Online Lessons / Tutorials?? Any advice appreciated!

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Has anyone come across any online lessons or tutorials? Please share if so..........

The school have just provided us with textbooks! DS struggles to stay engaged and I'm really worried.

Totally stuck on how to teach maths (it's been 30 years!) Would rather not spend Sunday night relearning how to multiply fractions! Any advice?!

How old is he??

Have you tried www.twinkl.co.uk/

Both my ds's have lots of work to keep them busy from the school which I have no idea how to fit it in around me working.

Also the works have great work books for about £4

DS is in year 5...not the time for school to shut!!!

Thanks for TWINKL link I will have a look. Time for me to get my head into fractions! Luckily not working at the moment but still struggling to think how to make sure they actually work over next few weeks / months?! So worried they will fall behind where they should be... :(

Good luck with your ds's - great that the school has set them lots of work.

The Usborne Maths Dictionaries are particularly good .3 different levels .Very clear explanations.

Give me some time and I'll pull up some links for you. I'm a tutor and have been remote teaching this week using video conferencing. I'm working tomorrow morning so will come back to this thread then

FREE online education resources

A non-exhaustive list that might help those affected by school closures due to coronavirus, compiled by home educators.
Feel free to share.

Khan Academy
www.khanacademy.org
Especially good for maths and computing for all ages but other subjects at Secondary level. Note this uses the U.S. grade system but it's mostly common material.

BBC Learning
www.bbc.co.uk/learning/coursesearch/
This site is old and no longer updated and yet there's so much still available, from language learning to BBC Bitesize for revision. No TV licence required except for content on BBC iPlayer.

Futurelearn
www.futurelearn.com
Free to access 100s of courses, only pay to upgrade if you need a certificate in your name (own account from age 14+ but younger learners can use a parent account).

Seneca
www.senecalearning.com
For those revising at GCSE or A level. Tons of free revision content. Paid access to higher level material.

Openlearn
www.open.edu/openlearn/
Free taster courses aimed at those considering Open University but everyone can access it. Adult level, but some e.g. nature and environment courses could well be of interest to young people.

Blockly
blockly.games
Learn computer programming skills - fun and free.

Scratch
scratch.mit.edu/explore/projects/games/
Creative computer programming

Ted Ed
ed.ted.com
All sorts of engaging educational videos

National Geographic Kids
www.natgeokids.com/uk/
Activities and quizzes for younger kids.

Duolingo
www.duolingo.com
Learn languages for free. Web or app.

Mystery Science
mysteryscience.com
Free science lessons

The Kids Should See This
thekidshouldseethis.com
Wide range of cool educational videos

Crash Course
thecrashcourse.com
You Tube videos on many subjects

Crash Course Kids
m.youtube.com/user/crashcoursekids
As above for a younger audience

Crest Awards
www.crestawards.org
Science awards you can complete from home.

iDEA Awards
idea.org.uk
Digital enterprise award scheme you can complete online.

Paw Print Badges
www.pawprintbadges.co.uk
Free challenge packs and other downloads. Many activities can be completed indoors. Badges cost but are optional.

Tinkercad
www.tinkercad.com
All kinds of making.

Prodigy Maths
www.prodigygame.com
Is in U.S. grades, but good for UK Primary age.

Cbeebies Radio
www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/radio
Listening activities for the younger ones.

Nature Detectives
naturedetectives.woodlandtrust.org.uk/naturedetectives/
A lot of these can be done in a garden, or if you can get to a remote forest location!

British Council
www.britishcouncil.org/school-resources/find
Resources for English language learning

Oxford Owl for Home
www.oxfordowl.co.uk/for-home/
Lots of free resources for Primary age

Big History Project
www.bighistoryproject.com/home
Aimed at Secondary age. Multi disciplinary activities.

Geography Games
world-geography-games.com/world.html
Geography gaming!

Blue Peter Badges
www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/joinin/about-blue-peter-badges
If you have a stamp and a nearby post box.

The Artful Parent
www.facebook.com/artfulparent/
Good, free art activities

Red Ted Art
www.redtedart.com
Easy arts and crafts for little ones

The Imagination Tree
theimaginationtree.com
Creative art and craft activities for the very youngest.

Toy Theater
toytheater.com/
Educational online games

DK Find Out
www.dkfindout.com/uk/?fbclid=IwAR2wJdpSJSeITf4do6aPhff8A3tAktnmpaxqZbkgudD49l71ep8-sjXmrac
Activities and quizzes

Twinkl
www.twinkl.co.uk
This is more for printouts, and usually at a fee, but they are offering a month of free access to parents in the event of school closures.

From the home ed community.

Khan academy or this for your maths issues
whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/

Not all of these are free, but we like
readingchest.co.uk - books by post, you choose a reading band and they provide.
Doodle Maths (and English) - very clever graded system to make sure materials are at the right level. 7 day free trial.
We really prefer workbooks/printouts (my DS has been off school/doing little at school intermittently). For handwriting, we like Letts (it's more systematic than many). For maths, the Priddy wipe clean ones are good.
The free Oxford Owl books are good too but my DCs took longer to go through the lower bands than the free books allow.

We got an email from DS's school on Friday and they are recommending Atom Learning's free online lessons which cover eng, math, vr nvr. You don't need to pay anything. Free tutorials is great news for us! Like you I don't fancy learning Maths again...had enough trouble the first time round!

DS did the VR and NVR lessons this weekend and although the site seemed to crash momentarily the teacher was AMAZING and they set exercises after the lesson was finished and I received some feedback after that. If you've got kids in Y5 /6 I'd highly recommend!

I don't know what curriculum your school uses, but ours uses white rose maths. Normally all you get for free is the scheme of learning. However, they seem to be doing home learning to help with the school closures. They have daily video lessons plus activities for each year from reception to year 8, see whiterosemaths.com/homelearning/ .

Hi

Twinkl have set up free access for parents area to help during the covid 19 period. Lots of other sites are doing similar, e g reading eggs and ttrockstars etc. There should be a code that you can use to access it. If you cant get on without it. Message me and I'll send you one! Good luck!

BBC bitesize has tutorial videos. Sumdog website is great and are doing free logins.

Khan Academy is fantastic.

Thanks for all of those links.

I have been impressed with these previously and we are signing up again now that we are free on Tuesdays again

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