Episode 75: Online Resources to Teach about the Coronavirus


In this episode, you will learn about some free resources to help you understand the coronavirus and teach your kids about it.

If you haven't already listened to episode 58 How to Teach your Kids to Identify Fake News, I suggest you listen to it. In that episode, I share resources you can go through with. your children. Understanding fake news will help children figure out what the facts are and what is just hype and false information.

These are the online resources to teach about the coronavirus mentioned in this episode. Please note that often the data in the tables is a day old which that accounts for some discrepancies between the different sources.

Websites for parents to learn more about the Coronavirus

* World Health Organization - especially their daily Situation Report

* Flatten the Curve

* Medium Article - Coronavirus: Why you must act now
*
Worldometer

* State websites - Tennessee's is here

* Johns Hopkins Global Tracker

* Coronavirus charts

* Simulation of the effect of different ways of dealing with the virus


Resources for children to learn more about the Coronavirus

* Brainpop's video and other activities

* Newsela for articles written for different reading abilities

* Comic Book by NPR

* Ted-Ed Playlist - Humans vs Viruses

* Scholastic has a number of coronavirus resources grouped by age

* And 2 resources that contain videos, explanations and hands-on activities and experiments from show sponsor FundaFunda Academy's