Canadian Encyclopedia

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

CBC Curio

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

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Center: Covering both U.S. and world history topics, History Reference Center is a full-text database featuring historical reference books, magazines, journals and thousands of primary source documents.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

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.