Power Kids Website Offers Information Videos, Books on Various Topics

Children and their caregivers can do everything from watching videos and reading books to learning about a variety of topics through Power Kids, Pennsylvania’s electronic library.

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Power Kids is broken down into 12 e-resources that cover a variety of topics and formats. The electronic library enables children to access videos, books, information on how to be a safe and responsible citizen with eBooks, chat with a librarian, and resources that helps them to learn about everything from history to science.

The e-resources available on the Power Kids site include:

• BookFlix: children can watch videos and read books about animals, celebrations, nature, music, and other topics, some of which are also available in Spanish

• Britannica School for PreK-5: inspires learners to create, play, and explore, this tool offers nonfiction articles across various subjects

• Cricket Media Collection: includes hundreds of e-books that can help to build literacy skills in students from grades pre-K through eighth by offering digital access to short-form fiction and nonfiction

• Discover PA for Kids: provides state symbols, facts, and figures

• Elementary: provides information such topics as animals, arts, geography, health, literature, people, social studies, and technology

• True Flix: visitors can learn about people, places, nature, history, and science through e-books on topics such as American Indians, ancient civilizations, the Civil War, the U.S. government, and more

• KidSpeak - Chinese/Mandarin, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish/Castilian: learn words and phrases suitable for learners’ age, needs, and interests; includes more than 40 activities, puzzles, and songs

For more information on the various resources, visit the Power Kids website.