Aggies at Home Resources

Parents and Guardians, please help your young person find the right resource by viewing these websites together. 

How to get started

• Ways to Hold our Children through Collective Crisis and Grief by Medium
• How to Talk to Your Kids About the Coronavirus by PBS 
• Comcast is offering free internet to low income families for 60 days  
• Making the Most of COVID-19 School Closures by the Neuropsychology & Education Services for Children & Adolescents
• U.S. Department of Education information on providing services to students with disabilities during the COVID-19 outbreak
• List of Educational Companies Offering Free Subscriptions by Kids Activities Blog 
• Free Online Learning Resources by We Are Teachers 
• Tuition-Free Online Public Schools via K12 
• Virtual Summer Camps by Summer Camp Hub 

How to build structure at home

• Khan Academy offers daily schedules and classwork for students from ages 4 to 18.
• Visual schedules: A set of printables to use to create a schedule for your child. They include graphics for time and activities.
• A schedule gone viral: This simple schedule posted to Facebook went viral.

This list adapted from kiro7.com

How to engage

• 123 Homeschool4me: Get printable worksheets and other resources for homeschooling.
• ABC Mouse Learning App for ages 2-8: Get 2 Months for $5.
• All Kids Network: Get worksheets, craft ideas, printable dot to dot, hidden pictures and more.
• Animals are amazing: Learn all about animals from the Switcheroo Zoo.
• Arcademics: Games are aimed at students K-8.
• Ascend Math: Ascend Math offers math instruction for K-12 students. The platform will be free until the end of April.
• Beaverton School District: Math, reading and many other activities for students pre-K–12.
• Bedtime Math: See math as part of your child’s daily routine.
• Belouga: Get a free account for K-12 students for resources such as math problems and social science videos.
• Big History Project: Get free access to a social studies course. It is focused on high school students but works for most of the rest of us.
• BlocksCAD: Build math and computer science skills by using specialized 3D CAD (computer-aided drafting) software.
• Classroom cereal: Work on your grammar by learning to proofread short stories.
• Club Oasis: A free STEM club offers DYI STEM labs, live classes, coding lessons and lives pop-ups.
• Crash Course: Courses in sociology, computer science, film history and mythology are offered for starters.
• Desmos: Students can use online tools to visualize math problems, create interactive tutorials and play math games with kids from all over the world.
• Discovery K-12: Pre-K–12 lessons and activities in these areas: language arts, reading, math, science, history/social studies, performing arts and physical education.
• Dr. Seuss to the rescue: Who doesn’t want to read and play games with Dr. Seuss?
• DuckDuckMoose: An app for tablets for preschool to kindergarten students.
• Duolingo: Learn a new language while you are stuck at home.
• Edmentum’s Study Island for Home: Parents can access trusted K-12 programs tailored to state standards. Families can receive one year free by using the code: EdmentumSupport2020. Note that registration will require a credit card and you will see what looks like an auto-renewal, but Edmentum will not auto-renew or charge your credit card.
• EVERFI: Free supplemental lessons for the whole student in areas of Finance, SEL, Health, College/Career Readiness, and related topics.
• Fun Brain: Activities, games, reading and more are available for grades pre-K–8.
• Games, videos and math: ABCya offers activities for students grades pre-K–6.
• Giant list of Ideas for being home with kids: It is a pretty giant list of all kinds of ideas for kids to do from art projects to making ice cream to gardening.
• Go to the museum, virtually: Get a virtual tour of 12 museums.
• Going for the record: The folks at Guinness World Records have some ideas for kids who want to be record setters. How many balloons can you burst by sitting in 30 seconds?
• GoNoodle: GoNoodle has games to get your child moving.
• Hellokids: Drawing for kids.
• Highlights Kids!
• Into the Book: Elementary school students can practice reading comprehension.
• Into the Map: For the world traveler, a way to create maps and explore the world’s geography.
• KiwiCo: KiwiCo “helps kids think big and act like creators and producers instead of just consumers” Great activities and DYI science projects.
• Learnincolor.com
• Little Twisters Yoga & Emotional Wellness: Don’t forget your child’s emotional health. What about yoga?
• Lumosity: Free brain games to keep student minds actively engaged. For example, the games use problem solving, critical thinking, and memory to keep students on their toes and strengthen their skills.
• Mathcelebrity.com: Check your math with Mathcelebrity.com.
• Minecraft Education Edition: If you like coding, math and problem-solving try Minecraft way.
• Mystery Science: Video lessons science lessons that will inspire kids to explore our world.
• NaNoWriMo: If your child is looking to write the Great American Novel, here’s a website for you.
• NASA Kids Club 
• National Geographic for Kids: Look for games, videos, lessons and “cool stuff.”
• New American History: Learn from history materials aimed at grades 4+.
• No Red Ink: A free resource for online writing and grammar practice. 
• PBS Kids 
• PBS KIDS daily newsletter: Sign up for a free daily newsletter from PBS KIDS.
• PBS LearningMedia: Provides students with free lesson plans, videos, and games aligned with standards they are learning in the classroom.
• ProjectGutenberg: A free library where kids can download or read online more than 60,000 free eBooks.
• Readworks.org: Reading comprehension is the goal of Readworks.
• San Diego Zoo for Kids: Check out other zoo websites, too – many have animal cams!
• Scholastic Learn at Home: Scholastic Magazine is offering four learning experiences each day.
• Science Friday: Elementary to high school students can get lessons in physics, chemistry, earth science and biology.
• Star Fall: Math, reading, art and music is available for students in K-3.
• Storyline Online: Some of your favorite stories ready by movie stars.
• TEDEd: Brings lessons to life for students through animation. TEDEd’s goal is to ignite curiosity among learners. To do this, TEDEd collects the best teacher lessons around the world. Then, it turns them into shareable animated videos for students.
• The Activity Mom: Get the printables kids love to work on.
• The FAB Lab: Watch STEM videos with Crazy Aunt Lindsey.
• Toy Theater: A fun website with math, art and reading games.
• Vizzle: If you have a child on the autism spectrum you can get specialize lessons from Vizzle.
• Wonderopolois.com: Learn about 2,000-plus wonders of the world.
• You can draw: Jarrett Lerner is posting activity pages on his website which you can print out and enjoy. Lerner is the author of "EngiNerds and “Revenge of the EngiNerds,” as well as the forthcoming “Geeger the Robot” early chapter book series and the author-illustrator of the “Hunger Heroes” graphic novel series.

This list partially furnished from kiro7.com and schoolchoiceweek.com