Resources for Parents
Academic Resource |
Description |
Link |
Newsela |
Newsela is an online news-as-literacy platform that features high-interest articles on everything from current events to myths and legends and from literature to science.
OMI students sign into Newsela using Google (their OMI email and password.) |
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Khan Academy |
Khan Academy offers practice exercises, instructional videos, and a personalized learning dashboard that empower learners to study at their own pace in and outside of the classroom. They tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more.
OMI students sign into Khan Academy using Google (their OMI email and password.) |
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Wonderopolis: Where the Wonders of Learning Never Cease |
The excitement of learning that comes from curiosity and wonder is undeniable, and Wonderopolis helps create learning moments in everyday life—ones that fit in with dinner preparations, carpool responsibilities, a stolen moment between breakfast and the bus, or within school curriculum and education programs. |
Google Classroom and Google Hangout Training Videos and Handouts:
English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Iowi-gmbys
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JqxCfihxEVw
Spanish:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZLM_sO0lY
https://canyoncrest.provo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Welcome-to-Google-Classroom-Tour.mp4
English and Spanish Handout (for accessing students’ work) -
Zoom Training Videos and Handouts:
English:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7xXZxRDFUU
Spanish:
https://canyoncrest.provo.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/Join-a-Zoom-Mtg.mp4
English and Spanish Handout -