New This Year

Pebble Go by CapstonePebble Go and Pebble Go Next  We are super  excited  to  have  access  to  Pebble  Go  this  year.  We  have  purchased 4 modules for K-2: Animals, Science, Social Studies, Health and Pebble Go Next (Grades 3-5) Science. Pebble Go is an online resource designed for young students, offering age-appropriate content on various subjects. It features easy-to-read articles, videos, and interactive activities to engage early learners and promote independent research skills. Use Pebble Go to enhance your  lessons and encourage a love for learning in students.

Reading

Canoe Kids
This indigenous publication is focused on authentic indigenous voices discussing Cultural Rights, Human Rights Environmental Rights and Equity.”

A wonderful collection of narrated picture books, both fiction and non-fiction.

Venture into science, nature, archaeology, space and more. Browse magazines by cover.​

Indigenous Education

Canoe Kids
This indigenous publication is focused on authentic indigenous voices discussing Cultural Rights, Human Rights Environmental Rights and Equity.”

Indigenous Peoples Atlas of Canada
Find “Truth and Reconciliation”, “First Nations”, “Inuit” and “Metis” free in French and English. These four beautiful books offer amazing pictures, information, a glossary of indigenous terms and more.

Media Smarts - Aboriginal People

This section presents issues specific to Indigenous people in Canada including challenges that they face and crimes against them.

This is also available in French-click here to open the page in French

Encyclopedias

Find Books to have Read, Nursery Rhymes, Songs, videos and more (Gr. K-2)

Easy for kids to navigate through​ with easy to read articles and thousands of pictures.​​ (Gr. 3-9)

Articles from World Book, plus thousands of additional articles, learning resources, and research tools. Also in French. (Gr. 3-9)

Encyclopedia, multimedia, online books, and primary source databases.​

Find engaging content and tools to draw students into the curriculum related topics and subjects. (Gr. 5-9)

Hundreds of pre-generated timelines across eight broad topics​. (Gr. 3-9)

World Book Encyclopedia in French.

Encyclopedia of British Columbia, with a focus on K to 8 Science content and Grade 4 to 12 Social Studies.

Databases

Here you can choose which databases that you would like to search.

Explora Canada (searches Academic Search Premier)

EBSCOHost (searches Canadian Literary Centre)

Canadian Points of View Reference Centre

Literary Reference Center

Novelist Plus

Poetry & Short Story Reference Center

Science Reference Center

This environment and climate change portal provides access to a variety of powerful resources addressing these important issues.

Venture into science, nature, archaeology, space and more. Browse magazines by cover.​

Canada in Context

Find articles with Canadian content.

Search for resources here. Try Topic Finder to help you narrow down your topic ideas.​

Searches Academic Search Premier

Science Reference Center

Exploring Race in Society.

Exploring Race in Society

Offers content covering issues related to race in society.

ProQuest - BC Historical Newspapers

BC Historical Newspapers

Media Smarts Login
Cyber Choices (Grades 3-5)
We have a license for this program and it is available in French.

Click on the link below to learn how to sign in and sign your class up. 
Teachers, please click here to learn how to sign in your classes.  

French Resources

Videos

Teachers, please ensure you preview any videos in advance and ensure the rating / content is grade appropriate and has curricular connections.

Choose from tens of thousands of free, educational videos for K to 12.​

Find full length, videos, video clips, teacher guides, student activities and worksheets to go with the videos, music tracks, feature films, sound effects, audio and video speeches, audio books, newsreels, images and articles.

Feature films

Criterion On-Demand

Sites for Teachers

Live it

Live it Earth – Is a new STEM resource that we will have until the end of 2025. This fabulous program is available in French and English, contains resources that are directly linked to our BC Curriculum and new programs come out each month. This site contains full Science units with an Inquiry Guide. Challenges, Assessment and embedded Indigenous perspectives.

To sign up, please click here to get the instructions for you to join and for your class.

Instructions for logging in to TwigTwig offers videos and resources for Science and Math for students aged 11-16. They also offer experiments and support materials to support the videos. For login instructions, please click here.

Twig Science Reporter

Free Science Resources for Teachers.

Tig Tag Science for grades 3-6
 Science lessons for teachers in Grades 3 to 6

For login instructions please click here.

tigtag jr

Grades K-2 Short films and activities, and lessons to go with them.

For login instructions, please click here.

Teens 101
(For secondary teachers – topics for students in Grade 8 to10) 

Click here for special login instructions.

Text to Speech Options / Accessibility

Text to Speech options for research databases.