Here is your printable Survival Guide! It includes a new stress-free way to help get your kids organized as well as 52 binge-worthy TV shows and 150 Movies to watch with your Teen or Tween and more.
Hopefully, you will be able to make family time over screentime a priority. Sometimes we don’t because we run out of things to do or say. We are hoping this list of conversation starters will make it easier for you to learn about each other and share some laughs too!
It also contains a great Daily Schedule to help you give structure to your days. Read more about it here.
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If you need some help coming up with your rules around screentime and cell-phones during this time use these valuable tools.
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Podcast Links:
- Dear Hank and John
- Harry Potter and the Sacred Text
- Pants on Fire
- Radio Lab
- Science Friday
- Six Minutes
- Stuff You Missed In History Class
- Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me
- What’s Good Games
- #WhoWouldWin
- Ask Me Another
- Book Club for Kids
- This American Life
- Welcome to Night Vale
- Spooked
- Teen Girl Talk
- Ted Talks
- My Favorite Murder
- The Breakfast Club
- Mortified
- The Socially Awkward
Math/Coding:
- Purple Mash
- CMU CS Academy
- IDEA
- Khan Academy
- Prodigy
- Mathscore
- Bedtime Math
- Star Wars Coding
- CanFigureIt Geometry
- Boddle
- Check Math
Reading/Writing/Spelling/Grammar:
- Purple Mash
- Epic! (free 30 day trial)
- Libby (you need a library card from a participating library)
- Free books from Project Gutenberg
- Scholastic Home Learning
- Starfall (phonics)
- Storyline Online
- Boom Writer
- Vocabulary Learning
- Play Know Word
- The Problem Site
- Newsela – Free for the rest of the year
- American Reading Company (6 free English books, 6 free Spanish books)
- Graphic Novels
- Brain Pop
- i-Ready
History/Geography:
- Street view tours of places around the world from Google Arts & Culture
- National Geographic Kids
- World Atlas
- Big History Project
- Country Reports
- BBC History for Kids
- What Was There
- iCivics
- San Diego Zoo
- Georgia Aquarium
- Polar Bear in the Tundra
- Yellowstone National Park
- Louvre Museum
- The Great Wall Of China
- Metropolitan Opera
- The Van Gough Museum
- 500 Museums and Art Galleries
Science/Health:
- LabsLand
- Mystery Science
- Sciencewerkz
- Physics comic books from PhysicsCentral
- NASA for Students
- San Diego Kids
- Access Mars in 360
- Biology Simulations
- Innerbody
- Exploratorium
- Character Strong
- Deck Toys
- ActiveEd
- AstroStem
- Cosmic Kids Yoga
- Go Noodle
- Dr. Jean and Friends
Fine Arts:
Google Arts & Culture museum tours
Educational Apps:
- BEEMINDER – Goal tracker
- MY STUDY LIFE – Help your student plan their days.
- YOUTUBE – Watch educational videos
- LUMOSITY – Improve cognitive function
- STUDY BLUE – Online flashcards
- TED – Listen to experts speak
- EVERNOTE – Take notes
- DUOLINGO – Learn languages
- DESMOS – Graphing calculator
- EDX – Take classes from universities around the world.
Free Audio Books, eBooks and Textbooks
- Free Audio Books (Wizard of Oz, Huck Finn, Narnia, etc.)
- Bartleby.com (Literature classics, Bible)
- CK-12 (Provides textbooks online for students)
- ePubBud (Free children’s books)
- International Children’s Digital Library (Books for ages through 13)
- Librivox (Free audio books)
- OER Commons (Free textbooks)
- Project Gutenberg (Over 40,000 ebooks)
- The Harvard Classics (Great for older students)
- Free Textbook Collection (Free textbooks)
- Physics Comic Books (Comic books about physics!)
Other: