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Planning for Healthy Schools: A Guide to Operations during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Planning for Healthy Schools provides an overview of health guidelines and strategies to maintain healthy buildings and protect people. It also contains decision-making tools about when to stay home, what to do if someone is ill or tests positive for COVID-19 and provides links to resources.

What Causes Day and Night?

Use a hands-on activity to illustrate the 24-hour cycle of light and dark on Earth. It’s Activity 1 in the teacher guide, Sleep and Daily Rhythms.

COVID-19 Teaching Resources

Find lessons and activities for grades K-12 on healthy behaviors and science related to the pandemic. Topics include COVID-19 prevention, microbes, infectious diseases, wellness, vaccines and the immune system. The resources are designed for face-to-face or virtual instruction and many of them integrate science with health, reading, mathematics, social studies or art.

STEM to the Rescue

Baylor College of Medicine and Hess Corporation have teamed to offer a unique resource for teaching STEAM content to elementary and middle school students. The 2020 Hess Ambulance Rescue Team, used in combination with the free curricular guide, STEM to the Rescue, provide a powerful STEAM learning experience that engages as it teaches.

STEM @Home Activities

Easy STEM-based science lessons for children and teens.

In these unprecedented times of school closures and Stay-at-Home notices, Baylor College of Medicine is offering a set of hands-on K-12 activities, grouped by grade level, that will enable parents and children to remain engaged in STEM learning until school operations return to normal. We call this collection STEM @Home. The lessons were selected specifically because they are easy to use at home, and provide high-quality STEM content without the need for specialized training, equipment or materials. We welcome you to investigate our STEM @Home activities, and to explore the entire BioEd Online website for accurate, free STEM educational materials.