10 educational websites to help your children study

Your child does everything over the internet: chats with friends, posts photos, listens to music, watches movies… Why not take advantage of this facility and tell him to stick with his studies and get his grades back on track? The web has many sites that are almost like a private lesson. “Many pages can be useful, but a professional needs to indicate those that have reliable content”, emphasizes Luciana Allan, master in education and director of Instituto Crescer para a Cidadania. We researched the best in this area, spoke to experts and selected some really cool sites!

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Young children need to be closely monitored by their parents to use the internet when studying. It is important to sit down with them and help them understand what the site proposes as an activity. “The clearer the tasks are, the more the student will concentrate on them”, explains Luciana. When the student grows up and gains autonomy to organize his own study routine, he can use the internet as a complement when he deems it necessary. But it is still important to ask professors for indication of quality sites. Make it clear. “Adolescents never do just one thing on the internet. He opens Facebook, checks his cell phone… It is a characteristic of this generation. This does not always affect the study”, explains Luciana Allan.

KhanAcademy (www.khanacademy.org)

Brings study material and exercises for various subjects. It shows graphs with the evolution of learning and points out which are the subjects in which the student has more difficulty. The content is not divided by series, but by subject. As the student gets the exercises right, the site increases the difficulty level of the proposed activities.

Recommendation: for all ages

Educate to Grow (educarparacrescer.)

The Educar para Crescer portal, a project by Editora Abril that produces content related to education, has interactive games that make studying Portuguese and other subjects fun. Older people find guidance to face the entrance exam with peace of mind and good material to prepare for the tests.

Recommendation: Elementary and high school

TV Poliedro (youtube.com/poliedrotube)

The Polyhedron Teaching System channel presents video lessons from five to 20 minutes. Teachers clearly explain high school content. It’s perfect for the student to finally understand that subject in which he feels difficulty. To find a video on the channel, click on the magnifying glass that appears in the menu and type what you are looking for.

Recommendation: high school

Save me! (mesalva.com)

The platform, created in 2012 by a 22-year-old Brazilian student, offers video lessons and interactive exercises. As the student performs the activities, the site creates graphs with the performance evolution. Me Salva is widely used by teachers, who ask students to do activities at home. From a distance, you can check how they fared.

Recommendation: high school and higher

FVG Digital High School (ensinomediodigital.fgv.br)

The Fundação Getúlio Vargas website, very well organized and attractive, offers online courses divided by Enem themes: languages, codes and their technologies; mathematics and its technologies; natural sciences and their technologies; and human sciences and their technologies. Students can also take tests and simulations.

Recommendation: high school

Arkos (arkos.com.br)

The purpose of this portal is to encourage a taste for reading in students from the 2nd to the 5th year of elementary school. The child responds to questionnaires about a book he has read and wins virtual medals according to the correct answers. There are questions about more than 7 thousand works! Registration to access the site must be done by an adult.

Recommendation: elementary School

Calculate More (calculemais.com.br)

Created by an engineer, the site is specialized in Mathematics, aiming to help children and adolescents better understand the subject. Divided into concepts, each class has an explanatory video, which also accompanies exercises to put into practice what was learned. In addition, in the Library section, you can also find exams and notices from the main universities in the country.

Recommendation: Elementary and high school

Portal e-Unicamp (ggte.unicamp.br/e-unicamp/public/)

On the portal of Unicamp, University of Campinas, it is possible to find illustrations, images, animations and videos of all areas – exact, human and biological -, which help when it comes to understanding the subject studied, be it about the human body or movements social media from the 1960s. All files are free to download.

Recommendation: high school

Student Guide (guiadoestudante.)

For teenagers who are worried about college entrance exams and ENEM, Editora Abril’s website can be a good companion: news, tips and test subjects make studying much easier! Not only for those who have already decided which course to take, but also for those who are undecided, the Guide has an exclusive section for Professional Guidance, answering questions from students about careers.

Recommendation: high school and higher

Escola Games (escolagames.com.br)

Of course little ones love online games and having fun on the computer screen! Imagine combining fun with learning: this is the proposal of Escola Games, which brings educational and thematic games, with concepts learned in the classroom. From vowels to math fractions, kids will love navigating through the play portal.

Recommendation: elementary School