ACTIVITIES
QUESTIONS?
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GENERAL ACTIVITIES
Kids' Activities Blog: Lots of suggestions for both fun and educational activities for different age groups from babies to middle schoolers.
Calendar of "Livestreamed Events during the Great Staycation": Authors reading, musicians playing, scientists demonstrating, etc.
Smithsonian Learning Lab: Wide-ranging collections and activities from the Smithsonian Institution's museums, covering social studies, language arts, science, and the arts
Scholastic Learn at Home: Provides four daily activities (usually including science, history, and geography) organized into preK-K, grades 1-2, grades 3-5, and grades 6+
The Museum of the World: An interactive experience created by a partnership between the British Museum and the Google Cultural Institute
The Ultimate Guide to Virtual Museum Resources: A large guide to digital collections, tours, etc. on museum, archives, and library websites from MCN (formerly the Museum Computer Network)
The Ward Museum's Virtual Learning Resource Center: This SU-owned museum combines art, environment, and heritage and has kids' activities and lesson plans online as well as tips, tricks, stories, tutorials, and more from wildfowl and wildlife carvers, artists, and collectors.
FAMILY ACTIVITY IDEAS
Indoor Activities for Kids Stuck at Home: Buzzfeed lists 27 fun activities for kids home from school
70 Educational Activities: A former homeschooler shares 70 educational activities you can do when you're stuck indoors
125 Things to Do with Kids during the Coronavirus Crisis: from Parade
Podcasts: Listen to a podcast together. Common Sense Media curated this list of best podcasts for kids
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STAY ACTIVE AT HOME
~Activities to Stay Active At Home
This guide includes activities for students K-12 and with options if they have internet access or do not have internet access.
~How to Stay Calm: COVID with Kids
The COVID-19 pandemic has placed heavy new pressures on parents to teach, entertain, reassure and guide our kids as we have never had to before. Our children rely on us to remain calm and grounded during this time, but parents have to navigate many new challenges each day. Below are a few resources (some take only a few minutes!) that you can use when you need quick help calming yourself. Give yourself time and space each day for emotional self-care; it will benefit you and your children.
"This too shall pass," is an old Persian saying that may have originated with the poet Rumi. Abraham Lincoln, something of an aphorist himself, was a fan of this line because it is "true and appropriate in all times and situations," Lincoln said. "How much it expresses! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"