High School Credit and PLAR

Lessons

  • Lessons use tutorials and quizzes.
  • Tutorials have slides with text and pictures.
  • Learners can use the built-in screen reader.
  • Other learning tools include dictionaries, translators and text highlighting.
  • After watching a tutorial, learners complete a short quiz to check their knowledge.
  • Lessons are grouped by level and subject.

 

English

Learners will be assigned lessons from our Writing Skills curriculum to build readiness for English high school credits or the PLAR English Assessment.

 

Math

Learners will be assigned lessons from our Essential Math curriculum to build readiness for Math high school credits or the PLAR Math Assessments.

 

History/Geography

Learners will be assigned lessons from our Reading Strategies and Writing Skills curriculum to build readiness for the PLAR History/Geography Assessment. Learners can also take our Canadian Geography course.  See details in the Courses section.

 

 

Courses

  • Created by the LearningHUB Team!
  • Designed for literacy learners. The perfect introduction to online learning.
  • Each course is 3-6 units.
  • Each unit has a learning objective.
  • Activities include pages to read, videos, journal-writing, short assignments, quizzes and more.

 

Canadian Geography

Whether you’re hiking or planning a cross country road trip, knowing how to read a map is a practical skill to have. In this course, you will learn ways that maps are useful and practice reading them. You will explore the geography of Canada and its abundance of natural resources and how Canada’s physical features influence population size and where people and businesses choose to locate. You will read and interpret graphs to identify trends and make predictions. Lastly, you will learn why Canada is proud of its diverse population and culture.

Click here to see a course outline.

 

Writing an Essay

In this course, you will learn to identify parts of a 5-paragraph essay. You will learn to read writing prompt instructions and understand how to answer them. You will get hands-on writing experience using strategies like brainstorming, drafting rough copies, revising and editing to create an essay with a thesis statement, introduction, body and concluding paragraphs.

Click here to see a course outline.