Parent Guides for Kids Learning at Home

Young boy with short black hair and black glasses sitting in front of a laptop. Behind the boy is a green board with tech words and symbols written in white chalk.

Kids and Coding/Codificación y niños/as

What is the best age to start learning to code?
¿Cuál es la mejor edad para comenzar a codificar?

seven years old? ¿siete años de edad?

Coding for Kids: Googe Doodle Instrution Panel

To celebrate kids who code, Google developed an online game that helps kids develop the skills needed for coding. See Coding for Carrots.

Para celebrar a los niños que codifican, Google desarrolló un juego en línea que ayuda a los niños/as a desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para la codificación. Ver a Coding for Carrots.

To learn how to code is to learn how to give instructions to a computer to do certain tasks. It is also known as “software programming” or “computer programming.” To learn how to code is to learn a “language” that computers can understand.

Coding for kids begins with drag-and-drop visual programming as kids learn to connect blocks together to solve problems, like puzzle-building. Kids connect blocks together to make programs. Visual programming helps kids to understand the logic behind the code. Once they learn the basics, kids can move forward to more traditional programming languages.

Definitions/Descriptions above of coding for kids taken loosely from Coding for Kids: The Why & How>Resources for Parents in 2020.

Aprender a codificar es aprender a dar instrucciones a una computadora para realizar ciertas tareas. También se conoce como “programación de software” o “programación de computadora”. Aprender a codificar es aprender un “lenguaje” que las computadoras pueden entender.

La codificación para niños comienza con la programación visual de arrastrar y soltar a medida que los niños aprenden a conectar bloques para resolver problemas, como la construcción de rompecabezas. Los niños conectan bloques juntos para hacer programas. La programación visual ayuda a los niños a comprender la lógica detrás del código. Una vez que aprenden lo básico, los niños pueden avanzar a lenguajes de programación más tradicionales

Definiciones/descripciones anteriores de la codificación para niños extraídas de Coding for Kids: The Why & How> Recursos para padres en 2020.

Information Resources for Parents/Recursos de información para padres

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Blue Poison Frog sitting on a green leaf at the San Diego Zoo

Zoo Help/Ayuda del zoológico

If you are a teacher, parent, grandparent, or older sibling looking to introduce kids to the world of wild animals, the San Diego Zoo has jump-off-the page beautiful pictures and information about its animals on its well-designed and easy-to-navigate website: The San Diego Zoo Kids.

African Cheetah, African Dwarf Crocodile, African Elephant

Over 100 different animals listed: Allen’s Swamp Monkey, American Flamingo, and Anaconda to Two-toed Sloth, Warthog, and White Rhino.

Lion

Online Zoo Games: Living Legends, Tiger Trail, Safari Park Adventure, Polar Bear Plunge, and Elephant Odyssey. To see more about the Lion Game (Living Legends), click here.

Four small kids looking at tall grasses

Zoo Kids Save the World! Find ways your kids can help animals no matter where you live.
Things we do in our everyday life can make a difference for wildlife and their habitats.

Little girl making a plate in arts and crafts room

More than thirty activities (arts and crafts with a mix of science) including coloring pages (elephants, gorillas, penguins, butterflys …), sound science, make a maze, …

Baby tigers with mother

Stories about the lives of the animals at the San Diego Zoo. Illustrated with pictures.

Elephants

Live cameras recording animals in their habitat in the San Diego Zoo. Also story videos about the zoo animals.

What Makes the San Diego Zoo Different From Other Zoos?

The San Diego Zoo has set the standard for modern zoos. In this 100-acre zoo, animals from different species often share the same natural habitat.

By uniting our expertise in conservation science with our dedication to inspiring a passion for nature, San Diego Zoo Global is committed to saving wildlife worldwide.

SAN DIEGO ZOO

The San Diego Zoo is a zoo in Balboa Park, San Diego, California, housing more than 3,500 animals of more than 650 species and subspecies. Its parent organization, San Diego Zoo Global, is one of the largest zoological membership associations in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child memberships, representing more than a half million people.

The San Diego Zoo was a pioneer in the concept of open-air, cageless exhibits that re-create natural animal habitats. It is one of the few zoos in the world that houses, and successfully bred the giant panda, although the pandas have recently been repatriated to China. In 2013, the zoo added a new Australian Outback exhibit, providing an updated Australian animal experience. Another new exhibit, called Africa Rocks, opened in 2017.

With over 4 million visitors, San Diego Zoo is the most visited zoo in the United States.Travelers have also cited it as one of the best zoos of all time.

Wikipedia

For Grownups: teacher/parent resources and activity guides.

And about that blue poison frog at the zoo.