Times are strange these days. 2020 has proven to throw curveball after curveball, including in our education system, making it difficult to maintain “normalcy.” So what is a parent to do when trying to get their little one to learn without the ability to drop him/her off to an actual location?
Many preschools have alternate plans in place, allowing parents to choose the right path that best fits their weekly schedules. Let’s see…there is remote learning, half remote and half in-person learning, and complete in-person learning. The three different scenarios pose different outcomes…which isn’t ideal for making the learning environment “conducive” to learning. So what is a parent to do? The question should be, What is a teacher to do? Nobody seems to have a solid answer for those two questions.
More and more teachers are searching for remote learning resources due to the outbreak of COVID-19. This post is going to save you hours and hours of endless scrolling to find the perfect website, app, or no prep activities to help your child. Without further ado, here are the top places I found as helpful when learning from home. The explanations of each resource were taken from the actual site.
Digital Toothy Task Cards
Students can use an iPad, Chromebook, or any other type of computer to practice a variety of math and phonics skills through the use of digital task cards. All the skills are targeted and come with high-interest images to help with student engagement. Best of all, each task card is multiple choice and provides immediate feedback to the student. The incentive of adding a tooth to Toothy’s mouth for every correct answer makes this game leaving kids coming back for more!
Digital Math Toothy Task Cards
Digital Phonics Toothy Task Cards
Digital Grammar Toothy Task Cards
Digital Math Toothy Task Cards Freebie
Digital Phonics Toothy Task Cards Freebie
Digital Grammar Toothy Task Cards Freebie
Waiting list for new Digital Toothy sets
Spiral Math and ELA
Just print and go! Students can practice their math, grammar, phonics, writing, and reading skills with these review sheets. No prep needed!
1st Grade Spiral Math
2nd Grade Spiral Math
2nd Grade Spiral ELA
3rd Grade Spiral Math
Brain Pop
Brain Pop Jr. is a great tool for your child. I love using it to introduce a new skill. Brain Pop uses short videos to teach students about a variety of skills. If your school is closed due to the COVID-19 virus, you can get unlimited use of the full BrainPOP suite during the period of closure.
CK-12
Each lesson on CK-12 has a reading passage, videos, optional review questions, and self-graded practice questions. The lessons can be assigned to Google Classroom and it puts the grade in that students got on the practice questions (students must get 10 practice questions correct to get 100%).
IXL Learning
IXL Learning is a website that provides comprehensive curriculum that covers five subjects. It helps to pinpoint what students need to know and exactly what to do next to help the student improve.
Phonics Mats
Phonics mats with reading passages are designed with a focus on individual phonics patterns. They are a NO PREP, PRINT & GO, perfect option for students who need a practical and applicable way to practice their phonics skills within a passage and in an isolated structure.
1st Grade Phonics Mats
2nd Grade Phonics Mats
Book Creator
Book Creator is a simple tool for creating awesome digital books. Create your own teaching resources or have your students take the reins. Combine text, images, audio and video to create interactive stories, digital portfolios, research journals, poetry books, science reports, instruction manuals, about me books, and comic adventures.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education is the global leader in standards-based digital curriculum resources for K–12 classrooms worldwide. We are the home to award-winning digital textbooks, multimedia content, and the largest professional development community of its kind.
Math Puzzles
Math Puzzles are a great option for students. Each puzzle focuses on a math skill. There are 10 pieces to each puzzle. Each puzzle piece has a math problem for the student to solve. Then the student assembles the puzzle by putting their pieces in order from least to greatest. If these are being sent home, I recommend sending home the black and white student scrambled edition. Students will solve, cut out, assemble, and glue their pieces in order to complete the puzzle.
WeVideo
WeVideo empowers every learner to discover their voice and make an impact in their world. WeVideo promotes deeper learning while making it fun and easy for students to express their ideas with creativity and authenticity.
Wakelet
Wakelet makes saving your favorite content from across the web a breeze. Articles, videos, blogs, tweets, songs and more – bookmark anything you find online in two clicks. Arrange your bookmarks into stunning collections. Add images, text and organize however you like to build stories from your content. Collaborate with others on group collections to share ideas, inspiration and knowledge. Share your collections with a single link.
Kahoot
Kahoot provides extended learning beyond live games and classroom walls and encourages accuracy over speed with student-paced games. Students play at their own pace with questions and answers on their screens, while a teacher sees their progress in real time. Many teachers find this way to play Kahoot! helpful for content review, exam prep, and homework assignments. Is your school or university affected by the coronavirus outbreak? Kahoot is providing free access to these schools!
PBS Learning Media
Videos, games, lesson plans and supplemental materials can be searched by grade level, subject area, keyword and standard. And PBS LearningMedia‘s Google Classroom integration makes it easy to share resources with your entire class. Content contributors include KET, PBS, PBS Kids, NASA, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and many more.
EdPuzzle
Make any video your lesson with EdPuzzle. Choose a video, give it your magic touch and track your students’ comprehension. Reinforce accountability by checking if students are watching your videos, how many times they’re watching each section, and if they’re understanding the content. Engage students by introducing them to self-paced learning with interactive video lessons. It’s easy to add your own voice narration and questions!
Color by Number Sheets
Addition and subtraction fact fluency is essential in 1st and 2nd grade. This leads to the ability to do multi-digit addition and subtraction problems as well as understand other math skills as well. Color by Number sheets are a fun way to practice these essential math skills in a no prep and highly engaging way!
Basic Addition & Subtraction Sheets
2-Digit Addition & Subtraction Sheets
3-Digit Addition & Subtraction Sheets
Free Math App
Free Math allows collecting digital assignments from students and enables quick grading by grouping similar student work on each question. It isn’t limited to a specific bank of questions and all of the work done by students is completely freeform, so it can work for a broad range of classes.
Izzit
Izzit offers free, high-quality educational materials to educators: teachers, homeschoolers, parents, grandparents, scout troop leaders – to anyone interested in learning/teaching! It includes entertaining & educational videos that come with tons of additional resources – Teachers Guides, activities, quizzes, and much more! Izzit also offers current events lessons – 2 each school day with vocabulary words and discussion questions.
I hope this post was helpful. Thank you for taking the time to read it and possibly implement it into your child’s learning.
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