More Learning Links!

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LINKS!

The amazing online school we are enrolled with, Heritage Christian Online, compiled a nice list of links, many with free offers to help us all out during this crazy time. Thanks HCOS!

There are all kinds of things in here from conferences to competitions to curriculum (hey! An alliteration!). We have used or are familiar with many of these, if you have any questions leave a comment below.

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 Training for Parents

Canadian Homeschool Symposium

  • Online April 14 - 18
  • Live workshops on a wide variety of subjects and for early years, high school and in between
  • Enjoy up to 25 live speakers and have lifetime access to all of the workshop videos on demand once you register! Only $20

Homebound 2020 Online Conference 

  • hosted by Julie Bogart and Susan Wise Bauer, presented by Brave Writer and The Well-Trained Mind
  • Replays are available to EVERYONE (registration not necessary for replay) 
  • offering audio "how-to-educate-your-kids-at-home" workshops and lectures, by homeschool authorities Susan Wise Bauer and Jessie Wise, totally FREE for download.

Events and Activities

Common Sense Media

  • ‘The Daily DE’ features a grade-band appropriate learning activity for every day of the week, great for keeping the learning going on at home! Download the Daily DE for your child’s grade band.
    • free online Christian Homeschool Curriculum
  •  family-led learning experiences for ages 3 - 12
  • making educational activities available for download free of charge; new activities weekly — some online, some offline, of varying levels of difficulty

  • Offering daily (weekdays) 12 pm PT live streams on Facebook, YouTube and Twitter for students, parents, and teachers navigating school closures.

    NASA Kids' Club
  • videos, games and related articles covering the exploration of space and the NASA projects currently operational and those in the future.

National Geographic Kids

  • Articles and videos that explore subjects in science and culture around the world

Noggin Hoggin Challenge

  • Free competition - mind-bending puzzles.  Starts April 20 with 6 puzzles in 6 days. How to play. Preliminary Headstart Clue is now available.
  • launching Code to Learn@Home coding and computational thinking learning experiences for students of all ages
  • Offering 24/7 Math & STEAM projects and live classes

  •  a new daily interactive, science-based game show and daily challenges from the creators of the #1 kids & family podcast, Wow in the World.

  • April 6-17: “Best of Coding and Robotics”, a FREE virtual learning event to give teachers and parents knowledge and skills to teach coding and robotics right now.

  • Three times each day (10 am, 3 pm, and 7 pm), a member of their Certified Instructing team teaches a *LIVE* interactive class from their Facebook page.

Science Centres Offering Free Activities to Do At Home

Learning Sites/Subscriptions

2Simple

  • offering free access to both Purple Mash and Serial Mash,

Brave Writer

  • offering some of their paid resources for free until April 30, 2020.

Buncee

  • a creation and presentation tool for students and educators to create interactive classroom content, allowing learners of all ages to visualize concepts and communicate creatively.

Curio.ca

  • streaming access to the best in educational content from CBC and Radio-Canada, Curio.ca is currently available free (Note: BBC, National Geographic, News in Review and Curio info channels not included).
  • adaptive learning platform offering a 90-day free trial until April 30th

  • Offering FREE One Month Gold Membership Dyslexia Support

Emotional ABC’s

  • teach children, ages 4-11, how to figure out WHAT they are feeling, WHY they are having that emotion, and HOW to make better choices.

EVERFI

  • Direct access to EVERFI’s interactive, game-based lessons to equip your child with skills for life.

Gizmos

  • Unlimited access to all 400+ Gizmos for 60 days, free, including full access to teacher guides, assessments and more.  Or use the ‘Free Gizmos Library’, a rotating collection of Gizmos chosen from their library of math and science simulations.  

Google for Education 

  • Quality learning content ranging in subjects from physics to filmmaking, and YouTube Learning Originals 

Mystery Science

Pearson

  • Offering Open Access to Pearson Canada K-12 Resources at Home

PBS LearningMedia and WGBH Distance Learning

  • free, trusted digital resources that span disciplines for grades PreK-12, and include videos, comprehensive lessons, and other activities

Scholastic Learn at Home

  • This free resource (being updated weekly) provides 20 days of exciting articles and stories, videos, and fun learning challenges. Children can complete them anytime, in any order. They can work on their own or together with others
  • Has launched “Caring for Each Other” site which provides content and resources you can use with your family to offer comfort and spark playful learning activities.

Stylewriter Canada


Wide Open School

  • is a free collection of online learning experiences for kids curated by the editors at Common Sense.

Zearn Math


  • entire K-5 curriculum – including 400 hours of digital lessons with on-screen teachers and supportive remediation – is available for free during this time

Read-Alouds

Audible 


  • offering hundreds of titles for children ages 0-18 completely free of charge 


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