Special Pricing for Capstone Ebooks
Schools can add ebooks to PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next at a special price of $15 per title. Thanks to AEA purchasing power, this is a reduction from the $39.99 price.
The offer is good through December 20, 2024.
BOGO: Your school can buy 1 Capstone Interactive eBook and get 1 free when you spend a minimum of $750.
There are 6,000 titles to choose from. Features include: human voice, on/off autoplay, highlight word as read. And they are USA—unlimited simultaneous access!
What about next school year?
Iowa AEAs are providing PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next through June 2025. As a result of HF2612, each school will purchase their own 2025-26 subscription using the special discounted pricing negotiated by the AEAs (more information to come shortly).
Last year students in the Heartland AEA service area read:
- 3,098,073 PebbleGo articles
- 338,569 PebbleGo Next articles
What if my school doesn’t purchase PebbleGo or PebbleGo Next for 2025-26? You can still go to the PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next links to view just the ebooks--the article content won't be available. The ebooks your school purchases are perpetual license. The ebooks will also be in Mackin VIA.
To help prevent duplicate orders, here’s a list of the 50 eBooks the AEAs purchased last year and added to all schools' PebbleGo and PebbleGo Next. Remember, you can also access these eBooks through Mackin VIA.
- Adorable But Deadly Creatures
- Animal Extinction Emergency
- Apollo 11 Moon Landing
- Baseball GOATs
- Basketball GOATs
- Being a Good Friend
- Bessie Coleman
- Boyan Slat
- Busting Myths About Great White Sharks
- Climate Change on the Brink
- Create with Cardboard
- Cuddly But Deadly Animals
- Dia de los Muertos
- Diwali
- Do Vampire Bats Really Drink Blood?
- Dorothy Vaughan
- Football GOATs
- How Are Animals Grouped?
- How Are Plants Pollinated?
- How Do Spiders Walk on the Ceiling?
- How Do We Prepare for Severe Weather?
- Indigenous Peoples’ Day
- Is It a Butterfly or a Moth?
- Is It a Frog or a Toad?
- Is It a Honeybee or a Wasp?
- Is It an Alligator or a Crocodile?
- Is It Living or Nonliving?
- Jumping Spiders
- Juneteenth
- Kwanzaa
- Mambas
- Michaela DePrince
- Ocean Plastics Problem
- People of Pride
- Polar Ice Meltdown
- Rain Forest Destruction
- Read All About the Universe
- Science in King Tut’s Tomb
- Science on Shackleton’s Expedition
- Science on the Mayflower
- Science on the Oregon Trail
- Shark Superpowers
- Silent But Deadly Plants
- Upcycled Plastic Projects
- What Are Traits?
- What Do Animals Need to Survive?
- What Do Plants Need to Survive?
- What Is a Habitat?
- Why Are Flamingos Pink?
- Why Don’t Fish Have Eyelashes?
Have You Explored New American History?
Have you explored New American History from the University of Richmond yet? This powerful platform provides a variety of tools and resources—many of which are open access—to help educators teach history from a fresh perspective. Designed specifically for middle and high school students, it was also named to AASL’s 2024 List of Best Digital Tools.
To get started, try searching for a topic like redlining or dive into the American Panorama: An Atlas of United States History package for an interactive look at U.S. history.
You can refine your searches using options like:
- Search term
- Learning topic
- Reading level
- Grade level
- Standard
Additionally, the platform offers various learning strategies, including:
- Civic engagement/civil discourse
- Inquiry/critical thinking
- Collaboration
- Literacy
Check it out to discover the depth of resources available!
October Highlights: Britannica Engagements
In October, our students accessed an impressive 230,662 Britannica investigations—up from 149,119 last October!
Special congratulations to the following schools for their outstanding participation:
- Hoover High School: 16,690 investigations
- Norwalk Middle School: 19,149 investigations
- Perry Middle School: 18,432 investigations
- Timberline 8/9: 29,329 investigations
To see the raw data by school, click here.
Great job, everyone! Your commitment to learning shines through.
New Learn 360 Titles
Plastics Recycling, 9-12 (5 min)
BBS Indigenous School, 9-12 (3 min)
MOOD series, 3-12 (1 min)
- Name It to Tame It
- Don’t Talk to Me That Way
- ASMR
- Just Move
- Chill Out with Ice
- Calm Down with Color
- Surf the Emotional Wave
- Just Breathe—Hand Brething
- Let it Stream
- Tighten, Hold, Relax
- Use Your Senses 5, 4, 3, 2, 1
Untold: The Citizenship Project series, 6-12 (2-3 min)
- Constitution
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Supreme Court
- Federal and State Powers
- Voting Rights Act of 1965
- Native Americans
Arthur Goes Digital series, PreK-5 (3 min)
- Arthur vs. D.W.’s Battle of the Universe
- Having Fun Isn’t Hard/Arthur Meets Mychal the Librarian
- Arthur: D.W. Dance Challenge
- It’s OK to Feel Worried
Alma’s Way, Season 2, PreK-5 (23 min)
- Alma’s Yes Day/Alma’s Hypothe-saur
- Museum Day Way/Bronxorama Diorama
- Uncle Nestor’s Bumpy Ride/Grocery Goof
- Alma Wings It/The Grandparent Trap
Lyla in the Loop series, PreK-5 (25 min)
- Happy New Year Year, Lyla!/Un-Boxing Match
- Two on Two Plus Stu/The Stu-Mobile
- Uh-Oh!/The Puddle
- Moon Rock Cove/Rainbow Collection
- Too Many Pumpkins/The Maybe-Sitters
- Four Little Piggies and Brucey/Handle with Care
- Finding a New Friend/Lyla Bugs Out
Echolocation Unit series, PreK-5 (4-6 min)
- From Bats to Submarines: Sonar and Climate Change Solutions
- Holy Bat Swarm! It’s Halloween
- Discover Echolocation: Bats’ Adaptation to Navigate the Dark
New: Teach Britannica
Resources from Teach Britannica can enhance your lessons! Britannica has now launched, teachbritannica.com that includes mini lessons, instructional strategies, graphic organizers, as well as academic toolkits, all aligned to Britannica School.
You can also access it by logging into Britannica and you’ll see it in the drop down menu.