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SEL Digital Interactive Notebook Volume One

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SEL Digital Interactive Notebook Volume One

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Social and Emotional Learning

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This SEL Digital Interactive Notebook has all of the digital lessons from SEL- Social and Emotional Learning Digital Lessons Bundle Volume One packaged into one interactive notebook! This Interactive Notebook format is great for distance learning. Perfect for grades 3 to 6! In addition to all of the activities contained in the lesson bundle volume one this DINB also has a Fill my Bucket Digital Discussion Board, a Free Write Activity, and an SEL Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle.

17 Pages total

This digital interactive notebook contains the following activities:

Support Circles

Control Button

Gratitude Jar

Negative Thoughts Get Lost

Worry Box

See the Bright Side

Practice Kindness

Kindness Mindfulness

SEL Self-goal

SEL Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

Feelings Free Write

Bucket Filler Digital Discussion Board

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SEL Social and Emotional Learning Digital Interactive Notebook

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This SEL Digital Interactive Notebook has all of the digital lessons from SEL- Social and Emotional Learning Digital Lessons Bundle Volume One packaged into one interactive notebook! This Interactive Notebook format is great for distance learning. Perfect for grades 3 to 6! In addition to all of t...

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Civil Rights Movement Digital Interactive Notebook

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Civil Rights Movement Digital Interactive Notebook

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 14 Google Slides activities. Including:

Vocabulary Matrix

Origins of the Movement Timeline

Martin Luther King Jr. Organizer

Groups Involved Mind Map

Who's Who Historical Figures

Historical Photograph Analysis

Tactics Web

Milestones Cornell Notes

Milestones Timeline

Evidence Log-Prewriting Organizer

Constructed Response Argument

Digital Discussion Board

Informed Action

In addition, this 19 page DINB includes the following C3 Framework components: compelling question, supporting questions, argument, and informed action. This DINB is perfect for grades 9-12 and can be edited to better fit the academic needs of your students.

This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook meets the following Common Core Standards and C3 Framework Indicators:
Common Core Standards
Grades 9-12

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.2.B Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHST.9-10.8 Gather relevant information from multiple authoritative print and digital sources, using advanced searches effectively; assess the usefulness of each source in answering the research question; integrate information into the text selectively to maintain the flow of ideas, avoiding plagiarism and following a standard format for citation.

CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.WHSDraw evidence from informational texts to support analysis, reflection, and research.
C3 Framework Indicators
Grades 9-12

D2.His.16.9-12. Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and interpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.

D4.1.9-12. Construct arguments using precise and knowledgeable claims, with evidence from multiple sources, while acknowledging counterclaims and evidentiary weaknesses.

D2.His.14.9-12. Analyze multiple and complex causes and effects of events in the past.

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Civil Rights Movement Digital Interactive Notebook Grades 9-12

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 14 Google Slides activities. Including:Vocabulary MatrixOrigins of the Movement TimelineMartin Luther King Jr. OrganizerGroups Involved Mind MapWho's Who Historical FiguresHistorical Photograph AnalysisTactics WebMilestones Cornell NotesM...

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Harlem Renaissance Digital Inquiry Lesson

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Harlem Renaissance Digital Inquiry Lesson

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Ancient Rome Digital Interactive Notebooks

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Ancient Rome Digital Interactive Notebooks

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High School and Middle School editions available

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 12 Google Slides activities. Including:

Roman Empire Organizer

Republic vs Empire Venn Diagram

Vocabulary Matrix

Republicn Government Mind Map

Who's Who Emperors

Rome's Legacy Four Corner

Rome's Legacy Cornell Notes

Evidence Log

Constructed Response Argument

Digital Discussion Board

Informed Action

In addition, this 16 page DINB includes the following C3 Framework components: compelling question, supporting questions, argument, and informed action. This DINB is perfect for grades 6-8 and can be edited to better fit the academic needs of your students.

This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook meets the following Common Core Standards and C3 Framework Indicators:
Common Core 6-8
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.a

Introduce a topic clearly, previewing what is to follow; organize ideas, concepts, and information into broader categories as appropriate to achieving purpose; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., charts, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.b

Develop the topic with relevant, well-chosen facts, definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.c

Use appropriate and varied transitions to create cohesion and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.d

Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to inform about or explain the topic.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.e

Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.6-8.2.f

Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.2

Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.6-8.3

Identify key steps in a text's description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g., how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
C3 Framework Indicators
D2.His.1.6-8. Analyze connections among events and developments in broader historical contexts.

D2.His.16.6-8. Organize applicable evidence into a coherent argument about the past

D4.3.6-8. Present adaptations of arguments and explanations on topics of interest to others to reach audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g. posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).

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Ancient Rome Digital Interactive Notebook Distance Learning Grades 6-8

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 12 Google Slides activities. Including: Roman Empire Organizer Republic vs Empire Venn Diagram Vocabulary Matrix Republicn Government Mind Map Who's Who Emperors Rome's Legacy Four Corner Rome's Legacy Cornell Notes Evidence Log Constructed Response Argument Digital Discussion Board Informed Action In addition, this 16 page DINB includes the following C3 Framework components: compelling question, supporting questions, argument, and informed action.

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Cold War US Domestic Policy Digital Inquiry Lesson

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Cold War US Domestic Policy Digital Inquiry Lesson

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SEL  Social and Emotional Learning Digital Lesson Bundles

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SEL  Social and Emotional Learning Digital Lesson Bundles

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3 Branches Digital Inquiry Hyperdoc Lesson

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3 Branches Digital Inquiry Hyperdoc Lesson

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This Character Education Digital Interactive Notebook has 15 Google Slides activities focused on the following three topics: Respect, Forgiveness, Cooperation. This Digital Interactive Notebook format is great for distance learning and perfect for grades 3 to 8.

20 Pages total.

This digital interactive notebook contains the following activities:

Core Values Drag and Drop

Respect Show Out

Mutual Respect

Respect Everywhere

Respect Quiz

Forgiveness 5W

Forgiveness Fishbone

Forgiveness Drag and Drop

Forgiven Yet?

Cooperation Frayer Model

Cooperation Top 12

Cooperation Ingredients

Cooperation Digital Discussion Board

Vocabulary Word Scramble

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzle

Free Write

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Character Education Digital Interactive Notebook Respect Forgiveness Cooperation

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This Character Education Digital Interactive Notebook has 15 Google Slides activities focused on the following three topics: Respect, Forgiveness, Cooperation. This Digital Interactive Notebook format is great for distance learning and perfect for grades 3 to 8.20 Pages total. This digital interac...

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Social and Emotional Learning Volume 7

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This SEL Digital Interactive Notebook has all of the digital lessons from SEL- Social and Emotional Learning Digital Lessons Bundle Volume Seven packaged into one interactive notebook! This Interactive Notebook format is great for distance learning. Perfect for grades 3 to 6! In addition to all of the activities contained in the lesson bundle volume seven this DINB also has a Discussion Board, a Free Write Activity, and an SEL Vocabulary Word Scramble.

16 Pages total

This digital interactive notebook contains the following activities:

All About Me Organizer

More About Me Dbt House

Home and School Goals

Coping Skills Drag and Drop

What Pushes My Buttons?

Cool Off Plan

Coping Skills Practice

My Social Circle

My Boundaries and Personal Space

Personal Space Practice

SEL Vocabulary Word Scramble

Free Write

Coping Skills Digital Discussion Board

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SEL Social and Emotional Learning Digital Interactive Notebook Volume Seven

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World History Digital Lesson The Black Death

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World History Digital Lesson The Black Death

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Social Studies Digital Interactive Notebooks

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Social Studies Digital Interactive Notebooks

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The US Constitution

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 12 Google Slides activities.Including:

Articles of Confederation 5W

Articles of Confederation Pros and Cons

Constitution Frayer Model

7 Principles of the Constitution

Limited Government Mind Map

Popular Sovereignty Timeline

The Great Compromise

Federalists vs Anti-federalists

Federalism Venn Diagram

Three Branches Organizers

Checks and Balances Matrix

Bill of Rights Cornell Notes

Bill of Rights Drag and Drop

Primary Source Mark the Text

Evidence Log Pre-writing OrganizerConstructed Response Argument

Digital Discussion Board

Informed Action

In addition, this 21 page DINB includes the following C3 Framework components: compelling question, supporting questions, argument, and informed action. This DINB is perfect for grades 9-12 and can be edited to better fit the academic needs of your students.

This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook meets the following Common Core Standards and C3 Framework Indicators:
Common Core Standards
9-12
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.a
Introduce a topic and organize ideas, concepts, and information to make important connections and distinctions; include formatting (e.g., headings), graphics (e.g., figures, tables), and multimedia when useful to aiding comprehension.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.b
Develop the topic with well-chosen, relevant, and sufficient facts, extended definitions, concrete details, quotations, or other information and examples appropriate to the audience's knowledge of the topic.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.c
Use varied transitions and sentence structures to link the major sections of the text, create cohesion, and clarify the relationships among ideas and concepts.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.d
Use precise language and domain-specific vocabulary to manage the complexity of the topic and convey a style appropriate to the discipline and context as well as to the expertise of likely readers.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.e
Establish and maintain a formal style and objective tone while attending to the norms and conventions of the discipline in which they are writing.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.WHST.9-10.2.f
Provide a concluding statement or section that follows from and supports the information or explanation presented (e.g., articulating implications or the significance of the topic).
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.3
Analyze in detail a series of events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later ones or simply preceded them.
CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RH.9-10.2
Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the course of the text.
C3 Framework Indicators
D2.Civ.4.9-12. Explain how the U.S. Constitution establishes a system of government that has powers, responsibilities, and limits that have changed over time and that are still contested.

D2.His.16.9-12. Integrate evidence from multiple relevant historical sources and in-terpretations into a reasoned argument about the past.

D4.3.9-12. Present adaptations of arguments and explanations that feature evocative ideas and perspectives on issues and topics to reach a range of audiences and venues outside the classroom using print and oral technologies (e.g., posters, essays, letters, debates, speeches, reports, and maps) and digital technologies (e.g., Internet, social media, and digital documentary).

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The US Constitution Digital Interactive Notebook Distance Learning Grades 9-12

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This Google Slides Digital Interactive Notebook includes 12 Google Slides activities.Including: Articles of Confederation 5W Articles of Confederation Pros and Cons Constitution Frayer Model 7 Principles of the Constitution Limited Government Mind Map Popular Sovereignty Timeline The Great Compromise Federalists vs Anti-federalists Federalism Venn Diagram Three Branches Organizers Checks and Balances Matrix Bill of Rights Cornell Notes Bill of Rights Drag and Drop Primary Source Mark the Text Evidence Log Pre-writing OrganizerConstructed Response Argument Digital Discussion Board Informed Action In addition, this 21 page DINB includes the following C3 Framework components: compelling question, supporting questions, argument, and informed action.

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With school districts starting the 2020/2021 school year online, parents and teachers are continually looking for online learning resources. Teachers have been tasked with delivering lesson plans and classroom activities as part of distance learning. Parents are trying to keep students on track with their studies and educational growth. We are here to help! This growing list offers a wealth of resources for all ages of students, parents, and teachers!

Go to:

Online Resources for Kids in Grades K-5

These sites have ready-to-use lesson plans and activities for a vast amount of subjects for younger students.

What It Is: This comprehensive program covers a wide variety of subjects for students aged 2-8 (Pre-K through second grade). It offers more than 850 self-guided lessons across 10 levels. A companion program focuses on teaching English as a second language for this age group.

What It Is: This MMO game gives kids something other online learning resources may lack: a sense of community. Students up to age 13 play games to learn across a range of topics (math, reading, social studies, science, and more), while also creating their own online persona and interacting with others in the game.

What It Is: Daily free resources and activities in American Sign Language and English, for young deaf children ages 3-10. They offer weekly activities based on their award-winning VL2 Storybook Apps to support bilingual language development. It is run by Motion Light Lab, part of a research center on Visual Language and Visual Learning at Gallaudet University.

What They're Offering: Free access to Motion Light Lab's award-winning VL2 ASL Storybook Apps. Every week, the Motion Light Lab offers a free Storybook App which includes daily offerings in ASL and English, live storytelling "sign aloud" on Mondays, and an ASL/English literacy lesson live-streamed every Wednesday on YouTube featuring deaf narrators and accompanying worksheets for a deeper dive into each story.

What It Is: BrainPop offers in-depth learning on topics across the curriculum for upper elementary and middle school students. Each topic includes videos, quizzes, related reading, and even coding activities. Teachers have access to planning and tracking resources too. They also offer BrainPop Jr., specially designed for younger kids.

What They're Offering: All schools get free access to their COVID-19/coronavirus online learning resources for talking to students about the topic.

What It Is: A character education video subscription series for K-2 students that highlight positive character traits, exemplified by prominent figures.

What It Is: A nonprofit and charity, Classroom Champions connects volunteer Olympians, Paralympians, Student-Athletes, and Professional Athletes to K-8 classrooms through a social and emotional based curriculum and mentorship experience.

What It Is: A fun and educational game-based environment where kids learn to code without any prior experience. After completing CodeMonkey's award-winning coding courses, kids will be able to navigate through the programming world with a sense of confidence and accomplishment.

What It Is: Turn writing assignments into something amazing with the illustrations, animations, and sound effects available. Kids can even write their own choose-your-own-adventure story!

What It Is: This research-based emotional skills program is designed for children ages 4-11 and gives kids practical tools for dealing with impulse control, frustration, and acting out. Emotional ABCs teaches children how to figure out what they're feeling, why they're experiencing that emotion, and how to make better choices for lifetime emotional resilience.

What It Is: Three beta-stage eLearning tools from the scientists in their R&D division to help improve reading, writing, and English language speaking skills.

What It Is: A science teaching resource that brings school science standards to life through fun and educational videos paired with lesson plans, activities, quizzes, reading material, discussion questions, and more.

What It Is: Using multimedia Interactive Posters, students can express ideas with ease by combining images, graphics, audio, video, and text on one digital canvas!

What It Is: Happy Numbers helps teachers deliver quality math instruction, monitor progress, and math growth-all remotely. Students can access Happy Numbers from any Internet-enabled device (even a smartphone!).

What it is: HearBuilder, from Super Duper Publications, is an online, research-based, foundational literacy program. It helps students in PreK-Grade 5 strengthen skills in the essential pre-literacy areas of following directions, sequencing, auditory memory and phonological awareness.

What they're offering: HearBuilder is available free for 60 days. Teachers, parents and therapists can access self-directed activities and short and targeted tasks for students, as well as tools to monitor student progress. HearBuilder is accessible at school or during distance learning.

What It Is: Highlights @ Home is a new, free service for families and teachers that delivers themed content bundles twice a week from the well-known children's magazine creator, Highlights.

What It Is: iknowit is a site with over 500 common-core aligned activities and math games for students in the elementary grades. The site keeps track of progress, offers graphical hints and explanations, and there are also animated characters to cheer students along.

What They're Offering: A free 30 day trial with unlimited access and no credit card required.

What It Is: A platform for reading comprehension passages and skill assessment in early education and home schooling.

What It Is: Mentoring Minds impacts millions of students every day by partnering with principals and teachers across the country to improve student achievement and teach critical thinking. Find educator resources that focus on the 9 traits of Critical Thinking.

What They're Offering: Free coloring book in English and Spanish, as well as a new animated video series.

What It Is: Mindsets Live Classes and Open Math Challenges help teachers & families keep learning going in math, science, & STEAM with fun and creative real-world problem-solving.

What It Is: This popular differentiated learning site provides instruction across a wide array of elementary subjects. Available for at-home instruction and classroom instruction, online training on effectively using the site is also available.

What It Is: PebbleGo offers safe, interactive online research resources on topics selected by their teachers for students K-3.

What It Is: Hands-on, minds-on learning can happen anywhere and everywhere. If you're looking for STEMspiration because of an unexpected homeschooling need, you're in the midst of an uncommon education experience, or you just want to have some STEM fun, Pitsco has great resources that are always available for free.

What It Is: Produced by RedRover, Kind News magazine is a Parent's Choice Approved Award winning children's magazine that inspires readers to explore the relationship between people and animals. It includes engaging articles, colorful illustrations, activities, and games to help kids explore the relationship between people and animals and develop knowledge and skills necessary for empathy and kindness.

What They're Offering: KindNews.org includes free lesson plans, links to past issues, and humane-themed books.

What It Is: Scholastic created the Scholastic Learn at Home website to provide students with an array of learning journeys that span various content areas. Subscriptions include several learning opportunities per day, including projects based on articles and stories, virtual field trips, reading and geography challenges, and more.

What It Is: Seekadoo is a safe, kid-friendly search engine app for children ages 3-13. Seekadoo's content database is carefully curated to ensure appropriate material for children and integrated ad-blocking eliminates tracking and monetization of children's data so their digital footprints remain private.

What It Is: The Square Panda Smart Letters playset engages children's tactile and kinesthetic as well as visual and auditory senses, because neuroscience shows that early readers learn best in a multisensory environment.

What It Is: An online learning tool which provides personalized math and spelling practice. It adapts questions to each student, using engaging games and rewards for effort and achievement to build their confidence, and is proven to accelerate progress. Teachers can set focused work to consolidate existing knowledge and get real-time feedback on each individual child, making it an ideal home learning tool.

What it is: Super Duper Publications has created an online library of its most popular print materials to provide access for teachers and parents doing distance and hybrid/blended learning.

What they're offering: The Super Duper Digital Library is available at a discounted rate of 199.95 for an annual subscription or $19.95 for a monthly subscription. It provides more than 365 standards-based online resources (with more being added daily) for students PreK-Grade 5. Resources include unique, engaging instructional games, cards, and worksheets to target specific skills, such as basic concepts, literacy, grammar, social skills, critical thinking, sequencing, listening, early skills, articulation, phonemic awareness, memory, motor skills, sensory integration, phonics, reading, and more.

What It Is: Super Star Online, by Help Me 2 Learn, is a supplemental reading, phonics, and math program featuring a wide variety of songs, interactive activities, and games in an engaging and easy-to-use format. Features include the Super Star Motivational and Data Tracking System.

What It Is: Super Teacher Worksheets has tens of thousands of printable teaching resources for Kindergarten through 5th grade teachers and parents working with Pre-K through 5th grade students. Topics include math, reading, writing, phonics, grammar, spelling, science, and social studies.

What It Is: A digital series that aims to give young people a fun and active way to use their imaginations while learning about the process of creating theater.

What It Is: A nationwide writing curriculum designed for teachers, administrators, and parents. It takes away the stress of finding and developing a curriculum for their students.

What It Is: A program for PreK-1st grade students and those with special needs to learn to write their letters, numbers, and shapes using fun visuals, rhythmic chants, and repetition.

What It Is: A web-based keyboarding program that teaches students how to type and has unique transdisciplinary Common Core and NGSS aligned content provided through its lessons.

What It Is: Virtual Field Trips specializes in K-8 social studies, life science, geography, and ancient civilization curriculum content. Their website has online learning videos and quizzes along with a list of the national and state Standards that the videos align with.

What It Is: An easy-to-use platform designed to empower K-8 students to master math content at their own pace.

Online Learning Resources for Grades 6-12

Use these ready-to-implement resources in your virtual classrooms for older learners.

BBC My World Media Literacy

What It Is: A complete web-based math curriculum designed to help students ages 8-13 deepen their understanding of math.

What It Is: Math lessons, skills practice resources, and at-home learning videos for grade 6-12 students.

What It Is: NativeAccent delivers spoken English skills practice with targeted feedback to students on their computers and mobile devices using advanced speech recognition and A.I. technologies.

What It Is: Software engineers from some of the leading technology companies, including Google, Facebook, and Amazon, are volunteering their time to help students learn how to code while schools are closed.

What It Is: Free, interactive virtual classes open to students, teachers, and anyone else interested in learning to code in a fun and engaging manner through game development. The program is aligned to ISTE Standards for computer science education.

What It Is: GeoInquiries™ are free, standards-based, online explorations of maps and data about a wide variety of content plus an initial introduction. Any school can also request a free account with logins for teachers and students, so they can create, save, and share content, with free Mapping Hour videos to instruct teachers and parents.

What They're Offering: Free online content and accounts for schools on an interactive mapping platform. Learn More.

What It Is: Everydae is an online SAT math prep program. 10-minute micro lessons match busy schedules. Built by industry experts with 17+ years industry experience.

What It Is: Teaches STEM and STEAM with a game design focus. GameSalad is best suited for 6th grade and up depending on student readiness. Detailed instructions for students and full lesson plans for teachers make a great introduction to coding.

What It Is: A unique cultural immersion resource for Spanish, French and German language learning for grades 6-12. iCulture offers travel videos, day in the life videos, current news articles, and songs that are all 100% target language, age and school appropriate, and include topics of interest to teens and young adults.

What It Is: Popfizz CS is a computer science education platform for grades 6-12. Popfizz offers a wide range of online student courses and professional development for educators.

What They're Offering: All their tools are easily accessible on their website for free.

What It Is: An interactive AP Biology course with engaging content and interactive activities in the form of quizzes and flashcards to provide immediate reinforcement of the material. Teachers can assign portions of the course to their students, and track their progress. Or students can work independently and track their own progress!

What It Is:Thousands of free study guides, test prep, and video learning resources.

What It Is: Resources include free trials to Vernier Video Analysis™ and Pivot Interactives, the Vernier Physics with Video Analysis e-book and extended demo of the LoggerPro software needed to complete the experiments, Scratch coding activities, experiment content and access from ADInstruments and LabArchives, and more than 200 experiments with sample data covering a large range of subjects. With these tools, teachers can help students form a deep understanding of key scientific concepts outside the classroom and laboratory.

What It Is: VidCode is an online coding and computer science curriculum specifically for teens. It teaches JavaScript, web programming, design, and more.

What It Is: Online close reading instruction, leveled authentic texts with comprehension quizzes, and gamified vocabulary for grades 6-12.

K-12 Online Learning Resources

These sites have lesson plans and activities ready to go on a variety of subjects for any grade.

What It Is: A comprehensive suite of digital solutions that significantly accelerate literacy and deepen learning across the content areas.

What They're Offering: Achieve3000 Literacy at Home Digital provides access to engaging non-fiction articles at 3 reading levels. Sign up for a free account here. Additionally, they are offering Literacy Printable Packets for students who do not have internet access at home.

What It Is: K-12 personalized online math instruction that provides each student with a unique study path through skills at each level. Individual study plans are prescriptive, adaptive, and automatically assigned

What It Is: An eBook hosting platform for schools and libraries.

What It Is: BoomWriter offers a variety of tools, features, and resources that lets teachers conduct fiction, nonfiction, and vocabulary-focused writing assignments. BoomWriter inspires students to write on any subject and integrates easily with existing curriculum. Try it for ELA, Social Studies/History, Science, and even Math.

What It Is: A digital portfolio that allows students and educators to shape knowledge and ideas into practical, usable, and shareable work. With bulb, educators can track progress, measure competency, and create dynamic curricula or use one of their templates.

What It Is: A PreK-12 educational company that provides a supplemental, and highly differentiated literacy digital curriculum with demonstrated efficacy.

What It Is: CCC! Streaming Media helps students visualize printed text and aids their understanding of complex concepts. The content has been vetted by educators and aligned to Common Core and state standards, and is supplemented with Teacher's Guides, Student Activities, and Knowledge Checks (quizzes).

What It Is: Century was designed as an intervention tool to identify and remedy gaps in a student's education. It uses artificial intelligence to tailor the learning experience to the learner, much like an actual teacher in the classroom would.

What It Is: ClassHook offers quality media clips on every conceivable topic. Pre-curated playlists make it easier to find what you need for the subject at hand.

What It Is: Crabtree Publishing Company is dedicated to producing high-quality books and educational products for K-9+. Through their website, different selections of their books can be accessed along with free online resources that are included in a Crabtree subscription.

What It Is: The Critical Thinking Co. publishes award-winning PreK-12+ educational textbooks, activity books, e-books, and apps that help children become better problem-solvers. The approach is unique: help kids develop foundational reasoning & critical thinking skills while learning the core subjects (reading, writing, math, science, and social studies).

What It Is: Discovery Education provides online textbooks, multimedia content, and professional development support for virtual classrooms and teachers. Daily DE offers supplemental learning activities, including virtual field trips and lessons, for both educators and parents that will update daily to align with a new educational theme.

What It Is: Innovative math and science online solutions that are fun to use and really work. Gizmos, Reflex, and Science4Us are used in classrooms in every state and over 50 countries worldwide.

What It is: Hip-hop videos and instructional activities that promote literacy and spark creativity.

What It Is: Follett offers over 1,000 PreK-12 titles in science, social studies, language arts, math, and more. AV2 World Languages features high-interest titles in 10 different languages with full audio support. Parents and students will find these resources interactive, easy to use and a great way for students to independently explore a new topic.

What It Is: Interdisciplinary, curriculum-aligned resources to support online learning from Pre-K through undergraduate; Live and on-demand training materials to help optimize existing resources; Professional development eBooks to help transition to and strengthen virtual learning and Authoritative Gale resources on health-related topics and global issues.

What It Is: A math practice program for concept mastery and retention.

What They're Offering: Free, unlimited trial usage for schools until July 2021.

What It Is: Original, fully-customizable musicals that not only enhance Reading and Communication skills, but also employ Arts Integration and Social Emotional Learning to encourage strong character development both onstage and off.

What It Is: A website loaded with standards-aligned lessons, games, and activities that will keep K-8 students engaged while learning from home.r.

What It Is: A highly adaptable program that teaches challenging life skills to school students with various special needs. The full program offers 39 lessons, 65 videos, visual components, and role plays around the topics of hygiene, social skills, relationships development, and health that can be implemented both virtually and face-to-face.

What It Is: InferCabulary is a web-based, research-backed, device-agnostic, K-12, fun, game-based, visual approach for teaching nuanced vocabulary that simultaneously improves students' critical thinking skills. InferCabulary is the opposite of rote memorization of definitions - they mimic the act of avid readership so students deeply learn words and improve comprehension.

What It Is: Do you Kahoot! Teachers have loved this fun online quiz game platform for years. Here's why we're into it.

What They're Offering: Kahoot! Basic is free for educators and students, but they're also currently offering their Premium distance learning tools for free. Learn more here- Kahoot!

What It Is: A weekly current events-based program. It presents engaging and important stories from around the world in a newsmagazine format.

What It Is: An online core supplement for grades 1-12 that was designed to be used in classrooms to help teachers with increasing responsibilities and numbers of students.

What It Is: At the Lerner Bookshelf, they've set up two collections of eBooks (Grades PreK-5 and Grades 6-12) that allow for unlimited simultaneous access by every student in a school. They also offer reading book lists, videos, educational downloads, information on authors who are available for virtual visits, and more.

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What It Is: NGSS based science lessons for 4th-8th graders that can easily be done from home.

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What It Is: News-O-Matic features five daily news stories specifically for kids, written at a variety of reading levels from grades K through 8. Every story is translated by native speakers from English into Spanish, French, and Arabic. And all these texts, at all levels and languages, are read out loud so kids can listen along. Teachers have access to a special dashboard to track students' reading progress, change their reading levels, and see students' answers to comprehension questions for each article.

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a free eBook to support high-quality Project Based Learning at home.

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Remote Learning and Virtual Classroom Platforms

These sites allow you to follow your existing lesson plans by creating your own online learning resources. Some also provide the platforms you need to host virtual interactive multimedia classrooms.

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What It Is: EduGuide saves schools time and money by efficiently multiplying their student support system, building self-motivation that keeps students learning, even when they are remote. EduGuide provides a simple way for every student to both be mentored by a caring adult and learn to mentor their peers on key social-emotional SEL habits that boost student success.

What It Is: Teachers can access a collection of learning paths from some of the most well-known thought leaders in education covering topics such as Understanding by Design, Habits of Mind, Social Emotional Learning, Cultural and Linguistic Diversity, Personalized Learning, and Growth Mindset.

What It Is: Get the most out of Google Classroom and other Google tools with this platform. They offer webinars and other resources to help teachers create and manage the best virtual classrooms.

What It Is: A cloud-based solution from Impero Software to help schools manage and record student safety and health information, from first aid to COVID-19 symptom tracking, to more complex mental health issues. Impero back:drop gives districts a way to keep track of and communicate about potential concerns safely and securely and eliminates the need for paper-based reporting systems.

What They're Offering: Impero has made Impero back:drop free indefinitely, helping schools fill a critical need for staying on top of student mental and physical concerns during the pandemic and beyond.

What It Is: A collaborative online image and video editor with a cloud storage Workspace. Teachers can make video lessons to send to students for remote learning, students can work together on a group project, and classrooms can share multimedia projects with each other.

What It Is: Projector App helps teachers project their real word notes onto a professional-looking, virtual blackboard.

What it is: PBLWorks, the leading provider of professional development for high-quality Project Based Learning (PBL), has created a free eBook to support high-quality Project Based Learning at home.

What they're offering: This Teachable Moment, a free downloadable eBook offers a primer on Project Based Learning (PBL) and 21 easy implemented, "follow the recipe" PBL projects, informed by educational research and designed for children of all ages. Projects such as creating a cooking show focused on family recipes and the history behind them, or creating a plan for a new school that meets our new reality, engage children in real-world issues and activities that matter to them while also teaching concepts like literacy, math and more.

What It Is: A cloud-based lesson delivery software service that energizes students with polling, timed assessments, interactive lessons, activities, and millions of immersive resources from educators around the world. ClassFlow is certified by iKeepSafe as compliant with federal and state requirements for handling protected personal information, including student data, and is safely used by over 4.5 million students worldwide.

What It Is: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy. Its award-winning AI-powered software safeguards children and their mental wellbeing when using their mobile devices, without sacrificing their privacy. The app provides an intelligent safeguarding keyboard and wellbeing tools that respond in real-time to help children make better decisions online, identify when they are under threat or distress, and prevent messages from being sent that could harm them and others.

What It Is: Free K-12 Math, ELA, Science and Social Studies resources! Create effective classwork and assignments that have been proven to increase performance. All content is designed to engage and challenge students at their own level./li>

What It Is: Keep your music students practicing at home with this online music classroom. You can track student progress, and they'll get instant feedback from the online tools.

What It Is: More than just a computer, classroom, STEM kits, or a project - SmartLabs are a comprehensive and immersive solution.

What It Is: StudyBee is a grading and student feedback system that extends Google Classroom functionality, with the ability to link assignments to custom or standardized educational objectives from the US.

What It Is: A collaborative presentation tool used for all grade levels that works perfectly for the remote classroom.

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What It Is: Companies across the world use Webex to keep their teams in contact remotely. They offer lots of tools that are ideal for taking your classes online.

What It Is: Rather than fighting smartphones, Wooclap turns them into an exceptional learning tool. Wooclap is a free tool to help maintain interactivity and effective pedagogy. Their goal is to capture the attention of students to improve their learning whether they're in the classroom or at home taking an online course.

What It Is: Project your lessons in group settings with Zoom. You can even record the sessions for students who need to review later. This video and audio conferencing tool has a chat functionality where students can ask questions as you teach.

Professional Development & Training

These sites assist with continuing professional development and curriculum for teachers.

What It Is: Nomadic is a digital learning pioneer launching a Remote Work Boot Camp to help newly remote folks get better equipped to face our current working reality.
Feeling overwhelmed? You're definitely not alone. Join fellow educators in the WeAreTeachers Chat group on Facebook to get support from others just like you.

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You may not be able to get out and visit a regular zoo, but with Google's 3D animal feature you can bring the zoo to you!

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It's super simple! All you have to do is Google the name of the animal you would like to see in 3D. Google put's it's AR right at the top of the search, so when you scroll down you should see your animal with the button "View in 3D".

You even get some facts about each animal that you are viewing, so you can make a whole lesson plan out of it!

After you click the "View in 3D" button, you will be directed to a screen that has a 360-degree view of your animal that you are able to zoom in and out on. From here you can make the animal appear against a white background OR in the center of your room, but sliding the between "AR" and "Object".

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You can view any of these animals using Google's 3D feature:

There is no official list from Google; however this list has grown since first launching the program, and 9 to 5 Google predicts more will be added over time.

The animal kingdom is just a click away, so what are you waiting for?

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Is there a kid alive who doesn't love LEGOs? If so, we sure haven't met them. These beloved building bricks make terrific tools in your classroom, and they're especially great for teaching a variety of math concepts. We've put together this list of our favorite LEGO math ideas for every skill level. Your students are going to love them!

1. Learn your numbers.

Start simple with these free printable LEGO math mats. Kids align the bricks as shown to make a numeral, then lay out the appropriate number of bricks below it.

2. Race to 20 to practice counting on.

This activity is great for 2+ players. Write the numbers one to twenty (one number each) on the flat side of 20 LEGO (or DUPLO) bricks with wet-erase markers. Kids start with the brick labeled "1" and roll a die. They add the indicated number of bricks to their stack in the correct order, racing to see who can be the first to get to 20. You can expand this game to include as many bricks as you have available!

Learn more: Playdough to Plato

3. Skip count with LEGO math (Method 1).

Use the same stack-and-count activity as above, but change the numbers to work on skip counting by 2, 5, 10, or whatever you're currently working to master.

Learn more: The Joy-Filled Mom

4. Skip count with LEGO math (Method 2).

Here's another way LEGO math can be used to learn to skip count. Use the number of studs (the small raised circles) on each brick as markers while you count. It's easy to find bricks with one, two, three, four, five, six, eight, and ten studs, so this works across a wide range.

5. Build a LEGO number line.

Number lines have manyapplications in the classroom. The LEGO math version is extra fun since kids can use mini-figs to move back and forth along the line.

Learn more: In The Playroom

6. Create your own LEGO 10 frames.

Task your students with putting together a 10 frame using LEGOs. Then check out our roundup of terrific ten frame activities to put it to good use!

7. Introduce place value with LEGO math.

Understanding place value is a vital skill, and LEGO math makes it a lot more fun. Get free printable mats to use at the link.

Learn more: Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls

8. Toss bricks for more place value practice.

Make a target from paper, labeling the rings with place values. Students (gently) toss a brick of their choice onto the target. Then they use the number of studs on each brick along with its place value to create a final number. Largest number wins!

9. Use LEGO math to practice addition facts.

These are so much more fun than traditional flashcards! Grab your free printable set at the link and use LEGO math to practice basic addition facts.

Learn more: Playdough to Plato

10. Put together addition fact puzzles.

Think of this as a version of dominoes. Tape a math fact card to each brick. Kids look at the top number, then look to find the brick with the equation that has that sum as the answer. They continue on, stacking bricks as they go.

Learn more: Math Geek Mama

11. Roll a die to subtract bricks.

This is basically the opposite of Race to 20 (above). Start with a given number of bricks stacked into a tower. Roll a die and remove that number of bricks, stating the new number that remains. Players race to be the first to remove all their bricks. Make it more challenging by requiring the last roll to be the exact number needed to get to zero!

Learn more: The Kindergarten Connection

12. Work on addition with regrouping.

Regrouping (carrying numbers) can get a little tricky. Use LEGO math to make the concept clearer, along with the free printable mats at the link below.

Learn more: Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls

13. Tell time with a LEGO clock.

This may be one of the coolest clock manipulatives we've ever seen! What a really creative way to practice telling time.

Learn more: Stir the Wonder

14. Compare numbers using LEGO math.

LEGO bricks are an engaging way to teach the concepts of greater than and less than. The hands-on visual can be really helpful for some students who struggle due to dyscalculia.

15. Teach multiplication arrays with LEGO math.

Teaching multiplication using arrays is so easy with LEGO bricks! Use a single brick and count the studs across and down. You can also group multiple bricks together for larger arrays.

Learn more: Teaching With Jillian Starr

16. Multiply bricks for fact practice.

Students grab several bricks of the same type, then multiply the number of studs by the number of bricks. This kind of LEGO math sneaks in some subitizing practice too.

17. Visualize multiplication with LEGO brick stacks.

If your students are struggling with the concept of multiplication, this sort of visualization activity can be a real help. It brings the multiplication table into the 3-D world!

Learn more: Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls

18. Try LEGO math story problems.

Forget imaginary apples and oranges. Use LEGO math for hands-on story problem practice. Get a set of free cards to print at the link.

Learn more: Little Bins for Little Hands

19. Practice division facts.

This will work with any type of math facts, of course. Simply write numbers on bricks, along with the symbols you're working on (division sign, equals sign, etc.). Then kids stack together the equations.

Learn more: The Joyfilled Mom

20. Fill a LEGO baseplate.

This LEGO math activity offers practice with a variety of skills. Roll the dice and announce the sum, then grab bricks with studs that match those numbers and fit them on your baseplate. First person to fill up their plate wins!

Learn more: Creative Family Fun

21. Bowl and build a bar graph.

LEGOs are perfect for building graphs. This activity makes it even more fun by adding a little tabletop bowling first!

Learn more: Inspiration Laboratories

22. Work on money skills.

This cool idea assigns a monetary value to various LEGO bricks. Kids then try to build structures using only the bricks that add up to a certain total. This one involves a lot of problem-solving and creative thinking!

Learn more: You've Got This Math

23. Tackle fractions with LEGO math.

Teaching the concept of fractions as a part of a whole is a breeze with LEGO bricks. Watch the video to see how it's done.

24. Use LEGO bricks to represent fractions.

Here's another way to represent fractions with LEGOs. Give kids a fraction, and ask them to use LEGOs to demonstrate it. (It's also a great way to talk about opposite fractions.)

Learn more: JDaniel4's Mom

25. Put area and perimeter into practice.

The studs on LEGO bricks make it simple to find the perimeter and area. Start with individual bricks, then increase the challenge by throwing more bricks into the mix. There are a lot of fun options here.

26. Build a model room.

Ready for a bigger geometry challenge? Let kids design and build a model room full of furniture. Chart it out on graph paper first, then put it into practice.

Learn more: Line Upon Line Learning

27. Discuss mean, median, and more.

There are a variety of ways to use LEGO math with mean, median, mode, and range. Here's one idea: Set a timer and have kids build the tallest tower they can before the time runs out. Then, they take their tower apart and classify their bricks by color. Using their data (ex: 19 red, 10 blue, etc.), they figure out the m, m, m, and r for their LEGO colors.

28. Map it out on a coordinate plane.

Gather up all your mini-figs and have some coordinate plane LEGO math fun! The link below has a variety of activities for this concept.

29. Assemble polygons.

Give students a specified number of sides and vertices, and ask them to assemble a polygon that matches. You can also reverse this activity by showing them the shapes and having them name sides, vertices, angles, and so on.

Learn more: JDaniel4's Mom

30. Create cool LEGO patterns.

Each of these LEGO patterns represents an equation-for instance, the first is the multiplication-by-three table. Find out what the others are and learn how this activity works at the link. What patterns can your students create?

Learn more: Frugal Fun 4 Boys and Girls
If you love LEGOs as much as your students, learn about using LEGO MINDSTORMS in the classroom. Hands-on math really brings the concepts home. Check out this list of 24 Teacher-Approved Ways to Use Math Manipulatives . Do you have any other LEGO math activities? Come and share in our WeAreTeachers HELPLINE group on Facebook.

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Looking for Ways to Help Kids Learn at Home?

Looking for great, free resources for learning from home? Whether it's due to school closure, summer break, homeschooling, or just wanting to build a house of learning, I'm sharing some great ideas.

Resources are available to help you facilitate learning at home, and most are at the tips of your fingers.

I'm dividing my ideas into two sections: online resources for learning from home and ideas for learning at home that don't involve screens. Everything I'm sharing is free.

For some of the resources, I'm sharing ideas for possible activities students could do with the resource.

I even created an entire online lesson just for this purpose.

Whether you're a teacher looking for things students can do from home, or whether you're a parent looking for quality learning activities your child can do from home, I've got ideas for you.

Things to Consider when Planning for Remote Learning if You're a Teacher

Access:

It doesn't do any good if your students don't have access to it. If you have students with no internet, then skip to the non-internet based ideas below.

If you're a parent, you may be looking for alternatives to screen time. If so, you can scan down to the Non-internet Activities for Learning at Home section.

Length:

One of the biggest constraints in the normal school classroom is time. Take advantage of long periods of time that students may have to do projects they would not normally have time for. Rather than trying to create fifty daily tasks, consider putting together a single, longer-length task. Think projects. Think skill development. For instance, I learned Sketchnoting, and that helps me all of the time now. We can practice typing, writing, note-taking, and other skills that we carry with us no matter where we are learning.

Touching Base:

Some of us already had systems in place with content management programs like Google Classroom or Canvas or the like. If you don't, take a minute to figure that out first. The best ideas will go nowhere if you don't have a way to share or support them.

Online Resources for Remote Learning

The internet offers nearly limitless opportunities for learning from home. They're not all the same level of quality, so I'm sharing some of my favorites.

This isn't a comprehensive list. It's a list of personal favorites, as well as some sites I think you may be less familiar with.

I've divided the resources into content areas, and I've got a cross-curricular section last.

Ideas for Remote Language Arts Learning:

Storyline has picture books being read by celebrities. They're really, really well done, and in addition to the website, there's an app as well. If the main site is down, you can see the stories on the YouTube channel.

Teaching Ideas for Storyline:

Have students listen to two stories and sketch out a three-oval Venn diagram comparing the stories' narrators, illustrations, and plots.

Students could record themselves reading a favorite book in Flipgrid and create a class equivalent of Storyline. Other students could then listen/watch. To strengthen this, have students do it once, have the teacher or other students give three tips to make it even better, and have the student re-record it. I'd create a separate grid for the redo.

The Year of Living Poetically program I created while I was the Youth and Education Ambassador for Mensa has a number of poems that are explicated and have helps for memorizing them. Some are not appropriate for littles, so choose with care, but even young children can memorize poetry. I've written about why they should.

The Library of Congress has recorded the authors who have spoken at the National Book Festival and made those recordings available. Students can choose an author, watch the recording and then respond to the recording in writing. Some possible prompts include:

How did your view of the author shift as you watched the webcast?

Think about whether you were more or less interested in reading the author's work after watching the webcast and explain what you think influenced that feeling.

Describe the similarities and differences between the author's voice and the narrator of works you've read by the author.

Poetry 180 is another terrific offering of the Library of Congress. Students can read info on how to read a poem out loud, choose a poem, and then record themselves reading it.

Ideas for Remote Math Learning:

Mindware gives free samples of its math Perplexor books. I love these all the time, but they're a great go-to. Bonus: the Pinterest board shares cool extreme dot-to-dots and other art activities as well.

Everyone knows about Khan Academy, but there are other free resources as well, including MathPlanet for math from pre-Algebra and up. It's a Swedish site, so they say "maths," but that's kind of cute, right?

Entire courses are available at Edx, and many are appropriate for secondary students (and advanced elementary students), even though they are college courses.

iPractice Math offers a beautiful user interface along with its free resources.

Ideas for Remote Science Learning:

The University of Colorado Boulder has math and science interactive simulations that are super fun. Well, if you're a nerd like me, which you probably are or you wouldn't be reading this.

Molecular Workbench hundreds of virtual labs in multiple science subjects. Requires download of (free) software.

Learn.Genetics has loads of activities and labs related to biology, genetics, and human health.

HHMI Biointeractive is another lab/simulation site. Lizard evolution molecular lab, anyone? They've got that and more.

McGraw-Hill offers online labs for free, no need to have the textbook.

The NOVA labs are super cool, and have educator guides, so you could flesh out what you want students to do.

Ideas for Remote Social Studies Learning:

The Smithsonian's History Explorer site is a favorite. Ideas for using this site include having students virtually curate their own museum. This project-based experience could include everything from creating selection criteria, making the selections, designing displays, and creating a catalog.

You could get an entire social studies education at the National Archives. Seriously, it's amazing what they offer. One of the most valuable parts in my opinion is the guide to teaching students to work with primary source documents.

Google Arts and Culture may be the most underused resource on the internet. The ideas are endless (I mean, seriously, warning: you'll get sucked in), but here are a few just off the top of my head.

The Time section allows you to view artifacts from pre-history to the present day. Students could be assigned a group of random dates (e.g., 2000 BCE, 500 CE, 1500 CE, 1900 CE). Have them choose one item from each date and compare and contrast them. What has changed? What is similar? What consistent themes do they notice? Have them look up a historical event from each time period and draw a connection between history and the art.

Have them choose one piece from Art Up Close, a selection of artworks you can zoom in on in incredible detail. As they zoom in, information about the painting appears. There are questions that students can respond to. Have them put together a presentation about the painting as if they were a curator giving a speech about it. Have them share the presentation.

Many museums offer virtual tours. You can find a list of a dozen of them in this article from Travel & Leisure.

Explore one of the online Getty Photo exhibits . Use the On This Day site to correlate a completely separate event that occurred on the same day the photo was taken. I've created a a complete ready-to-use activity for you that you can copy into Google Classroom or your Google Drive. It's ready to use, and I'm pretty proud of it actually. Did I mention you can get it here?

Ideas for Remote Learning in Multiple Content Areas:

TED Connections were one of my favorite things to do at Mensa. I took TED talks I thought would interest youth and created high-level thinking questions related to them. They also have a list of extension activities related to the talk. I highly recommend these. They're designed to be done by students alone, so they're perfect for distance learning. They cover many content areas, so no matter what you're hoping to share, there's probably something there for you.

The Mensa Foundation offers free lesson plans. I designed most of these lesson plans to be done by a student without a teacher, so they're perfect for remote learning. They cover multiple content areas and grade levels, but don't be limited by the grade level bands. Look at the different activities to see if they're a good fit.

While you're at MensaforKids, you can also find lots of educational online practice games. Most kids struggle with ratios, so take the opportunity to have even older students practice that, if nothing else.

The BBC has a whole learning center that is amazing. It's using UK standards, but shockingly, we all teach pretty much the same stuff.

Fall in love with the Smithsonian's Learning Lab. I could write an ode to this resource, truly. Learners need to set up a free account, but once they've done that, oh, friends, it's fabulous. It describes itself as a "free, interactive platform for discovering millions of authentic digital resources, creating content with online tools, and sharing in the Smithsonian's expansive community of knowledge and learning." Your tax dollars at work, friends.

PBS has an entire site for the Ken Burns collection. There are documentaries, documents, and media libraries. It's searchable by grade and content area and standards. So wonderful.

Non-internet activities for learning at home

What's interesting is that the most effective learning experiences at home are just being mindful of daily life and seeing the learning in everyday experiences. I really learned this when I was homeschooling while we lived in Germany.

Here's what I mean:

Cooking:

Have children cook with you. Cooking is science and math and language arts and social studies. They can:

Figure out how to double a recipe.

Identify what kind of food it is (culture).

Think about the process that is cooking the food. How much heat did it take? How long? Play around with the temperature and time - what happens if you cook it longer at a lower temperature?

Have them rewrite the recipe to make it easier to follow.

Have them record themselves making the recipe with you as if you were a cooking show.

Let them go through cookbooks and choose some recipes to try.

Have them create a month's menus and corresponding shopping list.

Home Management:

Make your own cleaners.

Test the bacteria in your house. Here's a great article on a few ways to do that. Then test with different cleaners for practical science!

Try to find the most efficient ways to clean. Can you find a faster way to change the sheets? Can you test different dishwashing liquids? Can you try different ways of cleaning baseboards (foam paint brush, dust cloth, dryer sheet) and compare which works best?

Do a big organizing project on the garage or attic or closet, taking time to take measurements.

Create a photo catalog of the entire house. Have them take photos of everything in every room. It sounds crazy, but it really gives you a feel for how much there is.

Have them create a catalog of all of their toys, including a photo. Note how long they've had it, how often they play with it, why they think it's fun, how it benefits them, etc.

If they're old enough, have them engage with household finance. Our kids were very involved in our family finances, and teaching them about how much of the household budget goes to different areas is helpful. Have them create a budget and even do pie charts of where the money goes. Caveat: If the family is in financial crisis, don't do this.

Games:

Board games are the bomb. They build relationships, teach important social skills, and, if you pick the right (?) game, can last for hours (days that feel like years...).

Consider playing War, but not letting the child take the hand unless they can tell you by how much they won. Here are the rules for War.

Learn a new card game.

Learn how to play a game that is complicated that you don't normally have time to play.

Play two games simultaneously.

Complete puzzles together. Try different methods (Edge first? Sections first?). Time yourself completing a puzzle, then take it apart and time the solving again. How much faster were you? Why do you think you were faster? Repeat. Compare the rate at which your speed is increasing. Are you getting faster at the same rate, or is it slowing down/speeding up?

Reading:

You thought I'd pick this first, didn't you? It's the best and easiest of all at-home analog activities.

In addition to straight up reading, consider having kids:

Organize the home's books

Create a reading plan for someone in the family

Write book reviews (see my how-to's for that)

Try a completely different genre

Re-read a favorite from much earlier

Read to you while you do something that doesn't require thinking

Outside

If you're blessed with a yard or garden, the possibilities are endless.

Do a quick search of "backyard science activities with kids" and I'll see you again in five years.

Kids can obviously help to maintain the yard, but they can also:

Create a catalog of the plants growing, taking pictures of what they look like, recording how old the plant is (may require a guess), taking note of any signs of disease or misplacement.

Draw a plan of the yard to scale. If you have a copy of your home's survey, that's even better because they can trace it.

Photograph the yard from interesting angles, getting really close up, and have people guess which plant it was.

Wrapping Up:

Learning from home can be rewarding and fun and offers a depth that is hard to beat. Hopefully these resources for remote learning will be helpful to you.

If you've got ideas, I'd love to hear them!

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1. Drill and kill. Endless practice problems and low-level thinking. These sites and apps may be spiced up with clip art, sound effects, or a points system, but at their core, it's all memorization and repetition.

2. Lots of info. But nothing to do. Other resources give kids lots of information but have no plan for what kids can do with that information. You see this on educational YouTube channels. Since the video has no clearly defined task to complete, kids end up just letting the next video play. And the video after that. And so on. Lots of input, but no directed output.

At Byrdseed.TV, my goal is to not to give kids lots of information, but to get them thinking! And thinking in new ways.

To get kids thinking, I break each lesson up into several short videos, rarely longer than 2 minutes each. Just enough time for me to introduce the next step, demonstrate it, and move out of the way so they can get to work. At the end of each segment, there is a clear task to complete before starting the next video.

The first task is always purposefully simple. I want students to have success immediately - an easy win to get them started. But the second task will require a little more thought. And the third, a little more than that. I slowly ramp up the complexity to match students' skills.

By the end, your kids will be fully independent, fully active, and fully engaged. If they really like the task, they could work on it for weeks. No joke. I hear this feedback from teachers all the time: kids want to stay in from recess or work at home on something they saw on Byrdseed.TV. In fact, here are real-life teachers sharing their students' interest in Byrdseed.TV lessons!

By the way, all of this is planned out and organized for you. You can even give your kids access to just the videos you want them to see. This video shows you how:

A video is worth a million words, so here's a tour of one of my favorite projects. Starting with a striking image about salads that have more sugar than donuts, your kids will go on a multi-disciplinary investigation as they seek the truth about sugar in healthy foods.

There's over 300 more examples in the library (I've been building this for years). Give it a browse and see what Byrdseed.TV has to offer.

If you work with kids in Grades 3 through 6 (that's ages 8 through 12) and teach multiple subjects, you're probably the ideal person for Byrdseed.TV. That said, I know many folks who teach middle school or even primary grades who love Byrdseed.TV. If you want to give it a shot, I'm happy to refund you if it doesn't work out.

Thousands of folks from around the world use and love Byrdseed.TV. They're from every continent (except Antarctica). Here's what some of them have told me:

Christine in Wisconsin

Kristi in Ohio

Lori in Washington

Jeannette in California

Melissa in North Carolina

Kari in Texas

Wendy in Washington

Tiffany in California

Elizabeth from Florida

Why do teachers love Byrdseed.TV? Well, it's because their students love it too.

One kid summed it up best: "Everything at school is so linear, but Byrdseed makes us think diagonally." I cannot think of a better way to explain what I'm going for!

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If you've used some of the many online resources for kids out there, you've probably noticed that they often suffer from one of these two problems: Drill and kill. Endless practice problems and low-level thinking. These sites and apps may be spiced up with clip art, sound effects, or a points system, but at their core, it's all memorization and repetition.

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The Old Farmer’s Almanac for Kids features fun games, riddles and puzzles, to supplement any online learning for young children.

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November 11 - Veteran's Day

Originally called Armistice Day, today commemorates the signing of the agreement that ended World War I at 11:00 A.M., on November 11, 1918. This federal holiday was changed to be called Veterans Day in 1954. Each year, special ceremonies are held at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia. Consider spending some time online learning more about our nation's veterans.

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Using Google Forms for Daily Student Check-ins

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Using Google Forms for Daily Student Check-ins

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This year I have decided to incorporate a daily check-in into my daily routine with my middle school students. Our school is looking closer at social-emotional health and how as teachers we can keep track of students who are struggling and offer the right support for them.

When I saw Stacy Yung's blog on how she uses Google Forms as a quick way to check-in with students, I knew I had to add this to my classroom. This simple survey is an easy and private way for students to share with me how they doing mentally and what is going on in their lives. I am also using part of Erin's (@makingastatementinsped) mental health check-in options within the form.

Last year, I had students go through some really hard things last year that really affected their academics. If my co-teacher and I had known how they were feeling at the beginning of class, we would have changed how we interacted with them throughout the lesson. We also could have gotten them to chat with a school psychologist before their day got worse.

How I Will Use This In Class
Every day my students will come into class and log into their Chrome Books at their desk. They will go to our Google Classroom and click on the link of this Daily Starter. This check-in should only take a few minutes to fill out while I am taking roll. Then, students will finish the prompt on the board or begin the task I have posted on the board. During this time, I will quickly check their answers.

How to Check the Answers
For those of you new to Google Forms you can check your answers here:

Then, click on the Google Sheets button:

This is where I check their answers quickly to see who is struggling for the day. Within my Google Sheet I used "conditional formatting" so that when a student answers a 1 or 2 or a "struggling" answer in the check-in it will automatically be highlighted red so I can see it easily.
How to Use Conditional Formatting for this Check-In
To have your form automatically highlight your student's answers that indicate they are struggling start by clicking "Format" at the top of the page.

Next, click on "conditional formatting" within the options.

From here a box will pop up on the side. Click on the column you'd like to start with and click on "+ add another rule."

From here, make sure the right range is there. Since I clicked on the "D" column then it should say "D1:D104" in the range box. Then, select the format rule, "Text is exactly." In the box below is where you will put the phrase or number that should be highlighted automatically. Below that, I chose the color red as my highlight color but you can choose whatever you like.

Then, I will add another rule for the same column and in the text box, I will change it to "2" so that if they answer a 1 or a 2 then it will be highlighted.

From here, you can move onto the other column and highlight the answers. For the column where they choose how they are feeling today, I did the same thing I did above but instead, I just copy and paste the answers in the box. That way, if they choose either, "I'm struggling," "I'm struggling and need a check-in," or "I'm a dark place" then it will be highlighted for me. Remember to make a new rule for each phrase!

Phew! Now your Google Sheet is ready to use.
Add The Response Sheet to Your Bookmarks
Personally, I like to add this Google Sheet to my bookmarks so it is easily accessible every day. You can do this by clicking the star next to the url.

Adding the Form to Google Classroom
From here, you can add this check-in to your Google Classroom so that students fill it out every day. This video can show you how to do that easily. I have already started it at the right time for you.
Here is a Copy of My Check-In
If you prefer to just use a copy of my Daily Check-In, you can make a copy here. *Just be sure to add in your own Bitmoji or you can delete the images altogether!

So tell me, will you be using this in your classroom? I'd love to know how you will incorporate it!

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Now students can follow the latest news. All tailored to their reading level. To explore the kids' website, select a grade and discover new stories each week.

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At the Exploratorium, designing tools for teaching and learning is something we do every day-almost all of our exhibits are created and tested here at the museum. The digital tools we create for teaching and learning allow us to push beyond our museum walls and connect with learners and educators everywhere.

From educational media to classroom activities, from a behind-the-scenes look at ideas we're tinkering with to the vast riches of our Explore section, our teaching tools support educators and provide hundreds of ways to play and learn. For all ages, in both formal and informal learning settings, these essential tools spark curiosity, exploration, and understanding.

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HowStuffWorks - Learn How Everything Works!

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HowStuffWorks has been explaining how things work to curious minds since 1998. Providing factual, unbiased content that's fun to read and makes difficult topics easy to understand.

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Starfall Education: Kids Games, Movies, Books & Music for K-5 and above

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At Starfall, children have fun while they learn - specializing in reading, phonics & math - educational games, movies, books, songs, and more for children K-5 and above.

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Sesame Street | Preschool Games, Videos, & Coloring Pages to Help Kids Grow Smarter, Stronger & Kinder

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It’s hard to hold class discussions with no class, right? That’s where this site comes in. It provokes and encourages thoughtful conversations among students online.

What They’re Offering: Parlay is free for all schools through at least April 30. Existing paid users can get a code to make their accounts free until then too. Learn more here.

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Get the most out of Google Classroom and other Google tools with this platform. They offer webinars and other resources to help teachers create and manage the best virtual classrooms.

What They’re Offering: Hapara is providing free access to schools affected by COVID-19/coronavirus through June 2020. Contact them here.

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Teach and learn from home toolkit | Hāpara

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Whether your school is in the middle of a public health crisis, or teachers and learners have been displaced due to a natural disaster, or you’re trying to create a contingency plan for all of the above, Hāpara and G Suite can help you fully move teaching and learning into the cloud. We’ve got all o…

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Create interactive lessons and collaborative spaces for your virtual classroom with these real-time tools.

What They’re Offering: Schools closed due to the outbreak can get free extended access. Contact them here.

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Explain Everything for the classroom

Teach. Learn. Empower.

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Instruct in real time

Create presentations that move at the modern speed of learning. Use video, notation, and audio recording to bring your instruction to life.

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Strengthen leadership and collaboration skills by giving students the tools to create and share their own tutorials, animated stories, and presentations.

Create videos

Teaching that sticks.
Make every activity compelling with easy-to-create videos and interactive experiences. Start from a blank canvas or prepare materials in advance, with the option to provide verbal or visual feedback and adjust content on-the-fly.

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See how others are using Explain Everything to create engaging learning experiences.

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Explore curated staff picks, get tips and tricks, or learn from our tutorial database.
Explore Projects

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Create interactive learning experiences where students and teachers can share thoughts and ideas in real-time.

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What It Is: This site lets you create interactive online lessons using a video clip of your choice. It provides accountability and tracking for student progress, too.

What They’re Offering: Basic plans are always free, and they’re offering additional resources to schools closed due to COVID-19/coronavirus. Contact them here.

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Easily create beautiful interactive video lessons for your students you can integrate right into your LMS. Track students' progress with hassle-free analytics as you flip your classroom!

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Smithsonian

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Discover the digital education platform that connects people to Smithsonian objects, resources, and stories.

Collections by Grade

Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site.

Talk with Me!
Learn about your community and neighborhood. In this Toolkit, leaners explore different homes, shops, and people in your neighborhood and have fun with related activities.

Talk with Me Toolkits provide you with chances to talk with your children to improve thinking, vocabulary, and language development. Talking with your child is great-and research shows that the quality of words children hear matters more than how much you talk.

Talk with Me Toolkits give you ideas to begin conversations that are organized around a theme. The Toolkits feature videos, photographs, paintings, and artworks along with questions to talk about with your child. At the end of each toolkit there are more activities to do and books to read together. Go through this toolkit with your child and see how many topics there are to talk about!
This toolkit was adapted with a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services.

Links to third-party websites and videos are included in this Toolkit for informational purposes only. They do not indicate the Smithsonian's endorsement, sponsorship of, or affiliation with the third party or content of the linked site, including any advertisements that might be posted.

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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

What inspires you? Get to know Alma Thomas, (b. Columbus, Georgia; lived and worked in Washington, DC, 1891-1978), an American artist and educator known for her signature painting style using bright colors and patterns inspired by nature. She became a full-time artist late in her life. Born in a time of horses and buggies, she lived through big advancements in technology, such as the space race and moon landing. Her art was inspired by the nature she saw outside her home studio, and awe for the exploration of our vast universe.
Get To Know Alma Thomas Use it in the classroom to teach:
is part of the Hirshhorn KIDS About the Artist series. About the Artist biographies are designed for kids under age 12. Modern and contemporary artists' lives reflect recent human history and events. Sharing these life stories and artworks can help kids see their own potential and better understand the world and their place in it. It is our goal to inspire future generations of artists, makers, and creative problem solvers-sharing artists stories is one way Hirshhorn KIDS realize this goal.
Art classroom: Color Theory, Pattern

Language Arts classroom: Biography

Social Studies classroom: 20th century

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National Museum of American History

In this playlist you will learn about how three of the first presidents shaped the executive branch of the United States government.

Start by clicking on the first tile in the upper left hand corner. Then move through the playlist by clicking on the ">" symbol at the bottom of the page. Look for the information and paperclip icons to provide more information about selected resources. There are 34 tiles in this collection.

Learn More

Educator Programs

Cultivating Learning is a professional development series where Smithsonian educators model teaching techniques for using digital museum resources to support student learning. This year's series celebrates America at 250. Programs are free and accessible to anyone.

Wednesday, April 15, 4:00 PM EST

Join Phoebe Sherman of the National Postal Museum to explore how postage stamps can be used in the classroom to encourage civic awareness and engagement. We'll examine how stamps can spark curiosity and deepen understanding of civics, American history, national identity, and commemoration by using thinking routines that focus on both subject matter and artistic design. You'll see how these approaches come to life with students and leave with classroom-ready resources and fresh ideas for incorporating postage stamps into your teaching practice.

Watch

Wednesday, May 20, 4:00 PM EST

Join Nyssa Buning of the National Museum of American History's Spark!Lab and Carol O'Donnell of the Smithsonian Science Education Center to explore strategies for cultivating an inventive mindset in your students. We'll discuss the history of STEAM innovation in America and try an open-ended invention challenge that uses object-based learning techniques to encourage creative problem solving and support curiosity and perseverance, skills essential to inventors throughout history. You'll leave with a set of facilitation tools to support students as they develop their own inventive identity and become future problem-solvers. You'll also receive access to a newly released e-book from the Smithsonian Science Education Center, STEAM Innovation: Celebrating Our Nation's 250 Years.

Register

Wednesday, June 17, 4:00 PM EST

As America turns 250 in 2026, young people are writing its next chapter. Join a group of educators who apply interdisciplinary approaches to learning to engage young people in civic dialogue tied to their communities.

Register

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Smithsonian Learning Lab Discover the digital education platform that connects people to Smithsonian objects, resources, and stories. Explore some of our most popular Learning Lab Collections. Use them as a springboard to continue your exploration of the many collections available on the site. Talk with Me! Learn about your community and neighborhood.

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The Digital Resource for Spanish, French, and ESL Teachers.

Schools closed due to the outbreak can get free access to Voces Digital for their teachers and students until June 30, 2020. Contact them here.

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Voces is a collection of World Language titles housed in an easily accessible, web-based platform.

Each title in the Voces library contains vast online resources meant to help both teachers and students get inspired and get ahead in the modern, ever-changing World Language classroom.

Developed with the input and collaboration of teachers, for teachers, Voces Digital is on a mission to define the next era of the World Language classroom. Are you with us?

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"I started using Voces last week and I am very impressed on every level. This is by far the most comprehensive approach I've ever seen covered within any textbook or study guide. The country-related information, maps, interviews, and photos are surely an inspirational, motivational factor for students - exactly what's needed these days for broadening perspectives toward globalization."
-J.K., The Summit Preparatory School, Springfield, Missouri

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Voces Digital - Digital Curriculum Resources for Spanish, French, Italian, German, and ESL

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Rozzy Learning has engaging lesson plans and other resources for science, social studies, math, and STEM for K-8th grade.

What They’re Offering: Free lessons for teachers during school closures. A specific list of lessons have been designated for virtual learning

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Rozzy Career Adventures - Rozzy Learning Company

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Preparing for distanced learning in the fall? Rozzy has lessons for remote and hybrid learning. Contact us to learn more!

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It is web based and highly effective. TypingClub is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools.

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Learn touch typing online using TypingClub's free typing courses. It includes 650 typing games, typing tests and videos.

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This site offers literary and non-fiction reading passages for grades 3-12. Teachers can assign reading and follow-up questions, and track student progress.

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Tynker offers a complete online computer coding curriculum for students K-8. Teachers can get free lessons, projects, and more on the site. Schools impacted by COVID-19/coronavirus can get free access to Tynker’s complete curriculum, including online professional development courses for teachers

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Dear friends:

At Tynker, we're concerned about the impact the COVID-19 coronavirus is having on students and educators. Therefore, as the global leader in computer coding education in schools, we'd like to do our part to help.

If your school or district is planning a closure for preventative health-related reasons, please complete this form to get full access to the entire Tynker curriculum and platform at no cost. This will give you and your students access to our self-paced, on-demand courses until May 2020, but we will happily extend this offer until your school reopens.

In addition to our existing free online professional development, we will be running a series of webinars to train teachers on how to use Tynker in a remote learning environment. Please visit our training page for details and schedules.

If you know of other schools or districts that may be affected, please feel free to forward this email to them. This offer is available to all PreK-12 schools. And, of course, thank you to all the schools that are currently premium subscribers of Tynker, without whom this offer wouldn't be possible.

On behalf of the entire Tynker community, we thank you for what you do every day.

Best regards,

CEO
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Podcast lessons from the best non-fiction storytellers.

Largest library of listening comprehension quizzes for the classroom.

**School closing due to COVID-19? Free Listenwise Premium is available!

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Listenwise | Listening Comprehension Matters

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Explore the best podcast lessons for grade-level rigor. Curriculum aligned lessons with literacy & language supports, great for English Learners. Free sign up!

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Watch PBS Design Squad videos, to learn about science and engineering challenges

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Design Squad is all about bringing creative ideas to life: dream it, build it, live it! Design Squad, a video series and website from PBS KIDS, empowers middle school kids to solve real-world problems and understand the impact of engineering in a global context.

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Is your school closing in response to COVID-19? We are providing additional distance learning support and services to help educators teach online this spring.

Updated 4/30/20
COVID-19 has continued to spread throughout the world and now the United States. Schools around the country are taking steps to protect the health and wellbeing of students and their local communities, which is increasingly resulting in school closures. Some schools are closing for one or two days to thoroughly sanitize commonly touched areas (keyboards, door handles, etc.) or to prepare for potential distance learning in the case of a larger school closing. Other schools have already closed for one or more weeks to reduce the spread of this virus.

To help learning continue when schools close, Edulastic is committed to helping educators with distance learning support and resources. Distance learning can keep students moving through curriculum, minimize additional days tacked on to the end of the year, or simply keep students' minds fresh. Whatever the goal, Edulastic provides a robust platform to deliver worksheets, assessments, or instruction and monitor student progress while away from the classroom.

Edulastic continues to offer free-forever teacher accounts. In response to COVID-19, we want to make distance learning easier and more accessible to everyone. We are providing the following Premium and Enterprise features for free until July 1, 2020.

1. New Features to Support Distance Learning

We want to make connecting with students as easy as possible during this challenging time. We are happy to share that the following new features will be available starting on Wednesday, March 25th, 2020.

➡️ Google Video Classes

Stay connected with students and meet live with your class via a video chat powered by Google Meet. To access this feature, go to the manage class section and open the video chat room. Up to 250 students can join the video chat. Students enter Eduastic and select the "Join Video Class" button to join you and their classmates on the chat. Learn more.

➡️ Required Kiosk Mode

Block the ability for students to move from browser to browser with Required Kiosk Mode. This tool makes it imperative for students to be locked into the assessment browser in order to complete and work on an assessment.

➡️ Timed Assignments

Timed assessments are appealing for a few different reasons: They can reduce cheating and can give you control how much time students have to spend on an assessment. With assigned assessments, you can choose how much time the student has to take an assessment once they open the assessment. Learn more.

➡️ Edulastic on Phones

To increase accessibility to education, our engineers made Edulastic compatible with smartphones. Now when teachers give assignments, lessons, or assessments on Edulastic, students can log in through their phone to answer questions and complete the work. Learn more.

➡️ Google Classroom Co-teacher Sync

Edulastic offers a one-button sync to import all your classes in Google classroom into Edulastic. It's easy and instant! Now, you can also sync your Google Classroom with your co-teacher. Learn more.

➡️ New Upload File Question Type

A new "Upload File" question type encourages students to upload a picture or file of their work in response to a teacher's prompt. You'll see this new option when you go to author a new question. Learn more.
We are continuing to listen to and respond to educator needs at this time. We will continue to update this page as new features are released.

2. Resources for Free Teacher Edulastic Accounts.

Soon available to all: Teachers can access the Express Grader tab from the Live Class Board. This page provides an at-a-glance overview of student answers and scores. When students respond to the assessment on paper, a teacher can quickly enter the answers into the express grader to get the same data and analysis benefits available if the assessment was taken online.

Distance learning involves approaching creative ways to prepare, share, and review work. It also can be dependent on whether students have technology available at home. We are activating the following Premium features for all accounts to assist collaboration between teachers and students.

➡️ Present Mode

Use Present Mode to anonymize names and responses on the Live Class Board so that, as a group, the class can go over the questions and answers on an assessment.
In conjunction with Google Classroom, a teacher can assign an assessment, discuss with students, and then, using Google Hangouts/Meet can share the live dashboard in Present Mode to analyze the class results with students- all in a virtual learning environment.

➡️ Co-Teacher

Team up with another teacher or admin in the district and share rosters, assignments, and data. Adding a co-teacherallows collaboration among colleagues and the ability to respond to student needs, which provides additional distance learning support for everyone.

➡️ Express Grader

If students lack internet or technology in the home, Express Grader will be of particular help. When needed, a teacher can print an assignment in Edulastic and give students a paper-based copy. The students record their answers on the paper-based version. When students return to school and turn in their assignment(s), teachers can efficiently enter the scores or responses using Express Grader. This ensures that you can continue using the automated data analysis tools in Edulastic, yet students don't have to take an assessment digitally to have their progress tracked.

➡️ All Redirect Features

Here's an overview of Redirect, a powerful way to give students another go at an assessment or assignment.

Redirect allows teachers to give students a second chance on an assessment or assignment. This reassign tool is helpful in cases when:

1. Students are absent during the initial assignment or assessment window.

2. Students have inadvertently skipped questions on the assessment and you want to give them the chance to go back and respond

3. Students rushed through an assessment without giving their best effort and you want them to try again.

4. You want to give students additional practice on the assessment.

You'll find the Redirect button on the Live Dashboard. All redirect features are now available to teachers so that students can revisit an assessment or an assignment that they've already attempted.

3. Automated SIS Syncs for all districts and schools.

Enterprise-licensed districts currently have the option of integrating their student information systems with Clever, Canvas or Schoology to automatically sync rosters, student data, teacher and admin accounts, and grades. To minimize the need for manual updates by teachers, these options will be available to all districts with teachers using Edulastic.

If you are interested in taking advantage of this, please first download and follow the instructions below, and then contact our Support Line to let us know you have initiated the integration.

Clever Integration

Canvas Integration

Schoology Integration

Edulastic Support Line: (510) 901-4739

4. Enhanced Online and Phone Support. Expanded Infrastructure.

To make these options work for you, we are adding more resources to our online chat and phone support teams between now and July 1. Our staff attending to these lines of support will be increased - especially during high volume times - so that we can continue to respond to your questions and needs and provide additional .

We have also taken steps to scale our infrastructure to support greater volume on the platform. If it becomes necessary for your district to rely entirely on online learning, we will be prepared to handle the additional load from users.

5. Edulastic Enterprise Free Pilot Opportunities

Are you are a school or district leader looking to pilot Edulastic Enterprise at your campus? We're happy to chat with you. Complete the interest form and your local Edulastic representative will reach out to discuss pilot details and answer any questions you may have. This could be the start of a great new relationship!

6. Distance Learning Support: Additional Resources

At Edulastic, we are always trying to do our best to support the educator community. We are doing what we can at this time to provide distance learning support and give you the tools to stay connected and productive with your students. We hope these additional resources will help you and your students over the next several months as this pandemic unfolds.

We will continue to keep this page up to date with the latest Edulastic resources.

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