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Suggestions for Learning Beyond the Classroom
Learning happens everywhere--even at home!
Principals, Teachers, Media Specialists, Paraprofessionals, Custodians, and all staff members from each of Bulloch County's schools miss their students! They know that staying home is the safest thing for everyone to do until the COVID-19-Coronavirus has been contained. Even so, they want students to continue learning. Although no work will be required or graded while we are all at home, each day offers us an opportunity to be curious, make discoveries, and add to our knowledge and skills. Below are a few ideas to get you started!
Continue Reading!
Reading is one of the most effective ways to help you learn.
Read! Reading is one of the most powerful things you can do to help improve your overall academic performance. Read out loud to someone or have someone read to you. Read at least 20 minutes a day.
Soar into Literacy with SORA
All of Bulloch County Schools' students have access to online books through our digital reading mobile application, SORA. Students can access SORA online and on mobile devices and tablets through the SORA app (after installing the free app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store).
Follow these steps for accessing SORA online:
- Go to SORA online, select your school by choosing Bulloch County School District.
- Use your child's bullochschools.org Google email/Google account to log in.
- If students do not remember their email address it is their first two initials, last name, and the first three digits of their student number, which is also their lunch account number, then @bullochschools.org. For example, if a student's name is Jane Doe Smith and her student number is 12345, then her email login for SORA would be jdsmith123@bullochschools.org
Follow these steps for using the SORA app:
- Install the free app from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store.
- After opening the app, find your school by searching for First District RESA Shared Digital Collection.
- Tap on the This is my school button.
- When you see the Select your school dropdown menu, choose Bulloch County School District.
- As above, use your child's bullochschools.org Google email/Google account to log in.
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Literacy Ideas Literacy Ideas is a site that provides teachers, students, and parents with simple solutions to learning reading, writing and all aspects of literacy in the classroom. | Parent Question Stems for ELA In her 2017 Scholastic article, Parent Question Stems for ELA, Meghan Everette shares invaluable standards-based reading questions (for both informational and literary texts) that parents can discuss with their children after reading. | British Library: Discovering Children's Books Make a virtual visit to the British Library's Discovering Children's Books site. Explore centuries of stories, poems and illustrations. This resource is a delight for children, teachers and book-lovers of all ages. |
Literacy Ideas
Literacy Ideas is a site that provides teachers, students, and parents with simple solutions to learning reading, writing and all aspects of literacy in the classroom.
Parent Question Stems for ELA
In her 2017 Scholastic article, Parent Question Stems for ELA, Meghan Everette shares invaluable standards-based reading questions (for both informational and literary texts) that parents can discuss with their children after reading.
British Library: Discovering Children's Books
Make a virtual visit to the British Library's Discovering Children's Books site. Explore centuries of stories, poems and illustrations. This resource is a delight for children, teachers and book-lovers of all ages.
FreeReading
FreeReading is a free, high quality, open source reading program that contains activities and intervention materials for the early literacy skills. Researchers, teachers, reading coaches, and other professionals created and submitted research-based lesson plans, teaching tools, and other materials that users may download and use for free.
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Audible Stories Thanks to Amazon's entertaining Audible Stories, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. | CommonLit Though CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms, parents may register for the service, too. Users may search and filter the collection by Lexile, grade, theme, genre, or literary device. | Library of Congress: Archive of Recorded Poetry & Literature The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943. Visitors to the site can listen to audio-recorded readings of Robert Frost and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut. |
Audible Stories
Thanks to Amazon's entertaining Audible Stories, kids everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids. All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.
CommonLit
Though CommonLit is a free collection of fiction and nonfiction for 3rd-12th grade classrooms, parents may register for the service, too. Users may search and filter the collection by Lexile, grade, theme, genre, or literary device.
Library of Congress: Archive of Recorded Poetry & Literature
The Archive of Recorded Poetry and Literature at the Library of Congress dates back to 1943. Visitors to the site can listen to audio-recorded readings of Robert Frost and renowned writers such as Ray Bradbury, Margaret Atwood, and Kurt Vonnegut.
PBS KIDS Writers Contest
Due to recent school closings, Georgia Public Broadcasting has extended its deadline for the PBS KIDS Writers Contest to April 10th. The contest encourages Georgia kids in kindergarten through 3rd grade to submit original, illustrated stories for great prizes and a chance to be featured on the GPB website. If the story incorporates science, technology, engineering, arts or math, it is eligible to win the STEAM Award.
Parents may download a PDF resource packet that contains a series of resources to help students break down the process of story writing. The packet includes a teacher’s guide with printable documents to help aspiring writers with brainstorming, revising, illustrating and caption-writing.
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Sightwords Sightwords is a collection of resources designed to spread the word about Sight Words and Phonemic Awareness and help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. This website includes detailed instructions, techniques, free teaching aids, games, and other materials. | Words2Reading Words2Reading promotes early language and literacy development through quick access to easy-to-use resources for families, caregivers, and teachers. This site helps you grow your young reader through easy-to-follow videos, links, downloadable documents, e-books, and audio clips all available online. | Storyline Online Storyline Online is an award-winning children’s literacy website that streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator that strengthens comprehension and verbal and written skills. |
Sightwords
Sightwords is a collection of resources designed to spread the word about Sight Words and Phonemic Awareness and help teachers, parents, and caregivers teach a child how to read. This website includes detailed instructions, techniques, free teaching aids, games, and other materials.
Words2Reading
Words2Reading promotes early language and literacy development through quick access to easy-to-use resources for families, caregivers, and teachers. This site helps you grow your young reader through easy-to-follow videos, links, downloadable documents, e-books, and audio clips all available online.
Storyline Online
Storyline Online is an award-winning children’s literacy website that streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Each book includes supplemental curriculum developed by a credentialed elementary educator that strengthens comprehension and verbal and written skills.
Get Reading with myON
Get Georgia Reading and Renaissance are partnering to provide readers free, anytime/anywhere access to digital books and news with myON. Unlimited, 24/7 access makes it easy for students to continue reading and learning at home. Students can read online using any Internet-enabled device, or read offline with free mobile apps.
- Go to www.myon.com/login/index.html to login and start reading.
- School Name: Get Georgia Reading (type the first few letters and select from the drop-down menu)
- Username: bullochcounty
- Password: read
- Click the Sign In button and start reading!
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Scholastic Learn at Home Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. At the Scholastic Learn at Home site, every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. | RivetCheck out Rivet. This resource tackles obstacles to good reading practice: access to books, access to high quality feedback, and enthusiasm for reading. With over 2,000 leveled books for kids in K-2, quality reading practice has never been easier. The app features an engaging, kid-friendly interface and reading support on every page. | e-READ KIDS e-READ KIDS is a collection of e-books and audio books for kids in pre-K through fourth grade. A mix of fiction and nonfiction titles can be downloaded onto computers, tablets, and smartphones. Young readers have access to almost 15,000 electronic and audio books. |
Scholastic Learn at Home
Even when schools are closed, you can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. At the Scholastic Learn at Home site, every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers.
Rivet
Check out Rivet. This resource tackles obstacles to good reading practice: access to books, access to high quality feedback, and enthusiasm for reading. With over 2,000 leveled books for kids in K-2, quality reading practice has never been easier. The app features an engaging, kid-friendly interface and reading support on every page.
e-READ KIDS
e-READ KIDS is a collection of e-books and audio books for kids in pre-K through fourth grade. A mix of fiction and nonfiction titles can be downloaded onto computers, tablets, and smartphones. Young readers have access to almost 15,000 electronic and audio books.
Georgia Department of Education's Remote Learning Activities for Mathematics
The Georgia Department of Education Mathematics Team has over 1300 curated resources (in a PDF) to support teachers, students, and parents as they embark on the journey of teaching learners remotely. These resource are organized by grade/course and instructional unit aligned to the Georgia Standards of Excellence and the Georgia Curriculum Frameworks for Mathematics.
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YouCubed: How to Learn Math Stanford University's online learning course, How to Learn Math is a free class for learners of all levels of mathematics. This course combines important information about the brain and learning with new evidence on the best ways to approach and learn math effectively. It features Professor Jo Boaler. | Math Playground Math Playground is suffused with math problems disguised as fun games. Games that require specific and complex skills, tutorial videos (made by students), logic puzzles, beginning programming, and an amazing supply of word problems are all here. | Math Games MathGames is a free, comprehensive resource that includes games and interactive questions to test kids' mastery of numerous math skills. Parents who create an account for the site can provide kids with access by creating classes and adding students. |
YouCubed: How to Learn Math
Stanford University's online learning course, How to Learn Math is a free class for learners of all levels of mathematics. This course combines important information about the brain and learning with new evidence on the best ways to approach and learn math effectively. It features Professor Jo Boaler.
Math Playground
Math Playground is suffused with math problems disguised as fun games. Games that require specific and complex skills, tutorial videos (made by students), logic puzzles, beginning programming, and an amazing supply of word problems are all here.
Math Games
MathGames is a free, comprehensive resource that includes games and interactive questions to test kids' mastery of numerous math skills. Parents who create an account for the site can provide kids with access by creating classes and adding students.
Algebra2go
Algebra2go is a free collection of pre-algebra and algebra related study materials designed to address the affective dimensions of student learning. Professor Perez and his favorite student Charlie have five primary types of study materials to help visitors to the site:
- class notes
- video worksheets
- video lectures
- practice problems, and
- practice quizzes
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Mathematical Association of America: WeBWorK The Mathematical Association of America offers WeBWork, an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWork is supported by the MAA and the National Science Foundation and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems. | Mathigon Mathigon is part interactive textbook and part virtual personal tutor. Using cutting-edge technology and an innovative new curriculum, this resource makes learning mathematics more engaging, relevant, active, fun, memorable, and effective. | Graspable Math Graspable Math is a free, reputable website supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education). It offers intuitive and fluid interfaces for math with tools that scaffold experiences of algebraic structure, supports genuine inquiry about how math works, and gives people opportunities to reason flexibly about mathematics. |
Mathematical Association of America: WeBWorK
The Mathematical Association of America offers WeBWork, an open-source online homework system for math and sciences courses. WeBWork is supported by the MAA and the National Science Foundation and comes with a National Problem Library (NPL) of over 20,000 homework problems.
Mathigon
Mathigon is part interactive textbook and part virtual personal tutor. Using cutting-edge technology and an innovative new curriculum, this resource makes learning mathematics more engaging, relevant, active, fun, memorable, and effective.
Graspable Math
Graspable Math is a free, reputable website supported by the Institute of Education Sciences (the statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education). It offers intuitive and fluid interfaces for math with tools that scaffold experiences of algebraic structure, supports genuine inquiry about how math works, and gives people opportunities to reason flexibly about mathematics.
PBS Learning: Probability with Dice
Chances are middle school students will enjoy exploring probability. Parents interested in helping their children become familiar with numerical descriptions of how likely events are to occur should take a look at the Probability with Dice video resource from the Math at the Core: Middle School Collection from Georgia Public Broadcasting. This video lesson focuses on charting the sample space for rolling two dice and then calculating the probability of rolling an 8 using the charted sample space. Support materials (downloadable handouts) are also available.
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Khan Academy: Math Khan Academy provides a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere! This site features amazing math resources for students from kindergarten through high school. | Prodigy Prodigy features engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform designed to motivate 1st through 8th grade students to learn and practice math. Prodigy encourages self-paced math practice in and out of school. | GASHA GO! GASHA GO! helps students in pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade practice counting and numeracy skills. It's skill-building math game from GPB Education that focuses on developing children’s number sense. |
Khan Academy: Math
Khan Academy provides a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere! This site features amazing math resources for students from kindergarten through high school.
Prodigy
Prodigy features engaging, curriculum-aligned math platform designed to motivate 1st through 8th grade students to learn and practice math. Prodigy encourages self-paced math practice in and out of school.
GASHA GO!
GASHA GO! helps students in pre-kindergarten through 3rd grade practice counting and numeracy skills. It's skill-building math game from GPB Education that focuses on developing children’s number sense.
NCTM Illuminations
Illuminations is a project designed by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) that offers the highest quality standards-based resources for teaching and learning mathematics, including interactive tools for students. The site contains:
- over 100 activities (virtual manipulatives, applets, and games)
- brain teasers
- more than 700 lesson plans
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Exploding Dots Exploding Dots leads visitors through an astounding mathematical story that starts at the very beginning of mathematics--it assumes nothing--and swiftly begins a wondrous journey through grade school arithmetic, high-school polynomials algebra, infinite sums, and advanced mathematics and unsolved research problems baffling mathematicians still to this day. | Which One Doesn't Belong? Which One Doesn't Belong is a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different and correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong. | Estimation 180: Building Number Sense 1 Day at a Time Each day of the school year Andrew Stadel presents his students with an estimation challenge. He loves helping students improve both their number sense and problem solving skills. Andrew kindly shares those estimation challenges with you on his site, Estimation 180. |
Exploding Dots
Exploding Dots leads visitors through an astounding mathematical story that starts at the very beginning of mathematics--it assumes nothing--and swiftly begins a wondrous journey through grade school arithmetic, high-school polynomials algebra, infinite sums, and advanced mathematics and unsolved research problems baffling mathematicians still to this day.
Which One Doesn't Belong?
Which One Doesn't Belong is a website dedicated to providing thought-provoking puzzles for math teachers and students alike. There are no answers provided as there are many different and correct ways of choosing which one doesn't belong.
Estimation 180: Building Number Sense 1 Day at a Time
Each day of the school year Andrew Stadel presents his students with an estimation challenge. He loves helping students improve both their number sense and problem solving skills. Andrew kindly shares those estimation challenges with you on his site, Estimation 180.
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ForecastAdvisor ForecastAdvisor is for students who are interested in weather science and accuracy. This site answers the question "What will the weather be?" by providing the National Weather Service Digital Forecast Database forecast. Next, it asks "Who provides the most accurate weather forecast for my city?" and uses to data to inform. | Windy: Wind Maps & Weather Forecasts Though you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Windy makes a compelling reason for students interested in the science of meteorology to explore data visualization. | Climate.gov: Data Snapshots Climate.gov: Data Snapshots is a gateway to reusable climate maps and datasets that document various climate conditions. It is useful to students who want to explore climate data and better understand weather over time. |
ForecastAdvisor
ForecastAdvisor is for students who are interested in weather science and accuracy. This site answers the question "What will the weather be?" by providing the National Weather Service Digital Forecast Database forecast. Next, it asks "Who provides the most accurate weather forecast for my city?" and uses to data to inform.
Windy: Wind Maps & Weather Forecasts
Though you don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows, Windy makes a compelling reason for students interested in the science of meteorology to explore data visualization.
Climate.gov: Data Snapshots
Climate.gov: Data Snapshots is a gateway to reusable climate maps and datasets that document various climate conditions. It is useful to students who want to explore climate data and better understand weather over time.
Frontiers for Young Minds
Frontiers for Young Minds provides a collection of freely available scientific articles by distinguished scientists that are shaped for younger audiences by the input of their own young peers. Articles cover topics related to:
- Astronomy and Space Science
- Biodiversity
- Earth and its Resources
- Health
- Mathematics
- Neuroscience
Check out the site's Collections. Centered around a single theme of research and hosted by researchers, all articles within Collections are freely downloadable and available as an eBook upon their completion.
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PhET PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. PhET simulations:
| Learn.Genetics Learn.Genetics from the University of Utah has an astonishing collection of activities and labs related to biology, genetics, and human health. | NOVA Labs NOVA Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens and lifelong learners in games and interactives that foster authentic scientific exploration. Each Lab focuses on a different area of active research and illustrates key concepts with engaging and informative videos. |
PhET
PhET Interactive Simulations, a project at the University of Colorado Boulder, provides fun, free, interactive, research-based science and mathematics simulations. PhET simulations:
- use real-world connections,
- encourage scientific inquiry, and
- include multiple representations (e.g., object motion, graphs, numbers, etc.)
Learn.Genetics
Learn.Genetics from the University of Utah has an astonishing collection of activities and labs related to biology, genetics, and human health.
NOVA Labs
NOVA Labs is a free digital platform that engages teens and lifelong learners in games and interactives that foster authentic scientific exploration. Each Lab focuses on a different area of active research and illustrates key concepts with engaging and informative videos.
Science News for Students: Free Resources
Science News for Students has free articles, activities and more for at-home learning. Every week, the site publishes articles about current events and recent science research, all written in a kid-appropriate way. The site is a program of the reputable Society for Science & the Public, an organization dedicated to public engagement in scientific research and education. This rich resource for learning features:
- experiments
- Scientists Say, which introduces a new vocabulary term every week
- explainers, designed to take a deeper dive into the concepts that underlie science news and research
- Technically Fiction, which looks into the science behind science-fiction and
- discussion questions
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Daily DE Looking for meaningful and engaging learning activities for your children? Discovery Education's robust Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home! | GPB: Chemistry Matters Chemistry Matters is a digital series for high school chemistry from Georgia Public Broadcasting. The series contains 12 units of study divided into segments. Each segment contains support materials designed to enhance student understanding of the content. | National Science Digital Library The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) includes over 26,000 online resources for use by prekindergarten through adult audiences. The resources cover the various sciences, technology, computers, engineering, and math, along with some resources for history and education, and are for both formal and informal learning. |
Daily DE
Looking for meaningful and engaging learning activities for your children? Discovery Education's robust Daily DE features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week. From digital interactives to virtual field trips to fun science experiments and more, these daily activities are great for keeping the learning going at home!
GPB: Chemistry Matters
Chemistry Matters is a digital series for high school chemistry from Georgia Public Broadcasting. The series contains 12 units of study divided into segments. Each segment contains support materials designed to enhance student understanding of the content.
National Science Digital Library
The National Science Digital Library (NSDL) includes over 26,000 online resources for use by prekindergarten through adult audiences. The resources cover the various sciences, technology, computers, engineering, and math, along with some resources for history and education, and are for both formal and informal learning.
Scientific American: Bring Science Home
Scientific American's: Bring Science Home site knows that science starts in the home. This resource is full of fun science activities, which parents and their kids ages 6-12 can do together with household items in just a half hour or less.
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Twig Science Tools K-5 Twig Science Tools contains K-5 lessons and learning resources for studying real-world Science concepts and STEM applications. There are roughly 3,000 instructional resources, including 950 videos, available to you that meet current Science standards. For content correlated to Georgia Standards of Excellence, you can use the search bar at the top of the page to find all the lessons, videos, activities, graphics, and quizzes that match each target GSE Science topic you choose. All of this is free right now. | JoVE Science Education Library JoVE offers free access to resources such as:
How to gain free access: interested academic administrators, educators, and students should fill out this form or simply reach out to access@jove.com to set up an account. | Mystery ScienceMystery Science made its most popular science lessons for anyone to use for free. No account or login is needed. Every lesson begins with a Mystery that hooks students. Next comes narration of an unforgettable story told with stunning images and videos and punctuated with opportunities for discussion. Every lesson concludes with simple hands-on activities designed to use supplies you already have (or are easy to get). Lessons by grade: |
Twig Science Tools K-5
Twig Science Tools contains K-5 lessons and learning resources for studying real-world Science concepts and STEM applications. There are roughly 3,000 instructional resources, including 950 videos, available to you that meet current Science standards. For content correlated to Georgia Standards of Excellence, you can use the search bar at the top of the page to find all the lessons, videos, activities, graphics, and quizzes that match each target GSE Science topic you choose. All of this is free right now.
JoVE Science Education Library
JoVE offers free access to resources such as:
- JoVE Science Education – a collection of simple, easy-to-understand video demonstrations in eight STEM fields
- Lab Manual – comprehensive, curriculum focused videos for introductory biology lab courses
How to gain free access: interested academic administrators, educators, and students should fill out this form or simply reach out to access@jove.com to set up an account.
Mystery Science
Mystery Science made its most popular science lessons for anyone to use for free. No account or login is needed. Every lesson begins with a Mystery that hooks students. Next comes narration of an unforgettable story told with stunning images and videos and punctuated with opportunities for discussion. Every lesson concludes with simple hands-on activities designed to use supplies you already have (or are easy to get). Lessons by grade:
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David Rumsey Map Collection The David Rumsey Map Collection from Stanford University contains more than 97,000 items online. Visitors to the site use a free in-browser map viewer called LUNA to find, work with and share content. The site is free and requires no login; even so, registering for a free account in LUNA allows users to save their work and preferences. | HeyWhatsThat Map Layers Although the HeyWhatsThat Map Layers site looks a bit plain at first glance, don't be fooled. Look to the left side of the screen, search for an address, and take a few minutes to examine the collapsible menus. Expand the arrow titled NLCD (US landcover), press the GO button, and watch what happens. | ESRI Tapestry The United States is a nation of ZIP Codes and neighborhoods. See how ESRI Tapestry describes them. Enter a ZIP Code and choose a few topics to see what the power of location can reveal about any place in the US. Explore up to 10 different consumer spending, demographic, lifestyle, and behavioral trends. Maps with spatial analytics reveal neighborhoods like never before. |
David Rumsey Map Collection
The David Rumsey Map Collection from Stanford University contains more than 97,000 items online. Visitors to the site use a free in-browser map viewer called LUNA to find, work with and share content. The site is free and requires no login; even so, registering for a free account in LUNA allows users to save their work and preferences.
HeyWhatsThat Map Layers
Although the HeyWhatsThat Map Layers site looks a bit plain at first glance, don't be fooled. Look to the left side of the screen, search for an address, and take a few minutes to examine the collapsible menus. Expand the arrow titled NLCD (US landcover), press the GO button, and watch what happens.
ESRI Tapestry
The United States is a nation of ZIP Codes and neighborhoods. See how ESRI Tapestry describes them. Enter a ZIP Code and choose a few topics to see what the power of location can reveal about any place in the US. Explore up to 10 different consumer spending, demographic, lifestyle, and behavioral trends. Maps with spatial analytics reveal neighborhoods like never before.
Big History Project
Big History Project is a free, online Social Studies course that emphasizes skill development as students draw mind-blowing connections between past, present, and future. When students use this site parents can expect to see impressive gains in student writing and critical thinking. This resource delivers a big picture look at the world, and helps students develop a framework to organize what they’re learning both in and out of school. Students will have a better understanding of how we got here, where we’re going, and how they fit in.
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Wonderopolis The creators of Wonderopolis, the National Center for Families Learning, believe that natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of ALL ages. In as little as 30 minutes a day, activities at Wonderopolis build vocabulary skills and background knowledge in Social Studies and other content areas. | GeoGuessr GeoGuessr is a geography game that takes players on a journey around the world, challenging them to pay attention to and recognize their surroundings. Players are shown an image and must drop a pin to guess their location, earning points for each guess. The closer a guess is to the actual location, the more points it's worth. | National Archives Students can get an entire Social Studies education at the U.S. National Archives. Why? One of the most valuable aspects of this site are its Activity Tools and Document Analysis Worksheets. When combined, these resources and tools teach students how to work with primary source documents. |
Wonderopolis
The creators of Wonderopolis, the National Center for Families Learning, believe that natural curiosity and imagination lead to exploration and discovery in learners of ALL ages. In as little as 30 minutes a day, activities at Wonderopolis build vocabulary skills and background knowledge in Social Studies and other content areas.
GeoGuessr
GeoGuessr is a geography game that takes players on a journey around the world, challenging them to pay attention to and recognize their surroundings. Players are shown an image and must drop a pin to guess their location, earning points for each guess. The closer a guess is to the actual location, the more points it's worth.
National Archives
Students can get an entire Social Studies education at the U.S. National Archives. Why? One of the most valuable aspects of this site are its Activity Tools and Document Analysis Worksheets. When combined, these resources and tools teach students how to work with primary source documents.
Smithsonian's History Explorer
Smithsonian's History Explorer is a website developed by the National Museum of American History that offers online resources for teaching and learning American history. This resource allows parents and teachers to filter content by grade, resource type, historical era, and cross-curricular connection. Resource types span from Artifacts (selected from the Museum's more than 3 million items) to Lessons/Activities to Interactives/Media, and the 10 eras include Beginnings to 1620 and 1968 to the Present.
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iCivics iCivics goal is ensuring every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates well prepared for citizenship. The site has a growing collection of video games that allow students to play with civic skills and concepts. iCivics games don't require prior knowledge. They teach players everything they need to know to play! | Georgia Studies Georgia Studies is a digital collection from Georgia Public Broadcasting. It brings an innovative, interactive experience to telling the story of Georgia’s history, culture, and geography. The collection includes student and teacher editions of the Georgia Studies digital textbook, over 30 virtual field trips, Georgia Race Through Time adventure game, and Georgia Stories video series. | Studies Weekly During the Coronavirus school closures, Studies Weekly is supporting students who need to continue their learning remotely. Studies Weekly Online is now open for ALL teachers and students to use, whether or not you are a current customer. This resource includes all student editions, Teacher Editions, lesson plans, and assessments. |
iCivics
iCivics goal is ensuring every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates well prepared for citizenship. The site has a growing collection of video games that allow students to play with civic skills and concepts. iCivics games don't require prior knowledge. They teach players everything they need to know to play!
Georgia Studies
Georgia Studies is a digital collection from Georgia Public Broadcasting. It brings an innovative, interactive experience to telling the story of Georgia’s history, culture, and geography. The collection includes student and teacher editions of the Georgia Studies digital textbook, over 30 virtual field trips, Georgia Race Through Time adventure game, and Georgia Stories video series.
Studies Weekly
During the Coronavirus school closures, Studies Weekly is supporting students who need to continue their learning remotely. Studies Weekly Online is now open for ALL teachers and students to use, whether or not you are a current customer. This resource includes all student editions, Teacher Editions, lesson plans, and assessments.
Library of Congress
The Library of Congress should be every student's first stop for exploring Social Studies. As the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections, this resource delivers the best of America's past and present. A well-designed resource is bound to exist for nearly any subject being explored and everything is totally free. To get a feel for its offerings, dive into the Digital Collections.
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New Georgia Encyclopedia The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is an authoritative resource containing original content that helps users understand the rich history and diverse culture of Georgia's still-unfolding story. Whether you are curious about the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia, want to know more about our state's geographic regions, or its history, the NGE offers plenty of reputable and worthwhile information to enjoy. | CIA World Factbook Want to be more intelligent about the world? Go to the experts on intelligence! The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes a variety of information about world, regional, and country topics. | National Geographic Classroom Resources National Geographic Learning offers high-quality, standards-based, educational resources and activities. Many of its free maps, lesson plans, imagery, interactives, and reference materials have been curated into collections grounded in the bold and transformative approach that National Geographic takes around science, exploration and storytelling. |
New Georgia Encyclopedia
The New Georgia Encyclopedia (NGE) is an authoritative resource containing original content that helps users understand the rich history and diverse culture of Georgia's still-unfolding story. Whether you are curious about the Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia, want to know more about our state's geographic regions, or its history, the NGE offers plenty of reputable and worthwhile information to enjoy.
CIA World Factbook
Want to be more intelligent about the world? Go to the experts on intelligence! The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency World Factbook provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The Reference tab includes a variety of information about world, regional, and country topics.
National Geographic Classroom Resources
National Geographic Learning offers high-quality, standards-based, educational resources and activities. Many of its free maps, lesson plans, imagery, interactives, and reference materials have been curated into collections grounded in the bold and transformative approach that National Geographic takes around science, exploration and storytelling.
CoolKindergarten
CoolKindergarten is a simple way to play free, online games that are hand-picked just for kindergarten students. When kids start on the site's home screen they can choose the main activities. Kids may choose from:
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Orisinal Why do parents bring their children to Orisinal? Light design, soft music, adorable illustrations, and games that are engaging. The games at this site teach problem-solving along with basic hand-eye coordination. They also develop speed, reflexes, and mouse skills. | Boowa & Kwala Drop by and meet Boowa & Kwala, two intriguing cartoon characters who inhabit a site that has more than 500 games. Games at the site give youngsters opportunities for sorting, guessing, making decisions, and solving puzzles. Children will also enjoy more than 50 songs and a variety of stories for special occasions. | Kids' CBC |
Orisinal
Why do parents bring their children to Orisinal? Light design, soft music, adorable illustrations, and games that are engaging. The games at this site teach problem-solving along with basic hand-eye coordination. They also develop speed, reflexes, and mouse skills.
Boowa & Kwala
Drop by and meet Boowa & Kwala, two intriguing cartoon characters who inhabit a site that has more than 500 games. Games at the site give youngsters opportunities for sorting, guessing, making decisions, and solving puzzles. Children will also enjoy more than 50 songs and a variety of stories for special occasions.
PBS Kids: Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
Prekindergarten students will enjoy Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum, a PBS KIDS series based on the Ordinary People Change the World books. This resource follows the adventures of Xavier Riddle, his sister Yadina, and their friend Brad as they travel back in time to meet real life historical figures when they were kids. Video clips, teaching tips, and historical figure biosketches support students’ social-emotional, literacy, and social studies skills. Parents may learn more about the series and find full episodes, digital games, and home activities at the Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum website.
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus Mister Rogers wisely said “Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.” PBS KIDS for Parents gives advice about how to talk to children about coronavirus. | When Something Scary HappensYoung people need to know how to understand what is happening around them. PBS Kids shares resources to help families cope in emergencies and other challenging times. Parents will find a collection of videos, activities, and sound advice from experts in child development. | How Kids Can De-Stress During Coronavirus Parents and kids are feeling stress about the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress is a normal. Being in the presence of a compassionate, safe adult can help kids calm down. PBS KIDS for Parents gives helpful strategies for parents as they help their children navigate big feelings during uncertain times. |
How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus
Mister Rogers wisely said “Anything that's human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting and less scary.” PBS KIDS for Parents gives advice about how to talk to children about coronavirus.
When Something Scary Happens
Young people need to know how to understand what is happening around them. PBS Kids shares resources to help families cope in emergencies and other challenging times. Parents will find a collection of videos, activities, and sound advice from experts in child development.
How Kids Can De-Stress During Coronavirus
Parents and kids are feeling stress about the COVID-19 pandemic. Stress is a normal. Being in the presence of a compassionate, safe adult can help kids calm down. PBS KIDS for Parents gives helpful strategies for parents as they help their children navigate big feelings during uncertain times.
Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards
Bright from the Start: Georgia Department of Early Care and Learning is pleased to offer a variety of supplemental resources to support early learning programs in implementing the Georgia Early Learning and Development Standards (GELDS). Parents are now able to find activities and resources to support home learning by visiting the Supplemental GELDS Resources webpage.
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Everyday Toddler Lessons The world is a stimulating place for toddlers. Everything around them is new and exciting! Even the mundane experiences help build skills. Read the article Everyday Toddler Lessons from Parents.com to learn smart strategies that will turn your daily routine into fun learning games. | Talking is Teaching When you talk, read, and sing with your children—even before they can use words—you’re helping to prepare them for success in school and in life. Talking is Teaching helps parents recognize their power to boost their children’s early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions - like describing things while walking outside, or singing songs together during bath time. | Vroom Every time we connect with young children, it's not just their eyes that light up—it's their brains, too. Vroom Tips help you do more with your shared moments with toddlers. Add learning to mealtime, bath time, bedtime, or anytime with 1,000+ fun, free activities. |
Everyday Toddler Lessons
The world is a stimulating place for toddlers. Everything around them is new and exciting! Even the mundane experiences help build skills. Read the article Everyday Toddler Lessons from Parents.com to learn smart strategies that will turn your daily routine into fun learning games.
Talking is Teaching
When you talk, read, and sing with your children—even before they can use words—you’re helping to prepare them for success in school and in life. Talking is Teaching helps parents recognize their power to boost their children’s early brain and vocabulary development through simple, everyday actions - like describing things while walking outside, or singing songs together during bath time.
Vroom
Every time we connect with young children, it's not just their eyes that light up—it's their brains, too. Vroom Tips help you do more with your shared moments with toddlers. Add learning to mealtime, bath time, bedtime, or anytime with 1,000+ fun, free activities.
Georgia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, & Dance Resources
The Georgia Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation, and Dance (GAHPERD) is jumping in to help. GAHPERD is giving teachers, students, and parents the health-related resources they need as everyone moves to an online learning format. GAHPERD's COVID-19 HPE Resources include:
- a reminder that the Georgia Department of Education's that Georgia fitness assessment platform for FitnessGram is open. Teachers may enter existing data but are not required to do so. Note that Smart Coach resources are still available.
- an "Active Home" module with resources including week long standards-based lesson plans for K-12 and English/Spanish learning tools from Online Physical Education Network (OPEN)
- SHAPE America's (the Society of Health and Physical Educators) Virtual Resources for Health & PE
- training resources (cards, videos, and fitness guides) to support Special Olympians and Adapted PE teachers!
- videos and fitness tracker from the Special Olympics School of Strength to help athletes and their coaches keep their fitness at optimal levels
- Walkabouts have FREE teacher access to all content until 9/1/20! Complete their form for credentials!
- SpeedStacks has posted free videos to help students stay active at home with cup stacking!
AP Updates for Schools Impacted by Coronavirus
There is new information for High School AP Students affected by Coronavirus (COVID-19). The College Board is:
- developing a new at-home testing option and
- providing free remote AP Review learning resources.
Visit AP's Coronavirus update page to get all of the details.
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Comcast: 60 Days of Free Internet Effective Monday, March 16, 2020, anyone who signs up for Internet Essentials will receive two free months of Internet service. Comcast is also increasing the speed of the program to 25 Mbps downloads and 3 Mbps uploads for all new and existing customers. | GPB: Digital Learning Contingency Plans Georgia Public Broadcasting Education provides free access to over 300,000 standards-aligned digital learning resources for all grades and subject areas including streaming video, instructional strategies, virtual field trips, teacher resources, and complete lesson plans through its partnerships with Discovery Education and PBS LearningMedia. | Common Sense Media: What's Safe? Need entertainment and technology recommendations for families and schools? Common Sense Media reviews digital media and advises parents to help them navigate the digital world with their kids. |
Comcast: 60 Days of Free Internet
Effective Monday, March 16, 2020, anyone who signs up for Internet Essentials will receive two free months of Internet service. Comcast is also increasing the speed of the program to 25 Mbps downloads and 3 Mbps uploads for all new and existing customers.
GPB: Digital Learning Contingency Plans
Georgia Public Broadcasting Education provides free access to over 300,000 standards-aligned digital learning resources for all grades and subject areas including streaming video, instructional strategies, virtual field trips, teacher resources, and complete lesson plans through its partnerships with Discovery Education and PBS LearningMedia.
Common Sense Media: What's Safe?
Need entertainment and technology recommendations for families and schools? Common Sense Media reviews digital media and advises parents to help them navigate the digital world with their kids.
Online Voice Recorder
For teachers who miss their students, your students miss you as well. Just hearing your voice would make them feel better. If you are using email to reach out to your pupils, consider using Online Voice Recorder to record and save an audio message for your students. This resource is a simple online tool that can be used right in your browser. It allows you to record your voice using a microphone and save your audio as an mp3 file. Afterwards, you can download your message, put it in Google Drive, and share a link to the audio. This adds a bit of flair to your email and will delight your recipients.
