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Looking for fun, healthy activities beyond technology for your students? The Game On Activity Library has over 100 healthy eating and physical activities from practicing mindfulness to taste tests to easy on-the-go play activities! Action for Kids has also created a Covid-19 resource page for parents and educators.
The Smithsonian is committed to supporting teachers and their students around the globe as they face unprecedented new learning challenges. On the Learning Lab, teachers have access to millions of digital resources from across the Smithsonian's museums, research centers, libraries, archives, and more. You will also find pre-packaged collections that contain lessons, activities, and recommended resources made by Smithsonian museum educators as well as thousands of classroom teachers like you.
Discovery Education’s standards-aligned digital curriculum resources designed to introduce students to the careers and experiences that power learning. This guide includes resources for topics including Science, STEM, & Exploration, Social & Emotional Learning and Citizenry, Health & Wellness, and Financial Literacy & Economics. Whether you’re looking for fun videos, interactive activities, or complete, ready-to-use lesson plans, Discovery Education has everything teachers want and students need to enhance virtual learning. Find more information about Discovery Education here.
With activities that cover a variety of topics, from coding to cooking, Creativity Catapult was designed to promote children’s creativity development. Activities offered can be filtered by age, topic, difficulty, time, and skill set.
The National Afterschool Association offers STEM Gems, which are shortened discovery-based experiences designed to actively engage students of all ages. Each gem includes an extensive lesson plan making implementation easy for educators.
The National Girls Collaborative Project has compiled a list of STEM resources for online learning to assist as you serve your programs and communities. Also offered are resources for mini-grants, exemplary practices, and other relevant links.
Mo Willems from the Kennedy Center is using his YouTube channel to host #MoLunchDoodles, a creative way for learners to draw, doodle, and explore new ways of writing. New episodes are posted each weekday at 1:00pm ET, and will remain online to be streamed at any time. For more free videos, performances, and educational activities, visit Kennedy Center @ Home!
The Exploratorium Learning Toolbox consists of science activities and lessons that allows students, educators, and parents to make sense of timely topics and find general science support for both virtual and at-home learning.
Girls Who Code is creating computer science activities downloadable free of charge on their website for anyone who wants to access them. Each activity features a woman in tech! These activities will be released weekly over the next few months.
The American Museum of Natural History has made their exhibits and online resources available to science enthusiasts of all ages. These resources include materials for teachers and parents, virtual tours, video games, and more!
The Institute of Museum and Library Services and U.S. Department of Education launched an interagency collaboration with the New York Hall of Science to develop and implement STEM-rich making activities inspires young people to be creative, imaginative and inventive and offers new and powerful approaches to STEM learning.
SciGirls Connect provides fun and educational STEM activities, videos, and more! Topics include earth, space, engineering and design, life and environment, health, physical science, technology, and role model profiles. These resources are also offered in Spanish!
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is partnering with the North American Association for Environmental Education and the U.S. Department of Education to implement high quality, watershed-focused STEM education. Students will increase their understanding of watersheds and related ecosystems as well as strategies to help protect and restore these aquatic environments.
The National Park Service (NPS) and the U.S. Department of Education are working together to support and enhance STEM programming in 21st CCLC programs. NPS advances mutual STEM education goals by providing access to natural resource monitoring and citizen science programs in our national parks to students in schools affiliated with the 21st CCLC program that are geographically close to NPS units.
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and the U.S. Department of Education have developed seven unique STEM Design Challenges, five for grade 6-8 and two for grades 3-5. Each STEM challenge is based upon real mission data and experiences and includes a STEM facilitation guide, introductory videos, and resources to help educators facilitate learning and engage students.
Engineering is a field that focuses on creating and using scientific and technological solutions to problems, such as machines, programs, or structures. There are many types of engineers, so kids with a wide variety of interests may find that a future in engineering appeals to them. Check out these amazing games and projects that cover all different types of engineering (Aerospace, Biomedical, Civil, etc.). A special thanks to Lizabeth for sharing this incredible resource!