Drew Elementary School

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)