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Explore these activities for students to complete during inclement weather days due to school closures. Some activities require student technology while others do not.
Resources for Online Learning
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Grades K–2
All activities are located on ClassLink.
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- Discovery Education - Students view educational videos and content.
- DreamBox - Individualized game-based mathematics activities that adapt to students’ needs.
- Keyboarding Without Tears - Grade 2 only - Elementary typing curriculum.
- Khan Academy - Video tutorials that cover educational concepts.
- Amplify Science - Grades 1-5 science units and digital resources available.
- Sora - Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your school's library.
- Newsela - Read educationally appropriate, authentic news articles.
- Think Central - Students access Mathematics activities and manipulatives.
- Reading Eggs - K-1 only - game-based phonics activities that adapt to students’ needs
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Grades 3–5
All activities are located on ClassLink.
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- Discovery Education - Students view educational videos and content.
- DreamBox - Individualized game-based mathematics activities that adapt to students’ needs.
- Keyboarding Without Tears - Grades 3-4 only - Elementary typing curriculum.
- Khan Academy - Video tutorials that cover educational concepts.
- Amplify Science - Grades 1-5 science units and digital resources available.
- Newsela - Read educationally appropriate, authentic news articles.
- Think Central - Students access Mathematics activities and manipulatives.
- Sora - Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your school's library.
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Grades 6–12
All activities are located on ClassLink.
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- Discovery Education - Students view educational videos and content.
- Zearn - Grades 6, 7, and 8 only - Curriculum-based mathematics activities assigned by a teacher.
- Khan Academy - Video tutorials that cover educational concepts.
- Gizmos (from ExploreLearning) - Online simulations, virtual labs, and more.
- MI Write - Students respond to writing prompts and receive immediate feedback.
- NoRedInk - Online lessons and activities to enhance grammar, writing, and SAT skills.
- Newsela - Read educationally appropriate, authentic news articles.
- Sora - Borrow ebooks and audiobooks from your school's library.
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Additional Online Learning Activities
- 3 Act Math Tasks: Online Math Explorations
- Pearson Investigation Games - Spanish: Mathematics practice games by grade and topic.
- Math Learning Center: Online virtual math manipulatives.
- Mystery Science: Free Resource for Parents with students in grades K-5.
- Starfall: K-5 Free literacy resource with songs, games, and books.
- PHET: Interactive simulations for Middle School and High School Science.
- Free STEM Resources and Websites: K-12 Science and STEM resources.
- OpenSciEd.org: The middle school science program is free and open source. Try out the Simulation Library.
- ReadWorks.org: Online texts, comprehension, and vocabulary activities for students in grades K-12.
- Bookshare.org: Digital library that specializes in supporting students with disabilities in grades K-12.
- Digital learning game-based platforms for students in grades K-12.
Activities for Students in the Early Years Program (Infant/Toddler & Ages 3-5)
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- Literacy and Language Activities
- Numeracy
- Social Emotional Learning
- Creating Opportunities for Engagement and Communication in Play
- Motor Planning (Fine Motor and Sensory)
- Communication and Language Development Activities
- Virtual Field Trip Library
EYP Families: Please check Remind and your child’s classroom page for read-alouds and additional activities.
Non-Tech Learning Activities
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- Mathematics: K - 2 Snowy Numbers Adventure
- Reading: After reading a fiction text, complete a graphic organizer. Sample Graphic Organizer: Beginning-Middle-End graphic organizer (elementary)
- Reading: After reading a nonfiction text, complete a graphic organizer. Sample Graphic Organizer: KWL graphic organizer (elementary)
- Social Studies and Reading: Read a picture or chapter book about a famous person or event and find a primary source describing your reading.
- Social Studies: Interview a family member about what it was like when they went to school. Write questions to ask them about their school experience and create a Venn Diagram about the similarities and differences between students today and in the past.
- Physical Education: Take a walk outside, or Google a kid-friendly workout to do indoors.
- Art: Draw any three objects from observation (still life) or draw what you see outside your window (landscape) from observation. Incorporate any two elements of art (line, shape, space, value, form, texture or color).
- Music: If you play an instrument (grades 4-12), practice for at least twenty minutes.
- Music: Listen to music that you enjoy. Think about what inspires you about that music. How does the music make you feel and why? Or - watch a musical and talk to a family member, caregiver, or friend afterwards. How did the music inspire you? How was the music used to enhance the storyline? What did you enjoy most and why?