What are some options for helping my child continue learning while schools are closed?
My children will be home for a few weeks (at least) while schools are closed due to the Coronavirus/COVID-19. What are some good strategies or options for helping them continue to learn while at home?
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I would grasp the opportunity to teach them about things that they don't learn in school, or to teach them in a different way from the way they are taught in school.
Perhaps look at family photos and family trees and talk about how your grandparents lived; visit the neighbourhood and study the changes. Go into the garden and find insects. Study your energy bills and put together a plan for reducing them. Perhaps do a project where you are both learning something together (a craft? a foreign language? playing the recorder?) so they can learn about learning.
It won't help them pass exams, but there are more important things in life than exams. And this is an opportunity not just for teaching, but for bonding; for discovering more about each other.
PS: I'm puzzled by the phrase "it affects many of our community as well as worldwide". What is our community if not worldwide?
I would recommend Coursera as their classes are from respectable colleges and professors. Also, another online class program I've used that I have very much enjoyed and learned from was The Great Courses Plus. There, are classes on nearly everything you can think of. From less complex topics an elementary or middle schoool student can comprehend and learn from, all the way to theoretical physics.
Coursera - www.coursera.org/
The Great Courses Plus - www.thegreatcoursesplus.com/
If the kids are allowed to take their textbooks home, it should be a simple matter to get emails from their teachers with lesson plans (all teachers have to have lesson plans in place.) Then just ave the child follow the plan, or do it with them.
If they don't have their textbooks, you might need to be creative.
Khan Academy is a great resource for letting children learn math and science/technology at any age. It allows children to progress through different subjects, includes videos to teach them each subject and then offers practice questions to help them master subjects.
I in particular use the "MAP Recommended Practice" feature with my son, who is a fairly advanced math student. You can enter their test scores in, and based on those test scores it recommends the next lessons for them to take to ensure appropriate subject matter and difficulty.
I have been offering my children 2 hours of Khan Academy per day, plus 1 hour of reading, 1 hour of practice programming (using Scratch or Python), and 1 hour of more gamified learning (such as Prodigy, which is basically Pokémon but with math problems needing to be solved in order to do damage to your opponent!). I intersperse an hour of video gaming time and an hour of playing either outside or around the house (but mobile, not sitting time) in order to keep them active.
This is nice for a bit science interested kids. Many things easier to understand from visually clear animations. I would search for animations in the related subjects for the math, physics and chemistry part. www.youtube.com/channel/UCJ0yBou72Lz9fqeMXh9mkog There are some misleading fake scientific "facts" among mostly correct facts in the scientific, educational school .. university literature. I assume the correction of them to start within 2020 or 2021 by release of about 8000 until now hidden scientific facts and patents.
If you know anyone who homeschools their kids, this is exactly the question they have solved. Talk to them and see if they have any tips! Growing up homeschooled, when I was younger I had a much more structured day, but when I was older, I managed my own time and once I had completed a day's work, I could mostly do what I wanted.
There is also a sizeable base of curriculum out there, if schools close for longer than currently expected.
Self organized learning is a skill that is only rarely taught. This “corona shut down” is a great chance for a revolution of learning like problem solving, information researching and reading, reading, reading.
Math tasks and foreign languages can be solved with the specific school books. The teachers should tell at least the program for a week. The students and kids can share and control their solutions by chats, whats app and e-mail.
The ability to explain a problem to each other is the test whether you have understood something.
Learning is to find out what you all know. Knowledge means to show that you know something. Teaching means to show the others that they know it as well as you self.
Learn to make mind maps of the subjects and areas and terms you are studying.
Read about the SQRRR (SQ3R) method and apply this method when reading or studying.
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