Lesson Planning Resources
- Explora - Educator's EditionA tool designed to help teachers with lesson plans, student tools, curriculum standards and valuable sites for teachers.
- Primary Education VideoA collection of 72 videos that introduce a variety of educational approaches in action.
From STEM to STEAM: Brain-Compatible Strategies and Lessons That Integrate the Arts by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2018Classroom-tested strategies and techniques for integrating the arts into STEM instruction, including sample K-12 lessons plans and planning templates.
Picture-Perfect Science Lessons by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2010In this newly revised and expanded 2nd edition of Picture-Perfect Science Lessons, classroom veterans Karen Ansberry and Emily Morgan, who also coach teachers through nationwide workshops, offer time-crunched elementary educators comprehensive background notes to each chapter, new reading strategies, and show how to combine science and reading in a natural way with classroom-tested lessons in physical science, life science, and Earth and space science.
Science Starters: Elementary Physical and Earth Sciences Parent Lesson Plan by Call Number: ebookPublication Date: 2013
PK-4 Student Resources
- Explora - Primary School EditionEBSCO’s search tool designed just for students in kindergarten through grade 5. Explora contains complete articles from dozens of the most popular elementary school magazines, encyclopedia entries written just for kids, and more than one million images of photos, maps and flags.
- Primary SearchProvides full text of over 70 children's magazines, Lexile reading levels included for all full text articles.1990 - present.
POWER Library
- POWER LibraryPOWER Library is an online portal available to all Pennsylvania residents with a library card. It provides a number of databases and resources that can be utilized at the elementary and secondary level including : BookFLIX, TrueFlix, Cyber Smarts, and Gale databases.
- POWER Library eCard signupIf you don't have a public library card, you can complete a short registration form to acquire an eCard to access the online resources.
- POWER Library Lesson PlansThe POWER Library OER Commons hub is designed to serve educators across the Commonwealth with high-quality, customizable lesson plans, and other resources, that directly correlate Pennsylvania’s elementary and secondary content standards to the resources provided in POWER Library.