This list of On-Line resources offers enrichment opportunities for your children. The resources will be rated by grade range after each listing.
Free Audio Book Links Recommended by INFOhio (All Grades)
This link is a list of free eBook resources. Click HERE to access the document
Audible (All Grades)
Audible is offering free books for reading enjoyment to help break up the day. To access the free titles, visit: https://stories.audible.com/start-listen from any web browser.
BookBrowse (All Grades)
Curated book recommendations and book clubs Readers Advisory
bookbrowse.com/covid
Password: staysafe
Children’s Bookshelf (All Grades)
Offering Ebooks in HTML
https://www.gutenberg.org Literature (Bookshelf)
Cleveland Memory (All Grades)
The Cleveland Memory Project, launched in 2002, is a freely searchable online collection of digital photos, texts, oral histories, videos and other local history resources, built by the Michael Schwartz Library at the Cleveland State University in collaboration with a host of community partners around Northeast Ohio.
http://www.clevelandmemory.org/about.html
Cleveland Metroparks (All Grades)
Virtual Classroom on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/ClevelandMetroparksZoo/
Cleveland Metroparks videos:
https://www.facebook.com/pg/ClevelandMetroparks/videos/?ref=page_internal
Digital Public Library of America (All Grades)
Text and pictorial documents from libraries, archives, and musuems of The United States of America. This is a free resource.
DocsTeach (Middle/High School)
Documents from the National Archives. This is a free resource.
EasyBib (Middle/High School)
EasyBib is the site to create accurate bibliographic annotation.
Gale Resources (grade levels listed below) Gale has granted free and open access to these databases (and more) nationwide.
Ken Burns in the Classroom (All Grades)
Historical documentary films. Google Docs compatible. Great for research or teaching standards.
Create a free account for full access to all of the Ken Burns documentaries.
https://ideastream.pbslearningmedia.org/collection/kenburnsclassroom/home/
The Mazza Museum (K - 5)
Featuring children's picture book art, illustrator interviews and books read by museum docents.
https://www.mazzamuseum.org/virtualstorytime/
NPR Podcasts (Grades 6 – 12)
Many topics available. How I Built This, details the history of large current companies.
https://www.npr.org/podcasts
The Northeast Ohio Regional Library System (All Grades)
The Northeast Ohio Regional Library System (NEO-RLS) is a partially state-funded membership organization that provides continuing education, professional development, emerging technology support, group purchasing and many other benefits and services to all of the academic, school, special and public libraries in 22 counties of Ohio.
https://www.neo-rls.org/online_programming_resources.php
Ohio Gov (All Grades)
Ohio Gov offers access to state and local government departments.
Ohio Governor’s Imagination Library (Grades PreK - 2)
This is not new, nor is it a result of the Coronavirus, but it is something available to all parents who have a child 5 years of age and younger in the state of Ohio. When parents enroll on the website, their child will be sent a book, at no charge, each month. This will enable families to establish personal libraries for their children and encourage literacy in the home. This program is designed for children from birth to age 5.
https://ohioimaginationlibrary.org/
Ohio History Connection (All Grades)
Discover Ohio history - past to present.
Ohio Memory (All Grades)
A free statewide digital library webiste. Explore over 390 cultural heritage institutions from all 88 Ohio counties.
https://ohiomemory.ohiohistory.org/about-ohio-memory
OWL-Purdue Online Writing Lab (Middle/High School)
Purdue Online Writing Lab.
Oxford Music Online (All Grades)
Oxford Music Online is the authoritative resource for music research with over 52,000 articles written by nearly 9,000 scholars charting the diverse history and cultureof music around the world.
PBSLearning Media (ideastream) (All Grades)
Inspire your students with thousands of free teaching resources including videos, lesson plans, and games aligned to state and national standards. Students and teacher accounts are available. Sign in using your Google Account.
The Way I Heard It (All Grades)
“The Way I Heard It is a series of short mysteries for the curious mind with a short attention span.” Short stories in podcast as told by Mike Rowe.
https://mikerowe.com/podcast/
SORA by Overdrive (All Grades)
Over 440 books (everything from literature for younger ones all the way up through classics. You may also download and read books from the local library.
https://soraapp.com/library/nocsdoh
The Great Courses (All Grades)
The Great Courses Daily is brought to us at no cost from The Great Courses, producers of educational videos and audio lectures. Articles, links, videos, apps are available covering such topics as cooking, philosophy, math, literature, history, science, photography, writing and more.
https://www.thegreatcoursesdaily.com/
Write Source (All Grades)
Write Source offers writing materials for students and instructors.