Keeping our children engaged and educated and knowing how best to go about it, can feel like a daunting task! Below we have a list of online educational resources we love and trust to help make things a little less overwhelming on the home front.
The Fort Bragg Branch Library in Mendocino County, California has story time for kids on most Saturdays from 10:30–11 AM
AAP (HealthyChildren.org) This resource gives practical advice and strategies for setting up work and study from home routines.
Edutopia is a trusted source shining a spotlight on what works in education. They show people how they can adopt or adapt best practices, and tell stories of innovation and continuous learning in the real world.
Art Explorers in Fort Bragg
Special Education Local Plan Area (SELPA)
Cerebral Palsy Guide provides free educational materials, financial options, and support to help those affected by this condition.
Kudos for Kids, an expanded learning program that provides academic support and engaging after school enrichment activities, in a safe and supportive environment for kids in grades TK-8th.
Librivox - Free Public Domain Audiobooks features recordings of books in the public domain read by volunteers from around the world.
Khan Academy Award winning, self-paced, interactive content--exercises, videos and articles--for students in every grade and in most major subject areas, 100% free, we wish Khan Academy had been around when we were kids!
Legends of Learning provides educational games for grades 3–8. These resources have been made available for free due to school closures.
NASA Education Resources (searchable by topic) provides informative educational materials that engage student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.
Bill Nye The Science Guy offers a collection of episode guides and videos as well as directions for home demos that can be found under the “Learn” section and cover topics such as life science, physical science, and planetary science.
Switcheroo Zoo helps kids learn about animals by playing games.
Noyo Center for Marine Science
The Ford House and other Local Museums
The Kelley House Museum in Mendocino
The Guest House Museum in Fort Bragg
BBC Bitesize History Bitesize is the BBC's free online study support resource for school-age students in the United Kingdom. It is designed to aid students in both schoolwork and, for older students, exams.
Oyez is a resource for teaching Supreme Court Cases that includes the case history, relevant precedent, arguments, and the Supreme Court Decision and applicable dissents.
The National Archives features a website that is easy to navigate and includes lots of resources. They feature a daily historical document relating to an event from that day in history. The online catalog can be searched using keywords, and 100 "milestone" documents are identified as significant to American history.
USHistory.org Free Online Textbooks provides high school courses for students, teachers, home-schoolers, and history lovers.
PE Central’s Web Sites for Kids provides links to resources to support remote and home instruction for physical education.
PBS Learning provides resources for Health and Physical Education.
Tinkergarten - Outdoor Classes, Activities for Kids.
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