Instructional materials matter. While securing a coherent curriculum and professional development for teachers is the first step in ensuring learning in Ohio’s classrooms, identifying high-quality supplemental materials at grade level for all learners can be helpful in increasing student engagement, meeting diverse needs, and filling instructional gaps.

When paired with a high-quality curriculum, INFOhio's quality eBooks, videos, lesson plans, instructional web tools, and training and support materials can provide engaging and innovative supplements to scaffold student growth and learning. 

INFOhio licenses Scholastic's Capstone Interactive eBooks for all Ohio schools and families. With more than 800 titles to choose from, Capstone provides students and educators with a variety of science and social studies eBooks appropriate for grades 3-6.

Seventy-seven percent of internet users read blogs. More than 6,000,000 blogs are posted every day, making it hard for readers to stay up to date on the latest posts from their favorite bloggers. Let the INFOhio blog team offer you 4 ways to never miss the news or another blog post from INFOhio.

INFOhio has recently purchased a new eBook collection from World Book with 1,500 titles on a variety of content areas. 

As Ohio's PreK-12 Digital Library, INFOhio is ready for a new school year providing quality resources to help support schools as they accelerate learning. The instructional materials from INFOhio are available at no cost to all students, teachers, and parents. INFOhio is actively seeking new members for the INFOhio Integration Partners, or IPartners, program to boost our reach, support our efforts, and strengthen our connections.

Instructional materials matter. While securing a coherent curriculum and professional development for teachers is the first step in ensuring learning in Ohio’s classrooms, identifying high-quality supplemental materials at grade level for all learners can be helpful in increasing student engagement, meeting diverse needs, and filling instructional gaps.

When paired with a high-quality curriculum, INFOhio's quality eBooks, videos, lesson plans, instructional web tools, and training and support materials can provide engaging and innovative supplements to scaffold student growth and learning. 

INFOhio licenses Scholastic's BookFlix for all Ohio schools and families. With more than 150 pairs of fiction and nonfiction titles, this resource is not only helpful for supplementing English language arts curricula but also other content areas to build background knowledge and develop vocabulary in grades PreK-3. Use BookFlix to engage, empower, elevate, and extend student learning!

Recordings are now available for these sessions.

This summer INFOhio will be hosting a one-day conference, Instructional Materials Matter: Voices from the Field, on August 9, 2022. Sessions include a Keynote from the Ohio Department of Education and additional sessions from Exchange Certified Trainers on integrating quality INFOhio resources, web tools, and professional development into the various educational environments. 

A new eBook collection from Gale has been curated on the topic of financial literacy. 

Career-focused lessons and activities from the Ohio Department of Education Office of Graduate Success have been added to Open Space. 

Due to the discontinuation of the ACT Learning Object Repository, INFOhio will be removing the ACT content from Educator Tools. This will keep only the highest priority resources, making it easier for educators to find the resources they need.  

Check out more than 250 new social studies lesson plans, interactive games, and learning modules from iCivics.org that have been added to Open Space.

The Computer Science Fundamentals curriculum from Code.org, which includes 97 lesson plans for grades K-5, has been added to Open Space. 

Learn more about Ohio with 28 lesson plans for grades 6-12 from Ohio History Connection. 

SketchUp Pro is discontinuing its Statewide License Grant program, which has been administered through INFOhio, effective July 1, 2022. SketchUp Pro encourages schools to transition to the web-based, 3D modeling app called SketchUp for Schools available through Google Workspace and Microsoft Education platforms.

More than 70 new instructional materials from Common Sense Education have been added to Open Space and include lesson plans on being responsible digital citizens for K-12.

To support students in learning essential digital skills, 192 lessons from Google’s Applied Digital Skills curriculum using Google Workplace were added to Open Space.