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Online reference sources available to all elementary school students in HCPSS both at school and at home. Note: Contact the library media specialist for log in information

 

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Description

Features

Proquest

http://online.culturegrams.com

  

CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on over 200 cultures of the world.

·  Kids Edition available

·  Accessible reports (printing)

·  Photos, slideshows, audio, interviews, graphs and tables

Maps.com

http://www.maps101.com

Maps 101 includes over 6,000 maps, activities, games and much more! This correlates well for use with science, language arts, and social studies.

For your school login, please visit the Elementary Social Studies Intranet site.

·  Videos

·  Interactive maps

·  Spanish version

·  Glossary

NoodleTools

http://www.noodletools.com/login.php

 

Generate, edit, and publish an MLA Works Cited list or APA References list. NoodleBib takes care of punctuation, alphabetization and formatting, producing a polished source list for import into Word.

·  Videos

·  Explicit prompts

·  Construct virtual communities of learners

Proquest

 

http://discoverer.sirs.com

Customer Number: MD1570H 

 

SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities.  Other features include: The World Almanac for Kids, Compton’s Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.

·  Topic browse

·  Dictionary

·  Thesaurus

·  Images and videos

·  Lexile score (in search results list, advanced search)

TeachingBooks

http://www.teachingbooks.net/signin.cgi

TeachingBooks.net is a timesaving portal to thousands of online resources of book-related resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors.

 

·  Topic browse

·  Listening feature

·  Videos and audio files

 

 

World Book

 

http://www.worldbookonline.com/?subacct=06506

 

World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. 

·  Kids Edition, Student Edition, Advanced Edition

·  Spanish Edition

·  eBook access

·  Images, videos, audio files, maps

·  Lexile score (in article)

HoCoLibSys

Howard County Library

http://www.hclibrary.org

 

 

Use your Howard County Library card and pin number (request a pin number from the library) to access many online reference sources. To locate the online resources, click on “Databases.” Students can connect with free tutors for homework assistance.

·  Topic browse

·  Videos

·  Relevance

·  Language options

·  Font size control

·  eBook access

 

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