EDUCATIONAL SOURCES
Home Schoolers
Granite State Home Educators is an all-volunteer, nonprofit homeschool support organization that serves New Hampshire families who choose to home educate their children.
GSHE has a robust website with resources to help prospective and current homeschoolers through their home ed journey. Our FAQ, Where to Begin, and Homeschool Methods pages are the ones many parents turn to first to get started.
Families can sign up for our free monthly e-newsletter at our website; here are past issues. Each one is packed with encouragement, educational and social opportunities, and relevant news.
We also have over a dozen videos that provide a summary of the (simple) requirements as well as several that go deeper into common questions and topics.
GSHE has several Facebook groups that empower families to plug in where they best fit.
Granite State Home Educators — Our primary group for supporting home educators around the state.
Granite State Home Educators Marketplace — Our group brings together buyers and sellers of homeschool resources.
GSHE Homeschool Pod Connections — A group to help bring together families looking to form home-based learning communities such as homeschool pods and micro-schools.
GSHE Action — This is our group specifically for tracking and discussing legislation related to home education.
Families Helping Families — Specifically for families who have children with special needs, not just for homeschoolers, for tracking and discussing legislation related to home education.
GSHE has a robust website with resources to help prospective and current homeschoolers through their home ed journey. Our FAQ, Where to Begin, and Homeschool Methods pages are the ones many parents turn to first to get started.
Families can sign up for our free monthly e-newsletter at our website; here are past issues. Each one is packed with encouragement, educational and social opportunities, and relevant news.
We also have over a dozen videos that provide a summary of the (simple) requirements as well as several that go deeper into common questions and topics.
GSHE has several Facebook groups that empower families to plug in where they best fit.
Granite State Home Educators — Our primary group for supporting home educators around the state.
Granite State Home Educators Marketplace — Our group brings together buyers and sellers of homeschool resources.
GSHE Homeschool Pod Connections — A group to help bring together families looking to form home-based learning communities such as homeschool pods and micro-schools.
GSHE Action — This is our group specifically for tracking and discussing legislation related to home education.
Families Helping Families — Specifically for families who have children with special needs, not just for homeschoolers, for tracking and discussing legislation related to home education.
Home Schooler's Resources
The New Hampshire Homeschooling Cooperative
http://nhhomeschooling.org/ is a good place to start, to get familiar with how homeschooling happens in New Hampshire and where parents/caregivers are already being directed and assisted.
Susan Wise Bauer - Home Schooling Books and information
Here's the link to her website: https://susanwisebauer.com/
Home School World
https://www.home-school.com/
http://nhhomeschooling.org/ is a good place to start, to get familiar with how homeschooling happens in New Hampshire and where parents/caregivers are already being directed and assisted.
Susan Wise Bauer - Home Schooling Books and information
Here's the link to her website: https://susanwisebauer.com/
Home School World
https://www.home-school.com/
ALICE IS FREE TO ALL
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WHAT IS ALICE?
From the website: "Alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools (and sometimes even younger) to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to java courses.
Our goal is to support all ranges of Alice usage by creating and sharing best practices for all of these applications.
Alice is a free gift to you from Carnegie Mellon University. The Alice Project is dedicated to making Alice a widely accessible tool around the world for growing the diversity and access to to early computer science education. Thanks to our donors we continue to be able to fulfill this mission with both our software and supporting materials."
From the website: "Alice is used by teachers at all levels from middle schools (and sometimes even younger) to universities, in school classrooms and in after school and out of school programming, and in subjects ranging from visual arts and language arts to the fundamentals of programming and introduction to java courses.
Our goal is to support all ranges of Alice usage by creating and sharing best practices for all of these applications.
Alice is a free gift to you from Carnegie Mellon University. The Alice Project is dedicated to making Alice a widely accessible tool around the world for growing the diversity and access to to early computer science education. Thanks to our donors we continue to be able to fulfill this mission with both our software and supporting materials."
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TUMBLEBOOKS FOR KIDS
Click the banner above for a children's ebook picture book for kids to read along, hear, and see.
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OVERDRIVE/ LIBBY APP
Use your library card to check out ebooks and audioboks while you're home.
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CHILDREN'S BOOK COUNCIL - ONLINE BOOK RESOURCES TO PRINT AND SHARE
Children's book publishers have such a wealth of online content that can be useful year-round in connecting kids with books. Activity kits, educator kits, discussion guides, graphic novels, and more are available for free in a wide range of topics and for hundreds of books.
In an effort to make these resources easier to discover and use, publishers have shared them with us so you can find them all in one place online.
The new CBC at home resource page is now available and contains links directly to publisher websites to easily access and learn more about the amazing children's and young adult books and activities they have to offer. - CBC
In an effort to make these resources easier to discover and use, publishers have shared them with us so you can find them all in one place online.
The new CBC at home resource page is now available and contains links directly to publisher websites to easily access and learn more about the amazing children's and young adult books and activities they have to offer. - CBC
NATURE EDUCATION
In an attempt to help parents and children this school year, we have compiled nature education resources and activities for kids of all ages. Please check out what we have available below. To help with saving paper and ink, we have tried to place on note on items that contain more than 5 pages.
Please note: The button below labeled "Forestry Facts" is a 32 page booklet titled "Forestry Facts: Discover your forest IQ" from the Canadian Women in Timber that talks about the forest, which is home to Splinter, the Pileated Woodpecker.The additional insert it wants to you to check out "Splinter's Timber Log" is a 4 page fact sheet included on this page as well.
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Please note: The button below labeled "Freshwater Dolphins" is a 69 page document from WWF titled "Teaching Tools About Freshwater Dolphins" that is to be used as a Educator's Resource Guide.
The button labeled "Watch Your Noodles" is a 9 page activity about palm oil impacted endangered species such as Asian elephants. The button labeled "Monarch Butterflies" is an 8 page learning activity. |
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Please note: The button below labeled "Field Investigation" is a 102 page booklet titled "Field Investigations: Using Outdoor Environments to Foster Student Learning of Scientific Processes" from December 2007 that was developed to help K-12 teachers introduce how to use methodologies for field studies with demonstrations on how to use them descriptively and comparatively.
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Pleases note: The button labeled "Boreal Forest" is a teaching kit titled "The Boreal Forest A Global Legacy" that is 52 pages long. It is provided as a teaching kit.
Please note: The button below titled "Climate Change" is a teaching guide that is 76 pages long, titled, "Climate Change: Our Forests, Our Future"
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S.T.E.A.M. AT HOME
STEAM Ahead @ Home Now Available on the STAR Net Website!
In addition to our bi-weekly newsletter, we have recently developed a new section on the STAR Net website where your library can access all of our resources. This webpage (found under Resources on the main menu) will host all of our past and future newsletter highlights as well as numerous other @ Home resources that we curate during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Visit the STEAM Ahead @ Home Webpage
In addition to our bi-weekly newsletter, we have recently developed a new section on the STAR Net website where your library can access all of our resources. This webpage (found under Resources on the main menu) will host all of our past and future newsletter highlights as well as numerous other @ Home resources that we curate during the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Visit the STEAM Ahead @ Home Webpage
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PRE-K: DAILY READING QUESTS
Listen as a grown-up reads a story or book to you. Then pick an activity! You can try a different activity every day or repeat a favorite. Please click the Scholastic icon to get started.
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RESOURCES TO HELP YOU TEACH AND LEARN AT HOME!
We have gathered together a collection of K-12 resources from PBS and other organizations that are providing classroom lessons, video, and activities for learning at home. You'll find the latest resources from NHPBS and PBS along with thematic daily resources and programming airing on NHPBS M-F for children in grades K-3 and on NH WORLD from 12-5 pm for middle and high school students. Please let us know if there is anything we can do for you, your students, or their parents.
LEARN AT HOME
LEARN AT HOME
“Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.” – Dr. Seuss
DOCUMENTARY HEAVEN - FOOD FOR YOUR BRAINClick here to browse documentaries with something for everyone!
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Netflix Free Documentaries on YouTube
Here's a new online resource for patrons. Engadget reports that in order to help teachers and students learning from home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Netflix is making a handful of documentaries available for free on its U.S. YouTube channel. At the moment, there are 10 documentary films and series available, including 13th, Babies, Chasing Coral, Knock Down the House, and Our Planet. Each comes with educational resources, like discussion questions, ways to take action, and more info. Netflix says it plans to add Q&As with some of the project creators soon. “Our Planet”: Eight-part documentary series from the creators of “Planet Earth” provides a never-before-filmed look at the planet’s remaining wilderness areas and their animal inhabitants, filmed in 50 countries across all the continents of the world. Narrated by Sir David Attenborough. Forests - https://youtu.be/JkaxUblCGz0 One Planet - https://youtu.be/GfO-3Oir-qM Frozen Worlds - https://youtu.be/cTQ3Ko9ZKg8 Jungles - https://youtu.be/um2Q9aUecy0 Coastal Seas - https://youtu.be/r9PeYPHdpNo Deserts - https://youtu.be/XmtXC_n6X6Q Fresh Water - https://youtu.be/R2DU85qLfJQ High Seas - https://youtu.be/9FqwhW0B3tY Chasing Coral https://youtu.be/aGGBGcjdjXA |
OTHER RESOURCES FOR KIDS
ON THE ROAD: KINDNESS 101 WITH STEVE HARTMAN
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Days of Kindness with Steve Hartman CBS Evening News
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MUSEUM RESOURCES
BOSTON'S MUSEUM OF SCIENCE ONLINE
We're bringing you even more from #MOSatHome
Join us next week as we bring new components of the Museum you love right to you!
MOS at Home continues to expand, and we have all-new activities that allow families to engage in STEM learning at home. Participate in all-new live streams and webinars, listen to Pulsar podcasts, and interact with the new Virtual Exhibits section of #MOSatHome. In addition, SubSpace is now online!
Continue reading to dive into schedules for next week, and check out #MOSatHome for all the resources we have available for you!
SubSpace: Adult Programs After Dark
We've taken our award winning SubSpace programming online! Enjoy an entire virtual season of free live events, music performances, conversations, art experiences, gaming, and more. Redefine your nightlife with the Museum of Science! All events for audiences 18+.
Go to #MOSatHome or visit us on Facebook for information on upcoming events from SubSpace: Adult Programs After Dark!
That Science Matters To You!
We need your help now, more than ever, to continue our mission. Please consider making a gift to The MOS Fund to help us work toward our commitment to the community. Your gift will make a tremendous impact!
Make a Gift Today
Join us next week as we bring new components of the Museum you love right to you!
MOS at Home continues to expand, and we have all-new activities that allow families to engage in STEM learning at home. Participate in all-new live streams and webinars, listen to Pulsar podcasts, and interact with the new Virtual Exhibits section of #MOSatHome. In addition, SubSpace is now online!
Continue reading to dive into schedules for next week, and check out #MOSatHome for all the resources we have available for you!
SubSpace: Adult Programs After Dark
We've taken our award winning SubSpace programming online! Enjoy an entire virtual season of free live events, music performances, conversations, art experiences, gaming, and more. Redefine your nightlife with the Museum of Science! All events for audiences 18+.
Go to #MOSatHome or visit us on Facebook for information on upcoming events from SubSpace: Adult Programs After Dark!
That Science Matters To You!
We need your help now, more than ever, to continue our mission. Please consider making a gift to The MOS Fund to help us work toward our commitment to the community. Your gift will make a tremendous impact!
Make a Gift Today
"With so many people staying home and so much remote learning happening, I wanted to share with your that the American Independence Museum is posting a different history or civics resource everyday of Facebook during this period at https://www.facebook.com/americanindependencemuseum/. We are also posting a different item from our collection or piece of NH history on our instagram page daily https://www.instagram.com/americanindependencemuseum/ or @americanindependencemuseum ."
- Victoria Su
Director of Engagement
American Independence Museum
One Governors Lane
Exeter, NH 03833
- Victoria Su
Director of Engagement
American Independence Museum
One Governors Lane
Exeter, NH 03833
Google Arts and Culture partnered with over 2,500 museums and galleries around the world to offer virtual tours of their spaces. Some of the options include New York’s Museum of Modern Art and Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum. The Louvre, based in Paris, is also offering its own virtual tour online for free. The Guggenheim The online collections include Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. Browse by artist, date, medium, movement, and venue, or by several of the major groups of acquisitions that have entered the holdings of the foundation since its inception in 1937
The following is from the Youth Services Programming Database for New Hampshire Public Libraries:
National Parks: travel through the trails of Yellowstone National Park, as well as the Yosemite National Park. Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs
Zoos & Aquariums: Houston Zoo ,San Diego Zoo, Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo, Georgia Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium , Seacoast Science Center
FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum
Go to Mars
Virtual Spring Break Trips by Sarah Marie on Future Ready Librarians:
The following is from the Youth Services Programming Database for New Hampshire Public Libraries:
National Parks: travel through the trails of Yellowstone National Park, as well as the Yosemite National Park. Mud Volcano, Mammoth Hot Springs
Zoos & Aquariums: Houston Zoo ,San Diego Zoo, Smithsonian Institution’s National Zoo, Georgia Aquarium and the Monterey Bay Aquarium , Seacoast Science Center
FarmFood 360 offers 11 Virtual Tours of farms from minks, pigs, and cows, to apples and eggs.
Walk through the Boston Children’s Museum
Go to Mars
Virtual Spring Break Trips by Sarah Marie on Future Ready Librarians: