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Learning from Home Resources: 8

Resources that can be used during a functional school closure

Passwords

Here is a list of all the work at home passwords you might need:

For: CultureGrams; WorldBook Resources:  Early World of Learning, WB Student, WB Discover, WB Kids, WB Advanced, WB Découverte; TigTag; EBSCO Resources (including Consumer Health Complete); KnowBC Encyclopedia of British Columbia; 4Canoes

For: Gale Resources: National Geographic Kids, Global Issues in Context, Canada in Context, Science in Context, Power Search, Gale Virtual Reference Library

English Language Arts

Don't have a novel or left it at school? Use one of these online e-book / audiobook services:

Login with:

Username - Same as school username

Password - Student number

Thousands of e-books and hundreds of audiobooks to choose from.

Warning some may have mature content

A variety of e-books and audiobooks that will interest teens.

Warning some may have mature content

 

Science

Big Idea (Concept) Resource Resources to Support
Characteristics of life

Cell theory and types of cells

PHET Interactive Simulations

Photosynthesis and cellular respiration

The relationship of micro-organisms with living things:

  • basic functions of the immune system
  • vaccination and antibiotics
  • impacts of epidemics and pandemics on human populations

 

Kinetic molecular theory (KMT)

 

PHET Interactive Simulations

Atomic theory and models

  • protons, neutrons, and quarks
  • electrons and leptons

PHET Interactive Simulations

Types and effects of electromagnetic radiation

 

PHET Interactive Simulations

Light:

  • properties
  • behaviours
  • ways of sensing

PHET Interactive Simulations

Plate tectonic movement

PHET Interactive Simulations

Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park

Natural Resources Canada: Earthquakes Canada

Major geological events of local significance

PHET Interactive Simulations

Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park

Natural Resources Canada: Earthquakes Canada

First Peoples knowledge of:

  • local geological formations
  • significant local geological events

Nisga’a Memorial Lava Bed Park

Layers in Earth

 

Social Studies

Big Idea (Concept) Resource Resources to Support
Social, political, and economic systems and structures, including those of at least one indigenous civilization

 

 

School History

Review Quiz: The Middle Ages

Feudalism: Letter to a Person in the Middle Ages
Scientific and technological innovations

Philosophical and cultural shifts

 

Interactions and exchanges of resources, ideas, arts, and culture between and among different civilizations

Exploration, expansion, and colonization

Changes in population and living standards

 

Applied Design Skills Technology

Learn how to create your own Pong Game in Scratch

Physical & Health Education

For Physical and Health Education, all students ages 13 and up are encouraged to do:

- Daily Physical Activity (At least 30 minutes)

Read through the Concussion Awareness guide and do at least one activity: