Taking care of our kids education during COVID

Not only are our customers rental business operators, they are often moms and dads with children hungry for attention. In this time of social distancing and remote work, our customers have a responsibility to their business and their kids’ education while the family is stuck at home.

As a parent at Texada, I want to ensure that our customers know where to find online resources to keep their kids learning, especially in cities where schools have closed. Here is a comprehensive list of what we feel are the best sites to find online learning. Many of them have extended free trials at this time.

Much thanks to Betsy Brown Braun, who is an author and educator, and published much of the list here. We will continue to build on this list as we find more awesome online resources to educate and engage our children.

At Texada, we care deeply about lifelong learning, especially when it comes to children and how we can help them develop a growth mindset.

ART

Here are some links to some insightful online art classes:

• Art for Kids Hub
• The Art Sherpa
• Art with Everyone
• The Great Courses
• Smithsonian Art and Design

CHEMISTRY 

Here are some popular online chemistry courses: 

• Chemistry 4 Kids 
• Minecraft Chemistry
• Tyler DeWitt

CIVICS

Here’s a fantastic civics course to learn how government works: 

• iCivics

CODING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE

If your kids want to learn coding, these classes are excellent: 

• Code.org
• Scratch

ECONOMICS

Here is a great link to economics, investing and personal finance: 

• The Stock Market Game

ENGINEERING

Here’s two links if your kids want to expand their engineering knowledge: 

• Teach Engineering
• Geography 4 Kids

LANGUAGE ARTS

These are the best online resources for reading and writing: 

• Night Zoo Keeper
• Reading Eggs
• Starfall
• Story Pirates
• Teach Your Monster to Read

MATH

These are our favorite math and basic arithmetic links: 

• Beast Academy
• Dragonbox
• Dreambox
• Global Math Project
• Prodigy Math 

MULTIPLE SUBJECTS

These online courses cover multiple educational topics: 

• Arcademic
• Brain Pop
• Education
• IXL
• Khan Academy
• Mystery Doug
• Outschool
• PBS Learning Media
• Teachers Pay Teachers

PHYSICS

This is an epic course for those interested in all things motion: 

• Physics 4 Kids 

SCIENCE

If you want to try some fun at-home experiments, here you go: 

• Astronomy
• Biology
• The Science Guys
• Science Max
• Smithsonian Science and Nature

SOCIAL AND ETHNIC STUDIES

This is the go-to class for social studies curriculum: 

• Since Time Immemorial

ADDITIONAL LINKS AND IDEAS

Here are some extra links that are more on the fun and entertaining side of things. They include things like doodling, cooking, videos and fighting general boredom.

Have fun with these group of online resources: 

• Cook With Your Kids 
• Lunchtime Doodles with Mo Williams
• Parents’ Favorite At-home Activities
• Resources for Families During Corona Pandemic
• List of Free Subscriptions
• PJ Library Resources
• PBS Kids
• Hand-washing Experiment
• 12 World Class Museums to Visit Online
• 100+ Online Activities