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The Division of Instruction and the Department of Instructional Technology are extremely excited to announce the launch of a new tool that will allow you to access all the district supported databases. Aurora Public Schools is the first district in Colorado to launch this tool and we are one of twelve in the nation to pioneer this tool. Discovery Education One Place will allow you to spend more time teaching and less time searching for resources to support your instruction. Students will be more successful in finding resources to support their learning. Below is a list of our databases and resources.
NEW Discovery Education Streaming Plus integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 8,700 full-length videos segmented into 87,000 content-specific clips. Discovery Education streaming Plus empowers educators to:
- Expand students' horizons using new multimedia content for all subjects from leading educational publishers
- Create and innovate with Assignment Builder, Quiz Center, Writing Prompt Generator, and other resources
- Save time with fast and accurate search functionality and dynamic navigation menus
- Customize and personalize lessons to different subjects, grades, and learning styles
NEW Discovery Education Science powers elementary and middle school science curriculum with up to date, standards-based virtual labs, simulations, reading passages and more. This program is designed to encourage exploration and stimulate critical thinking by giving students the opportunity to investigate like a real scientist to deepen their understanding of science.
Nettrekker is a search engine for K-12 students that now reaches 10 million kids in 19,000 schools through all 50 states. NetTrekker employs 400 teachers throughout the summer to vet web sites that the search engine links to, which now number about 180,000. The site is organized by elementary, middle, and high school, so students can search information that fits their grade levels.
Here are a few features: • A dictionary hot key—click on a word and get its meaning.
• A text-to-speech option for auditory learners.
• A timeline maker that allows kids to put in dates of events and biographical info of historical figures and make a timeline.
• Saved Searches—kids can save research and links they've found while working on several projects. World Book Online is the electronic version of the World Book Encyclopedia. Educators can search the encyclopedia, atlas and a dictionary. In addition there is an Educator’s Tool area to search for curriculum correlations and materials to support the standards. There is also a special area called Explore Colorado that provides numerous resources specific to Colorado including guides, articles on famous people, colleges and economic information. CultureGrams is a resource for information about countries, and our fifty states. Detailed information on each nation and states, along with a picture database, short biographies of famous people of the country, and recipes are provided. A smaller database of countries is available for elementary students. EBSCOhost has several online databases for student research. Full-text articles and databases, as well as a Student Research Center, are available for secondary and elementary level students. A picture file and encyclopedia is also offered. Several of the databases are also in Spanish, French, and German. Thinkfinity is a new, free site to APS that contains more than 55,000 educational and literacy resources for teachers and students including standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and web sites. Thinkfinity is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's Literacy, Education and Technology initiatives. This free, comprehensive digital learning platform is built upon the merger of two highly-acclaimed programs well-known to educators; Verizon MarcoPolo and the Thinkfinity Literacy Network. Thinkfinity is designed to improve learning by providing high-caliber content and professional learning needed to improve student achievement anytime, anywhere, at no cost. Atomic Learning provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use everyday. The short, easy-to-view-and-understand tutorials are an integral part of our professional learning program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere training resource. Included are tutorials for Microsoft Office, GroupWise, and Activ-Software.
College in Colorado(CIC) is paying for Choices Explorer. You can expand your knowledge about the world of exciting career possibilities. CIC knows that people of all ages dream about achieving a better future for themselves and their families. Choices Explorer is all about exploring those dreams and creating a solid plan to achieve those dreams.
The Local Content area is under development. It will help us save time by organizing and deploying district created content. One Place Content Management allows administrators, media specialists and teachers to up-load, manage and distribute local or licensed digital materials through one easy-to-use interface. Content is indexed and searchable –and can be reviewed and meta-tagged before it's posted for use.
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