List of Educational Websites | Part Twelve

We've made it to the twelfth part of the series of the Ultimate List of Educational Websites. We are cleaning up the last two categories, starting with a miscellaneous section for...

Other

• Online Etymology Dictionary | Origin, history and meaning of English words
• erowid.org - perhaps at one point a good scientific site for understanding biology and psychoactives, but no longer appropriate for this kid's site
• LessWrong - developy and train rationality, apply rationality to real world problems
• Lizard Point - Learn Geography
• Photo.net/learn - Photography articles, lessons, and tutorials
• Freerice - Learn, Play and Give Back. For each answer you get right, our sponsors send the cash equivalent of 10 grains of rice to the World Food Programme
• Think Tutorial - find help for all of your technology needs
• The Chess Website - Learn, Practice and Play Chess
• Investopedia

We only have one part left, coming soon!

List of Educational Websites | Part Eleven

Let's document that we made it to part eleven of this Ultimate List of Educational Websites. Here are some sites that specialize in…

Documentaries

• Top Documentary Films - Watch Free Documentaries Online
• Watch Free Documentaries Online | Documentary Heaven

I should also mention an additional site that I know of where you can usually connect your local library account and watch up to 10 free documentaries and other movies a month.

• Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries

List of Educational Websites | Part Ten

And now we are on to part ten of Ultimate List of Educational Websites"? Let's get handy and mechanical and learn how to take stuff apart and put it all back together.

DIY's / How To's

• Your for the making - Instructables
• https://www.thedailymiscellany.com/
• wikiHow: How-to instructions you can trust.
• Wonder How To » Fresh Hacks For a Changing World
• HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!
• Howcast | The best how-to videos

Patatap

I love interactive online musical instruments you can play with.

Have fun full-screen at Patatap.

List of Educational Websites | Part Nine

Whoever thought that we'd get to part nine of this Ultimate List of Educational Websites"? Today is a short list of websites to learn programming.

Programming

• Learn to Code - for Free | Codecademy
• Learn Code the Hard Way redirected from learncodethehardway.com
• HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Tutorials, References, and Articles | HTML Dog
• Pluralsight + Code School: Code Courses | Pluralsight redirected from trypython.org
• RubyMonk - Interactive Ruby tutorials
• CodingBat Java

I don't have to talk about how important programming is for the modern web. Just for a quick example, this website required programming to create.

List of Educational Websites | Part Eight

Now we have part eight of the "Ultimate List of Educational Websites" where we go to one of my favorite subjects.

Books

• Free eBooks | Project Gutenberg - this was a typo as gutenburg.org in the original entry
• LibriVox | free public domain audiobooks
• Homework Help and Textbook Solutions | bartleby
• PoemHunter.com: Poems - Quotes - Poetry

There are so many great sources for books online. Most local libraries also have freely available ebook options now.

List of Educational Websites | Part Seven

Here is part seven of the "Ultimate List of Educational Websites" and we focus on learning languages today.

Language Learning

• Duolingo
• Learn a language. Meet the world. | Memrise
• BBC Languages – Free online lessons to learn and study with - This page has been archived and is no longer updated.
• livemocha.com now forwards to Rosetta Stone
• Busuu - Learn languages online: start for free
• Verbling - The Modern Way to Learn a Language.