COVID-19 Resources

KQED: How Teachers Can Navigate School Closures Due to the Coronavirus

NewsGuard’s new Coronavirus Misinformation Tracking Center ranks and lists news and information sites in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Italy, and Germany that have published false information about the virus.

PBS NewsHour: Distance Learning: PBS NewsHour Classroom Resources for Students

These teacher-produced resources and lesson plans curated by PBS NewsHour Extra can be implemented for students who are distance learning. Examples include current events resources, their “Super Civics 2020” election series, and more.

PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs: Making Sense of Coronavirus Through Storytelling and Media Making

With many schools closing and teaching moving online, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs has created a special unit that covers the basics of local community journalism, storytelling, scripting, and video editing. They are also offering daily office hours from 11 a.m. to noon ET through Zoom for teachers and students who want to talk through story ideas, troubleshoot audiovisual needs, or brainstorm lesson plans.

The Media Education Lab: Online Resources for Media Educators

The Media Education Lab wants help in building a Google Doc with curated resources that can be useful for media educators, including how to talk to students about COVID-19, media literacy practices with remote instruction, and fighting misinformation about coronavirus.

Common Sense Education: Reduce Student Anxiety (and Your Own) During Uncertain Times

Common Sense Education put together some ideas and resources focused on news literacy, media balance, and healthy communication to help reduce students’ anxiety during this difficult time.

Pulitzer Center: Printable Activities and Virtual Journalist Visits

Pulitzer Center is supporting educators as they transition to remote teaching by revising some of their most popular lesson plans to create printable activities for students to explore at home. They are also connecting K-12 classrooms with a journalist for a virtual visit to talk about what it’s like reporting on public health emergencies.

Education Development Center: Resource Page for the COVID-19 Crisis

This resource page contains links to Education Development Center resources and ideas for parents and teachers that have been contributed by EDC staff around the world. Resources include virtual learning, STEM, and history lessons.

Learning Technology Center of Illinois: Learning Online Podcast

In a new podcast episode, Ben Sondgeroth, a Regional Educational Technology Coordinator for the Learning Technology Center of Illinois, discusses how to use video in online learning. He shares tips for teachers and administrators on how to find helpful tools and content, and the importance of educator self-care during these times of change.

iCivics: 5 Tips to Prepare for a Remote Classroom Due to Coronavirus

iCivics provides some tips for educators to keep the learning going outside of the school walls like preparing lesson packets or game play alternatives for students who may be without internet at home and creating some guidelines for students and their parents to help facilitate online learning at home.

New America: Tips and Resources for PreK-12 Online Learning with Equity in Mind

New America is providing guidance and resources focused on equity, quality, and a human-centered approach to the use of technology for learning. This resource page focuses on helping more students gain access to remote learning, how to engage parents in at-home learning, how to find and use openly-licensed digital learning materials as a part of distance learning, and how to choose and use digital media with young children.

The Trust Project: The Trust Project Lesson Plan

With misinformation and false rumors spreading rapidly due to the societal disruption caused by COVID-19, it’s important to help students know how to sort accurate journalism from imposter news stories and sites. Santa Clara University Library has developed a set of free curricular materials to help students use the Trust Indicators, developed by the Trust Project, as part of learning media literacy.

WNET: Curated Resources for Educators

WNET is curating a list of free lessons and activities from WNET, PBS LearningMedia, and other trusted partners to help students learn at home. All resources are free and standards-aligned. The resource pages are broken out for educators, families, subject area, and middle- and high-school students.

Kunhardt Film Foundation: Educator Guide for Films

The Kunhardt Film Foundation hosts links to stream award winning films co-produced by HBO, lesson plans and discussion guides, as well as a rich collection of primary source photographs and an Interview Archive. Films on Martin Luther King, Jr., Bryan Stevenson, and Gloria Steinem are featured, with more added each month.

 Teaching for Democracy Alliance: Distance Learning Resource Page

Members of the Teaching for Democracy Alliance are working to create and elevate civic resources which may be useful to students and teachers dealing with the COVID-19 crisis. Resources include distance learning materials from the American Federation of Teachers, Facing History and Ourselves, and the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

Copyright and Creativity’s: Copyright and Distance Learning

Copyright and Creativity’s (C&C) free lessons and videos provide information about how to successfully navigate copyright, and are readily usable for online learning. C&C also offers free, online training for educators and an information sheet to help educators navigate the copyright questions that arise in distance learning.

Project Look Sharp: Free COVID-Related Media Literacy Lessons

Project Look Sharp has released media literacy lessons for educators to use in the classroom related to coronavirus, including lessons on Google searching, fact-checking messages, navigating misinformation related to the virus, and the connection between climate change and the COVID-19 pandemic.

History Communicators: American History YouTube Videos

These YouTube videos from History Communicators on American politics are available for high school teachers teaching American history. Videos include topics such as television and elections, newspapers and elections, and the origins of public relations.

Center for Media Literacy: Media Literacy Infographic

This new infographic from the Center for Media Literacy illustrates their five core concepts and key questions for questioning media messages and social media.