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ABC Clio: Ancient and Medieval Eras
Ranging from the dawn of prehistory through the great ancient empires to the beginning of the Renaissance students explore history on every continent. Chronological and thematic organization including articles by ABC-CLIOs editors, other secondary sources and primary source documents. Pictures, artwork, historical maps, etc. are also included. |
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Art Museum Image Gallery
A fine art and historical image library spanning works from 3000 BC to the 20th century, with works from over 1,800 distinguished sources worldwide. Includes ancient civilizations, American, European and Medieval history, world religions, etc. The images from most respected world’s including the Musée du Louvre, Paris |
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Atomic Learning
Provides web-based software training for more than 110 applications students and educators use every day. |
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Choices Explorer Career
Information Database
Database of career information articles. Students match skills
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CultureGrams
Up to date information on 182 countries and cultures. 25 categories are tracked including history, land and climate, religion, personal appearance, gestures, language, government, family, dating and marriage, and even great recipes!
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Discovery Education Science Connection supports inquiry-based learning by providing students with real-life situations that they can investigate through a variety of media. Students connect concepts with their own life experiences and learn science process skills by designing and conducting virtual lab investigations, solving open-ended science mysteries called Science Sleuths, and much more. |
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Discovery Education Streaming
A digital video-on-demand and online teaching service with access to over 50,000 content-specific segments from 5,000 full length educational videos. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Annals of American History
Explore American history through primary sources and multimedia. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Global Reference Center
Japanese, Korean, Chinese, French Britannica encyclopaedias and another link to the Spanish Reference Center.
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online Academic Edition
Although every student has access to this encyclopaedia, it is recommended for high school and higher education. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Online School Edition
3 encyclopedias in one: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Compton’s by Britannica and Britannica Elementary. A search will return articles from all 3 encyclopedias so students can choose which level meets their needs. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Spanish Reference Center: Gran Enciclopedia Planeta y Enciclopedia Juvenil
Enciclopedia Juvenil provides a Spanish elementary encyclopedia, images, videos, and Spanish language learning materials specifically designed for younger learners. Gran Enciclopedia Planeta is the most comprehensive Spanish language encyclopedia available today. It features 145,000 articles plus timelines, an atlas, and a dictionary. |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica Webster's Third New International Dictionary UnabridgedThrow out that URL to dictionary.com. This is a real dictionary and without those pesky advertisements and pop-ups. Keep this one open as a window on your desktop whenever you are writing or researching! |
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Encyclopaedia Britannica World Data Analyst
Similar to CultureGrams, World Data Analyst provides "Country Snapshots." However, it goes further -- students can create "current comparisons" of countries based on a large list of data points. It is also possible to make "chronological comparisons," which compares changes over time up to 90 years. |
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Enciclopedia Estudiantil Hallazgos
An elementary Spanish language encyclopedia. Limited search features. |
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History Resource Center U.S.
A collection of primary and secondary resources to support the study of United States history from middle school through college. Simple keyword searches are supplemented by advanced searching capabilities and subject searches. Used on 8th and 9th grade US History classes. |
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Issues and Controversies
Great for issues research in middle school. Issues are succinctly defined and pros and cons are given for each, all in one article. |
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Journey Back in Time
A database of historical newspapers that cover
very specific time periods that are studied in 4th – 9th
grades in MCPS. The thematic searching feature is so connected to our curriculum that a student rarely has
to do a keyword search. |
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KidsPage--Newsbank
A periodicals database for elementary school students and middle school students who need lower reading levels. Lexile - Easier, Medium or Advanced which is linked to a lexile or you can choose a Lexile. If you choose a Lexile you also have to choose a 3 digit number such as 850 and it will search from 100 below the number you put in (750) to 50 above the number you put in (900). |
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Middle Ages Reference Library
Includes 14 chapters each dedicated to different aspects of society. Middle Ages: Biographies presents 50 entries. Middle Ages: Primary Sources contains full or excerpted essays, journal entries, poems, letters and more. |
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The New Book of Knowledge database, A 7-million-word repository of text and images maintained by the encyclopedia's editorial staff. |
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NoodleTools
The most comprehensive and accurate MLA- and APA-style
bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component |
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Novelist K-8 Plus
A literature and nonfiction database with over 150,000 fiction titles, and over 4000 custom created articles and lists of books. These can be searched based on level, subject, title or author. Feature Articles, book talks, and book discussion guides are also on the database. |
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Points of View Reference Center
A full text database designed to provide students and schools with a series of controversial essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. Essays provide questions and materials for further thought and study and are accompanied by thousands of supporting articles from the world’s top political and societal publications. |
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Proquest
Professional Education Journals Comprehensive research collection of more than
300 magazines and journals for K-12
professional development and continuing education. |
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Science Resource Center Junior
Science Resource Center includes thousands of topic overviews, experiments, biographies, pictures and illustrations. Articles are from 200 magazines and scholarly journals. Curriculum related topics cover a wide range of topics related to science curricula and correlated to national and Maryland standards. |
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Sirs Decades
SIRS Decades covers the 20th century decade by decade with 5,000 primary and secondary sources selected by the editors of SIRS. This has been an invaluable resource for 7th grade research on the 1940s and 8th grade research on the 1930s. Uses Lexiles. |
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SIRS Discoverer
The database includes carefully selected full-text articles and images from more than 1,600 domestic and international newspapers, magazines, government documents, and websites. This resource is especially useful elementary school researchers and students in middle and high schools who need information at lower reading levels. Uses Lexiles. |
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SIRS Knowledge Source
SIRS Knowledge Source includes SIRS Researcher, a periodical database. Resident in SIRS Researcher is a link to SIRS Pro/Con which has been very important to issues research for middle and high schools and for the advanced elementary student. Also included in SIRS Knowledge Source is SIRS Renaissance, current perspectives on the arts and humanities, SIRS Web Select, a student search engine with editorially selected websites and SIRS Interactive Citizenship, interactive books on U.S. citizenship. Uses Lexiles. |
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Student Resource
Center Junior
Database of curriculum targeted primary documents, biographies), topical essays, critical analysis, full-text coverage of newspapers and periodicals. These databases are an excellent resource for information across the curriculum. Uses their own reading scale – basic, intermediate and advanced. |
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Teaching Books.net
Teaching books is a unique service that provides up close and personal interviews (multimedia abounds!) with some of the most loved and respected children and young adult authors. Also included are an array of lesson plans and other resources for use by language arts teachers and for students. Great for author studies at all grade levels. |
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The Washington Post E-Replica
Washington Post
online viewed exactly as the print edition! |
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World Book KidsPrimary – Elementary encyclopedia that is linked from the World Book Online Reference Center's homepage. |
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World Book Web School and Library
General encyclopedia with thousands of articles, state-of-the art multimedia, editor-reviewed Web sites, periodical content, and more! |
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