Online Options

Free remote access to PebbleGo, PebbleGo Next, and Capstone Interactive eBooks.

Student Access Instructions

• PebbleGo (English & Spanish):

  • Visit www.pebblego.com and click "Sign In"

  • Username: engaged

  • Password: learning

• PebbleGo Next:

  • Visit www.pebblegonext.com and click "Log In"

  • Username: engaged

  • Password: learning

• Capstone Interactive eBooks:

  • Visit www.mycapstonelibrary.com and click "Log In"

  • Username: continue

  • Password: reading

Virtual Field Trips & Virtual Learning Sessions

• Discovery Education

• Skype in the Classroom

• Fairbanks Museum Virtual Science Lessons

• Virtual Museums

• Virtual Tour listing

• The Metropolitan Opera will live stream their shows. The Seattle Symphony is offering free streaming of concerts. You can learn more about that here. Here’s another free concert resource. from the Berlin Philharmoniker. The Metropolitan Opera is also offering some free concerts.

Online Reading

• Vooks: https://www.vooks.com/ Online read alouds. Teachers get one year free. Parents can get one month free.

• Audible free streaming audio books for students and families: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

• Here is a link to a variety of authors with first chapter read alouds, and entire picture book read alouds. All shared with permission from the author and publishers. There are also videos of illustrators showing their technique. Thank you to the amazing Kate Messner!

• A website where authors share pages from their journals.

• Epic - Free for teachers and classrooms any time! (Contact your teacher to learn about access(+)

• Wide Open Schools resources

• Kate Messner Virtual Book Club for Ranger in Time (grades 3-5). Students do not need a book. She will be reading aloud from it.

• Library of Congress digitized collection of children’s books that you can read online

• Junior Library Guild online books for elementary, middle, and high school students (currently free for all)

• The annual Dorothy’s List Conference has been moved online and is free (even if you did not sign up for the in-person conference) See this website for updates. A great opportunity to meet an author and prepare ideas for next year’s list (recommended for those who teach 4-8).

• Let’s Keep Reading Google doc - an evolving list of authors and illustrators that are holding livestream events and webcasts over the course of the next month.

• A livestream of authors/illustrators reading historical children’s books from the Library of Congress.

Other Great Resources

• Have students research how culture has influenced music through the decades. Students can create a playlist of pop music through the decades. Rolling Stone Magazine & Youtube are good resources, as well as Spotify & Pandora Music

• Gizmos interactive math and science simulations (OCSU has a subscription for elementary site). Webinar training is here.

• A Playlist of Writing Tips for kids

• A “Draw Everyday” Channel from Jarett Krosoczka author of Lunch Lady series.

• Britannica Launch Packs Sign Up

• Library of Congress Digitized Collections

• Scholastic Learn at home

• Icivics

• Lunch Doodles with Mo Willems

• Professional Learning

• Khan Academy for Math

• Eureka Math- starting Wednesday, March 18, we are going to share, free to anyone—recorded daily lessons in grades K-12 of Eureka Math, K-8 of Wit & Wisdom, and 3-5 of PhD Science.  These lessons will be delivered by Great Minds’ own teachers and will be viewable on any device, even a smart phone. We hope you will use these lessons, in full or in part, however you think best.

In the meantime, remember that our Eureka Math/EngageNY Math curriculum is a free, open education resource available to anyone, anywhere. Please go to greatminds.org/math to find:

• Student materials such as Problem Sets, Application Problems, and Exit Tickets

• Homework Helpers

• Parent Tip Sheets

• Math card games

• Achieve the Core

• Remote Physical Education: Daily Big 3

• https://openphysed.org/

• Here's the link to the brainingcamp website:

https://www.brainingcamp.com/ideas

• https://mysteryscience.com/lessons/seasonal/current-events

• Vermont School Library Association Learning at Home Resources for Teachers