TEACHER & STUDENT RESOURCES
TEACHER & STUDENT RESOURCES
ELA & READING
SORA APP - Free reading resource easily accessed through the app, students and staff can use DOE email credentials. A great diverse collection with something for everyone
MYLIBRARY NYC- Explore titles to secure classroom size sets!
TEACHING BOOKS : READY TO USE ACTIVITIES & NOTES TO TEACHERS
FREE EDUCATIONAL SUPPORTS/RESOURCES
COMMON LIT - Common lit is a assessment and literacy program
PENGUIN CLASSROOM- Videos, discussion guides, etc
BEELINE READER -BeeLine Reader helps students read on screen more effectively. It is used both by skilled readers (including high school and college students) and readers with dyslexia, ADHD and autism. The technology is backed by educational research and has won social impact awards from the United Nations and Stanford University. Free access to the BeeLine Reader Browser Plugin for Chrome through September 2020. Email education@BeeLineReader.com and they’ll send you a free account for you and your students!
ALBERT - Albert is an online learning platform that supplements all 5-12 general content subjects including AP, SAT, ACT, ELA, math, and NGSS
AAPB - American Archive of Public Broadcasting (AAPB) is a collaboration between the Library of Congress and the WGBH Educational Foundation to coordinate a national effort to preserve at-risk public media before its content is lost to posterity and provide a central web portal for access to the unique programming that public stations have aired over the past 70 years. To date, over 110,000 digital files of television and radio programming contributed by more than 130 public media organizations and archives across the United States have been preserved and made accessible for long-term preservation and access. The entire collection is available on location at the Library of Congress and WGBH, and more than 52,000 files are available online at americanarchive.org
HATHI TRUST - Hathi Trust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world
SCIENCE
ALCHEMIE - The Mechanisms app allows students to learn and practice reaction mechanisms by moving and manipulating individual bonds and electrons. Instructors can assign specific puzzle problems through the Epiphany Dashboard. Students will be able to access those puzzles through the App on their phone or tablet. Demos of the Mechanisms and Epiphany Dashboard are available for free. Alchemie is offering the Mechanism App for free from now until the end of the spring semester June 30th
AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY - The American Chemical Society has ChemMatters magazines, targeted for high schoolers, available online. In addition to chemistry, there are article that are biographies of chemists, and historical articles
ASTRO STEM - Astrostem.org is an online education platform that includes astronomy lessons, astronomy applications, astronomy workshops, space games, current astronomy and space science news and allows users to produce their own content
BIOLOGY SIMULATIONS - Simulations and virtual labs for biology topics including evolution, ecology, and cellular energetics
BITESCIS - BiteScis integrates current scientific research into NGSS-aligned lessons aimed at introductory high school level courses. Most lesson are easily modified for remote learning
STUDENT RESOURCES
SOCIAL STUDIES
SETERRA - Geography quiz games
CSPAN CLASSROOM - FREE video based material for social studies teachers
NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY CURRICULUM - Materials include primary source documents, photos, paintings, maps, life stories, timelines, lesson activities, discussion questions, and more
ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRANT JOURNEYS (CURRICULUM) - Angel Island Immigration Station's curriculum guides, called "Immigrant Journeys," provide strategies and background material designed for teachers of Grades 3-12. These free guides contain lessons, student worksheets, primary source documents from the National Archives, historical photographs, and list of resources to introduce students to the experience of immigrants on Angel Island
ECHOES & REFLECTIONS - Echoes & Reflections offers educators access to a library of comprehensive Holocaust content that is classroom-ready and prepared with today’s students and classrooms in mind. This allows educators to leverage a variety of ways to examine critical themes of the Holocaust.
MATH
MANGA HIGH - Math and coding lessons with built in interventions
KHAN ACADEMY - Nonprofit that offers short videos on thousands of topics for kids of all ages, is having daily (weekdays) livestreams at 12 p.m. EST on Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter to assist students, parents, and teachers navigating school closures
ASSISTMENTS - Free tool for math teachers to assign classwork and homework. Compatible with Google Classroom and many common curricula like Illustrative Mathematics. Students receive immediate feedback and teachers receive reports with student- and class-level data to inform instruction