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Learning from Home

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Learn how to use VPL's digital resources for kids and teen on our LEARN WITH VPL playlist found on our YouTube channel.

 

Preschool

List that brings together sites offering free ebooks and eaudiobooks for kids as well as highlighting those with content suitable for young children and those that offer material in other languages.

This ad free web resource emphasizes play and exploration as ways to help children learning to read, language arts, and math in a fun way with songs, games and movies.

Brooklyn Public Library Kids blog offers a round-up of e-resources, activities, learning materials and ways to help your child read, play, and grow at home! This guide is most helpful for children ages 2-7.

Practical tips and advice for parents in this article from Usable Knowledge: Relevant Research for Today's Educators at the Harvard Graduate School of Education

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A popular collection of talking picture books for young readers in grades K-6. Has text, animation, music, and narration.

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School Aged

Resources covering topics in the areas of Social Studies, Physical Education and Health, Science, Math, Langauge Arts, and Social and Emotional Learning to help BC families learn from home.

List that brings together sites offering free ebooks and eaudiobooks for kids as well as highlighting those with content suitable for children and those that offer material in other languages.

Random House Publishers offers a huge collection of guides for elementary and secondary students based on the books they publish. Materials support literacy and STEM activities.

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Discover ancient and medieval civilizations through a rich selection of articles, images, videos, timelines and more.

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A multimedia encyclopedia especially for children.

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Includes the complete text of the Canadian Encyclopedia in English and French, interactive resources and timelines of Canadian and world events.

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Delivers full-page images of 5,000 newspapers and magazines from 100 countries before they appear on the newsstands. Includes titles such as The Vancouver Sun, The Wall Street Journal, and The Economist.

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Teens

VPL Supject guides for studying and learning at home. These lists contain recommended digital resources, covering a variety of BC Curriculum areas for teens.

Resources to support investigating the range of social science fields: from history to current affairs in order to understand our world.

Creative resources to inspire creativity and learning in the arts.

Resources on physical and mental health, nutrition and keeping fit.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics resources to support learning at home.

Resources covering how to increase social and emotional learning through education and everyday life.

A roundup of free ebook sites to support reading literature as well as writing, poetry and authors. 

List that brings together sites offering free ebooks and eaudiobooks as well as highlighting those with content suitable for teens and those that offer material in other languages.

Useful Websites

BC Provincial resource with links to many free etextbooks and teacher resources.

Part of the Open School BC website, a provincial free resource brining together many resrouces aimed at grades, K-12.

From the editors at Commonsense Media, a collection of the best home learning sites for all grades, K-12.

The First Nations Education Steering Committee along with the First Nations Schools Association worked with educators and partners to develop these resources to support English Language Arts, Science, Social Studies and Math for variety of grade levels, K-12.

The Educators tab offers tools for teaching for K-12 Digital Citizenship, Educational Technology reviews as well as a variety of lesson plans shared by teachers, that incorporate digital technology. They also post free monthly webinars for educators as well as advice on distance learning and using Zoom with students.. 

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