EBSCO Animals
Find
in-depth information including the nature and habitat of
familiar animals. Indexes, abstracts and full text formats
are available. This online resource is designed for
children’s interest in the world of animals.
The
Elementary School Module teaches younger students how to
ask questions, use core reference resources, understand
indexes, choose research topics, search online, and read
charts and graphs. The Middle School Module provides
content written for students in grades 5-8 and is designed
for students able to use a more sophisticated format.
Funk & Wagnall's New World
Encyclopedia
For
students and adults alike, the Funk & Wagnalls New
World Encyclopedia online resource indexes over 25,000
records, covering an array of topics. Full text for each
record may be easily accessed by double clicking on the
topic from the display. The online resource contains
various images, offers brief biographies as well as
information in a variety of subject areas. This
encyclopedia is updated annually. You can find this also in
Searchasaurus in a more user friendly format.
Kids Search for Grades
K-5
Easy
to use all-in-one search tool to find magazines &
newspapers articles, dictionary & encyclopedia entries,
and images on a wide variety of topics.
LitFinder
Search
for full text poems, citations and excerpts using Poem
Finder. Poet biographies, a Kids’ Korner, and the Year’s
Best Poetry are included. Story Finder provides thousands
of full text short stories with explanations, biographies,
and more. Use Essay Finder to locate full text essays and
discursive writing based on books published in the 20th
century. The essays focus on humanities and social sciences
and include biographies and literary criticisms.
Middle Search
Plus
Suggested
for middle and junior high research, full text information
is available from more than 150 magazines – some from as
far back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexile.)
Information
about more than 38,000 fiction titles of interest to
students in grades K-8. Full text reviews from professional
journals and book talks for selected titles are available
in this online resource. A good resource to expand student
reading interest by introducing new authors or additional
books in a subject area.
NoveList K-8
Plus
NoveList
K-8 Plus provides access to over 17,000 nonfiction titles
designed to support the curriculum and kids’ pleasure
reading. Created especially for kids (and the adults who
work with them), it has a colorful, graphic-rich homepage
and is very easy to use.
Primary Search
Suggested
for elementary school research, full text information is
available from more than 60 magazines – some from as far
back as 1990. All articles are assigned a reading level
indicator (Lexile.)
Suggested
for children, this resource includes an encyclopedia, an
encyclopedia of animals, magazine searches for primary
and middle school grade levels, a dictionary, photos,
maps and flags. A good homework resource.
for
grades 6-12
Easy
to use all-in-one search tool to find magazines &
newspapers articles, dictionary & encyclopedia entries,
and images on a wide variety of topics.