Highlights for High School (HFHS), a companion website to MIT OpenCourseWare, provides open educational resources for high school educators and students. The site contains an abundance of resources that cover not only science and mathematics, but also engineering, humanities, and social sciences.
MIT App Inventor
MIT App Inventor is an intuitive, visual programming environment that allows everyone to build fully functional apps for smartphones and tablets, new creators can have a simple first app up and running in less than 30 minutes!
The App Inventor project seeks to democratize software development by empowering all people, especially young people, to move from technology consumption to technology creation.
MIT BLOSSOMS
BLOSSOMS video lessons are enriching students’ learning experiences in high school classrooms from Brooklyn to Beirut to Bangalore!
Check out the library of 150+ STEM lessons and videos designed to foster critical thinking skills in High School students, or participate in the BLOSSOMS@HOME weekly challenges!
MIT+K12 Videos
MIT+K12 Videos is an educational media program that seeks to spark curiosity and a love of learning among kids and kids-at-heart.
Check out a large library of K-12 videos that promote STEM-literacy and open the door to MIT and the STEM world!
SCRATCH
With Scratch, you can program your own interactive stories, games, and animations. Share your creations with others in the online community and the world!
Scratch helps young people learn to think creatively, reason systematically, and work collaboratively — essential skills for life in the 21st century. Get started today!
Create. Explore. Play.
Project GUTS’ COVID-19 Modeling Challenge
We are faced with a tremendous amount of news and information about COVID-19. One way to respond is to try to better understand the spread of coronavirus and strategies to contain its spread. Work together with the Project GUTS team to see what we can learn!
As part of the COVID-19 Modeling Challenge, young learners will learn how to model the spread of COVID-19 using StarLogo Nova.
pSIMS
Explore interesting topics and complex systems via Participatory Simulations (pSIMS); a series of mobile device enabled activities developed by the MIT Scheller Teacher Education Program (STEP Lab)
Check out the most recent pSIMS, Virus Game and Tragedy of the Commons!