# Online educational resources during school closures. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [March 22, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-educational-resources-during-school-closures/850034 "2020-03-22T15:12:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-educational-resources-during-school-closures/850034/1 "2020-03-22T15:12:29Z")
I’m working with a kindergartener at home now. We are using Khan Academy (free), Fry’s sight words, and the free service just made available by [scholastic.com](http://scholastic.com). Curious as to what others may be using. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-educational-resources-during-school-closures/850034/2 "2020-03-22T15:54:27Z")
Most textbook publishers provide online supplements. They’re not free, but many schools already have subscriptions, and were using them even before the schools closed. The ones I’m most familiar with are ALEKS, which I think is from McGraw Hill, for math, and WileyPlus, from (obviously) Wiley, for physics and possibly other sciences. They’re usually assignment-based, with the teacher choosing from a pool of available problems to assign to the students. Often, they’ll have expandable tips to help students through problems. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-educational-resources-during-school-closures/850034/3 "2020-03-22T17:07:49Z")
Many online providers are offering their normally fee-based materials for free at this time. Also, public educational systems are just starting to move to completely online delivery. It takes time. The past week saw a massive wave of training in online instruction at all levels, across the country. Most schools should gradually be rolling out more and more online instruction, but obviously the level of kindergarten learning requires a lot that can’t be done online, and parents will have to take on the role of teacher. I would imagine that a well-resourced kindergarten program would be developing online materials to help parents do this. **Tigers2B1** , is your daughter’s school doing anything along these lines? ---
**Author:** ![Tigers2B1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9fc29f/32.png) [@Tigers2B1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tigers2B1)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2020, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/online-educational-resources-during-school-closures/850034/4 "2020-03-22T17:26:02Z")
Is teacher sent a video email to her class yesterday promising “some fun activities” coming their way soon. The school board is still setting up and has promised something soon. Until then I wanted to go ahead and provide some activities since we’re staying home a lot. To the park for nature walks but not the playgrounds - that sort of thing. I figured other parents may also be interested in this topic so I decided to start it. I hope some good ideas appear in this thread but I’m sure will have something soon from the school:-)