Online Research > K-12 Resources
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K-12 Resources
Find up-to-date information on countries, cultures, and current events. Includes a collection of over 1,000 maps that detail climate, culture, population, topography, and more. This fiction and nonfiction database is aimed at helping readers find the books they want to read. Full-text reviews and read-alikes are available for many titles. NoveList K-8 allows users to search by author, title, series, theme or topic. Beginning researchers in Kindergarten through Grade 5 can search for information about geography, current events, the arts, science, health, people, government, history, sports and more. Get information from more than 1,100 periodicals and newspapers, primary sources, creative works, and multimedia, including hours of video and audio clips and podcasts, on all core curriculum areas, including history, literature, science, social studies, and more.World Book Encyclopedia Online
More than 25,000 encyclopedia articles for students from grades 4 through 12. Includes the World Book Spanish Language Encyclopedia.Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Search more than 500 popular, high school magazines. This collection also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps, flags, and archives back to 1975 for some key magazines. Search more than 140 popular middle school magazines, thousands of biographies and historical essays, and over 453,000 photos, maps and flags. All articles are given a reading level (Lexile) indicator.Searchasaurus - Elementary School
Complete with erupting volcanoes, dinosaur guide and compass, Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to experience online searching. It is an animated interface with a dinosaur theme that encourages young researchers to enhance and develop basic search methodologies. Searchasaurus offers Lexile (reading level) limiters, making it easy for kids to read and research only appropriately challenging materials.Kids Search - Middle & Elementary School
Search by topic, subtopic, or keywords using a fun graphical interface. Kids Search is designed for kids in grades K-8. Find articles from magazines, newspapers, reference works and an encyclopedia, plus biographies, maps, primary source documents and more, for students in grades 6 through 12. A one-stop source for information on today's hottest social issues, from Terrorism to Endangered Species, Stem Cell Research to Gun Control. OVRC features viewpoint articles, topic overviews, magazine, academic journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. Appropriate for students in grades K through 12. If you're researching an issue, look here for a balance of materials from all viewpoints, including 1,143 main essays, leading political magazines from both sides of the aisle, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books. You can also find guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers.
