Parent, Teacher, & Student Resources
Parent, Teacher, & Student Resources
Parent & Teacher Resources
- Class Dojo
- A popular site that communicates easily between teachers and parents. Demos on how to do remote learning such as read alouds, physical activities, and daily student journals.
- WeAreTeachers
- Has close to 200 on line learning resources. It has lessons across grade levels, subject areas, and has links with annotations. Students can practice on line as well and get immediate feedback.
- Sidedoor
- With the help of Smithsonian biologists, artists, historians, archaeologists, zookeepers, and astrophysicists, host Lizzie Peabody sneaks listeners through Smithsonian’s side door to discover stories that can’t be told anywhere else.
- Interested in science? Listen to "The Hungry Hungry Hippo Baby" to learn about how the world's largest exotic-milk repository at the Smithsonian's National Zoo helped save Fiona the baby hippo in 2017.
- Interested in art? Join actor and activist Cheech Marin to learn about the wildly creative and ingenious world of rasquachismo—the Chicano art of working with what you've got.
- Interested in history? Dive into the incredible story behind one of the most iconic (and potentially...cursed?) items in the Smithsonian's collections: the Hope Diamond.
- Interested in culture? Deep within the National Museum of American History’s vaults is a battered Atari case containing "The Worst Video Game Ever?"—so bad that all remaining copies were buried deep in the desert.
- AirSpace
- Join your hosts as they tell fascinating stories from one of the world's most visited museums, the National Air and Space Museum, which contains the largest and most significant collection of air- and spacecraft in the world.
- Achieve3000
- Designed for students Grade 2-12. Teachers. Can be used for home or school. Teachers must set up.
- Common Sense Education
- Common Sense Media has vetted materials for educators and parents in English and Spanish. Helps with resources for teach remote resources, education packets, and strategies to make it relatively stress free. For a general connection go to:
- Women's History
- This Smithsonian site that looks at women's contributions to shaping America from activism to sports and entertainment to science and innovation.
- STEM in 30
- Each month the STEM in 30 is streamed live at 1:00 PM EST with content from the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum. Older episodes are archived with the schedule running monthly from September to May.
- PreK-12 Emergency Closing Resources
- As teachers, students, and families deal with school closures, PBS LearningMedia producers and educators have come together to curate a special collection of resources organized by grade and subject area. Find videos, lesson plans, and activities that support learning at home. Create a free account to save and organize content. Featured lesson plans in this collection contain full contextualization for the media they include. Plan and adapt our lessons in creative ways, using the Lesson Builder tool, Google Classroom, Remind, and more. For early educators, we’ve assembled packets of printable activities to download and share with parents and students. Check out our PreK-K packet, and Grades 1-2 packets. For Spanish-language content, see our Recursos de PreK-12 para Cierres de Emergencia.
- Westward Expansion
- This playlist on Westward Expansion of the United States is designed for self-guided learning with intermittent check-ins for middle school age students....
- U.S. Memorials
- This playlist on "What makes a place? Memorials in the U.S." is designed for self-guided learning with intermittent check-ins for elementary school age s...
- Stuck at Home Survival Guide
- Resources for families and educators as our area practices social distancing
- Thinkport
- Thyssen Multimedia
- This museum is in Madrid Spain. The content is in English, Spanish, and Chinese.
- Este museo se encuentra en Madrid España. El contenido está en inglés, español y chino.
- NASA STEM
- Videos, games, inter-actives, experiments, and engagement for home and school for Earth and Space Science. All grade levels.
- Museo Nacional de Antropologia
- The National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City has 3-D artifacts to explore. The text is all in Spanish.
- El Museo Nacional de Antropología en la Ciudad de México tiene artefactos tridimensionales para explorar. El texto está en español.
- At Home Learning Educational Resources
- Professional Resources
- Teaching with Primary Sources
- Mary Amato's Online Resources
- Author Mary Amato has many ideas on the writing process.
- Web Tools & Apps eBook
- This eBook has a multitude of e-resources both tools and apps for teachers to use to teach and reach students, guardians, and the community.
Student Resources
- STEM in 30
- STEM in 30 is an Emmy-nominated program for middle school students produced by the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum. New episodes are released every month, followed by a Mission Debrief where you and your students can tune in live and ask our expert your questions.
- PBS Learning Media: Students
- PBS has many resources for you to explore health, science, math, and the arts. There are videos, interactive activities, audio, images, documents, web pages, and collections. Search by grade level and type of resource wanted. Collect what interests you in " My Stuff."
- Polishing Pennies
- Clean up those old pennies with this home activity guide!
- Toontastic
- Toontastic 3D is a creative storytelling app that empowers kids to draw, animate, narrate, and record their own cartoons on a tablet, phone, or Chromebook.
- Bringing Hogwarts to You
- Welcome to the Harry Potter At Home hub where you’ll find all the latest magical treats to keep you occupied - including special contributions from Bloomsbury and Scholastic, nifty magical craft videos (teach your friends how to draw a Niffler!), fun articles, quizzes, puzzles and plenty more for first-time readers, as well as those already familiar with the wizarding world. We’re casting a Banishing Charm on boredom!
- Scholastic: Dav Pilkey
- NASA STEM
- NASA.gov brings you the latest images, videos and news from America's space agency. Get the latest updates on NASA missions, watch NASA TV live, and learn about our quest to reveal the unknown and benefit all humankind.
- Publishers at Home Resources
