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(Y5-5)
(Y5-5)
IXL is an online tool that students can use to practice math skills. Most students have used IXL during class and know how to log on.
Use the Username and Password provided by your teacher
(PreK-5)
Students love learning with their favorite robot - Moby. Explore great questions on topics ranging from math to reading, and science to social studies.
Username: portagepsABC (substitute your school's three letter abbreviation for ABC)
Password: portageps
(K-5)
Online math curriculum lessons aligned to the elementary curriculum used in Portage Public Schools.
Use the "Login with Google" button and login with your child's @portageps.org account.
(PreK-1) & (2-5)
Khan Academy Kids is a free, fun, educational app with thousands of activities and books that will inspire a lifetime of learning and discovery for young children ages 2-7. Download the app on the Apple, Google Play or Amazon app stores, open the app to sign up with a parent email address, and then head to the Home screen to let the joyful learning begin!Khan Academy - Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. This site tackles math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.(PreK-1) & (2-5)
Science Fun
Science Fun
Students love to explore the world around us. Whether on a nature scavenger hunt or making slime in the kitchen, kids love to hypothesize, experiment, and dig in to the fascinating realm of science.
Students love to explore the world around us. Whether on a nature scavenger hunt or making slime in the kitchen, kids love to hypothesize, experiment, and dig in to the fascinating realm of science.
Discovery Education has created meaningful and engaging learning activities for students. The Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home!
K-2 - Week 1 Activities, Week 2 Activities, Week 3 Activities, Week 4 Activities
3-5 - Week 1 Activities, Week 2 Activities, Week 3 Activities, Week 4 Activities
(PreK-5)
BPES has hundreds of resources that are free to access and open to everyone. To support home learning, they’ve curated their top activities to support students, teachers and parents during these unprecedented times.
(3-5)
Anyone who has ever watched one of the OK Go music videos may have wondered, "How did they do that?" OK Go Sandbox is an online resource for educators that uses OK Go’s music videos as starting points for integrated guided inquiry challenges allowing students to explore various STEAM concepts.
Engineering Challenges
(PreK-5)
Ask questions and empathize, explore the topic, design and model, evaluate, and explain are all great skills students can practice while doing engaging engineering challenges at home. Check out these fun challenges you can do with your students that only require simple household supplies courtesy of The Homeschool Scientist.
(PreK-5)
Access The Henry Ford's Innovation Learning materials for students of all ages. Pre-made lesson plans to keep your students and children engaged in fun and educational activities. Experience the invention process step-by-step and gain valuable entrepreneurial skills with their Invention Convention Curriculum.
STEAM with Legos
(PreK-5)
Little Bins for Little Hands is a blog that provides tons of great ideas for using Legos to spark STEAM experiences.
(4-12)
Imagineering in a Box is a free online program created in partnership with the Khan Academy and Pixar. Imagineering in a Box is a series of interactive lessons in theme park design and engineering, designed to give a behind-the-scenes peek into Imagineering’s development process. It combines 32 videos of actual Imagineers, real-world case studies, and lots of interactive activities to give you the opportunity to dream and design your very own theme park experience!
NASA STEM @ Home site offers great activities for the whole family to enjoy. Launch rockets, build a hovercraft, create a winning science fair project and more! These science, technology, engineering and math activities are fun for kids, adults and the whole family!
National Geographic Learn at Home
(PreK-5)
National Geographic Learn at Home site is offering collections of activities that have been curated for educators, parents, and caregivers to implement with K–12 learners at home.
In addition to the learn at home site, kids and families love checking out the amazing images and resources available from National Geographic Kids and National Geographic Families
Nature Walk
(PreK-5)
Find a book on birds and trees (online or physical book).
While taking a family walk, try to identify the different birds and trees you encounter. Stop look at the bird or tree and have everyone provide a strong opinion statement as to what they think it is. Each person should provide three reasons to support their opinion. Make a goal before you leave to find at least five types of birds and five types of trees. If you don't want to be outside, you can do the same activity by sitting in front of a window or patio door.
Weather Journal
(PreK-5)
Maintain a journal and record the weather twice a day using symbols to match the weather conditions including: temperature (hot, cold, cool, warm), wind conditions (calm, breezy, windy), sky conditions (sunny, partly cloudy, cloudy) and precipitation (clear, rain, fog, snow).
(2-5)
Need something to do with all of those empty toilet paper and paper towel rolls? Why not design a marble run. Check out this simple lesson everyone can enjoy. Make it as big or as small as you have time, room, and materials for!
Math Fact Practice
Math Fact Practice
Math facts are important because they form the building blocks for higher-level math concepts. When a child masters math facts, these concepts will be significantly easier and the student will be better equipped to solve more complex problems with better accuracy.
Math facts are important because they form the building blocks for higher-level math concepts. When a child masters math facts, these concepts will be significantly easier and the student will be better equipped to solve more complex problems with better accuracy.
(K-5)
Using their Google sign in, students can practice on XtraMath. XtraMath is an online math fact review program that helps students master their basic addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.
(Y5-5)
Scholastic has put together a list of 7 games to play at home to practice basic math facts.
(Y5-5)
Practice your math facts with online flashcards. Find addition, subtraction, multiplication and division flashcards, from basic math facts to 3-digit problems.
Math Games and Activities
Math Games and Activities
Learning is fun! Why not take this time to have students practice their math skills in a fun way using either online games or interactive activities.
Learning is fun! Why not take this time to have students practice their math skills in a fun way using either online games or interactive activities.
(1-5)
A game based math practice site for grades 1-8. This curriculum-aligned math content is designed by trained, certified educators and offers.
(K-5)
An online learning tool which provides personalized math and spelling practice that children love.
(K-5)
SplashLearn is a great site to practice math. SplashLearn helps students learn math through a highly engaging, and personalized program. SplashLearn is available across all digital platforms (iOS, Desktops, Android)
(K-5)
Youcubed is here to help students at home continue to explore and learn maths in rich and creative ways. They have collected modified versions of their tasks to be more home-friendly, as well as some new explorations designed for learners at home.
(Y5-5)
Math Before Bed provides 180 days worth of prompts to talk about with your student. Download the prompts and visit the website to learn more.
15 Math Games in 15 Minutes or Less
(K-5)
Scholastic has put together a list of 15 games we can play with our kids to help them have fun practicing their math facts.
(K-5)
These simple, low-tech games keep you and your kids playing and thinking mathematically.
Card Games
(PreK-5)
Sometimes the best math games are the ones played with a simple deck of cards. Check out these ten ideas from the site We Are Teachers or these games from Acing Math: One Deck at a Time.
Typing and Coding
Typing and Coding
As our students learn at home, many are using their chromebooks and computers more and more. Taking this time to up their skills with keyboarding or explore a new skill, like coding, is a great way to spend some of their learning time.
As our students learn at home, many are using their chromebooks and computers more and more. Taking this time to up their skills with keyboarding or explore a new skill, like coding, is a great way to spend some of their learning time.
Keyboarding Practice
(PreK-5)
Learning to keyboard is still an essential skill for our students, perhaps now more than ever. Thankfully there are several great tools to use to help our kids grow this skill.
Typing Club - TypingClub is an effective way to learn how to type. It is web based, and highly effective. TypingClub is a free typing program that is easy to use and great for ages 2nd grade and up.
Typing Club Kids - Jungle Junior is an interactive typing game for kids. Through the course of about 200 friendly, colorful videos and interactive lessons, kids will learn all about the alphabet and practice sight words, word families, and simple sentences. Great for PreK-1st Grade
Typing.com - Comprehensive Curriculum for All Skill Levels. Beginner, intermediate, and advanced lessons, plus plenty of fun practice activities engage students, continually improving keyboarding skills.
Learn the Language of Computers - If you have a device, you can learn to code. Whether you are looking at apps like Scratch jr for our youngest learners or the resources at Code.org, Scratch or CSfirst for our older students, there is plenty available to explore this new skill.
(PreK-2)
Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.
(2-5)
Scratch is a programming language and an online community where children can program and share interactive media such as stories, games, and animation with people from all over the world. As children create with Scratch, they learn to think creatively, work collaboratively, and reason systematically. Scratch is designed and maintained by the Lifelong Kindergarten group at the MIT Media Lab.
New to Scratch and coding? These great activities and tutorials are the perfect place to start.
(PreK-5)
Code.org provides a leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the United States and Code.org also organizes the annual Hour of Code campaign which has engaged more than 15% of all students in the world. This great site offers a wide range of activities and coding languages. So whether you are just getting started or you want to learn a specific coding language, this is a great place to start.
(3-5)
CS First was built by educators, in conjunction with Google, who wanted a tool that allowed every teacher to teach computer science, even if they weren't tech experts. So they developed a curriculum that made it easy to teach and integrated into a wide range of classrooms. These lessons are self-guided for students and use Scratch as the programming tool.
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