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Click on the logos below to link to the best online resources for students at HMS. Stop in the library for the passwords to these incredible student research tools! Watch this VIDEO on how to use each of them.
Click on the logos below to link to the best online resources for students at HMS. Stop in the library for the passwords to these incredible student research tools! Watch this VIDEO on how to use each of them.
World Book Online resources are available anytime, anywhere—at school and at home. World Book has been the trusted encyclopedia of school and public libraries for decades. World Book Online contains thousands of informational articles with stunning illustrations, videos, interactive maps, research help, and activities.
Since 1917, World Book, Inc., has set the standard for providing accuracy, objectivity, and reliability in research materials for both children and adults. Based in Chicago, Illinois, World Book is an industry leader in the production of award-winning encyclopedias, reference sources, and digital products for the home and schools.
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Providing credible, accurate, reliable content on almost every core-curricula subject, Scholastic GO!® offers endless resources for research in a multitude of media. Explore nonfiction texts, world newspapers, videos and more with this easy-to-navigate digital resource designed to strengthen content knowledge, vocabulary, and core proficiency skills.
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Student researchers can search or browse the vast selection of textual information as well as make use of other helpful features, such as printable full-color and outline illustrations and maps.
HMS subscribes to Factcite Science & Technology, American History, World Mythology and Countries & Cultures
FactCite content is updated regularly and is written to motivate all readers.
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Britannica School is the go-to site for learning more about any subject—for all grades and all reading abilities—offering thousands of up-to-date, curated, and curriculum-relevant articles, images, videos, audio clips, primary sources, maps, research tools, recommended Web sites, and three separate databases—Elementary, Middle, or High.
• Built-in support for differentiated learning allows students to change reading levels with one simple click.
• Read-aloud, a font size adjuster, and built-in translation tools support students with special needs and ELLs.
• Accurate, up-to-date non-fiction content aligned to the next generation science, common core, and state curriculum standards.
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Gale develops essential, curriculum-aligned content that empowers educators to solve curriculum challenges, keep students engaged in learning, and help schools curate a virtual eBook library. Today, this includes supporting distance and social and emotional learning (SEL) as well as equity and inclusion goals.
Provided by the New York State Library, NOVELny is an online virtual library connecting New Yorkers to 21st century information via libraries and library systems statewide. NOVELny is an electronic resource access project that enables libraries across New York State to give their communities online access to the full text of thousands of journals, newspapers and other references.
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