Research Links for Students
(Below the search sites, you will find links to sites where you can locate images you are free to use for all school-related activities.)
Safe Search For Kids
(Google's Search site for kids)
Factmonster Encyclopedia Search
Factmonster.com's Encyclopedia Search provides access to articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition.
Looking for copyright free public domain images you can use in your classwork and/or digital presentations?
Go to one of the sites below:
Free Image Websites
Google Images Advanced Search - https://www.google.com/advanced_image_search
After you put in a search term - make sure to select "free to use or share" from the usage rights pop-up menu near the bottom
Unsplash - https://unsplash.com
Pexels - https://www.pexels.com
Stockio - https://www.stockio.com
Reshot - https://www.reshot.com
PikWizard - https://pikwizard.com
Pixabay - https://pixabay.com
Morguefile - https://morguefile.com
Openclipart - https://openclipart.org
Photos for Class - http://www.photosforclass.com
Pics4Learning - http://www.pics4learning.com
Flickr Advanced Search - http://flickr.com/search/advanced
Wikimedia Commons - https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page
The following sites may require passwords students received in school to use at home.
Trueflix is a great nonfiction resource. In each category, there are digital books, brief intro videos, project ideas, "show what you know," links to other websites, and more. This is a great - jump in and explore - website! If you are accessing this site at home, you will need to remember the username and password shared with you in school.
SIRS Discoverer offers a database of easily retrievable full-text articles, often with accompanying graphics, with full printing and saving capabilities. The full-text article's database consists of articles reprinted with permission, from approximately 1,600 newspapers, magazines and U.S. government documents. Other features include: The World Almanac for Kids, Compton's Encyclopedia, and a Spotlight of the Month.
World Book Online Reference Center is an excellent source of reliable, easy to understand information for students. World Book Online offers all the features of the print encyclopedia plus links to maps, web sites, and other print articles.
CultureGrams offers concise, reliable, and up-to-date country reports on 190 cultures of the world. It goes beyond mere facts and figures to deliver an insider's perspective on daily life and culture, including the history, customs, and lifestyles of the world's people.