Ed1stop Quick Start Guide
Discovery Education Streaming
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Quickstart Guide: playing, downloading and saving videos
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Keyword Search, Advanced Search, Subject Search, Grade Search, Curriculum Standards
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Assignment, Quiz and Writing Prompt Builders, Calendar, Lesson Plan Library, Thematic Focus
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My Content: save, share, and organize your content
Pokemon Learning League
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Learning League provides interactive, animated lessons for elementary schools.
Digital Math
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Site Tutorial
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Assessment
Academic Standards
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Math Problems, glossary and links
NOVA
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Broadcasts and archives from science television series
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Interview with scientists
Lesson plans
Thinkfinity
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More than 55,000 authoritative educational and literacy resources
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Standards-based K-12 lesson plans
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Student materials
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Interactive tools and web sites.
Middle School Math Project
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Math Matrices-Electronic and technology resources supporting California standards for grades 6, 7 and Algebra I
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Unpackings: guides that show how standards and textbook-aligned tools can be used in the classroom.
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Aligned to the McDougal-Littell, Prentice Hall, and 6 th
grade Scott-Foresman and Harcourt textbooks
Math resources: CST and CAHSEE resources including sample questions, teacher guides and tools
SCORE
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Searchable by grade level or topic
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Links to internet resources and lessons
Electronic field trips
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Cyberguides
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Grolier Online
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Search Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia, New Book of Popular Science, Atlas, and more
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Access articles, media, websites, feature stories, magazines
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Links to related articles in arts, geography, history, philosophy, humanities, science, sports and technology
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This Day in History featured media
Lesson plans and educator resources
THINKMAP Visual Thesaurus
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Interactive dictionary and thesaurus
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Innovative display that encourages exploration and learning
EBSCO Information Services
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Access to more than 100 library databases
Maps 101
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Access to more than 4,000 easy-to-print maps
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Over 200 K-12 lesson plans, current events, atlases, quizzes, games, and more.
Research Channel
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More than 3,000 titles available in Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Technology & Engineering, Health & Medicine,
K-12 & Education, Sciences, and Social Sciences
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Browse by title, topics or institution
Library of programs, speaker bios, Video On Demand, webcasts of Research Channel television broadcast
Bartleby
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Public reference library: fiction, non-fiction, quotes, thesaurus, verse anthologies, encyclopedias
Borderlink
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SAT/ACT, CAHSEE Test Preparation
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English Learner Mentoring modules
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Recipes for Success
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Recipes4Success includes software tutorials and reference guides
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Online tools, and a step-by-step process for building projects with students.
AP Images
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Search by What, When or Where in international news, sports, history, weather
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Photographs, audio sound bytes, graphics and test spanning over 160 years of history
Real time daily news and digital media updates
Pics4Learning
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Copyright friendly images for educators and students
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Lesson Plans
Calisphere
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Themed Collections: Thousands of primary source images and documents aligned to the standards
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California Cultures: Discover California's multicultural heritage
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Browse A-Z: Quickly find primary sources on subjects from Advertising to Zoot Suits.
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Japanese American Relocation Digital Archives: Go inside the internment experience.
300+ diverse UC web sites: Learn more about subjects from film to physics.
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Especially for Teachers: Primary source analysis worksheets, lessons plans, and other resource links.
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Helping Your Child With Homework
Parent’s Guide to Internet Safety
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Recursos Para los Padres en Espanol
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My Child’s Special Needs-Disabilities (United States Department of Education)
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K-12 Content Standards
Helping Your Child Series
Special Education (California Department of Education)
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