The Michigan eLibrary (MeL) is an anywhere, anytime library that offers free access to online full-text articles, full-text ebooks, digital images, and other valuable research information at anytime through the internet.
This is a powerful resource for personal or educator research, for finding resources on how to do something or to support literacy in your school.
MeL is in the process of developing numerous courses in EduPaths to support educators at all levels, with one new course publishing every other month.
Michigan eLibrary: Intro to Michigan's Best Kept FREE Secret Version 2
This course is designed for teachers and librarians/media specialists who want to learn more about the Michigan eLibrary. This course will provide an overview of the eResources and support materials available at MeL.org. This is the first course in a multi-part series of courses designed to support the integration of MeL content into curriculum planning and instruction for students’ work in the classroom or at home.
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Michigan eLibrary: What Every Educator Should Know Version 2
If you’re searching for resource materials to support instruction in your classroom, this is the course for you! This course will guide users through the Educators page on MeL. You will be able to take our eResource buttons and embed them into their own classroom, building or district website. The Educators page provides direct links to the eResources that support teaching and learning and allows you to customize your elearning environment for easy student access. Further, the Educators page supports your professional learning and growth with eResources for scholarly research, along with additional elearning opportunities linked through MeL.
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Michigan eLibrary: Supporting Early Literacy
The Supporting Early Literacy course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support early literacy instruction in their classrooms. Additionally, the content available through MeL gives teachers the resources they need to achieve many of the goals highlighted in the Essential Instructional Practices in Literacy and throughout the state curriculum in all content areas. By moving the eResources in MeL to your own teaching and learning environment, you can provide easy access to databases that have the content your students need to enrich their literacy development.
Michigan eLibrary: Career, College & Military Preparation
The Michigan eLibrary Career, College & Military Preparation eResources course is designed to connect teachers to free content that they can use to support instruction in their classrooms. The eResources that are addressed can offer teachers multiple options when guiding their students to test preparation in a variety of academic, military and vocational disciplines. Students can also utilize these eResources for building individual skills and exploring potential career options.
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The Curriculum Connections courses connects educators and students to resources such as atlases, primary source documents, magazine articles, biographies, images, maps, video clips and so much more is so imperative to their academic success. With persistent links available to these multi-media eResources, teachers can easily organize this content in their digital plan books and learning management systems such as Google Classroom and Schoology.
Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 4-7 English Language Arts
The Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 4-7 English Language Arts course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Standards found in the Michigan K-12 Standards for English Language Arts.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 8-12 English Language Arts
The Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 8-12 English Language Arts course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support the Reading, Writing, Speaking and Listening Standards found in the Michigan K-12 Standards for English Language Arts.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: K-12 Mathematics
The Michigan eLibrary: K-12 course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support Michigan K-12 Mathematics instruction. In addition, the content available through MeL gives teachers the resources they need to achieve many of the goals highlighted in the Michigan standards and the MAISA Essential math practices.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: K-5 Science
This course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support each of the disciplines (physical science, life sciences, earth and space sciences, and engineering, technology, and application of science) within the Michigan K-5 science curriculum standards.
Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 6-12 Science
The Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 6th-12th Grade Science course is designed to connect teachers to free, available digital content to support the Michigan Academic Standards and daily instruction in the classroom for secondary science students.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: K-5 Social Studies
This course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support each of the disciplines (civics & government, economics, geography, and history) within the Michigan K-5 social studies curriculum standards.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 6-12 Social Studies
The Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: 6-12 Social Studies course is designed to connect teachers to free, available content that can support each of the disciplines (civics & government, economics, geography, and history) within the Michigan 6-12 social studies curriculum standards.
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Michigan eLibrary Curriculum Connections: K-12 ELL & World Language Supports
The Michigan eLibrary: ELL & World Language Supports K-12 course is designed to connect teachers to free, available digital content in a wide range of available formats for students who need additional supports for reading and interpreting new material. With translation tools in over 60 databases as well as text-to-speech capabilities, the resources in MeL can offer teachers tools to help assist struggling or new language learners in a variety of ways.
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