Byck Elementary Library: Teacher Resources

Find field trip information, in-school program opportunities from organizations in the Kentuckiana area. 

This valuable resource provides access  to a diverse, curated collection of eBooks that can easily be shared with others and downloaded through Google Classroom and Docs with G Suite for Education integration, email, or bookmarked links. These eBooks will be useful for any staff interested in growing professionally! 

​Click here to search in our library catalog for a book you want to read or a topic you want to research!

Breakout EDU is the immersive learning games platform that brings the challenges of an escape room to the classroom. 

Resource Guides for each grade level that connect the new Kentucky-centric KAS for Social Studies to a primary source from our online collection. Possible discussion questions are also included. 

The purpose of the Teacher Resource Center (TRC) is to support student learning by being a resource for information and instructional tools along with the opportunity to “make and take” materials back to the classroom. 

Provides access to thousands of standards-aligned digital resources with videos, images, interactives, lesson plans and articles. 

Check-out their "Free to Use and Reuse Public Domain and Rights-Clear Content" as well as their "Teachers" tab which includes teacher-created lesson plans using Library of Congress primary sources.

This resource offers many social studies lessons that will help your students with historical inquiry.  Each lesson revolves around a central historical question and features a set of primary documents designed for groups of students with a range of reading skills.

The AASL  Best  Digital Tools for Teaching & Learning are of exceptional value to inquiry-based teaching and learning. Tools recognized foster the qualities of innovation, creativity, active participation, and collaboration and are user friendly to encourage a community of learners to explore and discover. If you see a resource that you are interested in, you must check the software approval list being using.