BPL Virtual Resources Spotlight: Pre K-5 Elementary School Resources
By Caleb West | Central Library
BACKGROUND: Today is Part V of the BPL Virtual Resources Spotlight, a new blog highlighting the Birmingham Public Library’s vast free online resources available to serve the public. This week, we spotlight Pre K-12 Online Learning. Due to the large variety of online resources, we are breaking down BPL’s Pre K-12 Education resources into two parts – Pre-K through 5 and Middle school/High school. Today we examine BPL’s Pre K-5 online education resources.
Remember, the Birmingham Public Library is ALWAYS open 24/7 through our FREE online digital resources. For more about BPL’s virtual resources, click here http://www.bplonline.org/virtual/
Birmingham, Ala. - The value of our virtual resources has been elevated the past few months during the COVID-19 pandemic. BPL has continued to serve the public through our free online resources and by creating new virtual programming.
This week we spotlight our BPL Pre K-5 elementary online learning resources (and like free-access links), which provide access to educational resources online testing, classes, direct-teacher interaction from BPL and government sponsored sources.
All resources below are also available on the Birmingham Public Library website page (www.cobpl.org) and on our Digital Library page http://www.bplonline.org/virtual/. Except where indicated, these services are restricted to Birmingham city residents with active library cards.
Many digital resources are also provided by the state of Alabama - Alabama Virtual Library (AVL), the Alabama Public Library Service (APLS), and the Jefferson County Library Cooperative, a partnership of 40 libraries in Jefferson County including Birmingham's 19 locations.
For a link to all of BPL’s online resources for elementary school students, click here http://www.bplonline.org/virtual/databases/default.aspx?p=5&q=1#db
Here is a spotlight on some of our most popular news digital resources for K-5 students:
ABCMouse.com
Click here https://www.abcmouse.com/html5#abc/student_home
Description: With more than 4,000 interactive books, educational games, puzzles, and other learning activities, ABCmouse.com's award-winning online curriculum is the most comprehensive online educational resource for young learners (ages 2-7+). From Age of Learning, Inc. Free for use in our library.
Homework Alabama - Live Homework Help
Click here https://aplsws1.apls.state.al.us/aplsnew/homework/
Description: The Homework Alabama Live online service, HomeworkAlabama.org, offers free homework help from subject specialists in Math, Science, Social Studies, and English. It assists students in Grades 4-12 and College Intro.
Homework Alabama also provides resume writing help and more for adults. HomeworkAlabama.org is provided free of charge to all residents of Alabama by APLS (the State Library of Alabama) and your local Public Library with a Library Services and Technology Act grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Available Sunday - Thursday from 3 p.m. to 10 p.m. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids
Click here https://bensguide.gpo.gov/
Description: Ben's Guide to U.S. Government for Kids provides learning tools for K-12 students, parents, and teachers. These resources will teach how our government works, the use of the primary source materials of GPO Access, and how one can use GPO Access to carry out their civic responsibilities. Just as GPO Access provides locator services to U.S. Government sites, Ben's Guide provides a similar service to U.S. Government Web sites developed for kids.
Britannica Digital Learning e-books
Click here http://eb.pdn.ipublishcentral.com/bookshelf
Description: Britannica offers hundreds of full-color and black-and-white nonfiction and circulating reference e-books, ranging from pre-K to academic. Offline reading is supported for all titles and requires a one-time download of the iPublishCentral Reader App. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Britannica Online School Edition
Click here https://www.jclc.org/c/auth/en/EBJCLC.aspx?desturl=school
Description: Britannica Online School Edition offers teachers and students access to three complete encyclopedias, the Encyclopedia Britannica, the Britannica Student Encyclopedia and the Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia that ensure consistency with classroom-topics and age-appropriate language. Teacher and student tools are also included such as video, media, journals, magazines, interactive activity guides, lesson plans, an Internet guide and downloadable student activities.
The School Edition has 118,000 articles, 22,000 images, 2,000 video clips, 24,000 biographies and detailed maps of 196 countries. Merriam-Webster's Dictionary and Thesaurus and Spotlight features are also a part of this resource.
Tumblebooks ebooks for Kids
Click here https://www.tumblebooklibrary.com/Home.aspx?categoryID=77
Description: Britannica offers hundreds of full-color and black-and-white nonfiction and circulating reference e-books, ranging from pre-K to academic. Offline reading is supported for all titles and requires a one-time download of the iPublishCentral Reader App. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Click here http://web.a.ebscohost.com/ehost/command/detail?vid=0&sid=2ffb9d95-1e75-459c-b4ca-10354a5ef53b%40sessionmgr4007&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#jid=EHJ&db=mih
Description: The complete text of EBSCO's Encyclopedia of Animals available in a searchable database, including general informational articles, taxonomic classifications, and photographs of thousands of animal species. Available through Kid's Search.
Explora (AKA Kids Search, Student Research Center)
Click here http://web.a.ebscohost.com/web/ehpl/home?preview=false&usrNo=-25233933
Description: EBSCO's new database interface designed for elementary and middle school students. Replaces Searchasaurus, Kids Search, and Student Research Center. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
New World Encyclopedia (Funk & Wagnalls)
Click here http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/search/basic?vid=0&sid=74947d01-7c9d-412a-a401-5f5902f379ab%40sessionmgr101
Description: For students and adults alike, the New World Encyclopedia indexes over 25,000 full-text articles covering an array of topics. The database contains images, brief biographies and information in a variety of subject areas. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Kids InfoBits
Click here https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=ITKE&u=bpl50399 https://go.gale.com/ps/start.do?p=ITKE&u=bpl50399
Description: Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Click here https://www.nfl.com/causes/play60
Description: These are difficult times for everyone. With the recent school closures happening across the country due to COVID-19, we understand things are getting even harder. The NFL, alongside our charitable partners, is making free digital education resources available to teachers, parents, and students to help ease a bit of the burden. Our hope is that these online resources provide you and the students in your life with support to lead a healthy and well-rounded lifestyle despite the disruption of these unprecedented times. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
PebbleGo
Click here https://site.pebblego.com/modules
Description: Animals and Science. Emergent Reader Resource Solution. Each database features expertly-leveled text and navigation specifically designed for your beginning researchers. Enriched with spoken-word audio, text highlighting and audio/video media, PebbleGo builds a foundation of research skills for every learner. Requires a JCLC card. Full Text Available. Remote Access Available.
Read the Books
Click here https://www.readthebooks2.com/rtb/aliens/rtb_birmingham/main.html
Description: Readthebooks.com covers K-8 grades. It contains reading lists for the Birmingham-area schools. You can find books to read by topic or reading level. The majority of the books are Accelerated Reader (AR) books. Publicly Available. Remote Access Available. Video Tutorial Video tutorial by BPL on YouTube (length 6:50)
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