Children’s Online Resources
Access to live tutors in math, science, reading/writing, social studies, and state standardized tests.
- Live Tutors: 2:00 PM to 11:00 PM, 7 Days a Week
- Writing Lab allows users to upload a document and a Brainfuse writing expert will analyze it and provide helpful comments.
- Homework: Question Center: Brainfuse’s “Send Question” allows users to ask a question any time of day and get a written response from one of our tutors within one business day.
Age-appropriate research topics and magazines tailored for Kindergarten to Fifth Grade.
- News articles written for kids.
- Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary for Elementary School.
- Browse by category, including Health and Medicine, Engineering and Technology, Sports and Games, and many more.
- Search and browse educational images such as maps, flags, seals, charts, graphs.
- Watch videos on a variety of STEM topics.
Hoopla is a digital service that offers an enormous selection of music, movies, STEM related audiobooks, comics, and educational television shows.
- Turn on “Kids Mode” by going into settings (the gear icon) and toggle on “Kids Mode.”
- Please note: After signing out Hoopla will reset to default settings.
- Available on iOs, Android, Amazon Fire devices, Roku, Chromebooks, most laptops/computers.
Features a collection of films and TV series that inspire and inform, helping children develop social and emotional skills and reinforcing valuable learning topics, such as history, science, and new languages.
- Access Kanopy Kids by clicking “Go to Kanopy Kids” at the top of the page after signing in.
- Kanopy offers parental control options in your account settings.
Take your child on amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space.
- Designed for children aged 6–14.
- Explore topics like animals, environment, history, peoples and cultures, places, and science and tech.
- Browse National Geographic Kids magazines from 2009 to the current issue.
Provides help for anyone who has a good foundation in English grammar and reading skills but need adapted reading material on a variety of subjects.
- Listen as you read along with Read It!’s built in narration.
- The American Heritage Children’s Dictionary is included.
- Browse categories History, Civics & Culture, Life Skills, Literature, Science to find articles.
A virtual library of animated talking picture books, read-along chapter books for early readers, and games suited for elementary age children.
- Storybooks, read-alongs, and non-fiction books are included in the Tumblebooks catalog.
- The memory games helps to build vocabulary and the sentence game helps to increase reading comprehension.