World’s Largest Lesson, in partnership with Unicef, offers resources for teachers and students that are free, open source and translated into over 10 languages. Themes include inequality and injustice, poverty and climate change.
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The Museum of Vancouver
The Museum of Vancouver has free educational lessons, activities and recommended resources.
Live It
Live It is offering a free educational series this spring. Students will have an opportunity to learn about caribou, marine wolf, oceans and robots over the next few weeks.
- Videos every Mon, Tues & Wed at 11 am PST.
- A live Q&A with topic experts every Thursday at 11 am during a 20 to 30 minute show (parent or guardian required to help with asking the questions).
- End of the week online game (based on the topic).
- Educational slideshows, templates and more!
Registration: https://www.liveit.earth/10-week-sign-up
Raincoast Conservation Foundation
“Raincoast is a team of conservationists and scientists empowered by our research to protect the lands, waters and wildlife of coastal British Columbia.
Raincoast is launching a live and interactive Coastal Insights online learning program every Wednesday at 1 pm PST until the end of the school year.
Each week, our special guests will be sharing a fun and exciting topic on the lands, waters, and wildlife of coastal British Columbia to help you gain a new perspective on the coast.
The programs address the BC curriculum and offer students supplementary learning resources, a weekly challenge, and recorded episodes, which will be posted after each lesson, if possible. Lessons focus on engaging high school students, however, anyone interested is welcome to join!
Registration for online learning
Registration is welcome at any step in the process. Registering once gives you access to the full remaining online curriculum.”
Come Learn with Me
SET-BC has created a robust learning resource for diverse learners that is designed from a UDL perspective:
Communicating with Parents
Are you having difficulty communicating with parents whose primary language is something other than English? Using Google Translator within Google Meet helps teachers connect with new English language learners and their parents.
Capstone
Levelled reading support for fiction and non-fiction:
Username: elearning20
Password: canadatrial
Digital Manipulatives
Brainingcamp is offering a free license until June 30, 2020.
“Brainingcamp is passionate about using technology to make abstract math more interactive and visual for learners. We believe physical manipulatives provide students with an important tactile experience, but digital manipulatives can be more convenient, easier to use, and include many special features to facilitate learning.”
Source: https://www.brainingcamp.com/
“Adrian Mendoza shares how to interact with math virtual manipulatives to promote mathematical conversations from a distance using strategic questions, sentence stems, and visuals while encouraging curiosity in a mathematical growth mindset classroom setting.”
Source: https://youtu.be/jbdmj8Dxr6k
Here are a couple other free resources with digital manipulatives:
Communicating with Parents
Here are some tools to help you communicate with parents who do not speak English:
Google Translate
Microsoft Translator
Translate a Microsoft Word document to over 65 languages in a few clicks:
Canadian Geographic Education
Canadian Geographic Education has a library of new, ready-to-use activities and lesson plans designed specifically for the online classroom.