Storyline Online: www.storylineonline.net/

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

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

TeachingBooks.net

Learn 360 videos

Ebsco eBooks

If you use Destiny Discover and are logged in with your Spring ISD username and password, you won't need to remember any other logins. The databases are integrated into Destiny Discover. (See Destiny Search in the Resources tab above for more help.)

Get Your Public Library Card here for more databases to use for assignments!

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

        • Images

          • New Old Stock Photos - vintage images for history, sports, and science. See WWII and NASA images.

          • Unsplash - a favorite site

          • Photos for Class - free with the Creative Commons license and citation tool.

          • PxHere

          • Google Advanced Image Search - User friendly with lots of options

• Science:

  • • • • Engineer Girl (and high school?)

        • Energy Kids - US Energy Information Administration

        • NASA.gov

        • https://www.si.edu/explore/science Smithsonian Science

        • NOAA WEATHER

• Social Studies

• • • • Kids.gov (Grades K-8) https://kids.usa.gov

      • Tween Tribune (Grades K-12 With Spanish) https://www.tweentribune.com

      • Digital History http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu

      • Student Interactives (Grades 3-6) http://www.uen.org

      • 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.orgAnima

      • Animated map of European History: http://www.visualcapitalist.com/2400-years-of-european-history/

• Secondary Math

• • • • Virtual Nerd- https://virtualnerd.com

      • Khanacademy- https://www.khanacademy.org

      • Math- https://math.com

      • Prodigy games- https://prodigygame.com (through 8th grade)

      • GCF Learn- https://gcflearnfree.org

      • Infotopia- https://infotopia.info (math tab)

      • Chili math- https://chilimath.com