A great collection of Canadian Virtual Visits, including the Parliament Buildings, The Royal Tyrell Museum, Canadian War Museum, Royal Ontario Museum and even a Prison Tour from Correctional Services. Compiled by St Matthew HS Learning Commons.
Beaming Science, Exploration, Adventure and Conservation into Classrooms Across North America;
Guest Speakers and Virtual Field Trips with Leading Experts from Around the World;
Using Technology to Broadcast Live into Classrooms from the Most Remote Regions on the Planet
Bring Parliament to your students, in class or online. The Classroom Experience is an immersive learning program for students in Grades 8 to 12 (Secondary II to CEGEP).
"As China's most famous attraction, the Great Wall of China is an essential stop on any trip to China. Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet."
"Birthplaces of Music: A Virtual Field Trip is a fully interactive, virtual field trip through the world of music history. During this trip, you will visit the birthplaces of four of the most popular genres of music in the world today: classical, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, and country. The birthplaces of these great forms of music are Vienna, Austria; New Orleans, Louisiana; Cleveland, Ohio; and Bristol, Tennessee-Virginia respectively."
"The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden will be hosting daily "Home Safaris" at 3pm ET daily. These Home Safaris will be broadcast live on Facebook. Each Home Safari will feature a different animal and a related at-home activity.
For students Gr. 6 +, this database contains interactive activities, timelines, and science experiments in the areas of animal systems, the human body/health & diseases, cell biology, ecology, evolution, genetics, microbes, plant structures, reproduction, scientist biographies, and planet Earth. Images, maps, video, audio, and teacher lesson plan resources are available.
Everything you need to know about plants, animals, the food chain, the human body. life cycles and more. Includes text-to-speech, videos, interactive games, hands-on science projects and activities, resource lists, lesson plans and more to support budding researchers in the sciences
Grades 4-9. ScienceFlix offers teachers and parents hands-on projects, activities, videos, and more to help kids learn about science. (Access until June 30, 2020)
"Great Lakes Now Virtual Field Trip
Great Lakes Now brings along students on a virtual field trip to learn more about the importance of coastal wetlands, the danger of algal blooms and a deep dive into lake sturgeon. This experience is targeted for 6-8th grade, but is certainly not limited to this age group." Includes lesson plans.
For students in Gr. 6+, this database provides articles, images, video, and audio on topics including: biology, chemistry, earth & environmental science, general science, health & medicine, math, engineering, technology, physics and astronomy, as well as scientist biographies. Teacher lesson plans and ON curriculum correlations are also available.
Everything you need to know about earth systems, ecosystems, weather, space and more. Includes articles, videos, text-to-speech, interactive games and activities, resource lists and lesson plans.
Everything you need to know about atoms & molecules, energy, matter, force and motion, the earth, temperature and more. Includes articles, videos, interactive games & activities, lesson plans and resource lists.
Grades 4-9. ScienceFlix offers teachers and parents hands-on projects, activities, videos, and more to help kids learn about science. (Access until June 30, 2020)
EXPERIENCE CANADA'S HISTORY IN EXCITING NEW WAYS
Explore the journey of a country and its people. Discover the events, personalities and historical currents that have shaped Canada — from time immemorial to the present day.
Driven by human stories, historical treasures and inspired design, this signature exhibition is a unique place that enables you to discover the richness and diversity of the Canadian experience
Reference articles, journals, magazines, websites, multimedia, and curriculum content for high school students. Includes dictionary, atlas and student workspace.
Pop culture is all around us and influences our lives every day. For any social sciences,
history, art, or liberal arts researcher, the Popular Culture Collection provides useful
information from over two million articles found in over 100 subject-appropriate,
full-text periodicals.
AgScape is pleased to support Ontario parents with the launch of our Virtual Camp Experience. This resource provides parents with regular e-newsletter updates featuring educational materials, videos and games, as well as access to activity schedules offering a structured day of fun and hands-on learning for kids ages 5 - 11 and 12 - 18.
The Virtual Camp Experience includes interactive activities that explore food and farming topics such as Local Food, Technology and Innovation, and Indigenous Agriculture. The daily schedules and associated materials have been designed by Ontario Certified Teachers, are curriculum-linked and connect to Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM).
Real time webinars exploring coding and coding software programs. Note: These sessions are best for kids aged 7 - 12 years old. To keep quality high, we will be limiting each session to 25 users.
Groupe Média TFO présente Le Camp TFO en Famille, une initiative mise en place pour accompagner les francophones et francophiles partout en Ontario et au Canada durant la période de fermeture des écoles. Avec un programme d’activités d’apprentissage et de contenus ludo-éducatifs certifiés pour leur qualité, les plateformes reconnues de TFO, comme sa chaîne télé, IDELLO.ORG et BOUKILI.CA, vous offre des rendez-vous pratiques et efficaces pour toute la famille.
Open a world of reading with the UCDSB collection of eBooks, audiobooks and read alongs from OverDrive. Your virtual book library all in one! Download the Sora app to your phone or device - its easy to read!
"Collection includes great works of fiction, non-fiction and poetry, including works by Asimov, Jane Austen, Philip K. Dick, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Neil Gaiman, Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf & James Joyce."
"Download hundreds of free audio books, mostly classics, to your MP3 player or computer. Below, you'll find great works of fiction, poetry and non-fiction, by such authors as Twain, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Orwell, Vonnegut, Nietzsche, Austen, Shakespeare, Asimov, HG Wells & more."
Site includes full length videos of major Ken Burns documentaries including: Baseball, Jazz, Country Music, The Gene: An Intimate History. Also includes classroom resources.
NFB educational playlists are selections of films on themes that tie in with Canadian curricula and address the important issues of the day. Many of the playlists are also linked to study guides.
"Includes classics, indies, film noir, documentaries and other films, created by some of our greatest actors, actresses and directors. The collection is divided into the following categories: Comedy & Drama; Film Noir, Horror & Hitchcock; Westerns (many with John Wayne); Martial Arts Movies; Silent Films; Documentaries, and Animation. We also have special collections of Oscar Winning Movies and Films by Andrei Tarkovsky and Charlie Chaplin."
Full-length recording of Stratford Shakespeare plays, including: The Taming of the Shrew; King Lear; Hamlet; Antony & Cleopatra; King John; The Adventures of Pericles; Macbeth; Love's Labour Lost; Romeo and Juliet; Timon of Athens; Coriolanus; The Tempest
"A new play by Nick Dear, based on the novel by Mary Shelley. Watch Danny Boyle's monster hit Frankenstein with Benedict Cumberbatch as the creature and Jonny Lee Miller as Victor Frankenstein."
OK, not ALL full length productions of ALW shows, but some (Les Miserables) and excerpts of the most famous songs from shows like: Phantom of the Opera, Jesus Christ Superstar, Joseph & the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat etc. Great for musical theatre lovers!
Calling all computer enthusiasts!
Visit the VLC's Virtual Makerspace page for more free coding software ideas!
"The Malware Museum is a collection of malware programs, usually viruses, that were distributed in the 1980s and 1990s on home computers. Once they infected a system, they would sometimes show animation or messages that you had been infected. Through the use of emulations, and additionally removing any destructive routines within the viruses, this collection allows you to experience virus infection of decades ago with safety."
Hungry? Recipes from Dairy Goodness to the rescue!
