Discovery Education Streaming Video

An extensive catalogue of the most dynamic educational films available online, Discovery Education videos range from personal interviews to historical reenactments, from the great books series to the most controversial scientists of our time. Discovery Education videos enliven FYI Online’s curriculum and engage students in important concepts and themes. www.discoveryeducation.com

Nutshell Math by Discovery Education

Nutshell Math is a market-leading math instructional product for middle school and high school students. FYI Online uses Nutshell Math’s innovative technology and teacher-recorded instructional content to help explain mathematical concepts. For more information on Nutshell Math, please visit: www.nutshellmath.com

Bedford St. Martin’s

FYI uses Bedford St. Martin’s web-based resources to take literature beyond the printed page and into an interactive world. Lit Gloss brings together history’s most influential writers through biographies, readings, and supplemental websites. With a multimedia reference library, media player, and tutorial all in one, LiterActive helps students read more closely, think more fully, and write more carefully about literature and the authors who create it. Re: Writing offers comprehensive, interactive tutorials ranging from research skills to sentence structure. For more information on these products, please visit: www.bedfordstmartins.com/literactive/home.html

Explore Learning – Gizmos

Unleash the power of inquiry-based learning with the award-winning library of Math and Science Gizmos at ExploreLearning.com. Designed for grades 3-12, Gizmos use research-proven instructional strategies to help students of all ability levels develop conceptual understanding. With hundreds of Gizmos to choose from, teachers can supplement and enhance their instruction with powerful interactive visualizations of mathematics and science concepts. Students can manipulate key variables, generate and test hypotheses, and engage in extensive “what-if” experimentation.

Key features include:

• Inquiry-based lessons that are ready to use or customizable
• Correlations to state and national standards and leading textbooks
• Formative assessment with instant feedback for students and real-time reports for teachers
• Easy-to-use product so time is spent teaching and learning math or science, not the technology
• Teacher guides with answer keys and demonstration movies to support elementary teachers in our new Gizmos for grades 3-5

Gizmos bring research-proven instructional strategies to FYI’s virtual curriculum. For more information on Gizmos, visit: www.explorelearning.com

Geometer's Sketchpad®

Developed by Key Curriculum Press, Geometer's Sketchpad® is a dynamic construction, demonstration, and exploration tool that adds a powerful dimension to the study of mathematics. Students use this program to directly interact with FYI’s math content by building and investigating mathematical models, objects, figures, diagrams, and graphs. Sketchpad™ provides a tangible, visual way to explore and understand core concepts that students frequently find difficult. For more than 15 years, academic research has shown that Sketchpad has a positive impact on student achievement, conceptual understanding, motivation, and engagement. For more information, visit www.keypress.com/gsp

SAS® Curriculum Pathways

SAS® is a dynamic online resource for students that offers a variety of instructional delivery methods ranging from video segments to web-based research projects. SAS® focuses on topics where doing, seeing, and listening provide information and encourage learning in ways that conventional methods cannot. FYI Online students experience SAS® learning materials as integrated content enhancements that are designed to foster growth, curiosity, and higher-order thinking skills. www.sas.com/govedu/edu/curriculum

University of Miami

Committed to excellence, the University of Miami's mission is to educate and nurture students, to create knowledge, and to provide service to its community and beyond. FYI Online has partnered with U of M to create a series of higher education degree courses and certificate programs, as well as training for online teachers. www.umiamionline.com

University of Miami Global Academy

FYI Online is proud to have created the curriculum for the University of Miami Global Academy, a premier online high school, delivering a student-centered, uniquely superior educational experience. Their online learning environment encourages exceptional critical thinking skills, develops curious minds, fosters ambition and leadership potential, and builds character focused on service to community and others. globalacademy.miami.edu

GLBTQ Online High School

The GLBTQ Online High School will provide a safe and welcoming educational community that provides a high quality, comprehensive college-preparatory online high school experience for students who are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender or questioning their sexual orientation or gender using the best technology and techniques of distance education. FYI Online Learning is proud to partner in this important initiative by donating 78 of its online high school courses to GLBTQ Online High School. Dr. Gentile also serves on the school’s Advisory Board. glbtqonlinehighschool.com