Grade K - 2 Learning Resources
Overview
Resource suggestions to explore and consider as a way to support your family learning during school closures.
Grade K - 2 Learning Resources
Art & Music
The Arts: This site offers printable art worksheets, resources on how to read and play music, and provide information on the history of music.
Arts Ed Washington: This site provides curriculum designed for K-6 teachers to integrate visual arts into their classrooms with ease.
The Kennedy Center - ART with Mo Willems: Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks.
Comprehensive School Counseling
BrainPOP for SEL: Brain POP is committed to developing SEL content that supports the Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) framework.
CASEL: The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL) is a trusted source for knowledge about high quality, evidence-based social and emotional learning (SEL).
Inside SEL: SEL curates relevant headlines, policy updates, and articles pertaining to social-emotional learning.
Dual Language
Bartolo and extended suite of resources at Imactiva: Resources en español de Chile. Bartolo es una línea de software educativo para apoyar la enseñanza y el aprendizaje de las asignaturas de lenguaje, matemática, ciencias sociales y ciencias naturales, desde pre kínder a 4º básico. Spanish language resources from Chile: Bartolo is a line of educational software to support teaching and learning in language, math, social studies and science, from Pre-K to 4th grade.
English Language Arts
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Resources for Virtual Instruction and Online Learning: Curated list of blog posts, journal articles, resources and activities.
PBS Kids: PBS KIDS leverages the full spectrum of media and technology to build knowledge, critical thinking, imagination and curiosity.
PBS Learning Media - ELA: This site focuses on bring language arts to life through interactive games, animations and engaging media resources.
ReadWorks: Read Works focuses on reading comprehension instruction with curated high-impact instructional materials and tools.
Scholastic Learn at Home: Scholastic Learn at how provides day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking and growing.
English Language Development
Biblioteca Virtual Infantil: Children's Virtual Library for Ages 0 -12. Biblioteca Virtual Universal presenta una de las más grandes colecciones de libros digitalizados en toda Latinoamérica; con acceso directo a las obras y con un sistema de búsquedas por Título de la Obra, Autor y Clasificación por Materias. The Children's Virtual Library is one of the largest collections of digital books in all of Latin America; with direct access to the books and a search feature by Title, Author, and Genre.
BrainPOP for Emerging Bilinguals, BrainPOP en Español, and BrainPOP Maestros: BrainPop provides learning games, animated movies and activities that are designed with relevance, depth and humor.
Colorín Colorado: Colorín Colorado has been providing free research-based information, activities, and advice to parents, schools, and communities.
English Learners Success Forum: This site focuses on Math and ELA activities and scaffolds that can be strategically built into lessons and units to deepen and accelerate English learners’ content area learning over time.
Kahn Academy en Español: Students practice at their own pace, first filling in gaps in their understanding and then accelerating their learning.
Reading Rockets: Reading Rockets immerse kids in language and stories, build background knowledge, and inspire creative play.
Health Education
BrainPOP Jr.: Brain Pop provides learning games, animated movies and activities that are designed with relevance, depth and humor.
CATCH Health at Home (Coordinated Approach to Child Health): By uniting multiple players in a child’s life to create a community of health, CATCH is proven to prevent childhood obesity.
Create Safer Schools by Choosing Love SEL Curriculum: This site focuses on character development and Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) program that teaches educators and their students how to choose love in any circumstance through wonderfully simple yet powerful themes.
EVERFI Health & Wellness: EVERFI’s health and wellness resources teach students to make healthy choices in a safe environment.
Mathematics
Bedtime Math: Every day, we serve up a quick bite of wacky math just for fun. Whether it’s flamingos, ninjas or pillow forts, kids can see the math in their favorite topics.
DREME Storybook Guides (Development and Research in Early Math Education): These reading guides are intended to help you use interactive reading strategies that can help foster children’s literacy and mathematical thinking.
IXL: IXL helps students master essential skills at their own pace through fun and interactive questions, built in support, and motivating awards.
PBS Learning Media: This site focuses on bring math concepts to life through interactive games, animations and engaging media resources.
Prodigy: Prodigy is an engaging game-based learning platform that Johns Hopkins University links to independent learning.
Physical Education
BE Physically Active 2Day (BEPA 2.0): BE Physically Active 2Day (BEPA 2.0) is a classroom-based physical activity program aligned to national Health Education (HE) and Physical Education (PE) standards for grades K-5.
Cosmic Kids Yoga: Yoga, mindfulness and relaxation designed specially for kids aged 3+, used in schools and homes all over the world.
Online Physical Education Network (OPEN): This site focuses on games and calendars for families to use to make their home an Active Home.
Science
#Going 3-D - Gathering, Reasoning and Communicating: These lessons utilize local phenomenon and are organized by grade level. By organizing instruction around local phenomenon, students are provided with a reason to learn shifting the focus from learning about a disconnected topic to figuring out why or how something happens.
Next Generation Storylines: This site focuses on a coherent sequence of lessons, in which each step is driven by students' questions that arise from their interactions with phenomena.
PBS Learning Media: This site explores natural phenomena and scientific practices with videos, lesson plans, and interactive tools.
Teach Engineering: Teach Engineering is a digital library comprised of engineering curricula for K-12 educators to make applied science and math come alive through engineering design.
Social Science
General
EDSITEment: EDSITEment is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities. EDSITEment offers free resources for teachers, students, and parents searching for high-quality K-12 humanities education materials in the subject areas of history and social studies, literature and language arts, foreign languages, arts, and culture.
Library of Congress Grade Level Social Science Lesson Plans: Teacher-created, classroom-tested lesson plans using primary sources from the Library of Congress.
Civics
Center for Civics Education: The Center’s lesson plans include We the People: The Citizen and the Constitution; Project Citizen; the School Violence Prevention Demonstration Program; Representative Democracy in America; Citizens, Not Spectators; and Foundations of Democracy.
Kid Citizen: Kid Citizen provides a growing set of interactive Episodes where K-5 students work with primary source photographs to explore Congress and Civic Engagement.
Teaching Civics: Lessons for civics, government, and law-related education in elementary, middle, and high school classrooms. Includes simulations, discussions, mock trials, case studies and other research based materials.
Economics
EconEd: Econ Ed Link provides classroom-tested, Internet-based economic and personal finance lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students.
Geography
National Geographic: Search a databank of lessons and resources by grade, content type and subject.
U.S. History/Oregon History
Experience Oregon: Curriculum for the Oregon Historical Society’s (OHS) core Oregon history exhibition, Experience Oregon, aligns with state and national standards. All classes can use this curriculum, regardless of whether they physically visit the exhibit.
PBS Learning Media: U.S. History is broken down by time periods, ranging from Three Worlds Meet (beginnings to 1620) to Contemporary United States (1968 - today).
Teaching Tolerance: These classroom lessons offer breadth and depth, spanning essential social justice topics and reinforcing critical social emotional learning skills.
World History
PBS Learning Media: World History is an expansive subject, these lesson will engage student with learning opportunities focusing on the eras from the Agricultural Revolution to World War II.
STEM
Career Exploration: This site has compiled a list of career exploration activities and resources categorized by grade level.
Oregon Connections: Oregon Connections is the next generation, web-based tool that makes it easy for industry professionals to connect with K-20 educators. Professionals can share their skills and expertise to bring real world, authentic learning opportunities to all our students helping to create the next generation of innovators.
STEM Works: STEM-Works provides resource for teachers, mentors, parents, STEM professionals, volunteers, and everyone passionate about getting children eager to learn about science, technology, engineering, and math.
World Languages
PBS Learning Media: This site focuses on bring world languages and cultures into your classroom with resources on world languages.
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