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Repurposing your classroom equipment Ideas on how to meet the CDC’s guidelines for reopening schools

Choose2Reuse As schools are reopening, they will begin to look a little different. Now more than ever, hand hygiene, modified layouts and how to reduce the sharing of classroom tools will be priorities. However, this does not necessarily mean you have to go out and purchase new items to accommodate the CDC’s guidelines.

There are most likely a variety of products in your school right now that can be repurposed for this new landscape.

We hope these suggestions help.

Repurposing things around your school 1-14 Printable templates 15 Resources 16

HOW TO

Create your own sanitizer cart for entrances to have people sanitize upon entry

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Take a standard AV Cart and add: • A paper towel holder stand (like you have in your kitchen) • A garbage bin • An acrylic stand for signage • A thermometer, sanitizer, gloves, etc.

• A standard open storage tub

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Create your own student or teacher tub kits to avoid cross contamination

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Take a standard AV Cart and add:

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Individually label every tub to reduce the chances of cross contamination

For teachers • Small tubs • A thermometer, sanitizer, gloves, paper towels, etc.

Individual supplies for students, such as: • Personalized small tubs • Scissors, pens, glue sticks, rulers, etc.

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If you don’t have a cart or trolley available to move your devices around the school, there are other solutions available.

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How can I distribute devices quickly when all my students are physically distancing?

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Create your own cart for managing and distributing devices

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Take a standard AV Cart and add: • Tech Tubs® or any other device storage options you might be using (Number of Tech Tubs® may vary depending on the type of cart you have)

Placing Tech Tubs® around the room is a good way to encourage physical distancing and quick deployments.

Download a name template to make it easy to assign devices to individual students to reduce sharing of materials

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HOW TO

Create a cart to carry tools that disinfect devices and other classroom objects

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Take a standard AV Cart and add: • Sanitizer wipes, buckets for clean and dirty equipment and signage to create your own station • A pasta strainer to create a manipulative cleaning tool

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Students are now spreading out and eating their meals in different locations. How can I distribute their food safely?

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Create your own cart for meal distribution

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Take a standard AV Cart and add: • Lunch trays • A garbage bin Use to transport meals throughout a school or to outdoor eating areas.

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I need my students to keep their distance from each other in class and in outdoor learning environments.

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Create your own physical distancing solution

Take some hulahoops and lay them out next to each other (do not overlap) to indicate personal space and create a safe learning environment Suitable for outdoor and indoor areas

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The following pages use Copernicus products to illustrate how classroom furniture can be repurposed to support CDC guidelines.

We are not suggesting that these solutions can only be achieved with our products.

Hacks can be replicated with brands you may already have instead of buying something new.

Please check product usage guidelines to ensure they are fit for the purpose we are recommending.

HOW TO

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I need to create some large signage to help everyone know about our guidelines.

What can I use?

Create large mobile indoor signage for common areas such as hallways and foyers

• Post entering protocols • Instruct on how to wash or sanitize hands • Post a health tip of the day • Instruct on how to properly wear a face covering

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I want to use my school’s outdoor learning space to help students distance. What could I use to help with instruction?

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Create alternative uses for your classroom easels

For outdoor teaching areas* • Move outside to create an outdoor painting center • This double sided easel provides a barrier between students *Easel shown is designed to be stored indoors after use.

Please check all usage instuctions for your existing easels

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My students are working on projects outside, but we don’t have anything suitable to write on.

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Create alternative uses for your classroom tabletop easels For outdoor* teaching areas and remote learning • Easy to carry anywhere for language and other lessons *Easel shown is designed to be stored indoors after use.

Please check all usage instructions for your existing easels

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I want to make sure that all my students have personalized kits to help stop the spread of germs.

What could I use to store them in?

For classrooms Useful for:

• Holding students’ personal belongings • Carrying student’s books for the week

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Create your own personal storage carts and kits

For common areas Useful for:

For outdoor spaces Useful for:

• Librarians who make classroom deliveries of books rather than students visiting the library

• Bringing materials to outdoor classrooms • Giving each student a tub to collect items while exploring the outdoors

• Placing in a hallway as a sanitized cleaning kit station for students and staff to pick up their supplies each morning

If you also have one of our easels with a removable whiteboard, hang it on the frame of the cart as an outdoor dry-erase surface *Cart shown is designed to be stored indoors after use.

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I need a solution for making sure everyone sanitizes their hands before entering the school.

What could I use?

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Create your own health screening station

For common areas including school entrances • Use for storing a sanitizer dispenser, thermometer, attendance checklists, record keeping etc

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I need a solution to help me teach remotely should my school have to close again.

Set up a document camera stand from your class to record and stream lessons to your students

For remote learning • A document camera stand sets up quickly on your kitchen table and keeps you hands free for lessons and demonstrations

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I need flexible storage for keeping all kinds of things separated and organized. What can I use?

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Maximize the uses for classroom storage tubs

For outdoors/Indoor spaces

For common areas

For classrooms

• Use for individual sand and water play

• Locking storage for extra PPE, thermometers, etc.

• Use for storing individual materials for students, like scissors, colored pens and craft material

• Use for distributing different sized masks or gloves as people enter the building • Use for holding classroom cleaning supplies • Use for distributing books in the classroom

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Free templates to download for sanitizing signage and Tech Tub device personalization (Each template is designed to print in US letter format - 81/2” x 11”)

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Download a name template to make it easy to assign devices to individual students to reduce sharing (Each template is designed to print in US letter format - 81/2” x 11”)

Template for Tech Tubs that hold 6 devices Jamie Tasha Stephane May Natalie Haley

Template for Tech Tubs that hold 10 devices Jamie Tasha Stephane May Natalie Haley

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A selection of helpful tips and resources for keeping young students engaged

Outdoor Activies: Outdoor obstacle course

Practice gross motor skills such as balance, coordination and concentration by creating a DIY balance beam course in your yard!

Make a COVID-19 Time Capsule

Loving Creations has created free downloadable sheets for children to create a record of how they are feeling, who they are, handprints and more.

Plan Discovery Lab

Go for a walk and then set this up on your kitchen table

Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots at Home

Jane Goodall Canada has compiled the best stay at home activities to support educators and students

Getting your Hands Dirty

3 Fun Garden Science Activities

Crafts, Maker and STEM activities iHeart Arts n Crafts 15 super fun cardboard box projects for kids Fabulessly Frugal 7 beautiful stained glass art projects for kids Meraki Lane 41 STEM projects for kids of all ages Carnegie Science Center Science lesson plans, activities and videos for PreK-12.

Lego Activities Combine math, science, storytelling, reading and problem solving activities with Lego projects 16

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