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Provides resources for research in American History, World Geography, and
World History including articles, primary resources, and maps, all
correlated with the curriculum.
An educational portal providing access to information from many
electronic sources. This online suite consists of seven databases, with the
foundation being three of the best-known encyclopedias:
- The New Book of Knowledge®: Reference and current events
for elementary readers and up
- Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia™: Quick reference for
middle school and high school
- Encyclopedia Americana®: In-depth research and worldwide
current events for middle school, high school, and college students
- La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre: Complete encyclopedia for
Spanish speakers and Spanish-language students
Contains resources for K-12 students and staff. Searchasaurus is
an elementary resource that provides magazines and reference materials.
EBSCOHost is a secondary resource which provides magazine articles and other
reference materials. EBSCOHost Multilingual is the same resource
but allows searches in eleven languages. Results are only in English.
Organizes web sites around the K–12 curricula. All sites are evaluated for
academic integrity and age appropriateness before they are considered. Users
can search by grade level, subject directory, keyword, famous person, etc.
Nettrekker categorizes web sites by type: lesson plans, images, learning
exercises, games, pictures, or maps and charts. Special content is provided
for ELL learners. Resources are aligned with the state standards.
rovides access to 3 products: Literature Resource Center, Student
Resource Center Gold and Testing and Education Reference Center. Literature
Resource Center provides students with access to traditional literary reference
works, critical information on authors and their works, and current journal
articles. Student Reference Center Gold provides biographies, essays, full-text
magazines, glossaries, historical overviews, photographs, audio files to answer
research needs. Testing & Education Reference Center helps users prepare for
higher education and the working world by providing access to information on
colleges and universities, majors, careers, and testing. It also features
interactive online practice tests for preparatory examinations including
entrance exams and certification and licensing tests. Primarily for High
School.
Provides professional journals and entire articles on many subjects related to
education.
Provides access to 4 products: E-Curriculum Library, History Study
Center, Proquest:Literature, and Historical Newspapers. E-Curriculum Library
provides answers from more than 2,000 full-text magazines, newspapers, reference
books, and transcripts-plus thousands of pictures, maps, educator-approved
websites, and audio/video content. Historical Newspapers offers a unique
collection of primary source historical documents featuring back issues of the
New York Times.
Makes available original, in-studio movies of authors and
illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, guides to
thousands of titles and a wealth of multimedia resources on children's and
young adult literature.
Provides services for High School teachers concerned with
academic integrity of student work. The primary focus of this service is to
prevent plagiarism. This online service allows teacher to check to see that
students are writing their own assignments.
Is a digital video-based learning resource from Discovery Education.
Educators gain on-demand access to 50,000 content-specific segments from
5,000 full-length educational videos- including more than 1,000 new videos
in subject areas including foreign language, secondary math, science, and
language arts. This resource requires a unique login for each user. You may
obtain a login kit from your librarian or your tech coordinator.
