Student Resources
Research Subscriptions, E-books, and Discovery Ed require usernames and passwords when accessing from home computers. (available from Media Center).
Research
- Annals of American History - Speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images and multimedia from American history. (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Britannica School Encyclopedia (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Britannica Enciclopedia Moderna - A Spanish language encyclopedia that has many articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Culture Grams - Information on 182 countries and cultures, including history, land and climate, religion, personal appearance, gestures, language, government, and family life. (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Escolar Online - Spanish elementary encyclopedia from Britannica (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Global Reference Center- Encyclopedias in Spanish, French, Japanese, Korean, Chinese
- Image Quest - Access more than two million rights-cleared images (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Noodle Tools - Create citations and take notes (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- PebbleGo - Databases available: Animals, Biographies, Earth and Space, Social Studies. Emergent readers. AUDIO (REQUIRES username & password)
- Sirs: Decades, Discoverer, Knowledge Source - Databases of primary and secondary source documents, articles and images from newspapers, magazines, government documents, current issues, arts and history. (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- World Data Analyst (Britannica) - A database that allows data from different countries to be compared. (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
Search Engines and Other Resources
- Primary Search - click EBSCOhost Research Databases-Explora Primary School includes a dictionary, encyclopedia, videos, and images. (requires username & password for Home Use)
- Searchasaurus (EBSCO)
- Yahooligans!
- GoGooligans
- Kidsclick
- Ask Us Now! (info experts 24/7) - Ask an online librarian questions about research and get help in using websites on online resources.
- MCPL Montgomery County Public Libraries - A-Z Databases has magazine articles, encyclopedias and eBooks to support research needs. (library card required to login to databases)
E-Books
- Mackin e-books - Fiction and nonfiction e-books at various reading levels. NO AUDIO (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
- Rourke e-books - Nonfiction books to support 4th & 5th grades curriculum. NO AUDIO (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
Educational Videos
- Discovery Education (REQUIRES username & password for Home Use)
Reading Fiction and Nonfiction
- Storyline
- TumbleBooks - Automated "talking" books. Books can be read with or without audio
- MysteryNet
- Mrs. P
- International Children's Digital Library
- Stories to Grow By with Whootie Owl
- National Geographic Young Explorer
- TIME for Kids
- Wonderopolis
- Dogo News
- Fact Monster
- Science Kids: Fun science & technology for kids!
- Kids.gov Variety of topics, videos