This is a collection of resources to support learning at home for students in Grade Four to Six.
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Dance to the beat of rated-G versions of popular songs like Thank U, Next, Señorita and Old Town Road. Have a KIDZ BOP Dance Party in your living room to get the wiggles out! KIDZ BOP Dance Along videos are the best way to incorporate music + movement into your daily routine.
Kahoot! is a game-based platform that makes learning awesome for millions of people all over the world. Sign up to create and play fun quiz games!
Having students make quizzes on Kahoot! is a great way for them to extend their learning and benefit the entire class!
Kahoot! is an excellent formative assessment tool. You can give feedback to your students after each question as you play. Make learning a game show...your students will never have so much fun being assessed.
This site offers a collection of resources to help support learning while families are home due to the COVID-19 pandemic and suspension of in-class instruction. It will be updated as more resources are identified and there is new information to share.
Sections include: (for Early Learning and Primary Years through to Adult Learning)
- Weekly Home Learning Videos
- Activities
- Learning from Home
- Everyday Learning Activities (ideas for promoting learning in many subject areas and with many activities)
- Resources (including educational programming from museums, science centers, zoos, artists, storytellers and others on a wide variety of topics, activities, games, videos, books and reading, educational collections, hands-on activities, languages, math, outdoor education, science, natural and human history, special education, French resources, and much more)
- Keeping Healthy
Keyboarding Zoo is a fun and educational activity to help early elementary age students learn the keyboard. Children are encouraged to use their index or pointer fingers to match letters on the screen to their keyboards. Uppercase letters, numbers and symbols are coming soon!
Watch. Practice. Learn almost anything for free.
Now with ELA!
*Math K-12 (including "get ready for grade X to prepare") + college level
*Computing
*Science
*Arts, Business & Humanities
*Reading & ELA
*Life Skills - growth mindset, AI, financial literacy, SEL, safety, career
*Economics
This is a great resource for students to research animals and play games related to animal studies.
"While National Geographic Kids isn't well-organized for teachers, it is a fantastic resource for students to explore their interests and follow their curiosity. The site would be a great way to introduce the diversity of life on Earth: Encourage students to learn about new animals, watch the science and geography series, and explore the interactive world map. The Homework Help section can provide additional information for light research papers or projects. Teachers can search, themselves, for resources that match topics they're working on in the classroom.
Teachers of younger students will find this easy-to-use educational tool a great way to increase engagement and add extension activities for science and social studies lessons. Note: Though the site content is free, there are abundant links to subscribe to the National Geographic Kids and National Geographic Little Kids magazines." (Common Sense Media Review)
This 30-minute-long exercise YouTube video is the perfect excuse to get moving along with your kids. HIIT, or high-intensity interval training, is a workout that combines intense bursts of exercise and short, active recovery periods. Think marching, jumping jacks and squats. No equipment needed! Just put on a pair of athletic shoes and press play.
Find podcasts on a variety of topics for pretty much every subject area.
*Great for Daily 5.
*Tons of stories and more!
Kids Listen is a grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children.
Looking for something fun and educational to do this summer?
Check out this great site. It has 4 weeks of activities for kids of all ages. You'll find screen-free activities, crafts, online games and videos, virtual tours of the coolest places to see the coolest things, Live Cams, science experiments, STEM activities, Minute to Win It family games, art lessons, summer camp ideas to do at home and much, much more!
Let the summer fun and learning begin!
The Body Coach TV YouTube channel offers lots of 5-10 mins quick workouts.
Taking STEAM Learning to new heights! LEGO® Education is teaming up with NASA and the Artemis I team to bring students and teachers an out-of-this-world STEAM learning series. Build to Launch is an exploration of the technology, STEAM concepts and careers behind the Artemis I mission to the Moon. Join the all new LEGO® Space Team and their Artemis I team counterparts for a 10-week interactive digital learning adventure. Each episode students will find themselves in the shoes of NASA engineers, scientists, and of course astronauts. Through open ended lessons students will get hands-on and solve similar problems the Artemis I team faces as they build towards launch.
Downloadable teacher resources include: Teacher Resource Guide, LEGO Space Team Cards, Engineering Design Notebook, Module 1 Teacher Guide, Module 1 Student Lessons, Module 2 Teacher Guide, Module 2 Students Lessons, Module 3 Teacher Guide, Module 3 Student Lessons, Professional Development Resource Guide, Certificate of Completion.
There is a series overview webinar and videos for each of the episodes.
Check out the great fun!
"Mo Willems invites YOU into his studio every day for his LUNCH DOODLE. Learners worldwide can draw, doodle and explore new ways of writing by visiting Mo’s studio virtually once a day for the next few weeks. Grab some paper and pencils, pens, or crayons and join Mo to explore ways of writing and making together."
Calldecott winning author Laura Vaccaro has compiled a free set of literacy resources to go along with her books which educators are free to print and share. These resources would support literacy in both reading and comprehending, as well as creating and responding to text. Most of the books are available to read online, or could be read aloud as part of a video shared with families. The resources to accompany the books are printable, so may be supportive of those families with less access or familiarity with technology
"Learn360 is the premier streaming digital delivery service for the K–12 educational market: the complete district solution. Teachers, students, and parents can access more than 130,000 multimedia resources - including high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, articles, activities, worksheets, and more - on any Internet-enabled device, anytime, anywhere. Its enhanced, state-of-the-art platform, featuring the content, navigation, educator tools, speed, and performance that today’s online experience demands, makes Learn360 a powerful tool for flipped classrooms, blended instruction, project-based learning, and 1:1 environments. Content is provided by more than 200 top educational producers, and that number is continually growing. Learn360 currently serves more than 22 million students in 26,900+ schools across the United States and Canada."
Included are:
*Videos
*Interactives
*Printable Materials
*Audio Books
*Feature Films
To access full movies from criterion click the menu and scroll down to PREMIUM CONTENT and click "Criterion on Demand". There you can find many full length feature films to watch!
Sun West Students can contact their teachers for login information for at home learning.
Learn English is hosted by the British Council and uses high-quality resources to help users improve their English. There are unique, but linked websites for adults, teens and children. The focus is on learning English (cognitive skills) and best suited for learners wishing to improve their English.
Although the site includes British content, the free activities would be beneficial for all EAL students.
Short little videos and pictures that tell stories to help students remember facts.
Gamified, data-driven activities help master keyboarding skills.
A huge number of digestible lessons, addictive gameplay, an intuitive skills progression, and an attractive interface.
This 7 minute video talks about how your brain works and how it can help you learn. This is a great video for kids to learn more about themselves and help develop metacognition to become a successful learner.
The Learning Circle has been produced to help meet Canadian educator's growing need for elementary-level learning exercises on First Nations. There are four classroom guides (ages 4-7, ages 8-11, ages 12-14, ages 14-16) on First Nations in Canada. The Learning Circle is organized in thematic units. each with its own teaching activities. Units are designed to give teachers and students simple but effective exercises, projects and activities that will encourage students to learn more about First Nations. Educators can follow some of the exercises as stand-alone units on First Nations topics, or integrate them with existing curricula on Aboriginal peoples. Most exercises in The Learning Circle can be completed in one period. Certain others will take several periods, days or weeks.
From Indian and Northern Affairs Canada.