Resources for Digital Learning at the Secondary Level

Annenberg’s Interactives

This resource contains interactive lessons for grades K-12 in these areas: Math, Science, Language, History and the Arts.

“Interactives” provides educators and students with strategies, content, and activities that can enhance and improve students’ skills in a variety of curricular areas.

Each topic includes information followed by an interactive quiz.  Check it out!

The Baldwin Online Children’s Literature Project

This online project is officially called “Bringing Yesterday’s Classics to Today’s Children.” The statement of purpose from their site is:

The Baldwin Project seeks to make available online a comprehensive collection of resources for parents and teachers of children. Our focus, initially, is on literature for children that is in the public domain in the United States. This includes all works first published before 1923. The period from 1880 or so until 1922 offers a wealth of material in all categories, including: Nursery Rhymes, Fables, Folk Tales, Myths, Legends and Hero Stories, Literary Fairy Tales, Bible Stories, Nature Stories, Biography, History, Fiction, Poetry, Storytelling, Games, and Craft Activities.

Permission has been granted to:

to print copies for personal and educational uses. The texts are formatted so that attractive copies can be printed easily, in larger type for younger readers and smaller type for older ones, with illustrations included where possible. Teachers and parents can make use of the readers that are already available, or they can construct their own readers by selecting stories from the existing pool.

Included are some well known authors: Edgar Rice Burroughs, Hans Christian Andersen, Rudyard Kipling, Sir Walter Scott, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Robert Louis Stevenson.  There are selections in these genres: Science, Nature, Poetry, Mythology, Literature, Legends, History, Geography, Fiction, Fairy Tales, Fables, and Biography.  There are some eBooks available for download also.  This is a very rich resource!

Bytesize Science

The American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of Communications has launched Bytesize Science, an educational, entertaining podcast for young listeners. Like the flying car, Anglia, in the Harry Potter films, Bytesize Science transports kids, teachers, and other listeners into a real-life world realm where science is the enchantment.Bytesize Science translates cutting-edge scientific discoveries from ACS’ 36 peer-reviewed journals into stories for young listeners about science, health, medicine, energy, food, and other topics. It includes content from Chemical & Engineering News, ACS’ weekly news magazine.

The podcaster for Bytesize Science is Adam Dylewski, an ACS science writer and recent graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison with degrees in genetics and science communication. Dylewski spent his college career immersed in science and journalism, writing down-to-earth explanations of vital discoveries as a weekly science columnist for The Daily Cardinal, UW-Madison’s student newspaper. Later, he continued to translate science news as a reporter for UW-Madison’s Communications office and for The Why Files, an award-winning science news site with a witty, fun edge.

If you click on the icon below it will take you to the Feedburner site to subscribe to the podcast.  If you have iTunes you can go to the iTunes Store and search for “Bytesize Science” and it will bring you to where you can subscribe to this free podcast.

MIT OpenCourseWare: Highlights for High School

Highlights for High School focuses on science, technology, engineering, and math.  It also offers other types of courses, including foreign languages, art, music, physical education, social sciences, and literature.  There are resources for AP Biology, AP Calculus and AP Physics. Videos of demonstrations by MIT professors on key concepts are also included.  There is a wealth of resources located here.