Educational videos (all subject areas)

• National Emergency Library free access to books
• Racial Equity Workshops
• PBS Virtual Professional Learning Series, including Tools for Anti-Racist Teaching
• BrainPOP is offering free access during school closures
• Art lessons by Jarrett J. Krosoczka, author/illustrator
• Smithsonian Learning Lab collections one a day being offered, this one is on clouds
• Free technological resources families can access during school closure
• 25 Best Nature Webcams
• 25 Virtual Fieldtrips
• Calendar of virtual fieldtrips for March, April, May
• Parent Map article with many links including foreign language and music
• Virtual concerts, etc that can be enjoyed from home
• Portal to museum tours that can be enjoyed free virtually
• Podcasts for children
• Art assignments youtube channel
• Ideas for making schedules
• Apps for supporting students with IEPs, special needs
• College students offering free tutoring for K-12 students
• PAWS Academy virtual learning library to learn about animals
• Lego Masters Online School

Resources for accessing texts

• Audible free streaming of books during school closures
• Compilation of virtual read alouds by authors
• Read alouds (currently in Spanish and English)
• Levar Burton Reads on Twitterstream
• Michelle Obama Reads (check her Instagram page)
• BookFlix (access with Seattle Public Library card)
• Tumblebooks (access with Seattle Public Library card)
• Epic Digital Library (free trial for 30 days)
• Storyline Online (videos of books read by actors)
• Vooks (animated books, free trial)
• KidLitTV (podcasts, read aloud videos, writing & drawing tutorials)
• Podcasts: Wow in the World, But Why?, Eleanor Amplified, Short and Curly
• National Emergency Library free access to books
• New York Public Library releases app to download free books
• Pioneer Valley Books Digital Reader

Resources for creating texts

• Scratch Jr. (free iPad app, use to create digital stories)
• Book Creator (iPad app, use to create digital books)
• Storybird (free trial, use to create digital books, comics, poems, and more)
• Powtoon (create animated videos)                
• #OperationASLStorytime is providing ASL signing for texts

Literacy Activities

• 7 Ideas for Family Writing Activities
• Jarrett J. Krosoczka (author and illustrator) is leading free daily webcasts for children at 2:00 PM EST
• Lunch doodles with Mo Willems, author and illustrator at 1 pm EST (videos will also be saved and able to be watched anytime)
• Ralph Fletcher is leading live writing workshop lessons daily for students in grades 3-8
• Reading Adventure Packs
• 25 Activities for Reading and Writing Fun
• Pete the Cat Read Alouds on Instagram noon EST daily
• Global poetry swap -- write and share poetry
• Learn Zillion Free Access to Lessons K-5

Ideas for Writing

• Write letters and cards
• Create a family cookbook with favorite recipes
• Create a book or brochure that teaches about COVID-19
• Create signs to remind family members to wash their hands

Games

• Compiled list of math games for the classroom by grade level
• Games for Young Minds         
• Dice games for all grade levels                                
• Prime Climb (game by Math for love for pre-teens and teens)
• Math For Love Games         
• Dreambox (offering 90 day free subscription)
• Math Games to Excite Young Minds
• Make jump ropes out of plastic bags
• Solitaire games
• Five twists on tic-tac-toe
• Investigations Curriculum K- 5 Games - English
• Investigations Curriculum K- 5 Games - Spanish

Engaging Math Tasks for all grade levels

• Which One Doesn’t Belong: wodb.ca
• Estimation 180 Website                
• visiblethinking.weebly.com        
• Investigations Curriculum - Math Concepts - English
• Investigations Curriculum - Math Concepts - Spanish        
• Math Art Challenges

Math Visuals

• Math Visuals Blog with many animations 
• Math Art Challenges -- these are soooo good!

Having Math Conversations with Children

• Math Conversations through Pictures from Illustrative Math
• Blog post with advice about math conversations at home
• Brief videos with advice about how to do math at home
• #countingcollections and #countingcollectionsathome -- count everything! Have fun with it  see video
• #choralcounting look for patterns in numbers
• Talking Math with Your Kids
• Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had
• Math at Home is Fun        
• Possible Selves -- Mathematicians
• Math Before Bed (all resources currently free)

Lessons that can be used during closure

• Fawn Nguyen’s Lessons for K-8
• SFUSD Math Elementary Closure Lessons
• Table Talk Math
• Link to various curricula that are freely available, K-12
• Math for Love: Elementary Curriculum
• Distance Learning Lessons for K, 2nd, 4th Grade        
• Learn Zillion Free Access to Lessons K-5
• Teaching Independent Learners, K-1 Math Lessons
• Investigations Curriculum at home resources
• YouCubed Math at Home
• Richmond District (scroll to bottom)

Other compilations of math and science resources

• Kari Kokka’s Resource List for Social Justice and Mathematics
• Math Resources for Families and Caretakers
• Caregiver Math Resources for COVID-19 School Closures -- in English and Spanish
• Compilation of Math Resources for 6th - 12th Grade
• Illustrative Math for 6th - 12th graders
• Free Resources for Teaching Math Online
• DREME network ideas for math at home
• 8th grade through HS enrichment resources

Science lessons that can be used during closure

• Guidance for supporting science during school closures (in English, Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Japanese, Arabic and more) 
• STEM Resources, K-12
• Notice and Wonder Science conversations while taking walks
• K-12 Science Lessons for School Closure -- inquiry based
• An app called “Family Science”
• 25 Best Nature Webcams 
• Sea Smart courses regarding ocean science
• Design Squad YouTube Channel
• PBS Science Games
• National Geographic Kids
• NASA kids club
• Exploratorium websites and activities
• Science Kids lessons and experiments
• Brainpop science organized by units of instruction with activities
• STEM activities with Edhead (free until April 6th)
• https://mysteryscience.com/school-closure-planning
• Phet Simulations physics and circuits simulations
• Discovery MindBlown App
• Tour of the Natural Museum of History
• Science resources in Spanish

Teaching Resources for Social Studies

• Since Time Immemorial 
• Teaching Black Lives Matter at School
• Zinned Project
• 1619 Project
• Rethinking School 
• KidCitizen (click on episodes for lessons re congress & civic engagement)
• Teaching for Change 
• Teaching Tolerance
• Facing History and Ourselves
• The Council for the Social Studies
• Embrace Race
• Raising Race Conscious Children
• The choices for the 21st Century Education Program
• Morning Center for Teaching Social Responsibility
• Upstander Project
• Library of Congress
• National Geographic
• Icivics
• PBS Learning Media
• Flocabulary
• Time Magazine for Kids
• Scholastic News
• History Channel
• Brain Pop
• Stuff You Missed in History Class Podcast
• This Day in History Class Podcast
• Junior Scholastic
• Newsela

• Resources for physical activity
• Today’s Parent Article- 15 Ways to Keep Kids Active…  
• Debbie Allen giving dance lessons from her instagram account
• Make jump ropes out of plastic bags
• Art teacher with live daily stream
• Make stars with cardboard and string
• Ideas for making scavenger hunts
• Art projects from Coyote Central