COVID-19 FAQ

CDC’s Managing Stress and Anxiety related to COVID-19 and additional resources for coping with traumatic events.

NEA Resource–Schools and Coronavirus-What You Should Know

Making the Most of COVID-19 School Closures

NEA Online Learning during School Closures

Check to see if their school has a FB page and use it to push info out to the parents (example: https://www.facebook.com/HillsdaleHeronsPTO/)

Math Resource to set up for Students

Reading app kids can use at home 

Access to distance learning resources

Nearpod Online Learning Resource 

Cara Carroll – Life in & out of the Classroom – 30 Free Virtual Learning Resource

Learning Tools for School Closures 

Computer Science Teachers Online Teaching Resources for Use during Covid-19 

Kahootz Online Resources for Teachers-Premium Free

Supporting Families in Remote Learning

Standards-Based Assessment for Online Teaching Support

Spokane Schools Resources for K-12

Make Any Room a Classroom 

Khan Academy (Free)

Newsela (Free)

Face-to-Face Teaching Through Zoom

Free access to Socrative Pro and Showbie Pro through July 31, 2020

Proficiency Talks-Teaching in Extraordinary Time

Edutopia-What Teachers in China Have Learned in the Last Month

10 Student Tested Google Extension

Compilation of Resources for Audio Books, Foreign Language, Geography and Art

  “Learn at Home” website 

 https://www.sd25.us/Content2/online-resources

 https://www.funbrain.com/

 http://www.openculture.com/free_k-12_educational_resources

 https://learninglab.si.edu/

Teaching online as part of your school’s response to COVID-19, here are some helpful ideas (a thread)

Resources to help schools and districts provide support for students and community in the event of a health crisis

Anonymous Survey: Considerations for Online Teaching/Learning

Common Core by grade level (games format)

Scholastic Learn at Home – Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing!

Circletime–Educators Posting Short Activities for Online Learning

Scholastic Learn at Home 

Teaching in Extraordinary Times

Homeschool Hideout 

Daily Courses Pre-K-6 and higher:  “Learn at Home” website

From Pocatello school district

Fun Brain K-12 Fun Learning Resources

200 Free Online Resources Including Lesson Plans

Smithsonian Learning Lab

Helping English Language Learners Excel in School and Beyond

Online Picture Dictionary

HELLO World English Games & Activities

ESL Kids World, An ESL Children’s Resource Site (Songs, games, worksheets, activities)

EFL Playhouse (educational games, songs, finger plays, action rhymes, craft ide as, printable materials, tongue twisters)

Houghton-Mifflin English, Kid’s Place K-5 and grades 6-8

BrainPOP, BrainPOP Junior, BrianPOP ESL

20-minute ESL lessons (ESL Cyber Listening Lab)

Breaking News English (upper elementary)

English Club Vocabulary quizzes

Learn That Word

Colorín Colorado: A Bilingual Site for Educators and Families of ELL

Games to Learn English grades 1-8

ESL Kids Online Learning Games (primary)

ReadWorks

App for reading at home

Into the Book Reading Comprehension Strategies

Storyline Online – A free children’s literacy resource featuring the world’s best storytellers reading books aloud!

Teaching Sight Words 

Stories from Space

Storyline Online

Practice Phonics with Read Along Stories

Common Literature

Newsela (Free)

Writing Resources 

Quill Writing Resource

No Red Ink Grammar Practice

Mystery Science School Closure Resources

Science Activities for home

Science Mom – Online school with science lessons for kids 7-12 with engineering challenges, crafts, games and livestreamed to YouTube and Facebook: 

Online 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links

Astronomy At Home/Discover the Universe

Free Virtual Science Labs

30 Virtual Field Trips

Online Simulations

North American Marine Environment Protection Assoc.

Explore the Outdoors with Seek by iNaturalist 

California Academy of Science-Can be facilitated by teacher or parent

Build outdoors with Nature Play: Create with Nature

Investigate your favorite insect with What Would Happen?

Watch and sing 7,000 Kinds of Amphibians

Observe and imitate the Academy’s Live Penguin Colony

Connect with animal caretakers in Penguins, Will You Be My Valentine?

Question your environment with Notice and Wonder

Observe how you use different teeth with Chew, Bite, Chomp

Meet our birds in Penguins: Wings, Beaks, and Feathers, Oh My!

Get an Introduction to Scientific Sketching

Sing a song and draw out your own Jungle Layers

Count sections as your build a Fraction Penguin

Play Natural Resources Bingo as a family

Use Scientific Sketching for Observation in your notebook

Watch and giggle about The Story of Poo

Design a Macroinvertebrate Manor in your own backyard

Draw with us in Art & Science: Nature as Your Muse

Carry out a Compost Scientific Investigation

Connect with experts to hear the difference between Weather & Climate

Build a Pocket Solar System to grasp astronomical scale

Take a Virtual Dive in a Kelp Forest

Connect and compare these Spooktacular Skulls

Learn how to Spot That Bird; then, do an outdoor Bird Count

Watch Flipside Science and design your own solutions

Connect with astronomy experts in Tour of the Night Sky

Produce scale models with How Big is Big?

Watch Academy Science videos to explore STEM careers

Complete our Biodiversity Course on Khan Academy

Meet a marine biologist in Nudibranchs, Colorful Creatures of the Sea

STEM Resources for K-12

Free Educational Resources for Middle School to College

SplashLearn

The Measured Mom  

Math Videos and Worksheets Online

18 Totally free educational resources for kids stuck at home K-12–Open Culture

K-12 Math Facts Practice

Free Games and Worksheets for K-8 

Free History Network for Kids

K-12 History and Biography Resource

Covid-19 Relief Pack

Prodigy Games

Zearn 

Prodigy

Early Learning Academy (Agest 2-8)

Fund With Math

Blended Learning for Reading Math and Spanish – This is also a download-able app that almost all schools are using and students already have log-in information.

Additional Compilation of Apps for Special Needs and Education,Categorized by Need  

Spelling

Early Learning Academy (Agest 2-8)

Silent Reading

Non-Screen Activities for Home

Educators Technology

One Place for Special Needs

Music Lab

Dallas Symphony Orchestra/Resources and Lesson Plans

McHarper Manor art studio -live daily Monday through Friday at 11:00 p.m. (MST) with free Arts & Crafts tutorials to create at home with your kids! 

GoNoodle for Families to Keep the Kids Moving

Cosmic Kids Yoga, Mindfulness, Relaxation

Dailey Kids Workout on YouTube 

Free Self-Paced Quizzes to Motivate and Engage

Quizizz

ADL blog: The Coronavirus Surfaces Fear, Stereotypes and Scapegoating

Teaching Tolerance

Facing History and Ourselves: Teaching Idea in our current events collection

Our Coronavirus Lesson Plans and Resources Page is getting a lot of traffic. It has resources on the coronavirus, prevention, history of pandemics, trauma-informed resources, etc:

We will soon be launching a new community – Learning At Home Preparing for the Coronavirus Community:  This community allows members to upload lessons and resources to one location and has a discussion area for educators and parents. This is live now, but we’ll be announcing it later this week.

I’ve seen a lot of interesting work coming out of International Schools which have been dealing with the situation for several weeks already – for example this open-source set of online learning guidelines collected in a google drive, with contributions from international schools all over the world. 

Cengage: Digital Learning

E-book central

Classic books

35,000 high-quality books for students

College Open Textbooks
This site lists open textbooks organized by subject area, many of which have been peer reviewed for their suitability at community colleges.

Learningpod
Pegged as the “largest library of free, online practice questions in the world, this Kaplan division teamed up with OpenStax to create questions sets specifically for its open textbooks.

Lumen Learning
This OER-focused company provides open courses with “zero textbook cost.” Their curriculum comes with all the OER students will require.

MERLOT II
The California State University System‘s collection of slightly more than 45,000 resources is rated, peer-reviewed and tallied by how many “personal collections” each resides in. It lists more than 3,000 open textbooks, some of which have accessibility information for students with disabilities.

MIT Open Courseware Online Textbooks
MIT‘s library of online textbooks is one of the few sources for OER on aeronautics, civil engineering and material science, among many other disciplines.

OER Commons
This digital hub created by the Institute for the Study of Knowledge Management in Education offers 73,000 kinds of OER, along with tools for creating OER, training on how to use OER and the ability to create OER “Commons” — groups that share resources for a given purpose.

Open Course Library
Managed by the Washington State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, this content is organized by course.

Open Education Consortium
The Open Education Consortium is a community of 240-plus schools as well as organizations and people who want to advance the idea of “open education.” It features an OER resource toolkit, webinars, in-person events and links to open textbooks.

Open Learning Initiative

Carnegie Mellon‘s (PA) open courses (and associated content) denote a marked emphasis on STEM, including computing.

OpenStax CNX
This is Rice University‘s (TX) “open space,” where educators have stashed thousands of learning objects that can be or are already organized into books. It is also the parent of OpenStax College.

Resources for Mental Health Issues Related to COVID-19

A lot is developing with Student Loans – currently interest has been frozen, likely that if the trend continues, payments will freeze.  Article below is a good Q&A on where we are now, but will be changing – Student Loan Borrowers will get relief.

Our friends at “Savi” have a free emergency tool for those with student loans who have been impacted by Covid