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

This free online typing tutorial helps students practice touch typing skills while improving speed and accuracy. Keybr provides an advanced learning experience as it uses statistics and algorithms to generate lessons based on each student’s skill level.

Khan Academy offers support for a number of subjects. This is specifically their section on world history.

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

"Use Kialo to help students get to the core of the issues they’re discussing To put their knowledge into action.

To sharpen their critical reasoning skills

To demonstrate their understanding

To engage constructively with each other

Take your classroom discussions online, break down complex subjects for students, and shake it up with new types of assignments."

This education version is free for teachers to use!

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.

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.

"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.

This site offers lessons for students of all ages and typing abilities. Designed by a high school typing tutor, kids can improve speed, accuracy, and build confidence through typing tests, games, and video tutorials.

Learner Sketch Tool. The Learner Sketch Tool (LST) is an online tool designed to provide learners with a personalized profile and strategies to improve learning outcomes, and educators with information and strategies for strengths-based conversations that support every learner's growth and success.

PLEASE ALSO SEE THE LEARNER PROFILE COLLECTION TO ASSIST YOU IN BUILDING FULL LEARNER PROFILES FOR YOUR STUDENTS. Click "Discover" then "Collections" to find this collection. Consider including learning styles, personality types, strengths, prefernces, etc.

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.

This site offers a selection of activities, broken down by various grade levels. The guides will be released weekly and archived on the Learning Inside Out page , so there is always access to the full catalogue.

All activities have been modified from resources on the R4R (Resources for Rethinking) database, simplified and adapted for at-home learning as needed.

The resources support learning both inside and out, we're putting a special emphasis on outdoor activities.

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"Callysto is a free, multimodal learning program for grades 5-12 students in Canada. The program is part of a two-year pilot project by Cybera and the Pacific Institute for Mathematical Sciences (PIMS), who received funding from the federal government’s CanCode program to build and employ new technologies that promote digital literacy and help Canada’s youth develop the foundational skills required to become the future drivers of innovation."

Learning modules are available for Math, ELA, Science, Social, etc.
Click RESOURCES then select - learning modules, lesson plans, Indigenous content, data, computational thinking, problem solving.
Use the "bubbles" to filter to the subject.

Click GET STARTED to find the teacher starter kit and free full courses on computing science 10, AI, computational thinking, data science.

This site is an invaluable teacher tool to help reduce prejudice and encourage tolerance in schools, as well as within society as a whole. For grades K-12. Classroom resources include: Lessons, Learning Plans, Student Texts, Student Tasks, Teaching Strategies, Learning Plan Builder, Film Kits, Printable Posters.

"Learning for Justice seeks to uphold the mission of the Southern Poverty Law Center: to be a catalyst for racial justice in the South and beyond, working in partnership with communities to dismantle white supremacy, strengthen intersectional movements and advance the human rights of all people."

Learn to code with Minecraft for free.

The lessons provide a step by step tutorial, and once you are comfortable you can make your own coding projects.

You will need the Minecraft App to test your code.

Use this game to learn and improve how you read a standard English ruler (also called an inch ruler, customary ruler, imperial ruler). Check out the option for reading a metric ruler as well.

Great for enhancing carpentry skills or for measurement in math!

"Give your students a deeper understanding of money management using a curriculum offered by Choices & Decisions: Taking charge of your financial life™. This program is designed to teach young people how to set long and short-term personal and financial goals; create and work with a personal budget; identify how and when to use credit; save and invest, understand the basics of banking services and develop character and confidence. The materials can easily be adapted for use in a wide variety of instructional settings including high schools, colleges and adult education programs.

Start making a difference with your students today. Select specific lessons or in-class activities or download everything as a PDF file."

Choices & Decisions Introduction

Decisions & Goals: Making Decisions; Making Money; The Art of Budgeting;

Loans & Expenses: Student Loans; Living on your Own; Buying a Home; Cars and Loans

Banking & Credit: Banking Services; Saving and Investing; About Credit; Credit Cards

Consumer Knowledge: Influence of Advertising; Consumer Awareness; In Trouble; About Consumer Privacy