Apps
Educational App Store:
Discovery, review and recommendation platform for educational apps and websites.
Book Reviews and Recommendations
Alberta Books
Browse the latest titles by Alberta book publishers.
Bookreporter
Connects readers with books and authors through interviews, book reviews, and engaging commentary.
Canadian Young Adult Books 2023:
A list of recommended books by Canadian authors from Goodreads.
Top 100 Best Young Adult Books
Time Magazine's list from the 1800's to the present day.
Canadian Content
Canadiana Online:
Free access to a vast collection of Canadian heritage materials.
Historica Canada:
Online resources and programs highlighting stories from Canadian history including:
The Canadian Encyclopedia and Heritage Minutes
Discover and Learn
Khan Academy:
Learn for free about math, art, computer programming, economics, physics, chemistry, biology, medicine, finance, history, and more.
Smithsonian Open Access:
Provides free and open access to millions of the Smithsonian's digital assets, including images, 3D models, and data from its collections.
TED Ed:
Offers a collection of lessons on a wide range of topics, each paired with an engaging video. All lessons are available at no cost.
Mental Health
Supporting Learning at Home:
Provides health and wellness information.
Research and Knowledge
ArXiv:
Open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.
Forvo:
Learn how to pronounce words in a variety of languages.
MathTV:
Free math videos from basic math to calculus.
Math Words:
Terms and formulas from Beginning Algebra to Calculus.
Wikipedia Commons:
Offers a collection of freely usable media files, including images, sounds, and videos.
World Digital Library Collection:
This collection contains cultural heritage materials gathered during the World Digital Library (WDL) project.