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and shaping the future of education.* 

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WF1289060 Shaped 2020 Revamp Kindergarten

With these free kindergarten learning activities, videos, and teacher guides, you can build your students' knowledge of reading, math, and science.

Shaped Staff

Kindergarten reading

Help your youngest students' build their literacy skills with these free reading activities for kindergarten, complete with videos, teacher guides, and more.

Shaped Staff

Kindergarten math

Build your youngest learners' numeracy and problem-solving skills with these math activities for kindergarten, complete with videos, teacher guides, and more.

Kindergarten science

Our free, downloadable science activities for kindergarten will get kids planting, observing weather patterns, composting, and much more.

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Looking for ideas for virtual rewards for students in the online classroom? Try these incentives to ensure students have fun in the online classroom. These ideas offer ways to reward individual students or entire classes.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

100th day posters

Use these 100th Day of School poster ideas to celebrate your students' achievements so far this year. As a project, you can also ask students to create their own!

Jordan Friedman
Former Shaped Editor

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We talked with educators across the country about the challenges they’re facing in this unusual school year and the lessons they’ve learned so far. Here's what they had to say.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Use these fun Halloween activities for elementary students to incorporate this spooky holiday into your curriculum.

Joanna Miral
Shaped Staff

Steps to Improve Outcomes HERO

Find out how to move beyond "Can all students use this?" to "Can all students succeed using this?"

Janna Sakson
Shaped Contributor

Remote learning schedule

Get tips on building a daily remote teaching schedule for young students learning from home amid COVID-19.

Adam Drummond, EdD
Associate Partner, The Center for Model Schools and Author, Instructional Leadership

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Every school year brings technological challenges, but remote learning without internet is an entirely new type of challenge. Yet students still need teaching. There are students who do not have reliable—if any!—internet access.

Richard Blankman
Shaped Executive Editor

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Listen to our Ready, Set, School! podcast, developed especially for kids, to get tips and advice for starting this school year wherever you do your learning.

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Museums everywhere are offering free virtual tours and hands-on activities for students.

Brenda Iasevoli
Shaped Executive Editor

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Exploren una variedad de actividades de aprendizaje para alentar a su niño(a) a realizar exploraciones científicas de objetos en el cielo.

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Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage your child in objects in the sky.

Shaped Staff

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Explore five days of reading and learning activities designed to engage your child in an exploration of sports, games, and having fun.

Shaped Staff

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Explore a variety of scientific learning activities to engage your child in environmental conservation.

Shaped Staff

Great outdoors

Exploren una variedad de actividades de aprendizaje para alentar a su niño(a) a realizar exploraciones científicas en los grandes espacios abiertos.

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