Big Timber Media

Nonfiction eBooks in French and English with a focus on Science and Social Studies.

Britannica Image Quest

Features millions of images and video clips for all curriculum areas. Project ideas.

Britannica School

Includes thousands of curriculum-aligned encyclopedia articles, as well as educational videos, images, magazines and journals, learning games, and more available in three levels—Elementary, Middle, and High. Updated monthly. 

Canadian Encyclopedia

Includes over 19,500 bilingual articles on Canada’s history, people, and stories. Includes interactive timelines and images. 

Capstone Interactive

A collection of fiction and nonfiction read-aloud eBooks for reading engagement at a range of levels.  

CBC Curio

Streaming educational video and audio from CBC and Radio-Canada for K-12. Canadian curriculum, critical thinking, current events and student engagement.

Destiny Discover

Fiction & nonfiction eBooks for reading engagement at a range of levels. Includes read alouds, annotation tool & downloadable content.

EBSCO Resources

Advanced Placement Source: An online collection of journals, magazines, and images for academic research designed to meet the needs of high school students enrolled in various Advanced Placement (AP) or International Baccalaureate (IB) courses. 

Explora K-6: Over 180,000 full-text articles from popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and over 1.8 million images on a wide variety of topics for elementary student inquiry. 

Explora 7-12: Searches Canadian Literary Centre, Canadian Points of View, Canadian Reference Centre, History Reference Center, Science Reference Center, and other EBSCO databases for 7-12 research and inquiry. 

Canadian Reference Centre: Includes leading Canadian periodicals and international periodicals in full text, full-text reference books, thousands of full-text biographies, and an image collection containing thousands of photos, maps and flags. The collection includes images from Canadian Press. 

Canadian Literary Centre: With a deliberate Canadian focus, this database consists of book and reference content from Essays on Canadian Writing Press (ECW Press). ECW Press also provides several individual monographs, author biographies, essays, literary criticism and book reviews. 

Canadian Points of View: Containing resources that present multiple sides of a current issue — including information on key topics of interest to Canadian researchers — this database helps students develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understand controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.

History Reference Center: Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents. 

Science Reference Center: Full text resources from hundreds of science magazines, journals, encyclopedias, reference books and a vast collection of images.

Literary Reference Center: Full-text resources for information on thousands of authors and their works across literary disciplines and timeframes. Gives students, teachers and librarians a complete foundation of literary reference works to meet their research needs.

Gale eBooks

Reference eBook collection supporting secondary science, social sciences and humanities curriculum.

Gale in Context: Global Issues
Articles, biographies, images, videos, and more to support global awareness, inquiry, and critical thinking, including 250 different country topic pages and over 400 pages on specific issues for searching or browsing.

ON-CORE

Fully bilingual streaming platform with thousands of full-length video programs, documentaries, feature films, short edu-clips and podcasts. 

ProQuest CultureGrams

Provides primary source and cultural information about Canadian provinces and territories, as well as countries around the world. Includes statistics, interviews, images, national anthems, recipes, infographics, and maps. 

ProQuest eBook Central

A collection of eBooks in English and French. Picture books, chapter books, fiction and nonfiction at a range of levels.

PebbleGo

Articles on animals, science and social studies topics for beginning inquiry and reading engagement with vocabulary support and read-aloud features. Includes “Read More” tab with access to eBooks. 

PebbleGo Next

A variety of science topics for inquiry and reading engagement with vocabulary support and read-aloud features.  

Tumble Book Library

Animated, read-aloud picture books, novels, graphic novels and nonfiction for reading engagement at a range of levels. Includes Canadian content and French language titles. 

Teen Book Cloud

eBooks include graphic novels, intermediate chapter books, young adult novels, nonfiction, and audiobooks; many titles with read-aloud for reading engagement at a range of levels.  

4Canoes

Features books and magazines focused on Indigenous perspectives. Each magazine edition features a different Nation. 

National Film Board

Streaming videos on issues of global importance from a Canadian perspective including documentaries, animations, experimental films, fiction and interactive works for K-12 Canadian curriculum, critical thinking, and student engagement. 

NoveList

NoveList K-8: Created specifically for kids and the adults who work with them, this online database encourages reading success. Kids can use it to find books that are just right for their reading level and interests. Parents, teachers, and librarians can also use it to find tools to teach with books and engage young readers. 

NoveList: A collection of information about books for reading suggestions helping readers of all ages find just the right book to read, includes expert recommendations, reviews, articles, lists and more. 

Teen Health & Wellness

Nonjudgmental, straightforward articles for 7-12 students on a variety of health & well-being topics. All content is reviewed by professionals in the relevant field. 

TVO in the Classroom

Streaming videos, articles, and games to support Ontario K-12 curriculum.

Universalis

An extensive French-language reference resource with over 38,000 articles featuring bibliographies, maps, timelines, integrated dictionary, images, videos, and primary sources.

Universalis Junior

A French-language reference resource designed for students with over 4,000 articles (including 1,800 articles in French and English for bilingual education) featuring maps, integrated dictionary, animations, charts, images, and videos.