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The Virtual Purple Museum, part of the Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose  Hands-on activities and fun learning opportunities for young children

Virtually Maker Faire   Engage kids with cool projects and activities. Maker Camp is free for everyone online. Many free projects & project kits for sale.

Tools2Thrive A website devoted to maintaining our mental health, coping with stress & creating healthy living routines

Museum of Science+Industry, Chicago  Explore a world class museum with a special section that focuses on learning at home.

Tuesday Tales Science stories for young children, provided by the Museum of Science & Industry, Chicago

Learning Resources at the National Air & Space Museum A large collection of K-12 material, including STEM 30, a 30 minute video podcast for middle school students

Lawrence Livermore National Lab Distance Learning – David Rakestraw’s high school physic’s curriculum using cell phone sensors

What Engineers Do When Quarantined – Check out this creative use of toilet paper and share with us your own version

Golden Gate Audubon Society – Local birding resources and locations as we enter the peak of the spring migration season

Enjoying Spring from Quarantine – Learn how to enjoy nature and birding during social distancing with a recent episode of Science Friday

KQED At-Home Learning – Learning resources for children and youth affected by school closures

Bring Science Home – Scientific American’s extensive educational activities page

Coronavirus Science Activities – Engaging ways to learn about viruses and human interactions from the Exploratorium

Talking to Children about the Coronavirus – Suggestions from the CDC (English and Spanish)

Handwashing – A short video demonstrating effects of improper handwashing from Science Buddies

Mystery Science – Free K-5 science lessons and activities by grade (English and Spanish)

NEW! Indirect effects of COVID on environment   ScienceDirect: Research studies show that despite the positive indirect effects on the environment, the new coronavirus has also generated negative indirect ones. (Apr 17, 2020)

NEW! A Pause in Pollution   Bay Area Monitor/League of Women Voters:  The effects of the massive shutdown in the Bay Area could offer us lessons of what is needed to sustain positive changes to our environment (June)

NEW! COVID on environment     National Oceanic and Atmospheric AdministrationI investigation on the impact of reduced traffic, air travel, shipping.(May 6)

New York Times article  notes that the year really ended in March and that there is a need for making up for lost instruction time.

Centers for Disease Control identified guidelines for opening childcare centers, schools, and youth programs.

California Department of Public Health has also identified guidelines for opening schools.  Local school districts will use the recommendations to establish needed policies and procedures.

New York Times opinion piece that describes how virtual college classes might continue in the coming years.

Antibody Testing – Big Questions Remain   SF Chronicle – The technology needed for antibody testing is still largely unproven. a significant number of commercial tests were performing poorly (May 9)

COVID-19 Serology Surveillance Strategy  CDC: an overarching strategy for learning more about how many people have been infected with SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and how it is spreading through the U.S. population (May 17)

Can Antibody Test Results be Trusted  Discover: The tests are crucial to understanding the full scope of the COVID-19 pandemic. But right now, the results aren’t reliable. (May 22)

COVID-19 Projections Latest data on infection & tracing testing in California.  How much are hospital resources being used: ICU patients & ventilators

COVID Testing insights!  This Johns Hopkins University Initiative provides a clear understanding & the limitations of the two types of COVID-19 tests: viral and serology.

Group screening” for COVID Describes a new way to get more testing done by pooling diagnostic samples and using a little math, lets more people get tested with fewer assays

Contact Tracing Explained  A Time magazine article describes how public health workers will track COVID-19. Using insights gained from Ebola & other outbreaks, tracking can be an effective tool in stopping COVID-19’s spread.

Contact Tracing Explained  Describes how California will deploy up to 10,000 contact tracers across the state.

What is Quarantine Fatigue & what can you do about it – Are you getting tired of being house-bound…you’re not alone.

“Mobility Changes”  How are people moving around as country opens up?…a special report (pdf)

Bay Area progress towards opening up – How are Bay Area counties moving into Stage 2?

The Lockdowns worked…what’s next? – Exit strategies around the world.

Resilience Roadmap – Governor Newsom modified the state-wide order permitting counties to move into Stage 2

Bay Area Health Orders Remain in Effect – loosening restrictions

Contact Tracing 101 – How it works, who could get hired, and why it’s so critical in fighting coronavirus

Antibody Research – What antibody studies can tell you and more importantly, what they can’t

Interview with Paul Romer – Why the American Economy Can’t Reopen Without Widespread Coronavirus Testing

Why are viruses hard to kill? – Virologists explain why these tiny parasites are so tough to treat

Testing Major League Baseball employees – Stanford researchers test MLB employees for COVID-19 antibodies

Llamas and COVID-19 – Antibodies from llamas could help in fight against COVID-19

San Francisco Chronicle Coronavirus Tracker – Updated normalized data for the Bay Area and California

Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation – Forecasting the COVID-19 containment strategy in the U.S. and each of the 50 states

Ex-astronaut José Hernández has NASA-approved tips – How to stay sane in isolation and communicate in a crowded environment, via NBC

How some cities ‘flattened the curve’ during the 1918 flu pandemic – Social distancing isn’t a new idea, it saved thousands of American lives during the last great pandemic, via National Geographic

Playing point on bad intel – Stanford basketball great Kate Starbird fights coronavirus misinformation as a University of Washington researcher, via East Bay Times

What immunity to Covid-19 might actually mean – How your body will try to save you from the new coronavirus, via Vox

Reusing and decontaminating N95 masks – how hospitals can decontaminate and reuse scarce N95 masks to fight COVID-19, via Stanford News

How the Bay Area Came to Lead the Nation into Shelter in Place – Listen to an interview with Dr. Sara Cody who is on the forefront of fighting the COVID-19 outbreak, via KQED

National Daily Health Survey – Help Stanford Medicine collect data to track and fight COVID-19

Worldometer – Extensive site on global COVID-19 data with normalized statistics for comparison between regions

California Hospital Data – Infections and hospitalization data by county for California, via CA Open Data

COVID Near You – Contribute and view publicly reported data across the country. Source: Harvard Medical School

Coronavirus facts, myths and information – Answers to common questions from the public. Source: CNN

Why outbreaks like coronavirus spread exponentially – Understanding exponential growth and why we need to flatten the curve. Source: Washington Post

How to Clean Your Home for Coronavirus – Cleaning advice and warnings about chemical reactions from an expert. Source: Vox