Knew, but forgot: How to refresh the school curriculum
Text: Alexandra Bazhenova-Sorokina
The farther from the final exams, the worse we remember everything learned in school. At the same time, the school curriculum is the set of knowledge that truly unites the entire population of one country: unlike the skills acquired later, the school gives the widest coverage of the basics of different disciplines and at the same time helps to find out what is currently a scientific constant. . Today, it is easier to remember or re-learn something from the school curriculum than ever, thanks to thematic sites, traditional and online libraries, YouTube-channels and other resources, although there are very few online courses for adults on the school curriculum. We have collected eleven sources with which you can refresh in memory a variety of subjects - from algebra to school French - or try yourself in passing the exam on one of the school subjects.
Tasks
problems.ru
If you remember mathematics well, but you do not have enough practice or you just want to train the brain, the Objectives site is for you, even though it is stated as a resource for teachers and instructors. Here you can find a lot of tasks in mathematics, geometry, algebra, mathematical analysis and computer science: from the most simple about Cheburashek and balloons to those that you can spend a couple of hours or days to solve. Solutions are attached to the tasks, and in geometry there are also schemes. Unfortunately, there is no theoretical part on the resource, so you cannot first recall the topic, and then practice it in practice, but the help for an adult who refreshes his past knowledge is really great.
Internet lesson
interneturok.ru
Site with video tutorials and training tasks for everyone in various subjects of the school program. Now the site has almost all classes in the natural sciences and about half - in the humanities. The lessons are intended primarily for schoolchildren, but everyone can use the service: you can download videos, there are scripts, references and homework assignments. The site is easy to navigate, and it has a nice interface, which is rare for educational projects. Especially important is the ability to listen to living teachers and watch videos, as learning or remembering school knowledge only through texts is still a completely different experience.
Biology
ebio.ru
One of the main achievements of the digital era is electronic textbooks: there are much more illustrations in them, there is the possibility of updating information at a speed that paper editions didn’t dream of, and each lesson has many times more information, hyperlinks and tasks. In open access there is, for example, such a textbook of biology. It is intended for modern schoolchildren, so the wording of explanations and tasks look formal and is not always convenient for an adult. But there is an opportunity to plunge into the world of botany, general biology or ecology at that level, which even ten years ago would not have been possible in many good schools - after all, science itself is at a different stage of development.
Organic chemistry
orgchem.ru
The most enjoyable interface of open-source online textbooks is in an unexpected way with a multimedia organic chemistry textbook. It is easy to use, there are not only texts and tasks with illustrations, but also video, animation, as well as games, crossword puzzles and the final test, touchingly called "mini-EGE". The text of the textbook looks surprisingly not frightening, and the abundance of pictures and diagrams helps to quickly deal with chemical tasks, and with concepts such as polymers or thermochemical calculations that once introduced into a stupor. If you have not endured chemistry before, but you want to return to studying it, this can be a very good way.
It should be 5
nado5.ru
A somewhat unexpected site for self-study "It’s necessary to 5" was created to search for a tutor on the desired subject. Nevertheless, there is a section "wiki-textbook" in which the materials on different subjects (history, geography, and social studies), written and edited by users, are combined in topics and years of schooling. Although it is impossible to understand how good each individual text is, it is quite possible to resort to using such a resource to learn general information on a particular topic and dig further, relying on video tutorials or text materials.
Russian for 5
russkiy-na-5.ru
Sadly, especially few materials of the school curriculum for adults exist precisely in the Russian language, although the ability to write competently is a skill that not everyone got at school, and things are even more complicated with the theory of language. The site "Russian on 5" offers exercises, lessons, online dictionaries and preparation for the exam for adults and children and is made sufficiently clear to work on it yourself. In addition, it is always possible to use the sites of Gramota.ru and academic dictionaries, plus passing tests or writing dictations.
Exam RU
examen.ru
If you want to test your own knowledge, you can always refer to the exam tasks. The RU Exam site has USE tests in all major subjects of the school curriculum, from social studies to computer science, and you can pass them and even write on the official USE paper with a black pen (although it is not obvious how to find out the result in this situation). There are also online tests in various subjects of the ninth grade level - GIA. Additional information on the site, such as a reference to how much a pupil’s backpack should weigh or how not to go to school for legitimate reasons, is hardly necessary for an adult, but the opportunity to get a feel for the final exams of today's eleventh graders is really exciting.
Knowledge hypermarket
edufuture.biz
Another site with online lessons on the school program. "Knowledge Hypermarket" offers a wide range of subjects, including art, ethics and subjects of the Ukrainian school curriculum, which is doubly interesting and pleasant. The site has a certain amount of texts and exercises, but there is no interactivity; It is also not entirely clear what the history and mission of the Hypermarket is. Nevertheless, it is quite possible to use his lessons in bezrybe to continue to look for exercises, tests or video lessons on specific topics.
MetaSchool
metaschool.ru
"MetaSchool" is a St. Petersburg educational portal, where there are circles on the main school subjects, Olympiads, online courses on the oral account and mathematics of the 5-8th grade, on algebra and geometry of the secondary school level. Courses are paid, but their cost clearly pays off the amount of resources and individual approach. Teachers with pedagogical education work here, and, what is especially pleasant, the training is not sharpened for tests, but involves fun and gaining real knowledge. The obvious disadvantage, however, is that the courses are designed primarily for children and their parents, and not for adults who want to learn or repeat something for themselves.
ICS Learn
icslearn.co.uk
The English school system looks very different, but it offers a no less interesting body of knowledge. A huge plus in online education in English (GCSE) or the international (IGCSE) secondary school program is that you simultaneously train a foreign language and get all the terminology on the subject of interest. Unfortunately, all such courses for adults are prepared specifically for passing the exams of secondary and high school in order to receive a certificate, and cost accordingly. But the plus of this course, for example, is that when registering, the user receives a free .pdf with a sample of the chosen subject, for example IGSCE biology, which makes it possible to understand whether you need it at all.
Ayp.ru
fizika.ayp.ru
The hardest thing in self-learning is the situation with the queen of school misunderstanding - physics. This science is given to very few people easily, even with a good teacher, and even without it even more so. Unfortunately, online resources on physics often come down to the sites we have already mentioned with tasks or tests, but there is, for example, such a complete physics course, the basis of which is an explanation of a textbook. The whole school curriculum of physics is divided into topics and written in relatively understandable language, there are many illustrations, but, alas, inexplicably, there are no tasks - you have to look for them yourself.
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