Mission to Marsville

Mission to Marsville is a online summer program offered by the innovative Game Based Learning/LMS company, NEXED.  They are the company that developed Answerables, and are combing their virtual environment into a summer learning program to help kids prevent summer learning loss.

This is all done in their safe 3D virtual environment for grades 3rd-8th in the subjects of Math, Science, and Language.  The program will go from July through Aug, and students will have access to: daily challenges, web resources linked to their curriculum, and interactives that are not only fun but challenging as well.

I highly recommend checking out Mission to Marsville by clicking here!!!

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SpellingCity Summer Program

SpellingCity the popular site for all things Spelling & Vocabulary related is launching an inexpensive online Summer Program to help students grades 1st-12th prevent summer learning loss.  This is a very fun and engaging program that not only works on the web but any one of their free mobile devices.  Also, it is self-paced, has over 40 customizable assignments, and allows users to review or advance on to the next level.  This is ideal for strengthen Literacy and Spelling/Vocab skills this summer.

I highly recommend checking out SpellingCity's Summer Program by clicking here!!!

Click here to view SpellingCity.

Below is a brief demo video...



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10 Online Summer Programs

Being a parent of four young kids I often find myself wondering what I'm going to do w/ them for the summer when they get out of school.  When thinking about this and looking over many options, I noticed lots of Ed Tech companies have started to offer online summer programs/camps.  This is a fantastic way (and lots of times inexpensive/affordable) for students to spend some time in the summer and help prevent summer learning loss.  With that being said I've decided to create a list of 10 excellent educational programs that students can take online.

*This list is in alphabetical order.
** Not offered online

10 Online Summer Programs

1. BoomWriter Storytellers Camp - BoomWriter uses their innovative collaborative writing process to help students create their very own Mystery or Realistic fiction book/story.  This is a one week course where students then receive their very own published book.
2. Connections Learning - A nice collection of technology related online courses for Math and reading grades K-8th.
3. Electric Company - The Electric Company from PBS is offering a 6 wk multimedia summer learning program that will focus on Vocabulary and core Math concepts.
4. EverFi - Called Vernao, EverFi will be launching this summer digital learning camps to help students in all areas of Math, Literacy, STEM, and more.
5. K12 - Offers a wide variety of online courses for HS aged students as well as Foreign Languages.
6. SpellingCity - A great program for grades 1st-12th that focuses Vocabulary, Writing, and Spelling using Game Based Learning.
7. TenMarks - A excellent online program for all areas of Common Core Math through engaging videos/instructions w/ real-time interventions.
8. Time4Learning - A fantastic online curriculum for PreSchool through 12th grade that can be used for summer learning in a wide variety of subjects.
9. **Tynker - Based on the popular iPad app, Tynker offers one week long summer camps help students (grades 3rd-8th) learn how to program/code.
10. **Voyager Learning - Great resources/programs for K-12 students looking for summer learning help.