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Curriculum Materials Center

K-12 Online Full Text Databases

Brittannica Online Academic Edition
The standard encyclopedia with added features, such as "biography of the day," "this day in history" and more.

Brittannica Online Library Kids Edition
Access to Compton's Encyclopedia, and elementary encyclopedia, dictionary, world atlas, timelines, biographies, video clips, and more.

Children's Magazine Guide
Provides fast access to a wealth of annotated citations of recent articles (fiction and nonfiction) from more than 65 magazines for children and teenagers.  Recommended websites are also included.

Discovering Collection
Use this comprehensive database to retrieve in-depth reference content for the core curriculum areas of Literature, History, Biographies, Science, and Social Studies.  Includes multimedia.


EBSCO Animals

Provides elementary age students entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, fish, and prehistoric animals.


Funk & Wagnall's New World Encyclopedia

Multidisciplinary encyclopedia with more than 25,000 articles on a wide variety of topics.

 

Health Source - Consumer Edition (EBSCO)

Provides access to consumer health magazines, health related pamphlets, and health reference books.


Horn Book Guide Online
Provides short reviews of virtually every hardcover book for young people published in the United States since 1989.  The reviews include strengths and weaknesses for each title, as well as a rating from 1 (outstanding) to 6 (unacceptable).  Search by author, illustrator, title, subject, publication date, rating, etc. 

Junior Reference Collection
Covers science, biographies, authors, multicultural topics, and people and places.  Includes timelines.

Kids InfoBits
Kids InfoBits meets the research needs of students in kindergarten through grade 5.  It features a developmentally appropriate, visually graphic interface, a subject-based topic tree search and full-text, age-appropriate, curriculum-related magazine, newspaper and reference content for information on current events, the arts, government, health, history, people, science, sports and more.

Kraus Curriculum Development Library, Electronic Edition
A searchable collection of nearly 5,000 curriculum guides, including frameworks, objectives, teaching units, lesson plans, etc.  covers early childhood through adult basic education.


MAS Ultra - School Edition (EBSCO)

Provides full text and abstracts from over 460 periodicals covering general reference, health, science, and other areas.  Also includes charts, tables, graphs, American history documents and more.


Middle Search Plus (EBSCO)

Designed specifically for middle school students, with full text for more than 140 middle school magazines.  Also includes primary source documents, biographies, an image collection, and more.


Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)

A virtual library of resources to aid high school and college students in the study of today's hottest social issues.


Oxford Reference Online Premium

Reference works for college and high school students on a wide variety of subjects.