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Wide Open School is a free collection of  online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense. A group of more than 25 organizations came together to offer help during the COVID-19 school closures. Wide Open School offers many resources that can be completed offline and on smartphones, as well as bilingual and English-language learner resources.

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Schools are closed. Minds are wide open.

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Supporting Individuals with Autism Through Uncertain Times

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Supporting Individuals with Autism Through Uncertain Times

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AFIRM® published  an excellent  article in downloadable PDF to help students navigate the changes in daily routines brought about by the COVID-19 school closures. The lessons, materials, and links are helpful  tools that guide teachers and families in teaching students safety, good health and hygiene.
Standards Alignment: CA Health Education Standards
Accessibility: High

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Coronavirus Emotional Wellness & Mental Health Support - GiveAnHour®

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Coronavirus Emotional Wellness & Mental Health Support - GiveAnHour®

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Give an Hour® is a national non-profit organization that offers mental health & wellness support & care through national networks of volunteers who are capable of responding to both acute and chronic conditions that arise within our society. Join their ongoing online help & support line to connect with others & learn healthy habits to maintain emotional well-being.  Support is available in both English & in Spanish.

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COVID-19 Emotional Wellness - Give an Hour

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Give an Hour™ is a national nonprofit 501(c)(3), founded in September 2005 by Dr. Barbara Van Dahlen, a licensed clinical psychologist. At Give an Hour we believe that within our communities we have the resources to address many of the challenges that face society - challenges that often result in emotional pain and suffering.

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PBS® in partnership with local stations offers free, standards-aligned videos, interactive activities, lesson plans, etc.  to teach students remotely at home. Videos & materials are downloadable & may be filtered by topic, grade level, & relevance. Below is the Physical Education lessons page.
Standards Alignment: CCSS K-12
Accessibility: Moderate - Webpage may be translated into different languages

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Find lessons on Physical Education for all grades. Free interactive resources and activities for the classroom and home.

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ObjectiveEd® is an online curriculum for students with Visual Impairment. It is free until the end of the 2019-2020 SY. Guidelines for the free subscription are found here & you will need to complete this form & send it to their office.

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Brainpop® offers a free Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics (STEAM) online curriculum to help teachers & families affected by the school closures. Sign up here to create a teacher account.

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Sample Brainpop® Science Lesson on Ants.

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Helpful videos that teach good health & hygiene to protect students against COVID-19.
Standards Alignment: CA Health Education Standards
Accessibility: Website Translation into Different Languages

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HearBuilder® is an online program that develops ability to follow directions, phonological awareness, auditory memory, & sequencing skills for PreK- 8th grade. Below is a sample game for 6th Grade in teaching Auditory Memory. Subscription is free for 30 days for up to 40 students.
Standards Alignment: ELA Literacy Standards -Speaking & Listening
Accessibility: Low

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Download, print, & laminate visual schedules, token boards, First-Then card, Wait Card, etc. Make sure to explain & demonstrate how to use them.
Standards Alignment: Anchor Standards in ELA - Listening & Speaking

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Social Story: Keep Your Hands to Yourself

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Social Story: Keep Your Hands to Yourself

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This Youtube video from WonderGrove Kids® teaches students to keep their hands to themselves. Make sure to explain, demonstrate, & practice the behavior.
Standards Alignment: Anchor Standards in ELA - Listening & Speaking

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This Youtube video from WonderGrove Kids® teaches students to put their toys away. Make sure to explain, demonstrate, & practice the behavior.
Standards Alignment: Anchor Standards in ELA - Listening & Speaking
Accessibility: Close Captioning

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Tips for Parents of Students who are DHH

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Tips for Parents of Students who are DHH

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This packet in downloadable PDF created by Cristina Levin are helpful communication tools for parents of students who are DHH.
Standards Alignment: Speaking & Listening
Accessibility: Low

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Epic®  is a free online reading tool for teachers that students from Pre-K to 12th Grade, can access at home. It's free for parents to use for 30 days.
Standards Alignment: ELA-Literacy K-12
Accessibility: High

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The ClassDojo® is a free online application for smartphones, tablets, PC & laptop devices that helps teachers & parents communicate & also has a remote teaching  platform.
Accessibility: Capable of Languages Translation

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This brief, 4-minute video gives an overview of the ClassDojo Remote Learning program.

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Dangerous Decibels Virtual Exhibit® (DHH Resource)

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Dangerous Decibels Virtual Exhibit® (DHH Resource)

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This Virtual Exhibit is a collection of games, demonstrations & activities from OMSI-OHSU®. It teaches students about sources of  dangerous sounds, the effects of listening to them, & how to protect themselves.
Standards Alignment: NGSS

MS-LS1-3

Accessibility: Low

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Sample of the Dangerous Decibels Virtual Exhibit Activities.

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Education.com® is an online resource for teachers and parents that offers worksheets, activities, & interactive games. Sign up to access some of them for free. Other resources will require paid subscription. Here are some of their sample worksheets.
Standards Alignment: CCSS Pre-K -5
Accessibility: Low

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Sightwords.com® offers free online resources to help teach Reading & Math for Pre-K to 3rd. The Dolch Sight Word flash cards below in downloadable PDF  may be sent to parents for use at home. Remember to send ONLY the cards the students are working on so the parents are not overwhelmed. Ask if they need help printing the cards & make sure to demonstrate how to use them with their child.
Standards Alignment: Reading Foundational Skills K-5
Accessibility: Low

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E-learning Resources for Students who are DHH

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E-learning Resources for Students who are DHH

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Central Institute for the Deaf (CID)® offers online resources to assist teachers & families  of students who are  Deaf & Hard of Hearing (DHH) affected by the COVID-19 school closures. Click here for their Virtual Activities Resources, one of which is a good resource on captioning videos for the students.

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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives. At CID, we understand the anxiety and stress many teachers and SLPs are facing when it comes to remotely supporting children with hearing loss. Our staff and teachers are facing these same feelings. In fact, many of us are parents ourselves and are looking to balance "home schooling" with remote working. It's a scary time, but we're doing our part to make it a little less stressful.

To help our colleagues in the field, we've collected the following resources on this page. We hope you can use these to support your remote teaching efforts and your own professional development during this time. If you know of a resource we could add, please let us know at professionaldevelopment@cid.edu.

Thank you for all that you do for your students!

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Support deaf and heard of hearing students with e-learning resources

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The COVID-19 pandemic has upended our lives. At CID, we understand the anxiety and stress many teachers and SLPs are facing when it comes to remotely supporting children with hearing loss. Our staff and teachers are facing these same feelings. In fact, many of us are parents ourselves and are looking to balance "home schooling" with remote working.

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TouchMath® is a multisensory math program for Pre-K to Upper Grade. When you sign up for free as an educator here you will be able to download a grade level workbook packet. It also offers free downloadable activities you can share with parents.  To help out with the COVID-19 school closures, it now offers Free Basic & Pro-Edition TouchMath® Mobile Apps which are good tools to teach math concepts or supplement learning.
Standards Alignment: CCSS K-8
Accessibility: Moderate

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Here are some examples of structured materials that help students with moderate to severe disabilities understand learning & behavior expectations. Some of the materials are easy to create, while some will need applications such as Boardmaker®, Symbol Styx®, and other resources you can find online.

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You can send these visual schedules in downloadable PDF to parents and explain how to use them at home in teaching self-care skills to their child. Ask parents if they need help in printing the materials.
Standards Alignment:

College & Career Readiness Anchor Standards for Reading

Accessibility: High

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Amazing Handwriting Worksheets® is an online writing resource that helps teachers & parents print custom writing worksheets for their students. You can save the document as a PDF File or send it directly to your printer.
Standards Alignment: ELA Standards in Writing K-5
Accessibility: Moderate

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This is a video example of how to use this resource to print a work sheet with the student's name.

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GoNoodle® engages students with movement & mindfulness videos that are aligned with instruction in ELA, Math, Music, Science, Mindfulness, etc. Sign up for free here.
Standards Alignment: CCSS ELA, Math, Science K-8
Accessibility: Low

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Sample 2-minute Movement Activity that incorporates Body Awareness.

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Managing Anxiety & Stress During Difficult Times

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Managing Anxiety & Stress During Difficult Times

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The Center for Disease Control (CDC) gives parents guidelines in managing mental health & coping ability during the outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).

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Coping with a Disaster or Traumatic Event

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CDC’s Coping with a Disaster or Traumatic Event Web page informs on steps that families, community and organizational leaders, state and local government, and emergency responders can take to help themselves and others cope

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The Imagine Project® gives educators & parents mindfulness tools to help develop resilience in students during these stressful times brought about by the  COVID-19 outbreak. Sign up here for free  & you will get  the download links to Imagine Journals for various grade levels in English and/or Spanish .
Standards Alignment: ELA Literacy Standards -Speaking & Listening
Accessibility: Low

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Mindfulness is a bit of a buzzword in society today. Most people have heard of it, but many are confused about what mindfulness really means. It's common to think it's only about meditation, but in reality is simply means focusing your awareness on the present moment; calmly noticing your emotions and physical sensations without judgment as you are doing whatever you happen to be doing. You can be mindful as you do just about anything from sitting quietly and breathing, to drawing, eating, or playing in the sand.

The benefits of mindfulness are plentiful. According to the research on mindfulness with adults and children, mindfulness improves immune function (fewer illnesses), increases concentration, improves self-acceptance and self-esteem, strengthens resilience, helps to control anger, hyperactivity, and decrease stress.

Because our kids are more stressed than ever, they need our help by giving them tools to cope with their challenging lives. Prolonged and/or intense stress takes a toll on a child (and adult) causing anxiety, depression, acting out, physical illness, and learning issues-good reasons to mitigate stress early using a variety of forms of mindfulness.

Mindfulness creates resilience because it promotes an understanding of one's emotions, the ability to control emotions, and a deeper sense of knowing what we are fully capable of.

The trick for parents and teachers is taking time to consciously infuse mindfulness into your day and/or evening. When you do, you will see the changes in yourself and your child-building resilience all around.

Here are some tricks for parents:

Sit together and have a snack. Talk about the snack and its characteristics; your favorite flavor, its texture, its temperature. Really noticing what you're eating helps you be in the moment instead of worrying about anything else. To be playful, make funny faces to show your opinion of a food, or come up with creative ideas for weird meals.

Do a puzzle together.

Go for a walk and talk about the trees, birds, bugs, or grass.

Read a book together. Talk about the book and what you both thought about the story and characters.

Ask your child about the weather inside their hearts-sunny, cloudy, bright, rainy, or stormy. Be curious about their day and its highs and lows.

Write your Imagine stories together (go towww.theimagineproject.org).

Play a game, anything from peek-a-boo and hide-and-go-seek to card games or board games.

Cook together.

Chase bubbles.

Look at the clouds and find formations in them.

Pick a country on the world map and research it.

Draw, color, and create together.

Tell a story at bedtime, real or fictional.

Using a chime or singing bowl at bedtime, listen to the sound together until the sound is completely gone, ring it again if you'd like.

Any one of these activities needs to be your full focus for at least 15 minutes, even longer if possible; no distractions, just one-on-one attention while you are being mindful of the present moment. The above suggestions are forms of mindfulness you can do together. If your kids are up for it, you can sit quietly and listen to a meditation together (go to www.soundstrue.com), maybe someday they will do it on their own! What a great way to do something together that is peaceful and helpful.

For teachers:

Establish daily mindfulness routines for students to become familiar with.

Begin the day with a mindful moment. Have the students close their eyes and breathe in and out slowly to a count of 5-5 breaths while breathing in and 5 while breathing out. Ring a chime or use a singing bowl-have them listen until the sound is gone. The sound will be helpful because it's training them to be calm while listening which will help later in the day when you need them to gather themselves and calm down.

Take a 5-10 minute break during the day to color, do a fun yoga pose or two, or even some jumping jacks-have them notice their bodies once they are finished moving.

Put an interesting but obscure picture up and have them write down what they see, or even draw a mirror image of the picture. Discuss all the possibilities it could be.

Have students write an Imagine story (see theimagineproject.org for free journal downloads).

Practicing mindfulness will pay off at school, at home, in sports, even within yourself. Stress is almost impossible to get away from in our complicated world so we must show kids how to help themselves. Helping themselves creates resilience, hope, and a society of giving, caring, and successful kids and adults.

The Imagine Project, Inc., a nonprofit organization that helps kids, teens, and adults overcome challenging life circumstances through expressive writing. Dianne is a thought leader in the area of stress and trauma in children. Her simple, yet profound 7-step writing tool, now used by schools across the US, gives kids and teens the opportunity to rewrite a challenging personal story and Imagine new possibilities in its place.

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Building Resilience in Stressed Kids using Simple Mindfulness Techniques - The Imagine Project

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Youtube® & YouTube Kids® have  good video resources that educators & parents can use when teaching  students  concepts such as body awareness & stress management.  Below is an example by Fablefly®. Make sure  to carefully  pick the video based on your student's cognitive  level. Explain & demonstrate to parents how to use it at home.
Standards Alignment: ELA Literacy Standards -Speaking & Listening
Accessibility: High

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Mindfulness for Kids : What does being present mean?

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News2You (N2Y), a part of the Unique Learning System online curriculum, is a program that teaches students with disabilities about current events. Sign up here for free to receive sample newspaper & worksheets. Paid subscription is required to access the full curriculum online. You can also request for a free trial.
Standards Alignment: Reading Standards K-5, ELA -History/Social Studies 6-12

Accessibility: High

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Watch a guided tour of how the symbol-supported newspaper helps students both reach literacy goals and create connections to the world.

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This web page created by Gintare Daukantaite through Zeef® lists resources related to the Deaf world such as learning and expanding knowledge of American Sign Language, Deaf culture, tutorials, apps, etc.

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Useful resources for learning American Sign Language (ASL): books, videos, courses, etc. Everything you need to be able to communicate by signs! (*Pictures: Nancy Rourke paintings)

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PBS Kids®  offers free, curriculum-based entertainment through the  PBS KIDS Video app,  PBS KIDS Games app,  &  PBS KIDS 24/7 channel. Parents can sign up here for free to receive  newsletters that have activities & tips to help kids play and learn at home.
Standards Alignment: CCSS K-5
Accessibility: Moderate

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Games . Moonlight Mazes | ARTHUR | Official Site | PBS KIDS

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The official site for ARTHUR on PBS KIDS. Enjoy interactive games, videos, and fun with all your ARTHUR friends!

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SesameStreet.org® contains a variety of the show's video clips & educational games that help teach young children about  letters, animal sounds, rhymes, colors, etc. In support of the families & schools affected by the COVID-19 outbreak, Sesame Street® published these helpful tips, Elmo® videos, & downloadable activities online.

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Your friends on Sesame Street are here to support you during the COVID-19 crisis. Our site is filled with rich content you can use with children to spark playful learning, offer them comfort, and help your whole family thrive.

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COVID-19: Tips for Parents by Dr. Barbara Stroud 

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Dr. Stroud is a licensed clinical & developmental psychologist & founding organizer & president of the CA Association for Infant Mental Health. In the video presentation below, she shares some helpful information to parents & caregivers in managing the emotional & developmental needs of their children during this crisis. She stresses the importance of building resilience in young children & how adults can foster this skill.

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Resources for Students with Autism - C.A.P.T.A.I.N.® 

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Resources for Students with Autism - C.A.P.T.A.I.N.® 

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California Autism Professional Training and Information Network (CAPTAIN)® offers online resources in their Padlet to assist teachers & families of students with Autism affected by the school closures. The Padlet is also available in Spanish and includes helpful video resources such as the one below by the Indiana Resource Center for Autism®:

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Autism House: Visual Supports for the Home (Part 1)

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XtraMath - 10 minutes a day for math fact fluency

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XtraMath is a free program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

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The National Secondary Transition Technical Assistance Center (NSTTAC) published a Transition Fair Tool Kit that offers useful tools such as Pocket Resume, Mock Interview Tips, etc. that helps students with disabilities transition from school to work. Below are some samples

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Steve Tenpas, author of the book, Job Coaching Strategies, in partnership with Attainment®,  developed this helpful video that offers strategies for Job Coaches in supporting their transition students towards successful employment.

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Science Experiment: Washing Hands with Soap

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Science Experiment: Washing Hands with Soap

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Nexstar Media Group & Fox40 published this simple science experiment that teaches kids about surface tension & the importance of soap when washing hands.

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ALTOONA, Pa. ( WTAJ) - An experiment has been floating around the internet showing the importance of washing your hands with soap. Here's why it works.

This experiment can be done at home with simple household ingredients.

What you need:

Instructions:

Pour water onto your plate. Wait for the water to calm, and then shake some pepper into the water.

Pepper will represent a virus in this experiment.

Take your finger and stick it into the water and pepper. Notice how the pepper sticks to your finger.

Now either wash your hands, or put soap onto your finger then put your finger back into the plate. Watch how the pepper moves to the side of the plate quickly.

Science:

Water molecules like to cling to each other, because of this it creates surface tension. The surface tension allows it to resist other outside forces.

Pepper is not attracted to water, which will allow the pepper to float on top of the surface of the water due to the surface tension.

When you stick your finger in it that isn't clean, the pepper sticks to your hand. When you use soap, it quickly moves away. This is because soaps are meant to break the surface tension so that it can clean an object.

This makes the water molecules carry the pepper with them as the tension is broken. This is why it's important to use soap and water to wash your hands. It will make the viruses want to move away.

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ALTOONA, Pa. (WTAJ) - An experiment has been floating around the internet showing the importance of washing your hands with soap. Here's why it works. This experiment can be done at home with simple household ingredients. What you need: Plate Water Dish Soap Pepper Instructions: Pour water onto your plate.

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COVID-19 School Closure Resources - C.A.P.T.A.I.N. 

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COVID-19 School Closure Resources - C.A.P.T.A.I.N. 

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Resources and guidance during school closures from the California Autism Professional Training & Information Network (CAPTAIN),  a cross agency network that supports the understanding & use of evidence based practices (EBPs) for individuals affected by Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD) across the state of CA.

Click here for the Spanish version.