A fabulous collection of Harry Potter activities with a focus on Science!
These would make a great series of STEM challenges or a Harry Potter theme day (or days) in your classroom.
Ask Dr. Universe is a 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.
This resource from U of Waterloo suggests learning activities and assessments for the different levels of Bloom's Taxonomy.
Ideas are grouped by:
Cognitive
Affective
Physical
Psychomotor
Poppy Wreath for Remembrance Day-printable colouring page
This site offers games, activities and resources in the following categories:
GAMES
MATH
LANG. ARTS
HISTORY
USA
GEOGRAPHY
SCIENCE
PEOPLE
HOLIDAYS
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Brought to you by Common Sense Media and Wide Open School, this site offers creative ideas/free activities to move, learn, relax, and connect as a family.
Find weekly activities, games, worksheets and videos in lots of areas: reading and writing, math, social studies, science, offline friendly, emotional well-being, arts/music/DIY, fitness, digital citizenship, life skills, English-Language Learners, virtual field trips, videos and events.
Saskatchewan Health Authority Germ Smart Handwashing program for Schools has gone online.
Handwashing is one of the most important things we can do to prevent the spread of COVID-19. Incorporating handwashing education into student learning can make a real difference. This program is for elementary, middle level and high school students and includes free videos, activities, posters and more!
This site from the University of Saskatchewan provides a collection of videos, activities, and experiments that align with the grade 6 science units: Diversity of Life, Understanding Electricity, Principles of Flight, Solar System.
This website features all of the great things Highlights Kids has to offer: activities, jokes, games, opportunities to explore fascinating things, view podcast and playlists, and participate in "Hidden Pictures" adventures. Lots of fun for kids to explore!
CAUTION: THIS SITE CONTAINS IMAGES THAT SOME MAY FIND DISTURBING.
A criminal case has just been opened. Your task is to help close it.
Have you ever wondered how forensic science works? You may have seen police and crime lab work on television but what is a real forensic science investigation like?
This site includes information and activities that recreate some of the challenges forensics experts deal with. You will learn first-hand about forensics by taking on the roles of Forensic Archaeologists, Anthropologists, Entomologists, Botanists, DNA Analysts, and Stable Isotope Analysts. Each of your tasks will be a real job that a forensic expert does and every step is important to solving the case. Think carefully, but if you get stuck there are hints to help you.
Additionally, there are expert videos on each discipline, photographs of practising forensic scientists at work in the field and in the lab, and a detailed textual library in the "Resources" section. Links to these resources occur at the end of each activity.
This site offers a collection of resources to help support learning while families are home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of in-class instruction. It will be updated as more resources are identified and there is new information to share.
Sections include: (for Early Learning and Primary Years through to Adult Learning)
- Weekly Home Learning Videos
- Activities
- Learning from Home
- Everyday Learning Activities (ideas for promoting learning in many subject areas and with many activities)
- Resources (including educational programming from museums, science centers, zoos, artists, storytellers and others on a wide variety of topics, activities, games, videos, books and reading, educational collections, hands-on activities, languages, math, outdoor education, science, natural and human history, special education, French resources, and much more)
- Keeping Healthy
Courtesy of Comox Valley Schools (SD71) in B.C., an archived site with a series of excellent kits for middle-grade Core French units that carefully structure and encourage oral communication. Some elements would be adaptable for younger or older grades, and/or useful in immersion!
THIS KIT'S THEME: Les activités (Activities)
« After asking and answering questions together as a class, students can then move
between stations. These stations are not sequential, but rather provide practice
communicating about each theme in different ways. The station titles ... are:
Station A. Memoire / Memory game
Station B. Icônes / Icons
Station C. Un sondage / Survey
Station D. Mon activité préférée / My Preferred Activity
Station E. Les bulles / Bubbles
Station F. Objets d’activités / Activity objects
Station G. Jeux/Games: Partenaires/Chercher les mots »
Science Videos, Cool Facts, Educational PPT's, Jokes For Kids, Tests & Quizzes for Kids K-7.
This website is full of many different math games for kids, covering all different areas of math.
"National Geographic is a trusted resource for all aspects of geographic education. This site has resources for grades K-higher education and the breadth of the resources available cover a wide variety of activities, interactive material, mapping (of course), and guides for instructors. The scope of the site is such that subjects such as arts and music, English language arts, and biology are options along with -ology topics that one would expect to find in a site from National Geographic. The indexing of the site by grades, content types, and subjects allow easy searching through the website." (AASL)
Kindergarten Home Learning Packages
Mission: Inspiring Math Success for all Students through Growth Mindsets and Innovative Teaching.
YouCubed is a combined effort of Jo Boaler, and Stanford university. The site provides resources, courses, tasks, and various other tools to encourage growth mindset in the area of mathematics. There are a number of paid and free resources. The information and the tasks are varied across the grades and are quite expansive. There is much to read and explore through this site, it is a wealth of information and useful content.