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Ideas for math + social justice lessons
Radical Math is a site that aims to blend two important topics: mathematics and social justice. The website features ideas for social justice math topics as well as suggestions for integration into the curriculum. With testing canceled in many schools, math educators can use this time to reimagine the curriculum by exploring Radical Math and...
Reading Rockets offers resources, games, and more
The Reading Rockets project brings research-based strategies, instructional materials, games, interactive ideas, and resources to educators and families. The site features ideas for teaching reading, helping struggling readers, suggested book lists, and more. In this uncertain time, help your learners keep up on their reading skills by checking out this resource, implementing some new strategies,...
SHAPE America offers resources for putting health, P.E. instruction online
One course that can be challenging for educators to put online is P.E. The Society of Health and Physical Educators, SHAPE America, is helping teachers in the shift to putting this type of instruction online effectively. They have created a collection of resources to support educators in providing high-quality, standards-based P.E. and health instruction despite...
Zoom activities and freebies for elementary teachers
Teachers around the country are scrambling to find new ways to engage students in meaningful instruction for the remainder of the school year. Many schools have encouraged the use of Zoom or other video programs to help deliver quality instruction. Lucky Little Learners offers teachers a guide to getting started with Zoom providing ideas for...
Help kids get active with Move Your Way
Move Your Way is a site dedicated to helping people get more physical activity. For kids and teens ages 6-17, an hour of physical activity or more is suggested. The site features a tool that parents can use to find more ways for their children to be active each day. Suggestions include walking the dog,...
Enjoy geographic and culture storytelling on Mapita
Mapita is a site that features beautiful geographic and cultural story-telling, aimed at fostering empathy. Readers can enjoy stories from various countries around the world including India, Australia, Afganistan, Peru, The United States, and Canada, among others. Each story serves as a record of life on our planet. This site can be used for social...
Stress management workbook for secondary students
The National Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention has created a workbook aimed at helping students reflect and work through their stress. This resource, although helpful in many other situations as well, may be of particular use as students manage stress related to their current life disruptions due to COVID-19. This resource is available...
DK offers activities, lessons, books, and curriculum resources for grades PreK-8
DK offers home learning resources for kids from PreK to age 12. DKfindout! offers students a safe, easy to navigate encyclopedic platform to help answer questions about subjects that they are interested in. The site offers learning activities, lessons, books, and curriculum resources for free. Keep your at-home learner engaged with https://www.dk.com/us/information/home-learning-for-kids/.
Classroom Champions offers social and emotional learning resources
Classroom Champions is offering parents and teachers free resources including K-8 social and emotional learning curriculum, video resources, lesson resources, and family materials.