TypeTastic School Edition is a dynamic platform can help students learn typing skills. If you're looking for a way to introduce typing skills or help students practice skills they have started to develop, you'll definitely want to check this out.

TypeTastic includes 700+ typing activities for all grade levels and a suite of teacher tools.

Sign up for the 3-month free trial to get access to this great typing program.

This site offers 700+ free typing activities for all ages means lots of typing learning here! You’ll find introductory games, touch typing, fluency, and timed tests. Also available for use on tablets.

Spread over 32 levels, this app supports kids as they learn basic keyboarding skills from an early age and improve their typing skills. They’ll work on identifying letters, numbers, and symbols as well as memorization. After successfully completing the final test, students will receive a typing certificate!
Available at App store, Mac app store, Google Play and Windows Store.

For every 10 activities that your class participates in, a high-density nutrition pack is sent out to a child in need. Such rich connections to Social Studies, Mental Wellness, and Physical Activity! And the teacher account is free and compatible with Clever as well.

How It Works:
1. Sign Up & Play Videos
Teachers, groups/clubs and parents sign up. Then, all kids have to do is watch (and interact with) our Kid Power Up videos in class or at home.
2. Unlock Global Impact
For every 10 videos you play, you unlock 1 Ready-to-use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) packet. We deliver this life-saving, vitamin-rich food to severely malnourished children around the world.
3. Earn Local Impact
YOU decide which local causes your coins benefit!

As you play videos, you also earn virtual coins to allocate in our Kid Power Exchange®. Choose to support food banks or deliver PPE masks (both essential to COVID-19 relief), or plant trees for your local community!

UNICEF parenting page offers resources for parents about health, wellness, nutrition, and early stimulation for children

"The Uffizi was designed by Giorgio Vasari in 1560 for Cosimo I de'Medici to house the Granducal Magistratures of Tuscany. Over time, the top floor loggia became an exhibition of the dynastic collection of ancient sculpture, artwork and artifacts."

Tour beautiful art in Italy without leaving the comfort of your chair!

"Unite for Literacy pictures a world where all children have access to an abundance of books that celebrate their languages and cultures. With a goal of cultivating a lifelong love of reading, Unite for Literacy provides free digital access to picture books, narrated in many languages." (AASL)

This extensive list of virtual field trips allows you to explore different parts of the world, see all kinds of animals in action, visit a wide variety of places in the US and explore outer space! All of the videos are in 360 so you can look all around you!

"The Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam houses the largest collection of artworks by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) in the world. The permanent collection includes over 200 paintings by Vincent van Gogh, 500 drawings and more than 750 letters. The museum also presents exhibitions on various subjects from 19th-century art history."

Tour some of Van Gogh's greatest works virtually! No trip to Amsterdam required.

An amazing collection of video writing prompts!

Prompts for:
Creative thinking
Informational Text
Narrative/Story
Persuasion
& more!

Sometimes life can be overwhelming and it can be hard to work through difficult times. This Virtual Calming Room was designed to assist in identifying different strategies for managing emotions.

Resource Links:
-Sounds and Music
-Visual Relaxation
-Guided Practice
-Colouring & Create
-Live Cameras
-Smart Phone Apps

Tour a farm or processing facility from the comfort of your couch! FarmFood360° is a series of virtual farm and processing facility tours throughout Canada. Students can test their knowledge at the end of each tour.

Check out a sheep farm, apple orchard, mushroom farm, or even see cheese being made!

Most tours also include a brief quiz to test your knowledge after the tour!

Sign in to your Agriculture In the Classroom Canada account to view the resource. Or sign up today to access various national and provincial AITC programs.

A perfect field trip for K-2! This virtual field trip from the American Museum of Natural History takes children through a 360 video as they observe butterflies and compare their patterns.

This field trip includes a teachers guide, student worksheets and extension activities.

Here is a list of 30 virtual field trips that students could enjoy, including:
San Diego Zoo - The San Diego Zoo has a website just for kids with amazing videos, activities, and games.
Yellowstone National Park - including Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs, and so much more
MARS!!! - Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover. They are updating from WEBVR to WEBXR now, but 360 Mode offers a digital view!
Animal Cameras - Live Cams at the San Diego Zoo
Monterey Bay Aquarium live cams
Panda Cam at Zoo Atlanta
6 Animal Cams at Houston Zoo
Georgia Aquarium has Jellyfish, Beluga Whales, and more
Virtual Farm Tour - This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs
U.S. Space and Rocket Museum in Huntsville, AL - See the Saturn 5 Rocket on YouTube and more on this tour thanks to a real father/son outing
Discovery Education Virtual Field Trips - A few of the field trip topics include:
Polar Bears and the Tundra
Social Emotional Skills
STEM
manufacturing
The Louvre - Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip
The Great Wall of China - This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life
Boston Children’s Museum - Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum thanks to Google Maps! This virtual tour allows kids to explore 3 floors of fun.

Play the guitar, piano, drums and flute online!
(Sorry, Parents!)

Be sure to check out these TED Ed videos on all things visual arts - right from "Why is the Mona Lisa so famous?" to "The Art of Folding Origami" and much more! You'll find something for all age groups!

Voice Translator offers access to the following features: over 100 languages, real-time voice and text translation, camera translation, language detection for text-to-text mode, typing hints to speed up text input, convert text from languages with non-Latin alphabet, copy and share translations, speak the translated phrase out loud, male and female voices, and many more.

Compatibility: iPhone/iPad / Price: Free, offers in-app purchases / Age: 4+

WE Schools @home offers free online tools and resources to complement and support at-home learning. Developed for Grades K through 12, this weekly lesson package includes interactive and experiential curriculum-based resources, materials and lesson plans with an emphasis on well-being, social and emotional learning, service-learning and fostering resiliency.

Enjoy having Debbie Ridpath Ohi read her book "WHERE ARE MY BOOKS?". The story is for young readers who have been affected by recent school closures and COVID-related quarantines! Video will be up until end of December. As a bonus, you will learn how to draw squirrels and enjoy some music!

From rainbows to tornadoes and winter storms to tsunamis, meteorologist Crystal Wicker breaks down the fascinating world of weather. Be sure to check out the section on experiments.