Stay Home- Stay Safe During COVID 19

Health and Wellness

• UM SOE Teacher Hierarchy of Needs-  COVID-19 Resources

• Michigan Cares- MVU free courses for emotional and mental wellbeing

• KQED exercise to help families stay balanced at home

• Teaching Tolerance-  Teaching Through Coronavirus: What Educators Need Right Now

• Cosmic Kids Yoga and Mindfulness

• Countering Online Hate Speech

• Teacher Interrupted:  Leaning into Social-Emotional Learning Amid the COVID 19 Crisis

English Learner Resources

• Serving EL Students and Families- Teaching Tolerance

• Wayne RESA Padlet of EL/Multilingual Resources

• COVID Fact Sheets in 15 languages

• Spanish children's Stories

TV Resources

• Netflix Documentaries 

• Detroit Public Television- PBS Learning at Home During the COVID Crisis-   Many resources and exact weekly schedules for ALL ages

Reading Resources

• FREE Time for Kids Digital Library

• Free Ranger Rick from NWF
• Story Time from Space- astronauts read aloud!

• PBSKids and YouTube offer full episodes of Molly of Denali, helping kids age 4-8 interact with Informational Text

• Authors Everywhere features Children's and Young Adult Authors and Illustrators sharing their work.

• Author Grace Lin reads her works online.

• The Classroom Bookshelf-  K-8

• Even More Authors and Illustrators...

• Storyline Online

• Elementary Reading Challenge

• NEWS ELA is offering FREE access to their ELA, Science, Social Studies and SEL articles for the rest of the school year. 

• Free Graphic Novels at Comic Extra.

• Scholastic Learn at Home resources 

• Illustrator Jarrett Lerner offers activity sheets and comic book panels 

Writing Resources

• 826 Michigan and 826 Digital Writing Resources 

• My COVID-19 Time Capsule 

• Journal Prompts to facilitate coping during the COVID 19 Pandemic

• Student's Journals Could Become Primary Sources

• Sharing Our Notebooks- Writing teacher

• Using and Creating Informational Texts at Home

• At Home with Kwame Alexander- free poetry writing lessons

• NY Times Mentor Text 

•  Kelly Gallagher- building deep readers and writers

• 100 Writing Prompts from John Spencer
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• Story Starters- Creative Writing Prompts for Kids- Scholastic

• Outdoor Writing Activities

• Outdoor Activities to Improve Writing

Science/STEM

• The Science Penguin 8 Free Elementary Science Activities 

• STEM Activities for Families

• 84 Easy Science Lessons You Can Do at Home

Math

• Khan Academy Schedule

• DreamBox

Social Studies

• Echoes and Reflections online webinars for teaching the Holocaust

• Webinars from Teaching Primary Sources

• SOCIAL STUDIES Shutdown Learning Community on Flipgrid by Dave Johnson-  Password: KeepLearning

• KQED- Above the Noise for Teens- Current topics 

• Read Write Inquire:   Social studies inquiry, reading, writing, and reasoning. From UM

• People's Historians Online

Music, Art, Travel

• UMMA Writing Prompts

• Resources from the Detroit Institute of Arts

• Seattle Symphony

• Discovery Education- from the Discovery Channel 

• 12 Famous Museums you can Tour Online- Travel and Leisure

• Common Sense Best Museums online

• Google Arts and Culture


• Hamilton's America

• Cincinnati Zoo virtual visit 

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

Sample Lesson Plans and Tips from Teachers

• Pernille Ripp: Choose your Own Adventure

• Schedule of Learning Template

• Tips from Teachers on Teaching Online

• Spreadsheet of categorized digital resources- Melissa Wing

• Remote Learning Toolkit- Wayne RESA

Teaching Online Resources and Sample Lessons

• CMU Writing Project Continuity of Learning Webinar Series 

• WISD Remote Learning Tech PD

• REMC Google Classroom course

• Friday Institute MOOCs

• EdSurge has many articles, podcasts and resources for PK-12 Teachers facing online instruction

• Catlin Tucker tips for designing online lessons

• Free K-12  online learning resources for teachers from We Are Teachers 

• Education companies offering free subscriptions

• Free apps

• Achieve 3000 webinars for online teaching

• Suggested daily schedule from NESCA and suggestions