Free Advertising Curriculum

This website offers free lesson plans and materials to teach children about advertising.  It even has resources for the entire family.  

"From buses to TV to the Web, ads are everywhere, and many target kids ages 8 to 12! Do your students have the critical thinking skills to understand ads, what they're saying, and what they want kids to do?"

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Sewing Opportunity

Do you like to sew? Do your children enjoy sewing? Do you have free time on your hands? Consider putting that time and talent to good use helping provide masks for Mercy Hospital!  Mercy Hospital is in need of sewn homemade masks to go over their N95 masks to prolong the use of their N95 masks. Below is a link to the pattern that they prefer. When they receive the masks they are washing and sterilizing them, so no need to wash them yourself. Every mask counts and is very much needed. Drop off your finished masks at the 10th Street Entrance of Mercy Medical Center (701 10th Street SE, Cedar Rapids, 52403).

If you are an at-risk person or are sick, please do not go out.  Instead you can email the coordinator of Days for Girls who is organizing a network of runners for completed projects.  

Here is the pattern: 

https://buttoncounter.com/2018/01/14/facemask-a-picture-tutorial/

Audible Offers Free Stories!

For as long as schools are closed, Audible is offering free stories for kids and teens! Kids everywhere can stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, on their desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Check it out below!

Listen to Stories

Online Virtual Tours

You may not make it to Paris but that doesn't mean you cannot get a taste of the Musee d'Orsay!  Below are various museums and institutions that have virtual tours online.

Art Institute of Chicago

Boston Children's Museum

Great Wall of China

The Louvre

Musee d'Orsay in Paris

Museum of Modern Art

National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. 

National Museum of Computing

National Museum of the United States Air Force

National Museum of Natural History

National Women's History Museum

Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

The Vatican (Including Sistine Chapel)

Tokyo National Museum

State Hermitage Museum in Russia 

Want to explore more?  Simply visit the Google Art Project.  Google partnered with more than 60 museums and galleries from around the world to archive and document priceless pieces of art and to provide virtual tours of museums using Google Street View technology.  There are even more museums to tour there!

Free Math Project: "The Camping Trip"

Free math project reinforcing addition and subtraction in a fun way with 10 engaging activities centered around a camping theme!  

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