Virtual Resources to Support Exploration and Learning at Home

Resources to Support Learning at Home
Please review these sites before sharing with your child.
Overarching – Multiple Subject Areas Included
Online Resource	Brief Description/Additional Information
Khan Academy Resources for Parents and Mentors	Getting started with Khan Academy during school closures with a parent quick start guide.
PBS LearningMedia	Free standards-aligned videos, interactives, lessons plans and more
Smithsonian’s Learning Lab	Sign up for free account; free interactive platform for discovering millions of authenticdigital resources, creating content with online tools
Mensa for Kids	Lessons Plans, Activity Plans, TED Connections
TEDEd Parents TED: Talks to Watch with Kids TED: Talks by Brilliant Kids and Teens	Feed your child’s curiosity. Everything you need to spark and celebrate your child’s ideas.TED talks for students; TED talks by students
Scholastic Learning From Home	Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Wonderopolis	Each day a new “wonder” is posted with follow up resources and guidance. Over 2000questions from many disciplines to search. It says it is for learners of all ages, youngerchildren will need reading support. Families can sign up to receive an email each dayabout the new “wonder”.
Breakout EDU	K-12 Digital games around a variety of topics
CrashCourse	YouTube: Created for high schoolers; huge library of videos across most major disciplines,including playlists of forty-eight videos on U.S. history, seventy-two on world history, andfifty on U.S. government and politics.
Renzulli Learning	An interactive online system that provides a personalized learning environment forchildren and leads to higher academic performance. Once students do the RenzulliProfiler, personalized activities and resources are shared around these major themesof Learning Style, Expression Style and Interest Areas
20 Virtual Field Trips to Take with Your Kids	20 virtual field trips plus lesson ideas, activities and book suggestions to extendthe learning for each type of destination.
How to Play Chess	This video shows the basics of how all the pieces are set up and move on the board.
Thinking Skills Activities	For grades 3 – 6, this is a compilation of logic puzzles, math bafflers, and more.
Arts
Online Resource	Brief Description/Additional Information
Visit 12 Famous Museums	Visit 12 famous museums virtually
Metropolitan Opera	Free Series starting Monday, March 16th – 7:30 PM (each opera will remainonline for 20 hours)
Playbill	15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch on Stage from your Home
NGAkids Art Zone for IPADs	App contains eight interactive activities inspired by works in the collection ofthe National Gallery of Art, plus a sketchbook for freehand drawing and a personalexhibition space where users can save and display art created with the program.
Doodle Lessons with Mo Williams	The Kennedy Center is offering doodle lessons each day at 1:00 PM led byMo Williams.
MoMA Art Lab	MoMA Art Lab is a creative art app from Museum of Modern Art. It helps kidslearn about modern art: how to create and how to appreciate the art. It is freefor a limited time.
Art Camera	Selection of artworks you can zoom in on and learn information about paintingas it appears; there are also questions for students
Skill Share	Various classes around different art topics such as animation, illustration,design. May be designed more for high school and above.
Mathematics
Online Resource	Brief Description/Additional Information
Think Math	Designed to appeal to diverse learners, these resources provide real-worldconnections, opportunities to think more deeply about mathematics, andways to use both logic and computation to solve problems.
NCES Kids’ Zone	Provides information to help you learn about schools; decide on a college;engage in several games, quizzes and skill building about math, probability,graphing, and mathematicians.
You Can Do the Rubik’s Cube Program	Step by Step guide and videos to master the Cube!
KenKen Puzzles	Puzzles that make you smarter.
16 Card Games that Will Turn your Students into Math Aces	Using card games to capture children’s attention and teach mathematicalconcepts.
Brilliant	Build quantitative skills in math, science and computer science with fun andchallenginginteractive explorations.
Language Arts
Online Resource	Brief Description/Additional Information
SEM-R Elementary bookmarks Middle School bookmarks Bookmarks in Spanish	Parents can use these questions to support deep thinking while readingaround different elements of a story and around big ideas or concepts suchas power, courage, integrity, growth and change and more.
Growing Book by Book	Online read alouds and literacy resources are shared on this site.
Children Read Alouds	Collection of favorite quality children’s books read aloud for kidsas young as preschool and up to early elementary years.
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities	50 Read-Alouds for Elementary School KidsAuthors are offering read-alouds of their books and books by theirfavorite authors.
Skill Share: Creative Writing	Various classes around different aspects of creative writing.Free trial for two months.May be more appropriate for high school and above.
Science
Doug’s Weather 101	NBC4’s Doug Kammerer hosts daily Facebook live each dayat 2:00 PM focusing on a weather related topic.
STEM Free	Online events with live instructor teaching students to Code, Build,Invent and Animate
STEM@Home	*K-5 STEM activities using household items; 6th – 9th grade System Alertshare everyday STEM fast facts, trends and related topics*
Design Thinking	10 Days of Design Thinking Challenges using Recyclables (K-5)
NASA STEM Engagement	K-12 STEM activities around multiple science topics
TRY Engineering	K-12 engineering games covering topics ranging from inventing andcoding to environmental and electrical engineering
Bill Nye Science Guy	YouTube: Old school science videos
Social Studies
Online Resource	Brief Description/Additional Information
Library of Congress	America’s Library, Recorded Authors, Poetry 180, Everyday Mysteries -Fun Science Facts, Today in History, etc.
National Archives	Documents, Photos, Records; educator resources, America’sfounding documents
Smithsonian’s History Explorer	Students can virtually curate their own museum
Ken Burns in the Classroom	Historical documentary films organized by era and by film
Liberty Kids	YouTube: Narrative account of American Revolution cartoon style
Extra Credit Extra History	YouTube: Videos on history especially military history
National Geographic Kids	Amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography
Virtual Car Trip Through the USA!	Explore the US through virtual field trips
Podcasts for Kids
History Chicks	Introduce female characters in history, factual or fictional via ourpodcast and show-notes. An introduction, an overview and a little pushto explore and learn more on your own.
Good Night Stories for Rebel Girls	Fairy tale podcasts about the extraordinary women who inspire us.
WOW in the World	NPR podcast guides curious kids and their grown-ups on a journeyinto the wonders of the world around them.
But Why: A Podcast for Curious Kids	But Why is a Vermont Public Radio show led by you, kids! You askthe questions and we find the answers. It’s a big interesting world out there.
Grammar Girl	Well written short weekly podcast on word origins, idioms,grammar and more.
Best Robot Ever	Various podcasts around different topics for kids.
Brains On!	Podcasts about various science related topics.
Smash Boom Best	A debate show for kids and families.Every episode takes two cool things,smashes them together and lets you decide which is best.
Forever Ago	History show that explores the origin of just one thing — like sandwiches,video games, clocks and more — while teaching listeners tothink critically about history.
The Show About Science	Each episode is filled with fascinating information from scientists andeducators from around the globe.
The Show About Politics	Each episode is focused on improving the political discourse in this countrythrough conversations with politicians, government officials, politicalscientists and historians.
Please email Cheryl.McCullough@apsva.us if you have trouble accessingany of the resources above.

Resources to Support Learning at Home

Please review these sites before sharing with your child.

Overarching – Multiple Subject Areas Included

Online Resource

Brief Description/Additional Information

Khan Academy Resources for Parents and Mentors

Arts

Online Resource

Brief Description/Additional Information

Mathematics

Online Resource

Language Arts

Online Resource

Brief Description/Additional Information

Science

Social Studies

Online Resource

Brief Description/Additional Information

Podcasts for Kids

Please email Cheryl.McCullough@apsva.us if you have trouble accessingany of the resources above.