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Age: Elementary Topics: General Encyclopedia
Access thousands of curated articles and magazines, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, and recommended websites, along with a pop-up Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus.
Age: Elementary School Topics: Colonial America, Exploring Ancient Civilizations, and Habitats.
User-friendly, citable articles are readily comprehensible and highly engaging with photos, charts, diagrams, and timelines to enhance and extend learning.
Age: Middle School & up Topics: Biographies
Biography In Context is an engaging online experience for those seeking contextual information on the world's most influential people. Users can also search for people based on name, occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth/death dates and places, or gender, as well as by keyword and full text.
Age: Early Elementary Topics: Animals, Music & Movies, People, Plants, Sports, Technology, Arts, Geography, Health, Literature, Science, and Social Studies
Books, magazines, news, videos, and even images and graphs are indexed and searchable. It is continuously updated to match elementary level curricula.
Age: K-2 Topics:Animals, Technology, Sports, Music, Science, Dinosaurs, Continents, Culture
EyeDiscover is designed to stimulate children from Kindergarten to Grade 2 levels with an exciting fusion of text, video, and audio. Students can explore content through high resolution videos and text read aloud, allowing beginning readers to listen at their own pace.
Age: Middle School Topics: General Encyclopedia
Research In Context combines the best of Gale's reference content with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories cover a range of the most-studied topics including cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.
Age: Elementary & Middle School Topics: The articles and their illustrations are derived from the content of seven Scholastic encyclopedia databases: Encyclopedia Americana, Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, The New Book of Knowledge, America the Beautiful, Lands and Peoples, Amazing Animals of the World, and The New Book of Popular Science.
Age: Elementary Topics: TrueFlix is an online resource that combines award-winning True Books content with reading supports and a deep and diverse collection of related videos, images, Web links, and text. TrueFlix is based on the True Books print series published by Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Library Publishing. TrueFlix is published by Scholastic Inc., with editorial development and content management provided by Scholastic Library Publishing.
Age: K-2 Topics: Animals, Sports, Music, Science, Dinosaurs, Continents
World Languages allows children to read in their own language and explore other languages for a real experience of diversity and multiculturalism. With a simple click, readers can easily switch between English, Arabic, French, German, Hindi, Simplified Mandarin, Russian, and Spanish versions of each title.
Funded by the FOL
Age: Gr. 3-8 Topics: Animals, Arts, Culture, History, Biographies, Sports, Technology, Language Arts and Science
Lightbox™ is a multimedia educational space that encourages students to see learning in a whole new light. With Lightbox, students receive a true multimedia learning experience that incorporates audio, video, interactive activities, and much more across a variety of professionally developed curriculum.