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Now that our schools are closed,
I've got some suggestions for fun, meaningful, and generally
tech-free learning opportunities.
> Interview a family member.
> Measure the area and perimeter of each room in your home.
> Graph the types of birds that frequent your yard or windows.
> Be completely silent for 60 minutes, then write about the experience.
> Write and mail a [real] letter to your teacher or principal or
classroom penpal. Address the envelope yourself.
> Build a "fable fort" out of blankets and chairs. Camp in it all day while you create stories to tell your family over dinner.
> Learn morse code and use it to communicate with your siblings through walls and floors.
> Alphabetize the spices in your kitchen.
> Stay up late and stargaze.
> Call a grandparent or older relative. Ask them to teach you the words to a song from their childhood days.
> Using household materials, build a working rain gauge, barometer, and wind vane.
> Determine and chart the times that different liquids require to turn solid in the freezer.
> Design and build puppets that perform a show about addition and subtraction.
> Construct a family tree.
> Learn ten new big words. Make a poster of them so you don’t forget!
> Draw a map of your home.
> Sit silently for 15 minutes while you write down every sound you hear. When you are done, classify the sounds (high/low pitch, high/low volume, manmade v. naturally occurring, etc.).
> Create a Venn Diagram that compares and contrasts two people in your family, your neighborhood, or your church, mosque, or temple.
> Learn, practice, and perform a magic trick.
> Learn, practice, and tell three new jokes.
> Use household materials to make and play stringed, percussion, and wind instruments.
> Learn to shine a pair of shoes.
> Put your favorite book, toy, and keepsake on a small table in
sunlight. Draw or paint a full color still life.
> If you have stairs, walk up and count them. Walk down and count by twos. Walk up and count by threes. Continue through tens.
> Write a poem on your sidewalk using chalk.
> Classify twenty everyday objects by shape, size, color, height, mass, and material.
> Measure the length of your bed using five different nonstandard units.
> Call a person who speaks a language you do not. Ask them to teach you five common words or phrases.
> Create and use a secret code.
> Write down every adjective you say for one full day.
> Learn three new jokes. Tell them to an aunt or uncle.
> Design a map of every state ever visited by people in your family.
> Write or tell a story titled "What if humans had to leave the Earth and no one remembered to turn off the last robot?"
> Find ten rocks smaller than a dime.
> Using paper, tape, and string, design, build, and test a device that warns you when someone opens the kitchen cabinet.
> Imagine, create, and fly a full size flag that tells the world
about you.
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