A curated and very incomplete list of random resources
Resources
This is another page that fell victim to cuts I made to the site: it's just too much to maintain lists like this online so I moved many resources to private Google Sheets. What's left are a few general resources:
BOOKS FOR PARENTS
- Rick Ackerly: The Genius in Children
- Harvey Karp: The happiest baby/toddler on the block
- John Rosemond: How to make the terrible twos terrific
- Heather Schumaker: It's OK not to share
- Diana Ravitch: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
- Wendy Mogel: The Blessings of a Skinned Knee
- Jennifer Ward: I Love Dirt and Let's Go Outside
- By Michael G. Thompson, Ph.D.and Catherine O'Neill Grace: Best Friends / Worst Enemies: Understanding the Social Lives of Our Children
- Carol Gilligan: In a Different Voice
- Lucy McCormick Calkins: Raising Lifelong Learners: A Parent's Guide
WEBSITES / ARTICLES
- Hamilton/Niagara activities and events
- Eric Dingler is some religious guy with some decent ideas (take the meat and leave the bones)
- Rick Ackerly
- Raffi's Child Honouring
- Ken Robinson
- Simple Living
- TED
- GAP school
- Raising Small Souls
VIDEOS FOR KIDS
Videos I used to watch with the kids around bedtime. Also check out The Kids Should See This website for many more videos.
- Lego story
- Chris Hadfield
- Egg hatching
- Harvesting / combine
- Milking a cow
- Orchestra
- Alligator babies in mouth
- Stork
- how it's made candy
- how it's made:
- Spiderweb
- Marshmallows
- Rope
- Peanut butter
- Candy cane
- Home made chocolate
- Trains
- Trucks
- how children live in other countries
- google maps gyor
- Volcano
- Sioux speech
- Lego story
- How it's made play doh
- The human body
- Firetrucks
- Raindance
- Chickens hatching from eggs
- Milking a cow
- Shearing sheep
- Making tea
- Didgeridoo
- Beavers making a dam
- Violin
- Baby birds
- Kangaroo
- Koala
- How its made orange juice
- How it's made mountain bikes
- How it's made cherry jam
- How stars a born
- How it's made books
- How it's made stickers
- How it's made breath mints
- Play doh how it's made
- How to make yarn pom poms
- Wheat harvest
- Brush teeth in space
- Space kitchen
- How the digestive system works
- Ave Maria by LP
- How brain works
- Snake shedding skin
- Penguins
- Space shuttle launch
- Gyor
- Sloth
- Airplane landing
- Beaver dam
- Volcano
- Crying in space
- Gaelic song
- Cook jam
- Paving runway
- About moose
- Call 911
- PB
- Peanuts
- Ironman suits up
- Birds of Paradise mating dance
- How it's made marbles
- How to build an igloo
- Sorting and recycling
- About giraffes
- Galapagos tortoise
- Chicken eggs hatching
- Day in the life of a farmer
- Swimming with sea turles
- Building a house - time lapse
- Wildlife crossings
- Bicycle race - random tour de France
- Beaver building dam
- Corn harvest
- Juggler comedian Michael Davis
TED TALKS
- Ken Robinson: Do schools kill creativity?
- Ken Robinson: How to escape education's death valley
- Ken Robinson: Changing Paradigms
- Ken Robinson: RSAAnimate: Changing Education Paradigms
- Ken Robinson: Bring on the Learning Revolution
- 5 dangerous things kids should try
- Our loss of wisdom - how rules prevent disaster and achieve mediocrity
- The life long learner
PODCASTS / AUDIO BOOKS
- David Christian: Big History
- Ken Robinson: The Element
- TED talks
- The teaching company
- Laura Markham: Why Praising Sabotages Your Child