Step It Out, Break It Down with Lyla in the Loop

Looking for a fun animated show that can help kids from prekindergarten through fifth grade develop computational thinking skills? Lyla in the Loop is just the show you’re looking for, designed to encourage kids to use their innate creativity and learn to think like a coder to tackle challenges while having fun and help get […]

Looking for Earth Day Content? Start with Infobase

Since 1970, every April 22 has been dedicated to increasing awareness about the environment and the steps we can take to preserve the only home we’ve ever known, including helping clean up pollution, preventing deforestation, preserving precious habitats for our wildlife, and fighting the carbon emissions that contribute to climate change. Infobase has a wide […]

3 Ways Educators Can Help Students Fight Brainrot

If you’ve been following the news, you’ve more than likely heard about brainrot (or “brain rot”), a buzzword that is currently so omnipresent, it was named Oxford’s Word of the Year in 2024. We’re all guilty of it—doomscrolling on social media, watching short and low-quality video clips out of boredom, etc.—and there’s a lot of […]

Fun and Easy Ways to Celebrate National Poetry Month

How much do we love poetry? Let us count the ways. April is National Poetry Month, and we have lots of fun activity ideas to help you celebrate. Here are suggestions for contests, projects, papers, assignments, and videos that are sure to get students excited and deepen their appreciation of poetry.  Engage Students with Bloom’s […]

10 Ideas to Celebrate School Library Month

School libraries and librarians play a crucial role in the education of children and teens, from instructing how to research, to providing a location for book clubs and makerspaces, to offering access to a wide variety of media resources (not just books!), including materials for both student research and for educators to use in classes […]

Help Students Learn Financial Literacy

Understanding how money works, from how to maintain a budget to the basics of investment, is crucial to both surviving and thriving in the modern world. Personal finance courses are now required in more than half the United States, although many students don’t get an adequate amount of financial education in school. The results are […]

Have a Wonderful Kind of Day with Arthur

Since 1996, children have been entertained by the fun animated adventures of Arthur, the bespectacled aardvark from the show of the same name, as he navigates the ups and downs of childhood with his friends and family. Based on the children’s books by Marc Brown, Arthur is a show about growing up, exploring the world, […]

Explore and Teach Themes from Wicked with These Resources

Is the book, acclaimed Broadway musical, and Oscar-winning movie Wicked pop-uuu-lar among your students? We’ll bet it is, and you can use Infobase products to help use this phenomenon to teach your students about important themes in literature both in Wicked and in the novel it was based on, L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard […]

Honor Women’s History with Infobase

Every year, the month of March is dedicated to the celebration and study of the vital roles that women have played in American history. We at Infobase are celebrating, too, by highlighting some of the women’s history content in our database, streaming video, and eBook products that you, staff, and students can use in your […]

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Streaming Collection

Artificial intelligence, or AI, is one of the most exciting and disruptive technologies today, especially within education. AI has the potential to make many tasks we do every day easier, but it also comes with potential pitfalls—especially if used incorrectly or unethically. As such, it is imperative that both students and educators learn how to […]

Fun Facts about the Presidents

You know how they say “truth is stranger than fiction”? We think this is why it’s fun to learn facts, especially unusual ones—they’re interesting because they’re true! This Presidents’ Day, inspire a love of facts in your students by presenting some fun facts about the interesting men who have run our country.  The World Almanac® […]

Librarians, Fight Misinformation with Infobase

Like it or not, we live in an era where misinformation and disinformation are abundant, and a misinformed public cannot make responsible decisions. As such, information literacy, including news literacy and media literacy, has never been more crucial. The foundational critical-thinking skills that come with information literacy will benefit researchers of all ages, and the […]