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Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world's treasures online.

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Live visits 2x a day o Facebook. Library of all their past virtual visits - find it by scrolling down on this site.

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Virtual Visits - South Carolina Aquarium

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While the Aquarium remains temporarily closed to the public in order to prevent the spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), we want to stay connected!

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Audible has made ALL of the story collection free and accessible to families on all devices.

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Khan Academy - Resources for Families and Teachers - Online Learning

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Khan Academy - Resources for Families and Teachers - Online Learning

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Collection Online | The Guggenheim Museums and Foundation

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Explore more than 1,700 modern and contemporary artworks by artists from around the globe in the Guggenheim's famed art collection.

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Create a new document and edit with others at the same time -- from your computer, phone or tablet. Get stuff done with or without an internet connection. Use Docs to edit Word files. Free from Google.

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Everything from lessons to units to whole courses. Open Education Resources are free for use to anyone.

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Distance Learning - Google for Education

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Whether fully virtual, fully in-person or something in between, explore resources to help you customize a plan that's best for your school, and for your students.

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NO registration is required to take these free on-demand fieldtrips.

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Join us for our Virtual Field Trips or watch them on-demand after their premieres. Each no-cost Virtual Field Trip comes with a companion guide packed with standards-aligned, hands-on learning activities! Select one of the options below to register.

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Take students beyond the classroom and into some of the world's most iconic locations with virtual field trips. Learn more!

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Adaptable lessons, mini-assessments, text sets, math tasks - aligned to standards.

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Provide relevant texts that consider complexity, academic success, cultural competence, and critical consciousness.

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Smithsonian Tween Tribune - Teacher Resources

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Smithsonian Tween Tribune - Teacher Resources

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Articles, lesson plans and student materials for multiple content areas and grade levels

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Smithsonian Distance Learning
The Smithsonian is committed to supporting teachers and their students around the globe as they face unprecedented new learning challenges. At the Learning Lab, teachers have access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. You will also find pre-packaged collections that contain lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators as well as thousands of classroom teachers like you.

Smithsonian Music
Did you know that the Smithsonian's combined musical resources constitute the world's largest museum of music? Music is an integral part of the Smithsonian's connective tissue, spanning a remarkable number and diversity of collections, programs and exhibitions. Visit this site, created for the 2019 Year of Music, to tap into the Smithsonian's bounty of educational resources, music videos, collection spotlights and more.

The Look of the Listen: The Cover Art of Folkways Records
From 1948 to 1986, Folkways Records produced over 2,000 recordings of remarkable breadth and diversity. This virtual exhibition from Smithsonian Folkways presents the look of Folkways through an exploration of the cover art and design of this extraordinary recording company.

Musical Math-terpiece: The Art of Piet Mondrian
In this lesson from the Cooper-Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, middle school students will learn about the life and art of Piet Mondrian, his style influenced by jazz music and his technique using spatial concepts. Students will create a painting in Mondrian's non-objective style.

Louis Armstrong Education Kit
This History Explorer kit of guided listening activities and streaming music offers an engaging way of introducing students to jazz. It traces Louis Armstrong's career as a musician, from influences in African rhythms and New Orleans marches through performances in the 1960's and 70's. It could be used as an introduction to using music and sound recordings as primary sources.

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Smithsonian Distance Learning The Smithsonian is committed to supporting teachers and their students around the globe as they face unprecedented new learning challenges. At the Learning Lab, teachers have access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more.

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Google Classroom is a powerful tool that allows teachers and students to create assignments, turn in work, grade assignments, share resources, have class discussions, and much more.

Classroom is constantly improving with new features. To help schools make the most out of Classroom, I have put together a series of videos on how to use this tool.

My goal for these videos is to keep them as short as possible, and have each one cover just a single topic. This way users can find just the information they need and can watch it quickly. Also, since Google Classroom gets frequent updates, it will be easier for me to replace a small video when it becomes outdated with a new version.

I plan to continue adding more videos to this series, so please let me know what Google Classroom topics or questions you would like me to address in a future video. See below for the current list of my Classroom help videos.

Google Classroom Help Videos

You can use the links below to open each video on YouTube, or scroll further down to watch any of the videos embedded in this blog post.

How to Create a Classroom (3 minutes)

How to Add Students (3 minutes)

How to Post to the Stream (4 minutes)

How to Add Materials to the Classwork Page (4 minutes)

How to Create an Assignment on the Classwork Page (7 minutes)

How Students Complete Assignments (5 minutes)

How to Grade Assignments (5 minutes)

Post by Eric Curts. Connect with me on Twitter at twitter.com/ericcurts

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Video Series: How to Use Google Classroom

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Tune in each weekday to Cleveland Metroparks free Virtual Classroom sponsored by Raising Cane's on Facebook Live and learn about nature, discover native wildlife and see your favorite animals at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo.

Mondays through Fridays at 11 a.m. visit Cleveland Metroparks Zoo's Facebook Page to join our biologists who are working to secure a future for wildlife at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Check-in with your favorite Zoo animals and learn about what it takes to care for some of the most endangered species in the world. Then, at 1 p.m., visit Cleveland Metroparks Facebook Page to join our park naturalists as we explore the Emerald Necklace and look for early signs of spring, learn about the forest floor, birds and more.

We hope the virtual classrooms will help keep families busy and engaged, perhaps inspiring independent outdoor exploration alongside Cleveland Metroparks.

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Tune in each weekday to Cleveland Metroparks free Virtual Classroom sponsored by Raising Cane's on Facebook Live and learn about nature, discover native wildlife and see your favorite animals at Cleveland Metroparks Zoo. Mondays through Fridays at 11 a.m.

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Daily paired texts are a good start for writing or discussion in multiple content areas.

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ReadWorks.org | Solving the Reading Comprehension Crisis

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Home ​Products & Features ​Teacher Guide The Crisis Add Your Testimonial

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Many Scholastic resources are now open for family and educator use.

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Raise a reader by getting the best book recommendations, reading tips, and discounts delivered straight to your inbox.

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All of the Paired Books by Title and Lesson In Book Flix  (K-4)

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All of the Paired Books by Title and Lesson In Book Flix  (K-4)

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Go to Infohio.org click on K-5 resources - then select Book Flix - this is how your students would access the book pairs.  All of these can be shared in Google Classroom - you will see the little classroom icon on each pair.

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NSTA is offering free 30 days of membership - and access to all of their resources.

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Congratulations to the National Winners!

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Resources and related lessons plans for American History

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Civics for All of US Civics for All of US is the new education initiative from the National Archives that promotes civic literacy and engagement. DocsTeach Teach with documents using our online tool. Explore primary sources. Discover fun and engaging teaching activities. Create your own online or print activities for your students!

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Kids Info Bits all magazines you like from your classroom - Scholastic, Nat Geo, Highlights, Cricket

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Ohio's PreK-12 Digital Library. Optimized by the Management Council.

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Step by step directions for Tier 1, 2 and 3 Google Classroom Users - With Screenshots. WHEN YOU CLICK ON THE LINK - CHOOSE OPEN IN NEW WINDOW AT THE TOP RIGHT OF THE SCREEN.

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Bay Rockets eLearning Guide to Google Classroom

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The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

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The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History

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Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History

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The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits and areas within the museum from their desktop or mobile device. Visitors can also access select collections and research areas at our satellite support and research stations as well as past exhibits no longer on display.

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Something for all content areas. Includes text sets, partner texts and complete units - all adaptable to online learning.

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JiJi the Penguin and its visual math activities are now available for free to districts.

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ST Math | A Program For Conceptual Understanding

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Providing PreK-8 with an instructional program that engages students in game based puzzles and challenging problems to embrace productive struggle.

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Get an inside look at NASA Glenn Research Center's facilities. Select a tour and tap the icons to view videos, images and see testing in action.

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Lessons and instructional materials tied to primary source collection.

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