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African-American History Online
African-American History Online provides expansive and in-depth information on the people, events and topics important to the study of the African-American experience. This database covers more than 500 years of history and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
American History Online
American History Online spans more than 500 years of political, military, social and cultural history, highlighting the important people and events of the American experience. This database includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
American Indian History Online
American Indian History Online offers thorough access to more than 15,000 years of Native American culture, history and heritage through event & topic entries, biographies, images, maps & charts, legends, primary sources and timeline entries. Information about more than 500 Native American groups can be found in this resource using the "Tribe Index".
American Women's History Online
American Women's History Online covers the important people, events, legislation and issues relevant to the study of women's history in the United States. This database covers more than 500 years of history and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
Ancient and Medieval History Online
Ancient and Medieval History Online explores the pre-modern world with in-depth focus on Egypt, Mesopotamia, Greece, Rome, Africa, Europe, the Americas and Asia. There are 18,000 entries covering prehistory through the 1500s including biographies, primary source documents, timelines, an image gallery, and maps & charts.
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Biography Resource Center
Biography Resource Center is your one-stop resource for more than 435,000 full-text biographies on notable figures in literature, science, history,
government, business, art, religion, entertainment, sports and much more.
CIA World Factbook
CIA World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
Culturegrams
Culturegrams provides concise information on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, recipes and lifestyles of the world's people for 187 countries and information on all 50 United States including geography, history, population, culture and symbols.
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition
Curriculum Resource Center: Junior Edition provides a library of printable
teacher-handout materials and other content geared for elementary-level students.
Encyclopedia of Animals
Encyclopedia of Animals provides thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals. Each entry begins with a simple category breakdown of the animal including Kingdom, Class, Order, Genus & Species, and Geographical Locale as well as a detailed description. Many entries include colorful images.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia provides over 25,000 easy-to-read encyclopedic entries written specifically for kids covering a variety of subject areas.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Search specialized reference books online individually or as a group. Titles are available in the areas of history, culture,
religion and the environment. These titles include information about biomes, endangered species, holidays around the world, costumes & clothing,
terrorism, decades in American life and more.
Kidsearch
Kidsearch is an easy way for K-8 students to search online resources either by topic by clicking on the picture based icons or by typing a search in the "find" box. Results may include: magazines, newspapers, books & encyclopedias, biographies, photos and more.
Learning Express Library
Learning Express Library provides practice tests and tutorial courses designed to help people succeed on academic or licensing
tests and on skills mastering. You'll get immediate scoring with links to areas that need improvement, complete answer explanations, and an individualized
analysis of your results.
Middle Search Plus
Middle Search Plus provides full text for nearly 140 popular magazines for middle and jr. high school research as well as 84,774 biographies, 100,554 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 202,164 photos, maps and flags. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level.
Modern World History Online
Modern World History Online covers the people, places and events in the broad expanse of world history - from mid 15th century to the present. This database can be browsed by both global regions and time periods and includes biographies, primary source documents, timelines, and maps & charts.
NoveList K-8 Plus
NoveList K-8 Plus is a great way to locate fiction and nonfiction reading materials. Kids can search by
author, title, series, theme or topic.
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for nearly 70 popular elementary school magazines as well as an image collection of over 192,999 photos, maps and flags. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level.
Science Online
Science Online is a curriculum-oriented database that offers extensive definitions, essays, timelines, diagrams, biographies and experiments. The over 600 experiments are indexed by grade range and subject category.
Searchasaurus
Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to search online. It is animated with a dinosaur theme complete with erupting volcanoes and a dinosaur guide that allows kids to gather information on a wide range of topics including full text articles.
Today's Science
Topic Search
Today's Science is an exciting database that bridges the gap between the science that students learn in the classroom and the discoveries pushing the
boundaries of science today. Today’s Science explains important topics such as biology, chemistry, environment, space, physics and technology. It includes Science News written
for students, a pop-up glossary that provides instant definitions of scientific terms, a Science Fair Guide, a "Need a Research Topic?" section which helps students to get
started on their own scientific research, 2000 biographies of scientists from historic figures to modern-day innovators, and more.
Topic Search is a current events database that allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today's classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 102,800 articles from more than 2,500 diverse sources, including more than 1,550 full text periodicals.
This online course includes typing lessons and exercises to help you increase your typing skills.
World Atlas
World Atlas combines detailed, printable, full-color maps of countries, provinces, and states with up-to-date statistical and local information. Also includes a gazetteer with entries on more than 7,000 geographical features.