Britannica Online: general information, pictures, videos--a great place to start!
Gale Group/Cengage : journals, magazines, news, books, National Geographic for Kids and more
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: 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 secondary students in their core subjects.
General:
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
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://www.whitehouse.gov/
The World Factbook - CIA (Grades 6-12) https://www.cia.gov/index.html
Handbook of Texas Online (Grades 4-12) https://www.tshaonline.org/home/
Secondary Math
Virtual Nerd- https://virtualnerd.com/
Khanacademy- https://www.khanacademy.org/
Math- http://www.math.com/
GCF Learn- https://edu.gcfglobal.org/en/
Infotopia- Infotopia(math tab)
Chili math- https://www.chilimath.com/