Critical and Creative Thinking Family Edition
CCT Overview for Families |
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APS Critical and Creative Thinking Framework
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| November 16 November 16 SPANISH November 16 ARABIC     |
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| November 30 November 30 SPANISH    |
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| December 14 December 14 Spanish  |
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Strategies Defined to Support Choice Boards 
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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 |
Brief Description/Additional Information |
Khan Academy
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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 authentic |
Mensa for Kids |
Lessons Plans, Activity Plans, TED Connections |
TEDEd Parents
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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 |
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 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”. |
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, and fifty on U.S. government and politics. |
Renzulli Learning |
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 are shared around these major themes of 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 extend the 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 |
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Visit 12 Famous Museums |
Visit 12 famous museums virtually |
Metropolitan Opera |
Free Series starting Monday, March 16th – 7:30 PM (each opera will remain online 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 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. |
Doodle Lessons with Mo Williams |
The Kennedy Center is offering doodle lessons each day at 1:00 PM led by Mo Williams. |
MoMA Art Lab |
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. |
Art Camera |
Selection of artworks you can zoom in on and learn information about painting as 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 |
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Think Math |
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. |
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 mathematical |
Brilliant |
Build quantitative skills in math, science and computer science with fun and |
Language Arts |
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Brief Description/Additional Information |
SEM-R
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Parents can use these questions to support deep thinking while reading |
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 kids |
The Big List of Children’s Authors Doing Online Read Alouds & Activities |
50 Read-Alouds for Elementary School Kids |
Skill Share: Creative Writing |
Various classes around different aspects of creative writing. |
Science |
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Doug’s Weather 101 |
NBC4’s Doug Kammerer hosts daily Facebook live each day |
STEM Free |
Online events with live instructor teaching students to Code, Build, |
STEM@Home |
K-5 STEM activities using household items; 6th – 9th grade System Alert |
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 and |
Bill Nye Science Guy |
YouTube: Old school science videos |
Social Studies |
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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’s founding 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. |
Podcasts for Kids |
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History Chicks |
Introduce female characters in history, factual or fictional via our podcast and show-notes. An introduction, an overview and a little push to 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 journey into 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 ask the 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 to think critically about history. |
The Show About Science |
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. |
| Please email Cheryl.McCullough@apsva.us if you have trouble accessing any of the resources above. |
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