Actively Learn Read, Wonder, and Learn! Favorite Authors & Illustrators Share Resources for Learning Anywhere – Spring 2020 – Kate Messner Hello, friends! I’m Kate Messner, a former classroom teacher, forever-educator, and the author of more than three dozen books for kids. These include picture books like Over and Under the Snow, The Brilliant Deep, and The Next President; the Fergus and Zeke easy reader series; the Ranger in Time historical chapter book adventures; nonfiction like Tracking Pythons and Solve This: Forensics; and novels like All the Answers, Breakout, and Chirp. I’m happy that you found your way here! This is a library of resources for kids, families, teachers, and librarians to make sure that reading & learning can happen anywhere this spring. Some of you may be out of school as communities try to prevent the spread of a virus known as COVID-19. Below, you’ll find a growing collection of resources that include everything from first-chapter and picture book read-alouds (all shared with permission!) Tracey Baptiste, the author of The Jumbies series, shares a mini-lesson on comparative mythology. S.K.
Math Resources for Remote Learning Amazing (and Free) Resources from the Library of Congress What if I told you there are amazing resources you can easily use with students and teachers that will help create curiosity, promote critical thinking, reinforce information literacy skills, and make curricular connections? Better yet, what if I told you these resources were free? You can find these amazing resources on the Library of Congress’s Teachers’ Resources page. Even if you’re familiar with the site and visit it frequently, you can always find something new because the dedicated librarians at the Library of Congress are constantly adding content. Moreover, they strive to provide information and tools that make it easy for educators to access materials and implement appropriate teaching strategies in their classrooms and libraries. The Library of Congress (Photo by Stephen Walker on Unsplash) My Favorite LoC Resources Because so much material is available on the LoC website, I want to share three of my favorite resources with you. Primary Source Sets. Chronicling America.
Gimkit The ongoing global impact of COVID-19 is on everyone's minds, for good reason. Here in Washington, there's been a mix of reactions, ranging from confusion to panic to frustration, at the disruption of regular life. And we understand all of it. It's been interesting to observe things on a local level while also hearing from so many of you about how things are going around you. Over the past several days we've received emails from all over the world asking about support for educators who have been impacted by COVID 19. We haven't had a good answer so we patched together free trials of Gimkit Pro and expanded Kit limits here and there. So, for educators on Gimkit Basic impacted by COVID-19, we're doubling our Kit limit so you can create more Kits as you get started with Gimkit or find yourself using it more in a remote environment. No info needed.
Novel HyperDocs: 25 ready to use units for your class - Ditch That Textbook Novel HyperDocs are the brainchild of Heather Marshall when, after discovering HyperDocs (created byLisa Highfill, Kelly Hilton, and Sarah Landis), she decided to ditch the whole class novel and create interactive HyperDocs filled with paired texts, engaging media and interactive activities. Back in 2015, Heather shared her Novel HyperDoc for The One and Only Ivan which she created for her middle school English students. She shared this amazing resource for free through Twitter using the hashtag #TsGiveTs which promotes and supports teachers sharing resources with one another for free. Since then many others, including myself, have created and shared novel HyperDocs to use with grades ranging from 2-12. Like Heather's these units are completely free and filled with tons of resources to guide you and your students through a literary journey. The novel HyperDoc ripple effect. Using these novel HyperDocs with your class. These HyperDocs are listed in order of growing text complexity. 1. 2.
Google Hangouts As more employees, educators, and students work remotely in response to the spread of COVID-19, we want to do our part to help them stay connected and productive with G Suite. For all G Suite customers, we will soon enable free access to our advanced video conferencing capabilities in Hangouts Meet, including: After July 1, Hangouts Meet functionality will revert to G Suite Basic, Business, or Education based on the customer’s edition. However, recorded meetings will stay in the respective owner’s Drive. As these premium features are off by default, G Suite administrators need to turn them on for their domain. Why is Google for Education offering this? How long will the Hangouts Meet features be available? How do I turn on Hangouts Meet? How do I configure Meet so that students can’t create their own meetings or join a meeting not scheduled by staff? If you use Classroom and have verified teachers, you can also enable these features for the Classroom Teacher Group.
Seterra Many schools all around the world are closing due to coronavirus. We're eager to help them maintain continuity of learning, so we're offering any teacher in those schools a free level 1 Seterra Geography membership. If you are affected by a school closure and want to get a free membership, please first register an account on Patreon.com. Then email info@seterra.com with the following details: - Your name, - The name of the school you work in, - The State and Country where the school is located, - The email address you used to register your Patreon account. We will email you when your free account is activated, usually within 24 hours. With your free Seterra membership, you can: - Create custom quizzes that are not deleted after 30 days. - Add custom locations to the quizzes. - Add public leaderboards to the quizzes. If your school is temporarily shutting down due to coronavirus, our educational map quizzes can help you keep students engaged until it's safe to resume normal lessons.
Mangahigh MobyMax March 6, 2020 - MobyMax, the most widely adopted differentiated learning solution in the US., has announced that it will provide its award-winning educational software free to all schools and school districts forced to close to protect against COVID-19. The comprehensive software curriculum spans Math, ELA, Science, and Social Studies for students in grades K-8 and meets the needs of struggling students as well as those working on grade level and beyond. The announcement comes as some schools in New York have already closed and as Seattle schools and others also prepare for possible closure. “Most American school districts do not have plans in place to keep students learning if their physical structures need to be shuttered,” said MobyMax co-founder Glynn Willett. “The solution is to make online learning easily available to any school/district that needs it. Our software will be free to any affected school or school district that wants to keep teaching.” About MobyMax
Edulastic We are providing distance learning support and services to help educators teach online. Updated 3/21 To help learning continue when schools close, Edulastic is committed to helping educators with distance learning support and resources. Edulastic continues to offer free-forever teacher accounts. Features to Support Distance Learning We want to make connecting with students as easy as possible for you no matter whether you are teaching remote, in-person, or a hybrid of the two. Here are some specific features and resources that will help you with distance learning as you work with students. ➡️ Co-teacher Add a co-teacher on Edulastic to share a class with another teacher. ➡️ Edulastic Smartphone Compatability To increase accessibility to education, our engineers made Edulastic compatible with smartphones. ➡️ Timed Assignments ➡️ Google Classroom Co-teacher Sync Edulastic offers a one-button sync to import all your classes in Google classroom into Edulastic. ➡️ Upload File Question Type 2. 3. 4.
Khan Academy Read this article in another language: Հայերեն, български, 简体中文, čeština, Español, Français, ქართული, italiano, 日本語 , 한국어, Magyar, po polsku, Português (Brasil), Português (Portugal), svenska, русский, Türkçe Hello parents and teachers, With concerns growing over the coronavirus (COVID-19), we know many of you are making plans to keep learning going should your school need to close. As parents and teachers ourselves, we know there’s a lot on your minds, from health and safety to child care and jobs. We want to do everything we can to support you. We are having daily (weekdays) 9 am PST/12 EST live streams on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for students, parents, and teachers navigating school closures. Here are guides we’ve created for you: Parents Teachers Khan Academy is a free resource for students, teachers, and parents. What is Khan Academy? Teachers get tools and reports designed specifically for them. School and teacher resources: How can you use Khan Academy? How to get started: Sincerely,