COVID 19

• Just For Kids: A Comic Exploring The New Coronavirus [NPR]  This comic is for Children. It's based on a radio story that NPR education reporter Cory Turner did. He asked some experts what children might want to know about the new coronavirus discovered in China.

• Print This So You Don't Bring Coronavirus Home [CNN] With the help of physicians and infectious disease experts, CNN built a tip sheet to make sure you don't bring the virus back home with you.

• At-Home Learning Tips and Resources for Parents [BCAA] information and tips from the government and BC educators on productive home learning to help you find ways to keep your child engaged.

• Covid-19: Tracking the Pandemic: An interactive chart, updated daily, that follows the spread of confirmed cases across regions and tracks the 15 worst-affected countries over time.

• COVID-19 Tracker [Bing] An interactive map with COVID-19 statistics for each country in the world updated daily.

• Interactive Chart Showing Countries Flattening Their COVID-19 Curves [World Economic Forum]

• Tracking the Coronavirus [CBC Canada] Stay informed with the latest data on the number of COVID-19 cases in Canada and around the world + A section on frequently asked questions.

• Comparing the Coronavirus Curve [CBC Canada] How does Canada compare to the rest of the world when it comes to the coronavirus pandemic? How are our attempts at reducing the spread of the virus working compared to others?

• How Long Coronavirus Survives on Surfaces - and What it Means for Handling Money, Food and More [World Economic Forum]

• How You Can Keep Thousands of People From Getting Coronavirus, In One GIF [Vox]  A visualization that shows how one person with the coronavirus, who passes on the virus to three other people can very quickly spawn a public health nightmare that afflicts thousands of people. But it also shows how one person can mitigate that effect through social (physical) distancing.

• Innovative Ways to Make Coronavirus a Teachable Moment [Edutopia] - When the world feels dangerous, harnessing learning can provide some measure of clarity and perspective.

• Why coronavirus will accelerate the fourth Industrial Revolution [The Economist]  The pandemic's silver lining is the chance to experiment with technologies and co-operative approaches across borders that could lead to safer, more sustainable and more inclusive global futures.

For Parents

• A Parent’s Guide to Home Schooling during the Coronavirus by Sam Chaltain

• 7 Guiding Principles for Parents Teaching From Home - [Edutopia] - Understanding the “why” behind teaching practices can help parents create meaningful and effective at-home learning opportunities during the pandemic.

• Open Learning - Click on ‘Learning from Home circle’.  Good information for parents on setting up routines for home learning.

• CanPlan Free daily schedule app that can break down the steps of a task with visuals, reinforced with text and audio. Developed by CanAssist at the University of Victoria. 

Explaining COVID-19 to children:

• Mark Rober - Coronavirus Disease  - 10 minute science video teaching about how germs spread using a fun classroom experiment

• Video of Kids Washing Hands: to the tune of “Frere Jacques”.  Here is a task analysis  to go along with this video/song

• Explaining Coronavirus to Kids: short video to show kids → created by CBC