A podcast where we use our imaginations to talk about the things that matter, with the people that matter most. Each episode tells a story that’s amazing, fantastical, and maybe a little bananas, while it tackles the big feelings that come with growing up. And the Imagine Neighborhood gives you and your kids fun activities to do at home, in the car, or anywhere you talk to each other.
As part of its mission to advance excellent teaching in American schools, Annenberg Learner funds and distributes educational video programs – with coordinated online and print materials – for the professional development of K-12 teachers. Many programs are also intended for students in the classroom and viewers at home, with videos that exemplify excellent teaching. Annenberg Learner also partners with impactful organizations to provide other means of achieving this goal. As part of the Annenberg Foundation, Learner supports the Foundation’s mission to encourage the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.
This series of 18 video lessons helps children learn how to identify worry as an uncomfortable feeling, and identify a grown-up to talk to when they feel worried. This may be a particularly helpful lesson now because children may be feeling more worried during the COVID-19 crisis.
Free music education for those without access is having a profound impact on the positive development of our kids. Check out our new online courses that are created for our students but are accessible to everyone regardless of financial status. We believe that music is medicine for the soul and improves mental, physical and spiritual health. Free online courses in Guitar, Singing, Music Theory, Piano, Percussion, Songwriting, Musical Theater and more. Even a Singing at Home with Your Little Ones course with 12 lessons.
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation operates the world’s largest living history museum in Williamsburg, Virginia—the restored 18th-century capital of Britain’s largest, wealthiest, and most populous outpost of empire in the New World. With schools closed, social distancing recommended around the world, Colonial Williamsburg closed, and those who can working from home, we’re gathering materials here so you can escape to the 18th-century, learn a little and find some entertainment. You’ll find Videos, Live interactions, Virtual Field Trips, Music, Arts &Crafts, Cooking.
At the Colonial Williamsburg Education Resource Library for Teachers (https://www.colonialwilliamsburg.org/learn/teachers/), you’ll find a variety of materials for teaching and learning American history and civics, including videos, interactive learning games, lesson plans, and more. Video programs are designed for grades 4-8, but have been used successfully in other grade levels as well.
Pixar in a Box is designed to help students answer an age old question: “Why do I need to learn this stuff?” Our answer is found in a series of interactive lessons that demonstrate that the very same concepts that students learn in school are used to make movies at Pixar. We have content appropriate for grade 3 and up.
The Science Behind Pixar exhibition has been designed to let visitors experience the art, science, computer science, and math that Pixar uses to create their groundbreaking films. This website features some of the activities, videos, and images from the exhibition that describe the math, computer science, and science that go into making computer animated films. This exhibition was developed by the Museum of Science, Boston in collaboration with Pixar Animation Studios. There are free materials for hands-on, unplugged activities to use with this virtual exhibit at http://sciencebehindpixar.org/educators.
One of the world’s largest science centers and New England’s most attended cultural institution, the Museum of Science introduces approximately 1.4M visitors a year to STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math), through the world-class hands-on exhibits, and programs. Now, through its new #MOSatHome platform, delivering the Museum experience to families and educators online with a host of live stream events, webinars, podcasts, family STEM activities and more.
With students’ learning going digital, and friends and family shifting to video chats versus in-person hangouts, it can be difficult to manage our screentime. When we look at screens for extended periods of time, it can affect our quality of sleep. Depending on what the content is, it can also increase our anxiety and tire out our brain. So how do you keep you and your family entertained without switching on the TV or pulling out the iPad?
Blend art, design and hands on creativity with STEM concepts using materials readily available in the home. Design challenges are created as a collaboration of the 3DuxDesign team and community professionals ranging from artists to authors, engineers and scientists. High interest, high engagement
British architecture studio Foster + Partners found a way to keep children entertained during the lockdown. They have released a series of paper building templates that kids can print out, color and use to build their own paper cities to keep themselves busy. The studio even encourages children to share their own creations on social media using the #architecturefromhome hashtag! More information can be found here: https://www.fosterandpartners.com/news/archive/2020/04/architecturefromhome/
Writing prompts, Lessons from the News, Mindfulness, TikTok, Crafts and Author Readings including posts/videos from well known YA and Middle Grade Authors like John Green, Matt de la Peña and Elizabeth Acevedo
Unite for Literacy has a mission to ensure that all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their cultures and languages.
Bring joyful reading into your classroom with UniteBooks.com, a digital library for preschool and primary learners that’s free and easy to use for teachers and families alike. Can use on a computer or as an app on the tablet.
Unite Books are short, colorful, and easy to understand with picture/text format and narration in home languages. Listen to narrations in more than 40 languages – great for dual language children and families! No logins, ads, or gaming; the site is safe for use in schools. Read text in English or Spanish. Images and text throughout the library reflect the diverse makeup of the U.S.
The Smithsonian Institution’s 19 museums, galleries, gardens and National Zoo remain active in the digital sphere, making it easy for museum lovers, creatives and lifelong learners alike to experience its offerings from the comfort of their couch. To help readers narrow down their search, Smithsonian magazine has compiled a list of virtual experiences that cater to an array of interests. Whether you’re in the mood to peruse the National Portrait Gallery’s presidential portrait collection, explore the engineering marvels of the Inka Empire or remix one of the 2.8 million images available through Smithsonian Open Access, this roundup has you covered.
In addition to highlighting virtual views, many Smithsonian museums offer exhibitions optimized for digital audiences.
Watch the latest Neil Gaiman videos and see Neil (and some famous friends!) read The Graveyard Book and Coraline in their entirety.
The National Council of Teachers of English Children’s Literature Assembly offers a bi-weekly blog with resources for preK-university educators. Each entry highlights a great online resource available for teachers and how it might be effectively utilized or offers a description of a short lesson using children’s literature that educators can use in their newly located classes.
Fun science experiments you can do at home
We know that parents, educators, and girls are looking for support and connection during these challenging times. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, which has led to school closures and significant disruption to daily life, Girls Who Code is making CS educational activities available for download free of charge, to anyone who wants to access them. We will release activities weekly — some online, some offline, of varying levels of difficulty—over the course of the next few months. Each activity will include a feature of a woman in tech who pioneered innovative technology.
This website offers hundreds of educational and grade-appropriate craft ideas that you can do at home.
Using Google Tour Builder, students can create customized tours that combine photos, text, and targeted locations on Google Earth. These could be used to create tours that explore current events, historical periods or phenomena, science or geography topics, global research topics, students’ personal histories or future plans, or completely fictionalized stories that take place in various locations around the world.
If you’ve found yourself teaching in a distance-learning situation, especially if it’s been foisted upon you by circumstance, you’ll discover pretty quickly that distance learning offers different challenges from face-to-face instruction. And if you look online, you’ll find tons of ideas and resources that can help you tackle those challenges, so much that it’s easy to get paralyzed at the volume of it all. This is especially true if you’re expected to hit the ground running with very little notice. To help you, I’m going to take my best shot at sharing clear, carefully curated information on distance learning.
The SAG-AFTRA Foundation’s award-winning children’s literacy website, Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.
Reading aloud to children has been shown to improve reading, writing and communication skills, logical thinking and concentration, and general academic aptitude, as well as inspire a lifelong love of reading. Teachers use Storyline Online in their classrooms, and doctors and nurses play Storyline Online in children’s hospitals.
Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator, aiming to strengthen comprehension and verbal and written skills for English-language learners.
Free reading tips and resources to make reading at home fun and easy! In both English and Spanish. Support families in helping their children (grade PreK-3) build reading habits and reach reading goals
The teacher page features a two-week family engagement plan, complete with daily messages to parents. We’re also offering free virtual PDs and PLCs, led by teachers, for teachers. These will prepare teachers to lead Family-Educator Learning Accelerators, or FELAs, which are 5-10 week cycles during which teachers and parents share a game plan to help children reach reading goals. Can you think of a better way to support learning amidst school closures?
Get creative–and maybe messy–with ideas for things to do inside and outside. Make a stop motion film, guitar, plant a garden and more …
Justice Sandra Day O’Connor founded iCivics with the goal of transforming civic education for every student in America with innovative, truly engaging games and resources. iCivics works because we make the subject come alive. Our innovative games and supporting classroom resources teach young people to understand how our political systems work by allowing them to experience it first-hand and empowering them to address real-world issues.
iCivics is popular with students because it’s fun. But teachers are fast adopting iCivics because our free digital resources are high quality, easily adaptable for their classroom needs, standards-aligned and effective.
Welcome to Wonderopolis®, a place where natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of all ages. Each day, we pose an intriguing question—the Wonder of the Day®—and explore it in a variety of ways. Wonderopolis was created by the National Center for Families Learning (NCFL). The excitement of learning that comes from curiosity and wonder is undeniable, and Wonderopolis helps create learning moments in everyday life—ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs.
Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation designed specially for kids aged 3+, used in schools and homes all over the world.
List of Distant Learning Resources curated by the New York State Reading Association
Edpuzzle is an easy-to-use platform allowing you to engage every student, one video at a time. We unlock the power of videos through simple editing tools and dazzling student data. The process is simple – find a video, add questions and assign it to your class. Watch as they progress and hold them accountable on their learning journey. We’re working towards a day where every teacher and student will be just a click away from an excellent online education. Together, we’re creating a shared library of the highest quality interactive video lessons to benefit classrooms around the world.
List of videos promoting physical activity, fitness , dancing, fun, shoe tying as well as a list of health related videos for older children. Star wars, superheros and harry potter themed fitness videos as well as Cosmic Kids Yoga
A list of all the free resources Scholastic is providing for Teachers
List of all the free resources that Scholastic is providing for Families
4 weeks of daily activities in multiple subjects
Topics include: Animals, Weather, Music, Community, Bones, Space, Empathy and Kindness, Firefighters
4 weeks of daily lessons in multiple subjects
Topics include: Butterfly vision, Superheros, Personality, Women History, Celebrating Differences, Media Literacy, Pop Culture, Animals, World History, Government
Brains On presents Forever Ago, a history show for the whole family! Every episode explores the origin of just one thing — like sandwiches, video games, clocks and more — while teaching listeners to think critically about history.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls: The Podcast is a fairy tale podcast about the extraordinary women who inspire us.
The show is based on Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls, the global best-selling book series inspiring millions of girls and women around the world to dream bigger, aim higher, and fight harder.
As a mission-focused non-profit, it is Khan Academy’s duty to do our part to ensure students keep learning amidst the school closures. We also want to support teachers and parents to the best of our ability as we navigate this crisis together.
These schedules are meant to be templates that you could adopt as is or copy and modify to better suit the needs of your children, classroom or district. As you see in the schedules below, Khan Academy does have self-paced, interactive content–exercises, videos and articles–for students in every grade and in most major subject areas. It is all free and non-commercial and is made possible by philanthropic support from people like you. Teachers and parents can also use our teacher tools to monitor progress and assign specific work. This could be made even more powerful if it is complemented with Google Hangout, Zoom or Skype video conference sessions with teachers and classmates. We are also having daily (weekdays) 12PM PST/3PM EST live streams on Facebook and YouTube for students, parents and teachers navigating school closures.
Get ready for space travel and brand new stories from kids! BONUS, this season features lots of celebrity special guests, including Alex Brightman, Jeremy Sisto, Lauren Lapkus, and Paul F. Tompkins!
Read the original stories submitted by real kids and to listen to past episodes, featuring Claire Danes, John Oliver, Dax Shepard and more special guests.
Reading Comprehension Practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Funny Business
Learn by focus area: reading literature
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Reading Comprehension Practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Trailblazing Women
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Reading Comprehension Practice on Kahn Academy
Learn by topic: Banning Behavior
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Reading Comprehension Practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Imaginative Worlds
Learn by focus area: reading literature
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Reading Comprehension Practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Growth Mindset
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Reading Comprehension Practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Pets
Learn by focus area: reading literature
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Reading comprehension practice on Khan Academy
Learn by topic: Fairy Tales Retold
Learn by focus area: reading literature
Learn by focus area: reading informational text
Learn by focus area: vocabulary
The Kids are All…Home is new podcast by Pineapple Street Studios for kids stuck at home, by kids stuck at home. Featuring voices from all around the world, each episode will show us what it’s like for kids to be stuck at home and what they’re doing to fill their time. A fun activity for parents and their children. For listening and hands on fun – Here’s how it works: Come up with an idea for a podcast. (So far, episodes have included everything from cooking demonstrations to jokes to musical numbers.) Record your podcast on a smartphone, and send it to the team. Producers might include it in an episode.
TIME for Kids is committed to supporting educators and families around the world during this time. We have opened up all of our 2020 content and will continue to provide materials on a weekly basis through the end of the school year.
Topics Include: COVID-19, Trains, Environment, Money, History, Government, Dinousaurs
TIME for Kids is committed to supporting educators and families around the world during this time. We have opened up all of our 2020 content and will continue to provide materials on a weekly basis through the end of the school year.
Topics Include: Home Schooling around the World, Money, Sports, Environment, History, Dinosaurs, Bugs
TIME for Kids is committed to supporting educators and families around the world during this time. We have opened up all of our 2020 content and will continue to provide materials on a weekly basis through the end of the school year.