Nettrekker is an award-winning educational search engine that brings the best of the web to K-12 students, teachers, librarians, and parents. NetTrekker connects you and your students to more than 300,000 hand-selected, educator-approved sites – organized by readability level and aligned with your state standards, providing resources ideal for every student’s learning needs with safe, reliable results.


Discovery Education provides engaging digital resources to schools and homes with the goal of making educators more effective, increasing student achievement, and connecting classrooms and families to a world of learning.  Discovery Education produces and distributes high-quality digital resources in easy-to-use formats in all core-curricular subject areas. Teachers use unitedstreaming to view high quality video content for instruction and to foster an atmosphere for engaged learning.

Cartoons for the Classroom

Cartoons for the Classroom is a joint effort between the Association of American Editorial Cartoonists and NIEonline to provide lesson plans based on political cartoons. Every other week a new set of pdf files is posted for teachers to download and print out for their classes. One page is a lesson on a specific topic, the other is a blank cartoon on that topic that students can use to test out their own captions before reading the lesson and answering the questions.

A popular feature of Cartoons for the Classroom is the Cartoon Analysis Worksheet — used by students to dissect and analyze political cartoons from their own newspaper. The worksheet is a two-page pdf file that guides students through the process of analyzing any political cartoon.

An archive of more than 100 lessons back to Sept. 1, 2003 are also made available, giving your teachers access to a deep resource right from the start. New lessons are posted every other week.

BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Their award-winning online resources include BrainPOP, for grades 3 and up; BrainPOP Jr., for grades K-3; and BrainPOP Español. The newest resource, BrainPOP Educators, features free tips, tools, and best practices by and for our teacher community.

Ideal for both group and one-on-one settings, BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. Content is aligned to state standards and easily searchable with our online state standards tool. All products are fully compatible with PCs, Macs, projectors, and interactive whiteboards. No downloading, installation, or special hardware is required.