Teaching & Learning

TVO mPower

Is a way to gamify math curriculum for students K-6. Students can have fun while learning. TVO also has a Digital Learning Outreach YouTube channel dedicated to supporting online learning. Check it out here!

TVO Learn

View the website above for content from Educator's Resources, which has new content with a focus on Intermediates. View here for breakdown by grades 1-8. for Language, Science, Math and Social Studies. There is a direct link to TVO Learn in D2L, for convenience.

Thinking about including Inquiry into your day? Want to partner? Here is a great place to start!

Using the Gale Database makes inquiry easy for all students, since there is a platform for early students, middle grade to older students. This video highlights a few accessibility tools, including how to search.

The Gale Database is an incredible tool for so many reasons....

Use it to engage students and develop skills related to....

1) Non-Fiction self-selected reading

2) Inquiry and Research for social studies and science

3) To spark and facilitate questionning skills

4) Using apropriate and authentic resources

5) Citation, paraphrasing and using own words to commuicate their understanding

Some of you may be familiar to Kids Infobits? Gale is the same, but I am finding it much more user friendly with greater accessiblility. Ask me for more information and please feel free to invite me to help with your class Inquiry and Research! The best days to book me are in the afternoons on Day 3 and 4! See you soon!

Literacy - Ebooks, Audio Books and Read Alouds

Click on the UNDERLINED links and have fun reading! No Logins Required!

Reading is really important, and it's just as important for students to hear adults read and think aloud. There are MANY read aloud sites. Click on the underlined links for hours of reading fun.

Kate Messner Author Read Alouds, KidLit TV, Story Time Read Aloud, Brightly Storytime, Storytime With Bill, Unite for Literacy (books in multiple languages), Storytime From Space, Fun Brain

While the DDSB Learning Commons has many ebooks and audiobooks , here is a "limited time only while school's out" free audiobook resource: Audible, Audiocloud (for All Ages), Teen Bookcloud (grade 7-12)

More Literacy Resources - From Authors We Love!

Click on the images. No logins required!

Author Kelly Yang Teaches Writing!

A great resource for both junior and intermediate students. Junior students already know Kelly Yang as the author of this year's Global Read Aloud, Front Desk. Click on the picture to access the writing class taught by the author as well as many other reading resources. Write on!!

Dave Pilkey, author of Captain Underpants has lots for kids to do. Click on the Captain! His youtube channel here.

One of our favourite authors for all ages. Kevin visited us last year with author & musician Ted Staunton. Click here for older students.

Lots here for K-3 from author of Pete the Cat, James Dean. Includes drawing tutorials, read alouds and songs.

I can't speak more highly of this author Sharon Draper. Must reads for both JR and Int students. Her website is a great resource.

Virtual Field Trips - Learning just a click away!

Take a walk around from your couch! Click on the images. No logins required!

Visit museums from around the world without the crowds.

Visit Yellowstone Park, a natural wonder of hotsprings and geysers!

Walk around the San Diego Zoo and see the animals.

Visit Mars and other space places. Learn direct from Nasa!

Visit a farm! Learn about where your food comes from. Sorry you can't pet the cows...

Tour the National Aquarium! ! If you look carefully, you can find live exhibits. Have fun exploring!

Watch the video to preview Google Earth. Travel around the world in just seconds.

Google Earth Voyager is an extension of Google Earth. Let he learning stories and quizzes guide you.

Science, Social Studies, Inquiry and Discovery

These sites can be used without logins, there's lot of free educational content. Click on the images.

Reading, games and fun facts about the world.

Read about the world and learn at your reading level.

Got questions? Get them answered here!

Math and More....

These sites can be used without logins, there's lot of free educational content. Click on the images. No logins.

Math puzzles for teachers and students with no answers designede to provoke math conversations!

Scholastic remote learning site for parents. Lots of resources to be found here for multiple subjects.

Prodigy math skill building. Students may already have a school account. If not, parents can sign up free.

Have fun while learning to code! It just takes an hour a week to learn.

Check out the "Instructional Ideas" dropdown menu for ideas in the classroom for meningful math prompts.

Vex Robotics has a play lab with a coding arena. Code a robot and watch it virtually run the code! This program is compatible with our VEX Robots at school. Ask for more info!!

Run out of puzzles to do at home? Here are online puzzles and more from the Lovett Puzzle site!

Signing is a very important skill for our hearing impaired friends. Could it lead to an interpreting job?

Arts & Physical Education - Move and Create!

Click on the images to access links. No logins.

Drawing lessons from the artists of Art Hub! Get learning and drawing!

Listen, watch and draw with Authors! Click on the picture!

A virtual piano, but the site (which is also an app) teaches you how to play.

Learn about music from the San Fransisco Symphony. Games and activities for kids.

Go Noodle

Get up, move and sing with the Go Noodle cast. Have fun with the whole family!

Do Yoga

Yoga classes with Cosmic Yoga, a youtube sensation. There are lots of yoga classes online besides this channel.

Move Your Fingers

Great for students who want to up their keyboarding game & access other learning resources from BBC Learning.

There are so many uses for Neal.Fun site. You kind of need to explore - it's a fact wonderland and fidget topy rolled up in one.

Not sure where to start? Here is some lesson plans for using Chrome Music Lab.

Countless activities found on Google Arts and culture including colouring and puzzle making based on great works of art!

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