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Online Resources: Grades 6-12 - Resources for Students

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African-American History Online - Tutorial
African-American History Online provides information on the people, events and topics important to the study of the African-American experience through biographies, primary source documents, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts and more.

American History in Video - Tutorial
American History in Video allows you to experience critical moments in American History through commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs videos, short films as well as documentaries. Historical coverage ranges from the early history of Native Americans, to the lost colony of Roanoke, to the 1988 Vicennes Affair in the Persian Gulf.

American History Online - Tutorial
American History Online covers more than 500 years of American history, highlighting the important people and events. This database includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image & video gallery, maps & charts and more.

American History Resources (selected Reference eBooks)
Search here to learn more about people, events, places & more that make up America's history.

American Indian History Online - Tutorial
American Indian History Online offers access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history and heritage through biographies, legends, timelines, images & videos, maps & charts as well as primary source documents. Information on more than 500 Native American groups can be found in the "Tribes and Culture Areas."

American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online covers more than 500 years of the important people, events, legislation and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States, using biographies, an image & video gallery, timelines, and primary source documents.

Ancient and Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online covers prehistory through the 1500s including biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image & video gallery, maps & charts and special features that give a balanced, global view of the world in ancient and medieval times.

Bloom's Literary Reference Online - Tutorial
Bloom's Literary Reference Online features thousands of author biographies, a guide to more than 41,000 literary characters as well as overviews, synopses, analyses, and literary criticism of thousands of works-from novels to poetry to plays.

BookNews Newsletters
Looking for a new book or author? View our current BookNews newsletters online or sign up to receive a copy each month in your email - try Mystery, Romance, Science Fiction, Bestsellers, "Books to Movies," "Teen Scene at the Library!" & more.

byki Online - Use your library card number (122220.......) as your User Name when you register on byki Online.

byki Online offers exercises in listening, reading, writing and speech recognition to help English speakers learn over 70 languages including: Spanish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian, Japanese & more and helps speakers of Spanish, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, Mandarin Chinese & Japanese to learn English.

CollegeInColorado.org
CollegeInColorado.org is a free, comprehensive website dedicated to providing students & parents with everything they need to know about career exploration and planning, selecting high school courses, choosing and applying to colleges, obtaining financial aid and getting ready to take the SAT, ACT or GRE tests.

CollegeInvest
CollegeInvest's mission is to address the challenges Coloradans face regarding both the affordability of and access to higher education. As Colorado's leading education financing resource they provide expert information, simple financial planning tools, scholarships, tax advantaged college savings plans and low-cost student and parent loans to take education dollars as far as they can go.

Contemporary Research Topics (selected eBooks)
Looking for sources on today's hot research topics: immigration, school bullying, poverty, dress codes, drugs, social networking, animal welfare, stem cell research, students' rights, welfare, and more? Then this is the search for you!

EBSCO ebooks and e-Audiobooks
EBSCO ebooks and e-audiobooks are each an internet-based electronic library that offers the full-text of online books (e-books) that can only be read online as well as downloadable audiobooks (e-audiobooks) that can be downloaded to computers or a wide range of portable devices. Our ebook collection includes many classic titles, as well as CliffsNotes. Our e-audiobook collection includes over 2000 fiction, nonfiction and classic titles.

Famous Quotes & Authors
Famous Quotes & Authors is the most complete and useful Quotations web resource. There are over 25,000 quotes included from over 6,700 famous authors. You can browse popular quotes or you can search for quotes by topic, author or keyword.

Ferguson's Career Guidance Center
Ferguson's Career Guidance Center includes in-depth information on nearly 3,400 jobs, as well as guidance on the essentials of getting a job & keeping it - including resume & cover letter writing, interviewing and more. There is a College Planning & Financial Aid section that includes information on choosing a college, applying for student loans, scholarship information and more. A Career Interest Assessment tool helps you explore occupations and industries that best match your personal interests.

Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written covering a variety of subject areas.

Gale Virtual Reference Library
The reference books in this online collection are available to be viewed 24x7 on any computer with an internet connection. Reference books are included in the following subject areas: History, Environment, Biographies, Cultures around the World, Religion, Law, Literature, Science and more.

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia
Want to know more about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes, insects or even protozoa? Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia offers facts about more than 4,000 species, including evolution, habitat, behavior, ontology, conservation status and more.

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Health Reference Center
Focusing on the high school health curriculum, Health Reference Center includes more than 585 educational videos on a wide range of health topics and reliable information on today's most pressing health topics.

Issues and Controversies
Issues and Controversies explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture giving the Pro and Con statement for each issue. This database is great for research papers & debate prep and includes: timely, in-depth, and objective articles that explore today's controversial issues, as well as thousands of timelines, primary source documents, statistical tables, editorial cartoons and newspaper editorials. The National High School Debate topics since 1997 are also included.

Learning Express Library - Tutorial
When you register on LearningExpress Library, you must use your library card number (122220.......) as your username.
Learning Express Library provides online practice tests that are previews of the official exams including the GED, ASVAB, SAT, ACT, firefighter, corrections officer, realtor and more, as well as computer tutorials for Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint and other Microsoft programs.

Life in America - the 1900's through the 1990's (selected eReference books)
Want to know what life was like in America during the 1900's through the 1990's? Start here.

MAS Ultra
MAS Ultra contains full-text for more than 500 popular high school magazines, more than 360 full-text reference books, 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an image collection of 293,480 photos, maps & flags.

Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the full scope of world history from the mid-15th century to the present. Thousands of fully hyperlinked subject entries, biographies, videos, images, maps and charts, primary source documents, and timeline entries combine to provide a detailed and comparative view of the people, places, events, and ideas that have defined modern world history.

Science Online - Tutorial
Science Online offers definitions of science terms, essays, timelines, diagrams, images & videos, biographies of scientists and nearly 1,000 science experiments and activities covering key principles in science, indexed by grade range, subject category, & time required.

Student Research Center - Tutorial
Student Research Center is designed specifically for high school students and allows users to easily select which sources (magazines, newspapers, biographies, country reports, primary source documents) will be included in their search. It also includes an online dictionary and encyclopedia.

Teen Email Book Club
Join our Teen Email Book Club and experience gripping mysteries, wildly hilarious comedies, true adventures, and mystical science fiction delivered to your email everyday. Each week teen guest hosts share their insight about the featured book and their daily lives.

Today's Science
Today's Science explains important topics such as biology, chemistry, environment, space, physics and technology. It includes a Science Fair Guide, a "Need a Research Topic?" section which helps students to get started on their own research, 2000 biographies of scientists and more.

Topic Search
Topic Search is a current events database that includes social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. It contains over 105,000 full-text articles from 1,622 diverse sources including international and regional newspapers, periodicals, biographies, public opinion polls, book reviews, pamphlets, and government information.

Typing Lessons
This online course includes typing lessons and exercises to help you increase your typing skills.

U.S. Government Online
U.S. Government Online offers information on how the government works, who the key players are, and what its role is in the everyday lives of citizens through a wide range of essays, images, videos, primary source documents, tables, and news articles.

World Geography & Culture Online
World Geography & Culture Online makes it easy to study all aspects of a country - from its geography & physical features to its government, people & society - providing both facts at-a-glance and in-depth coverage through country entries, maps, flags, images, statistics, up-to-date news articles, timelines, a gazetteer and more. All 50 US states are profiled with biographies, images, timelines, maps, flags and more. A geography glossary and a tool that compares and ranks countries or US states by a variety of criteria are also included in this easy-to-use database.

 

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