What follows is some of the resources I have found. This is in the works. Check back on the regular.
Math:
khan academy: This is the king and an inclusive resource that, with some correct guidance, can maintain math learning. How you use these is crucial to its effectiviness. It is not the easiest mess to navigate.
myopenmath: The best math LMS I have found without a doubt. It is free, open, has all of the resources you need for blended learning course management. There are many courses available or you can build your own. Prealgebra to college level. There are courses set up for independent learning that are easy to follow and have the full scope of resources. There could be much more geometry but that is more of a response to the fact that geometry is really difficult in this setting.
But not with the fun stuff.
GeoGebra: https://www.geogebra.org/ is wonderful and open resource for so many avenues of math through geometry. http://mathandmultimedia.com/geogebra-tutorials/ is a good series of tutorials to learn GeoGebra.
Desmos is really expanding in educational functionality. If you have high school level work, it is a good replacement for a calculator(more on that later).
Math is fun is probably the most underappreciated mathematics resource around. Students find the explanations to be clear and useful. You could do worse than using this as your only one. I definitely urge you to a place to go for definitions and explanations.
Purple math is a thorough textual explanation of most of high school math broken down in an easy way. Writing clearly about math is a difficult skill and the author or purple math is quite adept. Align this with khan academy drills and you have a decent course with little hastle.
Illuminations and other goodies from the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics. Lots of good lesson and resources.
wild.maths.org Someone, please make the curriculum of their courses and report back on how it all goes.
nrich is a maths resource for educators produced across the pond is the one I would suggest, above all the others, to find an appropriate level and move forward with.
Books
Precalculus by Collinwood, Prince, and Conroy out of University of Washington is a text that teaches problem solving and a foundation of mathematics that would serve anyone well who wanted to continue studying math. If you choose a text like this, stick with it. Take your time with the material and progress as you understand more formally.
College of the Redwoods put a lot of work in these textbooks. They start late middle school and go through Algebra 2 without trig or statistics. These are written very well and are structured with the simplicity of a real mathematics text. They do not suffice for a complete high school curriculum.
Bootstrap is super cool and a great way to see what we can do through rethinking education. Students learn algebra, geometry, coding, and programming through the structure of the materials and lessons. You need to request the teacher edition but I have never had trouble getting it. Students in 7th-9th could benefit most readily but it is not limited to that range.
For educators, bootstrap does one of the most effective jobs of helping students understand functions that I have come across. You can use it within a classic prealgebra or algebra curriculum with relative ease. You do not have to know anything about computer programming. Follow the instructions and work with the students. They will figure things out.
Computer Science
Code.org is backed by silicon valley heavyweights and is effective for learning computer science. The Computer Science course is a good one and provides all of the materials if you get an educator account. Bootstrap is a better course for understanding computer science at a deeper level.
But it gets a little formulaic. Here are some other resources that provide great avenues of study. You can apply some of these tools to build more complete learning.
Beware: There is often a steep learning curve with these tools, I generally need to immerse pretty deeply with whatever tutorials or lessons they supply to feel competent but that is not a requirement. The requirements are in the product.
Alice is an amazing resource for digital storytelling and arts integration with computers. Once you can tell stories, you can access the humanities.
p5js is a nice place to get dynamic feedback in JavaScript and done such that anyone can pick up on. Coding Train has engaging tutorials that will help out. You can also find some other tutorials on setting up your computer for programming applications. A series of graphic art projects that are done through p5 responding to a prompt would be a pretty easy unit to set up.
Nand2tetris is about of a cool and thorough project to learn the mechanisms of everything. Have students document the process along the way through a website and you have a full stack computer science program wrapped around making a playable tetris game.
Web development is not a field to learn to jump into to make websites for money. You can not do it more profitably than even the standard wix or WordPress service. It is the way we interact and the material by which we build the internet with so it is quite useful to understand. The best way to learn it is to do it. You can go through plenty of resources to do so for free. Consider getting a cheap hosting service. These will allow you to do. The functionality improvements of WordPress or the life are much improved after that.
The goal is to improve functionality and content along the way. Each project can have a website to go with it that has documentation of the process, whether that is pictures, words, videos, etc.
WordPress is the largest web building platform. It is originally a blog site so it gets messy. Blogs build like dribble castles and are great for news feeds, they are poor structure. There is no reason one would have to use any other site builder and the you really must learn how development works to improve the site. That feedback is everything for the student because they make the connections.
Wix or squarespace or any of the others is fine. If they all look and sound about the same, they are.
Blogger provides enough functionality to work because you can embed elements and edit the various levels of code. It’s easy to use and has been around forever in computer realms so there is all the information in the world available.
PBL: Problem Based Learning for College Physics
is a collection of activities from our French neighbors to the north. I forget what the password is to the teacher guide, but they usually respond promptly when you ask. These require some perseverance and real study of the subject.
The Physics Classroom is a lot of what it says it is. You can’t replicate a classroom but these people have put in a lot of work to make a good approximation. Use it with conjunction with a PBL unit and the lesson is done.
Project Based Learning Activities: Ms. O’s house is one of my secret go-tos for finding excellent lesson ideas. There is a lot of for elementary and middle school but middle school projects often work well for all ages.
Coral Reef is about a global project to crotchet coral reefs. The math is of the real variety and this has always seemed a really neat thing to take a part of and create.
Math and Logic Problems Galore Not all of these links are still good but there are some great collections of puzzles throughout. Teaching through puzzles seems a challenge but it is worth a try, one would learn regardless of the outcome. It’s funny where this page is stored. I should perhaps track that story down someday.
Exploring Climate Change is a resource that is no longer actively supported but has plenty of functionality to be good. For those needing good problem based learning plans, there are a few here.
Weather is always fun to study. One fun project is to make a forecast for an upcoming event. If you are to grow a garden, then learning of weather is important.
Jetstream is a complete course in physical science and weather created by weather.gov. Late middle school and beyond. Almost anyone can learn from it.
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