Resourses for Teachers and Parents
A popular site that communicates easily between teachers and parents. Demos on how to do remote learning such as read alouds, physical activities, and daily student journals .
Has close to 200 on line learning resources. It has lessons across grade levels, subject areas, and has links with annotations. Students can practice on line as well and get immediate feedback.
SMITHSONIAN RESOURCES:
Podcasts are a great way to stay connected with the Smithsonian from home! Travel back in time, around the world and into the far reaches of the universe as you hear firsthand from Smithsonian experts, dive deep into the collections and understand how your Smithsonian is creating and sharing knowledge every day.
You can listen to Smithsonian podcasts from any web browser or smart device, or if you're already a podcast listener, your favorite podcast app!
With the help of Smithsonian biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers, and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through Smithsonian’s side door to discover stories that can’t be told anywhere else.
Interested in science? Listen to "The Hungry Hungry Hippo Baby" to learn about how the world's largest exotic-milk repository at the Smithsonian's National Zoo helped save Fiona the baby hippo in 2017.
Interested in art? Join actor and activist Cheech Marin to learn about the wildly creative and ingenious world of rasquachismo—the Chicano art of working with what you've got.
Interested in history? Dive into the incredible story behind one of the most iconic (and potentially...cursed?) items in the Smithsonian's collections: the Hope Diamond.
Interested in culture? Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing "The Worst Video Game Ever?"—so bad that all remaining copies were buried deep in the desert.
Join your hosts as they tell fascinating stories from one of the world's most visited museums, the National Air and Space Museum, which contains the largest and most significant collection of air- and spacecraft in the world.
Mythbusters fan? Learn how Adam Savage, Smithsonian experts and makers across the country reimagined an incredible piece of Apollo engineering.
Have you ever wished on a shooting star? Learn why meteor showers occur, when's the best time to watch and what you're actually looking at (spoiler: most meteors are A LOT smaller than you think).
Don't miss a thing! Join the AirSpace hosts for a rewatch of the 1998 film Armageddon to see how many inaccuracies they could find, including a few things that seemed ridiculous, but actually turned out to be true!
Designed for students Grade 2-12. Teachers. Can be used for home or school. Teachers must set up.
https://achieve3000.com/community-resources/remote-learning-2020/
Common Sense Media has vetted materials for educators and parents in English and Spanish. Helps with resources for teach remote resources, education packets, and strategies to make it relatively stress free. For a general connection go to:
https://www.commonsense.org/education/coronavirus-resources
How to find great resources for how to:
do virtual learning;
communicate with families;
locate core subject resources;
use video;
collaboration and discussion;
student led and interest based learning;
and free website resources for PK-12 students.
Discover, create, share, and learn using the resources in print, images, videos, and audio from all of the Smithsonian sites. Build personal collections or search for ones already curated.
This Smithsonian site that looks at women's contributions to shaping America from activism to sports and entertainment to science and innovation.
Each month the STEM in 30 is streamed live at 1:00 PM EST with content from the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Older episodes are archived with the schedule running monthly from September to May.
Easy to use, Record lessons, readings, or music for students.
This museum is in Madrid Spain. The content is in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
Este museo se encuentra en Madrid España. El contenido está en inglés, español y chino.
Videos, games, inter-actives, experiments, and engagement for home and school for Earth and Space Science. All grade levels.
The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City has 3-D artifacts to explore. The text is all in Spanish.
El Museo Nacional de Antropología en la Ciudad de México tiene artefactos tridimensionales para explorar. El texto está en español.
Author Mary Amato has many ideas on the writing process. Go to her site https://www.maryamato.com/mary-amatos-online-resources-during-school-library-closures/
The following eBook has a multitude of e-resources both tools and apps for teachers to use to teach and reach students, guardians, and the community.
https://read.bookcreator.com/mvPgY7WlzpZ0iB6KWCYbUdmFdOo2/4OSn9tu5Se-XuIltGvghcA