Middle

• Vivify https://www.vivifystem.com/blog/2020/3/12/top-stem-resources-for-school-closings

• Science News for Kids https://www.sciencenewsforstudents.org/

• Khan Academy - Introduction to the Atom

• Khan Academy - Periodic Table

• Khan Academy - Chemical Reactions

• Khan Academy - Unbalanced forces

• Khan Academy - Plate Tectonics

• Khan Academy - Moon Phases

• Wonderopolis http://wonderopolis.org/

• Virtual Field Trips https://docs.google.com/document/d/1SvIdgTx9djKO6SjyvPDsoGlkgE3iExmi3qh2KRRku_w/mobilebasic

• National Parks Virtual Tours https://totallythebomb.com/heres-33-national-park-tours-you-can-take-virtually-from-the-comfort-of-your-home?fbclid=IwAR131Or06BdsU9AjPxZp4OVSPnsNArHzP5R880xuxFDfx4lDrW12dWvGwi0

• Pearson https://pi.pearsoned.com/v1/piapi/piui/signin?client_id=dN4bOBG0sGO9c9HADrifwQeqma5vjREy&okurl=https:%2F%2Fportal.mypearson.com%2Fcourse-home&siteid=8313

• Story Time from Space - Listen to astronauts reading children’s books while in space.

• Mystery Science - Lots of great mini-lessons.

• Monterey Bay Aquarium - Ten live web cams to help you “experience the wonder of the ocean no matter where you are.” Live web cams are also available from the San Diego Zoo (checkout the Zoo’s Kids’ page), the Georgia Aquarium (includes a beluga whale), the Houston Zoo, the Shedd Aquarium (checkout When You Give an Octopus a GoPro)

• Yellowstone National Park - Take a virtual tour via our National Parks Services.

• Tynker - Provides scaffolded gamified coding and curriculum. Note: To access, you will need to complete the Tynker School Closure License Request. (Grades K-12)

• Scratch - An introduction to coding, sponsored by MIT and funded by National Science Foundation and more. (Grades 4-9)

• Khan Academy US History Course by era (for both 8th Grade Social Studies and US History)

• Read Theory https://readtheory.org/

• Journal Buddies https://www.journalbuddies.com/

• NewsELA www.newsela.com

• New York Times Writing Prompts https://www.nytimes.com/spotlight/learning-writing-prompts

• K12 https://www.k12reader.com/grade-level/grades-k-12/

• Lit2Go https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/books/

• Wordville https://www.wordville.com/

• Journal Buddies https://www.journalbuddies.com/prompts-by-grade/fun-writing-prompts-for-middle-school/

• HMH As a part of our HMH curriculum and your student in grades K-5 can login to their textbooks at home at the following link along with our reading curriculum students may login to Ed your friend in learning; Login Page for Reading; https://www.hmhco.com/one/login/ Students’ login information is the following; UN; student’s Bullard ISD computer login @bullarisd.net (ex. Johnw2@bullardisd.net) PW; this is the password students use to login to their computers at school. (homeroom teachers can provide this information if needed)

• The first 10 lines of classic novels, rewritten for social distancing - From LiteraryHub, the samples come with an invitation to rewrite the opening lines in the time of #COVID19.

• Read your choice of text. As you read, annotate what connections you can make to yourself, other books or texts, and society.

• Choose a key scene from a book, TV show, or movie. Change the setting or key character traits. Rewrite the scene to reflect how your changes would impact the outcome.

• Draw a comic strip or graphic novel page to summarize a story you read or episode of a TV show you watched.

• Research a person you consider a role model. Write a letter or create a presentation explaining this person’s importance in your life.

• Pick a song you love from the radio. Describe how the author uses the lyrics and sound of the music to send you a message or make you feel certain emotions.

• Visit the New York Times list of questions/prompts. Choose a question that interests you, read the short article, and answer the questions.

• Compare something you have watched on TV to a text you have read in class this year. List the things the two have in common and the ways in which they are different.

• Keep a “quarantine” journal, writing at least 20 mins a day about your experience and reflections of our country’s/district’s response to this pandemic.

• Research pandemics and find out how they were handled historically. How have recent pandemics been handled? (such as Sars? Swine Flu? Bird Flu?) Why is this one being handled differently? And how effective is it?

• Write a letter to lawmakers persuading them to require/waive the days you will miss during the “social distancing” protocols.

• Watch at least one newcast daily, and keep a journal summarizing the information distributed and your reactions. Make sure to alternate the news stations you watch. (Could work in appeals/rhetoric here for English 3/4)

• Visit Kelly Gallagher’s Article of the Week, choose an article to read each day and write the one page reflection outline in each article. (Parents may need to pre read articles for appropriateness beforehand.)

• Find and watch a TED talk on a subject that interests you. Download the transcript of the TED talk and analyze how they structured the speech. What made it effective? What was the speaker’s main point? How did they build and support that point? Did they use cause and effect structure/problem solution?

• Research a topic that interests you and find ways of keeping up with information that is meaningful to you. Build a spreadsheet of information if you need it. Write down notes. Use a note taking app like Evernote, One Note or Google Keep. Create graphs or graphic organizers. Decide how you might want to share this information: write a blog post, create a Google slideshow, create a Youtube video, etc.

• Master at least 50 new words on Vocabulary.com each week

• Complete one literacy activity per week for your grade level using this link from ReadWriteThink.org.

• www.newsela.com is a good resources for online reading that are aligned to the TEKS. Keep a journal to write about what they are reading and new words you come across. Here are some reader response question prompts you may use to help journal.

• Read a published article online or in print, write a short response as to the author’s purpose for writing the article.

• Review an ad sent through the mail, on the back of an envelope write a short description of the ad and the author’s purpose for writing the ad, notice the font and images used.

• As you are reading a book, use sticky notes to jot down key elements of the story and place the sticky note on the correlating page. Once you have completed reading the text, review your notes and discuss the story with a family member or friend.

• Ask a family member in what city and year they were born, research what events happened in their birth city during their birth year. Write a summary of your findings.

• Think back to your first day of school this year, write a reflection essay about how you felt that day.

• Write a letter to your teacher describing your favorite things about their class and your least favorite things about their class. After you complete your letter, re-read your letter looking for edits that can be made.

• Phone a grandparent or family member, write a reflection of your conversation highlighting what you liked most about the chat.

• Act as a journalist collecting information from a family member about their workday. Jot down notes, question examples: Where do you work? How long does your commute to work take? What are your hours at work? Do you have friends at work? What did you eat for lunch today? What is your favorite part of your workday? Name five adjectives that describe your workday.

• Essay Prompt: Think about all of the cool people you know and have learned about. If you could switch places with one of these people who would you choose, and why?

• Read a text of your choice. Then, write to a friend, the author, or a character about this book or write as if you were the character or author and write to yourself.

• Pick five adjectives from a text describing a character and explain how they apply.

• Discuss with a family member or friend what aspect of a text read or hear confuses you.

• Write a review of (or discuss) a movie based on a story.

• Prior to, while, or after reading a book, research the book, its author, or its subject online.

• After reading a text, decide who of the characters you would want as a friend, Discuss or write about why you would want them as your friend.

• Keep a journal or diary of all the text read or heard. Include within the entry a brief summary of the text, personal connections made, or connections made to other texts. Draw an illustration to support the text.

• Reflect on a story read or heard. Think about how the text might change if the main character were a different age or gender.

• Write a biography of a character who most interests you most from a story.

• Discuss with a family member or write about how a story of your choosing might change if the main character had made a different decision.

• Pick the most important line from a text, write about why that particular line is important. Justify your selection with evidence from the text.

• Using a notecard or small half sheet of paper, summarize what happened on one side. On the other side, write an analysis of what those events were important.

• After reading a text, based on everything you know, what do you predict will happen next.

• Read an article from a newspaper or magazine, write a short jot as to why the article interests you and what you learned from the article.

Literature

• CommonLit (Poetry, speeches, informational text, short stories, etc./searchable by skill, genre, grade level)

• New York Times: Room for Debate (persuasive/argumentative texts)

• Smithsonian TweenTribune

• Smithsonian TeenTribune

• Dogo News for Students (informational text)

• Science News for Students

• Natural Reader - text to speech; free downloadable software

• TexQuest Free online research databases

• Making Inferences from MisterSato from Youtube

• What Can You Infer from K12 Reader

• Inferences in Literature: The Wizard of Oz from K12 Reader

• Making Inferences Jeopardy Game from SuperTeacherTools

• Theme from Brainpop *See Brainpop for free account due to COVID-19*

• Literary Element: Theme from Discovery Education *See Discovery Education for free account due to COVID-19*

• Theme Worksheets and Powerpoints from E Reading Worksheets

• Different Stories, Common Themes from Discovery Education

• Identifying Theme within a Story from McGraw Hill on Youtube

• Prompts from Google Drive

• Writing Process from Discovery Education *This is a platform of multiple videos and ideas. The teacher will need to select specific resources and video segments*

• Career Research from Google Drive