Iowa AEA Online offers educational resources for students
As students and teachers return to their classrooms each year, Iowa AEA Online (www.iowaaeaonline.org) is available to support their needs for educational resources.
Iowa AEA Online features educational resources funded and provided by Iowa’s Area Education Agencies to all of the state’s accredited K-12 schools. These resources are accessible from school or home (Internet access required), 24 hours a day, seven days a week and include the following:
- AccuWeather provides current weather information to enhance science curriculum for projects, research, and presentations.
- Atomic Learning is an electronic help desk and training system for computer applications.
- ClipArt.com School Edition is a collection of more than six million searchable clip art, photos, images, fonts and sounds that may be used in teacher-created instructional materials, newsletters, student assignments and more.
- EBSCO is the largest school subscription agency of full-text periodicals, newspapers and reference tools for elementary, middle, and high school students, and offering teachers access to more than 500 education journals.
- Multimedia Archive is the database of the Associated Press Archives offering teachers and students access to AP articles, audio clips, charts, graphs, tables, maps, and photos from the 1840s to moments ago.
- SIRS Researcher offers thousands of relevant full-text articles and analysis on today’s social, scientific, health, historic, economic, political, and global issues.
- unitedstreaming is a web-based digital video delivery system from Discovery Education, which provides more than 6,600 full-length videos and more than 68,000 video clips searchable by keyword, subject area and grade level.
- World Book Online includes continuously updated articles from the 22-volume print set plus thousands of additional articles, pictures, maps, videos, animations, primary source documents and links to other websites. New this year – World Book Advanced for middle and senior high students.
In its fifth year, Iowa AEA Online supports the content standards for school curriculum and student learning by bringing a wealth of information to teachers and students. These online resources offer students and teachers carefully selected resources to enhance classroom learning, featuring content that is continuously updated, often within hours of an event.
By contracting for online resources for all school districts statewide, Iowa AEA Online provides equity of information for all learners and educators in Iowa.
For more information about Iowa AEA Online, contact your school’s teacher librarian, an AEA technology consultant, or visit www.iowaaeaonline.org.
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