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- Take the Cardboard Challenge!
- Get inspired by Cain and create your own cardboard creation!
- Learn more about the Global Cardboard Challenge
- Grades K-4 Student-Centered STEM Challenges
- Explore resources shared by the University of Arkansas that connect literature with STEM Challenges
- Note: These challenges will require some preparation before hand, and general building materials (tape, pipe cleaners, popsicle sticks, etc.)
- Challenge yourself with a Global Day of Design Project (do one, or do many!)
- Explore Mystery Science
- Science lessons that are easy to facilitate at home, and fun! Minimal resources required
- Learn more about coding with Hour of Code
- Use the filters to hone in on age appropriate games that teach coding with blocks, Python, and Java. If you aren't sure exactly where to get started, check out our BW Dashboard from earlier this year
- Want more? Visit Code.org to browse the complete computer science course catalog or the Scratch website to imagine, program, and share
- Another popular skill that we typically introduce/revisit in the spring is typing. Visit Typing Club to learn touch typing for free
- Genius Hour Journal (a do-it-from home PPT)
- Please contact me if this is an option your child is interested in taking! This is my passion and I would enjoy supporting him or her with a Genius Hour project
- Interactive simulations for Math & Science: PhET (way cool - the Greenhouse Effect, Atomic interactions, making waves, molecular polarity, and more)
- Want to know what makes us up? Check out Genetics at Learn.genetics.com
- Virtual labs that do not require a textbook at McGraw-Hill
Go on a virtual field trip!
- Visit the San Diego Zoo
- Watch a live web cam at the Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Immerse yourself in Canadian Farm and Food Tours
- Take a virtual tour of the Great Wall of China
- Take a virtual walk on Mars
- Explore virtual Field Trips offered by Discovery Education
- Museum of the World (London)National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C. - 2 online exhibits)
- Musée d’Orsay (Paris)
- National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (Seoul - 4 online exhibits)
- Rijksmuseum (Amsterdam)
- Van Gogh Museum (Amsterdam - 2 online exhibits)
- Uffizi Gallery (Florence - 4 online exhibits)
- Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand (Brazil - 6 online exhibits)
- The Musée du Louvre (Paris)
- Additional virtual field trips of places in Virginia and Washington, DC
- 1,300 Online Courses (from Stanford, MIT, Harvard, & more) – http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- 1,150 free movies, including classics, indies, noir http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses
- 150+ Educational Shows on Netflix – Click HERE
- Metropolitan Opera Nightly Met Opera Streams
- AP Classroom, fee daily online practice AP teachers can use to check student understanding – Click HERE
- Do It Yourself and BE AWESOME - DIY.org
Math
- Math Sites List from Linda Sheffield, Ph.D. – Click HERE
- 12 Card Games That Will Turn Your Students Into Math Aces – Click HERE
Language Arts/Story-Telling/Reading
- Story Time in Space, watch astronauts read from space – Click HERE
- Story Time to Pass Time
- Finding Books for Your Gifted Readers – Click HERE
- Clavis Publishing, Story Time Videos (including Adam Ciccio, author of Macie’s Mirror, & downloadable activity sheets – Click HERE
- The Library of Congress offers reading podcasts
- STEM activities from NASA – Click HERE
- STEM Activities for Kids
- Hooked on Science NGSS ON-THE-GO
- Hooked on Science NGSS Experiment Guides
- Organic Chemistry Apps Alchem.ie
Arts
- Frist Art Museum YouTube Channel
- Download Coloring Books from 113 Museums
- Make Studios in Paducah, free online art lessons for two weeks. makepaducah.com
CS/Coding
- Google CS First, self-paced Computer Science curriculum for all ages
- Additional Education Companies Offering Free Subscriptions due to School Closings
Scholastic Learn at Home - Daily Reading/Projects and More **
Wildrock Read Aloud
Check out ACPS's Distance Learning Site for MORE.
Check out ACPS's Distance Learning Site for MORE.