district educational websites
school
island
School Island is a web site for students and teachers, providing content review and skill assessment activities for Math, Science, Social Studies, and Language Arts.
Click
here or on the School Island logo to the right. For more information
or password help, email:
jniedzielski@wvcsd.org
Quickmind
QuickMind.net is a web-based curriculum
and teaching program designed to increase student
achievement by delivering activities and lesson plans to
students. QuickMind.net is aligned to state standards and
provides a variety of reference, curriculum and supplemental
materials. It is suitable for K-12 students and covers Math,
Reading, Language Arts, Science, Social Studies, Humanities,
Art,
Music and more. Click on:
http://www.quickmind.net/
For more information or password help, email: jniedzielski@wvcsd.org
Net
Trekker D.I.
This award-winning educational search
engine brings the best of the web to K-12 students,
teachers, librarians, and parents. netTrekker d.i. connects
you and your students to more than 180,000 hand-selected,
educator-approved sites - organized by readability level and
aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal
for every student's learning needs with safe, reliable
results. Click
here or on the net Trekker logo to the right. For more
information or password help, email:
jniedzielski@wvcsd.org
Grolier
encyclopedia
Online learning and research for grades
2 and up.
For more information or password help, email:
jniedzielski@wvcsd.org
access grolier online:
For subscription (in-school) access, click on the following link:
http://go-passport.grolier.com/
For remote (out-of-school) access, click on the following link:
http://auth.grolier.com/login/login-bin/send_signup_form
video
streaming sites
PowerMediaPlus is educational media-on-demand for Teachers and by Teachers. It blends standards-based multimedia with state-of-the-art curriculum integration tools.
Discovery Education streaming is a digital video-on-demand and online teaching service to help improve students' retention and test scores; it is aligned to U.S. state and provincial standards.
* 20,000 hi resolution images and clip
art
* 27,000 Encyclopedia Articles
* Expanded Teacher Tools
* Assignment Builder
* Quiz Builder
* Writing Prompt Builder
* Customization and Personalization tools
* Preference tools to let teachers personalize content for
any grade or subject.
* Ability to create homepages to view weekly updates of
videos and archive created materials.
* Student Center
* Teacher-managed student access enables educators to select
and publish assignments, quizzes and
writing prompts to the Student Center and track how and when students use
materials.
Movies for children, interactive quizzes for assessment, enrichment materials like experiments and creative activities that supplement the movies. Topics – aligned with state and national education standards and searchable by state standards – are grouped within the subjects of science, math, English, social studies, health, technology and arts and music. Brainpop's ever-expanding library currently consists of more than 600 movies for grades 3-12. Designed to spark children’s inherent curiosity, the movies are visually appealing, cleverly written and speak to kids in a voice they can relate to, but without talking down to them. All movies are closed-captioned and many are also available in Spanish.
For further information regarding these services please e-mail: jniedzielski@wvcsd.org