Educational Websites and Resources

Library Resources

• StorytimeTV on Chelmsford Telemedia
  Watch staff from the public library and public schools read picture books on The Chelmsford Library’s TV show. Tune into Chelmsford Telemedia every evening at 7:00 pm for stories on the Educational Channels: Comcast 22 or Verizon 36. There are times that live programming may be shown rather than the stories. Tune in again the next evening, or check CTM’s online schedule.

AtoZ Maps Online

AtoZ Maps Online provides a wide variety of city, state, and country maps – both current and historical. You can find climate, ecology, and topographic maps. There are historical maps and maps about empires and exploration. It even includes a section about world flags!

Britannica Moderna

Britannica Moderna es Enciclopedia española para estudiantes mayores y educadores. Incluye artículos, imágenes, mapas, tablas, cronologías, así como un completo diccionario y atlas. | Britannica Moderna is a Spanish encyclopedia for older students and educators. It includes articles, images, maps, tables, timelines, as well as a complete dictionary and atlas

Encyclopedia Britannica

Explore the updated online encyclopedia from Encyclopaedia Britannica with hundreds of thousands of articles, biographies, videos, images, and Web sites.

Hoopla – Streaming Movies, TV, Audiobooks, Music, and Comics

Stream or download popular movies, television shows, musical albums, audiobooks, ebooks, or comic books! You can check out videos (movies & TV) for 3 days, music for 1 week, and audiobooks, ebooks, and comics for 3 weeks.

InfoTrac Student Edition

Periodicals database is designed for high-school students with access to a variety of indexed and full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books.
 

Interactive Science

Gale Interactive: Science is a highly visual online learning tool that takes visual-spatial learning to the next level by bringing the science lab online. High-value, multi-media digital content selected from authoritative classroom resources is paired with interactive 3D models to deliver a virtual laboratory simulation experience for students in middle school and high school grades.

Kids InfoBits

Covering 75 full-text curriculum-related magazines and 7 reference books, InfoBits targets the research needs of K- 5 students.
 

Lingo LITE

Lingo LITE offers basic vocabulary training in 30 different languages, perfect for travelers and beginning language learners. Users can choose both the interface language and the language of study, and the instructional video and audio is presented by native speakers. You can also access Lingo LITE through their app, available in your smart device’s app store for free.

TumbleBooks Library

TumbleBooks are animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they’ll love. TumbleBooks are created by taking existing picture books, adding animation, sound, music and narration to produce an electronic picture book, which can also be read to you.

Great Websites for Kids

• Vocabulary Games for Children
  Fun vocabulary games for new learners and ESL.
• American Sign Language
  For sign language learners of all ages.
• Dance Mat Typing
  Learn to type with the BBC.
• TypingClub
  Learn touch typing online using TypingClub’s free typing courses. It includes 650 typing games, typing tests and videos.
• International Children’s Digital Library
  Free digitized children’s books in many languages from various countries, for children ages 3 to 13.
• Scratch
  Learn to program your own interactive stories, games, and animations—and share your creations with others in the online community.
• Red Ted Art
  Fun craft and art projects for kids.
• Genealogy for the Next Generation
  Includes information on how to interview relatives, scavenger-hunt and word-search games, craft activities like making a journal or a family keepsake, and information to help kids learn family-history terms and create a family chart or tree.

Great Websites for Young Children

• Starfall
  A fun online phonics approach to learning to read.
• Bedtime Math
  Math enrichment site that provides a fun math fact daily with questions at different levels.
• PBSkids.org
  A companion website for PBS shows with games and more!

Great Websites for Grownups

• Common Sense Media
  Reviews of apps, movies and games for children.
• Book-a-Day Almanac
  Find out about a different book each day.
• American Sign Language
  For sign language learners of all ages.
• Every Child Ready To Read
  Basis for many literacy practices at the Chelmsford Library.
• Brain Building in Progress
  The Cognitive, Social, and Emotional development of young children will have an impact on the economic prosperity of everyone in Massachusetts. We should all understand the science behind brain building and learn how to enrich the lives of young children.
• Reading Rockets
  Dedicated to helping parents understand ways to help children learn to read.
• US Dept. of Education – Help my Child Read
  Educational excellence leads to global competitiveness. Learn many ways of helping children to read.

Find a Tutor

• Club Z Tutoring
  The tutoring program recommended by Chelmsford Schools.
• Wyz Ant Tutors
  Private in-home tutoring.
• Kumon
  Tutoring for math and reading.

Find Licensed Daycare

• MA Early Education & Care listing
  Families and Centers are licensed in Massachusetts.