Digital Learning Resources
High-quality resources available without a paid subscription
NC DPI Wikispace
NC DPI provides a wikispace with links to insructional resources for all core subject areas K-12. Visitors to this site will find curriculum and assessment information as well as links to helpful learning resources.
SAS Curriculum Pathways
SAS Curriculum Pathways - More than 1700 interactive resources available to supplment all core subjects K-12; aligned to state and national standards.
Read, Write, Think
READ WRITE THINK is a wonderful resource that provides education resources, lesson plans, mobile apps, and print outs of activities to support K-12 English Language Arts. This site is sponsored by NCTE and the International Reading Association.
Reading Rockets
Reading Rockets provides resources and activities such as literacy adventure packs, themed booklists, author interviews, nonfiction resources, summer reading suggestions and more.
K-5 Math Teaching Resources
The K-5 Math Teaching Resources site provides a variety of ready-to-use activities for K-5 mathematics.
PBS Learning Media
PBS Learning Media houses thousands of digital resources to engage students. Lessons are aligned to curriculum standards and include videos, audio, and documents.
Discovery Education
While there are some things that are only available by subscription on the Discovery Education website, there are many others that are available for free for parents, educators, and students. Free resources include virtual field trips, games, homework help, and much more.
IXL
IXL is an adaptive K-12 learning program that provides comprehensive, standards-aligned content for math, language arts, science, and social studies.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy offers practice exercises and instructional videos for a variety of subjects including math, science, computer programming, history, art history, economics, and more. The activities are self-paced and adaptive to learner need.
Tween Tribune
Tween Tribune provides high interest articles for K-12 students. The articles are categorized by grade, lexile, language (English/Spanish), and subject area. Each article can be modified to accommodate multiple lexiles and is coupled with assessments.
Newsela
Newsela provides free, leveled news articles, primary source documents, and more.
O.E.R. Commons
The OER Commons provides access to free Open Education Resources for K-12 core subject areas. Search by subject, grade level, and standard.
CK-12
CK-12 pairs high-quality content with technoloy to provide interactive learning activities that adapt to individual student performance.
Free eBooks
Tar Heel Reader - Easy to read accessible books
NC Kids
The NCKids Overdrive library provides access Pre-K to 4th grade e-books. Many of the books will appeal to students beyond the 4th grade also.
In order to access the ebooks, children only need a Rockingham County library card.
RCS Digital Learning Resources
The RCS Digital Learning Resources site provides descriptions and tutorials for a variety of digital tools and resources for both teacher and student use.
Need More Ideas
For more ideas or suggestions, contact Christy Barham, Director of Digital Learning, Media & Professional Development for Rockingham County Schools @ cbarham@rock.k12.nc.us.