**For e-Book information, click here. For databases and encyclopedias, click here.**
COVID Resources:
BrainPop (K-8) is no longer offering free access, however there are some Coronavirus and back to school lessons available for free.
General Education (not content-specific):
The New York Times is offering free digital access through September 2021. Register and invite your students, or print/PDF articles you need. You can also read on the Replica Edition.
New Visions provides open-source curriculum for MANY content areas
NewsELA (K-12) offers leveled articles and standards-aligned content
Khan Academy (K-12+) is famous for math, but offers lesson videos in a host of other topics
TedEd (K-12+) videos on various topics, searchable
NearPod (they also own Flocabulary) is an AMAZING tool to teach while students remain engaged - add in reflection questions, polls, etc. into your slide deck and push to kids computers remotely with a class "code" or assign as homework and have students complete on their own time
EdPuzzle is another amazing tool to add checks for understanding into videos for distance learning/homework, offering free access for closed schools
Pixton is a software where you or your students can make a digital comic strip
BreakoutEDU offers digital "escape room" experiences for fun OR content-related (we pay for a full site license, e-mail Ms. Chapman for even more resources)
CONTENT SPECIFIC:
English:
Teachingbooks.net (register with your @schools.nyc.gov e-mail for free access) offers resources for teaching with novels, classics, and trade books K-12
CommonLit.org provides fiction and non-fiction texts to support 3rd-12th grade classrooms. You do have to log in with your @schools.nyc.gov account, but it will sync with your Google Classroom
Publisher Online Resources is providing a list to what's free and open in the book community
Spanish:
Day by Day NY Family Literacy Center offers literacy tools and a free story in Spanish every day!
Unite for Literacy offers e-books in Spanish with narration
DuoLingo web- or app-based for all foreign languages
All database articles can be translated into Spanish; Britannica Esoclar is a Spanish-language encyclopedia
CommonLit.org provides Spanish-language texts, too (see above info in English section)
STEM (& Health):
InnerOrbit (NGSS assessments)
Population Education content is free online - everything from family histories to pollution
Shodor.org provides STEM simulations (the disease epidemic model is especially relevant)
Phet provides online STEM simulations and associated worksheets (lots of new math sims!)
Khan Academy (K-12+)
Virtual Science Labs (collected by Ms. Chapman & Ms. Hunkele)
Arts/Humanities/Social Studies/History:
Google virtual tours of museums across the world and Google arts & culture virtual tours of more historical sites
Teach with PRIMARY SOURCES and pair with an Empire State IFC Graphic Organizer! Options for primary sources:
News/Information/Digital Citizenship:
The New York Times is offering free digital access through September 2021. Register and invite your students, or print/PDF articles you need. You can also read on the Replica Edition.
NewsELA (K-12) offers leveled articles and standards-aligned content (all content areas)
Scholastic Learn at Home free daily articles (through April)
RealTime Curriculum Project (looking at news & data)
Google Applied Digital Skills (and Be Internet Awesome for younger kids) and EverFI digital citizenship classes provide self-paced modules for students
EVEN MORE resources for teachers:
Gale Virtual Reference Library ASCD Collection (e-mail me for password if you are not using a DOE computer); access to 100+ teacher professional development e-books
AASL Best Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning (Apps & Websites) 2020
MASTER LIST - Amazing Educational Resources for Teachers
Other NYCDOE Librarian LibGuides:
Virtual/Distance Learning Tools:
USING ZOOM
Google Classroom
Video Recording:
Screencast-o-matic is a way to capture your own lectures with or without videos and you can post to your Google Classroom or another location. See my Screencast-o-matic tutorials here.
Scheduling:
Doodle (Poll is still free!!) - best for groups trying to find a common meeting time
Calendly.com (basic plan is free) - best for scheduling 1-on-1 meetings/sessions with participants