Simple Home Schooling in Maine slide show
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Covid 19 Suddenly home schooling support list.
Museums / Virtual Field Trips From Home:
- Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
- The British Museum
- Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam
- Explore Ancient Egypt
- Ellis Island
- Global Trek
- 7 Wonders
- The Louvre Paris
- San Diego Zoo Cams
- Yellowstone Webcams
- California Academy of Live Science Cams
- Explore live animal webcams
- National Zoo Live Cams
- International Space Station
- Google Museum Tours
- Read a book together.
- Cook dinner together.
- Do a jigsaw puzzle.
- Take a walk.
- Have a family picnic.
- Take a bike ride.
- Play Frisbee.
- Go to the park.
- Play a card game.
- Look through old family albums together.
- Play hide and seek.
- Bake cookies together.
- Have a family touch football game.
- Go outside and take fun family photos.
- Make a meal together.
16. Play soccer.
17. Make a chalk picture on your driveway or sidewalk.
18. Make pizza from scratch.
19. Play a board game.
20. Try some food you’ve never had before.
21. Shoot some hoops.
22. Play a game of Charades.
23. Do a family art project.
24. Make a family breakfast.
25. Make a care package for someone in need.
26. Plant some seeds and watch them grow.
27. Build a birdhouse or bird-feeder.
28. Clean house and donate items to non-profit.
29. Have a treasure hunt.
30. Plant trees.
31. Pick seasonal fruit at a local farm.
32. Go to the beach.
33. Create your own fiction story.
34. Choreograph a dance routine.
35. Create your own STEM challenge with items around the house.
36. Create a Bucket list of places to go on family vacation.
37. Draw or Paint
38. Think of a new skill/hobby you would each like to learn and work on the new skill/hobby.
39. Exercise together.
40. Teach each other something new.
41. Start a new healthy habit.
42. Write thank you notes to people in your life.
43. Have a camp out in the back yard or in the living room!
44. Host a movie night. Make your own movie tickets, pop popcorn, and set up the living room like a cinema.
45. Build with Legos.
46. Get Crafty – Make friendship bracelets, key chains, slime, origami, etc.
47. Rearrange your room.
48. Scrapbook/Journal about the year so far or about what you would like to do in the future.
49. Complete household chores.
50. Make a photo collage.
Information gathered from:www.georgiastandards.org http://www.jonathanfeicht.com
Helpful Reading Programs & Websites
1. Think Central (Journey’s Reading):
Username: 5-digit lunch number + @lowndes
Password: last name (all lowercase)
2. iStation:
Username: 5-digit lunch number
Password: last name (lowercase letters)
3. Accelerated Reader (AR)/Renaissance Place:
Username: 5-digit lunch number
Password: last name (all lowercase)
Helpful Math Programs & Websites
1. XtraMath: (Math Fact Fluency Games)
Website: https://xtramath.org
3. Zearn: (Math How-To Instructional Videos)
Website: www.zearn.org
http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/ This is a community sight for companies helping parents who are homeschooling during closures and other free supports
opics: activities, enrichment
This is another Google Doc list of ideas and websites for enrichment activities when working from home/kids stuck at home. We don’t maintain this resource. Someone else does.
https://docs.google.com/…/1KCFnWreu4v7VoO3NbgP-Qc…/htmlview…#
DOCS.GOOGLE.COM
How to access the videos:
- Go to http://ed.ted.com/
- Enter the name of the video in the search box.
Note: Each lesson comes with questions on the right side
Arts (Visual)
- The Amazing Math in Da Vinci’s ‘Vitruvian Man’
- Andy Warhol, Campbell’s Soup Cans: Why Is This Art?
- Brief History of Graffiti
- Brief History of Religion in Art
- Bringing a Pop-up Book to Life
- The Case for Andy Warhol
- Cave Paintings
- The Chaotic Brilliance of Artist Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Complex Geometry and Islamic Design
- The Dawn of Art
- Doodlers Unite
- Eye vs. Camera
- Frida Kahlo: The Woman Behind the Legend
- Gyotaku: The Ancient Japanese Art of Printing Fish
- The History of Graffiti
- The History of Tattoos
- How Ancient Art Influenced Modern Art
- How Art Can Help You Analyze
- How One French Poet Combined Poetry and Visual Art
- Inside a Cartoonist’s World
- Is There a Difference Between Art and Craft
- The Many Meanings of Michelangelo’s Statue of David
- Math and Van Gogh
- The Mathematics of Sidewalk Illusions
- My Cat Could Make That (What Is Abstract Expressionism?)
- Taking Imagination Seriously
- What Color is Tuesday? Exploring Synesthesia
- What Is Color?
- What Is Minimalist Art and Why Does It Matter?
- Who Decided What Art Means
- Why Babies in Medieval Paintings Look Like Ugly Old Men
- Why Is This Painting So Captivating? (Girl with the Pearl Earring)
- Why Is This Painting So Captivating? (Las Meninas)
- Why Is This Painting So Shocking? (Guernica)
Arts (Music)
- A Different Way to Visualize Rhythm
- Animation Basics: The Art of Timing and Spacing
- A-rhythm-etic. The Math Behind the Beats
- Beatboxing 101
- A Brief History of Goths
- Earworms: Those Songs That Get Stuck in Your Head
- From Aaliyah to Jay-Z: Captured Moments in Hip-Hop History
- How Bass Instruments Work
- How Playing an Instrument Benefits Your Brain
- How to Practice Effectively
- How to Read Music
- Johann Sebastian Bach’ Life
- Music and Creativity in Ancient Greece
- Music and Emotion Through Time
- Music and Math: The Genius of Beethoven
- Music as a Language
- The Physics of Playing a Guitar
- The Secrets of Mozart’s Magic Flute
- Why You Should Listen to Vivaldi’s Four Seasons
- Why We Love Repetition in Music
Arts (Theatre)
- Development of English Drama
- Did Shakespeare Write His Plays?
- Does the Wonderful Wizard of Oz Have a Hidden Message?
- The History of Social Dance
- In on a Secret? That’s Dramatic Irony
- Shakespeare’s Best Insults
- Kabuki: The People’s Dramatic Art
- Poetry, Pentameter, Pirates (Shakespeare & Iambic Pentameter)
- The Science of Stage Fright (and How to Overcome It)
- Shakespearean Dating Tips
- Slowing Down Time (in Writing & Film)
- What’s the Definition of Comedy?
- Why Is Aristophanes Called the Father of Comedy?
- Why Is This Painting So Captivating? (Las Meninas)
- Why Shakespeare Loved Iambic Pentameter
- Why Tragedies Are Alluring?
Community Service
- Recycling Styrofoam
Counseling
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- Addiction
- Are You a Giver or a Taker?
- Are You a Good Listener?
- The Distracted Mind
- Does School Prepare Students for the Real World
- Debunking the Myths of OCD
- The Equation for Reaching Your Dreams
- Five Tips to Improve Critical Thinking
- Five Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain Right Now
- Five Ways You Can Help a Friend Suffering from Depression
- Friendships and Vulnerability
- Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
- Good and Bad Childhoods
- Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset: An Introduction
- How Does Stress Affect the Brain?
- How I Learned to Organize My Scatterbrain
- How Miscommunication Happens (and How to Avoid It)
- How to Be Confident
- How to Be More Empathetic
- How to Manage Your Time More Effectively
- How to Practice Effectively
- How to Stay Calm Under Pressure
- How to Stop Being Bored and Start Being Bold
- How to Talk to People You Disagree With
- Is Binge-Watching Bad for You?
- J.K. Rowling on the Importance of Failing
- Learning to Listen
- Manners
- Overcoming Obstacles
- The Science of Decision-Making
- Seven Healthy Tips for a Better Night’s Sleep
- A Simple Way to Break a Bad Habit
- Stay in–or Leave–a Relationship?
- The Surprising Link Between Stress and Memory
- Teach Girls Bravery Not Perfection
- Three Quick Tips to Boost Your Confidence
- What Causes Addiction
- What Is Bipolar Disorder?
- What Is Depression?
- What Is Empathy?
- What Trying to Help My Friend Taught Me About Mental Health
- What You Can Do When Friendship Becomes Harmful
- Why Do People Join Cults?
- Why Do We Make Irrational Decisions?
- Why Perfect Grades Don’t Matter
- Why We Fear the Wrong Things
Debate
- Are Boys Smarter Than Girls?
- Is There a Limit to Technological Progress?
- The Lost Art of Democratic Debate
- Private School vs. Public School
- The Pros and Cons of Pesticides
- Should We Get Rid of Standardized Testing?
- Should We Look for Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
- Would You Sacrifice One Person to Save Five?
Design/Technology
- Animal Architects
- Animation Basics: Homemade Special Effects
- Animation Basics: The Optical Illusion of Motion
- A Brief History of Video Games (Part I)
- Building the Brooklyn Bridge
- Can Machines Read Your Emotions?
- Can a Robot be Creative?
- How a Bendy Straw Was Invented
- How an Igloo Keeps You Warm
- How Blue Jeans Were Invented
- How Cars Went from Boxy to Curvy
- How Computer Memory Works
- How Computers Translate Human Language
- How Do Hard Drives Work?
- How Do Self-Driving Cars See?
- How Do Touchscreens Work?
- How Fan Films Shaped the Lego Movie
- How Far Can We Go?
- How the Band-Aid was invented?
- How the Popsicle Was Invented
- How the Romans Flooded the Colosseum for Sea Battles
- How the Rubber Glove was Invented
- How the Sandwich Was Invented
- How Smudge-proof Lipstick Was Invented
- How Superglue Was Invented
- How a TV Works in Slow Motion
- How Was the First Metro System Built?
- Inside Your Computer
- Is Google Killing Your Memory?
- Is It Possible to Create a Perfect Vacuum?
- A Life-Saving Device That Detects Heart Attacks
- Magnetic Slime
- Meet a 12-year-old App Developer
- Nine Futuristic Materials
- The Power of Creative Constraints
- Teaching Design for Change
- Ten Dangerous Fashion Trends
- Think Like a Coder (Series)
- This One Weird Trick Will Help You Spot Clickbait
- What Are Mini Brains?
- What If Cracks in Concrete Could Fix Themselves?
- What Is the Internet of Things?
- What Is a Smartphone Made of?
- What Is the World Wide Web?
- What’s So Special About Viking Ships?
- Will We Ever Be Able to Teleport?
- Will There Ever Be a Mile-High Skyscraper?
French
- History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte
- What Caused the French Revolution?
Language & Literature
Note: There are several poems from the “There’s a Poem for That” series in this list. They all are identified with the series’ name in parentheses after the title.
- Accents (There’s A Poem for That series)
- All the World Is a Stage (There’s a Poem for That series)
- An Antihero of One’s Own
- Animal Farm – Context and Background
- The Art of the Metaphor
- The Assassination of Julius Caesar
- The Aztec Myth of the Unluckiest Sun God
- Become a Slam Poet in Five Steps
- Beware of Nominalizations (AKA Zombie Nouns)
- A Brief History of Plural Word
- The Cambodian Myth of Thunder, Lightning, and Rain
- The Case of a Misplaced Modifier
- The Chinese Myth of the Immortal White Snake I & 2
- Comma Story
- The Clues to a Great Story
- Dare to Educate Afghan Girls
- Does Grammar Matter?
- Does the Wonderful World of Oz Have a Hidden Message?
- Everything You Need to Know to Read The Canterbury Tales
- Everything You Need to Know to Read Frankenstein
- Everything You Need to Know to Read The Odyssey
- The Evolution of the Book
- First Kiss (There’s A Poem for That series)
- Five Myths from Around the World
- For Estefani, Third Grade, Who Made Me a Card (There’s A Poem for That series)
- Francine’s Interview – Holocaust Survivor
- A Global Culture to Fight Extremism
- Grammar’s Great Divide: The Oxford Comma
- Harry Potter and the Translator’s Nightmare
- Hero: A Lesson from a Volunteer Firefighter
- A Host of Heroes
- How Can You Change Someone’s Mind?
- How Did English Evolve?
- How Did Hitler Rise to Power?
- How Do Languages Evolve?
- How False News Can Spread
- How Fiction Can Change Reality
- How the Heart Actually Pumps Blood
- How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?
- How Miscommunication Happens
- How Misused Modifiers Can Hurt Your Writing
- How to Build a Fictional World
- How to Make Your Writing Suspenseful
- How Many Verb Tenses Are There in English?
- How to Recognize a Dystopia
- How Thor Got His Hammer
- How to Use Rhetoric to Get What You Want
- How to Use a Semicolon
- How to Write Fiction That Comes Alive
- Insults by Shakespeare
- The Irish Myth of the Giant’s Causeway
- Is There Any Truth to King Arthur’s Legends?
- The Key to Media’s Hidden Codes
- Lessons from Auschwitz: The Power of Our Words
- The Magic, Mathematical Fictions of Jorge Luis Borges
- To Make Use of Water (There’s a Poem for That series)
- Making Sense of Spelling
- Mining Literature for Deeper Meanings
- Misleading Headlines
- The Myth of Arachne
- The Myth of Cupid and Psyche
- The Myth of Hercules
- The Myth of Icarus and Daedalus
- The Myth of Jason & the Argonauts
- The Myth of King Midas and His Golden Touch
- The Myth of Oisin and the Land of Eternal Youth
- The Myth of Pandora’s Box
- The Myth of Prometheus
- The Myth of Sisyphus
- The New Colossus (There’s a Poem for That series)
- The Nutritionist There’s a Poem for That series)
- Ode to the Only Black Kid in Class (There’s a Poem for That series)
- The Opposites Game (from There’s a Poem for That series)
- Plato’s Allegory of a Cave
- Plato’s Best and Worst Ideas
- A Poetic Experiment: Walt Whitman Interpreted by Three Animators
- The Poetry of Emily Dickenson
- The Poet Who Painted with Words
- The Power of a Great Introduction
- The Power of Simple Words
- The Punishable Perils of Plagiarism
- Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Beauty of the Everyday
- A Refresher on Edgar Allan Poe
- The Road Not Taken (There’s a Poem for That series)
- The Science Behind the Myth: Homer’s “Odyssey”
- The Secret Student Resistance to Hitler
- The Second Coming (There’s a Poem for That series)
- Situational Irony: The Opposite of What You Think
- Speech Acts: Constative and Performative (Power of Words)
- Thor’s Journey to the Land of Giants
- Three Anti-Social Skills to Improve Your Writing
- Three Months After (There’s a Poem for That series)
- Titan of Terror: The Dark Imagination of H.P. Lovecraft
- To Make use of Water (There’s a Poem for That series)
- The Tragic Myth of Orpheus and Eurydice
- Vampires: Folklore, Fantasy and Fact
- What Aristotle and Joshua Bell Can Teach Us About Persuasion
- What Is an Antihero?
- What Is the Definition of Comedy?
- What Is Verbal Irony?
- What Makes a Hero?
- What Makes a Poem a Poem?
- What Makes Something Kafkaesque?
- What “Orwellian” Really Means
- http://www.ted.com/playlists/75/what_s_wrong_with_what_we_eat (This playlist comprises regular TED videos that you may find useful for the Chew on This unit.)
- When to Use Apostrophes
- When to Use Me, Myself, and I?
- Where Do New Words Come From?
- Who Am I?
- Who Is Sherlock Holmes?
- Who Were the Vestal Virgins?
- Why Facts Don’t Convince People
- Why Should You Read Charles Dickens?
- Why Should You Read Crime and Punishment?
- Why Should you Read Don Quixote?
- Why Should You Read Edgar Allan Poe?
- Why Should You Read Fahrenheit 451?
- Why Should You Read the Handmaid’s Tale?
- Why Should You Read Kurt Vonnegut?
- Why Should You Read Macbeth?
- Why Should You Read A Midsummer’s Night Dream?
- Why Should You Read One Hundred Years of Solitude?
- Why Should You Read Sylvia Plath?
- Why Should You Read The Tempest?
- Why Should You Read Waiting for Godot?
- Why Should You Read War and Peace?
- Why Should You Read Sci-Fi Superstar Octavia F. Butler?
- The Wicked Wit of Jane Austen
- Will the Real Sherlock Holmes Please Stand Up?
- The World According to James Baldwin
- The World’s Most Mysterious Book
Logic & Reasoning (Riddles)
- Can You Find the Next Number in This Sequence?
- Can You Outsmart This Logical Fallacy?
- Can You Solve the Airplane Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Alien Probe Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Bridge Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Buried Treasure Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Control Room Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Counterfeit Coin Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Cuddly, Duddly, Fuddly, Wuddly Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Dark Coin Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Egg Drop Riddle?
- Can You Solve Einstein’s Riddle?
- Can You Solve the False Positive Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Fish Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Frog Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Giant Cat Army Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Giant Iron Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Jail Break Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Killer Robo-Ants Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Leonardo da Vinci Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Locker Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Mondrian Squares Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Multiplying Rabbits Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Multiverse Rescue Mission Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Passcode Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Penniless Pilgrim Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Pirate Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Prisoner Box Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Prisoner Hat Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Rebel Supplies Riddle?
- Can You Solve the River Crossing Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Rogue AI Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Secret Werewolf Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Seven Planets Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Stolen Rubies Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Temple Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Three Gods Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Time Travel Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Troll’s Paradox Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Unstoppable Blob Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Vampire Hunter’s Riddle?
- Can You Solve the Wizard Standoff Riddle?
- Fire Crystal Riddle
- Winning at Rock, Paper, Scissors
Mathematics
- A-rhythm-etic. The Math Behind the Beats
- A Brief History of Banned Numbers
- A Brief History of Numerical Systems
- Can You Solve This?
- The Case of the Missing Fractals
- Check Your Intuition: The Birthday Problem
- The Complex Geometry of Islamic Design
- The Coin Flip Conundrum
- Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man of Math
- The Famously Difficult Green-Eyed Logic Puzzle
- A Faster Way to Add and Multiply in Your Head
- The Fundamentals of Probability
- How Big Is Infinity?
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- How High Can You Count on Your Fingers?
- How the Konigsberg Bridge Problem Changed Mathematics
- How Many Ways Are There to Prove the Pythagorean Theorem?
- How Many Ways Can You Arrange a Deck of Cards?
- How Statistics Can Be Misleading
- How to Make a Hexaflexagon
- How to Prove the Pythagorean Theory
- How to Spot a Misleading Graph
- How to Visualize One Part Per Million
- The Infinite Hotel Paradox
- The Infinite Life of Pi
- Is Math Discovered or Invented?
- Is Our Climate Headed for Mathematical Chaos?
- The Last Banana: A Thought Experiment in Probability
- Making Sense of Irrational Numbers
- The Math Behind Michael Jordan’s Legendary Hang Time
- The Mathematical Secrets of Pascual’s Triangle
- The Mathematics of Sidewalk Illusions
- Mile of Pi – Numberphile
- Music and Math: The Genius of Beethoven
- Mysteries of Vernacular: Zero
- Pixar: The Math Behind the Movies
- Population Pyramids: Powerful Predictors of the Future
- Riemann’s Paradox: Pi Equals Infinity Minus Infinity
- Should I Stay or Should I Switch Doors?
- SpongeBob’s house is not a pineapple (Fibonacci Numbers)
- A Trip Through Space to Calculate Distance
- The Unexpected Math Behind Van Gogh’s “Starry Night”
- Welcome to the Virus Riddle
- What Are Vectors?
- What’s an Algorithm?
- What’s the Difference Between Accuracy and Precision?
- Where Do Math Symbols Come From?
- Why Are Manhole Covers Round?
- Why Can’t You Divide by Zero?
- Why Does Math Make So Many People Anxious?
- Why Do People Get So Anxious About Math?
- Why Do Honeybees Love Hexagons?
- Why the Metric System Matters
- Why You Can’t Divided by Zero
Philosophy
- Are We Living in a Simulation?
- Are You a Mind with a Body or a Body with a Mind?
- Does Time Exist?
- The Philosophy of Stoicism
Physical & Health Education
- An Athlete Uses Physics to Shatter World Records
- Are Food Preservatives Bad for You?
- The Benefits of a Good Night’s Sleep
- The Benefits of Good Posture
- The Complicated History of Surfing
- Could We Cure Aging During Your Lifetime?
- The Different Types of Fats
- Does Stress Cause Pimples?
- Do Fad Diets Work?
- The Effects of Sleep Deprivation
- Eradicating HIV
- The Fascinating Science of Phantom Limbs
- Five Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain
- Five Weird Involuntary Reflexes Explained!
- The Heartbreaking Text That Inspired a Crisis Help Line
- The History of the Black Fives Era in Basketball
- How Anesthesia Works
- How Aspirin Was Discovered?
- How Blood Pressure Works
- How Close Are We to Eradicating HIV?
- How Concussions Work
- How Do Blood Transfusions Works?
- How Do Cigarettes Affect the Body?
- How Does Asthma Work?
- How Does Caffeine Keep Us Awake?
- How Does Sugar Affect the Brain?
- How Does Your Body Know You’re Full?
- How Does Your Body Process Medicine?
- How Does Your Digestive System Work?
- How Does Your Heart Pump Blood?
- How Does Your Liver Work?
- How Does Your Pancreas Work?
- How Does Your Thyroid Manage Your Metabolism?
- How Do Drugs Affect the Brain?
- How Do Glasses Help You See?
- How Do Vaccines Work?
- How Do Viruses Jump from Animals to Humans?
- How Do Vitamins Work?
- How Do We Study Living Brains?
- How Do Wounds Heal?
- How Do You Get Rid of Acne?
- How Do Your Kidneys Work?
- How Do Your Lungs Work?
- How Fast Can Humans Go?
- How the Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
- How the Food You Eat Affects Your Gut
- How Hormones Work
- How Microbes Form Communities
- How Much Water Do We Need to Drink?
- How Mucus Keeps Us Healthy
- How Old Are Your Ears? (This is a hearing test that requires earphones connected to a computer set at 1080p.)
- How One Scientist Averted a National Health Crisis
- How Oxygen Travels Through the Body
- How Playing Sports Benefits Your Body and Brain
- How Old Is Your Body Really?
- How to Practice Effectively
- How Stress Affects the Brain
- How Sugar Affects the Brain
- How to Biohack Your Cells to Fight Cancer
- How to Choose a Sunscreen
- How to Eradicate a Disease
- How to Help a Friend Suffering from Depression
- How X-rays See Through Your Skin
- How to Grow a Bone
- How to Practice Effectively
- How Your Immune System Works
- How Your Muscular System Works
- Is It Bad to Hold Your Pee?
- Is Marijuana Bad for Your Brain?
- Is Radiation Dangerous?
- Lead and the Brain
- The Mysterious Science of Pain
- The Neuroscience of Pokemon Go
- Protecting the Brain Against Concussion
- Sickle Cell Disease
- The Surprising Cause of Stomach Ulcers
- The Surprising Reason Muscles Get Tired
- The Surprising Reason You Feel Awful When You’re Sick
- The Tortuous History of the Treadmill
- 23 and 1/2 Hours
- Your Body vs. Implants
- What Are Carbohydrates?
- What Are Those Floaty Things in Your Eyes?
- What Causes Addiction
- What Causes Antibiotic Resistance?
- What Causes Bad Breath?
- What Causes Baldness?
- What Causes Body Odor?
- What Causes Cavities?
- What Causes Headaches?
- What Causes Kidney Stones?
- What Causes Memory Loss?
- What Did Dogs Teach Humans About Diabetes?
- What Does Your Thyroid Do?
- What Happens During a Heart Attack?
- What Happens During a Stroke?
- What Happens When You Get Heat Stroke?
- What Happens When You Have a Concussion?
- What Herpes Can Do to Your Brain
- What Is a Calorie?
- What Is Alzheimer’s Disease?
- What Is Depression?
- What is Ebola?
- What Is Fat?
- What Is It Like to Have Tourette’s—and How Music Gives Me Back Control?
- What’s the Big Deal with Gluten?
- What Is the Menstrual Cycle?
- What Is Narcissism?
- What Is Obesity?
- What Makes Muscles Grow
- What Would Happen If You Didn’t Drink Water?
- What Would Happen If You Didn’t Sleep?
- Why Do Blood Types Matter?
- Why Do Our Joints Pop?
- Why Do We Age?
- Why Do We Dream?
- Why Do We Hiccup?
- Why Do We Itch?
- Who Do We Make Irrational Decisions?
- Why Do We Pass Gas?
- Why Do We Sweat?
- Why Do Women Have Periods?
- Why Do You Need to Get a Flu Shot Every Year?
- Why Is Being Scared So Fun?
- Why Is the Human Body Asymmetrical?
- Why Is Meningitis So Dangerous?
- Why Is It So Hard to Cure ALS?
- Why Is It So Hard to Cure Cancer?
- Why It’s So Hard to Cure HIV/AIDS
- Why Sitting Is Bad for You
- Why Some People Have Seasonal Allergies
- The World’s Most Infectious Killer
- Your Body vs. Implants
Psychology
- Do Politics Make Us Irrational?
Sciences
Note: They have many videos for the individual elements of the periodic table. I did not list them here. To find them, enter the name of the element in the search box to see if one has been made or go to this link http://ed.ted.com/periodic-videos
- The 2,400-year Search for the Atom (History of Atomic Theory)
- ABCs of Gas
- The Accident That Changed the World (Discovery of Penicillin)
- Activation Energy: Kickstarting Chemical Reactions
- The Amazing Ways Plants Defend Themselves
- Atoms from A to Easy!
- An Athlete Uses Physics to Shatter World Records
- Are GMOs Good or Bad?
- Are Naked Mole Rats the Strangest Mammals?
- Are We Running Out of Clean Water?
- Attack of the Killer Algae
- At What Moment Are You Dead?
- A Baffling Balloon Behavior
- Biodiesel: The Afterlife of Oil
- Biofuels and Bioprospecting for Beginners
- Birth of the Lightsaber
- The Brilliance of Bioluminescence
- Calculating the Odds of Intelligent Alien Life
- Can Animals Adapt to Climate Change?
- Can a Black Hole Be Destroyed?
- The Cancer Gene We All Have
- Can 100% Renewable Energy Power the World?
- Cannibalism in the Animal Kingdom
- Can Plants Communicate?
- Can You Survive Nuclear Fallout?
- The Carbon Cycle
- Carl Sagan on the Existence of Extraterrestrials
- The Case of the Vanishing Honeybees
- Cell Membranes: Are They More Complicated Than You Think?
- Cell vs. Virus: A Battle for Health
- The Challenges of Nuclear Power
- Climate Change: Earth’s Giant Game of Tetris
- Cloudy Climate Change: How Clouds affect Earth’s Temperature
- The Coelacanth: A Living Fossil of a Fish
- The Colossal Consequences of Supervolcanoes
- The Complicated Journey of Marine Plastic Pollution
- Conserving Our Spectacular, Vulnerable Coral Reefs
- Coral Reefs Aren’t as Doomed as You Think
- Could a Blind Eye Regenerate?
- Could the Earth Be Swallowed by a Back Hole?
- Could Human Civilization Spread Across the Whole Galaxy?
- Could You Survive 2.5 Million Years Ago?
- Could Underwater Farms Help Fight Climate Change?
- Could We Create Dark Matter?
- Could We Survive in Outer Space?
- Crazy Pool Vortex
- Creatures of the Deep
- Dark Matter: The Matter We Can’t See
- Dead Stuff: The Secret Ingredient in Our Food Chain
- The Death of Bees Explained
- The Death of the Universe
- Describing the Invisible Properties of Gas
- Diagnosing a Zombie: Brain and Behavior
- Diagnosing a Zombie: Brain and Body
- Disappearing Frogs
- DNA: The Book of You
- The Dramatic Origins of Germ Theory
- The Dust Bunnies That Built Our Planet
- Einstein’s Brilliant Mistake: Entangled States
- Einstein’s Twin Paradox Explained
- Einstein’s Miracle Year
- Electric Vocabulary
- Eli the Eel: A Mysterious Migration
- Endocrine System – Part 1 (How Hormones Work)
- The Fascinating Science of Phantom Limbs
- Finding Habitable Worlds
- The First Asteroid Ever Discovered
- Five Ways Social Media Is Changing Your Brain
- Football Physics: The “Impossible” Free Kick
- Four Ways to Understand the Earth’s Age
- A 40-year Plan for Energy
- Free Falling in Outer Space
- Fresh Water Scarcity: An Introduction to the Problem
- From DNA to Silly Putty, the Diverse World of Polymers
- From Outer Space to Under Our Skin: A Look at the Universe
- From the Top of the Food Chain Down: Rewilding Our World
- The Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 1
- The Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 2
- The Fundamentals of Space-time: Part 3
- The Genius of Marie Curie
- The Genius of Mendeleev’s Periodic Table
- Gravity and the Human Body
- A Guide to the Energy of the Earth
- Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox Explained
- The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
- The Higgs Field, Explained
- The History of the Barometer
- How Bacteria “Talk”
- How Batteries Work
- How Big Is the Ocean?
- How Brain Parasites Change Their Host’s Behavior
- How Breathing Works
- How the Choices You Make Affect Your Genes
- How Clouds Were Named
- How Cosmic Rays Help Us Understand the Universe
- How CRISPR Lets You Edit DNA
- How Deep Is the Ocean?
- How Did Feathers Evolve?
- How Do Animals See in the Dark?
- How Do Cancer Cells Behave Differently from Healthy Ones?
- How Do Crystals Work?
- How Does an Atom-smashing Particle Accelerator Work?
- How Does Cancer Spread?
- How Does Fracking Work?
- How Does Hibernation Work?
- How Does Work . . . Work?
- How Does Your Brain Respond to Pain?
- How Do Fish Make Electricity?
- How Do Germs Spread (and Why Do They Make Us Sick)?
- How Do Nerves Work?
- How Do Schools of Fish Swim in Harmony?
- How Do Solar Panels Work?
- How Do Tornadoes Form?
- How Do We Extract Raw Materials from Nature?
- How Do We Separate the Seemingly Inseparable?
- How Do We Smell?
- How Do We Study Living Brains?
- How Do We Study the Stars?
- How Do Wounds Heal?
- How Far Would You Have to Go to Escape Gravity?
- How Fast Are You Moving Right Now?
- How Folding a Paper Can Get You to the Moon
- How Giant Sea Creatures Eat Tiny Sea Creatures
- How Heavy Is Air?
- How Inventions Change History (for Better and for Worse)
- How I Teach Kids to Love Science
- How Levers Work
- How Life Begins in the Deep Ocean
- How Long Will Human Impacts Last?
- How Many Universes Are There?
- How Memories Form and Why We Lose Them
- How Mendel’s Pea Plants Helped Us Understand Genetics
- How Microbes Form Communities
- How Oceanographers Found the Titanic
- How Oxygen Travels Through Your Body
- How Optical Illusions Trick Your Brain
- How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?
- How Smart Are Dolphins?
- How Pandemics Spread
- How Plants Tell Time
- How Simple Ideas Lead to Scientific Discoveries
- How Small Are We in the Scale of the Universe?
- How Smart Are Orangutans?
- How Spontaneous Brain Activity Keeps You Alive
- How Squids Outsmart Their Predators
- How Sugar Affects the Brain
- How to Biohack Your Cells and Fight Cancer
- How to Build a Dark Matter Detector
- How to Create Cleaner Coal
- How to Detect a Supernova
- How to Eradicate a Disease
- How to Fly Around the World Without Fuel
- How to Grow a Glacier
- How to Sequence the Human Genome
- How to Speed Up Chemical Reactions (and Get a Date)
- How to Squeeze Electricity Out of Crystals
- How Squids Outsmart their Predators
- How Tornadoes Form
- How to Track a Tornado
- How Tsunamis Work
- How Turtle Shells Evolved
- How We See Color
- How Whales Breathe, Communicate . . . and Fart with Their Faces
- How X-rays See Through Your Skin
- Humans Are More See-Through Than They Look
- If Matter Falls Down, Does Antimatter Fall Up?
- If Molecules Were People
- If Superpowers Were Real: Body Mass
- If Superpowers Were Real: Flight
- If Superpowers Were Real: Immortality
- If Superpowers Were Real: Invisibility
- If Superpowers Were Real: Super Speed
- If Superpowers Were Real: Super Strength
- The Immortal Cells of Henrietta Lacks
- The Incredible Collaboration Behind the International Space Station
- The Insanely Painful Sting of the Bullet Ant
- Inside the Amazing Octopus Brain
- Inside the Ant Colony
- Inside the Minds of Animals
- Insights into Cell Membranes Via Dish Detergent
- Invasive Species
- The Invisible Motion of Still Objects
- Is DNA the Future of Data Storage?
- Is Fire a Solid, Liquid, or Gas?
- Is Light a Particle or a Wave?
- Is Space Trying to Kill Us?
- Is Telekinesis Real?
- Is There a Center of the Universe?
- Is Time Travel Possible?
- The Journey to Pluto, the Farthest World Ever Explored
- Just How Small Is an Atom?
- The Life Cycle of a Neutron Star
- The Life Cycle of a Plastic Bottle
- Light Seconds, Light Years, Light Centuries: How to Measure Extreme Distances
- Light Waves, Visible and Invisible
- Living with Less Water
- The Loathsome, Lethal Mosquito
- The Lovable (and Lethal) Sea Lion
- Magical Metals, How Shape Memory Alloys Work
- Mammoths vs. Mastodons
- Meet the Frog That Barfs Up Its Babies
- Meet the Tardigrade, the Toughest Animal on Earth
- The Moon Illusion
- The Most Groundbreaking Scientist You’ve Never Heard of
- The Most Lightening-Struck Place on Earth
- The Most Astounding Fact – Neil deGrasse
- The Most Lightning Struck Place on Earth
- The Most Radioactive Places on Earth
- My Glacier Cave Discoveries
- Nature’s Smallest Factory: The Calvin Cycle
- A Needle in Countless Haystacks: Finding Habitable Worlds
- The Neuroscience of Pokemon Go
- Newton’s 3 Laws, with a Bicycle
- The Nurdles’ Quest for Ocean Domination (Plastics in the Ocean)
- Origins of Gold
- The Pangaea Pop-up
- Parasite Tales: The Jewel Wasp’s Zombie Slave
- Pavlovian Reactions Aren’t Just for Dogs
- Penguins: Popularity, Peril and Poop
- The Physics of the “Hardest Move” in Ballet
- The Physics of Surfing
- Poison vs. Venom: What’s the Difference?
- Proof of Evolution That You Can Find on the Body
- The Race to Sequence the Human Genome
- Radioactivity: Expect the Unexpected
- A Rare, Spectacular Total Eclipse of the Sun
- Reasons for the Seasons
- RNAi: Slicing, Dicing and Serving Your Cells
- Rosalind Franklin: DNAs Unsung Hero
- Sally Ride on Dumb Questions
- The Science of Skin
- The Science of Skin Color
- The Science of Smog
- The Science of Symmetry
- The Secret Language of Trees
- The Secret Life of Plankton
- The Secret Powers of Jellyfish
- The Secrets of the X Chromosome
- The Secret to Rising Sea Levels
- Separation Techniques and Why They Matter
- Seven Ocean Mysteries
- Sex Determination: More Complicated Than You Thought
- Should We Eat Bugs?
- Should We Look for Life Elsewhere in the Universe?
- The Single-Celled Organism That Almost Wiped Out Life on Earth
- The Standard Model of Particle Physics
- Solving the Puzzle of the Periodic Table
- The Sonic Boom Problem
- The Strengths and Weaknesses of Acids and Bases
- Sunlight Is Way Older Than You Think
- The Sun’s Surprising Movement Across the Sky
- The Surprising Effects of Rewilding
- The Surprising (and Invisible) Signatures of Sea Creatures
- The Surprising Reasons Animals Play Dead
- The Survival of the Sea Turtle
- Symbiosis: A Surprising Tale of Species Cooperation
- Synesthesia (Note: It’s the combination of two or more senses.)
- Theory vs. Law: What’s the Difference
- Three Different Ways Mammals Give Birth
- Three Planets That Shouldn’t Exist
- This Is Your Brain on Pain
- Three Different Ways Animals Give Birth
- Three Ways to Destroy the Universe
- Turbulence: One of the Greatest Unsolved Mysteries of Physics
- Twisting Tale of DNA
- A Vanishing Island off the Louisiana Coast (Climate Change)
- Visualizing Hidden Worlds Inside Your Body
- Vultures: Heroes of the Ecosystem
- The Wacky Story of Cell Theory
- The Weird and Wonderful Metamorphosis of a Butterfly
- The Weird, Wonderful World of Bioluminescence
- What Is Dark Matter
- What Are Gravitational Waves
- What Are Meteors?
- What Are Mini Brains?
- What Are the Odds of Finding Intelligent Alien Life?
- What Causes a Solar Eclipse?
- What Happened to Antimatter?
- What Happens When Continents Collide?
- What If the Earth Stopped Spinning?
- What If We Could Look Inside Human Brains?
- What Is an Aurora?
- What Is the Biggest Single-Celled Organism?
- What Is the Coldest Thing in the World?
- What Is Einstein’s Theory of Relativity?
- What Is Entropy?
- What Is a Fungus?
- What Is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
- What Is Invisible? More Than You Think
- What Is Metallic Glass?
- What Is Plasma?
- What Is the Shape of a Molecule?
- What Is the Universe Made of?
- What Is Work? (Understanding Physical Laws)
- What Light Can Teach Us About the Universe
- What Outer Space Does to Your Body
- What Percentage of Your Brain Do You Use?
- What Would Happen If Every Human Suddenly Disappeared?
- What Would Happen If the World Went Vegetarian?
- What Would It Be Like to Live on the Moon?
- What’s Wrong with Our Food System
- What You Can Learn from an Ancient Skeleton
- When Is Water Safe to Drink?
- When Will the Next Ice Age Happen?
- When Will the Next Mass Extinction Occur?
- Where Does Gold Come From?
- Where Do Genes Come From?
- Where Have All the Honeybees Gone?
- Where We Get Our Fresh Water
- Which Came First: The Chicken or the Egg?
- Who Won the Space Race?
- Why Are Blue Whales So Enormous?
- Why Are Earthquakes So Hard to Predict?
- Why Are Fish Fish-Shaped?
- Why Aren’t We Only Using Solar Power?
- Why Are Sharks So Awesome?
- Why Are Sloths So Slow?
- Why Are Some People Left-handed?
- Why Are There So Many Insects?
- Why Be Skeptical? (of Scientific Studies)
- Why Can’t We See Evidence of Alien Life?
- Why Do Animals Form Swarms?
- Why Doesn’t Anything Stick to Teflon?
- Why Does the Sun Really Shine?
- Why Do Humans Have a Third Eyelid?
- Why Do Mirrors Flip Vertically but Not Horizontally?
- Why Don’t Ants Get Stuck in Traffic?
- Why Don’t Perpetual Motion Machines Ever Work?
- Why Do We Age?
- Why Do We Cry? The Three Types of Tears
- Why Do We Harvest Horseshoe Crab Blood?
- Why Do We Pass Gas?
- Why Do We Wrinkle When Wet?
- Why Do Whales Sing?
- Why Is Cotton in Everything?
- Why Is Glass Transparent?
- Why Is NASA Sending a Spacecraft to a Metal World?
- Why Total Solar Eclipse Is Such a Big Deal?
- Will Future Spacecraft Fit in Our Pockets?
- Will the Ocean Ever Run Out of Fish?
- Will We Ever Be Able to Teleport?
- Would You Move to Mars?
- Would You Weigh Less in an Elevator?
- You Are Your Microbes
Social Studies/World Cultures
- Actually, the World Isn’t Flat
- The Ancient Origins of the Olympics
- The Arctic vs. the Antarctic
- Are Ghost Ships Real?
- The City of Walls: Constantinople
- The Dangerous Race to the South Pole
- A Day in the Life of an Ancient Athenian
- A Day in the Life of a Roman Solider
- Democracy: A Short Introduction
- Did the Amazons Really Exist?
- Did Ancient Troy Really Exist?
- The Difference Between the United Kingdom, Great Britain, and England Explained
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead: A Guide to the Underworld
- The Fascinating History of Cemeteries
- The Five Major World Religions
- From Slave to Rebel Gladiator: The Life of Spartacus
- A Glimpse of Teenage Life in Ancient Rome
- Greeting the World in Peace
- The Hidden Meanings of Yin and Yang
- The History and Genghis Khan
- The History of Japan
- The History of Marriage
- The History of Saint Patrick
- History vs. Augustus
- History vs. Che Guevara
- History vs. Christopher Columbus
- History vs. Cleopatra
- History vs. Henry VIII
- History vs. Napoleon Bonaparte
- History vs. Vladimir Lenin
- How Did Dracula Become the World’s Most Famous Vampire?
- How Did Polynesian Wayfinders Navigate the Pacific Ocean?
- How Do You Decide Where to Go in a Zombie Apocalypse? (Geography)
- How Magellan Circumnavigated the Globe
- How Much Food Can You Buy for $5 Around the World?
- How the Normans Changed the History of Europe
- How North America Got Its Shape
- How to Make a Mummy
- Incredible History of China’s Terracotta Warriors
- Islam, the Quran, and the Five Pillars
- It’s a Church. It’s a Mosque. It’s Hagia Sophia
- Learn to Read Chinese with Ease
- Legend of Annapurna
- The Life of an African Revolutionary
- The Most Successful Pirate of All Time
- The Murder of Ancient Alexandria’s Greatest Scholar
- The Myth Behind the Chinese Zodiac
- The Origins of Russia
- Overpopulation: The Human Explosion Explained
- The Paradox of Value
- The Past, Present, and Future of the Bubonic Plague
- The Pharaoh That Wouldn’t Be Forgotten
- The Philosophy of the Buddha
- The Population Pyramid
- The Rise and Fall of the Assyrian Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the Byzantine Empire
- The Rise and Fall of the Inca Empire
- The Secret Messages of Viking Runestones
- The Secret Student Resistance to Hitler
- The Silk Road: Connecting the Ancient World Through Trade
- The Tale of Sunken Cities
- Terra Cotta Warriors
- This Is Sparta
- The United Nations
- Urbanization and the Evolution of Cities Across 10,000 years
- The Wars That Inspired Games of Thrones
- What Are the Universal Human Rights?
- What Can You Learn from an Ancient Skeleton?
- What Determines the Value of Money?
- What Did Democracy Really Mean in Athens?
- What Does It Mean to Be a Refugee?
- What Gives a Dollar Bill Its Value?
- What Happens When Continents Collide?
- What History Lies Beneath the Sea?
- What Is Power?
- What Is the Tragedy of Commons?
- What Makes the Great Wall of China So Extraordinary?
- What Really Happened to the Library of Alexandria?
- What’s So Great about the Great Lakes?
- What’s So Special About Viking Ships?
- Where Do Superstitions Come From?
- Where Did Russia Come From?
- Who Built Great Zimbabwe and Why?
- Who Built the Pyramids?
- Who Was Confucius?
- Who Was Voltaire?
- Why All World Maps Are Wrong
- Why Can’t We Just Print More Money to Pay Off Debt?
- Why Cultural Exchange Matters
- William the Conqueror
- World War II: Why It’s So Important 70 Years Later
Spanish
- The Psychology of Accents
- The Real History of Cinco de Mayo
Special Education
- ADHD: Finding What Works for Me
- Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity
- The Fascinating Reason That Children Write Letters Backwards (blog post)
- How Braille Was Invented
- A New Way to Diagnose Autism
- The Psychology of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
- Toward a New Understanding of Mental Illness
- What Does This Symbol Actually Mean?
- What Is Bipolar Disorder?
- What Is Dyslexia?
- What Is Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)?
- Was Leonardo da Vinci Dyslexic?
U.S. History/Government
- America’s Native Prisoners of War
- Bad Romance Parody: Women’s Suffrage
- The Breathtaking Courage of Harriet Tubman
- The Contributions of Female Explorers
- The Courage of Harriet Tubman
- Democracy: A Short Introduction
- A Digital Reimagining of Gettysburg
- Does Your Vote Count? The Electoral College Explained
- The Exceptional Life of Benjamin Banneker
- The Fight for the Right to Vote in the United States
- Gerrymandering: How Drawing Jagged Lines Can Impact an Election
- The Historical Audacity of the Louisiana Purchase
- The Historic Women’s Suffrage March in Washington
- Historical Role Models
- History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
- History vs. Andrew Jackson
- History vs. Christopher Columbus
- How the Berlin Wall Fell
- How Does Impeachment Work?
- How Do U.S. Supreme Court Justices Get Appointed?
- How One Piece of Legislation Divided a Nation (Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854)
- How to Turn Protest into Powerful Change
- How to Understand Power
- How We Conquered the Deadly Smallpox Virus
- The Infamous and Ingenious Ho Chi Minh Trail
- Inventing the American Presidency
- The Liberties Originally Omitted from the Constitution (The Missing Bill of Rights)
- The Oddities of the First American Election
- The Making of the American Constitution
- The Missing Plague That Could Have Changed History (New World Colonization)
- The Moral Dangers of Non-lethal Weapons
- Neil DeGrasse Replies to Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address
- The Oddities of the First American Election
- The Past, Present and Future of the Bubonic Plague
- The Story Behind the Boston Tea Party
- A Three-Minute Guide to the Bill of Rights
- The True Story of Sacajawea
- Ugly History: The 1937 Haitian Massacre
- Ugly History: Witch Hunts
- An Unsung Hero of the Civil Rights Movement
- The Upside of Isolated Civilizations
- The Watergate Scandal: United States vs. Nixon
- What Happened to Trial by Jury?
- What Is McCarthyism? And How Did It Happen?
- What Is an Executive Order?
- What Is Power?
- What You Might Not Know About the Declaration of Independence
- Why Is the Constitution So Hard to Amend?
- Why Wasn’t the Bill of Rights Originally in the Constitution?
- World War II: Why Is It So Important 70 Years Later?
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Over 30 Virtual Field Trips with Links
(Click on colored text for links. Safe Travels!)
| San Diego Zoo | The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour! | ||
| Yellowstone National Park Virtual Field Trip | Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs, and so much more. | ||
| MARS!!! | Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
They are updating from WEBVR to WEBXR now, but 360 Mode offers a digital view! |
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| Animal Cameras | Live Cams at the San Diego Zoo
Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams Georgia Aquarium has Jellyfish, Beluga Whales, and more |
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| U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL | See the Saturn 5 Rocket on YouTube and more on this tour thanks to a real father/son outing. | ||
| Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips | A few of the field trip topics include | ||
| The Louvre | Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip. | ||
| The Great Wall of China | This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life. | ||
| Boston Children’s Museum | Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum thanks to Google Maps!
This virtual tour allows kids to explore 3 floors of fun. |
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Have fun learning at home!
Activities to do at Home
Time for Kids (K-6)
Ideas for Activities During School Closings
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your Couch (Video)
ByrdseedTV (Educational Videos)
Epic! Digital Book Library (for kids 12 and under) (there is a cost – $7.99/month)
Storyline – Streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations
Best Music Apps and Games for Kids
50 Books All Kids Should Read Before They’re 12
Common Sense Selections highlighting the best movies and TV shows
Best Documentaries for Kids and Families
Common Sense Media (reviews for what your kids want to watch before they watch it)
Write notes, letters, draw pictures to send or drop off at local nursing homes – the elderly in nursing homes aren’t allowed to have visitors right now and it will brighten their day!
For Teachers
Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings
Khan Academy Student Schedules for School Closures
Scholastic Learn at Home: Teaching Remotely for Grades K-12
Scholastic Learn at Home: Free Resources for School Closures
Zoom – free sign up for teachers and students & relevant article
17 Apps to Help Kids Stay Focused
Apps That Act Like Math and Science Tutors for Homework Help
Free Educational Apps, Games, and Websites
Common Sense Media Education Resources
Temporary School Closure Support Group for Educators
Designing for Online Learning Online Course – a free course that runs from March 16-20. Registration ends at 7pm on Sunday March 15. The course requires about 45 minutes of your time per day.
Global Online Academy COVID-19 Resources
International Educator Shared Resources Google Doc
Google Hangouts – Google has extended Hangouts Meet premium features to all G Suite customers through July 1, 2020
Book Creator – giving 90 days free so you can collaborate on writing books with your students
Kahoot Premium – offering free access to all features to support distance learning in schools affected by the coronavirus outbreak
BoomWriter – a free writing app
BrainPOP – free access
Buncee Classroom – as per this tweet email info@buncee.com for free access
Discovery Education – comprehensive response to the worldwide coronavirus outbreak
Pear Deck – allows you to request individual or district-wide access if you’re impacted by closures
Tynker – will let you apply to receive their entire curriculum free if you’re impacted by closures
Adobe Spark – project based learning
Free Tools for Schools Dealing with Corona
Grades 6-9
| Time | Activity |
| 8am – 9am | Wake up, make your bed, eat breakfast and get ready for an awesome day! And yes, change out of PJs 🙂 |
| 9am – 9:40am | Let’s start strong with some serious math brain training. Remember your brain is like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it gets! Khan Academy math practice. Depending on level, one of the following courses are likely appropriate: Course challenges and unit tests can be used to accelerate through material. If you don’t have too many gaps, you should be able to get through a previous year’s content in 1-3 hours. If you do have gaps, it may take a bit longer, but that is good! This is your chance to fill in those gaps that might otherwise hold you back in the future. |
| 9:40am – 10am | Go for walk/run or do a GoNoodle! |
| 10am – 11am | Reading time. Sora, I-Ready lessons, Reading Plus, or just a book you love. |
| 11am – 11:20am | Break. Walk/run outside if possible. |
| 11:20am – 12pm | 15 mins Khan Academy Grammar: https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/grammar Recommend starting by taking the course challenge a few times to figure out what you know and don’t know. 35 mins Journaling/WritingThings to write about/prompts:
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| 12pm – 1pm | Lunch – Listen to an educational podcast! Try RadioLab If you like science, Forever Ago if you like history, or Goodnight Stories for Rebel Girls if you like biographies |
| 1pm – 2pm | Science and social studies. Newsela or Brainpop |
| 2pm-2:30pm | Walk/break |
| 2:30pm-3:30pm | Enrichment: Khan Academy computer programming Khan Academy computer programming |
| 3:30pm-9pm | relax, go outside, work on passions, time with family. |
| 9-10pm | Lights out, time to sleep! |
Usually reserved for conference guests only, I’ve made a page of free printables that I would like to share with everyone. I’m putting links to more free printables in comments.
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Reading, language arts
This is a completely free online reading program for kindergarten through Grade 6.
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openphysed.org offers free accounts and has a fitness plan for school closings.
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At-Home Learning
Schedule, Resources, and Guidance for At-Home Learning Experiences
Recommended for Upper Elementary and Middle Grades
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Additional Content / Experience Ideas (DRAFT):
- History / Social Studies
- https://www.icivics.org/games
- https://www.hippocampus.org/
- Crash Course – World History, US History, Economics (Youtube – Crash Course)
- Learn / Practice Coding!:
- Practice typing skills:
- Museums / Art → Look at, respond to, and discuss visual art together!
- Language Practice! https://www.duolingo.com/learn
- Watch & Debrief the News
- Virtual Field Trips from Discovery Education!
With school closures around the country due to #coronavirus, please use our FREE children’s literacy resource featuring the world’s best storytellers reading books aloud. Each video includes an activity guide with lessons for K-5 students to do at home. https://www.storylineonline.net/
Set up a grid of options so that students have choices about what they do and when. Don’t try and structure their whole day! As long as it is all done by your due dates.
When considering your options, look for transdisciplinary links to cover more of your topics.
Ensure that there are some tasks that everyone can easily achieve and some optional tasks that open-ended.
If you can think of low-floor, high-ceiling activities, they are the ticket!
Elementary teachers, I don’t recommend demanding an essay. Writing at home can lead to minimum quality and tears depending on your students. I’ve been prompting for paragraphs that could be combined into a good-copy written piece at a later time.
Have copies of all students logins readily accessible if you’re using online programs. And prepare yourself for claims that things didn’t work, couldn’t logon or glitched.
If you have that rubric of activities or at least a checklist, it makes keeping track of student progress too.
If you are getting students to do personal reading, I recommend have a follow-up activity a book review or writing the definition of 5 challenging words, so you have evidence.
math sessions on SeeSaw now with these puzzles
Some ideas from SEEDS on how to do church at home.
This year we want to help make it easy for your family to memorize scripture verses together by offering a new devotional series, 20 verses in 2020!
SEEDSFAMILYWORSHIP.COM
Other Helpful Educational Programs &Websites (All subjects)
1. Commoncoresheets.com (Extra practice worksheets in all subject areas & answer keys)
2. Study Island:
Username: 5-digit lunch number + @lowndes
Password: last name (lowercase letters)
3. Brainpopjr.com & Brainpop.com (Short Videos)
Username: dewarelementary
Password: des
learning sites
Discovery K12
Discovery K12 provides a complete online curriculum for pre-k to 12th grade. All main subjects are covered, plus extra curriculum courses.
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All of the curriculum if free to use and it is available worldwide.
Doodles Academy
Doodles Academy is a free art curriculum that is available virtually. It provides art projects that offer authentic art experiences for students — every student makes their own artistic decisions and walks away from the project with an artwork unique to them. Each project includes video tutorials and thorough lesson plans so that anyone can feel comfortable teaching art, regardless of their background or experience level. More, the art projects are aligned to topics and themes found in literacy, math, social studies, and science, so while students work through an art project they are building knowledge and context around other subjects.
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art curriculum, virtually available, with lesson plans and video demos
DreamScape
Engaging reading game for grades K-2,3-5,6-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.
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Always free
Duolingo
Foreign languages
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Always free (paid options, but base content always free)
Collisons Chemistry
Collisions is a system of digital games, grounded in the rules of chemistry, that can be used to introduce, teach, and review key concepts in chemistry.
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Always free.
CommonLit
Reading passages for grades 3-5,6-8,9-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions. Also has highlighting and notes tools embedded on its passages, as well as most passages have a read aloud function. Once students are signed up on here you can track which students have completed the assignments, and what they are having trouble on. Can easily link to Google Classroom.
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Always free!
Curriki
Curriki revolutionized the way digital learning content is distributed and shared. For over 10 years we have made the best curriculum, lessons and on-demand content free, open, and accessible to all.
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Always Free
CK-12 Foundation
Each lesson has a reading passage, videos, optional review questions, and self-graded practice questions. The lessons can be assigned to Google Classroom and it puts the grade in that students got on the practice questions (students must get 10 practice questions correct to get 100%).
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Always Free
Club OASIS
An free online STE(A)M club for kids!
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We always free. We offer free STE(A)M classes, projects, and teaching resources for families and educators.
Arcademics
Boost student engagement & fact fluency with our free multiplayer educational games, math games, language arts games, and more!
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Always Free.
Artrageous with Nate
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Interactive videos meant to stimulate creativity and a hands-on activity at home.
Belouga
Belouga is a digital platform providing K-2,3-5,6-8,9-12 teachers and students with a personalized learning journey through connection, communication and collaboration with peers around the world.
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Always Free.
Big History Project
Harness the curiosity and creativity of your middle and high school students with a supercharged social studies curriculum that gets beyond facts. Big History Project is a free, online social studies course that emphasizes skill development as students draw mind-blowing connections between past, present and future. What can you expect to see? Amazing gains in student writing and critical thinking.
BHP delivers a big picture look at the world, and helps students develop a framework to organize what they’re learning both in and out of school. After they leave your class, students will have a better understanding of how we got here, where we’re going, and how they fit in. It’s a place that was 13.8 billion years in the making.
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Always Free.
Biology Simulations
Simulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
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All materials are free
American Archive of Public Broadcasting
The American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 110,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 130 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 52,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org.
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Access to thousands of historic public television and radio programs.
https://www.jumpstart.com/free-online-3d-virtual-world-for-kids.aspx?pid=js&cid=games_content_seo
https://www.symbaloo.com/mix/homeschool11
https://games.sense-lang.org/EN.php
https://www.remc.org/21things4students/
http://www.21things4teachers.net/
Create Magic in your Classroom – MetaverseApp – Medium
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I have been teaching for over twenty years as a parent and for private institutions. I am not currently certified in any state as a teacher. I have an associate degree in Creative Marketing and a bachelor’s degree in Media Communications. Many posts were created to fulfill educational requirements for my master’s degree in Learning in Emerging Technologies, and my certificate for Teaching in Emerging Technologies through Empire State College, part of the SUNY network. Much of my work is also based on personal experience and exploration and serves as examples to guide others.
Wopoli.com is an access point for my student(s) and is made public to specifically provide examples and resources for other parents and educators. Wopoli.com has curriculum examples that have self-guided as well as guided activities. The lessons are intended to be adaptable or serve as examples and may not be appropriate for all ages or students. This environment maps out expectations in the formulation of achievable goals and motivational rewards through participation in virtual environments.
It is my goal when using technology as a teaching and learning tool to help students and educators understand how emerging technologies can enrich the learning experience for younger students and help achieve future student success in the real world of higher education, employment, or life goals. It is also essential to educate on the risks and best practices for online safety by exploring and sharing resources. It is also important to educate other adults within my network to the process involved as well as the reasoning behind the methodologies that I am incorporating on this site and companion sites. Please use the resources provided as well as your own inquiries to educate yourself concerning the benefits and risks involved with new technologies, especially when working with children.
Examples of companion sites and resources are included in the site such as YouTube, virtual world viewers, other blog sites and other educational websites. My use and recommendations of these sites are based upon my own research, experience and opinion. Please independently research these sites, their privacy policies and security practices before using them with your students.
My mission statement
Throughout my varied careers and experiences is a thread of commonality, the desire to see others achieve their goals. This desire has manifested itself in my pursuit of leadership and teaching opportunities in my careers, personal pursuits, and in volunteer work. Removing barriers such as the limits poverty and distance have on individuals is a focus of mine as these are personal barriers I have faced. Technology and distance learning as well as virtual employment have been beneficial in this. I myself have achieved my education only do to the availability of distance education. In addition, my virtual employment has overcome the barrier of limited local resources in employment.
Through self-reflection and analysis of my experiences key words that express my personal goals, how I wish to impact others are: to uplift and inspire, broaden horizons, deepen understanding, enlighten, strengthen and support, inform, increase awareness, protect human dignity, share beauty and joy, challenge people to think – to examine their beliefs and the effect these have on themselves and others, and to minister on a spiritual level of truth. This is likely why my future goals fall into a desire to teach and to express myself in creative fields through technology.
Testimonial: Our God who can move mountains…
God has brought to mind a specific memory, repeatedly, that he calls to be shared. It is the day that Jesus gave me a hug. It started weeks before the actual event…. In a time when euthanasia was being pushed in the medical field and legal arena in our country, I went to a seminar, back when I specialized with the elderly and those impacted by Alzheimer disease. In this seminar the speakers were pro ending the life of elderly patients in nursing homes. The social worker from our site also joined me and sat with me in the audience. She casually glanced over as I wrote notes and thoughts on the conversation. At the end of the presentation I stood up and countered with the risks and ethical implications, not religion based, very respectful. I was proud to have offered the counter aspect. It wasn’t easy and was not received well however I thought it to be my ethical responsibility to offer another perspective on a one sided seminar discussion. The next day at work I was called into the social workers office. I was reprimanded for speaking publicly at the conference in opposition to euthanasia. I was told I was “suffering from belief system syndrome” as if I had a mental illness. The social worker convinced the administration I needed additional exposure to alternative beliefs and I was required to attend an 8 hour seminar on spirituality in the health care field. Out of all the presenters that day only one was “christian” but it focused on the power of prayer as the power positivity and belief has on healing, not the power of God to heal. The others were about other religions, meditations, and controversial beliefs and practices. Driving home that day I felt I had just left a war zone and would be expected to report back “what i had learned” All the way home I spoke with God, my faith had not been shaken, I knew what i believed, I understood and accepted others have different views, but it was still upsetting realizing that I was expected not to have an open discussion and to condone all beliefs and practices, even euthanasia, in the least by simply remaining silent and that my own professional concerns and personal ethical beliefs were not respected. This was something I did not feel I should be asked to do ethically. Morality is a much deeper level, however even on the surface of professional ethics I felt this was not appropriate. As I neared my village I was no longer talking to God I was yelling. Tears streaming down my face. (I really should not have been driving at this point.) I wasn’t yelling at God. I was not angry at God. I was just hurt and wanted God to take the pain away. He spoke in soft thoughts in my mind and I snapped back. That wasn’t good enough. I needed more. I could envision Jesus in my mind sitting in the car with me. I knew God was with me and listening and I felt his love but I yelled back still…. No! I need more. I don’t want thoughts in my mind to sooth me, I do not want visions in my mind to comfort… I want a hug. I said to Jesus directly, you are God and nothing is impossible for you. I know it is not reasonable for me to expect you to appear in the flesh and give me a hug but that is what I need. I need a hug NOW. My God who can move mountains and bring nations to their knees. My God who loves me as a daughter, I needed a hug from my father. It didn’t matter how ridiculous my request sounded. I was like an inconsolable child. I was hurt. At this point I was driving into my home village. The village was empty on a Tuesday evening with everyone at supper. Then I saw them at the little church that was only occupied a few hours a week on Sunday morning and occasionally on a Wednesday evening. There was no reason for them to be there, on the sidewalk with their car doors open, about to get in and drive away, at the exact moment as I approached…. If the car had been there without seeing them, I would not have stopped, and a moment later they would have been on their way home, far outside of the village…. but there they were, on the sidewalk. I pulled over to the side of the road and literally jumped out of my car, I didn’t even have time to think about it. It was automatic. I think, by the looks on their faces I scared the dickens out of them with tears on my cheeks and stuttering as I approached them. I don’t even remember what I said but I told them I was there for hug and I got one. They offered to speak with me, they hadn’t even eaten supper yet, I tried to decline but they insisted. They had only stopped by the church on chance, a last minute thought as they were driving home, past the village church for some quick cleaning… I don’t even remember what we talked about. What I do remember is that I asked God for a miracle of a Hug that day. That is all I wanted but everything I needed and God moved a mountain just for me…..
Words of wisdom from a virtual student and a virtual employee.
For those who do not know me I have been isolated by poverty and distance since childhood. Technology has freed me from those bounds. I have been a virtual student since 2001 and have been a virtual employee for almost as long. I am forever surprised at the fear of technology that exists in our schools and in our professions. I worked for five years as a teacher and was daily faced with having to defend technology and argue its value and importance. Even as a Masters student I am still shocked at how slow educators and professionals are to accept technology due to misconceptions and fear. So here are my thoughts on the benefit of hybrid meetings using technology to facilitate networking and engagement.
While students and employees continue to benefit from face to face networking in a function room, new technologies are increasingly advancing with the ability to draw in participants who would otherwise be isolated. New technologies, not subject to physical boundaries are becoming increasingly more accessible.
This can be accomplished through personal mobile devices or virtual meeting environments, technology is the key to expanding outreach and the way content is communicated, both in conjunction with and separate from face to face communication. Not only are people who are limited by distance or other boundaries drawn into the discussion where they would otherwise be excluded, but those within the physical environment have access to a more engaged degree of interaction.
Overcoming fear of new technologies as taboo has always been a challenge. From the onset of telephonic conferences, rejected as impersonal, to video conferences rejected as intrusive, the taboo of having any electronic device in a classroom or meeting, all these taboos have been overcome and can now be looked back upon as the fear of change that slowed networking progress. 3D environments is the current taboo that professionals face in all fields that require networking and collaboration.
Mobile technology and social media are the current most active trends. 3D environments are quickly catching on, from virtual worlds to the development of walk in 3D web pages. The use of 3D environments are proving to increase engagement with the ability to learn and collaborate in meeting spaces. It is becoming common place to see layered meetings, even with face to face interaction, combined with distance communication and participants, live streaming, recording, gamification within the presentations, and multiple levels of interaction with links, slide shows, and even independent exploration of all of these options inside virtual environments.
Virtual meeting technology is efficient and cost effective. It eliminates travel, saves time, reduces expenditures, and increases convenience for the participant. It is also more environmentally friendly and quickly being adopted in the business fields, even as an alternative to the brick and mortar work space for all of the reasons mentioned above.
Companies have virtual employees using adobe rooms, Skype, Zoom, messenger, virtual networks and remote desktops because it is cost effective and convenient on a global scale. Colleges are needing to help students embrace virtual technology not only as a social and educational venue, but in career preparation in order to encourage future success.
Hybrid or blended meetings are the bridge for those still uncertain when it comes to improvements that require open mindedness towards newer technologies. Hybrid meetings have real time face to face components as well as virtual components, such as live streaming a conference or meeting with a group to experience a 3D immersive tour and discussion. Back channel conversations on social media, twitter, Facebook, or even meeting platforms such as Zoom, can work in conjunction with live events or live virtual immersive events.
Virtual meetings and immersive environments will never replace face to face interaction but they can greatly enhance them. We are social beings and physical proximity will always be a major aspect of networking and engagement. Emerging technologies merely enhance the experience and remove the boundaries that prevent many from participating. Those individuals who would otherwise feel isolated due to financial, physical, distance or other challenges, through blended environments are able to contribute and collaborate. The exploration of these interactive and immersive formats challenge us to become more relevant and more engaging. What a great opportunity to continue developing relationships that may start at a college or business event and be able to be nurtured and continued through the use of virtual and immersive technology.
Would you love me anyway?
Would you think me ill if I laughed to loud?
Would you shame me if I cried?
If the truth would hurt and could not help,
would you blame me if I lied?
Would you pick me up if I fell down
and would you join me on the ground
if I couldn’t get up and I was afraid,
would you love me anyway?
Who do you see
Who do you see when you look at me?
Do you see who I am and who I hope to be?
Who do you see when you look at me?
that you would condemn or hope to admire?
If you’re looking high, look lower.
If you’re looking low, look higher.
I am a child of anger with a ones of her own,
A loving mother whose children adore.
Do you see a harlot, a disgrace to her home,
a devoted wife who could not be more?
Is that what you see when you look at me?
That you would condemn or you would admire?
If your looking high, look lower.
If your looking low, look higher.
Lazy in deed, even at play,
A loyal worker doing her best,
ashamed and alone, forgetting to pray,
A faithful Christian never at rest?
Whomever you see when you look at me,
do not condemn or hope to admire.
For all of who I am, it is all of me,
If you’re looking high, look lower.
If you’re looking low, look higher.
I Am Flying!
I Am Flying!
Am I the flesh I see, dieing? Am I the me others see, trying? Am I the
me the shop keeper sees, buying? Am I the me the devil sees, lying? Am I
the me my pastor sees, crying? Am I the me my teacher sees, “Why-ing”
Am I the me my boss sees, Sighing? I am the me, God sees- Flying.
