A community guide to the resources available to families &
children in the Tulsa area, including:
Browse the portal today to discover the best option for your family!
As always, the safety of our out-of-school time practitioners, children and families is our top priority. Our response to the coronavirus pandemic continues to be informed by the guidance of public health agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention along with local experts. The Opportunity Project advises our stakeholders to implement the appropriate protocols to help keep everyone safe, including universal indoor masking.
Beginning Wednesday, Sept. 8, 2021, universal indoor masking will be a requirement of out-of-school time and youth serving organizations supported by The Opp.
The COVID-19 vaccine is available free of charge to anyone ages 12 and older. Click here for more information and to schedule your free immunization appointment: bit.ly/3kXzneO
Partners who need help procuring PPE or have questions about this requirement can contact us at jdupont@theopp.org.
CDC Guidance for School Settings
Resources for administrators, teachers, and families on how to approach extended school closures. The CDC also has child-friendly resources to help students understand what COVID-19 is and how students can help to keep themselves and their loved ones safe and healthy.
Teaching Tolerance
Compiled lessons and resources to help guide you, your students and their caretakers right now.
Brainpop
Rigorous learning experiences made accessible and engaging for all. BrainPOP is a trusted learning resource supporting core and supplemental subjects, reaching millions of learners worldwide.
Edmodo
Distance learning toolkit from Edmodo, an educational technology company offering a communication, collaboration, and coaching platform to K-12 schools and teachers. The Edmodo network enables teachers to share content, distribute quizzes, assignments, and manage communication with students, colleagues, and parents.
Facing History & Ourselves
During the rapidly evolving situation around the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), Facing History is supporting teachers in making sense of the situation, and making the best of whatever educational “class time” they have with students—whether in the classroom, in the midst of a school closure, or planning to begin teaching remotely.
Online Curriculum (free access to content through remainder of the year) – Newsela
Newsela is an Instructional Content Platform that brings together engaging, accessible content with integrated assessments and insights to supercharge reading engagement and learning in every subject. Content on Newsela covers topics students care about, that connect to core curriculum, and are aligned to standards.
Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Free E-learning tools for educators transitioning to distance education.
The New York Times
The Learning Network site is dedicated to helping people teach and learn with Times content. They offer fresh classroom resources — from lesson plans and writing prompts to news quizzes, student contests and more — all based on articles and images published on NYTimes.com.
Resources for Educators and Students
The National Network of State Teachers of the Year (NNSTOY) is an organization of State Teachers of the Year, National Teachers of the Year, and Finalists for State Teacher of the Year who are deeply committed to ensuring that every child in America gets the high-quality education they deserve. At this crucial moment in public education, NNSTOY members mobilized to create this list of resources to assist teachers and students.
Free K-12 Standards Aligned Videos and Interactive Lesson Plans
Direct access to PBS’ learning media, thousands of classroom-ready, curriculum-targeted digital resources. Resources are aligned to Common Core and national standards and include videos and interactives, as well as audio, documents, and in-depth lesson plans.
School Closure Resource Hub
Transcend has resources for leaders, teachers, and families to help combat the uncertainty many districts are currently facing provided by Transcend, a national nonprofit that works with communities to encourage innovation and achieve equity in educational settings.
Scholastic Learn at Home
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. You can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids pre-k through grades 6+ can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
cK-12
Check out the webinars on how to teach online and learn from home. They’ll walk you through how to use their deeply interactive digital textbooks (FlexBooks) and find engaging content on their platform for online learning.
Curriki
Digital learning content for preschool through high school
Free Maker Stations
3 Free Weeks of Maker Stations to keep your children creating at home! Each challenge includes simple instructions using materials around the house, QR code video resources, and a student recording sheet.
Discovery K-12
Online homeschool platform & curriculum for Pre-K to 12th grade. All main subjects are covered, plus extra curriculum courses.
Izzit
Entertaining & educational videos for all levels and subjects
Khan Academy
Online education program for toddler through high school.
Saving Dollars and Sense
100 free online educational program ideas
Moby Max
Find and fix learning gaps
Ducksters
Education for kids all topics
Super Simple
Resource section includes free flashcards, coloring pages, worksheets, and other resources for children, teachers, and parents.
Brainscape
Brainscape offers over a million flashcard decks for every subject, entrance exam, and certification imaginable.
Art of Problem Solving
Alcumus is specifically designed to provide high-performing students with a challenging curriculum appropriate to their abilities
Zoom
Free hosting of virtual events
Shape America Society of Health and Physical Educators
K-12 health and physical educators to compile resources that will help you provide high-quality, standards-based lessons in a virtual environment. Adapt, repurpose or use the resources as you see fit.
Amazing Educational Resources
Free educational courses offered. This is a compilation list.
7 Mindsets
Resources for Educators.
Resources on Coronavirus
AASA The School Superintendents Association
AFT resources on the coronavirus
American Federation of Teachers
ASCD in Service
Transitioning to Online Learning: Pro Tips on What You Need to Know
Attendance Works
Coronavirus: Resources for Educators
CASEL
SEL and COVID-19
Digital Promise
COVID-19 Online Learning Resources and FAQ
EdSurge
Navigating Uncertain Times: How Schools Can Cope With Coronavirus
InsideSEL
SEL Resources for Parents, Educators & School Communities Related to COVID-19
ISTE
10 strategies for online learning during a coronavirus outbreak
Learning Policy Institute
Learning in the Time of COVID-19
National College Attainment Network
How the Education Field is Responding: A Roundup of COVID-19 Resources
No Kid Hungry
Coronavirus Grant Request
National Education Association
Schools and Coronavirus: What You Should Know
SchoolHouse Connection
COVID-19 and Homelessness: Strategies for Schools and Early Learning Programs
Share Our Strength
Proactive Planning Guidance for Schools and Program Operators During the Coronavirus Outbreak
U.S. Department of Education
COVID-19 (“Coronavirus”) Information and Resources for Schools and School Personnel
Afterschool Alliance
COVID-19: Considerations for the Afterschool Field
Panorama
Webinars and resources on SEL and mindfulness
Morningside Center
Teachable moment lessons and SEL resources
Leading Equity
Teaching online courses in an equitable way.
National Women’s History Museum
Digital classroom resources and lesson plans
Aperture
Educator Guide – Optimistic Thinking
We Are Teachers
130+ free Online learning resources from pre-k to high school.
Racial Equity Tools
Social Justice resources.
Event and Program Catalog
Root Tulsa
National Education Association
Schools and Coronavirus: What You Should Know
Resource List from State and District Agencies
This page is a curated list of resources from Chiefs for Change members and others that provide sound guidance for systems leaders in this challenging time.
Resources for School Leaders Responding to COVID-19
According to the most recent data from Education Week, at least 32.5 million public school students are affected by school closures. The linked resources will help state and school leaders as they care for their students and communities.
6 Steps Schools Can Take to Address Educational Equity if Required to Close Due to COVID-19
Newly released steps from The Education Trust–New York that schools can take to promote instructional equity and preserve student well-being if schools need to close because of the coronavirus.
UNESCO
Distance learning solutions
National Association of School Psychiatrists
Set of materials for schools and districts to support for their students and community around COVID-19 and pandemics.
Hunger Free
Food resources
Meals 4 Kids Ok
Find a meal site near you.
Cox Communications
Free internet for 30 days.
National Education Association
Talking to Children About Coronavirus. A kid-friendly explainer video from Brainpop.
NPR
Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus
National Association of School Psychologists
Talking to Children about COVID-19. A parent resource.
Boys and Girls Clubs of America: How to talk to your child about COVID-19
Child Mind Institute: Talking to Kids About the Coronavirus
Children’s Institute: COVID-19 Resources for Families
Generations United: COVID-19 Fact Sheet for Grandfamilies and Multigenerational Families
Girl Scouts: How to Talk to Your Kids About Coronavirus
Pop-Up Homeschool Schedule Generator
A prototype “” to help families and educators quickly assemble the many available resources into a schedule that works for their children
Twitter
Great thread with good resources
Momtrends
7 ways to keep your kids healthy and learning at home during school closures.
Parenting during coronavirus
What to know about play dates, education and more.
A Better Way to Homeschool
A quick start resource to help families pull together a plan for surviving the next 1-2 months at home with their kids, but it can also be a time of slowing down and enjoying kids as they learn. Preschool through 8th grade.
Online Learning Platform to Teach K-12 Students Coding and Computer Science
A nonprofit dedicated to expanding access to computer science in schools and increasing participation by women and underrepresented youth, Code.org provides the leading curriculum for K-12 computer science in the largest school districts in the United States.
Best Messaging Apps and Websites for Students, Teachers, and Parents
Apps and websites for texting, messaging, and communication that make it easier for teachers to send out assignments, reminders, and progress reports and communicate with parents and students.
Amazing Educational Resources
Free educational courses offered. This is a compilation list.
Printable At-Home Packets and Online Math/Reading Content
Printable at-home activity packs from Curriculum Associates are designed to provide students with valuable self-directed exercises and practice during extended absences from school. Each pack is designed to reinforce key concepts for a given grade. Resources are available for Grades K-8.
School Closure Learning Guide during Coronavirus (COVID-19)
Resources from Great Schools that will help your child learn from home if school has closed. Find out how to set up at-home learning and use the grade-based resources to fill in the gaps.
Teaching tolerance
Compiled lessons and resources to help guide you and your children.
Using Khan Academy for Remote Learning During School Closures
Khan Academy produces short videos paired with supplementary web-based practice exercises. The website also offers tools and materials for educators.
Live Online Classes for Ages 3-18 Outschool
Connecting motivated learners, parents, and teachers together to create great learning experiences, Outschool offers unique online classes from hundreds of independent teachers, and classes meet via group video chat.
At Home Learning
As part of the public media mission to ensure all kids, regardless of their capabilities, have access to continued free educational resources at home, PBS SoCal | KCET, in partnership with LAUSD and in collaboration with California PBS stations, are offering broadcast programming and accompanying digital resources that adhere to California’s state curriculum to provide continued at-home learning.
Scholastic Learn at Home
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing. You can keep the learning going with these special cross-curricular journeys. Every day includes four separate learning experiences, each built around a thrilling, meaningful story or video. Kids pre-k through grades 6+ can do them on their own, with their families, or with their teachers. Just find your grade level and let the learning begin!
123 Homeschool 4 Me
300,000+ FREE printable worksheets from toddlers to teens
All Kids Network
All resources for parents, teachers and anyone who works with children. They have thousands of fun kids activities like crafts, worksheets, coloring pages, and more.
Highlight Kids
Highlights brand has grown to a diverse and inclusive family of products for kids from birth to 12. Beyond Highlights Hello™, High Five™, High Five Bilingue™, and Highlights magazines, our brand of wholesome fun extends to games, websites, mobile apps, and the book clubs Let’s Grow™, LET’S PLAY Hidden Pictures, EAGLE-EYE Hidden Pictures, Mathmania™, Puzzlemania®, Puzzle Buzz™ , Top Secret Adventures™ and Which Way USA™.
All in One Homeschool
Every course you could possibly want to homeschool preschool – 8
Talk, Read, Sing
Tips and resources for parents.
Kid Podcasts
School’s Out, Kids Podcasts Are In (Plus Many More Educate-at-Home Resources)
30 Educational Netflix Shows
What are the best educational Netflix shows? We’ve gathered the top 30! Whether you’re showcasing these to students or using them as part of a distance learning curriculum, these are the best options currently streaming.
PBS Kids
Play with fave show characters and learn too
Break Out EDU
Educational digital games K-12
ClickSchooling
ClickSchooling brings you daily recommendations by email for entertaining websites that help your kids learn.
HippoCampus
7,000 free videos in 13 subject areas
Carmen Sandiego
Carmen Sandiego videos, stories, and lessons for all subject areas
PBS Learning Media
PreK-12 digital media service with more than 30,000 learning materials
Project Explorer
Free videos from around the world from grade 3-12
Fun Brain
Miscellaneous games for all subjects k-8
Turtle Diary
PreK – 5 games for all subjects
The Color
Online digital coloring pages
Crazy Games
Tons and tons and tons of games some learning some just fun
Jigsaw Explorer
Online photograph jigsaw puzzles You can set the pieces from 6-1000+
Once Upon a Time
Princess parties going live on Facebook with songs and activities.
Schoolhouse rock
Complete series
Chess
Playing chess online.
Playing games online:
Playing strategy games online:
San Diego Zoo
The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games. Enjoy the tour!
Yellowstone National Park
You can tour this wonderful national park virtually!
Curiosity Rover
Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
FarmFood 360
This Canadian site offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
The Louvre
Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
The China Guide
This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
The British Museum
This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.
Alaskan Wildlife
Alaskan Wildlife webcams
Flipboard
Virtual tours, live streams and online cultural programs
Monterey Bay Aquarium
Tune in to a webcam and be delighted by the antics of sea otters or mellow out to the hypnotic drifting of our jellies.
Virtual Field Trips and Experiential Learning
Common Sense Media
Great games, apps, and websites that can bring places and experiences fostered by field trips to the classroom. While not an outright replacement, these field trip tools can offer inspiring and intriguing experiences for students.
National Women’s History Museum
Online exhibits
Busy Toddler
Indoor Activities for busy toddlers.
Preschool Inspirations
Toddler and preschool age ideas
Preschool Express
Crafts, activities, bulletin board designs, and finger plays for early education teachers and parents to use with kids.
Switch Zoo
Play games and learn all about animals
Teachers Pay Teachers
Free Printables for PreK-2nd Grade
Little Spark Company
Free printables library with activities for children 0-6
Pebble Go
Curricular content hub specifically designed for K-3 students.
KiwiCo
Quick & easy at home projects curated for kids 2 and up
Classroom Cereal
Grammar practice for middle grades. Classroom Cereal activities are like a bowl of cereal – quick, simple, and comfortable. But most important, they are nourishing. Cereal gives you a daily dose of fiber and vitamins. Classroom Cereal gives students daily practice with reading and grammar.
Quizlet
For students to practice and master whatever they are learning.
Tyto Online
Next Generation Science video game focused on middle school where students directly engage in science phenomena as they solve problems.
Dr. Roger’s Math Neighborhood
Higher level math series… online video series with detailed solutions to more than a thousand publicly-released College Board SAT Math, Subject Test Math Level 1, and Subject Test Math Level 2 problems.
ACS Chemistry For Life
High school chemistry topics
Big History Project
Online history classes for all ages preteen through adults
The Great Courses Plus
Classes for older teens or adults
All in One High School
Every course you could possibly want to homeschool for high school
Biology Simulations
These simulations were designed with 9th grade biology classes in mind. Many of the worksheets were developed for 9th grade Honors Biology classes. While the target audience is high school, a wider audience could use the simulations with appropriate instruction.
Bunk History
This is a great digital archive of history. Bunk sets out to capture this passion for the past surging all around us, and to reveal the ways that people of different backgrounds and purposes are connecting with the nation’s history. Each day, we comb the internet for the most interesting articles, maps, videos, conversations, visualizations, and podcasts about history that we can find.
Test Prep & College Admission Guides
Test Prep for SAT, ACT, etc. BWS Education Consulting provides a boutique educational experience. We offer the best instruction coupled with the most cutting-edge practice materials.
Can Figure It Geometry
This site encourages students to pursue their own path by reinforcing the understanding that there are multiple ways to reach a solution. It breaks down proofs into manageable chunks and fosters forward and backward reasoning.
Play Mada Games
Their mission is to teach fundamental science concepts on an intuitive level in a fun, challenging, and engaging way. To give high school students deepened, enduring understandings of key concepts. To seamlessly merge game play with science content to create rich game-based learning environments
Fiveable
Resources for AP students including live reviews, live trivia, and study guides!
Marco Learning
Resources for AP students
Next Gen Personal Finance
Scads of free resources, games, learning resources, and lesson plans for teaching personal finance
Nitro Type
Improve your typing skills while competing in fast-paced races with up to 5 typers from around the world.
Typing Club
Keyboarding practice
Typing
Keyboarding practice
Teach Banzai
Banzai exposes students to real-world financial dilemmas to teach them the importance of smart money management.
CanDoU
Social and Emotional Skills
Take control initiative
Resources focused on sexual reproductive health
National Geographic
Geography and animals
Country Reports
35,000 pages of online content on the cultures and countries of the world.
GeoGuessr
Tests kids’ geography skills. Using images from Google’s Street View, it plops players down in the middle of the street and asks them to figure out where they are.
BBC History for Kids
Games, quizzes and fact sheets take kids on a journey through time.
National Gallery of Arts
NGAkids interactives offer an entertaining and informative introduction to art and art history.
Mission US
An interactive way to learn history
What Was There
Allows students to type in any city, state, or country to view an archive of historical photographs and other documents. It’s a unique way to help them learn about history.
Ben’s Guide to the U.S
This interactive website, hosted by the U.S. Government Publishing Office, allows your child to see the ins and outs of the U.S. government by taking a series of learning adventures with none other than Benjamin Franklin.
United States Mint
Your child can play games, learn fun facts, and find out how to turn coin collecting into a hobby.
Back Pack Sciences
Hands on Elem science videos
Club SciKidz
Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home. Club SciKidz is committed to demonstrating how science works in the real world by providing activities in veterinary medicine, robotics, forensics, video game creation, food science, paleontology, engineering, chemistry and biology, astronomy, oceanography, emergency medicine and special effects.Our unique science programs are designed to meet the needs of children ages 4-15.
Tulsa Regional STEM Alliance
Free STEM Resources
Supercharged Science School
Daily lessons and educational activities that kids can do on their own
Mystery Science
K-5th Science lessons
Everyday Earth
Interactive video earth science based curriculum supplement.
Science Pot
Science projects that can be completed with or without Internet access
Elemental Science
80+ do at home science activities
Phet Interactive Simulations
Interactive simulations for science and math labs
Human BioDigital
A human visualization platform that allows students to explore the human body in really cool ways.
Science Education for Public Understanding Program
Science simulations, scientist profiles, and other digital resources for middle school science and high school biology
The Concord Consortium
A collection of hundreds of free K-12 STEM resources, from standalone models and simulations to short activities and week long sequences of curriculum materials.
CodeCademy
Learn to code
Earthquake Hazards Program
Learn all about earthquakes
Chemicool
Learn all about the periodic table
The Old Farmer’s Almanac
Farmer’s almanac for kids… Date, weather, moon phase, etc.
NASA Kid’s Club
Space science for kiddos
Funology
Science Crafts, projects, science, recipes for young children
Positive Physics
An online physics problem and video bank designed for conceptual, standard, honors or AP1 physics.
Premeditated Leftovers
Amphibian unit studies
The Home School Scientist
Engineering challenges with things you have at home
Medium Science Podcasts
Science podcasts to listen to with your kids
My First Garden
Guide to gardening for kids
Kodable
Coding for ages 4-10
Smithsonian
No need to travel to one of the Smithsonian’s zoos or museums — this website brings your child everything from live video of the National Zoo to the Smithsonian Learning Lab right to their screen
Cool Kid Facts
Cool Kid Facts gives your child access to educational videos, pictures, quizzes, downloadable worksheets, and infographics. They can use these to learn about geography, history, science, animals, and even the human body.
Climate Kids
This NASA initiative covers a wide range of topics including weather, climate, atmosphere, water, energy, plants, and animals.
Inner Body
Innerbody explores the 11 bodily systems in depth. With interactive models and detailed explanations, this website will help them learn more about the internal mechanics of the amazing human body.
Smithsonian Museum Ocean
This educational website hosted by the Smithsonian Museum takes a deep dive into ocean life.
Weather Wiz Kids
From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather.
Ask Dr. Universe
This science-education project from Washington State University. Kids can send Dr. Universe any question they may have about history, geography, plants, animals, technology, engineering, math, culture, and more.
Crypto Club
Immerse yourself in cryptography
Steve Spangler Science
Tons of science experiments that you can do at home
The Happy Scientist
Just explore, have fun, and learn some science along the way.
Cells Alive
Learn all about cells
Google Earth
All sorts of learning here if you dig in
MIT Scratch
Scratch draws students of all types into coding and lays a foundation for future learning.
Code
Coding with Star Wars
Beyond the Museum
Experience STEM from your own home. Please stay tuned to Discovery Lab’s YouTube and social media for new content that is engaging for the whole family.
Fun Brain
Math and Reading games for pre-K through 8th grade.
ABCYA
Math and reading games
Arcademics
Math and language games
Tulsa City County Library
Free Kindle & ebooks, audiobooks, magazines, newspapers and movies
At Home Learning
ELA and Math Resources from pre-K to 12th grade.
Dragon Box
Algebra games for kids
Math Chimp
Fractions practice
Curriculum Associates
Free printable K-8 Reading and Math activity packs (available in English and Spanish)
Math Celebrity
Enter your math problem or search term, press the button, and they show you the step-by-step work and answer instantly. 2nd grade through college.
Math Playground
Give your brain a workout. Math Games, Logic Puzzles and Brain Builders. Elem Math games, logic puzzles and educational resources
Scootpad
Adaptive curriculum in Math and ELA for Grades K-8
Zearn Math
K-5 curriculum that builds deep understanding and a love of learning math for all students
XtraMath
Math practice
No Red Ink
Online curriculum that builds better writers.
Novel Effect.
Novel Effect makes storytime a little more fun for kids (and grown-ups too!) As you read out loud from print books (or ebooks!) music, sound effects, and character voices play at just the right moment, adjusting and responding to your voice.
Paragraph Punch
Teaches students how to write a paragraph through interactive online tutorial
ReadWorks
ReadWorks is an online resource of reading passages and lesson plans for students of all levels K-12.
Red T Kids Marketplace
Critical Thinking resources for K-6 students
The Good and the Beautiful
Course sets (Levels 1–5) that combine and thoroughly cover phonics, reading, writing, spelling, literature, grammar, punctuation, art, and geography—all in one easy-to-use, beautiful course.
Wonderopolis
Short videos and readings that answer various burning questions for students. There are vocabulary challenges and comprehension questions.
The Shurley English program
For grades K-8 provides a clear, logical, and concrete approach to language arts.
Sight Reading Factory
Sight reading and sight singing practice exercises.
Spellingcity
Free right now with code VSCFree90
Spelling Training
1-4 grade
Reading Eggs
Phonics and learning to read
Fun Fonix
Phonics worksheets for kids
Free Children Stories
Free stories online ages 3-12
Open culture
Archive of 6,000 historical children’s books.
Grammaropolis
Work on the 8 parts of speech
Boddle Learning
Elementary Math through 6th grade
We are Teachers
Children’s authors doing online read alouds and activities
Storyline Online
Celebrities reading books.
Math Score
Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry
Delta Math
A wide range of math content from middle school through AP Calculus.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Math @ Work
Math Videos with lessons, real life uses of math, famous actors
Bed Time Math
Math as a fun part of your daily family routine
2Simple
Purple Mash is a website designed for children aged 3-11. It contains many creative tools ie: coding, animation, publishing, art and also applications for maths, spelling and grammar.
Dreambox
K-8 online math program that looks at how a student is solving problems to adjust accordingly and build a unique learning path for them.
EdgertonCenter’s Project
3D printing projects and Coding projects, involving math and other K-12 subjects
A Plus click
Math and logic problems for ages 5 and up to adult
Math Games Mangahigh
Website allows students to play basic games to reinforce math skills and compete against the computer or others
GridClub
Math games galore
Numberphile
Short videos about numbers that help kids explore complex math topics and make math more fun.
Star Fall
Phonics skills
Dr. Seuss
Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss
Story Line
Fave kids books read by famous people
Bamboo Learning
Voice based learning… learn through Alexa
Brain Box Games
Magic Spell is a carefully crafted spelling adventure.
Into The Book
Games to get “into the book”
Scholastic Learn at Home
Day-by-day projects to keep kids reading, thinking, and growing.
Dog on a Log Books
Printable board games, activities and more for phonics and reading all using evidence-based methods. Can be customized to any student’s needs including creating flashcards for other subjects.
Squiggle Park
Engaging reading game for grades 2-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.
Common Lit
Reading passages for grades 3-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions. CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.
Facts 4 Me
A safe research site for elementary-level readers. They are offering — free 24/7 access
USERNAME: read (case sensitive)
PASSWORD: read (case sensitive)
Nomster Chef
Illustrated recipes designed to help kids age 2-12 cook with their grown-ups. Recipes encourage culinary skills, literacy, math, and science.
National Geographic Young Explorers
A magazine designed specifically for kindergarten and first grade students. Children can listen to the magazine being read to them as they follow along with the highlighted text.
Youngzine
News and more for kids
The Story Starter
Randomly generates 356,300,262,144 story starters
Magic Tree House
Interactive games based on the book series
Conjuguemos
Vocabulary, grammar, listening activities and games in Spanish, French, Italian, German, Portuguese, Korean, and Latin.
Difusion
Spanish learning and practice. Ideas y recursos para dar clases virtuales sin contar con la formación adecuada ni experiencia previa.
Chalk Academy
Chinese and Korean learning activities. Child-led Hands-on Active Learning for Kids Ages 0 to 5+.
Duolingo
Foreign languages
Rockalingua
Music Based Spanish Learning
Memrise
22 languages to learn
Mango App
Learn a new language with this free app using your library account
Hull Services
Using SEL to help in times of stress.
Overcoming Obstacles
Life skills curriculum for students in grades K-12. Their resources include strategies for seaching social and emotional skills.
Mind Wing Concepts
Feelings of children about COVID19 and FREE Webinars
Pathway 2 Success
100+ Free SEL Resources
Playworks
12 games to teach SEL
Emotional ABC’s
Empowering Children with Better Emotional Skills. We teach children, ages 4-11, how to figure out WHAT they are feeling, WHY they are having that emotion, and HOW to make better choices.
SELspace
SELspace is divided into carefully considered modules to assist educators in integrating and addressing SEL (Social and Emotional Learning).Each module looks at essential knowledge and skills related to a student’s social and emotional well-being. The modules collectively support the goal of building a positive community within classrooms, schools, and the communities we live in.
30 Days of Kindness Practice
So, to combat the inevitable confusion and loneliness and pain ahead of us, we are offering a Kindness Practice every day for at least the next 30 days – and ALL of them can be done even if you can’t leave home. It will take you 10 minutes or less and it will be designed to give yourself, your community, and this world a daily dose of generosity, connection, empathy, and Love.
Confident Parents, Confident Kids
A site for parents actively supporting kids’ social and emotional development
SEL Resources on Pinterest
50+ Free SEL Resources for kids and teens. Resources include printable worksheets, online materials. etc.
SEL Activities on Pinterest
This page contains free social emotional learning activities that can be used to help students in elementary and middle school.
We Are Teachers
SEL activities for the early years
Aperture Education Downloads
Download a social and emotional learning activity to get started building SEL skills with your child today.
Aperture 12 SEL Activities
From reading, writing, and arithmetic, social and emotional learning (SEL) can be woven into nearly any subject.
Understood
5 SEL games to play with your kid
School Specialty
SEL & Physical Education
Character Strong
At CharacterStrong, we have been hard at work pulling together some incredible digital resources to help you navigate these tough times
Pawsitively Social Emotional Learning
Email rhonda@pawsitivelysel.com – use the word ‘resource’ in the subject line. Let her know what grade level you want.
Lessons for SEL
6 Minute SEL is a curriculum to help boost core SEL skills. It contains 150 ready-made lessons and each lesson only takes 6 minutes. Here is their Youtube channel!
Healthy Child
Video storytime at noon monday through friday.
Common sense Media
For Parents, educators and advocates.
Ashoka Parenting Changemakers
Offers resources and ideas for acting as a parenting change-maker with a focus on building four skills in family life: empathy, teamwork, new leadership, and change-making. The process helps parents problem-solve for themselves and leads families and communities in addressing the issues that are most pressing to them.
Common Sense Media
Reviews movies, apps, video games, and other media available to children. Each movie, for example, lists a parent-level age rating, along with a kid’s perspective of the appropriate age level. In addition, it gives a summary along with positive messages and violence or scariness rankings. A mobile app makes it simple to review any media children may encounter.
Confident Parents, Confident Kids
The only site for parents that focuses explicitly on actively promoting kids’ social, emotional, and ethical development. Articles and resources focus on simple, practical ways to model, coach, and create opportunities to develop social and emotional skills in the context of family life.
Info About Kids
Produced through a collaboration of the Consortium for Science-Based Information on Children, Youth, and Families, the site is committed to publishing resources with a solid research base. It has sections on body, mind, emotions, and relationships.
52 Essential Conversations
Designed for ages 5 to adult, the cards cover six categories (self-awareness; relationship skills; self-management; social awareness; responsible decisionmaking; and diversity, equity, and inclusion) and ask questions such as What is fairness? or What is luck? They can be used in a multitude of ways — as conversation prompts during dinner or daily errands, or in place of playing cards in a game of Go Fish.
NBC Parent Toolkit
Provides developmental markers at each age/stage, with guidance for parents on how to support each aspect of development. Resources include the areas of academic, health and wellness, and social and emotional development. A supplemental application can prompt a parent on a child’s specific milestones along with tips for support.
Stop Bullying
Focused on helping parents, educators, and community members stop bullying. There are also resources and articles targeting kids and teens.
Greater Good in Education
UC Berkeley’s Greater Good Science Center has launched a new online resource for educators, Greater Good in Education, that offers free, research-based practices for cultivating the emotional well-being of students and the adults who work with them. Check it out!
Healthy child
Activities and tips of the day.
Soar With Wings
SEl Skills for School and Life
Inside SEL
A lot of great resources!
Newsela
SEL collection of remote activities
Aperture
Take home activities and professional development
Lorea Martinez
SEL blog with resources
Sanford Harmony
Create an account and gain access to resources pre-k through 6th grade.
Artsology
Helps kids learn to appreciate the arts by providing them with the opportunity to play games, conduct investigations, and explore different forms of art.
Kids Think Design
Kids Think Design explores careers in fashion design, graphic design, interior design, book design, product design, film and theatre, architecture, animation, and environmental design.
Prairie Letter Shop
Lettering practice and pre-printed worksheets.
MetKids
A wonderful, endlessly detailed way to get kids engaged in the world of art.
Mindful Schools
For the next few weeks, Mindful Schools will be offering free mindfulness classes for kids! Join us online – for mindful activities, mindful movement, read-alouds – and let’s have fun exploring mindfulness together.
March Mind & Body Calendar
Great resource to encourage students to stay physically active while working on aspects of mental wellness, too. This one’s for Elementary. Click here for Secondary.
GoNoodle
Movement and mindfulness videos created by child development experts.
Little Twisters Yoga
Free at-home kids yoga lesson plans
Mindful Poetry Moments
Poetry and music
Preschool Inspirations
The best kid yoga videos. Learn to manage stress, build their concentration, increase confidence and even work on gross motor skills.
Songs for Teaching
A large selection of fun songs to help teach preschool and kindergarten students
Music Theory
Introductory and intermediate music theory lessons, exercises, ear trainers, and calculators.
Chrome Music Lab
Music is for everyone. Chrome Music Lab is a website that makes learning music more accessible through fun, hands-on experiments. It is a tool to explore music and its connections to science, math, art, and more. Many combine it with dance and live instruments. Here’s a collection of some uses we’ve found on Twitter.
Prodigies Music
Prodigies is a colorful music curriculum for kids 1-12 that will teach your kids how to play their first instrument, how to sing in tune & how to understand the language of music! 21 for free
Mindful Creative Arts
Workshops, courses and coaching in trauma informed mindfulness practices, expressive and therapeutic arts and meditative arts.
Quaver Music
QuaverMusic is offering free access to general music activities to all impacted schools, including free student access at-home
Fender
Learn how to play the guitar online for FREE.
Smart Music
Music practice transformed
Thetha Music Trainer
The Theta Music Trainer offers a series of online courses and games for ear training and music theory.
Virtual Music Instruments
Lets kids play instruments online. Instruments include the guitar, piano, pan flute, drums, and bongos.
Seattle Symphony
Live Streaming programs for free.
OperaWire
Metropolitan Opera to offer up nightly met opera streams
Paris Opera
Screening performances online for free
Spotify
Corona-vibe-rus playlist
Diplo
Live DJ sets on his instagram
Earth Jams Music
Lots of songs and activity resources.
Daily Burn
Thousands of at home workout videos. 60 day free trial.
Tulsa Little Jam
Videos with music concerts
Fluency and Fitness
Educational brain breaks to help students review essential literacy and math skills, while getting in some exercise. Find over 900 videos to help your child keep learning at home and burn off some extra energy. Our site is best used for ages 4-8.
Self Defense Basics
Free online course.
Sworkit
Kid-friendly workouts — choose from Strength for Kids, Agility for Kids, Flexibility and Balance for Kids, Warm-Up for Kids, Cooldown for Kids, Stand Up and Move for Kids, OR create your own custom kid workout.
The OT Toolbox
At home OT, PT, and ST resources designed to build skills in children through movement and play.
Coursera
Tons of free classes from leading universities and companies
Free Code Camp
450 Ivy League courses that you can take
EdX
2,500+ online courses from top institutions
New York Public Library Online
There’s good news for all the e-bookworms out there. The New York Public Library released an app today that allows anyone with a library card (and an iOS or Android phone) to “borrow” any of the 300,000 e-books in the collection.
Museums Online
13 Museums you can visit online including the Guggenheim, the J. Paul Getty Museum and Machu Picchu!
FreeCodeCamp
Data Science courses.
Maker Pad
Start learning the possibilities of building without code
Volunteer Remotely
The rise of the virtual volunteer. You can make a difference from your couch!
The social distancing festival
Check out live streams and the calendar to find out what events are going on.
Audible
Free titles as well as 30 day free trial.
Chrome Netflix Party
Watch shows and movie as a group and with chat!
World Health Organization
Mental Health Considerations during COVID-19 Outbreak
Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration
Coping with stress during infectious disease outbreaks.
How to cope with Coronavirus Anxiety
Check out Mental Health Association of Oklahoma on a podcast around anxiety and COVID-19
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a crisis counselor.
Healthier Generation
Short videos encouraging wellness
Action for Happiness
Calendars with self-care activities each day of the month.
FREE Yoga
SALT Yoga is going live! Join us for free yoga daily at 9am and 5:30pm!
Yoga with Adriene
15 Minute Meditation For Anxiety guides you through a simple at home meditation to provide relief from anxiety, stress and energetic imbalance. Find a comfortable seat, tune into your breath and soften. Return to this practice regularly for preventative care. Great for beginners!
Darebee
1300+ Workouts in their database. You can choose a workout, program, challenges and access more fitness and nutrition information.
Your Ultimate At-Home Workout
Four proven plans to get you in shape without leaving your home.
Obe Fitness
Live & On-Demand fitness classes at home. 4,000+ for less than the cost of one studio fitness class. You can start a free trial.
Peloton
Try their app at home for free for 90 days.
Popsugar Fitness
Get ready for high-intensity workouts that will tone your whole body! Press play and push past your limits.
Blogilates
Pilates videos.
ASICS Studio Fitness
Personal trainer-led classes free for 90 days.
Beachbody
Try it now with a FREE 30 day trial. Stream workouts.
Houseparty
Face to face social network.
WFHappyHour
Join this slack group where people from all around the world have virtual happy hour parties on Zoom.
Quarantine Fitness
Join Magna Gopa for her daily home workouts.
Free Home Workouts
Chris Hemsworth’s Fitness videos.
Bodyweight Challenge
30-day free challenge. No equipment necessary.
Fitness Addict Tulsa
Variety of workouts almost everyday!
BodyGroove
Fitness for the whole family – dance workouts.
Balanced Bodies
Free yoga videos.
Fitness Blender
Free if you have Amazon Prime
YMCA Tulsa
Y connect offers free fitness classes, story time, family activities and more.
Free Zumba Classes
Zoom Link to join
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/4485783095
Meeting ID 448 578 3095
The Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities has a wealth of resources focused on making online learning more accessible, engaging, and effective for students with disabilities.
Common Sense Media has curated a list of the Best Special Education Applications and Websites based on recommendations by educators who work with students with special needs. Applications support the development of academic and social-emotional skills, as well as sites to assist teachers in providing differentiated learning opportunities.
The Council for Exceptional Children has developed COVID-19 Information for Special Educators, including a forum for members on how to adapt IEP services during school closures and a link to a resource page developed by the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE).
The New York City Department of Education offers suggested activities and strategies for families to support Diverse Learning at Home for Special Populations. Resources include links for assistive technology support, as well as specific occupational, physical, and speech therapy activities for students as young as preschool.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association offers strategies and resources on its site for ensuring that online learning supports students with Individualized Education Plans.
The Center on Online Learning and Students with Disabilities has a wealth of resources focused on making online learning more accessible, engaging, and effective for students with disabilities.
Common Sense Media has curated a list of the Best Special Education Applications and Websites based on recommendations by educators who work with students with special needs. Applications support the development of academic and social-emotional skills, as well as sites to assist teachers in providing differentiated learning opportunities.
The Council for Exceptional Children has developed COVID-19 Information for Special Educators, including a forum for members on how to adapt IEP services during school closures and a link to a resource page developed by the Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE).
The New York City Department of Education offers suggested activities and strategies for families to support Diverse Learning at Home for Special Populations. Resources include links for assistive technology support, as well as specific occupational, physical, and speech therapy activities for students as young as preschool.
The State Educational Technology Directors Association offers strategies and resources on its site for ensuring that online learning supports students with Individualized Education Plans.
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