Edition Guide

Explore a comprehensive library of:

• Over 425,000 educator-curated open educational resources (OERs) from hundreds of reputable creators and publishers
• 2.4m+ high-quality copyright cleared images from the Pixabay image library
• More than 2 million classroom-ready, educational videos* from 300+ trusted content creators such as PBS, TED-Ed, Smithsonian, SciShow, Minute Earth, and more
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

The content you need when you need it

• BFW Publishers – Select AP resources:
  • American Government
  • America’s History
  • Economics
  • Environmental Science
  • European History
  • Psychology

• BrainPOP and BrainPOP Jr.

• Career Solutions Publishing
  • Career Launcher – The Integrated Career Pathways Curriculum

• Clairmont Press – US State Histories
  
• CommonLit – Lexile-leveled reading passages
  
• Discovery Education Experience

• Gale, A Cengage Company – Age-appropriate, evidence-based eBooks curated into the following SEL collections:
  • Cameron’s Camp for Wellness
  • Cameron’s Collection
  • Custom SEL collections

• Goodheart-Willcox
  • Career and Technical Education for grades 6-12
  • Health and Wellness Education for grades 6-12

• HMH Science Dimensions

• HMH Social Studies

• McGraw Hill – Select resources:
  • An Introduction to Astronomy
  • Chemistry: Matter and Change
  • Environmental Science: A Global Concern
  • Holes’ Essentials of Human Anatomy and Physiology
  • Physical Science
  • United States History and Geography
  • Understanding Economics
  • Zoology
  • Understanding Economics
  • Zoology

• MusicFirst – Music resources for grades 5-12

• Newsela
  • Newsela Essentials
  • Newsela Science
  • Newsela Social Studies
  • Newsela ELA
  • Newsela SEL

• QuaverMusic – PK-8 general music curriculum

• Studies Weekly – Elementary social studies curriculum:
  • California, Florida and Texas (Español)
  • Georgia

A Central Store for Educational Resources

• Makes all available educational resources accessible in one location
• Districts and teachers can load and store their approved and favorite resources
• Includes millions of high-quality educational resources provided by Learning Explorer
• Provides access to third-party publisher resources separately licensed by the district

Find exactly what you need, when you need it

• Search across multiple sources including integrated publisher content, OER and, district created curriculum
• Narrow down resources using educational filters
• Powered by comprehensive resource metadata such as subject, grade, standards, resource type, and more

Lesson building made easy

• Drag and drop resources and activities from search results directly into lessons
• Teachers can organize their lessons into subjects, units, weeks – however they like
• Districts can create and publish a curriculum scope and sequence to provide support to teachers building lessons

Leverage existing resources

• Improve lesson building productivity using your favorite Google Tools
• Personalize lessons by using existing resources from Google Docs, Sheets, Forms, Slides and more
• Cultivate collaboration in the classroom by incorporating Google Jamboard or Google Drawing for full class participation

Engage students anywhere

• Preview your lesson during the lesson building process
• Present lessons in the classroom with a crisp ribbon of learning resources
• Assign lessons or homework to students via Learning Explorer’s playlist viewer, capturing the appropriate resources and activities into a single package

Managing the content you share

• Content administrators control user visibility to resources in the LOR
• Manage user accounts, roles and permissions
• Analyze and report on LOR usage, including usage of content and amount of user access

Collaborate with colleagues

• Share and collaborate on lesson collections with other teachers in your district
• Control viewing and editing permissions on lesson collections to facilitate collaboration in your PLCs

You’re free to move around as you desire

• Easily navigate digital texts that have structure
• Incorporate core curriculum into lesson collections

Assign lessons and homework to your LMS

• Search and assign individual resources, entire lessons or homework from Learning Explorer directly to Google Classroom, Canvas, or Schoology
• A seamless experience for students with access via the Lesson Player right inside the LMS

Take control of your resources

• Control access to third-party publisher content based on district licenses
• Track usage by district, school or individual teacher to stay apprised of which content is deemed most useful and effective by staff

Build, Publish, Search

• Make lesson collections searchable and reusable by all teachers across the district
• Enable curriculum departments to store and manage approved district resources and metadata in the LOR
• Control who can publish lesson collections for others to search and use

Flexibility at your fingertips

• Create a flexible curriculum framework to provide teachers with as little or as much curriculum guidance needed
• Support teachers with complete curriculum including district-created courses, scope and sequence, units, or lessons

Complement Your Digital Learning Tools

• LTI and API integrations with other digital learning systems such as assessment systems and parent communication and engagement systems
• Enables districts to complete their unique digital learning ecosystem

Work how you want to work

• Use roles and permissions for granular control of individual resource access for users
• Create custom roles and responsibilities to ensure your subscription matches the uniqueness of your district 
• Advanced usage analytics