If you're looking for some constructive activities to support your student (or at least occupy them) during the school closure, here is a list of websites on diverse topics to appeal to your student's sense of curiosity, suggest creative activities, and support their continued learning across disciplines. If you or your student has a favorite website that you’d like to share with others in the IMS community, please email it here so we can include it in the updated list. Stay well and be good to each other!
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ART ACTIVITIES |
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Imagineering in a Box: Walt Disney Imagineering partners with Khan Academy. Link
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Jarrett Lerner: Finish the Comic allows students to create and complete comic strips. Link
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Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems! (YouTube): Daily fun for the doodlers of the world. Link
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Art Bar Blog: posts by former graphic designer and current art teacher has many art projects with easy supply lists and step by step photos. Link
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LANGUAGE ARTS |
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NaNoWriMo: National Novel Writing Month is a fun, empowering approach to creative writing that challenges young writers to draft an entire novel in just one month. Link
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Common Lit: Free collection of fiction and nonfiction searchable by Lexile, grade, theme, genre, and literary device. Link
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100 Not Boring Writing Prompts for Middle & High Schoolers. Link
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Mims House Books: free ebooks and audiobooks. Link
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Authors Everywhere (YouTube): Videos of children's books authors and illustrators reading, offering advice, teaching writing lessons. Link
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Open Culture: 1,000 free audiobooks. Link
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Open Culture: 800 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad/iPhone, computer, smartphone, or e-reader. Link
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MATH |
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Khan Academy: offers instructional videos and practice exercises for math subjects from kindergarten to calculus. Link
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Virtual Nerd: videos explaining various math concepts. Link
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Math Antics: videos and resources for a variety of math topics. Link
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Code Academy: an online interactive platform that offers free coding classes in 12 different programming languages. Link
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SCIENCE |
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Steve Spangler Science: free experiments to do at home. Link
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Science Mom Videos (YouTube): includes some on pandemics and viruses. Link
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Exploratorium Biology: videos and lessons broken into specific biology concentrations. Link
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Exploratorium Chemistry: videos and lessons. Link
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Exploratorium Physics: videos and lessons. Link
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Physics Central: The American Physical Society has created a series of comic books designed to get kids excited about physics. Link
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100,000 Stars: an interactive visualization of more than 100,000 stars using data from NASA and the European Space Agency. Link
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Ask an Astronomer: In video format, scientists answer questions about the universe. Link
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NASA for Middle School Students: America's space agency provides educational media for middle school students. Link
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Sick Science! (YouTube): videos and cool science experiments from Steve Spangler and SteveSpanglerScience.com. Link
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SOCIAL STUDIES |
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5-Clue Challenge: short videos provide five clues to guess a location, animal, or person. Students are challenged to use research to figure out the answer to each challenge in as few clues as possible. Link
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Exploratorium: videos and lessons in culture, language, psychology and sociology. Link
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MULTIDISCIPLINARY |
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How Stuff Works: provide explanations and insights into the way many things work. Link
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Ted-Ed: The maker of TED Talks provides educational videos or "lessons worth sharing" on topics including literature, language, mathematics, science, and technology. Link
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Schoolhouse Rock: animated musical educational short films on topics including grammar, science, economics, history, mathematics, and civics. Link
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PHYSICAL EDUCATION |
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Coach Wood (YouTube): daily fun, creative PE videos to keep you active. Link
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VIRTUAL TOURS |
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The Hidden Worlds of the National Parks: 360-degree tours of some of the most remote and beautiful U.S. National Parks. Link
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The Guggenheim Museum, NYC Link
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The Museum of Modern Art, NYC Link
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The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC Link
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The British Museum, London Link
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The Art Institute of Chicago Link
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Musée de l'Orangerie, Paris Link
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Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Link
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Uffizi Gallery, Florence Link
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Pergamon Museum, Berlin Link
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National Museum of Modern & Contemporary Art, South Korea Link
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Palace of Versailles, France Link
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National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India Link
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Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA Link
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Art Museum of São Paulo, Brazil Link
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