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Online Classes and Resources

Khan Academy - https://www.khanacademy.org/
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. We tackle math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. Our math missions guide learners from kindergarten to calculus using state-of-the-art, adaptive technology that identifies strengths and learning gaps. We've also partnered with institutions like NASA, The Museum of Modern Art, The California Academy of Sciences, and MIT to offer specialized content.
Big History - Big History School is an educational game-changer. Big History School expands the minds of students with a journey from the beginning of the universe to modern societies, to show how everything is connected.
Explii- What Would You Like to Learn Today?
https://www.expii.com/

Discover multiple voices for each topic so that you can learn in your own style. Are we missing your favorite? You can even add your own.Jump into Explii for a guided journey through the precise problems that will take you to your aha moment in any subject.
PBS Kids

Starfall
Coding for Kids
CK-12
Wide Open School -
Wide Open School helps families and educators find trusted resources to enrich and support distance learning.
HomeSchool Mom - For almost two decades, TheHomeSchoolMom has been a guide to the best homeschool resources available online.
Outschool - Live Online Classes and Clubs
Explore any interest over live video chat! Discover fun, social, and safe learning experiences for kids ages 3-18 led by passionate teachers. Classes from $10.
Illustrative Mathematic - Providing a comprehensive math curriculum, activities, lesson plans, professional services and a format for engaging mathematical discussion
  • Illustrative Math at Khan Academy- Personalized Practice
  • Illustrative Math- Content Standards and Materials
ABC Mouse - freecode - SCHOOL7771
Prodigy
Typing
Squiggle Park
Mystery Doug
Splash Learn -SplashLearn includes unlimited math lessons on many topics.
Scholastic

Universal Class - Learn Anything · Learn Anytime · Learn Anywhere  Free access is available through most public libraries.
Art Classes - list of free online classes
EdX | Online courses from the world's best universities
Access more than 1900 online courses from 100+ leading institutions including Harvard, MIT, Microsoft, and more.
Udacity- online courses in programming, data science, artificial intelligence, digital marketing, and more. Built with industry leaders.
Udemy-Udemy over 100000 courses and 24 million students. Learn programming, marketing, data science and more.

Lynda- Lynda.com(LinkedIn Learning)offering video courses taught by industry experts in software, creative, and business skills.  Free access is available through most public libraries.
Ecosystem for Kids - Interactive science diagrams for kids
Living Environment Labs - Youtube
Living Environment Labs - Teacher Pay Teachers
Home School Advice and Articles
NYSED Homeschool Q+A  
Love What Matters
Happiness is Here 
Simple Homeschool

Music
Crane School of Music Homeschool Band
Contact: 
Jon Schaller


Magazines
Ranger Rick

National Geo Kids
Time for Kids

Virtual Tours
Collection of Museum Tours

Frida Kahlo Museum
Shedd Museum - Chicago
Ocean Voyager Webcam
Virtual Field Trips
Virtual School Acivities - a large collection
Mount Vernon
The Kennedy Center for Performing Arts
Zoo Tours
Comprehensive list of Virtual Tours - some repeats from above

Film
Documentaries

Indigenous Films
Netflix
Global Oneness Project
Films for Justice
Critical Media Project


Apps
Audible - audio books

NY Public Library - Reading app

Misc.
Learn to Draw with famous Illustrators
North Country Library System

Fender Guitar lessons
Lego Building Prompts
Smithsonian Resources
Database of Educational Resources - some here are repeats
How Drawing Helps You Think
Science Experiments
Nature Journal
Art Tutorials
Craft Tutorials

Recorded Broadway Musicals
Live stream art class
Big History Mapping your own Village activity
Lunch Doodles with Mo Willelms

Worksheets from Australian Artist Ken Done
Indigenous Acknowledgment
Native land App
math4children

Video

Crash Course(Youtube)
- Amazing short videos courses on everything from Artificial Intelligence to World History

YouTube Crash Course Video Channel -Free, high-quality educational videos used by teachers and learners of all kinds.
These are the series you can currently find on our channel: Chemistry, World History, Biology, Ecology, US History, Psychology, Big History, Literature, Anatomy and Physiology, Astronomy, Intellectual Property, U.S. Government & Politics, Economics, Philosophy, Physics, Games, World Mythology, Sociology, Computer Science, Film Studies, Statistics, Theater, Media Literacy, Study Skills, History of Science, and Engineering.
Schoolhouse Rock

Storyline
Global Oneness Stories and Videos - a collection of uplifting stories and short movies


SDE Resources


There are multiple organizations and resources available for folks who are interested in learning more about self-directed learning or unschooling.  We will be continually adding to this list of links and books as we find them.

Links:

Liberated Learner Network
The Alliance for Self-Directed Learning

From the Alliance for Self-Directed Learning -  A TedX  by Zakiyya Ismail
Fairtest
AERO   
Sir Ken Robinson - Ted Talk
Sugata Mitra - Ted Talk
North Star Blog
Princeton Learning Cooperative Blog

Class Dismissed- Film Documentary
Self-Taught - Film Documentary

Khan Academy - free class resource 
Logan LaPlante - Ted Talk
Peter Gray Blog

*used by permission North Star
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Books:
The Teenage Liberation Handbook by Grace Llewellyn

Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom by Kerry McDonald
College Without Highschool by Blake Boles
The Art of Self-Directed Learning by Blake Boles
Free to Learn by Peter Grey
Wounded by School by Kirsten Olson
Learning is Natural. School is Optional. by Ken Danford (Co-founder of North Star)
Teacher Liberation Handbok by Joel Hammon
Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich

Making it up as We Go Along by Chris Mercagliano 
Teacher by Sylvia Ashton Warner
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Summerhill by AS Neil
Feel Bad Education by Alfie Kohn
​How Children Learn and Teach your Own by John Holt 
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*These books are available in most bookstores.  Deep Root Center does not endorse Amazon.  These are simply the links available for you to view the books.

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