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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Online Resource
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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 authentic digital 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 2000 questions from many disciplines to search. It says it is for learners of all ages, younger children will need reading support. Families can sign up to receive an email each day about 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, and fifty on U.S. government and politics.
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An interactive online system that provides a personalized learning environment for children and leads to higher academic performance. Once students do the Renzulli Profiler, personalized activities and resources aare shared around these major themes of Learning Style, Expression Style and Interest Areas
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20 virtual field trips plus lesson ideas, activities and book suggestions to extend the 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.
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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 remain online 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 of the National Gallery of Art, plus a sketchbook for freehand drawing and a personal exhibition 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 by Mo Williams.
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MoMA Art Lab is a creative art app from Museum of Modern Art. It helps kids learn about modern art: how to create and how to appreciate the art. It is free for a limited time.
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Selection of artworks you can zoom in on and learn information about painting as 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.
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Mathematics
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Designed to appeal to diverse learners, these resources provide real-world connections, opportunities to think more deeply about mathematics, and ways 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 mathematical concepts.
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Build quantitative skills in math, science and computer science with fun and challenging interactive explorations.
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Language Arts
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Parents can use these questions to support deep thinking while reading around different elements of a story and around big ideas or concepts such as 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 kids as young as preschool and up to early elementary
years.
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50 Read-Alouds for Elementary School Kids
Authors are offering read-alouds of their books and books by their favorite 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.
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Science
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NBC4’s Doug Kammerer hosts daily Facebook live each day at 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 Alert share 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 and coding to environmental and electrical engineering
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YouTube: Old school science videos
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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’s founding 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. |
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Podcasts for Kids
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Introduce female characters in history, factual or fictional via our podcast and shownotes.
An introduction, an overview and a little push to 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 journey into the wonders of the world around them.
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But Why is a Vermont Public Radio show led by you, kids! You ask the 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 to think critically about history.
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Each episode is filled with fascinating information from scientists and educators from around the globe. |
| The Show About Politics |
Each episode is focused on improving the political discourse in this country through conversations with politicians, government officials, political scientists and historians. |
Keeping Kids Moving
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| Daily Kids Workouts |
YouTube: Workout classes every weekday at 9 AM; kid friendly, will last half an hour and not much space needed |
| WCRB Karate |
Provides the classes for the county’s martial arts program; providing LIVE physical activity classes on Tuesday and Thursday’s during the shutdown at 3:30 PM. |
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Please email Cheryl.McCullough@apsva.us if you have trouble accessing any of the resources above.
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