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Google Arts and Culture brings top museums from around the world to our screens. Teachers can conduct virtual reality tours of these museums with their students, zoom in to details of an art piece to explain their technique or meaning, and pose questions to students about the connections between art and history. Artifacts can be easily shared on Google Classroom.

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The Brooklyn Museum has an impressive collection of art and a wealth of information about artists and artwork available online. They also offer online summer camps for kids ages 8-13.

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PBS Kids website is well known among elementary students for his fun and educational games. Their interactive read-aloud books, especially the Stories of Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood, are beautifully illustrated and contain powerful messages about diversity, working together in the community, and more. The books are available in English and Spanish.

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With Flipgrid, teachers can post open-ended questions and ask students to reply on camera. Students can create short presentations in which they brainstorm ideas or share their own stories. Feedback can be provided immediately and teachers have the option to share a student’s video with the rest of the class to generate discussion or showcase exemplary work. Flipgrid is available as a downloadable app or directly on their website.

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National Geographic Explorer Classroom offer free, easy-to-join and exciting weekly  live sessions with renowned experts that offer tours of different places around the world. Parents and kids can join in and connect with others as they learn about the history, geography, culture and the environment of entire countries and regions. Sessions are available in English and Spanish.

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The GeoGebra team has put together a collection of over 300 resources on a wide range of topics, from shapes and place value to the coordinate plane. Some of these activities seem very good for elementary students, for example, the Cash Register activity and all the activities about the properties of two-dimensional figures. I have personally used the Coordinate Plane and Area and Perimeteractivities with my former middle school students. I found them useful as presentation and practice tools.

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The Math Learning Center offers 11 online apps that can be used in a web browser or by downloading them at the Apple App Store (or the Chrome Store). A few of these apps support sharing as well, so students can collaborate. I have used the number line web app and found it particularly helpful when I taught fractions, as well as when introducing integers.

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The CK-12 website has digital textbooks that are interactive and customizable. There are also  study guides that come  with the digital textbooks. I have mainly used their Physics and Chemistry simulations, which are made on HTML5 (not flash) and are interactive. For elementary, Grade K-5 Science Flexbooks present scientific concepts in developmentally appropriate ways, and they can be used for reading comprehension and/or as part of other enrichment activities.

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The University of Colorado Boulder has maintained a website with interactive science simulations for years. Now, the simulations have been converted to HTML5 and many offer additional accessibility features  such as keyboard navigation, auditory descriptions and the use of sonification.

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There is always BrainPop Jr and BrainPop, a collection of animated videos, quizzes, and other activities that adults can assign to students in K-8. Concepts in BrainPop are never watered down, and students are always exposed to accurate scientific facts and ideas.

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Little Sports is a series of animated videos in YouTube that feature different types of exercise, including arms, back and morning exercises.

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Swift Playgrounds is an app for the iPad and Mac computers that make learning Apple’s programming language Swift easy and interesting. Puzzles are available for kids to develop computational thinking skills in an intuitive way. I recommend it for upper elementary students, especially the puzzles “Hello, Code” and “Learn to Code 1 and 2”.

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ScratchJr (for Pre-K-2) is available as an app on the Apple Store and Google Play, while Scratch has its own website where students can start programming games, animations and interacting stories using blocks.  Students that start early on Scratch will have an advantage over others in the future when programming with more advanced languages such as Java or C++.

]]> 2020-07-24 05:02:42 UTC https://padlet.com/jealeman/7zrs3ty7o7uissp4/wish/661641085 jealeman https://padlet.com/jealeman/7zrs3ty7o7uissp4/wish/662022464 The Metropolitan Museum of New York has a space made for kids #metkids. It consists of a full canvas of the museum that can be moved around and has many links to art pieces, galleries and entire 3D sections of the museum. The museum's website has more than 400,000 high resolution public domain images that can de downloaded.]]> 2020-07-24 18:12:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jealeman/7zrs3ty7o7uissp4/wish/662022464