Homework Help Initiative
This year the Bluewater District School Board is one of fifteen boards participating in a new program
entitled the “Homework Help Initiative.” This initiative provides students with two websites to help
them with their homework.
FREE ONLINE RESOURCES
The first website is the Ontario Educational Resource Bank (OERB) which is a
product of e-Learning Ontario. It offers a growing number of free online
resources from Kindergarten to Grade 12. There are currently over 20 000 teacher-shared
items including lesson plans, activities, maps, and games, which are:
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aligned with the Ontario curriculum.
searchable by grade, subject, strand, and keyword.
easy to access and use.
To utilize the OERB:
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Contact the e-learning contact teacher to access the
login information
log onto resources.elearningontario.ca
FREE MATH TUTORING FOR GRADES 7 - 10
The second site is Homework Help, which offers online math tutoring for grades 710. It is free, anonymous, and safe. Students log onto homeworkhelp.ilc.org
between 5:30 pm and 9:30 pm, Sunday-Thursday, to receive free tutoring from
certified Ontario math teachers.
All of the grade 7-10 Bluewater math classrooms have been visited by the e-learning
contact teacher; the students created their own usernames and passwords to log on
to the site. Parents can check out Homework Help by registering as guests.
If you have any questions regarding this initiative, please contact:
Krystal Damm,
eLearning Contact Teacher,
Bluewater District School Board
(519) 363-2014 ext. 2148
1-800-288-4403 (toll free)
fax: 519-370-2912
Krystal_Damm@bwdsb.on.ca