Online Resources included in Enrollment
The WorldWide IDEA Academies provide a number of valuable online subscriptions and partnership resources to enhance and support quality teaching, learning, and testing prep. If purchased individually, the content of these resources could cost a family thousands of dollars, and some can only be purchased by schools or libaries.
Our families are able to use these resources to fulfill a lot of their curriculum needs, which ultimately saves a lot of money.
We encourage you to review this page, which provides an overview of these resources that families can access — either free or as special discounts — as part of their enrollment benefits in WorldWide IDEA.
BrainPOP & BrainPOP Jr.
BrainPOP, aimed at grades 3 and up (includes en Espanol) and BrainPOP Jr., aimed at grades K-3, offer hundreds of animated educational videos that cover a wide variety of topics in a fun and easy-to-understand format.
Subject areas include:
- Science
- Social Studies
- Art & Music
- Health
- Technology
- English
Materials and movies are aligned to the standards of all 50 U.S. States and National Standards.
Visit BrainPOP's website to browse their free stuff. Our WorldWide IDEA subscription includes access to all videos and additional content. Purchased by an individual homeschool family, the annual subscription rate is $175.
Let's Go Learn
The Let's Go Learn assessment tools are excellent and easy for children to take. The reports are very parent-friendly and easy to understand. Unique Reader and Unique Math, the instructional portion of each program, can be used very effectively as they differentiate to each student's specific needs. If purchased individually by a family, the expense would be $100 per test.
Includes:
- DOMA (Diagnostic Online Math Assessments) for K-5 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
- DORA (Diagnostic Online Reading Assessments) for K-12 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
- Ability to use the same testing more than once during the year to gauge ongoing learning progress
- Websites designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning and enjoyment
- Interactive reading and math instruction
- Theme Units and more
To learn more about this resource visit the Let's Go Learn website.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning provides fun and handy activities and printables for all grade levels. (Our subscription means more content and no advertisements!)
Includes:
- Preschool & Kindergarten activities section
- Foreign Language Themes
- A huge collection of printables covering all subject areas with wide variety of topics and themes
To learn more about this resource visit the Enchanted Learning website.
World Book Online Reference Center
World Book Online is comprehensive repository of research and study materials. Individual subscriptions cost $50 per year. To collect a similar off-line resource (printed books and CDs), a family would need to buy several World Book packages — spending thousands of dollars — and even then would not include all of the content found here.
Includes:
- Reference Center — A premier online reference source containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed websites & more.
- Reference Libraries — Primary and core source collections — books, documents, selections — in major subject areas.
- Basic Spanish-language encyclopedia for elementary and middle grades
- Professionally prepared lesson plans and activities
- Professional resources that include links to curricula standards, professional education associations and educational literature
To learn more about this resource visit the World Book Online website.
ALEKS
ALEKS is available for a variety of math courses for 3-12 students. Through the WorldWide IDEA program, the subscription cost is just $40 per student for the year, instead of the regular price of about $200 per student per year.
ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple choice questions.
ALEKS also provides the advantages of one-on-one instruction, 24/7, from virtually any web-based computer for a fraction of the cost of a human tutor.
To learn more about this resource visit the ALEKS website. For a family not enrolled in WorldWide IDEA, each ALEKS class costs $125; For our enrolled families, the cost is only $35 per class.
Weekly Writer Club
Weekly Writer Club is a subscription-based Club for students in Grades 2-8 featuring an online Language Arts through Letter Writing curriculum with blogs, discussion forums, pen pals, and Web 2.0 technology.
* Special Summer 2010 Offer! Receive the Summer Travel Club Membership for the whole family for FREE — that's a savings of $100! Learn More >>
During the regular school year, they are also offering a substantial discount to WW IDEA families participating in its State Leadership Program — $99, a savings of $231 over their regular price. This subscription runs September—May OR February—August for all family members (whether all are enrolled in WorldWide IDEA Private Academy or not).
To request your subscription and receive the WW IDEA discount, complete the State Leadership Program Application, and type in "WorldWide IDEA" in the answer field under the question, "What homeschool organizations do you belong to?" or in the "Additional Comments" box at the end of that form.
Greenways Academy Courses
As a special promotion for students of WorldWide IDEA's Private Academy, Greenways Academy is offering single courses at $250 each (32% discount). Greenways also offers specialized live tutors at an extra cost, should students and/or parents desire this service.
Greenways Academy is an established accredited (NCA, CITA & NCAA) online school servicing 5th-12th grade. They are a diploma granting institution for the college bound students and are able to modify their curriculum per each student's IEP or 504 Plan. The mission of Greenways Academy is to motivate, educate, and advocate for every student.
To learn more about this resource visit the Greenways Academy Courses page.
WebLessons
Professionally-developed WebLessons make it easy for anyone to teach standards-based curriculum in the home. WebLessons are optimized for directed self-study or study in teams. Families can purchase a WebLessons home account monthly or annually with unlimited access to course materials during that purchase period. Preview and assign over 700 web-based lessons aimed at both younger and older learners, get free online training, detailed instructor guides with each lesson, and more.
Monthly Purchase Option: Get a WebLessons account for one teacher and one home learner for $14.95 USD a month. Add additional home learners for only $2.00 USD each. This option is available for single home use only and must be purchased online.
Annual Purchase Option: Get a WebLessons account for one teacher and 6 students for $149 USD a year.
Learn more about Web Lessons or visit the Home Learning Purchase page.