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Britannica School – Offers thousands of up-to-date, curated, and age-appropriate information resources, including images, videos, audio clips, maps, research tools, and more. Available at three levels; Elementary, Middle, or High. |
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Britannica Escolar – The Spanish digital learning portal for Elementary and Middle school students. New features make it more valuable than ever for native Spanish speakers, bilingual students, and students learning Spanish. |
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Gale in Context: Biography - An engaging experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. |
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Gale in Context: Environmental Studies - Understand environmental issues that affect people globally through topic overviews, journals, news, and multimedia content. |
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Gale Interactive: Science - Manipulate 3D interactive models to visualize and understand concepts in biology, chemistry, earth, and space science. |
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Gale Primary Sources: Archives Unbound - Presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars, researchers, and students at the college and university level. |
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National Geographic Kids - Explore amazing adventures in science, nature, culture, archaeology, and space. Best for children aged 6-14. |
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ProQuest Black Freedom Struggle - Find historical newspaper articles, pamphlets, diaries, correspondence and more from specific time periods in U.S. history marked by the opposition African Americans have faced on the road to freedom. |
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ProQuest Research Companion - Helps students do more effective research with access to scholarly journals, books, newspapers and magazines. Also included are supporting materials for educators as they teach the core information literacy principles of finding, evaluating, and using information. Note: To login click the link above and use the following username and password, which are case sensitive. After initial login, you may create your own individual account. Username: edclibrary |
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APA Style Guide - Find APA guidelines and more from Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). |
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MLA Style Guide - Need help understanding how to cite sources using MLA, or format a Works Cited page and in-text citations for your next research paper? Then check out the MLA Style Guide offered by Purdue University's Online Writing Lab (OWL). |
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SparkNotes - Need help deciphering Shakespeare’s prose? Not sure how to identify the themes or the symbols of a particular novel? Then check out SparkNotes where they have easy-to-understand guides for hundreds of books and subjects. |
Tools for Students
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Accelerated Reader Book Finder - Find the Book Level (BL) or Accelerated Reader (AR) points for a book. You can also use the Advanced Search feature to look for books within a particular interest level or book level. |
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EduMed - Discover the kind of support that exists for college students facing homelessness and get the information you need to start your journey towards higher education. |
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Lexile Framework for Reading - An educational tool that links text complexity and readers' ability on a common metric known as the Lexile scale. |
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College Information - Find helpful links from lists of the best colleges to resources for finical assistance and more to help get you prepared for college. |
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TeachingBooks - An online resource for children's and young adult books and their authors and illustrators. Use TeachingBooks to search titles, authors and illustrators, and find resources to engage readers.
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More great sites:
Calisphere - Free access to unique and historically important artifacts for research, teaching, and curious exploration. Discover documents, letters, artwork, diaries, oral histories, films, musical recordings, and more.
Food Timeline - Ever wonder how the ancient Romans fed their armies? What the pioneers cooked along the Oregon Trail? Who invented the potato chip...and why? Then check out Food Timeline for fun food history!
Funbrain - Free educational games, books, comics, and videos that develop kid's skills in math, reading, problem-solving and literacy.
Mrs. Mitchell's Virtual School - Designed for students and teachers to find information, ideas, projects, lesson plans and more on various school topics.
States and Capitals - Access a variety of state specific facts and other useful information for U.S. States and Capitals.
Please note these links are being provided as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement by El Dorado County Library.