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ALASKA STATE LIBRARY SUMMER READING PROGRAM
DEED COVIDE-19 WEBPAGE
SPOTLIGHT ON THE SMITHSONIAN'S EDUCATIONAL RESPONSE TO THE COVID CRISIS
SCHOLASTIC GRAB AND GO BOOK PACKS
SCHOLASTIC PL FOR AT HOME LEARNING
SCHOLASTIC TEACHERS RESOURCE FLYER
USING LITERATURE TO BOOST YOUR CHILD'S HEALTH AND RESILIENCE
TALKING WITH CHILDREN ABOUT COVID-19
EOP AR TO PANDEMIC- EPIDEMIC POLICY
COVID19 GUIDELINES
031720 DEED LAUNCHES WEBSITE TO SUPPORT STUDENT LEARNING
ONLINE RESOURCES FROM NATIVE VOICES
We at Native Voices Books are committed to our readers, teachers, and librarians. In order to help during school closings, we'd like you to know that quizzes and lesson plans can be downloaded for free for many of our PathFinders novels for teen readers. Just go to nativevoicesbooks.com/content/pathfinders-quizzes.
More will be coming soon to complete the lesson plan and quiz collection.
Stay healthy. Stay safe. Take care of one another.
DOWNLOAD FREE BOOKS FROM NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY
If you are using Acellus for Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Geometry, and you want some supplemental worksheets that you can align fairly easily with Acellus check out this site:
https://www.kutasoftware.com/free.html
PBS FREE RESOURCES
Here is a summary of the services that local public television stations and PBS are providing to address this crisis:
Nationwide Resources for Families:
PBS KIDS Broadcast
Stations throughout the country run a PBS KIDS 24/7 channel filled with trusted educational content that is available for free, over the air to all families.
PBS Daily Email for Parents
PBS is sending a daily email to families with resources for how to engage the nation’s youngest leaners. Just yesterday, the American Pediatric Academy listed PBS as a valuable resource for familiesduring these challenging times. PBS was the only media company mentioned in the article.
PBS KIDS Video
Available on mobile, tablet and connected TV devices, PBS KIDS offers on-demand educational videos and a livestream of the PBS KIDS 24/7 channel. No subscription is required.
PBS KIDS Games APP
Includes nearly 200 educational games, which can be downloaded for offline play anytime, anywhere. Learn more about this and PBS KIDS’ other apps at pbskids.org/apps.
PBS KIDS for Parents
A robust website with information, activities and tips for parents, including resources for talking with kids about coronavirus, encouraging healthy habits, managing worried feelings and supporting playful learning at home.
Nationwide Resources for Pre-K Educators and Homeschoolers:
PBS LearningMediais a free resource that offers resources for PreK-12 educators and families. The site has tens of thousands of state-curriculum aligned digital learning objects that support both classroom and distance learning. The content is searchable by grade level, curriculum area, state and national standards and it integrates with Google Classroom and Remind. The site pulls from the best of public media content as well content from NASA, the American Archive, the Library of Congress and more.
Khan Academy has some good resources.
VICTORYXR
Looking to add to your Homeschooling Experience During COVID-19?
Students across the country have enjoyed learning by experiencing multiple units of science, using VictoryXR’s education content. (Adventures in Space, Cataclysmic Earth, Rad Robots on Wild Earth, Chemistry in the Wonderlab, Newton's House of Forces and frog dissection).
Children can take part in 48 units of science (Earth, Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and dissection. There is even a fun new dinosaur game, Pteranodon’s Flight! All units are NGSS Aligned and right now VictoryXR is giving away FREE Subscriptions for homeschooling.
Visit:https://www.victoryxr.com/covid19or email:tai@victoryxr.comto get started for FREE Today.
WEB CAMS AND OTHER RESOURCES
Ten Museums You Can Virtually Visit
National Geographic Family Coronavirus Coverage
Resources for families
Keep your family informed and engaged during the coronavirus shutdowns with parenting articles, study tips, science experiments, homework resources, cute videos, and more.
Virtual Museum Tours
virtual tours of some of America's best national parks.
Kenai Fjords National Park, Alaska
Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, Hawaii
Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico
Bryce Canyon National Park, Utah
Virtual Tours of National Parks, 360 degree
Dry Tortugas National Park, Florida
Yellowstone Park Webcams
Nine webcams—one live-streaming and eight static—provide views of the current conditions around the North Entrance and Mammoth Hot Springs, Mount Washburn, the West Entrance, and the Upper Geyser Basin. Unfamiliar with the park? Check on the location map to see where each webcam is located.
WILDLIFE WEBCAMS
Explore
This site has many wildlife cams to choose from.
Audubon -Top 10 Wildlife Web Cams
Monterey Bay Aquarium jellyfish cam
Vancouver Aquarium has several animal cams
Africam - Watch wild animals in the beautiful African bush LIVE and unscripted. Elephants, Lions, Leopards and many more make appearances every day in the remotest of Africa’s locations.
The National Zoo in Washington, DC has several webcams
San Diego Zoo webcams
LONE PINE KOALA SANCTUARY webcams
BLM Activities Online
We have posted (and are continuing to post) simple activities online that anyone can do outside to connect with nature. We're hopeful they'll be of use to teachers, students, families,...everyone! You can find them here:https://www.blm.gov/learn/interpretive-centers/campbell-creek-science-center/nature-learning-resources.
Flinn Scientific
Effective immediately, Flinn Scientific has launched a website with an extensive amount of resources specifically developed to help teachers, students and parents continue their science education journey – even if that learning is taking place outside the classroom or laboratory environment.
Examples of some of the resources we have developed:
Free video labs with related teacher and student guides to help students at home continue making progress on key science topics
More than 40 free, easy and fun-to-do activities that use commonly available materials to encourage science investigation in the home
Flinn’s unique digital learning solutions to facilitate seamless science learning. These online solutions are the perfect way to efficiently scale curriculum in an at-home setting – also free of charge
On call scientists: over the coming days, we will be releasing video based lab experiments conducted by our scientific staff and broadcast from our studio with live events. As part of each live event, we will have our full team of scientists available to answer questions from teachers and students participating online – also free of charge and highly interactive and engaging. Be sure to check out our online calendar indicating the live scheduleing addition, we will continue to add free resources driven from your requests and feedback around topics, labs and content. If we don’t have it, we will try to create it so please let us know your needs.
These are resources available at the Center for Disease Control web site.
https://www.cdc.gov/nonpharmaceutical-interventions/home/index.html
The CDC feels an effective strategy is to wash your hands, limit contact and practice physical distancing.
The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services has resources for schools, homes and communities
http://dhss.alaska.gov/dph/Epi/id/Pages/COVID-19/populations.aspx
Alaska Public Media has current reports and updates.
https://alaskapublic.us19.list-manage.com/subscribe/post
Keep kids’ brains active:Have children try this fun science experiment using just milk, food coloring, and dishwashing soap. Then check out other experiments, quizzes, animal facts, and homework tips from the Nat Geo Kids website.
68 Cultural, historic and scientific collections you can explore on line.
Gizmos
Begin 60-day free access to Gizmos.With over 400 simulations, Gizmos gets students hands-on with math and science—virtually! Inquiry-based lesson plans and activities for each Gizmo help make it easy to get started right away.
Access professional development resources.To ensure you can effectively use our programs, we are also providing professional development webinars and resources designed to support the shift to remote learning.
The ExploreLearning support team can also help expand access to include more time, teachers, or schools, and can also offer live online professional development to ease implementation.