Learn At Home
Watch and Learn Archive
This continually updated collection of activities encourages families with younger students to continue exploring and learning at home. A great resource for PreK-3 grade levels.
WATCH AND LEARN
Keep your child engaged with this watch and learn guide that focuses on a different theme each week! Click on a week and theme below to get started!
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HOW TO TALK ABOUT THE NEWS WITH YOUR KIDS
Arthur: Helping Kids During Challenging Times
Read, Do and Make
These resources, activities and videos can help you and your child cope when upsetting new events occur.
Helping Kids Navigate Scary News Stories
Read and Do
Check out these tips from a father and researcher to help you talk with your kids about scary news stories.
When Something Scary Happens
Watch, Do, Make, and More
These resources can help families cope in emergencies and other challenging times.
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Elements of Art: Shape | National Gallery of Art
Grades: K-4
Students will learn about a basic element of art—shape—by analyzing shapes used in works of art. They will then create a cut-paper collage based on a theme they select.
Creature Power Suit Underwater Challenge | Wild Kratts
Grades: K-3
Creature Power! Learn about underwater sea life by collecting missing creature power suit parts while impersonating wildlife.
Grandpa’s Drum | Molly of Denali
Grades: K-2
An old photograph sends Molly and friend Tooey on a mission to find out why Grandpa Nat no longer sings or plays his drum.
Dress for the Season | Everyday Learning
Grades: PreK-1
In this game, children help animals get dressed for each season as they observe the way the earth changes with each season.
The Big Game
Grades: K-2
Primary grade students practice addition and multiplication using the scores from baseball and basketball games.
Feed the Dingo: An Ecosystem Game | PLUM LANDING™
Grades: 1-4
Players strive to create a balanced desert ecosystem in which each animal has enough food to survive over a period of 12 days, in this interactive game
READING
Molly of Denali Field Guide
Use this Molly of Denali Guide to learn about birds in your neighborhood.
Narrative Writing
Use these guides and organizers to come up with an exciting story!
Sunflower Biscuit Bones
Build vocabulary while baking a treat for your four-legged friend.
Memory Book
Create a memory book of events from the last year.
Getting to the Game Story
Read this fun story and learn vocabulary words like transportation, rotate, and gears.
Theodore Roosevelt Reader
Learn about the 26th President of the United States with this booklet.
Amelia Earhart Reader
Learn about the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean alone with this booklet.
Recipe Book Activity
Use this recipe book based on Molly of Denali to get cooking with family and friends!
MATH
Cupcake Math
Bake your favorite cupcake recipe and help your child learn about measurement and math.
Peg+Cat: Games with Hundreds Chart
Use a hundreds chart as a playing board in these fun and simple games.
Peg’s Perfect Pizza
Explore shapes while making this yummy pizza recipe.
A House Just Right for Me! – The Cat in the Hat
This activity will help children practice sorting and measurement skills and understand the connection…
Hands Down! – Curious George
Counting forward and backward by 1’s lays the foundation for addition and subtraction…
Birthday Calculator Math – Ruff Ruffman
This Fetch activity will help children understand the concept of days, weeks, and months…
SCIENCE
Dot’s Nature Bingo
Find out how many of these objects in nature your students can spot with PBS KIDS Bingo!
Super Senses
Children can explore how animals and humans use their senses to learn about the world around them…
What Floats Your Boat?
In this Cat in the Hat activity, have children predict what will sink or float, test out their predictions in water…
Rainbow Popsicle
Explore kitchen chemistry and make a cool rainbow popsicle in this activity from The Ruff Ruffman Show.
Grab it and Run
Explore wearable science and try to make it to the finish line of this special relay race without breaking…
Mix it Up! Playing with Mixtures
Use these related resources to learn more about mixtures together…
Ramps
Make predictions, observations, and investigate with these ramp activities.
The Cat in the Hat Pinwheel
See the wind at work by making this Cat in the Hat pinwheel! Invite children to observe what happens…
There’s No Planet Like My Planet
Is your child ready to invent their own planet? In this activity from…
ENGINEERING
How-To Cards
These How-To Cards introduce multiple pathways and features to help children get started using…
All Sorts of Things
Practice sorting natural and human-made objects in a variety of ways.
Scratch Jr At Home Activities
Design your own monster, play a sequence game, build a catapult…
Stick Puppet Shadow Play
Make your own stick puppets of the Cat in the Hat, Nick, Sally, Fish, and Thing One and Thing Two.
Build a Better Birdhouse
Encourage children to explore core science concepts in this activity based on The Ruff Ruffman Show!
PHYSICAL ACTIVITY
Step It Up Guide
Use this Cyberchase chart to keep track of how many steps you take each week.
Animal Fitness
Support children’s motor skills while they learn about the movements of various animals.
Rock Paper Scissors
This lesson puts a physical twist on the traditional game, rock, paper, scissors!
Active Deck of Cards
Read playing cards so the suit determines the type of physical activity, and the face value…
Fitness Tips For Kids
Help children learn easy ways to stay physically fit, in this guide from Arthur.