Britannica Online: general information, pictures, videos--a great place to start!

Gale Group/Cengage : journals, magazines, news, books, National Geographic for Kids and more

American West

American Indians.

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We can also recommend some online databases that are free.

• Wikipedia: Is now considered a valuable source!
• Digital Public Library at : offers links to sites on various subjects
• Research Methodology
  • Big6 (trademarked) : help for research methods
  • EasyBib for easy creation of Bibliographies or Works Cited pages:
  • Plagiarism: help to avoid accidental cheating

The librarians recommend these sites for middle school students in their core subjects.

• General:
  • Games: https://www.learn4good.com/games/scienceforkids.htm
• Science:
  • https://www.si.edu/explore/science Smithsonian Science
  • As Many Exceptions As Rules tells the stories of organisms that break biological rules or norms in order to survive and thrive. Through these stories, the core concepts of the science are reinforced.
  • Zooniverse: crowd-sourced science experiments and identification
  • Library resources: https://www.nih.gov/research-training/library-resources
  • Science videos http://symphonyofscience.com/ Symphony of Science
  • UK Ed Chat https://ukedchat.com/ictmagic/science/
  • NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at the California Institute of Technology (CalTech) activity site: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/edu/learn/
  • NOAA WEATHER http://www.noaa.gov/weather
• Social Studies
  • Tween Tribune (Grades K-12 With Spanish) https://www.tweentribune.com
  • Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu
  • White House (Grades 6-12) https://whitehouse.gov
  • The World Factbook - CIA (Grades 6-12) https://www.cia.gov
  • Handbook of Texas Online (Grades 4-12) https://tshaonline.org
• Secondary Math
  • Virtual Nerd - https://virtualnerd.com
  • Khanacademy - https://www.khanacademy.org
  • Math - https://math.com
  • GCF Learn - https://gcflearnfree.org
  • Infotopia - https://infotopia.info (math tab)
  • Chili math - https://chilimath.com