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Digital Learning

digital resources available to ESU 2 students & teachers

ESU 2, through cooperative efforts, has purchased subscriptions to interactive web-based multi-media digital resources that have consistently received excellent educator reviews. These resources are available to ESU 2 teachers and students.

 

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The World Book web site offers an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, homework help, study aids, and curriculum guides.
World Book Kids (developed especially for young students) features simple navigation, easy-to-read articles, thousands of illustrations, videos, comparison tools, and a wealth of engaging games and activities.
World Book Student (for students in elementary and middle schools) has the complete World Book encyclopedia plus multimedia, web links, periodicals, and more.
World Book Advanced  (grades 8 and up) has primary source documents and e-books fully integrated with encyclopedia content plus timelines, citation builder, and saved research.

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The Discovery Education Experience is a simple-to-use K-12 learning platform that combines dynamic curated curriculum resources  with grab-and-go instructional strategies, personalized for your needs as an educator. This ever-growing collection of real-world content brings excitement and relevancy to the topics you teach, so all students have opportunities to unlock their true potential.

  • Virtual field trips engage students with relevant partners like the NBA, Sony’s Spiderverse, Navy, Lockheed Martin, and more.
  • Multimodal content is curated and standard-aligned by grade (K12) and subject to more easily meet the needs of diverse learners.
  • Teachers get access to learning opportunities that help them effectively integrate digital media into their lesson plans.
  • Studio tool allows students and teachers to design, build, and share content in creative ways.
  • Ready-to-use activity channels include: Instructional Inspiration, Student Learning Activities, and Learning at Home.

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Gale is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, Gale creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print and in microform.

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In cooperation with NET (Nebraska's Public Broadcasting Service affiliate), PBS LearningMedia offers educators FREE classroom-ready curriculum resources and  professional strategies to fully utilize digital learning. The service can be further customized to support your local educational needs. To learn more, contact LearningMedia@pbs.org.

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Integrated tools for note-taking, outlining, citation, document archiving/annotation, and collaborative research and writing. Differentiated, intelligent software and expert personal support for upper-elementary through university students.

      

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Don’t just memorize. Achieve mastery.

Ditch the flash cards and stop memorizing definitions. Vocabulary.com teaches you words by systematically exposing you to a wide array of question types and activities that will help you understand all the meanings and nuances of every word you’re learning.

Even after you’ve achieved mastery, we’ll reinforce what you have learned to make sure that it all stays fresh in your memory.

It's a science.

Vocabulary.com may seem simple on the outside, but behind the scenes we're using sophisticated algorithms to help you learn over 15,000 words more effectively.

How? We start with our massive pool of over 200,000 vocabulary question that we designed to evaluate and teach vocabulary words. Each question tests a particular meaning of a word, provides helpful hints,and is followed by an explanation of the correct answer. Many studies have shown that the best way to learn is through multiple exposures to a word, with challenging questions that make you think. That's what we provide.

We use the science of learning to model how you learn (and forget) new words. By comparing your answers to the hundreds of millions of answers given by other Vocabulary.com users, we personalize your learning experience and choose the best question for you at just the right time.

It's a game.

Sure, there's a lot of science and technology muscle behind our system, but expanding your vocabulary doesn't have to be a brain-buster. 

We've turned learning vocabulary into an addictive game. Accumulate points, achievements, and badges while competing against your Facebook friends, your classmates, or other members of the Vocabulary.com community. You may not even notice that you're learning along the way.

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MIDDLE & HIGH SCHOOL COLLECTIONS 

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HippoCampus.org is a FREE, core academic web site that delivers rich multimedia content--videos, animations, and simulations--on general education subjects to middle-school and high-school teachers and college professors, and their students, free of charge. Teachers project HippoCampus content during classroom learning and assign it for computer labs and homework. Students use the site in the evenings for study and exam prep. Users do not need to register or log in to use the site.