Teacher Resources
All sites are accessible for both school and home use. Most sites will not require login information when being used in-district. Sign into your school Google account to access login information for any sites that request it.
BrainPOP Educators offers lesson plans and creative ideas, classroom aids, support videos, and connections to academic standards and assessment tools. Search NYS and Common Core learning standards within the BrainPOP site to locate aligned resources. Contact Miss Moretti for the Educator Code to create a My BrainPOP account.
Gale eBooks Professional Collection is provided by Capital Region BOCES and includes 52 professional books related to education.
PBS Learning Media/Vital NY offers thousands of standards-based pre-K-12 media resources, support materials, and lessons, including: classroom-ready content for ELA, math, science, and social studies. Video included. Create your own UN and PW.
ReadWriteThink.org is produced by the literacy experts at the International Reading Association and the National Council of Teachers of English. It includes a wide variety of lesson plans, video, and other media resources.
ResearchRocket offers kid-friendly articles from a variety of credible magazines, newspapers and other information sources. Topics include Science & Math, Environment, Technology, Art & Music, Government & History, and more.
Soundzabound Music Library offers a variety of music, audio themes, and sound effects for grades K -12 and ensures your copyright safety. Perfect for podcasts, PowerPoint™, videos, news, shows, video yearbooks, digital storytelling, presentations, TV broadcasts, web design and more.
Teachingbooks.net is an online database that includes thousands of resources about a wide variety of books and authors.
Times Union Digital - Access the digital edition of the Times Union newspaper including today's paper and those from the prior two years. Email
Additional Resources
Breakout EDU Subject Packs - In Breakout EDU games, players work collaboratively to solve a series of critical thinking puzzles in order to open a locked box. Each Breakout EDU kit can be used to play hundreds of games. The Sacandaga Library has a Breakout EDU kit that can be borrowed.
Docs Teach (National Archives) - Access thousands of primary sources — letters, photographs, speeches, posters, maps, videos, and other document types — spanning the course of American history. Borrow from an ever-expanding collection of document-based activities created by the National Archives, and teachers around the world. Copy and modify activities for your students. Teach with documents using the online tool.
Educator's Reference Complete is a resource for educators and education students. Provides access to periodicals covering preschool to college and most educational specialties. Includes full-text for many titles cited in ERIC. Use UN/PW for Scholastic Go/NOVEL/GALE databases.
Epic! is a digital library with thousands of well-known fiction and nonfiction books, learning videos, quizzes, read-aloud stories, and stories in several other languages. Create a free educator account to access books.
Indianapolis Public Library Video Read-Alouds is a collection of 100+ videos of famous books being read aloud by authors, actors, and more. The videos are collected from a variety of outside sites.
The International Children's Digital Library (ICDL) is a research project to create a digital library of outstanding children's books from all over the world. The collection's focus is on identifying materials that help children to understand the world around them and the global society in which they live. The materials in the collection, all presented in the original languages in which they were published, reflect similarities and differences in cultures, societies, interests, and lifestyles of peoples around the world.
The Library of Congress is the largest library in the world, with millions of books, recordings, photographs, newspapers, maps and manuscripts in its collections. The Library is the main research arm of the U.S. Congress and the home of the U.S. Copyright Office. Resource highlights include the Digital Collections and the World Digital Library.
National Archives Educator Resources includes teaching tools, lesson plans, primary documents, eBooks, online tours, videos, and more.
New York State Newspapers database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday. Use UN/PW for Scholastic Go/NOVEL/GALE databases.
Scholastic Teachers Lessons and Ideas has lesson plans, unit plans, discussion guides, extension activities, and other teaching ideas.
School Mental Health Tools and Resources includes sample lesson plans, talking points, and a variety of helpful resources. This site support schools working to implement mental health instruction and to support a more comprehensive plan for increasing mental health literacy across the entire school community.
Smithsonian Learning Lab was created to inspire the discovery and creative use of its rich digital materials—more than a million images, recordings, and texts. Create a free account to gather materials to share with students.