Online Resources included in Enrollment
The WorldWide IDEA Academies provide a number of valuable online subscriptions and partnership resources to enhance and support quality teaching, learning, and testing prep. If purchased individually, the content of these resources could cost a family thousands of dollars, and some can only be purchased by schools or libaries.
Our families are able to use these resources to fulfill a lot of their curriculum needs, which ultimately saves a lot of money.
We encourage you to review this page, which provides an overview of these resources that families can access as part of their enrollment benefits in WorldWide IDEA.
BrainPOP
BrainPOP offers hundreds of animated educational videos for K-8 students, covering a wide variety of topics in a fun and easy-to-understand format.
Subject areas include:
- Science
- Social Studies
- Art & Music
- Health
- Technology
- English
Materials and movies are aligned to the standards of all 50 U.S. States and National Standards.
Visit BrainPOP's website to browse their free stuff. Our WorldWide IDEA subscription includes access to all videos and additional content. Purchased by an individual homeschool family, the annual subscription rate is $175.
INET Classroom & Library
Together, INET Classroom and INET Library provide a comprehensive online research and resource solution providing effective use of technology that is academically appropriate, relevant and easy to use. Only the best sites are available, and the resource includes kid-safe and family-friendly zones with age-appropriate activities and other content. It is so extensive, that it could serve as the only curriculum source you'll need!
Includes:
- More than 20,000 Books
- Sets of Encyclopedias
- Magazines & Newspapers in several languages
- Educational Lesson Plans & Worksheets
- Homeschooling & College Information
- Curriculum
- Online quizzes & Standardized Tests for Grades 3-11 in Math, Science, Reading & History
This resource is available only by school subscription. To learn more about this resource visit the INET website.
Cosmeo
Developed by Discovery Channel and United Streaming, Cosmeo provides a wealth of educational videos, homework helpers, interactive Brain Games & other activities, extensive clip art library, encyclopedia, and tools for monitoring student usage.
Includes:
- More than 30,000 educational video segments
- 40,000 Math tutorials
- 20,000 photo images & clip art
- 150,000 reference articles
- 10,000 trusted links by grade level
- Challenging interactive games
- Online dictionaries & other reference materials — great for both general study & reports
To learn more about this resource visit the Cosmeo website. Annual subscription rate is $99.
Let's Go Learn
The Let's Go Learn assessment tools are excellent and easy for children to take. The reports are very parent-friendly and easy to understand. Unique Reader and Unique Math, the instructional portion of each program, can be used very effectively as they differentiate to each student's specific needs. If purchased individually by a family, the expense would be $100 per test.
Includes:
- OMA (Diagnostic Online Math Assessments) for K-5 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
- DORA (Diagnostic Online Reading Assessments) for K-12 students, which includes individual student assessment and reporting
- Ability to use the same testing more than once during the year to gauge ongoing learning progress
- Websites designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning and enjoyment
- Interactive reading and math instruction
- Theme Units and more
To learn more about this resource visit the Let's Go Learn website.
Enchanted Learning
Enchanted Learning provides fun and handy activities and printables for all grade levels. (Our subscription means more content and no advertisements!)
Includes:
- Preschool & Kindergarten activities section
- Foreign Language Themes
- A huge collection of printables covering all subject areas with wide variety of topics and themes
To learn more about this resource visit the Enchanted Learning website.
World Book Online Reference Center
World Book Online is comprehensive repository of research and study materials. Individual subscriptions cost $50 per year. To collect a similar off-line resource (printed books and CDs), a family would need to buy several World Book packages — spending thousands of dollars — and even then would not include all of the content found here.
Includes:
- Reference Center — A premier online reference source containing every article from the 22-volume print set plus thousands more. With state-of-the-art multimedia, maps, editor-reviewed websites & more.
- Reference Libraries — Primary and core source collections — books, documents, selections — in major subject areas.
- Basic Spanish-language encyclopedia for elementary and middle grades
- Professionally prepared lesson plans and activities
- Professional resources that include links to curricula standards, professional education associations and educational literature
To learn more about this resource visit the World Book Online website.
ALEKS
ALEKS is available for a variety of math courses for 3-12 students. Through the WorldWide IDEA program, the subscription cost is just $35 per student for the year, instead of the regular price of about $200 per student per year.
ALEKS is a web-based, artificially intelligent assessment and learning system. ALEKS uses adaptive questioning to quickly and accurately determine exactly what a student knows and doesn't know in a course. ALEKS then instructs the student on the topics she is most ready to learn. As a student works through a course, ALEKS periodically reassesses the student to ensure that topics learned are also retained. ALEKS courses are very complete in their topic coverage and ALEKS avoids multiple choice questions.
ALEKS also provides the advantages of one-on-one instruction, 24/7, from virtually any web-based computer for a fraction of the cost of a human tutor.
To learn more about this resource visit the ALEKS website. For a family not enrolled in WorldWide IDEA, each ALEKS class costs $125; For our enrolled families, the cost is only $35 per class.
Theme Kits
Each of our many boxed Theme Kits include activities, hands-on manipulatives, books, and other educational resources covering all grade levels and focused on one particular theme.
Themes include:
- Weather, Oceans, Animals, Chemistry, U.S. History, The Constitution, and more...
Shipping options vary. Please contact WorldWide IDEA's Director of Library Services, Pat Knudsen, at or 907.345.4332 (AKT) for more information.