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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

Family watching tv

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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Elelments of Art- Shape

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

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

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

The Big Game

Grades: K-2

Primary grade students practice addition and multiplication using the scores from baseball and basketball games.

Feed the Dingo

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 Field Guide

Molly of Denali Field Guide

Use this Molly of Denali Guide to learn about birds in your neighborhood.

Narrative writing templates

Narrative Writing

Use these guides and organizers to come up with an exciting story!

Sunflower Biscuit Bones

Sunflower Biscuit Bones

Build vocabulary while baking a treat for your four-legged friend.

Memory Book worksheet

Memory Book

Create a memory book of events from the last year.

Getting to the Game

Getting to the Game Story

Read this fun story and learn vocabulary words like transportation, rotate, and gears.

Roosevelt reader

Theodore Roosevelt Reader

Learn about the 26th President of the United States with this booklet.

Amelia Earhart worksheet

Amelia Earhart Reader

Learn about the first woman to fly over the Atlantic Ocean alone with this booklet.

Molly Recipe Book

Recipe Book Activity

Use this recipe book based on Molly of Denali to get cooking with family and friends!

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MATH

Super Why! Cupcake Math

Cupcake Math

Bake your favorite cupcake recipe and help your child learn about measurement and math.

Peg Cat Hundreds chart

Peg+Cat: Games with Hundreds Chart

Use a hundreds chart as a playing board in these fun and simple games.

Pegs Perfect Pizza

Peg’s Perfect Pizza

Explore shapes while making this yummy pizza recipe.

The Cat in the Hat knows a lot about that

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…

Curious George

Hands Down! – Curious George

Counting forward and backward by 1’s lays the foundation for addition and subtraction…

Ruff Ruffman

Birthday Calculator Math – Ruff Ruffman

This Fetch activity will help children understand the concept of days, weeks, and months…

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SCIENCE

Nature bingo card

Dot’s Nature Bingo

Find out how many of these objects in nature your students can spot with PBS KIDS Bingo!

Super Senses

Super Senses

Children can explore how animals and humans use their senses to learn about the world around them…

Does it sink or does it float?

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 Popsicles

Rainbow Popsicle

Explore kitchen chemistry and make a cool rainbow popsicle in this activity from The Ruff Ruffman Show.

Grab and Run print out

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

Mix it Up! Playing with Mixtures

Use these related resources to learn more about mixtures together…

Ramp activities

Ramps

Make predictions, observations, and investigate with these ramp activities.

Cat in the Hat Pinwheel

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…

Planet box being held by characters

There’s No Planet Like My Planet

Is your child ready to invent their own planet? In this activity from…

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ENGINEERING

How to Cards

How-To Cards

These How-To Cards introduce multiple pathways and features to help children get started using…

All Sorts of Things

All Sorts of Things

Practice sorting natural and human-made objects in a variety of ways.

Scratch Jr Coding to Learn

Scratch Jr At Home Activities

Design your own monster, play a sequence game, build a catapult…

Stick puppet shadow play

Stick Puppet Shadow Play

Make your own stick puppets of the Cat in the Hat, Nick, Sally, Fish, and Thing One and Thing Two.

Need a strong birdhouse

Build a Better Birdhouse

Encourage children to explore core science concepts in this activity based on The Ruff Ruffman Show!

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PHYSICAL ACTIVITY

Cyberchase step it up

Step It Up Guide

Use this Cyberchase chart to keep track of how many steps you take each week.

Animal Fitness

Animal Fitness

Support children’s motor skills while they learn about the movements of various animals.

Rock Paper Scissors

Rock Paper Scissors

This lesson puts a physical twist on the traditional game, rock, paper, scissors!

Active deck of cards

Active Deck of Cards

Read playing cards so the suit determines the type of physical activity, and the face value…

Fitness Tips for kids

Fitness Tips For Kids

Help children learn easy ways to stay physically fit, in this guide from Arthur.

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