Distance Learning Heavy Hitters
“PBS LearningMedia producers and educators have come together to curate a special collection of resources organized by grade and subject area.”
ISTE, COSN, Education Week and others have teamed up to provide resources for teachers and families.
Get temporary access to ABC Mouse, Reading IQ, and Adventure Academy.
Common Sense created Wide Open School, a resource with content from Desmos, Newsela, NatGeo, Scholastic, and many others.
Google’s Teach from Home offers resources to help teachers better utilize GSuite from home.
Stripes for Distance Learning Tools
The initiative includes a series of daily posts on Jr. NBA social channels and NBA digital properties around the world that provide drills, activities and instruction to promote skill development, physical activity and character development.
Dance
Whether it’s swing, tango, hip hop, salsa, or how to moon walk, dance will definitely give you a work out.
Get get yo body body mo mo movin’…or at least your kids.
TEDed series about food and how our bodies react to it.
Workouts, programs, and challenges for everyone including daily dares.
Great Ideas for Physical Activity & Health
Great Ideas for Social Studies
Students can see places around the world that don’t make it into most resources.
Help students know their place in the world with the best geography tool in the teacher’s toolbelt.
Do Taxes
The only thing certin right now is boredom and taxes. Let your student(s) experience what it is like to file taxes so they can understand the process first-hand.
TEDed series around governmental issues.
Build grades 1-8 math skills while playing a game.
“Ask your child these questions next time you are watching a movie at home, or at the movie theater! Work through the questions together. Ask them what problem-solving methods they used to get to the answers.”
Track stats
Working out? Cooking dinner? Buying groceries? Track your data whether it be number of jumping jacks over this event, number of calories, or tracking the budget. Learning to gather statistics and keep ledgers is a fundamental math skill.
Zearn is a free to use math resource by EngageNY.
TEDed series about the math that is used all around us.
Great Ideas for Math
Great Ideas for Science
Science is happening all around us. Help answer all sorts of questions for students with hundreds of 5-90 minute lessons for K-5.
Create a Rube Goldberg Machine
You’ve got the stuff and the time. Make your own Rube Goldberg Machine. Video it. Share it with #rubegoldberg.
Collection of science resources from Baylor College or Medicine.
TEDed series about the Periodic Table.
Smithsonian Institute offers various Science activities.
Temporarily access 40,000 books, learning videos, and more from home.
Write a letter
All you need is some paper and a pen,pencil, or other writing utensil. Have and help your student(s) write letters to their friends. Practice letter writing etiquette.
TEDed series about writers’ skills, techniques, and methods.
Storyline Online has online books read by Screen Actor’s Guild members.
Great Ideas for ELA
Great Ideas for the Arts
See museums from around the world virtually.
Follow these directions to create a fun piece of art. You can use any number of substitutes to create a kite.
Digital music creation has never been easier with Chrome Music Lab.
Create almost anything in 3D with TinkerCAD.
Combine visual and performance arts by making a music video.
Other Resource Lists
- 121 Tools for Distance Learning & Strategies for Student Engagement – Albert.io
- CTE Distance Learning Resources – ACTE
- Distance Learning: A Gently Curated Collection of Resources for Teachers – Cult of Pedagogy
- Distance Learning Resource Center – Education Reimagined
- Learn at home – NYC Schools
- PBS Kids Daily Email
- Free Resources to Support Continued Learning During School Closures – HMH Publishing
- Online Resources for Schools – by Content Area
- Missouri RPDC Shared Resources
- DESE Supports for Remote Teaching and Learning
- Dubai Virtual Museum Tours