Lots of websites are putting out guides on how to talk to students about the virus. Here are a few that seem good to us! PBS: 10 tips for talking about COVID-19 with your kids CDC: Talking with children about Coronavirus Disease 2019: Messages for parents, school staff, and others working with children NASP: Talking …
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus is a short comic from NPR for students explaining the virus.
Read Naturally is a researched-based resource for school, teachers, and families to improve reading achievement. Read Naturally approach to reading improvement is through teacher modeling, repeated reading, and progress monitoring. Their strategy aims to improve fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary. It also allows students to take responsibility for monitoring their own progress. There are a few …
The National Science Teachers Association has science ebooks and activities for all grades that are free during school closures. Each book features pop up questions, review activities. The texts are engaging, science aligned, and provide strong explanations of content. The only shortcoming is that the books are slow to load so there is a time …
The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) promotes high-quality classroom resources for grades pre-k-12. There are various resources that educators can access, such as classroom resources, professional development, and literature. Members have access to the most resources but non-members can benefit too! For example, in the classroom resources section, non-members have access to all …
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.
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, …
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 …
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 …
The Essence of Calculus (3Blue1Brown) is a 12 part video series that gets at calculus concepts without dealing too much with calculations (e.g. derivation and integration). The videos are accessible to students and well designed.
