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ABC Clio: Issues/Understanding Controversy and Society
Helps users develop a true understanding of how society shapes and is shaped by controversy by offering authoritative historical context, expert perspectives, and carefully selected primary and secondary sources on the most enduring issues of the day. |
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ABC Clio: World at War/ Understanding Conflict and Society
Research 14 wars involving the United States from colonial times to the present. There are links to maps, flags, documents, images, individual, audio and video, dictionary, and help. |
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ABC Clio: World Geography/Understanding a Changing World
Develops students' global literacy, focusing on the geographic, political, social, economic, and cultural forces that influence our world. Content is organized by country. |
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ABC Clio: World History/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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Brainpop
BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content. BrainPOP is used in numerous ways, from introducing a new lesson or topic to illustrating complex subject matter to reviewing before a test. BrainPOP was conceived by Dr. Avraham Kadar, an immunologist and pediatrician, as a creative way to explain difficult concepts to his young patients. |
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Choices Explorer Career
Information Database
Database of career information articles. Students match skills
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CobblestoneOnline.net
CobblestoneOnline.net is a unique database of thousands of articles from the award-winning magazines of Cobblestone Publishing. |
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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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ELibrary elementary
Designed specifically to guide younger readers, researchers & older students who need differentiated materials. Answers to research questions are found in magazines, newspapers, books, transcripts, maps, images, educator-approved websites and audio/video titles. |
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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 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 Student News Net
Engages students with timely, relevant news and current events. |
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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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Forensic Biology
Explores the science of forensic biology. Offers crime statistics, information about careers in criminal investigation or law enforcement, descriptions of unusual cases, and explanations of scientific and legal processes. |
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History Reference Center by Ebsco
History Reference Center is an excellent source for American and world history. Primary sources documents, biographies and more and can be accessed.
More than 57,000 historical documents
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More than 78,000 biographies of historical figures
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Over 1620 full-text reference book, encyclopedias and non-fiction books
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More than 113,000 historical photos and maps
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Nearly 80 hours of historical video
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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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Issues and Controversies in American History
Provides a concise and thoroughly researched summary of issues and controversies in America's past, including historical background on the issues and a synopsis of all sides of the debate. |
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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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NoodleTools
The most comprehensive and accurate MLA- and APA-style
bibliography composer with a fully-integrated note-taking component |
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One More Story
An online library of the best of children's classic and contemporary literature. Through a simple point and click process, children can choose a book, see the illustrations and have the book read to them whenever they want. Limited Student licenses. |
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Science Reference Center by Ebsco
Science Reference Center is an excellent source of information on biology, life science, environmental science, technology, wildlife and more. |
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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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U.S. History in Context
Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information, it combines documents from Primary Source Documents, More than 185,000 reference articles, Video and audio from NBC, NPR and other reliable sources, and more. |
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UXL Encyclopedia of Diseases and Disorders
Contains numerous entries on medical conditions, from avian flu to warts. Entries cover infectious diseases, injuries, genetic disorders, and others. |
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The Washington Post E-Replica
Washington Post
online viewed exactly as the print edition! |
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World Book Digital Library: Early Peoples
This expansive site examines such ancient cultures as the Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Native Americans, and Chinese, among others. |
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Includes an examination of pollution's causes and consequences, overviews of the major ecosystems and current threats they face, an explanation of green building and transportation principles, an investigation of green issues in food production and consumption, and room-by-room explorations of green practices at home. |
