Off-Line Learning
Ideas from Bethel Middle School for off-line learning at home: a baking project, building a Rube Goldberg machine, interview someone, create a comic strip, do an energy audit of your house, label objects in your home in Spanish, do something active like work out or take a hike, do a bird count, draw a constellation you can see, plan your garden, etc. etc. They also created a sheet where students record what they did that day, and connect it to their classes. [We are small enough that they also did a survey of who doesn't have good internet, so this menu will go home in print with those students.
Google Drive can be used to sync/download
slides,
docs,
sheets,
videos,
images and
PDFs
for offline use. Help document here: https://support.google.com/drive/answer/2375012
Animated gifs are a good low bandwidth alternative to videos. There are a variety of mobile apps that are easy to use to create them. R/educationalgifs on Reddit is an excellent source for high quality premade gifs if you have the time to hunt.
What It Is: Kami is a PDF and document annotation app for schools. Think of it like a digital pen and paper for interacting with your students.
What They’re Offering: Kami is offering free access to schools closed due to the outbreak. Contact them here.
Films may be downloaded from the Library of Congress and added to Google Drive where they can be used in rich docs and downloaded for offline viewing.
Newsela articles (or any webpage) may be downloaded or printed to PDF and then shared through drive to facilitate downloading by students.
Remember Print Friendly to strip junk off web pages so that you can share that content with offline students.