Message from the Orillia LU Library - Library Resources on Placement

 Dear Lakehead-Orillia Education Students:

Library Staff hope that your fall 2020 placements are going well, and we would like to remind you that the library's online resources and services are available during your placement period.  We have outlined some of these resources and services below.   Please remember that if you need assistance accessing library resources please contact the library directly at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

Library Services/Resources:  

Scan and Delivery of book excerpts and journal articles may be possible while you are on your placement.  As pictured below, you can find the book or journal article in Omni , click "Sign In" to login with your Lakehead username and password , then click on "Request Scanned Excerpt"  ,  and fill in the blanks on the form.   As long as your scan request is within our copyright guidelines, you will receive a scanned copy by email of the excerpt you are requesting.  If you have trouble locating an item in Omni, please contact us by email at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

Curbside Pickup of items from the Orillia Education Library is also available.  Find the item in Omni , click "Sign In"to login with your Lakehead username and password, then click on "Request Physical Item".  The Orillia Education Library is closed, but if you choose the Harvie Legacy Library location (at the Orillia University Avenue location), you may pick up your books there. You will receive an email from the library with information regarding pickup.

Library Guides are available on many Education-related topics  and include links to many freely available resources.  These include a series of P/J Teaching Topics; I/S Teaching Topics; K-12 Indigenous Education; Language Arts Mentor Texts; K-12 Makerspaces; Children/Young Adult Booklists and more.

Access to Online K-12 Lesson Planning & EBook Databases:   While you are on your placement, you have access to many online databases with teaching activities, ebooks, reproducible pages and lesson plans and more.  Start at the Education Library website  library.lakeheadu.ca/education , and find the "Resources" box .  Here you have access to journal databases, ebook databases, lesson planning databases and streaming databases.   If you are off campus,  login with your LU username and password unless you are directed to  "Education Passwords"  a course site which lists unique password information.   A selection of these databases is listed below:

Britannica eBook K-12 Collection   This K-12 ebook database provides access to 1,400 Britannica book titles from 40 popular Britannica series/collections. This database can be searched by keyword, grade and reading levels. It covers 39 specific subjects that are included in Kindergarten to Grade 12 curriculum from the areas of science, social studies, and language arts.

Crabtree Digital    Access Crabtree books through this online portal. Crabtree Publishing, and Bobbie Kalman, are well-known for their beautifully illustrated books and educational resources on K-9+ curriculum subjects including animals, countries, life and physical sciences, geography, biographies and more. Newer collections include colourfully illustrated books on Mathematics, Makerspaces, Engineering, Explorers and Sports heroes. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Education Passwords" or contact the Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

Curriculum Resource Center An electronic library of printable teacher-handout material for the middle, high school, and junior college curriculum.

Green Teacher Webinar Series Click on Webinars, select Past Webinars, Click here to access the webinar archive for subscribers.  (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Education Passwords" or contact the Orillia Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca). After you enter the password, you should be directed into a page of "Protected Webinar Subscriber Archive".

International Children's Digital Library (Children's Ebooks) Provides free access to high-quality children’s books from around the world in different languages, including Arabic, Afrikaans, Danish, English, Farsi and beyond.

OERB: Ontario Educational Resources Bank Ontario Ministry of Education database. You may search for resources by grade, subject/course, strand, overall expectations, and/or keywords. Videoclips are included in this database. (A password is required to login, please check your D2L course listings for this course, "Education Passwords" or contact the Orillia Education Library at orlib@lakeheadu.ca).

Open Culture: The best free cultural & educational media on the web This collection provides a list of free educational resources for K-12 students (kindergarten through high school students) and their parents and teachers. It features free video lessons/tutorials; free mobile apps; free audiobooks, ebooks and textbooks; quality YouTube channels; free foreign language lessons; test prep materials; and free web resources in academic subjects like literature, history, science and computing. This newly-released list is a work in progress.

OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) Elementary Curriculum Online Resources These online resources, support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 1-8 by providing access to downloadable and searchable lesson plans addressing Ontario H&PE Curriculum expectations; access to student materials, planning schedules and writable assessment tools and links to supplemental resources. Click the "Click to Access the HP&E Resources" button on the BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE to access this database.

OPHEA (Ontario Physical and Health Education Association) Secondary Curriculum Online Resources These online resources, support the implementation of Ontario’s H&PE Curriculum for Grades 9-12 by providing access to downloadable and searchable lesson plans addressing Ontario H&PE Curriculum expectations; access to student materials, planning schedules and writable assessment tools and links to supplemental resources. Click the "Click to Access the HP&E Resources" button on the BOTTOM RIGHT SIDE OF PAGE to access this database.

OPHEA Safety Guidelines Link directly to the Ontario Physical Education Safety Guidelines. No password required

TumblebookCloud (Ebooks for Middle & High School) A collection of videos and chapter books in categories which include: Ebooks, Read-Alongs, Graphic Novels, Videos (from National Geographic!), and Audio Books suitable for middle school and high school grades. Lesson plans and quizzes accompany the books.

Tumblebook Library (Children's Ebooks) A collection of electronic animated, talking picture books with fiction, non-fiction and foreign language titles for children. The Tumblebook collection includes read alongs (chapter books) ebooks, puzzles and games and TumbleResources for teachers and students.

TumbleMath  A comprehensive collection of math picture books, all in the amazing TumbleBook format complete with animation and narration. The books are accompanied by supplementary materials such as lesson plans and quizzes. Click on Quiz Portal and you will find a Portal containing thousands of quizzes created by math teachers specifically for your state/provincial standards.

 

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Please remember that if you need assistance accessing resources please contact the library directly at orlib@lakeheadu.ca

All the best to you on your teaching placement!

Lakehead-Orillia Education Library Staff