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Museum Adventure Pass

RESOURCES

Museum Adventure Pass

Use the smartest card - your library card - to receive admission or a special discount at participating Chicago area cultural destinations! 

Explore More Illinois

Explore More Illinois

Use your Malta Township Public Library card to take advantage of free/discounted admission and other deals from a wide variety of Illinois museums and cultural attractions. Click on the Find More icon to get started. 

Brainfuse HelpNow

Brainfuse HelpNow online homework help, writing lab assistance, test prep, video lessons, and study tools.  Brainfuse is one of the most experienced online tutoring companies in the nation. HelpNow is a unique tutoring and studying suite designed to assist patrons of all ages succeed.

Project Gutenburg

Project Gutenburg

Project Gutenberg is a library of over 60,000 free eBooks. Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired.  No fee or registration!

Open Culture
Tech Boomers

Tech Boomers

Techboomers has over 100 free courses with thousands of step-by-step tutorials and informational articles that can help you learn anything and everything about the Internet’s most popular websites and apps. 

Inkie.org

Inkie.org

Inkie.org is a suite of resources - available to everyone in Illinois at no charge - that supports local authors with online creation and publishing tools and allows readers to access locally-produced content. 

Illinois Digital Archives

The Illinois Digital Archives is a repository for the digital collections of the Illinois State Library as well as other libraries and cultural institutions in the State of Illinois. It contains historical photographs, slides, glass negatives, oral histories, manuscripts, letters, federal government documents, postcards, posters, videos, newspapers, and maps.

Illinois Digital Archives

ScienceBuddies.org

Anytime can be the right time to explore STEM (science, technology, engineering and math). Explore our favorite experiments, engineering challenges and demonstrations with these fun hands-on STEM activities! Materials are easy to find, most activities take an hour or less, and the STEM learning is limitless.

Great Minds

Great Minds:  Knowledge on the Go

Students can access the videos independently to supplement their current distance learning or to build additional content knowledge.

Families can use the videos to support home instruction by watching the videos and engaging in the learning together. 

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Unite for Literacy

Unite for Literacy projects build home libraries and support families to develop a daily habit of reading, both of which are key factors in growing lifelong readers.

Common Lit

CommonLit.org

CommonLit is a nonprofit education technology organization dedicated to ensuring that all students, especially students in Title I schools, graduate with the reading, writing, communication, and problem-solving skills they need to be successful in college and beyond.

PBS Learning Media
khan academy

PBS Learning Media

WTTW and PBS have curated FREE, standards-aligned videos, interactives, lesson plans, and more.

Khan Academy

A nonprofit with the mission to provide a free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere.  Focus on Math & Science lessons.

starfall

Starfall

The site has been online since 2002 and works with your children through letter recognition all the way through to reading plays, nonfiction, and comics.

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teded

Ted-Ed

Browse hundreds of TED-Ed Animations and TED Talks - designed to spark the curiosity of learners. 

duolingo

Duolingo

Learning with Duolingo is FREE, fun and addictive. Earn points for correct answers, race against the clock, and level up.

prodigy
xtramath

Prodigy

Make math learning fun and effective with Prodigy Math Game. Free for students, parents and educators. 

XtraMath

XtraMath is a free program that helps students master addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division facts.

Library of Congress

The Library of Congress

Search millions of items in many formats and languages. Explore a growing treasury of digitized materials. Consult with staff online or in one of the research centers to find what you're looking for.

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