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Study Skills
- Setting Personal Goals
Guide to setting personal goals - Well-being
Guide to looking after your own well-being - Skills for a Changing World
Courseware to build capacity in English language, mathematical literacy and ICT. - Skills for Academic Learning
Courseware to build capacity for the transition from school to further and higher education – reading skills, writing skills and study skills.
Lower Primary (Years 1 – 3) Subject Specific Resources
- Learner Workbooks – Examples
Learner workbooks for Grade R English, and Grades 1-3 Literacy, Numeracy and Life-skills. - Early Mathematics
Introducing working with numbers. - SA Teachers Mathematics 1-3
YouTube videos for teaching mathematics. - Early Literacy
Examples of apps designed to support emergent literacy. - Early Literacy – Jolly Phonics
Introduction to Jolly Phonics. The related App is widely used in Nigeria, among other countries. - Video Guides to Support Early Literacy
This site provides several short video guides useful for both teachers and parents. - Tools for Educators
This site provides several guiding tools for parents and/or teachers. - Assistive Technology
This site provides several guidelines on technology that can be used to support learners experiencing various barriers to learning. - Early Learning Toolkit
The Early Learning Toolkit contains practical resources to support work in early childhood settings, schools and communities.
Upper Primary (Years 4 – 6)
- Learner Workbooks – Examples
Learner workbooks for Grades 4-6 Literacy and Numeracy. - Parts of Speech
Guide to parts of speech such as nouns and verbs etc. in English. - Punctuation
Guide to using punctuation in English. - Sentences
Guide to writing sentences in English. - Paragraphs
Guide to writing paragraphs in English. - Spelling
Guide to spelling in English. - Khan Academy Kids
An App designed especially for children aged 2-7. - SA Teacher Mathematics 4 – 7
YouTube videos for teaching mathematics (Grades 4 – 7) - Guide to Teaching Mathematics at the Upper Primary Level
The above resources provide guidelines for promoting active learning of key mathematical concepts. - Learning and Teaching Mathematics
The above resources provide guidelines for promoting active learning of key mathematical concepts.
Junior Secondary (Years 7 – 9)
- Learner Workbooks – Examples
Learner workbooks for Grades 7-9 Numeracy - Khan Academy
Contains content for Mathematics, Science and Engineering, Computing, Arts & Humanities, Economics and finance.
Senior Secondary (Years 10 – 12)
- PHET Interactive Simulations for Science and Mathematics
Simulations related to topics in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Earth Science and Biology. - COL Resources (Secondary)
17 secondary school courses, at grade 10-12, specially designed for independent study. Commerce 11, Coordinated Science 12, English 12, English 2nd language 10; Entrepreneurship 10; Food & Nutrition. Geography 10, Human Social Biology 12, Life Science 10, Life Skills, Mathematics 11, Mathematics 12, Physical Science 10, Physical Science 12, Principles of Business, Spanish.
Cross-cutting resources (how to guides as well as subject specific resources)
- African Storybook
Thousands of picture storybooks in African languages to improve literacy and imagination of children. - CK-12 (Elementary and Secondary)
Learning resources in a variety of formats for K-12 grades. - Khan Academy
Materials from Grade 9 upwards to the first year in a college. - MIT BLOSSOMS (Videos)
Blended Learning Open Source Science or Math Studies (BLOSSOMS) is a series of interactive lessons presented in a widely accessible video format. - OER Commons
A wide range of learning materials for different levels, including professional development resources for teachers and an authoring environment. - OpenStax
A good starting point to avail quality textbooks. A printable version of textbooks can be accessed at OpenStax textbooks. - PhET (Simulations for Science and Math)
Interactive simulations in science and mathematics from University of Colorado. - Siyavula (Elementary and Secondary)
Learner book(s) and teacher’s guide(s) in English and Afrikaans. - Storyweaver
Over 19,000 stories to promote reading amongst kids available in 230 languages. - Notesmaster
OER for a variety of subjects
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- TESSA
Contains teaching resources for primary level life skills, literacy, numeracy, science, social studies and the arts and secondary science in four languages: English, French, Arabic and Swahili. - BC Open School
Contains links to several useful subject-specific and general learning guides. - Learning Continuity Kit
Provides guides for teachers and learners on how to continue learning when schools are locked down. - Digital Promise: Online Learning Resources A searchable library of online resources for educators.