Research

DISCUS is a great place to start looking for information on your topic. The information on this site is factual and accurate.  See below for a list of all DISCUS offers.

Animal Kingdom: Discover facts about animals through videos, photos, and fun learning materials.

Britannica School: Elementary: Encyclopedia articles; people, places, things; pictures, maps, videos, activities

CultureGrams: Country and state reports that provide snapshots of history and cultures including maps, flags, geography, and photos.

DK Eyewitness eBooks: Covering a variety of subjects with spectacular images and nuggets of information. Topics are divided into books that can easily be searched using the table of contents.

Explora for Elementary Schools: Provides access to information on many topics from popular magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, photos, maps, and flags.

Gale in Context: Biography: Biographical information on thousands of people from throughout history. Includes video, audio clips, and images.

Learn360: Multimedia resources covering many subjects. Includes high-quality full-length videos, video clips, images, audio files, interactives, maps, and science experiments.

PebbleGo- Animals: Includes articles, videos, activities, and range maps for amphibians, animal behavior, birds, dinosaurs, fish, mammals, and more in English and Spanish.

PebbleGo Next- Biographies: Explore the lives of History-Makers and Leaders through articles, videos, activities, and timelines.

StudySC: Know where you live! Includes links to SC related topics, multimedia, primary documents, and more.

World Almanac for Kids Elementary: Includes articles on a variety of subjects, videos, games, timelines, science projects, maps and flags, and biographies.