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School Closures & Online Learning Resources

Educational / curriculum based: 

1.PBS Learning Media: a lot of videos, interactive content, and supporting documents. You can browse content according to grade level and national and/or state standards. https://www.pbslearningmedia.org/

2. Khan Academy. https://www.khanacademy.org/

3. Coursera

4. Canadian Higher Learning Academy. Fully accredited private online high school offering full course loads for Grades 9 – 12. https://chlacademy.ca/curriculum/ 

5. Yale Open Courses: Excellent for older students. Great lectures and syllabi on science, history, literature, art, architecture, politics etc. https://oyc.yale.edu/

Literature: 

Modern Poetry https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-310

Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner https://oyc.yale.edu/american-studies/amst-246

American Novel since 1945https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-291

Milton https://oyc.yale.edu/english/engl-220

Dante in Translationhttps://oyc.yale.edu/italian-language-and-literature/ital-310

Cervantes’ Don Quixote: https://oyc.yale.edu/spanish-and-portuguese/span-300

Introduction to the New Testament https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-152

Introduction to the Old Testament https://oyc.yale.edu/religious-studies/rlst-145

Art: Roman Architecture https://oyc.yale.edu/history-of-art/hsar-252

History

Introduction to Ancient Greek History https://oyc.yale.edu/classics/clcv-205

African American History from the Emancipation to the Present: https://oyc.yale.edu/african-american-studies/afam-162

The American Revolution https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-116

The Civil War and Reconstruction Era:https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-119

The Early Middle Ages https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-210

Early Modern England https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-251

European Civilization, 1648-1945https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-202

Epidemics in Western Society since 1600 https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-234

France since 1871 https://oyc.yale.edu/history/hist-276

Science:

Fundamentals of Physics 1 https://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-200

Fundamentals of Physics 2https://oyc.yale.edu/physics/phys-201

Introduction to Psychology https://oyc.yale.edu/introduction-psychology/psyc-110

Psychology, Biology, Politics of Food.https://oyc.yale.edu/psychology/psyc-123

Global problems of Population growth https://oyc.yale.edu/molecular-cellular-and-developmental-biology/mcdb-150

Frontiers and Controversies in Astrophysics

Frontiers in Biomedical Engineering https://oyc.yale.edu/biomedical-engineering/beng-100

Freshman Organic Chemistry https://oyc.yale.edu/chemistry/chem-125a

Freshman Organic Chemistry IIhttps://oyc.yale.edu/chemistry/chem-125b

Evolution, Ecology, and Behavior https://oyc.yale.edu/ecology-and-evolutionary-biology/eeb-122

Atmosphere, Ocean, Environmental Changehttps://oyc.yale.edu/geology-and-geophysics/gg-140

Philosophy, Politics, Sociology

Foundations of Modern Social Theoryhttps://oyc.yale.edu/sociology/socy-151

Introduction to Political Philosophyhttps://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-114

Environmental Politics and Law

Philosophy and Science of Human Nature https://oyc.yale.edu/philosophy/phil-181

Death https://oyc.yale.edu/death/phil-176

Capitalism: Success, Crisis, Reform https://oyc.yale.edu/political-science/plsc-270

Power and Politics in Today’s World https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDqvzFY72mg

6. Yale at Coursera:

Introduction to Classical Music https://www.coursera.org/learn/introclassicalmusic

Moral Foundations of Politics https://www.coursera.org/learn/moral-politics?action=enroll

7. EdX hosts open courses from Harvard, Berkeley, UTexas and other institutions. https://www.edx.org/

8. ITunes U: Roslyn Union Free School. App must be downloaded.

To Kill a Mockingbird https://itunes.apple.com/ca/course/exploring-to-kill-a-mockingbird/id1052616731

Graphic Literature https://itunes.apple.com/om/course/graphic-literature/id813213642

Literature of Global History. https://itunes.apple.com/ca/course/the-literature-of-global-history-2013-2014/id813228304?ign-mpt=uo%3D2

9. Scholastic Learn at Home

10, Class Central. https://www.classcentral.com/

11. Prodigy. https://www.prodigygame.com/ Curriculum based math exercises from grade 1-8.

12. Freckle https://www.freckle.com/ Content on math, writing, social studies and science. 

13. Listenwise https://listenwise.com/ Audio lessons. Free trial for 30 days. 

14. 123 Homeschool for Me https://www.123homeschool4me.com/ Free printable worksheets, organized according to subjects and grade level 

15. New York City Department of Education Learn at Home. https://www.schools.nyc.gov/learn-at-home Directed to New York school districts but applicable for all. 

15. Great Minds. https://greatminds.org/ Curricula on many K-12 subjects.

16. Outschool. https://outschool.com/.

Educational/Entertainment:

These lack systematic syllabi but are tools to stimulate active learning:

TedEd: Ted talks for students https://ed.ted.com/

Brainpop: Animated videos. Subscription required but providing free access to students affected by Covid-19 closures.https://www.brainpop.com/

Crash Courses: Youtube channel. Mostly animated entertainment but quality content on many subjects .https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse

Duolingo: Great website for language practice.https://www.duolingo.com/

Rockalingua. Music based Spanish learning. https://rockalingua.com/

Mangahigh https://www.mangahigh.com/en-us/ Math games and puzzles. Free access to schools affected by Covid-19.

Funbrain https://www.funbrain.com/ Videos, games, and math puzzles.

All The Trivia https://allthetrivia.com/ A wide variety of fun trivia quizzes!

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