A Closer Look at the Seesaw Library

A Closer Look at The Seesaw Library

Standards-aligned supplemental lessons for PreK-6, designed by curriculum experts and ready to assign on Seesaw.

Explore 8,000+* engaging, high-quality activities

New lessons added every quarter! that help educators save time and deliver joyful, personalized instruction across all subjects.

• Science

• Social Studies

• Computer Science

• Motor and Language Development

• Seesaw ELD (English Langauge Development)

• Math 

• English Language Arts (ELA) 

• Seesaw Early Literacy 

• Character Building 

• Summer Learning 

• Daily Routines 

*Total of all curriculum collections. Access to collections varies by subscription type.

The Seesaw Library Collections

Literacy Land

Grades PK-TK

Fiction Books

Grades PK-5

Power Blocks: ELA

Grades K-2

What’s My Job?

Interactive Non-fiction

Grades 2-5

Non-Fiction Books

Grades 3-5

Story Pirates

Story Sparks

Grades 3-5

Word Detectives

Grades 3-5

Mythmaker

Grades 3-5

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English Language Arts (ELA)

Exciting fiction and non-fiction story books introduce foundational literacy concepts using audio and visual supports as guides. Available in Spanish!

Students engage with digital fiction texts, experience the joy of reading, and bring reading to life. Each text includes an audio version so pre-readers are supported to follow along. Available in Spanish!

Accelerate mastery of foundational ELA standards with multimodal activities that get students speaking, moving, writing, problem solving, creating, and so much more. Available in Spanish!

Students immerse themselves in the story of a real person in an exciting 21st-century career and use multimodal tools to make connections to what they experience in the text right on the page.

Dive into affirming non-fictional texts to learn about influential people of the past and present using multimodal tools to deepen engagement and make connections. Available in Spanish!

Using clips from the hilarious Story Pirates Podcast, inspirational quotes, or short bios, the story sparks hook students into the writing process from brainstorming to publishing.

Immersed in tiered vocabulary, students learn and use new words in context in these interactive vocabulary investigations filled with unique, engaging passages.

Unlock your imagination with creative writing projects that allow students to complete a character’s story and determine how their adventure unfolds in these magical lessons.

Grammar Detectives

Grades 3-5

Sharpen your investigative skills as you learn about different parts of speech and their usage in sentences.

The Seesaw Library Collections

Math Meadow

Grades PK-TK

Numbers in Space

Grade K

Power Blocks: Math

Grades K-2

Math Skills Games

Grades K-5

Visual Data Talks

Grades K-5

Math

Students develop a strong number sense foundation through digital activities and hands-on opportunities to find shapes, numbers, and quantities all around them. Available in Spanish!

Promote number sense, flexible thinking, and confidence in math through identifying, counting, matching, and writing activities in a space-themed exploration. Available in Spanish!

Accelerate mastery of foundational math standards with multimodal activities that get students speaking, moving, writing, problem-solving, creating, and so much more. Available in Spanish!

Build math facts fluency and confidence by playing fun, hands-on games with dice, pencil and paper, and cards.

Follow Hops and friends as they help students interact with interesting data all around them. Students create different types of visual data and engage in short classroom discussions that develop data literacy

The Seesaw Library Collections

Science

STEAM

Grades K-2

STEAM: Design Thinking

Grades 3-5

Tumble Science: Cataloging the Universe

Grades 3-5

Spark curiosity with lessons that get students investigating realworld questions and applying their knowledge.

Students team up with an engineer to solve problems using the design thinking method, complete hands-on challenges, and explore informational texts that build vocabulary and background knowledge.

Blast off and make observations about the universe through inquiry-based science podcasts

Social Studies

History Today

Grades K-5

History Today: State Journals

Grades 3-5

Cont.

Daily Routines

Instructional Templates

Grades PK-5

Calendar Math

Grades K-2

Explore real questions about the world with exploratory and hands-on activities that build foundational ELA and Social Studies skills.

Students become historians as they customize their state journals and research the geography, economics, government, and history to create a state report for any US state.

Daily Feelings

Check In

Grades PK-5

Checks for Understanding

Grades K-5

Daily Routines

Students use creative tools to express their feelings in different ways, and teachers gain a window into students’ lives to provide the support they might need. Available in Spanish!

Students use creative tools to share their comprehension while giving teachers a deeper understanding of what students know allowing for responsive instruction to take place. Available in Spanish!

Feelings Every Day

Grades PK-2

Caring Community Songs

Grades PK-1

SEL Stories

Grades K-2

Mind Yeti

Grades K-2

Friends Making Friends

Grades 3-5

I Am a Learner

Grades 3-5

Allow students to practice, apply and demonstrate their learning on any topic of choice with customizable instructional templates ready to use each day, across content areas. Available in Spanish!

Use elements of the calendar to practice different math skills like place value, collecting and analyzing data, solving word problems, and more. Available in Spanish!

Character Building

Stories help students learn about their emotions, reflect on their experiences, and practice strategies for managing their emotions throughout their days.

Bring music to the classroom and get students on their feet with catchy tunes that help students practice key social-emotional skills, relationship building, and more.

Students co-write Stories to learn and practice important character-building skills and navigate scenarios they may find in their everyday lives.

Teachers and students learn about mindfulness and practice exercises from Mind Yeti, an award-winning mindfulness program, to create calm, focused, and kind classrooms.

Invite students to build interpersonal relationship skills and learn how to foster healthy friendships with relatable scenarios and activities.

Learn how becoming a learner is much more than book smarts and classroom work. See how learning involves developing socialemotional skills so that each learner can be the best they can be.

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Movement Mountain

Grades PK-TK

Motor Development

Students practice gross and fine motor skills in fun, hands-on ways with engaging modeling videos

Language Development

Language Lake

Grades PK-TK

English Language

Explorers: Newcomers

Grades K-3

Students explore new vocabulary in developmentally appropriate ways. Built-in scaffolds support students to explore inputs, practice oral language production, and use vocabulary in complete sentences.

Support your English Language newcomers with engaging ways to build common vocabulary as they journey through communities in Seesaw.

The Seesaw Library Collections

Seesaw Essentials

A Sample of Seesaw

Grades PK-5

Seesaw Tools 101

Grades PK-5

Jump in to experience the power of Seesaw with a sample of easyto-present videos and activities that are ready to teach - all you have to do is press play!

Support students to learn how to use the Seesaw Learning Tools with opportunities for teacher modeling and practice activities to utilize new found skills! Available in Spanish! Available in Spanish!

Creating Classroom Culture

Grades PK-5

Highlights

Grades PK-6

Seesaw Special Days

Grades PK-5

Formative Assessment Inspiration

Grades PK-5

Foster a positive classroom culture that values teamwork, understanding, and inclusivity in the first few weeks of school.

Bring the learning journey to life and deepen student reflections throughout the school year with interactive portfolios and journal pages!

Explore and celebrate some of the many holidays, traditions, and special events that happen around the world throughout the year.

Building to Kindergarten

Grades PK-TK

Summer Learning

Grades K-5

Explore ready-to-go formative assessment activities that give you quick student insights and allow for responsive instruction!

Summer Learning

Build school readiness skills through learning games and hands-on activities that integrate into everyday life while inviting families to be powerful partners in their child’s learning journey. Available in Spanish!

Students complete cross-curricular activities that support them to keep academic skills sharp while exploring interesting, playing family learning games, and forming positive attitudes. Available in Spanish!

La pradera de matemáticas

Grades PK-TK

Números en el espacio

Grades K

Bloques de poder: las matemáticas

Grades K-2

Calendario de matemáticas

Grades K-3

La tierra de la alfabetización

Grades PK-TK

Lessons In Spanish

¡Los estudiantes practican estos conceptos a través de oportunidades de práctica digital, así como oportunidades para encontrar e identificar figuras, números y cantidades en el mundo que les rodea!

El sentido numérico fomenta el pensamiento flexible y la confianza en las matemáticas.

Práctica los estándares matemáticos de poder y refuerza el sentido numérico. Cada lección proporciona a los estudiantes actividades que les permiten hacer conexiones significativas con su aprendizaje a través del conteo, el canto, el arte, la resolución de problemas, entre otras más

¡Calendario de matemáticas es una manera divertida e interactiva de practicar habilidades matemáticas fundamentales todos los días!

5 Las sesiones de Mind Yeti

Grades K-2

Registro diario de sentimientos

Grades PK-5

Verificaciones de comprensión

Grades K-5

Preparándose para el kínder

Grades PK-K

Cree una clase tranquila, enfocada y amable a través de la conciencia plena.

Brinde apoyo a los estudiantes revisando su bienestar emocional diariamente.

¡Proporcione a los estudiantes formas flexibles de demostrar su comprensión todos los días!

Las habilidades de preparación escolar ayudan a los pequeños estudiantes a triunfar en el kínder.

Salta a la literatura emocionante y explora historias de ficción y no ficción en “La tierra de la alfabetización”.

Bloques de poder:

artes del lenguaje

Grades K-2

Libros de ficción

Grades K-2

Libros de no ficción

Grades PK-5

Domina los estándares de alfabetización de poder con el reparto peculiar de personajes de Seesaw.

Aprendizaje durante el verano

Evite el retraso que ocurre durante el verano con momentos de aprendizaje en la vida diaria.

Grades K-5

Herramientas de Seesaw 101

Grades PK-6

Creando una cultura escolar

Grades PK-5

Participa y aprende a utilizar el poder de las herramientas de aprendizaje de Seesaw.

Fomente una cultura positiva en clase que valore el trabajo en equipo, la comprensión y la inclusión en las primeras semanas de clase.

Sumérgete en el apasionante mundo de ficción con los libros de Seesaw.

Aprende acerca de personas, lugares, acontecimientos e historia con los libros de no ficción de Seesaw.

The Seesaw Library Collections

Computer Science*

Digital Leadership

With Bean

Grades K-3

Computational Thinking

Grades K-2

Code the World

Grades K-2

Careers in CS Books

Grades K-5

The Digital Leaders

Grades 4-5

Computational Thinking Adventures

Grades 3-5

Mission Code

Grades 3-5

Students jump into Bean’s life and make real-world, hands-on choices that teach them what it takes to be safe, balance screen time, handle cyberbullying, and other critical digital citizenship skills

Applying problem-solving to the world around them, students learn the concepts of decomposition, abstraction, pattern recognition, and algorithmic thinking in a fun storybook format

Through fun narratives and real-world scenarios, students join the Code Crew to collaborate, problem solve, and create engaging projects through plugged and unplugged activities in Scratch and ScratchJr.

Discover different computer science careers through informational texts that invite students to uncover facts and build on their knowledge with text features like images, captions, timelines, and glossaries.

In a graphic novel experience, seven diverse superheroes bring students through real-world choices that build leadership skills and teach critical digital citizenship skills.

Students to explore the world with the Adventure Team to learn the four pillars of computational thinking – cognitive skills are the foundation for problem-solving and future learning in computer science.

Students become secret agents and digitally code, problem solve, and explain programming decisions to help robots save planets from impending doom and collect motivating badges along the way.

The Seesaw Library Collections

PreK-TK Curriculum

Literacy Land

Grades PreK-TK

Math Meadow

Grades PreK-TK

Movement Mountain

Grades PreK-TK

Feelings Every Day

Grades PreK-TK

Seesaw Tools 101

Grades PreK-TK

Instructional Templates

Grades PreK-TK

Exciting fiction and non-fiction story books introduce foundational literacy concepts using audio and visual supports as guides. Available in Spanish!

Students develop a strong number sense foundation through digital activities and hands-on opportunities to find shapes, numbers, and quantities all around them. Available in Spanish!

Students practice gross and fine motor skills in fun, hands-on ways with engaging modeling videos.

Stories help students learn about their emotions, reflect on their experiences, and practice strategies for managing their emotions throughout their days.

Support students to learn how to use the Seesaw Learning Tools with opportunities for teacher modeling and practice activities to utilize new found skills! Available in Spanish!

Allow students to practice, apply, and demonstrate their learning on any topic of choice with customizable instructional templates that are ready to use each day, across content areas. Available in Spanish!

Daily Feelings Check In Grades

PreK-TK

Checks for Understanding

Grades PreK-TK

Students use creative tools to express their feelings in different ways, and teachers gain a window into students’ lives to provide the support they might need. Available in Spanish!

Students use creative tools to share their comprehension while giving teachers a deeper understanding of what they know allowing for responsive instruction to take place. Available in Spanish!

Code.org Computer Science

Grades 3-5

Engage students in cross-curricular coding activities and capture their learning on Seesaw with fun computer science Code.org lessons.

*Included with Seesaw Instruction & Insights subscriptions

Language Lake

Grades PreK-TK

Fiction Books

Grades PreK-TK

Building to Kindergarten

Grades PreK-TK

Students explore new vocabulary in developmentally appropriate ways. Built-in scaffolds support students to explore inputs, practice oral language production, and use vocabulary in complete sentences.

Students engage with digital fiction texts, experience the joy of reading, and bring reading to life. Each text includes an audio version so pre-readers are supported to follow along. Available in Spanish!

Build school readiness skills through learning games and hands-on activities that integrate into everyday life while inviting families to be powerful partners in their child’s learning journey. Available in Spanish!

The Seesaw Library Collections

Seesaw Early Literacy*

Alphabet Garden

Grades PK-TK

Fonemas fantásticos

Grades PK-K

Fonética fenomenal

Grades K-1

Fun Phonemes

Grades PK-K

Alphabet Treasures

Grade K

Phenomenal Phonics

Grades K-2

High Frequency

Words With Turtle

Grades K-2

Letter & Word Book Treehouse

Grades K-1 Coming

Grades K-2 Coming

Passages Playhouse

Phonics Games

Grades K-2

Introduce early learners to letters through hands-on lessons that invite students to practice letter formation, phonemic awareness, and making connections to each letter in the real world.

¡Sigue a Loro Sonoro para practicar y jugar con los fonemas!

Los cuadernos de ejercicios son cosa del pasado. ¡Con Seesaw, las lecciones de fonética son fascinantes y divertidas!

Students build phonemic awareness with Teacher Barnes and Sound Hound by listening to, identifying, and matching sounds to build mastery of each phoneme. Available in Spanish!

Students complete activities on their alphabet journey to build rapid letter recognition and identification - hearing, identifying, and writing the letters of the alphabet in multimodal ways. Available in Spanish!

Dynamic phonics practices help students recognize soundspelling relationships by sorting, blending, segmenting, and making connections. Available in Spanish!

Engage students in dynamic activities that foster analysis, spelling, identification, writing, creativity, and practical application of over 100 high-frequency words, paving the way to build confident and fluent readers.

Embark on an enriching literacy journey and ignite a love for learning in early readers as they explore the alphabet, practice letter and digraph sounds, build foundational vocabulary, and master decoding skills!

Dive into the world of reading fluency and comprehension! Invite students to experience reader’s theater, while engaging in word work and reading comprehension activities, fostering confident and skilled readers.

Build phonics fluency through hands-on, play-based practice games where students can master spelling patterns, develop early reading and writing skills in an interactive way.

*Available for Seesaw Instruction & Insights subscriptions

The Seesaw Library Collections

Seesaw ELD*

Provide multilingual students with scaffolded opportunities to practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking English in the context of core subjects. Each content area has 10 base lessons with 3 levels of language acquisition per base lesson.

Math

Grades K-5 Science

Grades K-5

English Language

Arts (ELA)

Grades K-5

Social Studies

Grade K-5

Students build math fluency and confidence through engaging activities that provide opportunities to explain their understanding of foundational concepts, including numbers, counting, fractions, algebraic thinking, data, and more.

Exploring phenomena across topics in Physical Science, Life Science, Earth and Space Science, and Engineering, students investigate scientific questions, make observations, and construct scientific arguments using evidence.

Students engage with narrative and informational texts to practice and apply reading comprehension skills, such as asking and answering questions, making inferences, and comparing and contrasting.

Through inquiry-based activities, students explore culturally relevant topics in economics, geography, government, and history to make connections to real-world experiences and issues.

*Available for Seesaw Instruction & Insights subscriptions

Entering & Beginning

3 Levels of Language Acquisition Per Lesson

Developing & Expanding

Bridging & Reaching

The Seesaw Library Collections

Character Building

Harmony

Second Step

Computer Science

CSTA

ISTE

Seesaw Scope & Sequence

ELA

Amplify CKLA

Benchmark Advance Fundations

Heggerty

HMH Into Reading

Journeys ELA

Reading Horizons Discovery

ReadyGEN ELA (Savvas)

Wit & Wisdom

Wonders

Math

Bridges Math

EnVision Math (Savvas)

Eureka Math

Everyday Math

Go Math

Illustrative Math

HMH Into Math

Curriculum Alignments

Pre-K Frameworks

PreK on My Way (Scholastic)

Three Cheers for PreK (Savvas)

Frog Street Literacy

Frog Street Math

Science

Amplify Science

Elevate Science (Savvas)

TCI Science

Twig! Science

Spanish

Spanish Alignments

Education Level Conversion Chart

Seesaw strives to create joyful instruction for early learners. While educators inspire learning across the world, not all education levels’ alignment is the same. To help bring the full value of The Seesaw Library to your teachers and students, we have crafted a correlation chart to navigate our education levels so that you can find the supplemental activities best suited for the ages of your young learners.

Disclaimer:

The curriculum alignments provided by Seesaw detail the correlation between the standards addressed in the above mentioned curricula and the lessons in the Seesaw Library. Seesaw’s curriculum alignments are provided by Seesaw directly and are not affiliated with, sponsored by, reviewed, approved, or endorsed by any of the above mentioned curriculum publishers or any other third party. All other intellectual property rights (e.g., unregistered and registered trademarks and copyrights) are the property of their respective owners.