Student Resources
Below are links to all sorts of helpful places!
Log into Destiny Quest to search for books and put them on hold for later pick up!
Log into OverDrive to download and read eBooks!
Log into Discus to do some research and learn something new!
(see library staff for login info)
You shouldn't just Google everything!
Below are some alternate Search Engines for academic research.
The following search engines are great for Elementary and Middle School student research. Students will get educational information and not everything in the world related to their subject matter.
Kidtopia – Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved websites.
SafeSearchKids – Safe Search for Kids is a powerful, safe search tool that filters search results to enhance your students’ safe search experience. Powered by Google.
Primary School Safe Search – Primary School Safe Search is a great place to start internet sessions for children and teachers. The internet searches are filtered.
FactMonster – Fact Monster is a free reference site for students, teachers, and parents.
Kiddle – Kiddle is a visual search engine for kids powered by Google, offering safe kids web, image, and video search.
GoogleScholar – Google Scholar is a search engine designed to search scholarly journals, Supreme Court records, and patent records. In some cases the results will link to abstracts of books and articles that you will then have to obtain from a library or book retailer. In other cases results will link to fully viewable documents.
refseek – Academic search engine for students and researchers. Locates relevant academic search results from web pages, books, encyclopedias, and journals.
WolframAlpha – WolframAlpha is a computational search engine. If students have any questions involving numbers, Wolfram Alpha is the place to go. Wolfram Alpha can be used for other searches, but it’s not nearly as useful for general inquiries as it is for computational questions.