Resources for ECF/ES Teachers
“At Home with PZ” toolbox - Learner Age Range: Preschool / Elementary School / Middle School / High School
The activities you’ll find here provide ways to adapt Project Zero strategies and frameworks for use in different settings: for virtual classrooms and for home learning. Some can be done outdoors, some indoors, and some are appropriate for either. The activities are sorted into two types: tools for learning (the toolbox) and Thinking Routines (thinking bubbles). Each activity offers variations for different age groups as well as for the adult facilitation needed so students could work alone, or, as part of a pair, group, or virtual classroom.
Investigation Games - Math activities K-5
Seesaw: Remote Learning Activities
Activities designed for learning at home by integrating the home environment, family, students’ interests, and learning moments that happen in everyday life.
Wide Open School
A free collection of the best online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense.
"Science A Day Lessons" with Boston’s 7NEWS Meteorologists
Thousands of documentaries covering subjects from the tiniest atoms to the wide expanses of our known universe.
Students can learn about an author’s craft by studying a stack of texts. An author’s process can feel hidden since it isn’t spelled out on the page. On this site I’ve collected links to video clips of authors talking about their process. These clips can be used as a part of any writing workshop unit of study, but they will be particularly helpful in supporting certain process studies. You’ll find clips here related to five units: Finding Ideas, Using a Writer’s Notebook, Planning, Peer Conferring and Revision.
Experiential learning: students connect with family & community through story-collecting projects using technology.
Youcubed has put together a bank of tasks and activities to help students learn mathematics at home in an interactive and fun way. You can check out the tasks categorised by grade and topic here.
Modified versions of math tasks to be more home-friendly, as well as some new explorations designed for learners at home can be found here.
Calling all young film makers!
The Young Filmmakers Challenge invites young people to produce and submit a short film based on the theme: What if “school” as we know it didn’t exist?
Winning submissions will be screened and an awards ceremony held in Washington, DC, in October 2020. The screening will be the culminating event of a three-day, city-wide celebration on Unleashing the Power of Young People. The producer of the Best Overall Film will receive $250 and, along with one guest, an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, DC.
This nationwide challenge is open to anyone 18 and under and submissions will be accepted between February 15th-May 1st. Winners will be announced on May 15th.
Amazing Educational Resources - Education companies offering free subscriptions due to school closings.
Grades K-8 Math, Grades 9 - 12 Maths, Science
'Draw every day' live webcasts by New York Times-bestselling author and illustrator Jarrett J. Krosoczka (weekdays at 2pm ET). Perhaps, students “sketch noting” or “visualizing their learning notes” could help with transfer? And/or just drawing for fun and sharing?
No Time For Flash Cards is a website filled with early education ideas, hands-on crafts, book lists and parenting from a child development perspective. Our goal is to make learning fun and easy for everyone.
List of apps and creation tools categorised by subject and grade level; categories include: Lesson planning, classroom management, Science, Math, ELA, Social Studies, video creation, IT-Tech, ES / MS / HS...
List of free online resources, includes: Online Communication Platforms, Platforms to Create Interactive Presentations, ELA Resources, Foreign Languages/English as a Second Language, Math Resources, Social Studies Resources, STEM Resources, Multi-Subject Resources
Categorised by content. In each ZIP file below, you’ll find everything you need for a rich online learning experience for your students including:
PDF or fully editable powerpoint lessons that students can independently work through
background briefing sheets to support their learning
activity sheets in Word format that students can write or type in and send back to you to demonstrate their thinking
notes that you can cut and paste into your online platform with instructions (from you to your students) about each lesson
Just download these free materials and upload to your online platform and you’re ready to go!
GLIDE INSTRUCTIONS
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While this tool responds as if it's an app, it is NOT an app - you won't find it in any app store. Glide is a tool that let's you look at a spreadsheet in a way that makes it appear as though it's an app. From my experience with Glide, it's best to avoid the word app and just call it a "resource collection" or "tool."
Now, it's time to harness the power of the community to load resources into the collection. Lynne McKnight Herr is a volunteer tech coach who recruited help for the setup (thanks to her new friend Kyle, a Glide using guy from a regional Canadian health center). Want to access great literacy resources? Help add them! Looking for AP or IB resources? Wellbeing?Jump in, search the group and add them!
Thanks in advance for your patience. This is version 1.0 and I know it won't meet the needs of everyone. For now, let's get the resources that have been shared and we'll refine the collection over time.
NOTE: Glide works with Google Sheets only. I realize this is an issue for many educators in China, but it's the best option I have right now.