Technology Tools to Incorporate in Lesson Plans

BookFlix is a digital literacy resource that pairs more than 120 animated stories from Weston Woods with a best-selling nonfiction eBook from Scholastic on a similar subject. The fiction and nonfiction pairings are designed to strengthen early literacy skills while exposing young learners to real world concepts.

Multi-level encyclopedia with High, Middle and Elementary School levels. Elementary level contains interactive learning zone module for Pre-K to 2nd grade.

CultureGrams Online Database is a leading reference for concise, reliable, and up-to-date cultural information on countries across the globe. It includes four editions: the World Edition (for junior high school and up) and the Kids, States, and Canadian Provinces editions (for upper elementary school students). In addition to the country/state/province reports, the database includes the following features: images, slideshows, streaming videos, sortable data tables and graphs, interviews with natives from countries around the world, recipes for each country, and more.

Flipster provides a platform for curated multidisciplinary high-quality, high-interest engaging digital magazines for childrens ages 6-14.

Resource presenting viewpoints from a global perspective on what's happening in the world today and why.

Designed for grades K-5 students. 100 full-text magazines and newswires. Includes Blackbirch Press curriculum support references, graphs, charts, maps, and 2,500 searchable images.

Designed to meet the unique needs of K-3 researchers. Includes leveled-text, read-aloud audio, videos, audio clips, and printables. It also includes lesson plan ideas. Has materials in English & Spanish.

PebbleGo Next database helps students grades 3-5 learn key concepts related to social studies, biographies, states, and American Indians. Has materials in English & Spanish

Designed for middle school students. Curriculum-aligned magazines, newspapers, videos, and primary sources covering literature, science, social studies, U.S. and world history, and more.

This database is designed for high school students, in grades 9-12, with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books for information on current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more.

TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a curricular and multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.

The TumbleBook Library is an online collection of electronic childrens books accessible through the librarys website. Animation, sound, music and narration are added to existing picture books to produce an electronic book which you can read, or have read to you. The TumbleBook Library also includes chapter books in audio book and e-book formats, multi-cultural topics, foreign language and bilingual books, puzzles, and games.
Spelling, concentration, and fill-in-the blank games developed to reinforce young readers comprehension skills are also available. Additionally, the language drop down menu allows you to view the entire website in Spanish or French."

One of the most effective ways to teach math concepts, especially to reluctant learners, is by using stories and literature. TumbleMath has the most comprehensive collection of math stories available anywhere- all in our world famous TumbleBook format which combines animation, narration, and sound to create a compelling and enticing story book for students of all ages.

The CLCD database provides bibliographic data, reviews, awards, and lists for children's books, audio books, and videos. The database contains over 900,000 catalog records, and 130,000 full text reviews from 24 review sources. Approximately 1500 new reviews are added each month. There are retrospective reviews going back 10 years. Additionally, there are links to author sites, publishers, parent resources, curriculum resources and information on reading measurement programs.

Presents full-text literary criticism on writers and illustrators for children and young adults. Critical essays are selected from leading sources, including published journals, magazines, books, monographs, reviews, and scholarly papers.

NoveList K-8 Plus is a database about books specifically for younger readers. It helps kids find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. NoveList features articles, booktalks, book discussion guides, author read-alikes, readers' advisory and a variety of other reader and staff materials for the K-8 environment.

Something About the Author includes personal data, addresses, career, awards and honors, writings, sidelights (essay on the author's life and works), adaptations, additional sources and more. Also includes autobiography essays from Something About the Author Autobiography Series.

TeachingBooks.net is an easy-to-use website that adds a curricular and multimedia dimension to the reading experiences of children's and young adult books. The online database is developed and maintained to include thousands of resources about fiction and nonfiction books used in the K12 environment, with every resource selected to encourage the integration of multimedia author and book materials into reading and library activities.