Category: Videos

Resources for parents and teachers

Sesame Street in Communities

Sesame Street is working with communities to provide support for education for educators and families. They provide information, resources, and activities for a range of subjects and topics from reading and math to social emotional learning and traumatic experiences.

ABCmouse.com

ABCmouse.com is a subscription-based program for educators and families. They provide common core-align curriculum and lesson plans for online learning. Printable resources are available. There lessons, videos, and activities are engaging, colorful, and fun for the learning. Progress monitoring and results are made easy. Subscription prices range from $9.95 per month or $59.95 per year. …

ShareMyLesson

A learning online community for educators and families to create and share lessons and resources. Sign up is free to access 400,000 free resources, lesson plans, and professional development opportunities.

Skybrary

This site has an interactive library full of different level texts and reading resources to build reading skills. In addition to hundreds of books to explore, there are fun videos adventures, and virtual field trips. There is also an app available for download for iPhone, iPad, Kindle Fire, or Android. It is not free to …

Flipgrid

Flipgrid provides educators with a free and easy to use online learning platform. It provides resources for learners, educators, and families for learning online or remotely. Educators can communicate and provide instruction to their students and their families through video. They also explain step by step how to use Flipgrid for online or remote learning.

Boston Public Library Home Resources

Boston Public Libraries have put up a wide array of resources, mostly for preschool aged students.. These include virtual story times for young children, DIY story times with activities for young children, arts and crafts activities for all ages, and some links to local resources.

Socratica Chemistry

Socratica is a short video series about with a variety of core content and independent living skills subjects. This is their chemistry series. They’re a bit quirky, but they cover everything in simple, straightforward videos.

BrainPOP

This site provides lessons for ELA, Math, Science, Art, and more. They are providing free access to schools, teachers, and families during school closures due to COVID-19. The site provides instruction, lesson plans, common core standards, materials, resources, activities, and games. They provide educators with professional development videos and articles. They provide social-emotional learning opportunities, …

The Art Assignment

This video channel has two main video types. In the first, the channel interviews living artists about their work. The artist will then “assign’ the viewer to make a conceptual or design based art assignment relevant to the work they have discussed. In the second, the channel comments on different genres, styles, and artists from …

Journey to the Microcosmos

A strong video series that combines the biology knowledge of Hank Green with the microcosmos photography of James Weiss. It’s a slice-of-life in the microcosmos that focuses on different species of bacteria/microorganisms and aspects of their lives. It’s more descriptive than theoretical and doesn’t push grand concepts or curriculum strands so much as teach about …

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