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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Contact your school's library Media Specialist for user id and password information. Additional leveled resources available via the individual school library webpage.
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AP Images from AccuWeather™ is a primary source database from the Associated Press that takes users on a sensory journey of photographs, audio sound bites, graphics and text spanning over 160 years of history. User comprehension and recall skills will improve with visually stimulating imagery meant for use in research papers, theses, reports and PowerPoint presentations. Available for Middle & HS
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Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Publications, Membership & ebooks
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Atomic Learning provides thousands of short, easy-to-understand tutorial movies and a library of curriculum resources that can be used as an integral part of a professional development program, a valuable curriculum supplement, and an anytime/anywhere software training.
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Book Reviews from the American Library Association Available to All Schools
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BrainPOP creates animated, curriculum-based content that supports educators and engages students. Available for Elementary & Middle |
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Spanish Reference Center - resources in Spanish for all ages Annals of American History - Explore the rich and varied history of the US through speeches, historical accounts, memoirs, poems, images, & multimedia. Merriam-Webster 3rd New Int'l Dictionary - largest and most comprehensive American dictionary World Data Analyst - enrich and expand your understanding of the world. A comprehensive three-level encyclopedia and internet guide, plus multimedia . A vailable for All Schools |
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Choice Literacy is dedicated to providing innovative, high-quality resources for K-12 literacy leaders. Available for Elementary |
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Great research on today's issues starts here. It offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic; more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies. Available to High Schools
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Discovery Education streaming Plus integrates seamlessly into any curriculum with 9,000 full-length videos segmented into 71,000 content-specific clips tied directly state and national standards.
Available for All Schools
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Primary & Middle Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text Information dates as far back as 1990.
Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia Professional Development Collection ERIC / Newspaper Source TOPICSearch Health Source
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Enchanted Learning ® produces children's educational web sites which are designed to capture the imagination while maximizing creativity, learning, and enjoyment. Available for Elementary & Middle |
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ExploreLearning offers a catalog of modular, interactive simulations in math and science for teachers and students in grades 3-12. We call these simulations Gizmos . Gizmos are fun, easy to use, and flexible enough to support many different teaching styles and contexts. Available for Elementary, Middle & High Math/Science Teachers
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Comprehensive reference incl uding books, magazines, newspapers, multimedia. |
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Magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedias and other reference works, TV and radio transcripts, company information and investment reports, health and wellness information, literary criticism, and homework help, plus photos, charts, maps, diagrams, and illustrations . |
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History Resource Center: US History Resource Center: World Opposing Viewpoints Science Resource Center Student Resource Center Jr. Student Resource Center Gold |
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The New Book of Knowledge Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia Science Encyclopedia Americana La Nueva Enciclopedia Cumbre Amazing Animals of the World, The New Book of Popular America the Beautiful Lands and People Available to All Schools |
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Links to Reading Resources - Hundreds of links to websites that provide general information about children's and young adult literature, authors and illustrators, book of the week, and more.
Links to Lesson Plans and Activities for Books - Thousands of links to guides, literature units, lesson plans, activities, quizzes, games, webquests, and more designed by publishers, teachers, librarians, college and university literature classes, and parents. Available for Elementary
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Performance Education Unlimited provides unlimited access to the complete library of Performance Education (PE) products. Thousands of social studies teachers and specialists have benefited by using Performance Education's effective, student centered, easy to use workbooks. Our library includes the revolutionary Teacher Toolbook Series, our extremely popular Testbook Series, and our brand new Reading, Writing and Predicting the Past Series. Performance Education Unlimited makes all these resources available online, 24/7.
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Culturegrams - Links students to country reports that go beyond mere facts and figures to deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture. In-depth reports covering 200+ countries, the United States, and Canada.
Historical Newspapers The full text content of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, The Los Angeles Times, The Atlanta Constitution, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Defender, The Chicago Tribune, The Hartford Courant (and others in production) that date back to their original editions is an essential for AP courses in American History and Government. Available for All Schools
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Reading A-Z adds new books, lesson plans, and other resources, thus continually expanding its wealth of materials. The website has more than 2,500 downloadable books (including English, Spanish, and French versions) and thousands of teaching and learning materials. In addition to the K-6 market, Reading A-Z materials have found widespread use at a range of grade levels in special education and special needs, remedial reading, ESL, and ELL. Available for Elementary
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Thinkfinity is the cornerstone of Verizon Foundation's literacy, education and technology initiatives. Our goal is to improve student achievement in traditional classroom settings and beyond by providing high-quality content and extensive professional development training. All of Thinkfinity.org's 55,000 standards-based K-12 lesson plans, student materials, interactive tools and reference materials are reviewed by the nation's leading education organizations to ensure that content is accurate, up-to-date, unbiased and appropriate for students . Available for All Schools
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Animated, talking picture books which teach kids the joy of reading in a format they'll love. TumbleBooks are created by adding animation, sound, music and narration to existing picture books in order to produce an electronic picture book which you can read, or have read to you. Available for Elementary
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An interactive dictionary and thesaurus which creates word maps that blossom with meanings and branch to related words. Its innovative d isplay encourages exploration and learning. You'll understand language in a powerful new way. Available for All Schools
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The premier online general encyclopedia for schools and libraries. It includes more than 26,000 articles as well as more than 12,000 pictures and maps, and 7,000 links to editor-approved Web sites useful in helping students constructively explore topics further. The World Book Online Reference Center is continuously updated to incorporate new and important developments relevant to students and their families. Available for All Schools
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