Do your students have their own email address yet? If your students do not have their own email addresses through your school, you may want to consider asking parents to set-up their child with their own Gmail/Google account. Parents will need to set-up the account for any child under 13 years of age, and link it to their own Gmail address. Now, the child will have their own Gmail address for sign-in purposes, as well as access to Google Workspace applications, like Google Docs. An extra bonus is that it provides parents with the option of setting up a variety of different parental controls to create a safer web browsing experience (provided the child is using the Chrome browser and signed into their account).

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Epic! is a digital library that contains over 40,000 children's books that families and educators can access on a computer or by downloading the app to a tablet or phone. Educators can set-up an account to provide their students with access to most of the library during school hours for free that students access with a class code. Parents can also set-up an account to provide their children with limited access to the library (2 hours per week) for free. A premium membership with unlimited access is available if you subscribe and pay for a monthly or yearly membership. Many of the books that we recommend for this unit are available on Epic! for your convenience.

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Padlet is one of the main platforms that is being used on our website for sharing information and collaboration. To register, teachers can provide their email address and set up a password. Once registered, teachers can create "walls" that have different formats and layouts and share them with their students who can start posting and collaborating right away. The walls can be private or available to everyone who has a link and students do not need to register to post. Students can post their notes that may contain links to different websites, videos, drawings, and images. It is a great place for collaboration, creativity, and sharing of information. Check it out!

On our website, we are using Padlet Walls in every module and utilizing it for assessment purposes such as a KWL tool and a digital portfolio for students to post and share their work.

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YouTube is a video platform that students are able to watch videos during all modules learning. They can access by clicking videos with a technological device and an internet connection to watch them without login. Every video can be watched repeatedly.

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