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Learning Resources for Students at Home

We've picked some of our favorite K-12 resources that can be viewed by students or facilitated by parents.

While you can search through our K-12 Educator resources at any time, we've curated a few options for each grade.

Scroll down to find resources that can be viewed by a student directly or activities that can be facilitated by a parent.

Preschool

• Build outdoors with Nature Play: Create with Nature
• Investigate your favorite insect with What Would Happen?
• Watch and sing 7,000 Kinds of Amphibians

Kindergarten

• Connect with animal caretakers in Penguins, Will You Be My Valentine?
• Question your environment with Notice and Wonder
• Observe how you use different teeth with Chew, Bite, Chomp

1st Grade

• Get an Introduction to Scientific Sketching
• Sing a song and draw out your own Jungle Layers
• Observe and imitate the Academy's Live Penguin Colony

2nd Grade

• Count sections as you build a Fraction Penguin
• Play Natural Resources Bingo as a family
• Use Scientific Sketching for Observation in your notebook

3rd Grade

• Watch and giggle about The Story of Poo
• Design a Macroinvertebrate Manor in your own backyard
• Learn about metamorphosis with the Go Bug! card game

4th Grade

• Carry out a Compost Scientific Investigation
• Connect with experts to hear the difference between Weather & Climate
• Build a Pocket Solar System to grasp astronomical scale

5th Grade

• Take a Virtual Dive in a Kelp Forest
• Build your own seismograph to start Measuring Earthquakes
• Demonstrate how freshwater is distributed on Earth

Middle School

• Watch Flipside Science and design your own solutions
• Connect with educators to Make Earth Day Every Day
• Produce scale models with How Big is Big?

High School

• Explore migration in the Human Odyssey Interactive Map
• Travel Deep Inside a Leaf to the molecular level
• Watch Academy Science videos to explore STEM careers

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