Resources to Support Learning at Home
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Please review these sites before sharing with your child.
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Overarching – Multiple Subject Areas Included
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Brief Description/Additional Information
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Khan Academy Resources for Parents and Mentors
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Getting started with Khan Academy during school closures with a parent quick start guide. |
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Free standards-aligned videos, interactives, lessons plans and more |
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Sign up for free account; free interactive platform for discovering millions of authenticdigital resources, creating content with online tools |
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Lessons Plans, Activity Plans, TED Connections |
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Feed your child’s curiosity. Everything you need to spark and celebrate your child’s ideas.TED talks for students; TED talks by students |
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Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. |
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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”. |
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K-12 Digital games around a variety of topics |
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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. |
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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 |
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20 virtual field trips plus lesson ideas, activities and book suggestions to extendthe learning for each type of destination. |
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This video shows the basics of how all the pieces are set up and move on the board. |
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For grades 3 – 6, this is a compilation of logic puzzles, math bafflers, and more. |
Arts
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Visit 12 famous museums virtually |
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Free Series starting Monday, March 16th – 7:30 PM (each opera will remainonline for 20 hours) |
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15 Broadway Plays and Musicals You Can Watch on Stage from your Home |
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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. |
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The Kennedy Center is offering doodle lessons each day at 1:00 PM led byMo Williams. |
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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. |
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Selection of artworks you can zoom in on and learn information about paintingas it appears; there are also questions for students |
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Various classes around different art topics such as animation, illustration,design. May be designed more for high school and above. |
Mathematics
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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. |
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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. |
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Step by Step guide and videos to master the Cube! |
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Puzzles that make you smarter. |
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Using card games to capture children’s attention and teach mathematicalconcepts. |
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Build quantitative skills in math, science and computer science with fun andchallenginginteractive explorations. |
Language Arts
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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. |
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Online read alouds and literacy resources are shared on this site. |
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Collection of favorite quality children’s books read aloud for kidsas young as preschool and up to early elementary years. |
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50 Read-Alouds for Elementary School KidsAuthors are offering read-alouds of their books and books by theirfavorite authors. |
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Various classes around different aspects of creative writing.Free trial for two months.May be more appropriate for high school and above. |
Science
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NBC4’s Doug Kammerer hosts daily Facebook live each dayat 2:00 PM focusing on a weather related topic. |
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Online events with live instructor teaching students to Code, Build,Invent and Animate |
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K-5 STEM activities using household items; 6th – 9th grade System Alertshare everyday STEM fast facts, trends and related topics |
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10 Days of Design Thinking Challenges using Recyclables (K-5) |
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K-12 STEM activities around multiple science topics |
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K-12 engineering games covering topics ranging from inventing andcoding to environmental and electrical engineering |
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YouTube: Old school science videos |
Social Studies
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America’s Library, Recorded Authors, Poetry 180, Everyday Mysteries -Fun Science Facts, Today in History, etc. |
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Documents, Photos, Records; educator resources, America’sfounding documents |
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Students can virtually curate their own museum |
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Historical documentary films organized by era and by film |
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YouTube: Narrative account of American Revolution cartoon style |
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YouTube: Videos on history especially military history |
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Amazing facts about animals, science, history and geography |
| Virtual Car Trip Through the USA! |
Explore the US through virtual field trips |
Podcasts for Kids
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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. |
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Fairy tale podcasts about the extraordinary women who inspire us. |
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NPR podcast guides curious kids and their grown-ups on a journeyinto the wonders of the world around them. |
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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. |
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Well written short weekly podcast on word origins, idioms,grammar and more. |
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Various podcasts around different topics for kids. |
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Podcasts about various science related topics. |
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A debate show for kids and families.Every episode takes two cool things,smashes them together and lets you decide which is best. |
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History show that explores the origin of just one thing — like sandwiches,video games, clocks and more — while teaching listeners tothink critically about history. |
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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.
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