Educational Activities

• Streaming Video for academic and trade content areas from Infobase Video on Demand is available with a login to our subscription. Contact your school-based Library Media Specialist for the login that teachers and students can use.

• The Hartford Courant offers FREE INTERACTIVE lessons for many subjects. You can register your own school for free internet access for Hartford Courant.

• Scholastic.com is offering free online/home lessons.

• USATestprep Our district has received free access through the end of the school year to these test-prep materials.

• NYTimes online is free for schools this month, if your school chooses to participate.

• Google Arts and Culture

• A new guide, Temporary E Resource Access to Support Distance Learning, is available at https://guides.lib.uconn.edu/Tempdistance. Posted for ECE.
  

Social studies

• Smithsonian Learning Lab: Discover, Create, Share

• CrashCourse youtube

• Who Was? Series With over 150 titles, Penguin’s Who Was? series tells the incredible stories of trailblazers, legends, innovators, and creators.

• National Geographic Kids

• Google Earth

• iCivics | Free Lesson Plans and Games for Learning Civics Provides teachers with well-written, inventive, free resources that enhance teachers practice and inspire their classrooms.

Language Arts

• ReadWriteThink - ReadWriteThink ReadWriteThink is a great platform that provides a wide variety of educational materials covering different literacy areas including reading, writing, listening and speaking. You can use the integrated search functionality to filter resources based on criteria such as grade level, resource type, themes, learning objectives and many more.’

• Reading Rockets | Launching Young Readers Resources to help struggling readers build phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension skills. Online course on teaching reading, classroom strategies, in-classroom video, parent reading tips, interviews with children's book authors, recommended children's books, and more. (Maybe for ELL)

• Storyline Online ‘Storyline Online, streams videos featuring celebrated actors reading children’s books alongside creatively produced illustrations. Readers include Viola Davis, Chris Pine, Lily Tomlin, Kevin Costner, Annette Bening, James Earl Jones, Betty White and dozens more.’

• CommonLit
  CommonLit delivers high-quality, free instructional materials to support literacy development for students in grades 3-12.’

Other

• Duolingo - The world's best way to learn a language a fun and effective new way to learn languages! ... With our interactive speaking challenges, you will be encouraged to produce and speak entire sentences on your own!

• TED-Ed: Lessons Worth Sharing TED-Ed celebrates the ideas of teachers and students around the world. Discover hundreds of animated lessons, create customized lessons, and share your big

• Brainpop: Animated Educational Site for Kids - Science, Social Studies, English, Math, Arts & Music, Health, and Technology.
  BrainPop is available by subscription but has some free content, including a movie of the day, several free movies from each topic area, educators materials, including lesson plans, and an extensive library of educational games called GameUp.