More and more of the country’s
best universities are making OpenCourseWare (free video and audio clips,
animations, lecture notes, assignments, etc.) available online. MIT has taken
this concept one step further and created Highlights for High Schools, where
materials are featured that are most useful for high school students and
teachers. Many wonderful resources are available in the areas of science, math,
and the humanities that include study materials, courses, test preparation,
labs, and competitions. Many of the materials will help students study for AP
exams.
The site also has just plain interesting, free courses
appropriate for gifted high school students, including a class that teaches how
to design sets for theater and one on designing toys (both under the heading of
Knowledge in Action: Build Stuff).
There are also high school courses created by MIT students
such as Guitar Building; a course exploring Gödel, Escher, and Bach; and
Combinatorics, a fascinating branch of mathematics that applies to problems
ranging from card games to quantum physics to the Internet.
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