According to Common Sense Education, information literacy "includes the ability to identify, find, evaluate, and use information effectively. From effective search strategies to evaluation techniques, students learn how to evaluate the quality, credibility, and validity of websites [and other resources], and give proper credit."The materials you will find in this package were selected to support the standards, benchmarks, and indicators for Ohio's Library Guidelines for Librarians, Ohio's Library Guidelines for Learners, and Ohio's Learning Standards for English Language Arts.

With the ever-changing online and social media landscape for accessing news, students need tools to sift through the good, the bad, and the ugly and develop skills to determine credibility, recognize bias, and fact check. Teachers need high quality materials to support the teaching of media literacy. This content package is intended for educators to easily find lessons, eBooks, videos, websites, articles, units of study, graphics, and other resources to support the teaching of media literacy and to help students “navigate the news.”

Keeping students safe in the digital world remains a concern for parents and teachers. Reliable resources are needed to help instruct students on how to stay safe and protect themselves while using technology.This content package contains resources for students, parents and teachers. Spanning all grade levels, there are interactive games for students, informative videos and activities for parents and content rich lesson plans for teachers. All resources are easily accessed and can be utilized immediately with a download. Subjects: Digital Citizenship, Online Safety, Technology, 21st Century Skills, Material Types: Audio/Video, Interactive Media, Lesson Plans, Text/HTMLLevel: K-12License:Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike Language:English Media Format:Graphics/Photos, Interactive, Text/HTML, Video

Ohio's K-12 Social and Emotional Learning Standards support the whole child, providing embedded social and emotional learning to impact student safety, cuture, performance, and success. This package offers supplementary lessons and instructional materials to support educators of students in grades 3-5. This content package is a collection of instructional materials to help educators access resources supporting a subject or specific educational standards. Each item included in the package is premium content licensed or purchased by INFOhio or an open access item that has been reviewed by educational professionals. 

Oftentimes, when educators, parents, and other stakeholders think of STEAM, they envision middle or high school students preparing for careers in engineering or technology.  STEAM is much more than that, though.  It is a way of thinking and learning that can be applied across all grade levels.  This package is geared toward primary (K-4) students and focuses on problem-solving, creative thinking, and even critical thinking.  There are also opportunities for students to learn about careers in the STEAM fields.

This content package is a curated collection of STEM instructional resources to support the introduction and exploration of programming and robotics in grades 3-5. Resources include lesson plans, engagement activities, ebooks, digital texts, and videos.

Computer science is a subject that is becoming more important to teach our students to prepare them for their future. Coding and having a basic understanding of different coding languages will be key for our students to feel truly ready for college or their career. Introducing students to these concepts can be a daunting task. This content package is created to try and alleviate some of those concerns. Within this content package for students in grades 5-8, educators will find lesson plans and activities that will help teach introductory computer science concepts. Educators will also find eBooks and digital texts to share with students, as well as videos to help guide students’ understanding of computer science.

The Engineering Design Process has been such a crucial part of STEM education for the past few years. With schools pushing to become more engaged and involved with problem based learning, the design process is seen as a great starting point. In this content package for upper elementary grades, educators will find lesson plans and ideas on how to teach the design process, eBooks and digital texts with some studies on how to implement design thinking, ready-to-use activities and interactives to encourage real-world learning for students, and videos and multimedia to help students visualize different applications of the Engineering Design Process. 

This basic website design content package is intended to support educators in discovering new resources and lessons for grades 6-8. These resources could also be used to supplement technology and STEM lessons. 

This basic website design content package is intended to support educators in discovering new resources and lessons for grades 9-12. These resources could also be used to supplement technology and STEM lessons.