Parent and Educator Resources on Media Education. Accounts are free.
Lessons on News and Media Literacy include tips on finding credible news.
Brief videos to explain the research processes
Newsela is also accessible as an app through Schoology for the rest of the school year.
Time for Kids has been made available for free to students/parents and teachers for the rest of the school year.
Kiddle is a kid friendly, kid safe visual search engine.
Factmonster has information related to all the main content areas, as well as educational games that make learning fun. It is a member of the FEN Learning family of educational resource sites for teachers, parents and students,
Sweetsearch is another kid-friendly search engine that lets students search specifically for news and history resources.
Tween Tribune is a collection of news articles, graphics, photos, videos and much more provided for free by the Smithsonian Institution. Topics include art, history, culture, science, and current events. In addition to student resources, there are teacher resources that allow for interactive use by students as well. Teachers must register their classes to use the interactive features like posting and commenting.
Info Please is a reference and learning site that combines elements of encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases and almanacs to bring you well curated and accurate information. It is part of the FEN Learning family of educational sites for teachers, parents, and students.
If you need to provide citations for your research, Easy Bib is your friend! It will generate citations in the proper format for both print and digital sources.
Think you are good at spotting "fake news"? Check your ability to spot the truth at this website!
Confused about how to conduct research? Need to write a research paper but don't know where to begin? This self-paced guide will walk you through the steps. (It has a LOT of information!)
If you are looking for informational resources, things to read, topics you are curious about, try the Library of Congress. They have just about everything!