High School Resources

General Topics

TEDEd provides access to hundreds of videos, articles and blogs that allows for exploration of almost any topic imaginable. In addition, TEDEd has developed daily lesson plans and series that help support parents during the COVID-19 school closures. The Student Talks Program will help students create their own talks, which can be used to complete at-home projects, explore passions, and develop public speaking skills.

Does your student need a little tutoring help? Khan Academy provides the next best thing through a library of lessons and important information created by content experts. Khan Academy delivers free, supportive, and interactive content. Currently, Khan Academy is being especially attentive to at-home and helping families create helpful schedules.

*Provides Spanish Content

 

Study Island offers learning enhancements that focus on math, language arts, and science and are aligned to state standards. Because of the COVID-19 school closures, Study Island is offering a free year of service to all new accounts.

While schools are closed students everywhere can instantly stream an incredible collection of stories, including titles across six different languages, that will help them continue dreaming, learning, and just being kids.

All stories are free to stream on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet.

Explore the collection, select a title and start listening.

Continue working toward college credit and placement with free, live AP review lessons, delivered by AP teachers from across the country. These courses:

  • Are optional, mobile-friendly, and can be used alongside any work your teacher may give you.
  • Will be available on-demand, so you can access them any time.
  • Will focus on reviewing the skills and concepts from the first 75% of the course. There will also be some supplementary lessons including topics from the final 25% of the course.

To access the live classes and recordings, visit the AP YouTube channel. We’ll be adding more courses soon. For more details about your exams, visit Taking AP Exams.

STEM

Learning Blade offers a toolkit of online lessons, projects and activities that help students explore STEM and technology information and careers. Currently, Learning Blade is supporting parents and students via at-home lessons and downloadable worksheets. All lessons are aligned with state standards.

For Schools in Berea’s service area – teachers please request your license at  www.learningblade.com/KY

For those who want access to our offline FREE lessons that ANYONE – parents and/or teachers can download these lessons.

www.learningblade.com/Remote

If you are not sure if you are covered with a license or for more info please contact us at

[email protected]

Code.org® is a nonprofit organization that utilizes this website to teach students computer science skills via tutorials and projects. A full course catalog of code learning is offered, based on age and experience of the student Code’s hope is that every student has the opportunity to learn computer science. This is a great opportunity to help kids of all ages become familiar with coding and computer science, and for families to learn these skills alongside of their students.

Well-being

As we face this global health event, many parents and teens are looking for guidance on how to stay healthy during this time.

HealthCorps has created kid and teen friendly resources for parents and families regarding how they can protect themselves against coronavirus, how to keep health-related anxiety at bay, and tips and tricks for leading a healthy life while at home.

English Language Arts
and Reading

Want to find great books and stories that will appeal to all the young readers in your house? MyON® can help with that.  We have worked with Renaissance to provide myON® Reader at no charge to families for a limited time.  Renaissance myON® Reader is an online reading platform with over 6,000 books available.  Students can also download up to 20 books at a time and read offline.  Titles are matched to each student’s interest, grade and reading level.

Login Information:

School Name: Berea College Partners for Education Reads
Student Username: reads
Student Password: reads

If you have questions about myON® Reader or need additional support please contact: [email protected]