Teaching About COVID-19
Resources About Handwashing, Novel Coronavirus and COVID-19
Note: We compiled this resources in spring 2020. We plan to update them soon knowing that some of them may be out of date.
- Science at Cal made a Science of COVID-19 web page to provide a list of curated references of all kinds about the disease
- Novel-CoronaVirus Coronavirus from NY Times How Coronavirus Highjacks Your Cells – A short but fascinating and clear guide from the NY Times on what’s happening at the molecular level with caronavirus. (You may need to clear cookies to access the article if you’ve used up your NYTimes articles for the month!
- Science Friday Focus on Coronavirus
- Hand Washing
- PBS LearningMedia Video on Handwashing
- Handwashing Video and Information from the CDC
- Germ Smart Kids Video on How to Wash Your Hands – short and thorough
- Handwashing with Ink to show how each movement washes a different part of the hands
- National Public Radio put together a Comic Exploring the New Coronavirus specifically for kids. Also available in Spanish
- Germs and Your Body is a BASIS lesson we bring to Kindergarten classes, but it can be used at any grade level. Follow the instructions on how to demostrate how germs spread.
- How to Talk to Kids About Coronavirus from Harvard Health Blog
- Teaching About Coronavirus: 3 Lesson Plans for Science, Math, and Media Literacy from EdWeek
- Coronavirus: Resources for Students from Newsela
- The Exploratorium put together a Learning Toolbox of lessons that can be done at home about viruses and social distancing.