Distance Learning
General Interest
Harvard Graduate School of Education – Shifting to Online Teaching for K-12 teachers article
At Home with PZ – Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero Toolbox for the activities targeted at enriching the at-home learning experience; Has an easy-to-use search function organized by age range
Easy PZ – Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero and the Smithsonian explain and demonstrate easy-to-use approaches to improve student thinking How-to videos
Harvard Graduate School of Education – Article for helping students understand COVID-19
Learnzillion – ELA and Math instructional videos
Milanote – A CASIE favorite! An easy-to-use tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards.
National Geographic – Resource library for K-12
PBS Learning Media – Pre-K -12 core subject areas (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies) learning resources
Smithsonian – Millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian’s museums, research centers, and library archives curated into lessons and activities by thousands of educators
TEDEd – Video-based lessons designed to spark curiosity and organized by subjects, animations, lesson creation capability, and TED Student Talks Program platform
Wide Open School – New free online resource to support families and educators with remote learning featuring curated items from Common Sense as a result of a collaboration among leading publishers, non-profits, education, and technology companies; Learning activities and experiences organized by grade bands, daily schedules, and creative breaks and engagement ideas.
Global Citizenship & Service Projects
Kid World Citizen – Ideas, resources, service project, articles, and activities to teach your people about world cultures
PenPal Schools – Connects students from around the world to collaborate through online projects
Save the Rain – Resources to learn about the global water crisis, specifically in East Africa, and for options to get involved in helping with educating communities to harvest the rain, reforestation, sanitation, hygiene, and sustainable agriculture through permaculture design
International Baccalaureate
DP Pandemic Teaching Resources – Resources assembled by the IB to help you navigate learning with Diploma Programme (DP) students outside of the school setting.
IB Source – Teacher Sample Center for PYP, MYP and DP and Approaches to Learning
Math
HOODA Math – K-12 math games organized by grade level; includes tutorials and timed tests
Khan Academy – Free lessons in math, science, and humanities from kindergarten through the early years of college
Science
EPA Students – Resources for K-12 students for project ideas, lesson planning, community service, science fair project ideas, and homework assistance for learning and teaching about the environment
Exploratorium – COVID-19 Science: Learning Toolbox with resources for learning about current topics in science
How Stuff Works – Hundreds of articles that explain the wonders of science
Nova – PBS science show’s website with videos, articles, full show episodes, and STEM topics
Smithsonian Education Guide for Science – Resources organized by grade band, themes, and topics; Next Generation Science Standard
Reading & Writing
CommonLit – Reading program with a free digital lesson library that can be searched by Lexile level, grade, theme, genre, literary device of Common Core Standard in English and Spanish
Harvard Graduate School of Education – Article for continuing reading and writing skills development
Readworks – Reading instruction content, curriculum, and tools to power teaching and learning from Kindergarten to 12th Grade
Scholastic Home Base – Access books to watch trailers for, read, and engage in similarly themed games
Smithsonian Education Guides – English/Language Arts Pk-12 themes and topics organized by grade bands lesson plans and resources
Storyline Online – Streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations
Second Languages
Better Chinese – Digital support for Chinese language learning
Duolingo – Language learning for Spanish, French, Portuguese, Japanese, German, Italian, Arabic, Dutch
Encantos – World exploration using social studies resources to learn about geography, language, history, and culture for both elementary and preschool kids in English and Spanish
Smithsonian Education Guides for Spanish – Spanish language educational resources for arts & culture, history & social studies, and science & nature
Unite for Learning – Provide children access to an abundance of short and easy reader books that celebrate their cultures and languages with a choice to listen to the narrations in more than 40 languages.
Humanities & Social Sciences
Discovery Education EconEssentials – Lessons for high school students to learn about economic principles for grades 9-12
Discovery Education Pathways to Financial Literacy – Tools for middle and high school educators to teach your students key financial success skills, including lessons, educator guides, and videos
HISTORY – Original articles, photos, and videos realated to a broad range of history topics can be found for research projects and additional learning; topics are aligned to middle and high school curriculum
HISTORY This Week – Podcasts that share a big moment in history that occurred during this week
iCivics – Engages students in meaningful civic engagement
Smithsonian Education Guides – Social Studies and History guides for PK-12 organized by themes, topics, and grade bands; includes lesson plans and resources
The Arts
British Museum – Virtual tour of works of artworks and their historical background from around the world organized on a unique grid that allows the viewer to select by location and by time period
The Michael C. Carlos Museum at Emory University – Puzzles created from painting accompanied by the stories that are depicted.
Google Arts and Culture – Explore high-definition artworks, experience cultures through 360 degree videos, and tour famous sites
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems – Artist-in-residence at home featuring artist and writer Mo Willems
Museu de Arte de Sao Paulo Assis Chateaubrind – Six art stories presented in separate online exhibits
Musee d’Orsay, Paris – Virtually walk to view famous works from French artists from 1848 and 1914
National Gallery of Art – 40,000+ artworks displayed in a wide array of collections
Smithsonian American Art Museum – Art collections and explorations
Uffizi Gallery, Florence – Four exhibits of the art collection of the de’Medici family
English Language Learners
Activities for ESL Students – Thousands of teachers have contributed to provide quizzes, tests, exercises and puzzles to with learning English; Project of The Internet TESL Journal
English Media Lab – Free English Exercises for English language learners at all levels, including older learners; Games, puzzles, English TV, animated videos, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation, spelling, and SAT practice activities
Google Translate – Translating a text, Snap feature instantly translates an image using a camera and the Talk feature enables users to have live bilingual conversations
Microsoft Immersive Reader – Tool that can be used to increase fluency for English Language Learners by offering text decoding solutions and translation of words or the entire text
Social-Emotional Learning
Discovery Education Discover Your Happy – Virtual experience and information on the Six Sustainable Happiness Skills—mindfulness, human connection, positive outlook, purpose, generosity, and gratitude
Discovery Education Soar with Wings – Step-by-step guide and presentation for K-5 activities to build social-emotional skills
Harvard Graduate School of Education – Articles that address ways to help children with social-emotional situations and research stories on various related topics.
Virtual Fieldtrips
Discovery Education – Free virtual educational fieldtrips by subject area
The Smithsonian Institution – National Museum of Natural History virtual tours allow visitors to take self-guided, room-by-room tours of select exhibits