ABC-CLIO |
Four excellent online encyclopedias: American History, World History Ancient & Medieval Era, Daily Life Through History and Understanding Controversial Issues. |
Biography Reference Center |
Learn about people from all over the world and time periods in history. This database can be searched many ways. |
BrainPOP |
This database is for students and teachers. It features educational cartoons on many different subjects, Q & A pages, FYI learning extensions, activities, quizzes, and learning fun. Teachers can obtain lesson plans and other materials. |
Britannica Online |
Encyclopedias and reference materials grouped at three levels: elementary School, middle school, and high school. |
Consumer Health Complete |
Information on many aspects of health and wellness. Includes articles, images, and videos from encyclopedias, books, and popular magazines. |
Consumer Health Information |
Information on health and wellness, in Spanish |
Earth and Space |
Power Knowledge resources from Rosen publishing. |
EBSCO |
NYS Library Subscription - Includes many databases including: Literary Reference Center, Consumer Healtth Complete, Biography Reference Center, and EBSCO Host (Art Museum Image Gallery, & GreenFILE). |
eLibrary |
Access articles and images from magazines, books, newspapers, maps, TV and radio transcripts. Current and historical information is searchable by media type. |
Environmental Studies & Policy |
Excellent resource for research on environmental topics including: climate change, energy, environmental policy, recycloing, sustainability and more from NOVELNY. Includes informatation from books, newspapers, magazines, journals, and videos. Same user name and password as NOVELNY listed below. |
Exploring Nature |
Science resources and learning activities for students and teachers. Learn about plants, animals, planet earth, biomes, human body, science words, food webs, life cycles, and more. |
Gale Virtual Reference Library |
Online collection of fulltext eBooks for educators and administrators accessible by index & table of contents. Numerous current titles by Robert Marzano, Alfie Kohn, and others. Topics include: effective teaching, learning, motivation, differentiating instruction, assessment, leadership, connecting standards to instruction and higher achievement. Search within mulitiple books at a time. |
History Research Center |
Five outstanding online encyclopedias: African-American History, American History, American Indian History, Ancient and Medieval History, Issues and Controversies, Modern World History. Includes videos from Learn 360. |
Issues and Controversies |
Learn what supporters and opponents believe on many current controversial issues. Political cartoons, primary source documents and other research resources are also available |
Life Science |
Power Knowledge resource from Rosen publishing |
Literary Reference Center |
Encyclopedia of Literature, full-text classics, author biographies, literary glossary, research guide, and literary criticism. |
Newsbank |
Articles from current and historic newspapers. Find primary source documents from the late 1600s |
Noodletools |
Use this resource to take notes, organize information, and write reports. It can also help you create your citations. Log in using the information from the user name and password sheet. Next, create a personal ID and password for yourself so that you will have access to your work from any computer. It works like a virtual drive to store your information. It's also useful for group projects. Log into your school Google Drive to access this tool. |
NOVELNY |
NYS Library Subscription Databases from New York Online Virtual Electronic Library. A variety of subject specific databases with encyclopedia, magazine, and newspaper articles. General information, health & medical information, nutrition, agriculture, fine arts, music, gardening, home improvement, psychology, careers, business, literature, and the Gale virtual reference library. Ebooks titles include: American Revolution, Pirate, Titanic, WW II, Castle, & many more. |
Opposing Viewpoints |
Explore opposite sides of today's most controversial social issues. Articles are from the Opposing Viewpoints print series, topic overviews, full-text magazine, journal, and newspaper articles, primary source documents, statistics, images and podcasts, and links to Websites. From NOVELny |
Physical Science |
Power Knowledge resources from Rosen publishing. |
PowerSearch |
Articles from magazines, newspapers, books, and websites that cover a very wide range of topics. |
ProQuest |
Proquest: News & Issues includes articles from newspapers. Proquest Learning: Literature has articles about books and authors. Check this link, un and pw |
Research in Context |
Provided through NOVEL NY this database covers a wide range of topics and is designed for a middle school audience. |
ScholasticGo! Formerly Grolier Online |
Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia Americana, New Book of Knowledge, New Book of Popular Science, Lands & Peoples, America the Beautiful, and Amazing Animals of the World. |
Science in Context |
Research many topics including biology, chemistry, physics, animals, biographies, climate, energy, technology and health. Articles, images, and media are from a wide range of sources. Many ways to search and sort. |
Sora |
Access audiobooks and eBooks! Select LCSD from menu > click green sign-in button > click Sign in with Google button |
Teaching Books |
TST BOCES School Library System provides this subscription for us. Resources for students and teachers. Information on books and authors, biographical sketches, book guides, links to author's websites, audio of author name pronunciations. Searchable by author, title, subject, grade, and curricular area |
Teen Health & Wellness |
Information on a wide variety of physical and mental health issues written for teenagers. Articles, links to hotlines, and a glossary. |
U.S. History in Context |
Articles from a variety of encyclopedias published by Gale. Excellent information! |
World Book |
Access online encyclopedias (World Book Student, World Book Advanced, Early Peoples, Living Green), video, sound, images, magazine articles, primary sources, selected weblinks, and terrific eBooks. Features include: a citation creator, & timeline builder. Use "My Research" page to save articles and images accessible from anywhere you have an Internet connection. |
World History in Context |
Articles from a variety of encyclopedias published by Gale. Excellent information! |