GATE Enrichment/Extension Resources
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Please note that CVUSD provides these resources for your reference but that does not constitute affiliation with or recommendation of any of the organizations or practices listed within.
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Around the World Field Trip and Scavenger Hunt
Brandon Mull's Virtual Book Tour - Candy Shop War
Brandon Mull's Virtual Book Tour - Dragonwatch
JPL Virtual Tour and Scavenger Hunt (condensed version and extended edition)
Mars Curiosity Rover, JPL Chief Engineer Rob Manning - How Failure Helps Us Succeed: The Agony & Inspiration of Defeat
Résumé Building & Interview Workshop Series
Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History Scavenger Hunt
The Creative Art of Organizing
Westlake High School student created Escape Room
Westlake Hills teacher, Mr. Manzatt, created Harry Potter Escape Room
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Elementary:
Combo and Cypher: A Day at the Beach
Elementary/Middle:
Middle/High School:
Breaking Barriers - Katrina 1952
Breaking Barriers - Katrina 1989
Escape Dr. Plunkington and his Suspicious Signal
All Ages for Family Fun:
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- 2048
- Brain Games
- Brain Teasers
- Chess
- Connections
- Cryptograms
- Futoshiki
- Games for Change
- Games for the Brain
- Geo Guesser
- Jeopardy
- Jigsaw Puzzles
- Kakuro
- KenKen
- Logic Puzzles
- Magic Square
- Mind Games
- Mensa Games
- Set
- Slide Puzzles
- Space-X Simulator
- Strands
- Sudoku
- Tangrams
- The Grey Labyrinth Puzzles
- Wordle
- Worldle
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- Aurora Borealis Webcams
- Author Readings
- Art for Kids Hub
- At Home Engineering
- Biology Project
- Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning
- City Guesser
- Coding
- Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips
- Duolingo
- Exploratorium
- Funbrain
- Grammy Museum At Home
- Imagineering In A Box
- JPL Virtual Tour
- LabXchange Library and Solutions
- Learn.Genetics
- Library of Congress
- Math Planet
- Mensa for Kids
- Molecular Workbench
- NASA at Home
- NASA STEM Activities
- NatGeo@Home
- No Screen Activities
- Old Farmer's Almanac
- Pixar In A Box
- Postcrossing
- Prodigy
- Resources for Gifted Kids
- Scratch
- Ted Talks for Kids
- The Kid Should See This
- Time for Kids
- Tynker Coding
- Ultimate STEM Guide for Kids
- Virtual Makerspace
- Virtual Tours
- Wizarding World - Brings Hogwarts to You
- Wonderopolis
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Berkeley Business Academy for Youth (B-BAY)
California College of the Arts Pre-College Program
Camp SEA Lab - Voyage Seaward
Duke Pre-College Programs (Virtual Campus Tour)
Education Unlimited Programs at UCLA
EXPLO Summer Enrichment Programs at Berkeley (for rising 10th - 12th grade students)
Georgetown University Summer High School Sessions
Harvard College Summer Programs for High School Students
Idyllwild Arts Summer Teen Programs
Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (Loyola Marymount University for grades 5+, Mirman School for grades 2-6, and University of California Santa Cruz for grades 5+)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare offers over 2,000 FREE online courses
Santa Clara University Young Scholars Program for High School Students (for rising 11th and 12th grade students)
University of California Berkeley Summer Sessions
University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Pre-College Summer Institutes
University of California Santa Barbara (UCSB) Pre-College Programs (Summer Research Academies and Research Mentorship Program)
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- Achieve 3000
- American Association for Gifted Children (AAGC) - Curriculum Units
- CS First - Teach Computer Science and Coding to Kids
- Discovery Education: Lesson Plan Library
- Easy Button for Differentiated Instruction using AI
- Epic
- Exquisite Minds: Gifted Resources/Curriculum
- JPL Education Page
- Kennedy Center - Lessons and Activities Exploring the Arts
- Kennedy Space Center Educator Resources
- Learning Links By Grade Level
- Mensa Lesson Plans
- Minecraft Education Edition
- National Geographic Education Resource Library
- Prodigy
- Science and Technology Virtual Tours and Class Visits
- Summer Institute for the Gifted (SIG) Resources
- Trivia Maker
- Virtual Field Trips
- Would You Rather Math