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!

FedFlix

This is a great free resource from the Federal Government. It includes videos the government had commissioned and now they are available online in digital format.  This is the description from their site

FedFlix is a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Each month they send us government videotapes. We upload them to the Internet Archive and YouTube, then send the government back their videotapes and a digital copy for their files. No cost to them, more data for all of us.

You can watch them on the Internet Archive or You Tube.  I found some very interesting titles when I checked it out:

• Island of Hope - Island of Tears (1989), awarding winning film from the National Park Service about Ellis Island
• From Dreams to Reality - A Tribute to Minority Inventors (1986), from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Duck and Cover (1951) - cartoon film from the Federal Civil Defense Administration ~ Some of us may be old enough to remember this film in school!

Each film has images you can download from each minute of the film.  You can download the videos or stream them (full-screen if you choose) on your desktop.  This is a great resource for all areas of the curriculum.  It was fascinating to watch some of the historical films.