Always Learning
Bulloch County Schools Online Resources: (Volume 1; Issue 4)
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PE Central: Elementary Activities PE Central's catalog of physical education lessons for elementary-aged students provides more than 350 activities for parents and other visitors to the site. Parents and teachers should also check out the site's Best Practices, where users rate their favorite published Health and PE learning experiences. | SPARK Free Lesson Plans SPARK PE is dedicated to creating, implementing, and evaluating research-based programs that promote lifelong wellness. Its site includes a collection of free SPARK Physical Education and Physical Activity lesson plans. | PBS Learning Media: Health & Physical Education PBS Learning Media offers a collection of grade-specific resources that provide essential lessons on physical, mental, and emotional health. The resources may be filtered by grade and type. Topics include but are not limited to: Skills for Healthy Living, Physical Education, and Personal, Mental, and Emotional Health. |
PE Central: Elementary Activities
SPARK Free Lesson Plans
PBS Learning Media: Health & Physical Education
Build Challenges PBS Kids: Design Squad Global has great Build Challenges that use materials that can be found at home. Each challenge has a video and step-by-step guide with images to support the build. The build challenges range in difficulty from easy to hard. If you don’t have a material, get creative and find an alternative! | Innovation Nation Have aspiring inventors in the family? Want to find real-life role models? Surf on over to the Innovation Nation series site for six seasons worth of content. The site's educational episodes showcase present day change-makers from all over the globe who are creating solutions to real-world needs. | Prufrock Press Webinars Prufrock Press offers free webinars that feature informal conversations about engaging topics in gifted education and social and emotional learning. Topics include:
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Build Challenges
Innovation Nation
Prufrock Press Webinars
- inquiry-based lesson,
- managing toxic stress and trauma, and
- teaching critical thinking.
Molly of DenaliInformational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the PBS Kids Molly of Denali series and its accompanying videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities. Set in a rural Alaskan village, this resource models the many ways that children can access and create informational text in their daily lives. | Free Rice Freerice is an addictive online game appropriate for Middle School aged students that hones its players' vocabulary while simultaneously addressing world hunger. When players answer questions correctly, advertisements appear on the screen triggering a financial payment to the World Food Programme. | The Online Books PageThe Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, the site offers:
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Molly of Denali
Informational text and Alaska Native culture form the basis of the PBS Kids Molly of Denali series and its accompanying videos, digital games, lessons, teaching tips, and activities. Set in a rural Alaskan village, this resource models the many ways that children can access and create informational text in their daily lives.
Free Rice
The Online Books Page
The Online Books Page is a website that facilitates access to books that are freely readable over the Internet. Founded and edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, the site offers:
- an index of over two million online books,
- pointers to significant directories and archives of online texts, and
- special exhibits of particularly interesting classes of online books.
Multiplication Rock On Saturday mornings from 1973 to 1993 American children committed multiplication facts to memory by joyfully learning and singing the lyrics to Schoolhouse Rock's catchy music Multiplication Rock songs. Tunes such as Elementary, My Dear, the Four-Legged Zoo, I Got Six, and Figure Eight delighted and informed their listeners. Want the entire series? Watch SchoolhouseRockTV! :-) | Dynamic Paper Dynamic Paper (via Illuminations by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics) allows users to create images of nets for solids (two-dimensional outlines of 3D shapes, including regular polyhedra, prisms, pyramids, cylinders and cones), tessellations of polygons, number grids with any number of rows, columns, and integers, spinners with various numbers of sectors, and more! It also generates a PDF of the chosen images. | What's Going On in This Graph? What's Going On in This Graph? is a weekly feature of graphs, maps, and charts from the New York Times very own Learning Network. It's an invitation to students to discuss the graphs live. When teachers and parents ask, "What do you notice? What do you wonder?" they give students opportunities to see problems in big-picture ways and discover multiple strategies for tackling problems. |
Multiplication Rock
Want the entire series? Watch SchoolhouseRockTV! :-)
Dynamic Paper
What's Going On in This Graph?
Exploratorium: Learning Toolbox The free online Learning Toolbox from San Francisco's Exploratorium helps parents and teachers of elementary students make sense of timely topics and find general science support for learning together at home. | Science Bob: Easy Science Experiments for Home “Science Bob” Pflugfelder is a science teacher, author, maker, and presenter who knows how to share the world of science in humorous and engaging ways. His Science Bob Easy Science Experiments for Home give middle school students more than 20 opportunities to observe and explore phenomenon that drive student inquiry. | FREE Illustrated Guide to Biology Need help explaining Biology to high school students? A respected AP Biology, Anatomy, and Principles of Biomedical Science teacher wants to help. Author and illustrator, Jeff Grant has kindly made his book, An Illustrated Guide to Biology free to teachers and parents. Grant is also a National Center for Science Education (NCSE) Teacher Ambassador. |
Exploratorium: Learning Toolbox
Science Bob: Easy Science Experiments for Home
FREE Illustrated Guide to Biology
Alphabet of Nations & MapMaker Interactive Elementary students know the alphabet but do they know the Alphabet of Nations? The quirky and educational tune is a great segue as kids dive into refining their map and globe skills in National Geographic's: MapMaker Interactive. | Georgia Virtual Vault Georgia's Virtual Vault is a portal to some of Georgia's most important historical documents, from 1733 to the present. The Vault provides virtual access to historic Georgia manuscripts, photographs, maps, and government records housed in the state archives. | Chronicling AmericaChronicling America allows visitors to search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This site is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress. |
Alphabet of Nations & MapMaker Interactive
Georgia Virtual Vault
Chronicling America
Chronicling America allows visitors to search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This site is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Load My Lunchbox Load My Lunchbox is an interactive game from the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA). Young students are asked to help Farmer Luis harvest nutritious food to fill the lunchboxes of the kids in Healthy Hollow! | GPS and GIS Technology in Agriculture Global Positioning Systems (GPS) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) are areas of emerging technology in agriculture. Help middle school students explore technical careers in agriculture and learn how GPS and GIS technologies are used to improve agricultural production using free resources from the National Agricultural Literacy Curriculum Matrix. | AgCareers: Career ProfilesAgCareers.com's Career Profiles increase learning and understanding around the great variety of opportunities in agriculture and food. Visitors may browse more than 250 Career Profiles. After selecting topics of interest, users see an overview, job responsibilities, required education, recommended high school courses, potential employers, and job outlook. |
Load My Lunchbox
GPS and GIS Technology in Agriculture
AgCareers: Career Profiles
AgCareers.com's Career Profiles increase learning and understanding around the great variety of opportunities in agriculture and food. Visitors may browse more than 250 Career Profiles. After selecting topics of interest, users see an overview, job responsibilities, required education, recommended high school courses, potential employers, and job outlook.
Chrome Music Lab Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. Aspiring musicians may play with these experiments across all kinds of devices (phones, tablets, laptops, etc...) by opening the site on a web browser such as Chrome. | Bezier Art Game Middle school students who want to be digital artists should play Artsology's Bezier Art Game and try their hand at using bezier curves to make interactive art works. A bezier curve is a parametric curve (a geometric object made up of various points). Bezier curves are named after Pierre Bézier, who used it in the 1960s for designing curves for the bodywork of Renault cars. | Color Our Collections ColorOurCollections involves libraries, museums, archives, and other cultural institutions around the world sharing free coloring content featuring images from their collections. High school students who are fond of using art to learn more about history and culture will enjoy exploring a multitude of downloadable coloring sheets from around the world. |
Chrome Music Lab
Bezier Art Game
Color Our Collections
Ready at Five Maryland's Ready at Five site works to help parents give their children the foundational/school readiness skills needed for success in school, career, and life. The site provides downloadable activity cards about such topics as: | Peep and the Big Wide WorldPeep and the Big Wide World teaches science and math to preschoolers ages 3 to 5 through visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters (namely, a newly hatched chick, Peep). The site's online games and videos are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation. | PBS for Parents PBS for Parents contains helpful ideas for parents of children ages 2 to 8. Visitors will find information about beloved books for kids, parenting during Coronavirus, and weekly activities for children. In addition to academic resources, the site also supplies age-by-age tips and activities for emotions and self-awareness, social skills, and character development. |
Ready at Five
Peep and the Big Wide World
Peep and the Big Wide World teaches science and math to preschoolers ages 3 to 5 through visual humor, charming plotlines, and lovable characters (namely, a newly hatched chick, Peep). The site's online games and videos are based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation.
PBS for Parents
Keep Reading!
Reading is one of the most effective ways to help you learn.
Simple steps for becoming a better reader include the following:
- Read at least 20 minutes each day
- Read out loud to others
- Listen to others as they read aloud
For quick access to great reading, remember these tips:
- All of Bulloch County Schools' students have access to online books through our digital reading mobile application, SORA (for more details, read Issue 1 of this newsletter)
- All stories on Audible Stories are currently free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet
- Students have free, unlimited, 24/7 access to digital books and news with myON by Renaissance