a list of key math skills that students should learn in different grades. For each concept, they provide practice questions that become harder as you correctly answer them. Audience: 5-18 years old |
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ABCya contains a wide variety of activities, lessons, and games for students to learn about many different concepts n math and language arts. The concepts are separated by grade level, and cover grades K-5. Audience: 5-11 years old |
Health
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Hesperian has written a number of helpful books that guide people who may not have easy access to doctors and other medical advice. To get the latest versions of these books, click here Audience: 14-18 years old |
