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ABCMouse
ABCmouse Early Learning Academy offers a comprehensive online curriculum for children ages 2-8+, including reading and language arts, math, beginning science, social studies, art and music. ABCmouse stimulates a child's enthusiasm for learning through over 10,000 interactive learning activities-including books, educational games, puzzles, art activities, songs, music videos, and more- that are highly engaging and extremely educational. More than 1,200 learning activities are in Spanish and over 2,000 of them are STEM learning activities. The 2,000+ book titles can be accessed by Age Level, Guided Reading Level, or Lexile Level. Also included is an independently-validated Assessment Center which creates customized lessons that are targeted to help a child improve in specific skill areas identified by the assessments.
Adventure Academy
Adventure Academy is a massively multiplayer online game (MMO) for elementary and middle school students. It features thousands of enjoyable learning activities that are discovered on quests through an interactive virtual world. Expertly designed to create a highly engaging and educational environment, Adventure Academy focuses on building critical knowledge and skills in language arts, math, social studies, science, and more
Dallas Symphony for Kids
DSO Kids is the Dallas Symphony Orchestra's magical doorway to a world of musical fun and learning for students, parents and teachers. The site's mission is to provide attractive, accessible and child-friendly resources that introduce symphonic music, the orchestra and its instruments, and to encourage both adults and young people to explore the world of the symphony orchestra.
FunBrain.com
Since 1997, kids, teachers, librarians, and parents have enthusiastically turned to Funbrain for its free educational games, online books, and comics. Funbrain, created for kids ages preschool through grade 8, offers more than 100 fun, interactive games that develop skills in math, reading, and literacy. Plus, kids can read a variety of popular books and comics on the site, including Diary of a Wimpy Kid, Amelia Writes Again, and Brewster Rocket.
Funk and Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Covers an array of topics for students and adults alike, and indexes over 25,000 records. Full text for each record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the topic from the display. It contains various images, offers brief biographies as well as information in a variety of subject areas. This database is updated annually.
Hoopla
Offers thousands of movies, television shows, music albums, eBooks, comics, and audiobooks available for mobile and online access. Titles are from major Hollywood studios, record companies and publishers, and are available to borrow for instant streaming or temporary downloading to smartphones, tablets and computers. Audience: All ages
Just for Kids: Access Video
The Just for Kids Streaming Video Collection includes clips from thousands of fun and informative video and audio titles on topics including music and arts, animals, sports and hobbies, math and science, history, reading, and much more, plus hundreds of educational interactives—kid-safe, ad-free, and perfect for children’s programs.
Lerner Maker Lab
Designed for students in grades 2-5, the Lerner Maker Lab Database features over 500 hands-on projects involving crafting, designing, engineering, cooking, and more. Each easy-to-follow project guides readers with step-by-step instructions and images. Lerner Maker Lab is perfect for makerspaces, libraries without makerspaces, at-home use, and anywhere kids want to roll their sleeves up and get creative!
Lerner Sports database
More than 100 high-interest biographies profiling sports superstars. Packed with fascinating facts, these bios explore the backgrounds, career-defining moments, and everyday lives of popular athletes. Easy to use, this is perfect for students in grades 2-5 developing research skills or looking for exciting sports content.
PBS Kids
PBS KIDS is committed to making a positive impact on the lives of children through curriculum-based entertainment. With a 360-degree approach towards learning and reaching children, PBS KIDS leverages the full spectrum of media and technology to build knowledge, critical thinking, imagination and curiosity. By involving parents, teachers, caregivers and communities as learning partners, PBS KIDS helps to empower children for success in school and in life.
Scholastic Teachables
Scholastic Teachables is an online database of tens of thousands of searchable and printable educational materials. Teacher-authors have created and vetted thousands of high-quality, ready-to-use printables, mini-books, lesson plans, whiteboard activities, and other educational resources. This easy-to-use product supports whole-group, small-group, and individual instruction as well as independent learning, summer learning, and family engagement.
Storyline
Storyline Online is easy for young kids to use -- just click on a book cover, and then click the play button. Our students are really enjoying listening to these stories, and we've been really pleased with the quality. What we love about it: • terrific actors that bring warmth, joy and feeling to these stories • fantastic selection of stories, both old and new • nice balance between the actor reading aloud and views of the picture book illustrations • easy to use site -- kids can navigate it by themselves • engages children in a rich story experience, but satisfies their yearning for screen time
