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eBooks
Ancient Civilizations, Spotlight on New York, Westward Expansion, Character Traits and CyberSmarts for Teens
100's of nonfiction topics including animals, biographies, armed forces, science, environment, history, sports, mythology and classic literature.
Enrich your reading experience of children's and young adult books with original and curated literary resources that bring books to life.
Streaming Video & Gaming eResources to Support Teaching & Learning
BrainPOP
Watch, listen, research, annotate, and organize information
Legends of Learning
Math games to "gamify" your lessons
Quality, vetted, educational video resources with the ability to select and assign through google classroom. The four most popular sites below are included in mediaCONNECT but may be accessed directly as well.
100's of movies for teaching and learning. Teachers click here for login directions.
Ready to go resources & teaching strategies to enhance classroom and virtual learning K-12.
2-10 min videos of news segments to support education. Great for teacher lessons or student research!
Click on the logo above. Just as the name implies, NewsBank offers a robust collection of news spanning historic to present day; local to international
Britannica eResources and Graphic Organizers
Elementary, middle, and high school leveled sources to support differentiated learners build background knowledge and dig deeper into multiple sources. Includes articles, images, maps, images, videos and curated websites to round out your research strategy.
An image is worth 1,000 words...or something like that. Choose from 1,000's of professional images to enhance your presentation. Subscription pays for usage rights and citation tool included. BAM!
Access ID: ocmboces Passcode: ocmboces
Social Studies & Science LaunchPacks consists of curriculum-aligned, content sets with differentiation tools for students, and custom design sets as a teacher: see video tutorial ->
3rd - 5th Grade
For 3rd-5th graders, this online encyclopedia presents information in a child-friendly manner, including videos, activities, read-aloud and translation features. Lexile reading levels are included.
2nd- 6th Grade
90+ lessons with experiments and assessments to gauge students’ capabilities across two reading levels to empowers students to take control of their own learning process.
2nd-5th Grade
This resource is the Spanish-language version of the World Book Encyclopedia, providing the same quality information to Spanish-speaking learners. Grades 2-6.
3rd-6th Grade
This resource highlights the daily lives and contributions of the major world native civilizations.
K-5th Grade
This educational resource is for Kindergarten through Grade 5. It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content.
3rd-6th Grade
100+ textbook aligned lessons to social studies instruction, activities and varied reading levels for differentiation.
5th-8th Grade
World Book Student connects students with a variety of multimedia, interactive maps, biographies and articles, while providing tools to teachers to support an inquiry-driven or flipped classroom curriculum with assessments.
7th-12th Grade
For advanced secondary and college students, this is a reference tool that includes full encyclopedic and multimedia databases supplemented with online books, primary sources, website links and more. Optimized for tablets.
7th-12th ELLs
Higher level concepts at manageable reading levels, World Book Discover engages with easy-to-understand content, interactive multimedia and text-to-speech. Includes activities aimed at teaching life skills.
6th - 12th Grade
Students and researchers can browse existing timelines in a variety of subjects or create custom timelines using articles from the World Book encyclopedia to visualize the cause and effect relationship between events.
NOVELNY eResources
The following GALE products are provided to all residents of NYS and automatically authenticate based on your location (IP address). Click the above NOVELNY icon to see all resources provided through our NYS contract.
Includes over 550 magazines with an average 415-770 lexile range . Also includes Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary, maps, flags, seals, charts and graphs.
Gale In Context contains magazines, newspapers, primary sources and videos for students in 6th-8th.
A range of perspectives on important issues, with over 21,000 pro/con viewpoints. Includes a variety of resource types: reference, news, primary sources, multimedia and more for students in 7th-12th grade.
Academic articles specific to physical therapy
This full-text newspaper database has several New York Newspapers including the New York Times from 1995 on, and over 1,000 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers.
A subset of Gale OneFile: News, this database includes articles from newspapers from around New York State including: Glens Falls Post-Star, New York Times, New York Post, Buffalo News, and Newsday.
Full text of nursing and allied health journals, plus a variety of personal health information sources.
Provides access to full text articles documenting research from pre-school to college and most specialized disciplines in the field of education.
Educator's Tutorials
Google Advanced Search
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Google Image Search
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