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K-12
Grade-level specific lesson plans and quick activities centered around digital citizenship and online safety. This site also contains reviews of various forms of media, including movies and apps that may be used in the classroom.
K-5
A collection of materials great for the start of the year when teachers are introducing or reintroducing responsible tech care.
Common Sense Digital Wellbeing
6-8
Support students' digital well-being with this set of evidence-based lessons. Each is designed to help them build agency, reduce anxious thoughts, and increase mindfulness related to their tech habits.
2-12
Pixilart is an online drawing application and community of art enthusiasts. Pixilart is a safe website for users of all ages, where users can easily create art for games, entertainment, and education. Note: This website seems to have many ads on the drawing page unless you pay $4.99/month for the pro plan. No account required.
2-12
Piskel is a free online editor for animated sprites & pixel art. Similar to PixilArt, but has a slightly simplified toolbox and can be used to create multi-frame animated GIFs. No ads. No account required.
K-12
A series of fun and colorful tools for students to play and create music. These tools range from very simple, like Rhythm and Kandinsky, to more complicated, such as Song Maker.
PK-5
Doodle3D Transform is a free and open-source web-app that makes designing in 3D easy and fun! Students draw their basic shapes in 2D on the left side of the screen and watch it become a 3D model on the right. They can make further changes to the 3D shape on the right side. Once complete, these files can be exported for use in a 3D printer.
6-12
Tinkercad is a free web app for 3D design, electronics, and coding. Students can build their own models or use pre-loaded figures to create digital dioramas.
K-12
A series of activities centered around diverse perspectives and roles in Computer Science. There are inspirational posters/videos included, and the individuals selected are updated each year.
K-5
A collection of unplugged activities that appear in the CS Fundamentals courses
2-7
Interland: Be Internet Legends empowers younger children to use the web safely and wisely, so they can be confident explorers of the online world.
Typing.com offers a comprehensive curriculum to strengthen student’s typing abilities with a customizable experience for both educators and students.
It is web based and highly effective. TypingClub is (and will always be) free for both individuals and schools. There is an optional paid school edition.
Build and test primary Computing skills with different levels of touch type challenges. Learn and practice typing letters in rows, typing keys on the home row and typing capital letters, apostrophes, slashes and full stops.
K-12
EVERFI helps teachers and schools bring real-world skills to students. Their digital platform offers self-paced online lessons with built-in assessments that are free for schools. Their digital platform offers interactive, game-based lessons to engage students at all ages.
4-8
CS First is an easy-to-use computer science curriculum designed for students in grades 4-8 (ages 9-14) that is free of charge. Teachers use the video content to teach kids coding basics with Scratch for CS First, a special version of the Scratch coding editor inside the CS First website.
K-12
Students will imagine how they can use computer science and leverage their passions in their future careers. They will create posters illustrating their future selves to describe the positive impacts their work will have on others. Students will be able to plan poster content, design posters, and share their posters with others.
Written especially for parents, Growing Readers provides monthly tips for raising strong readers and writers. Schools and PTAs can add these preformatted briefs to their parent newsletters. Growing Readers is also a great resource for libraries and community literacy organizations. MATERIALS AVAILABLE IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH)
FREE access to our JLG Digital online reading platform! With JLG Gold Standard eBooks for Elementary, Middle School and High school students, JLG Digital gives you and your readers unlimited access* to read books online from any device. There is no limit to the number of users and titles enter and exit the digital stream regularly, so there are always new picks available.
The library can be a lifeline for English language learners and their families who are new to this country or who speak multiple languages. Learn more about serving ELLs and their families in school libraries and public libraries from the following resources and videos. Visit our Books and Authors section for book recommendations, as well as our Multicultural Literature section for additional ideas.
Since 2015, the AAPB has digitized and preserved more than 120,000 historic public television and radio programs from over 140 stations across the country, with more than half of the collection available online at https://americanarchive.org.
EBSCO Information Services: COVID-19 Resources for Schools and Public Libraries
EBSCO eBooks™ eClassics, a collection of 25 free e-books of well-known young adult literary novels; learn how you can gain free access; PrepSTEP ® for High Schools customers: Did you know that you can integrate PrepSTEP content with your institution’s Learning Management System (LMS)? Contact your EBSCO Sales Representative and download one of our implementation guides to get started.
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Harper Collins is sharing a free kit of downloadable activities to celebrate 50 years of "Frog and Toad"!
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Digital Public Library of America Primary Source Sets
Digital Public Library of America-Exhibitions
Digital Public Library Of America Open ebooks
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EBSCO Prep Step -PrepSTEP is packed with powerful resources including practice tests, tutorials, e-books, articles and flashcards to help students:
Improve core skills in English language arts, math and science, social studies and computers
Prepare for AP®, SAT®, ACT® and other college entrance exams
Prepare for military entrance tests (ASVAB, CFAT)
Explore colleges and careers
Search for scholarships
Prepare for occupational certification tests (e.g., allied health, nursing, teaching and many more)
The link below will enable you and your students to access PrepSTEP for High Schools. Students will need to create an account using an email address and password. This will allow them to save their progress.
Raz-Kids is a digital resource that provides a library of differentiated books students can use to practice reading wherever they are
Headsprout is an online K–5 reading program that adapts to the needs of the individual student. It is self-paced, which makes it ideal for at-home practice.
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