BBC BiteSize: http://www.bbc.co.uk/education BBC BiteSize has small, useful clips and info about curriculum topics. There’s quite wide coverage, but the clips are quite short. This is a useful top-up to other learning, not an education programme by itself. Also, some of the clips can feel a little patronizing. But overall, this has great visualisation tools to…
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Minecraft GamED Academy
GamED Academy: http://gamedacademy.com/ I can’t recommend this one because we haven’t tried it yet, but I’m intrigued. The idea is that the lessons are all in Minecraft. Kids watch, learn, and build as part of their learning process. There are curricula for maths, history, science and other stuff too. I’m not sure how this will work…
Code Kingdoms
Code Kingdoms deliver courses where your child can write Minecraft mods. They’ll be learning to code, but then they get to actually play the mods. It’s a great idea. You pay a monthly subscription, and you get access to all the courses. Depending on how patient your child is, and how much programming they already…
DragonBox – Algebra and Elements
DragonBox make a number of maths apps. My son was too old for DragonBox Numbers, which is aimed at younger ones starting to learn about numbers, so we haven’t tried that one. So I’ll talk about DragonBox Algebra and DragonBox Elements, which we’ve tried. Both apps are very much game-based. Your child will hardly realise…
Crash Course World History – curriculum
Crash Course make great videos. World History was one of their earlier courses, and my son has watched it all the way through. Some of it shot over his head, some he really got, all of it he enjoyed. Now Crash Course have branched out a little and created a curriculum to go with the…
Big History Project
The Big History Project is at https://school.bighistoryproject.com/. The project covers history from the Big Bang to the present day. There are different sample curricula provided, depending on whether you want to focus on human history, cover the full timespan equally, and so forth. There is a shorter, six-hour version for the just-interested, or a full programme…
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