For Parents & FAMILIES

• FREE Levelled Readers relating to COVID:

  • What is Covid-19? - Level One Reader

  • What is Covid-19? - Level Two Reader

  • What is Covid-19? - Level Four Reader

(From BC, these books are currently being translated into French, Spanish, and Hindi. There is a page at the end of each book explaining how people and libraries can order physical and digital copies. There's also a section that encourages parents and teachers to read the books over video. )

• Real-World Problems Being Solved By Mathematicians

• Looping around - Math puzzle for grades 4/5/6

• Sheldon’s Shells - Math puzzle for grades 9-10

• Resources for Parents and Children - Learning & Playing During COVID-19 - GNWT-provided resources

• Number Grid Tic-tac-toe - Math

• Missing Digits - Math

• Game of 24 - Math

• Mental Health Wellness Tips for Quarantine

• Metric Pentathlon - Math

• Emoji Graph - Math

• Estimating - Math

• Four Square and Ten Game - Math

• Mental Health Resources for COVID-19 (compiled by the Government of the Northwest Territories, for residents)

• Toothpick Challenges - Math

• Math Advice for Parents, from Professor Jo Boaler - Math

• Noticing Numbers - Math

• What’s My Number? - Math

• Seven Up - A Great, Free Card Game! - Math

• Leo the Rabbit - Math

• Doggies Swapped

• Talking to Kids About COVID-19

• How to Help Your Kids Cope with Disappointment

• How to Help Your High School Senior Cope With Having Their Year Cut Short

• Supporting You Through COVID-19

• Building Your Awesome: Tips for Stress Management

• Bounceback

• NEW! Resources added in the last 7 days will be highlighted in YELLOW in the sheet below

• Resources for Parents to Support Learning at Home - Parents, guardians and caregivers have found themselves taking on many new roles in this time of change. Although you know your child best, it can be helpful to have some guidance about how to support your child and yourself through COVID-19. This page provides tips and resources for this difficult time (from Education, Culture and Employment).

• NextLesson.org - This site has a free 30-day trial, and due to COVID-19 they have lowered their homeschool price to $20 for the year. It provides cross-curricular, project-based lessons that are fun and engaging.

• Time Capsule Activity - social/emotional learning & inquiry activity

• A Stitch in Time... - Math

• Car Transportation - Math

• Learning A-Z.com - Language Arts (K-5)

• Helping Children and Adolescents Cope With Disasters and Other Traumatic Events - Wellness

• Buying Local - Math (grades 9 - 10) - logic puzzle

• Winter Carnival Event - Math - logic puzzle

• What's Your Unlucky Number - Math (grades 11 - 12)

• Count on Me - Math - Counting on fingers is for everyone!

• Foot Parade - Math - Students use animals to model different ways to make a total by adding the number of feet in their parade

• What’s Going On Outside Your Window? - This activity encourages students of all ages to take a deeper look at a familiar view: right outside their window

• LEGO Blindfold Build Challenge - Math - A great way to use lego to support spatial reasoning!

• Resources for Parents to Support Learning at Home

• Fold-and-Cut Challenge - Math - This one, folding and cutting, challenges students spatial reasoning, patterning, visualizing and sorting. Multi-skills in this activity. Suitable for early learners and up to Grade 6.

• Second Step - Wellness resources for families.

• Typing.com - Resources for developing technology skills, including Keyboarding, digital literacy, & coding.