Solar Eclipse

5 cool experiments scientists are doing during the solar eclipse

Solar Eclipse explanation - read all about it!

Eclipse animation

Teacher Resources - Pull if you are interested!

Youtube videos to pull from

Activities to print off if desired (STEM/Arts)

On demand virtual field trips

3rd - 5th graders are invited to join Interpreter Francesca at the Pismo State Beach Monarch Butterfly Grove to learn about the anatomy, life cycle and migration of the Western Monarch Butterflies. We will also discuss threats to this species and what you can do to help the Western Monarchs!

Doug Johnson is a maintenance chief with California State Parks. Not only does he forge items for his personal interest, but he also has made items needed at for parks.Doug demonstrated how a door hinge is made.

Join California State Parks Interpreter Randie at Columbia State Historic Park to discover the life and times of gold rush era California (1850’s)

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Want to learn how the Southern Sea Otter survives in its chilly environment? Check out this video to join State Park Interpreter Mariana in discovering the adaptations sea otter have to live in the cold ocean

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Join California State Parks Interpretive Ranger Griff at Humboldt Redwoods State Park in Northern California. Discover the Redwood Heroes responsible for the protection of California's redwood forests.

Join California State Parks Interpreter Lydia as she takes you on a tour through the paleontology lab at Anza-Borrego Desert State Park. Learn about animals of the past and how we're able to study them for clues about what life was like on earth a long time ago!

Solo Kahoot walkthrough of how Amazon sends orders to you!

Explore the Orion Spacecraft and the new technology being developed.

Discover the infrastructure and careers that keep information safe and sustainable.

Work to understand how we went from physical DVD’s and VCR’s, to digital streaming!

Explore, make, play and watch on Tate Art!

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Our Art Choice Board

Be inspired by the world around you and free draw what you see.

Learn with the Columbus Museum of Art.

Create art with found art and everyday objects with Aminahs World.

Paint online with Tate Paint

Learn, Create & Play on

Puppet Toy Theatre

Create a picture from your broken crayons like the one shown here.

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What can you create?

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Click on Scrap Coloring below to color & create online too.

Create

Virtual

Sand Art

Create a

comic with

Make Beliefs Comic

Check out the Virtual Art Sites Collection

here.

Welcome to our Virtual Makerspace where you can create, imagine, read, learn, discover and more! And one of the best parts….It’s open all day long! Have fun, friends.

Explore the Coding Symbaloo

Chrome Music Lab

Build with LEGO’s online

Chrome Music Lab Song Maker

Username: capstonecamp

Password: capstone

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Design a poster, card, story and more in Buncee

STEAM Challenges

from Maker Maven

Our Virtual Makerspace Collection by Destiny

Code your own

story with Scratch

What kind of designer do you want to be? And look what you can create!

Design, Watch,

Wow and Play!

© The Library Voice/Shannon Miller ®

Make Your

Bee-Bot Move

Make a Lite-Bright

picture online

Click here for

Our Art Choice Board

Elementary

Our Coding Choice Board TK-3

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Learn and create code through stories, music, games, videos and more.

Learn All About Coding

Play & Create Coding Games

Make a Song with Chrome Music Lab

Learn to Code with the

Pre-Reader Coding Express

Play Bits and Bricks from LEGO here

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Click here to learn how to play Bits and Bricks with LEGO

You can learn all about coding with PebbleGo, story songs and the videos below.

After watching the videos to learn about coding, click on Kodable and pick your grade level to try coding yourself.

Watch the tutorial of how to Code Ozobot with Block Code

Use OzoBlockly code blocks to

program Ozobot to travel home.

Watch the Botlogic tutorial here to start

Code the robot in Botlogic!

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Select a MAT and code the Bee-Bot online

Have fun playing these coding games.

Coding Projects

from Tynker

Our April Choice Board

Learn about and celebrate special events in April

Coding

Making

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Technology Fun

Where reading, learning, making, coding, technology and

singing can take you on adventures all month long!

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Play Recycle Roundup to learn about and practice your recycling skills for Earth Day.

Play the piano and other instruments with friends

in Chrome Music Lab.

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Ramadan

is celebrated from April 12-May 12.

Learn how to code

and play

Bits & Bricks from LEGO.

What can you draw with AutoDraw?

Take A Virtual Field Trip Around the World

Read

We celebrate

Poetry Month

in April.

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Here is a place to read, listen, create and have fun with poetry.

Pull out your paper and art supplies or click on Free Draw to make something awesome!

Can you solve

Spring Has Sprung

from BreakoutEDU?

Created by Shannon McClintock Miller @shannonmmiller

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Our May Choice Board

Learn about and celebrate special events in May

Coding

Making

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Technology Fun

Where reading, learning, making, coding, technology

and music can take you on adventures all month long.

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Play Crack the Code

to unlock secret messages and

become a master code breaker.

Create your own

story with the

PBS Story Creator

and famous writers.

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Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

is celebrated in May.

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Learn about this special month in this BrainPop video.

With Kandinsky from Chrome Music Lab, turn anything you draw...lines, circles, triangles or scribbles...into sound.

Take A Virtual Field Trip Around the World

Reading

Grab some sidewalk chalk and draw outside.

You can also use Free Draw or Scribbles and Ink to create a virtual chalk drawing too.

Cinco de Mayo

is celebrated

on May 5th.

Can you code an Ozobot online with the

Ozobot Simulator?

Put on a

music concert with Carmen

and her friends

with instruments from around the world.

Create a 3D design

with Tinkercad.

You can even collaborate with a friend while creating in Tinkercad.

Celebrate Children’s Book Week May 3-9th, with this reading choice board.

Created by Shannon McClintock Miller, The Library Voice®

You can build a galaxy with code by using drag-drop blocks.

This video will help you build your own Star Wars game.

Create a Star Wars Intro Crawl, just like in the Star Wars movies!

You can find lots of Let’s Make

Star Wars episodes here.

Click here to see the

Star Wars movies locations on Google Earth

Listen to Daisy Ridley read BB-8 On The Run!

Watch the Galactic Builders

to learn how they build the Star Wars Droids

Click here to draw more Star Wars characters

Create Origami Yoda and lots of other Star Wars Origami to share.