ImageQuest brings lessons, assignments, and projects to life with over three million images from 60 leading collections.
No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Britannica Launch Packs Science combines curriculum-aligned content sets with tools that make it easier for teachers to differentiate instruction and for students to understand core K-12 science topics.
No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Britannica School offers at three levels (elementary, middle and high) thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools and recommended Web sites.
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CAN-Core is a current collection of Canadian education films. Search by title, keyword, by curriculum area and course name. Filter by grade level.
Teachers and guidance counsellors will find many great titles on family life subject areas, and on issues like drug use, emotional wellness and more. Many titles on Indigenous peoples and cultures.
Teachers can create their own accounts so they can make playlists to send to students.
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Teachers in all grades and subjects can make thinking an even more important focus of their teaching with TC² resources and support. TC² helps cultivate critical thinking from K-12.
To log in from home or school create an account using your WSD1.org email address.
This resource is for teachers only.
On-line feature films. More than 1500 English titles and more than 1100 French titles are available for streaming. Includes additional resources such as learnng guides and provincial curriculum correlations on most titles. No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Use Curio to explore CBC/Radio-Canada, BBC and National Geographic content that has been carefully selected for its educational value and relevance to K-12 subject areas. Includes CBC's current event series: News In Review. Signing in gives you access to all content and allows you to create video playlists.
How to connect to Curio:
You must enter your institutional (school) email address (novellusername@wsd1.org email address) on the login page: https://curio.ca/en/login
Curio will send a unique verification code to this email address. (It may take a few minutes for you to receive it, but it must be entered within 15 minutes of you having received it.) Then follow the prompts.
After the first login, access the site from the following link: https://curio.ca/en/home
The site will automatically recognize your device for 90 days. You will not need a verification code during this period unless you manually log out.
Engaging, standards-aligned rich media and interactive digital textbooks, coupled with professional development and assessment services, take students beyond the classroom. Available from home or school. Please ask your school library staff for the username and password, or check the WSD Staff Portal.
The Directorate of French Educational Resources/Direction des ressources éducatives françaises (DREF) is responsible for developing and providing instructional materials for teaching staff at grades K-12 in French and French immersion schools and English schools.
Discover the current research articles teachers and administrators need in these Ebsco databases:
Explora: An easy-to-use tool that helps students complete research and classroom assignments. Find primary source documents, informational texts, and curriculum support materials. Discover information on thousands of topics that cover a wide range of subjects and support STEM to STEAM initiatives. Explora offers the following: reading level indicators to help you find grade-appropriate content; text-to- speech for HTML articles to assist struggling readers or those learning English; curriculum Standards Module to help you correlate EBSCO content quickly and easily to Common Core, state- or province-specific curriculum standards; personal folders for saving and sharing content; professional development resources
Education Source: Offers over 1400 full text education journals.
Academic Search Premier: A leading scholarly database that provides access to over 4700 acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources.
ERIC: The Education Resource Information Center provides access to educational literature and resources, including more than a million records and links to hundreds of thousands of full-text documents from ERIC back to 1966.
Please ask your school library staff for the username and password, or check the WSD Staff Portal.
Canadian Points of View Reference Centre will assist high school students in researching and understanding the full scope of controversial subjects. Students will discover useful information, perfect for debating, or for crafting arguments and writing position papers, all from a Canadian point of view. Part of Ebscohost.
Available from home or school. Please ask your school library staff for username and password.
Gale in Context: Canada allows research on a broad range of Canadian topics, people, places, and events. Focused on a Canadian perspective, this user-friendly portal provides full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, images, videos, audio files, and links to vetted websites.
No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Maclean's Magazine has compiled decades of issues and articles into a new and easy-to use database, supporting a wide range of subjects and departments (perfect for researching specific Canadian events in history as well as our most current
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Discover a Canadian perspective on powerful topics in French and English through NFB Campus, the National Film Board’s online media hub. Campus offers separate levels of access for students and teachers.
Students can access over 5,000 films and other media by going to NFB.ca using any school computer. Students also have access to playlists and chapters created by teachers, both at home and school.
Educators can access student resources and additional materials like Learning Bundles, educators’ guides, and tools to create and share content. No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Indexes over 300 French-language newspapers and magazines, including 41 full-text magazines from Quebec.
Available from home or school. Please ask your school library staff for the username and password, or check WSD Staff Portal.
TumbleBooks is an online library of animated, talking picture books, activities, quizzes, and exciting read alouds. Books can be read in English, French, or Spanish!
Available from home or school. No password required if accessing from school. For information on logging in from home visit the WSD Staff Portal.
Online versions of the current Winnipeg Free Press are available at schools for students to search, through the Newspapers in Education program. Each school must request its own school-based access and school account name/password. There is no charge for this access. Please contact the WFP to apply: Linda Reichert at nie@freepress.mb.ca.
Search the archives of a wide variety of newspapers from 32 communities across Manitoba, including the Winnipeg Free Press (1872 – 2016), Brandon Sun (1884-2016), Dauphin Herald (1899-2014), Steinbach Carillon (1946-2014), Portage La Prairie Leader (1946-1961) and many more. Accessed via newspaperarchives.com. In school access only.
World Book Kids is especially designed for children’s interests and reading levels with simple navigation, colourful illustrations, activities for young students, and more.
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The complete World Book encyclopedia plus multimedia, web links, and more.
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Dive into history with this unique, interactive view! Timelines offers hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics, which cover various time periods in history or span the life of historical public figures. Users can also create their own timelines from scratch, adding events, descriptions, and media.
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L'Encyclopédie Découverte offre des articles à recherche, des images, des cartes du monde, et des activités pratiques qui aideront les jeunes élèves à s'intéresser à la recherche.
No login needed at school. For information on logging in from home, contact your school library staff or visit the WSD Staff Portal.
World Book Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos is the Spanish version of the popular World Book Student. An encyclopedia with articles, multimedia, verified web links, and more – all in Spanish!
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