Distance Learning Resources
RESOURCES & ACTIVITIES
families with meaningful and helpful resources.
- PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
- RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS & FAMILIES
- PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
- JOURNAL PROMPTS - COUNSELING
PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENTS
- CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION (CDC)
- CDC COUGHING & SNEEZING
- CDC YOUR COUGHS & SNEEZES: VIDEO
- CDC WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT HANDWASHING
- CDC HANDWASHING: CLEAN HANDS SAVE LIVES
RESOURCES AND ACTIVITIES FOR STUDENTS & FAMILIES
SUPPORTING STUDENTS & FAMILIES WITH UNSTRUCTURED TIME
ACTIVITIES, TOURS, WELLNESS, GAMES AND MORE!
VIRTUAL TOURS
FUN & GAMES
WELLNESS
WELLNESS
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Stop Breathe Think (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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Yoga with Adriene (Middle-Upper)
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The Yoga Solution (Middle-Upper)
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Commune Free Yoga and Meditation (Lower-Middle-Upper)
ARTS, FILM & STORIES
ARTS, FILM & STORIES
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Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems (Lower-Middle)
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Keep Kids Smart with ART, art lesson plans run through the Boca Raton Museum (Lower-Middle)
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Daily cartooning lessons from MazeToon's Joe Wos (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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A downloadable coloring book from illustrator Liz Climo (PDF) (Lower-Middle)
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Kanopy, a movie streaming service available with a library card
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Quarantine Art Club, a daily drawing challenge from illustrator Carson Ellis (Du Iz Tak?) (Middle-Upper)
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Drawing and comic-creating prompts from Jarrett Lerner (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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Printable coloring pages from Latinx artists from Veoleo (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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Printable coloring pages featuring Latinx trailblazers from Con Todo Press
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Audible Stories, an extensive streaming library of children's and young adult audiobooks (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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Camp Galileo (Lower School)
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The Toymaker Paper Crafts to Make at home
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Storyline Online Actors Read Aloud Storybooks (Lower School)
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES
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Amazing Educational Resources, a HUGE spreadsheet of tools/programs /services that usually cost money but are being offered for free, with info by subject and grade level (Lower-Middle-Upper)
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Scholastic Learn at Home: 20 days of education activities (Lower-Middle & 9th)
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Learn@Home, educational YouTube channels curated by age group (all ages)
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Tinkergarten has a week's worth of outdoor education DIY activities (Lower)
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Complexly, a series of video series on educational topics ranging from literature to biochemistry (YouTube)
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Story Pirates University, writing video lessons from the Story Pirates podcast team (YouTube)
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Khan Academy (Middle-Upper)
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Mystery Science (Lower-Middle)
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Brain POP Jr. (Lower)
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Brain POP (Middle-Upper)
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Podcast Directory (Lower School)
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Reading Literacy Apps (IDA approved) (Lower School)
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Free Rice (Lower-Middle-Upper)
PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES
STAY ACTIVE FOR AT LEAST 60 MINUTES A DAY!
HAVE A FAMILY MEMBER DO IT WITH YOU!
For your physical and mental well-being, we wanted to provide you with some suggestions of how to keep active. Here are a few quick and easy workouts you can do by yourself or with a family member – remember to keep social distancing if you go out into the community on a walk, run, bike ride, or hike.
JOURNAL PROMPTS - COUNSELING
LOWER: WRITING PRACTICE
- Write and illustrate a story about someone having a funny adventure when they stay home sick.
- Write and illustrate a story that shows how people avoid catching Coronavirus.
- Draw yourself doing your favorite thing, in your favorite place, with your favorite people! Write a story about your drawing.
MIDDLE & UPPER SCHOOL JOURNAL PROMPTS
MIDDLE & UPPER SCHOOL JOURNAL PROMPTS
- How is the Coronavirus Outbreak affecting your life?
- How can we help one another during the Coronavirus outbreak?
- What are some unexpected positives that have come out of the coronavirus experience? Have you seen or been a part of ‘acts of kindness’ in your community
- Write a funny or exciting adventure story about what happens when school is closed
- What are you excited or worried about?
- Write a letter to yourself 10 years in the future. What do you want to tell your future self?
- What is the government doing to keep you safe?
- What is your school doing to keep you safe?
- What is your family doing to keep you safe?
HELPING MIDDLE & UPPER THINK CRITICALLY ABOUT MEDIA CONSUMPTION (adapted from KQed)
- What media am I consuming?
- When am I consuming it?
- How much am I consuming?
- How does it make me feel?