Learning Resources for Students @ Home

While you can search through our K-12 Educator resources at any time, we've curated a few options for each grade.

Scroll down to find resources that can be viewed by a student directly or activities that can be facilitated by a parent.

Preschool

• Build outdoors with Nature Play: Create with Nature
• Investigate your favorite insect with What Would Happen?
• Watch and sing 7,000 Kinds of Amphibians
• Observe and imitate the Academy's Live Penguin Colony

Kindergarten

• Connect with animal caretakers in Penguins, Will You Be My Valentine?
• Question your environment with Notice and Wonder
• Observe how you use different teeth with Chew, Bite, Chomp

1st Grade

• Meet our birds in Penguins: Wings, Beaks, and Feathers, Oh My!
• Get an Introduction to Scientific Sketching
• Sing a song and draw out your own Jungle Layers

2nd Grade

• Count sections as your build a Fraction Penguin
• Play Natural Resources Bingo as a family
• Use Scientific Sketching for Observation in your notebook

3rd Grade

• Watch and giggle about The Story of Poo
• Design a Macroinvertebrate Manor in your own backyard
• Draw with us in Art & Science: Nature as Your Muse

4th Grade

• Carry out a Compost Scientific Investigation
• Connect with experts to hear the difference between Weather & Climate
• Build a Pocket Solar System to grasp astronomical scale

5th Grade

• Take a Virtual Dive in a Kelp Forest
• Connect and compare these Spooktacular Skulls
• Learn how to Spot That Bird; then, do an outdoor Bird Count

Middle School

• Watch Flipside Science and design your own solutions
• Connect with astronomy experts in Tour of the Night Sky
• Produce scale models with How Big is Big?

Homework Help

The MCL has online homework help Monday - Friday from 1pm -10pm. All the kids need to do is logon to their accounts:  Marin County Library Homework Help

Math:  https://www.khanacademy.org/

General:
1) Brainpop
 https://go.brainpop.com/accessrequest?utm_source=bp-com&utm_medium=internal&utm_campaign=coronavirus&utm_content=coronavirus

Literacy:
1) Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems
https://www.kennedy-center.org/education/mo-willems/