HIGHLAND LEARNING COMMONS
Educational Videos:
Documentaries and news reports from CBC
Educational films, study guides, and mini-lessons from the National Film Board of Canada
BrainPop Educators
Animated movies, creative thinking tools, interactive quizzes, and playful assessments
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Password: highland20
Over 1 million high-quality videos
Video series on various psychology, rhetoric, logic, reasoning, and economic topics
Feature films your students can watch for a class - works best in Google Chrome
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Feature films your students can watch for a class assignment (including National Geographic)
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Password: ComoxV71
Ebooks and Audiobooks:
A collection of services to read and listen to fiction and non-fiction books, poetry, podcasts, etc.
News and Magazine Lessons:
News articles
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Educational films, study guides, and mini-lessons from the National Film Board of Canada
Not-for-profit online newspaper for students (includes quizzes and posting feature)
National Geographic: Learn at Home
Explore the planet through interactives and short lessons or take a deeper dive into a subject area with a complete unit.
Has news from across the spectrum – right, centre and left. It also has information on bias and fake news - matches New Media 10 and New Media 11 curriculum.
English Resources:
Texts with accompanying questions for educators and now parents to use. Also, a way to track student progress with the teacher dashboard
eLearningOntario.ca
Mini-units being developed from Ontario Ed.
Lessons and resources for digital and media literacy
Exercises, quizzes, and tests so students can practice and master skills, as well as instructional videos to help students learn or review material. Math, science, grammar, history, etc.
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Curricular modules and units.
Social Studies, Geography, History, Psychology, Law, Family Studies, and Philosophy Resources:
Includes geography, history, psychology, law, family studies, and philosophy units from Ontario Ed.
Amazing resources for history teachers includes interactive simulations, quizzes, games that can easily be used for online learning.
Provides a variety of activities focusing on the History of Canada. This includes the Heritage Canada videos.
A comprehensive amount of information can be found here about Canada's First Peoples. Information can be organized geographically, linguistically, etc.
A group of six sites each covering a specific topic area and contains engaging, entertaining, and highly relevant content with thousands of photographs, videos, maps, historic timelines, biographies, and much more. Languages and recipes too.
Entire lessons/units on sustainability topics. Aligned to BC curriculum - search by province and topic
LEARN: Historical Thinking and Evaluation Strategies
This site gives examples of what MEES-style evaluation situations look like. It also provides practice with the intellectual operations.
This website was created, with the help of UNICEF, by youth and for youth. It provides a platform to discuss issues such as education, human rights, and health.
Google Earth allows you to see the world from different angles and perspectives. It also allows you to draw maps, and add photos to create your own story.
This website provides maps and cartograms exploring a variety of themes. It is constantly updated.
Exercises, quizzes, and tests so students can practice and master skills, as well as instructional videos to help students learn or review material. Math, science, grammar, history, etc.
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Math Resources:
Exercises, quizzes, and tests so students can practice and master skills, as well as instructional videos to help students learn or review material. Math, science, grammar, history, etc.
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Includes some math units from Ontario Ed.
University of Waterloo Centre for Education in Mathematics and Computing
Includes games, new problems to solve, applications, videos, pointers to existing materials, etc.
Explanatory videos, worked examples, and intelligent line-by-line feedback on every question.
Covers algebra, geometry, calculus and precalculus – tutorials, quizzes, etc. Students will need to make an account.
Math dictionaries, formulas, and online worksheets
Accessible and motivational materials
Science Resources:
Exercises, quizzes, and tests so students can practice and master skills, as well as instructional videos to help students learn or review material. Math, science, grammar, history, etc.
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Includes some science units from Ontario Ed.
A collection of virtual labs, scenario-based learning activities, tutorials, and concept tests.
A collection of chemistry, biology, and physics simulations.
Simulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics.
Science interactives and videos
Focused on presenting Canadian youth with various STEM projects and educational resources.
Games and interactives for several science topics
PE Resources:
Search over 500 free workouts by length, difficulty, training type and muscles used.
This comprehensive global fitness database has something for everyone. Video demonstrations of exercises, workout posters and charts, 30 day challenges and more.
Information, recipes, and resources around the Food Guide
Some health units from Ontario Ed.
Some units from Ontario Ed.
Specifically for teens - facts on smoking, drugs, sex, mental health and more.
French Resources:
Uses images, text, and sound to teach words and grammar by spaced repetition - free for 3 months
Includes a digital language-proficiency assessment, and bite-size lessons based on research.
Online lessons with audio, games, vocabulary, grammar explanations and exercises
Resources for teaching French
Digital Art, Media, and Technology Resources
Various courses with units from Ontario Ed.
3D video game making, including modelling, animations and programming - hourly lesson plans guide students step by step to making their first games (the free version is limited)
Financial Literacy Resources:
Students receive a virtual amount of money to be invested in the stock market