Learn how to play a new card game by watching online and then introducing it to your family.
Learn how to shuffle a deck of cards.
Teach your child how to do their own laundry - this will change your life forever!!
Teach your child to make a bed and sew on a button.
Learn how to blow a bubble with gum.
Learn how to whistle
Create a Newscast with your Ipad
Keep a journal or scrapbook
Have a shadow show in the reading tent (using blankets over chairs or a table)
https://www.bostonchildrensmuseum.org/museum-virtual-tour
Designed for children and families, our exhibits focus on science, culture, environmental awareness, health & fitness, and the arts. In addition to extensive child-centered exhibits, Museum educators develop programs and activities that address literacy, performing arts, science and math, visual arts, cultures, and health and wellness.
https://www.discoveryeducation.com/community/virtual-field-trips/
No permission slips required. These virtual events let educators take students to amazing places and give them remarkable experiences, without ever leaving the classroom.
https://www.thechinaguide.com/destination/great-wall-of-china
As China's most famous attraction, the Great Wall of China is an essential stop on any trip to China. Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet.
https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne
Visit the museum's exhibition rooms and galleries, contemplate the façades of the Louvre. Come along on a virtual tour and enjoy the view.
https://accessmars.withgoogle.com/
Access Mars lets you explore a 3D replica of the Martian surface, exactly as it was recorded by the Curiosity rover. As Curiosity has travelled across Mars, it’s taken digital photographs with two stereoscopic camera systems. By combining and analyzing these photographs, scientists at NASA JPL have created a 3D model used to study Mars and plan future experiments. For the first time, this same 3D model is now available here for anyone to explore in their browser using WebVR.
The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
Click Here for NASA ebooks for kids
This unique series is a collaboration between World Book and NASA’s Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) program. Scientists tell how they grew from students to inventors and now tackle some of NASA’s biggest challenges. Useful for STEM/STEAM instruction and independent reading.
Gather fresh greens or spring flowers from the yard and arrange them in a cup inside. It’s nice to see spring inside the house, especially on gray days.
Start some vegetable seedlings: https://www.americanmeadows.com/start-seeds-indoors
Build a kite using supplies from your recycling bin and fly it!
https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/connect/youngbirders/how-to-identify-birds.php
https://www.birdwatchersdigest.com/bwdsite/learn/identification.php?sc=yb_identifybirds
https://www.audubon.org/conservation/audubon-adventures
https://www.birds.cornell.edu/k12/
Sketch or draw the birds in their backyard or neighborhood. Students could try to identify them as well.
Making Ice Cream in a Bag
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/scrumptious-science-making-ice-cream-in-a-bag/
Understanding how salt lowers the freezing point of water (chemistry)
https://www.familyeducation.com/fun/playdough/play-doh-recipes?slide=3#fen-gallery
As a Mad Science class we did the basic uncooked playdough but this could be a fun way to engage your children in the kitchen!
The Mars Generation
Online description given: Teenagers at NASA’s Space Camp dream of traveling to Mars while experts reflect on the future and history of NASA.
NASA KIds Club. https://www.nasa.gov/kidsclub/index.html
K- 4 https://www.nasa.gov/stem/forstudents/k-4/index.html
5 - 8 https://www.nasa.gov/stem/forstudents/5-8/index.html
Have you ever wondered why the arms and fingers of T. rex are so small? Or why its teeth are so big? Paleontologist Mark Norell answers these questions and more on OLogy, which also features science activities, games, and more.
It’s pretty fun (and clever) to use Morse Code as a way to keep messages hidden.
https://kids.kiddle.co/Morse_code
https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/27282/secret-codes-to-write-a-coded-letter/
Coffee Break Spanish
Discover Spanish
Español Automático
Spanish Obsessed (beginner or advanced)
MUZZY: Well done BBC program w/authentic language in fun cartoon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZH0cqYrkK68
Francais facile : https://www.podcastfrancaisfacile.com/
For French 1 and 2 : Language online: https://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/french/French.htm
French III and above : https://savoirs.rfi.fr/en
TV5 Monde : https://apprendre.tv5monde.com/fr?id_dossier=305
For the youngests : https://www.mondedestitounis.fr/
Sing in French? : https://chansonsfle.blogspot.com/?view=mosaic
MUZZY: (See description under Spanish, above)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wfhq5PY6VhA&t=22s
Plan and cook a family dinner together
Choose a meal with the intent of allowing your children to learn how to make this dinner by themselves one day. You’ll need to make this dinner several times. First, allow them to watch/participate, the next time they can do more, the third time you watch them cook it and the fourth time they can do it on their own!
Scroll down the page to see over 34 videos that teach you how!
Write a story cooperatively. One person picks a character and the other picks a setting and then go gangbusters together.
Have each child write a letter and/or emails to a different friend or family member each day
MS Username: JLGMID Password JLGFREE
LS Userrname JLGELM Password JLGFREE
US Usernamee JLGHI Password JLGFREE
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCu-ZfxIyfyZlJSOR0kj7UxA/videos
Free access to Tynker premium home learning (games, puzzles, challenges, story-based learning, augmented reality, Python): https://www.tynker.com/blog/articles/tynker/free-tynker-at-home-offer-for-students-learning-to-code-at-school/?utm_source=Teachers&utm_campaign=0c2dea66fc-school_closures_COPY_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0a72eab762-0c2dea66fc-73967729
Creating video games, animations, mobile games, virtual reality (free premium learning access): https://learn.unity.com
Pixar in a Box (learn how math, science, computer science, and humanities come together at Pixar to make movies): https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/pixar
If you could design a better school, how would you set it up?
What about a skate park or your dream home?
Consider details like windows, doors that open/close, landscaping, furniture, adding removable walls/roof to access inside. You can use thin spaghetti for details around windows, leftover fabric as rugs, pieces of packaging as part of a building.
If you have limited glue, you can assemble things by cutting along the edges of the cardboard and then fitting the pieces together like puzzle.
Use colored embroidery string (the kind you use for making bracelets) to embroider an old pair of jeans. You will need a medium-sized needle for this (larger than a sewing needle, but not giant). You can add stars to a back pocket or run a vine and flowers up the side.
You need:
old crayons or old candles (use a candle that is mostly burned and no longer usable)
a small/medium cardboard milk container (or something similar)
a pencil/pen/stick
string for the wick
Cut the milk carton in half so that you can the bottom half to pour wax into. THis serves as the mold for your candle. You can use any similar type of carton that can be ripped off the candle once the wax is cooled. A can will not work, but a narrow plastic milk jug probably will. The height of the carton will determine how tall your candle can be.
Attach the string to the middle of the pencil, which will sit atop the milk carton to hold the wick in place. This keeps the string taut while you pour the wax into the mold so that you have a wick. The bottom of the string should hang down into the bottom of the carton. You can use a small piece of tape to hold it in place so that the wick is straight.
Unwrap the crayons and melt them in a small pan. You may want to do one color at a time, or all the colors mix up and give you brown. You can make your candle different colored layers this way.
Pour the melted wax into the bottom of a cardboard milk jug.
Make sure your wick is hanging down from the pencil through the middle of the wax to the bottom of the candle.
Let the wax cool.
Keep doing this process for as many layers/colors as you’d like your candle to be.
Once the wax has cooled, tear away the milk carton, and you will have a square wax candle.