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Activities
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Activities
- Project-Based Learning activities offered by Open Educational Resources at https://www.oercommons.org/curated-collections/395
- PBLworks offers Project-Based Learning activities designed for remote learning at https://www.pblworks.org/pbl-remote-learning
- Learn at Home Activities for Students offered by the New York City Department of Education are designed to provide K12 supplementary learning resources to students in the event that students may need to be home from school at https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learn-at-home/activities-for-students
- SEL Lessons Inspired by Dogs Are What Kids Need Right Now Just bringing in the topic of dogs is motivating for kids and promotes the kind of resiliency they need right now. That’s why we’re so excited about these resources from Mutt-i-grees—a Yale-developed social-emotional learning and humane education program from North Shore Animal League America—which are available for free now through June 30, 2020 at https://www.weareteachers.com/muttigrees-resources/?utm_source=MDR_WAT&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=NorthShore_1912_SpotArt
Remote Learning Resources
- Research on Virtual Learning the spread of coronavirus throughout the U.S. has led to an unprecedented experiment in virtual learning. With schools across the country moving to an online learning model for the rest of the semester, The Learning Agency Lab looks at the research on virtual learning at https://www.the-learning-agency-lab.com/the-learning-curve/what-does-the-research-say-about-online-learning
- Covid-19 Home-Learning Resources from Fordham Institute aggregates the best resources and ideas for remote learning, including highlighting schools, teachers, and parents doing this well at https://fordhaminstitute.org/covid-19-home-learning
- Resources for Learning From Home During COVID-19 School Closures for online instructional materials from Fordham Institute at https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/resources-learning-home-during-covid-19-school-closures
- Resources for Remote Learning from the Emerson Collective offers best-practice resources for students, parents, and educators at https://www.emersoncollective.com/articles/2020/03/covid19-resources-for-remote-learning/
- Open Educational Resources: The Big List – Open Educational Resources (OER) are any type of educational material that are freely available for teachers and students to use, adapt, share, and reuse at University of Pittsburg at https://pitt.libguides.com/openeducation/biglis
- PBLworks offers a variety of Project-Based Learning options to help teachers keep connected to their students with projects, technology platforms for remote learning, webinars, and how families can support students with PBL at home at https://www.pblworks.org/pbl-remote-learning
- Distance Learning During the COVID-19 Pandemic from Education Reimagined offers a myriad resources for young people, parents, and educators to find grounding during this unprecedented moment and engage in rich distance learning experiences at https://education-reimagined.org/distance-learning-resource-center/#learning
- NewSchools Learning from Home Resources is a list of online learning curated by NewSchools at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1eCKYRQAr52e0dFVXv_f30JjEIzm8qROmBxQcoPQo1DY/edit#gid=0
- Amazing Educational Resources has compiled an extensive spreadsheet of educational companies offering free subscriptions to their resources (Note: the list is a compilation of not-for-profit and for-profit resources) at: http://www.amazingeducationalresources.com/?fbclid=IwAR3obVARbevINqeIG0YOAEtac1Fnq6HVOh8b_-XZf4F4bfeu5s2F2Mekns4
- Resources for School System Leaders is a list of free resources for school system leaders to help them navigate the wide range of challenges they’re facing right now—from implementing strong at-home instruction while schools are closed, to working with their teams remotely, to finding virtual solutions to teacher recruitment, staffing, and professional learning at https://tntp.org/blog/post/resources-for-schools-during-the-covid-19-crisis
- Great YouTube channels for middle schoolers and high schoolers for learning from home during COVID-19 school closures a list of videos on a wide-variety of topics at https://fordhaminstitute.org/national/commentary/great-youtube-channels-middle-schoolers-and-high-schoolers-learning-home-during
- Resources for Teaching & Learning During This Period of Social Distancing This brief guide aims to help educators, administrators, and parents better navigate the pitfalls of making the quick jump to online learning. It curates useful tools and resources with a view to maintain the indispensable human touch of teaching and learning during this period of social distancing at https://www.kqed.org/mindshift/55521/resources-for-teaching-and-learning-during-this-period-of-social-distancing
- Keeping Your Remote Community Healthy remote learning isn’t a replication of what you were doing before. It’s an opportunity to rethink learning in new spaces. GOA has tons of resources, including classes, printable handouts, and school leader roundtables at https://globalonlineacademy.org/covid-19?utm_source=XQ%3A+Give+Me+Five+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6a7d7b9aa9-giveme5_issue_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fff7d23e53-6a7d7b9aa9-66456997
Remote Learning Lessons Learned
- Teaching for Remote Learning: Lessons We’ve Learned So Far our friends at XQ Super School share lessons learned from schools on remote learning at https://xqsuperschool.org/blog/school-culture/teaching-for-remote-learning-lessons-weve-learned-so-far/?utm_source=XQ%3A+Give+Me+Five+Newsletter&utm_campaign=6a7d7b9aa9-giveme5_issue_10_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fff7d23e53-6a7d7b9aa9-66456997