Welcome to ed1stop
Contra Costa County Office of Education presents ed1stop, a personal portal to subscription-based services and free educational websites. Portal resources are selected to help teachers meet Common Core State Standards, improve instruction, and support all students. See the ed1stop Contact Information section below to learn more about how to bring ed1stop to your district or school. Click here for a list of available services.
Benefits of the ed1stop Portal:- Remember only one password
- Access content from anywhere
- Leverage buying power
- Engage students with dynamic material
- Organize classroom lessons and resources
What's Inside ed1stop:
AP Images
From the Associated Press. Tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920's and news stories and headlines dating from 1997 up to the current moment.
BrainPOP
BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12, together with quizzes, supplemental information and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
BrainPOP Jr.
BrainPOP Jr. provides educational movies and homework help for K-3 students. Each animated movie has quizzes, games, vocabulary, and activities for kids. BrainPOP Jr. offers lesson plans and lesson ideas that develop critical thinking and inquiry skills.
BrainPOP Espanol
BrainPOP's Spanish language site, presenting award winning content in Science, Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Health and Technology.
BrainPOP ESL
BrainPOP ESL is a comprehensive English language learning program that uses highly engaging animated movies to model conversational English while seamlessly introducing grammar concepts and vocabulary words.
Discovery Education Streaming
Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content that is immersive, engaging and brings the world into the classroom to give every student a chance to experience fascinating people, places, and events. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform.
ed1stop Common Core BRIDGE Tool
A searchable database of locally vetted common core standards-aligned online resources, including teacher prompts.
Grolier Online
The most comprehensive source of nonfiction content targeted for grades 3 and up with over 120,000 articles. All articles are lexiled and are correlated to national and state standards, over 340,000 editor-vetted web links, and over 1,100 world newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries.
Infobase Facts on File: American History Online
American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries--topical entries, biographies, maps, timeline entries, primary source documents, and images--are hyperlinked and allow users a path to related entries. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.
Infobase Facts on File: Ancient and Medieval History Online
Focusing on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Ancient and Medieval History Online gives a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. Thousands of entries on events, people, and primary source documents are hyperlinked and allow users a comprehensive and comparative view of the pre-modern world.
Infobase Facts on File: Science Online
Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats, organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by Common Core and national STEM standards.
Infobase Facts on File: World Almanac for Kids
World Almanac for Kids Online includes content from award-winning Chelsea House and Facts On File sets and series.
Infobase Facts on File: Writer's Reference Center
Writer's Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. It provides a wealth of vocabulary-building dictionaries and presents a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay.
Maps101
Maps101.com is an online, interactive database comprised of teacher lesson plans, geography tools, online learning games, dynamic interactive map modules, and over 4,000 viewable and printable history, thematic, reference, outline, current events, and animated maps.
Learn360
Learn360 is an interactive media-on-demand service for grades K-12, providing teachers and students the power to meet and exceed 21st century educational expectations across all curriculums. Through streaming video, audio and accompanying support materials, Learn360 supports web-based learning by providing an online collaborative environment where users can share information and ideas 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Scholastic FreedomFlix
FreedomFlix brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. Featuring dynamic e-books of the Children's Press best-selling Cornerstones of Freedom series that include embedded popup features such as maps, timelines, virtual tour clips, primary source videos and audio clips history comes to life with FreedomFlix.
Scholastic ScienceFlix
Emphasizing STEM thinking and Next Generation Science Standards, ScienceFlix combines curriculum-driven leveled content, interactive features, and intuitive navigation into a single, highly engaging mobile and tablet compatible science resource.
Scholastic TrueFlix
TrueFlix leverages the award-winning True Books content to help students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.
Soundzabound
A Royalty-free music library that meets the licensing and technology requirements for education and provides high quality production music for all grades.
Teacher Created Materials
Teacher Created Materials: Exploring History series brings together simulations, primary sources, and historical background information in a series of comprehensive, topic-specific kits.
Tech4Learning Recipes4Success
Software guides, tools, and step-by-step processes for building projects with students.
World Book Online
A collection of the best-known encyclopedias in an interactive format.
AP Images
From the Associated Press. Tens of thousands of graphics, more than 4,500 hours of audio files dating from the 1920's and news stories and headlines dating from 1997 up to the current moment.
BrainPOP
BrainPOP is an educational website with over 1,000 short animated movies for students in grades K-12, together with quizzes, supplemental information and related materials, covering the subjects of science, social studies, English, mathematics, engineering and technology, health, and arts and music.
BrainPOP Jr.
BrainPOP Jr. provides educational movies and homework help for K-3 students. Each animated movie has quizzes, games, vocabulary, and activities for kids. BrainPOP Jr. offers lesson plans and lesson ideas that develop critical thinking and inquiry skills.
BrainPOP Espanol
BrainPOP's Spanish language site, presenting award winning content in Science, Math, Social Studies, Language Arts, Health and Technology.
BrainPOP ESL
BrainPOP ESL is a comprehensive English language learning program that uses highly engaging animated movies to model conversational English while seamlessly introducing grammar concepts and vocabulary words.
Discovery Education Streaming
Discovery Education offers a breadth and depth of digital media content that is immersive, engaging and brings the world into the classroom to give every student a chance to experience fascinating people, places, and events. All content is aligned to state standards, can be aligned to custom curriculum, and supports classroom instruction regardless of the technology platform.
ed1stop Common Core BRIDGE Tool
A searchable database of locally vetted common core standards-aligned online resources, including teacher prompts.
Grolier Online
The most comprehensive source of nonfiction content targeted for grades 3 and up with over 120,000 articles. All articles are lexiled and are correlated to national and state standards, over 340,000 editor-vetted web links, and over 1,100 world newspapers in 73 languages representing 195 countries.
- Elementary School Package: Amazing Animals, America the Beautiful, New Book of Knowledge
- Middle School Package: America the Beautiful, Groliers Multimedia Encyclopedia, Popular Science
- High School Package: Encyclopedia Americana, Lands & People, Popular Science
Infobase Facts on File: American History Online
American History Online is a comprehensive and authoritative reference to the most important individuals, events, and topics in U.S. history. The thousands of entries--topical entries, biographies, maps, timeline entries, primary source documents, and images--are hyperlinked and allow users a path to related entries. Extensive overview essays provide detail on each time period.
Infobase Facts on File: Ancient and Medieval History Online
Focusing on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas, and Asia, Ancient and Medieval History Online gives a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times. Thousands of entries on events, people, and primary source documents are hyperlinked and allow users a comprehensive and comparative view of the pre-modern world.
Infobase Facts on File: Science Online
Science Online offers a comprehensive, curriculum-oriented overview of a broad range of scientific disciplines in a variety of useful formats, organized by subject area and type of resource, as well as by Common Core and national STEM standards.
Infobase Facts on File: World Almanac for Kids
World Almanac for Kids Online includes content from award-winning Chelsea House and Facts On File sets and series.
Infobase Facts on File: Writer's Reference Center
Writer's Reference Center provides users with a convenient one-stop location for all of the tools necessary to write and research effectively. It provides a wealth of vocabulary-building dictionaries and presents a step-by-step guide to writing a good essay.
Maps101
Maps101.com is an online, interactive database comprised of teacher lesson plans, geography tools, online learning games, dynamic interactive map modules, and over 4,000 viewable and printable history, thematic, reference, outline, current events, and animated maps.
Learn360
Learn360 is an interactive media-on-demand service for grades K-12, providing teachers and students the power to meet and exceed 21st century educational expectations across all curriculums. Through streaming video, audio and accompanying support materials, Learn360 supports web-based learning by providing an online collaborative environment where users can share information and ideas 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Scholastic FreedomFlix
FreedomFlix brings history to life by capturing the dramatic and defining moments in American history. Featuring dynamic e-books of the Children's Press best-selling Cornerstones of Freedom series that include embedded popup features such as maps, timelines, virtual tour clips, primary source videos and audio clips history comes to life with FreedomFlix.
Scholastic ScienceFlix
Emphasizing STEM thinking and Next Generation Science Standards, ScienceFlix combines curriculum-driven leveled content, interactive features, and intuitive navigation into a single, highly engaging mobile and tablet compatible science resource.
Scholastic TrueFlix
TrueFlix leverages the award-winning True Books content to help students hone literacy skills, build knowledge of subject-area content, and cultivate 21st Century skills through the inquiry process.
Soundzabound
A Royalty-free music library that meets the licensing and technology requirements for education and provides high quality production music for all grades.
Teacher Created Materials
Teacher Created Materials: Exploring History series brings together simulations, primary sources, and historical background information in a series of comprehensive, topic-specific kits.
Tech4Learning Recipes4Success
Software guides, tools, and step-by-step processes for building projects with students.
World Book Online
A collection of the best-known encyclopedias in an interactive format.
ed1stop Contact Information
The ed1stop team is available Monday through Friday, from 8:00 a.m. through 5:00 p.m., P.S.T.
School and District Subscription Contracts,
Innovation, Maintenance, and User Support:
Steve Bateman
(925)942-3443
email
Innovation, Maintenance, and User Support:
Steve Bateman
(925)942-3443
Inception and Inspiration:
Rovina Salinas,
Doug Prouty
Rovina Salinas,
Doug Prouty
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77 Santa Barbara Rd., Pleasant Hill, CA 94523