School Services

Videos

Our educators are developing short videos for families to use as resources for continued learning while schools are closed. If you have requests for topics, please submit using the “Ask a Teacher” form.

Video Playlist: Education Resources from Seattle Children's School Services Team

Parents/Caregivers

Facebook Live Panel: School in the Time of COVID (1:07:18)
- These are challenging times and almost everything about our daily lives looks different. In this recorded video, panelists discuss school-to-home partnership, student rights in education, as well as strategies for keeping kids engaged in at-home learning.

Unique Learning Needs

Facing long-term school absences…advice from a hospital school teacher (5:30)
- A hospital school teacher provides advice to families that are faced with a lengthy absence from school due to a health crisis. Strategies for building a harmonious academic relationship within the family are explored.
Helping Students be On Task (3:09)
- Helping your child with unique learning needs use their own motivation to engage in learning tasks.

Grades K-3

Students
- Let's Count: Counting Collections Introduction (2:20)
  - Counting Collections is a great activity to practice a variety of math skills in a fun and engaging way. It is an easy activity to do anywhere because you can count anything!
- Counting Collections: Recording Your Counting (3:40)
  - Counting Collections is a great activity to practice a variety of math skills in a fun and engaging way. It is an easy activity to do anywhere because you can count anything! This lesson focuses on strategies to record your counting.
- Cooking with Fractions! (10:58)
  - This video reviews fractions and uses them to help cut a recipe in 1/2 to make fewer cookies. Students can also print off the tools and recipe and make their own cookies.
  - Fraction Recipe (DOCX)

Grades 4-8

Students
- Introducing Project Based Learning to Students (2:28)
  - Project Based Learning is a method of discovery students can use to solve a real-world problem or answer a complex question. Students create a project based on a topic of interest, then research to find a possible solution. At the end of the project, students create a product or presentation to share what they have learned.
- Seattle Children's Educators Present: Math Problem #1 (1:52)
  - Students, do you think you can solve this math problem? Pause the video while you figure it out! Can you make your own picture like this to stump someone?
- Seattle Children's Educators Present: Math Problem #2: Perimeter Magic (2:44)
  - Students, do you think you can solve this math puzzle? Grab something to write with and see if you can work through it. Pause the video while you figure it out!
- Seattle Children's Educators Present: Math Problem #3: The Grasshopper (3:26)
  - Students, can you use your knowledge of patterns, fractions, and problem solving to figure out this problem? Pause the video while you think about it!
- Generating Ideas with Prewriting (2:58)
  - This video models one strategy in the prewriting stage of the Writing
    Process. Students will learn how to use "clustering" to generate and
    further clarify their ideas before writing.
Parents/Caregivers
- Introducing Project Based Learning to Families (3:22)
  - Wanting to know more about how to set up projects at home with your child? Project Based Learning is a strategy students can use at home to dive into real world and meaningful learning.
- Reading Strategy for Families: Finding the Main Idea (4:57)
  - Finding the Main Idea is one reading comprehension strategy you can use to help your child become a more confident and independent reader.
- Improving Reading Comprehension: Help Readers Ask Questions and Make Predictions (6:44)
  - Wondering how to help readers understand what they have read? By showing students how to ask questions and make predictions during their reading, we can help them to create a deeper connection to and understanding of what they read.
- Facebook Live Panel: School in the Time of COVID (1:07:18)
  - These are challenging times and almost everything about our daily lives looks different. In this recorded video, panelists discuss school-to-home partnership, student rights in education, as well as strategies for keeping kids engaged in at-home learning.

Grades 9-12

Students

Book Club Introduction: Persepolis (2:46)
- This is the start of our book club aimed at high school students who are patients at Seattle Children's Hospital.
- Seattle Children’s high school teachers discuss chapters of Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi.
Book Club Introduction: Children of Blood and Bone (3:14)
- Join us as we read Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi together! This is the first of a video series discussing this book. Children of Blood and Bone is a young adult novel which is the first book of a trilogy.
- Seattle Children’s high school teachers discuss chapters of Children of Blood and Bone by Tomi Adeyemi.
Graduation during COVID-19 (2:40)
- This video provides useful information about what seniors should be doing to ensure they will still graduate this school year.