Learning Supports (Secondary): Feb. to Aug. 2021

Purpose: NewsELA provides texts (with adjustable reading levels) searchable by subject: ELA, social studies, current events, science, social emotional learning, and in Spanish. Along with stand-alone texts and text sets, NewsELA provides Common Core aligned activities.

Audience: 2 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment. Reading and Writing Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Scholastic Learn At Home is offering 20 days of free activities. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!

Audience: PreK - 9

Recommended Use: Enrichment. Reading and Writing Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Sno-Isle Libraries will now provide everyone who registers online for a Sno-Isle Libraries library card with immediate and uninterrupted access to Overdrive digital materials and all other digital services. Customers can check out up to 30 items on Overdrive.

Audience: K - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Daily Reading.

Purpose: Lit2Go is a free online collection of novels, stories, and poems in both text and audiobook format. Many passages have an identified, related reading strategy, and each reading can also be downloaded.

Audience: K - 12

Recommended Use: ELA Enrichment. Reading Activities,

Purpose: Khan Academy provides practice for every level of English Language Arts, as well as videos and activities on many other topics. You can use the courses tab to find your level without even logging in.

Audience: PreK - 12

Recommended Use: ELA Enrichment. Reading and Writing Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: The NYT Learning Network includes daily writing prompts (student opinions, current events conversations, and picture prompts) that encourage students to think about the world around them.

Audience: 8 - 12

Recommended Use: ELA Enrichment. Writing Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: GeoGebra is for all levels of education bringing together geometry, algebra, spreadsheets, graphing, statistics and calculus in one easy-to-use package.


Audience: 6 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Math Activities.

Purpose: SolveMe Puzzles provides students with the opportunity to use number sense, logic, guess and check, or algebraic reasoning to solve problems.


Audience: 6 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Math Activities

Purpose: Khan Academy provides practice for every level of math, as well as videos and activities on many other topics. You can use the courses tab to find your level without even logging in.

Audience: PreK - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Math Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Nrich provides challenging and engaging activities to develop mathematical thinking and problem-solving skills

Audience: 6 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Math Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Provides concept based learning through a variety of modalities including text, videos and interactive simulations. Committed to transforming a textbook into a multimedia experience.

Audience: 6 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Math Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Thought-provoking puzzles in which any answer can be correct. Just justify it!

Audience: 6 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment

Purpose: Engage students with an incredible variety of hands on activities.

Audience: Families with students of all ages.

Recommended Use: This resource is a gateway to lots of activities. Code a Mars Rover Game, build rockets, clouds in a bottle, space origami and so much more!

Reviewed: NASA

Purpose: Help scientists identify wildlife caught on camera. Millions of images need to be classified in a variety of ecosystems.

Audience: Middle school and high school students.

Recommended Use: Join real scientists in the work of observing wildlife to note interactions of species, habitat types, and other ecological interactions. Bulk images will be send from scientists upon request.

Reviewed: OSPI Science

Purpose: Tour the entire Smithsonian collection of museums as well as special exhibitions without leaving your living room.

Audience: All ages

Recommended Use: Students and families can explore topics of interest in the entire collection.

Reviewed: OSPI Science

Purpose: To enable families to think and talk together like scientists in the field.

Audience: Families

Recommended Use: Walk and observe nature in your own backyard and neighborhood and engage in science conversation. Discussion guides are printable or accessible via smart phone. Multiple resources are available, updated weekly.

Reviewed: National Science Foundation

Purpose: Provides families with free learning activities in every content area

Audience: all ages and special needs, available in Spanish

Recommended Use: More than 25 organizations have partnered to provide this resource rich site that supports daily learning activities ranging from live virtual events and field trips, to free learning in core contents, physical education, music, special needs, and social emotional learning.

Reviewed: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Using resources in the home, students can explore science ideas ranging from the human body to the Sun.

Audience: K-8

Recommended Use: Students and families can model, observe, bake and create with these at home learning activities.

Reviewed: University of California, Berkeley's Lawrence Hall of Science, National Science Foundation

Purpose: Independent outdoor learning

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: Multiple, free, downloadable pdfs guide participants through making observations of nature in their own backyards or at the park.

Purpose: Independent indoor or outdoor learning

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: Activities range from bird-cams bringing birdwatching to your living room, Citizen Science observation opportunities and games for kids.

Purpose: Students can listen to podcasts on a host of science topics that range from the Loch Ness Monster and other myths, the science of tears, and why does food taste so good? Among many other great topics

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: Uses low bandwidth since it is audio only. No user account is necessary.

Reviewed: Double thumbs up by the LSSD Science Teaching Team

Purpose: Students delve into the worlds of atoms, molecules and chemistry research with a puzzle themed chemistry game.

Audience: Middle and High School

Recommended Use: The game combines science learning with gameplay and allows students to solve challenging levels in a nanoscale world.

Review: National Science Teachers Association

Purpose: STEM learning opportunities related to space exploration.

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: Loads of activities supporting STEM learning and career exploration. Students can view images from Hubble and other telescopes, see videos, and learn about the International Space Station, the Mars Rover, and other expeditions.

Purpose: Through the NOAA Resource Collection, students can learn about oceans, marine life, weather and atmosphere, and track storms using blank weather maps.

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: These resources support science standards in all grade levels.

Purpose: Students learn about exciting marine biology projects through the leadership of field biologists working in the Puget Sound.

Audience: Middle and High School

Recommended Use: Students can connect via email and live stream presentations by marine biologists who will share their research in areas such as how to keep whales, porpoises and dolphins safe from fishing gear, southern resident killer whales, and white-sided Pacific dolphins.

Purpose: Students can experiment with different outcomes in Physics, Biology, Earth Science, Chemistry, and Math

Audience: K-12, multilingual options available

Recommended Use: Students can conduct virtual experiments in a range of contents. Click on Browse Activities to see the options.

Reviewed: Double thumbs up by the LSSD Science Teaching Team

Purpose: Students have full access to online learning resources through their Clever Accounts. This guide tells parents how to make the most of those resources

Audience: K-8

Recommended Use: Students can read articles that relate to and extend the learning they have already experienced this year, access simulations and review content.

Reviewed: Amplify is district approved curriculum for science.

Purpose: PBS Newshour Extra shares all the same news as the regular Newshour, but it does so in a voice that's accessible to younger readers. Each story includes video connections and so much more.

Audience: 6 - 9

Recommended Use: Enrichment. Current Events.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Use iCivics to play games as you learn about social studies topics, including the government, laws, and citizenship. Students can earn points to make a difference in the real world!

Audience: 6-12

Recommended Use: Enrichment.
Government and Civics Games.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Khan Academy provides practice for every level of social studies, as well as videos and activities on many other topics. You can use the courses tab to find your level without even logging in.

Audience: PreK - 12

Recommended Use: ELA Enrichment. Reading and Writing Activities.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: Create Music and explore its connections to Science, Math, and Art

Audience: All grade levels

Recommended Use: Enhancement, Exploration

Purpose: Artwork and museums around the world accessible to anyone.

Audience: Grades 6-12

Recommended Use: Enhancement, Exploration

Purpose: Learn and put to use all the essential elements of coding and computer science.

Audience: Grades 1-12

Recommended Use: Enhancement, Exploration of Computational Thinking

Purpose: Challenges help your students put their search skills to the test

Audience: Grades 5-12

Recommended Use: Enrichment, Engagement. Questions change daily

Purpose: Kid-friendly STEM-focused videos spark interest, encourage learning

Audience: K-12

Recommended Use: Enrichment. Video collections updated weekly.

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose: The New York Times Learning Network includes images that encourage students to think about the world around them, think critically and creatively.

Audience: 8 - 12

Recommended Use: Enrichment. Images change weekly

Review: Common Sense Media

Purpose:

This easy to use resource and video (below) assists parents and caregivers in learning how to create a schedule for their child. Schedules can be a helpful tool for providing structure to a students day.

Audience: Preschool -12th Grade

Access: Access a short how-to video at this link

Purpose:

An optional calendar of activities that help parents provide a good combination of OT activities addressing: Gross motor, fine motor, visual motor, executive functioning, and sensory

Audience: K-12th grade

Access: Use this link

Purpose: This free website offers resources to assist with daily routines, play/engagement and communication tips. Access free printable visual schedules and social stories

Audience: Preschool- 12th grade

Access: Use the link Living Well with Autism

Purpose:

Typing club provides systematic activities to reinforce and enhance typing skills

Audience: 3rd grade-12th grade

Access: Use this link

Purpose:

Take a look at at this list of pragmatic activities that give your student opportunities to practice their social thinking and communication skills in the home setting

Audience: 3rd grade and up

Access: Use this link

Purpose:

Take a look at these activities that help students practice speech sounds, and language skills in the home setting

Audience: All ages and Grades

Access: Use this link

Purpose: This website offers free printable visuals (for schedules) as well as learning activities in the areas of academics, fine motor, and social skills.

Audience: Preschool- 12th grade

Access: Use the link Do 2 Learn

Purpose: This resource provides suggested parent interventions for impulse control

Audience: Preschool - 12th grade

Access: Use the link Parent Interventions for Impulse Control