Links for Parents

Volunteers, please fill out this CORI form (for background check) before coming to help for the first time in a classroom: bit.ly/bpscori. You will also be asked to take a picture of your ID and give it to City Connects personnel in the school office.

- Healthy Media Balance: http://www.cooperinstitute.org/2019/04/10/6-tips-to-be-screen-free-and-fit

Calculate Screen Time for Your Family: https://fitnessgram.net/nfl-partners-provide-free-resources/

Media Time Calculator: https://www.healthychildren.org/English/media/Pages/default.aspx#calculator

facebook.com/boks exercise for students, live sessions Fridays at noon

NFL exercise videos for kids: https://aha-nflplay60.discoveryeducation.com/videos

- Screen Free Week Apr 29 - May 5: http://www.cooperinstitute.org/2019/04/10/6-tips-to-be-screen-free-and-fit

- CommonSenseMedia.org a good place to check age appropriate rating for movies, books, media and games.

- Digital citizenship: teaching students about the safe and responsible use of technology

- CommonSense Media on Digital Citizenship https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship

- a video about digital citizenship (for age 9-16) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FlU_y9Otns video

- EDC Computer Science Toolkit for Parents (pathways to college, internships) http://www.edc.org/sites/default/files/uploads/CompScienceToolkitForParents.pdf

- Parenting Tips (including key milestones with teens, tweens and younger kids): https://www.verywellfamily.com/teens-4157360

STEM Summer Camps:

- MIT summer camp

- for grades 7-12 in Massachusetts https://www.bostontechmom.com/parents-guide-50-stem-summer-camps-massachusetts/

- WPI http://www.massacademy.org -> Summer programs -> see Intellect Quest July 16 -20 and Computer Quest July 23-27.

STEM Evening or Weekend Activities:

- MIT Saturday Science (free) 10 am - 12 pm, in MIT's Kresge Auditorium. March 10, 2018 - Rockets and Flight. April 7, 2018 - Optics.