6-8 Links

Encyclopedia Britannica is an electronic database with general knowledge on a range of topics.

Research IT CT provides free online resources, including ebooks, newspapers, magazines and much more.

The New Haven Free Public Library provides free resources, and links to anything you can imagine!

Research in Context Middle School is a database created specifically for middle school students with age-appropriate videos, newspapers, magazines, primary sources, and much more. Categories include cultures, government, people, U.S. and world history, literature, and many more.

Opposing Viewpoints is a cross-curricular resource that supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes. Informed, differing views help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions.

Sweet Search searches only the 35,000 Web sites that its staff of research experts, librarians, and teachers have evaluated and approved.

Kidtopia is a Google custom student safe search engine for preschool and elementary students, indexing only educator approved web sites.

Pics4Learning is an image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and illustrations for classroom projects, web sites, videos, portfolios, or any other projects in an educational setting.

KidzSearch is a family-friendly safe search engine for kids. Image results returned are the same ones you get using Google, but without all the harmful content

Refdesk is a free and family friendly web site indexing and reviewing quality, credible, and current Internet reference resources.