COVID-19 RESOURCES

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Resources
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Helping Your Child Cope With COVID-19 by our Safe From the Start Team
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How to Play with Your Kids During COVID-19 by our Healthy Families' Team
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Being Mindful of Mental Health During COVID-19 by our Trauma Informed Care Team
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Coping With Stress, Fear, and Uncertainty by our Community Education Team
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Keeping Kids Motivated for e-Learning by our Community Education Team
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A coping journal activity for children by Polk County Health Services

Tour Yellowstone National Park!
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Explore the surface of Mars on the Curiosity Rover.
This Canadian site FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
Travel to Paris, France to see amazing works of art at The Louvre with this virtual field trip.
This Virtual Tour of the Great Wall of China is beautiful and makes history come to life.
This iconic museum located in the heart of London allows virtual visitors to tour the Great Court and discover the ancient Rosetta Stone and Egyptian mummies.

Free children's coloring pages from Crayola
Free children's coloring pages
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Free adult coloring pages from Favecrafts

Math practice from counting to algebra and geometry
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High school chemistry topics
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Hands on Elementary Science Videos
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Math as a fun part of your daily family routine
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Elementary Math through 6th grade
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Over 600 FREE board games, play with anyone in the world!
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Play board games in your browser
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Play your favorite, retro games, or delve into uncharted gaming territory. Go head-to-head with smart AI, or crush your friends online

Read, play games, and hang out with Dr. Seuss
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Fave kids books read by famous people
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Reading passages for grades 3-12, with reading comprehension and discussion questions.
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Engaging reading game for grades 2-8 that combines strategy, engagement, and imaginative reading passages to create a fun, curriculum-aligned literacy game.
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ReadWorks is an online resource of reading passages and lesson plans for students of all levels K-12.
5 Great Reasons to Cook With Your Kids!
Daily free science or cooking experiment to do at home
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Kids Cooking Activities helps teachers and parents organize and plan cooking lessons for children
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An article by Liz Joy, M.D., M.P.H., FACSM, FAMSSM, shares why staying active during a pandemic is important.
10 Ways to Keep your Kids Active
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GoNoodle helps kids get moving, get some of their energy out, have fun and helps them practice social skills. Parents can create a free account.
Cosmic Kids Yoga provides a much-needed activity break with characters, playfulness, music and yoga.
Free at-home kids yoga lesson plans

Play with favorite PBS show characters and learn too
Geography and animals from National Geographic
WQAD is hosting Weather School every day at 1:00pm

Creating Music – a creative music site for children of all ages where kids can compose music, perform, and play games
Educational Music – free educational music and videos from PBS Kids
Radio Disney – a fun kid friendly radio station available online along with games, countdowns, and more
JazzKids was created for children of all ages. The website offers teachers, parents and even the youngest students the opportunity to be introduced to jazz.
Listen & Learn Music is the home of over 200 music therapy songs and early childhood music resources by board-certified music therapist Rachel Rambach.