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Online Instructional Resources - Early Childhood
General Early Childhood Online Resources for Ages 0-5 *Please note this list is not exhaustive – it is a small compilation of suggestions as to where to access supplemental early childhood materials |
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PBS Learning Media Videos, games, lesson plans and supplemental materials can be searched by grade level, subject area, keyword and standard.? Content contributors include KET, PBS, PBS Kids, NASA, the National Archives, the Library of Congress and many more. |
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GoOpen Michigan is a library of open education resources. Join a network of Michigan educators who are dedicated to using high quality, openly licensed educational resources. |
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Zoom has made their online conferencing platform free of restrictions during the |
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With the growing impact of COVID-19, ReadyRosie is developing this free toolkit as a resource to support families with information and resources for supporting the children in their care. |
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HighScope is offering free weekly packets of family activities for infants, toddlers, and preschoolers. |
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Catch Health has set up a Google Classroom to provide free and easy access to several of CATCH’s evidence-based health, nutrition, and physical education materials. These activities require limited space and supervision, and are organized into three sections: Physical Activities, Activity Breaks and Family Health and Nutrition. |
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More than 100 original ebooks?carefully crafted to connect with young children and their families. Books are written in English and Spanish and include audio narration in 43 languages. |
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Storyline Online allows families to stream videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations.? |
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This link from Zero to Three provides ideas for talking to children about COVID-19 in developmentally appropriate ways. |
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The Child Mind Institute has provided suggestions for talking to children about COVID-19 and include a helpful video for adults. |
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The Agency and Young Children Research Collective offers guidance to teachers, parents, and caretakers seeking to educate young children using online technologies and to schools and districts seeking to support parents and continue children’s academic progress while they are away from school. The information is available in English and in Spanish.? |
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The Early Childhood Technical Assistance Center (ECTA) offers resources regarding tele-intervention. |
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The Division of Early Childhood of the Council for Exceptional Children offers resources regarding the COVID-19 state of emergency. |
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Child Trends - During the COVID-19 state of emergency, telehealth can help connect home visiting services to families. Child Trends offers resources and support for implementing telehealth for home visiting. |
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The Early Childhood Personnel Center offers COVID-19 state of emergency resources for Part C, Early Childhood Special Education, and for families. |
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The US Department of Education provides resources for Protecting Student Privacy. |
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The National Center for Hearing Assessment and Management provides an online tele-intervention course. |
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American Occupational Therapy Association provides information pertaining to occupational therapy in the era of COVID-19.
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The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association includes extensive information on key issues and resources (including HIPAA, funding). |
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The American Physical Therapy Association includes a variety of resources on practice and billing and a blog post on telehealth ethics Best Practice and the Law (Aug 2019).?? |
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Zero to Thrive was built on the premise that the period from pregnancy through early childhood is an especially sensitive time for mitigating the multi-generational effects of inequity, trauma, and adversity, as well as promoting mental health. |
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The World Health Organization helps parents interact constructively with their children during this time of confinement, these six one-page tips for parents cover planning one-on-one time, staying positive, creating a daily routine, avoiding bad behavior, managing stress, and talking about the COVID-19 state of emergency. |
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Prevent Child Abuse America provides Coronavirus Resources & Tips for Parents, Children & Others. |
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K-12 is an online education provider who has opened some of its resources for free to families during the COVID-19 state of emergency. Its Stride component starts at pre-kindergarten and offers an online, adaptive game-based learning platform for math, reading, language arts, and science that is accessible 24/7 on tablets, PCs, and Macs. |
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YouTube Kids has channels designed for families with preschoolers that contain activities including learning at home, DIY/indoor activities, learning number, and read along. |
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Twinkl has teaching resources online for early childhood through secondary age. There is a free resource packet available as well as free 30-day access using code?CVDTWINKLHELPS. |
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Abcdoes.com is an international community of early years practitioners who have a wealth of knowledge and a huge bank of ideas and activities collected to help parents and caregivers find fun things to do if they find themselves unexpectedly at home with younger children. Most of the ideas have an educational slant with a play-based format that are simple enough for most people to do at home, with items they already have. |
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National Head Start Association provides COVID-19 state of emergency resources and other supports for families. |