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

 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