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ABC CLIO Social Studies Databases
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Comprehensive, current, authoritative, accessible, and aligned, this masterful collection of social studies resources develops students' historical understanding, information literacy, and critical thinking skills.
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AccuWeather
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A subscription-based electronic service that provides access to unique hour-by-hour forecasts, extending 360 hours (15 days) for all international locations.Provided by Gifted and Talented Department as it is now a resource included in the AP Photo Archives package. |
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AP Photo Archives
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A subscription-based electronic library containing the AP's current photos and a selection of pictures from their 50 million image print and negative library. |
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CultureGrams
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CultureGrams – Access information on countries and states that go beyond mere facts and figures and deliver a one-of-a-kind perspective on daily life and culture. |
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Discovery Education Streaming
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Discovery Education Streaming is a digital video-on-demand service brought to you by Discovery Education. It is the largest and most current K-12 standards-based digital video/video clip library available today. Please contact your school librarian for the sign-up code to create your own account. |
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eBooks
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NetLibrary offers libraries around the world the most comprehensive collection of electronic books, or eBooks, available. |
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EBSCOhost
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Electronically research any topic with magazines, newspapers, reference books, media transcripts and more.
Elementary students, select Kids Search. High school students should click on Student Research Center.
Full text articles can be printed or emailed. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica
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Britannica Online School Edition includes the following: Britannica Elementary Encyclopedia, Compton's Encyclopedia by Britannica, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. Britannica includes over 34,000 images; over 3,300 video and media pieces; a dictionary with audio pronunciations; and over 500 student learning materials and teacher resources for all levels. |
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Encyclopedia Britannica's Spanish Reference Center
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This site offers resources in Spanish for all ages in two unique interfaces, each with its own comprehensive encyclopedia: Planeta Saber for high school ages and up and Enciclopedia Juvenil for ages 6-12. |
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Houston Chronicle On-Line
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Chron.com, the website of the Houston Chronicle, offers up-to-the-minute breaking news and exclusive online content, including coverage in Spanish. |
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Maps 101
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Maps101 provides users with a collection of over 4,000 online resources and maps, which are optimized for printing and immediate classroom use.
Features include historical map collections, outline map sets, reference atlases, lesson plans, current events, games and skill builders for students, plus thousands of user-friendly maps, and other classroom resources. |
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netTrekker
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netTrekker enhances teaching and learning by providing fast and easy access to more than 180,000 high quality, pre-screened, and educationally relevant K-12 online resources. These online resources also align with TEKS and can be used in the classroom to stimulate instruction and learning. netTrekker fuses technology, state standards, curriculum, and the Internet into one unique online solution! |
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Prentice Hall
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Pearson Prentice Hall—along with Pearson Scott Foresman, Pearson AGS Globe, Pearson Learning Group, and Pearson Digital Learning—are now the Curriculum group of Pearson. |
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SF Social Studies
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A great resource for social studies, Scott Foresman Social Studies provides
access to wonderful activities that include a Social Studies Library, Current
Events, Atlas, This Day in History, Meet the People, and many activities. |
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Teachingbooks.net
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A time-saving portal to thousands of online resources you can use to explore children's and young adult books and their authors. Get search results filled with online teaching / learning resources about an author or specific book. |
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Track
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In TRACK you’ll find diagnostics to measure understanding of the objectives tested on the 11th grade exit-level test, and a library of learning tutorials to help you better understand those objectives. |
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TumbleBook Library
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The TumbleBookLibrary is a collection of TumbleBooks (animated, talking picture books) TumblePuzzles, and TumbleQuizzes, as well as TumbleResources for teachers. TumbleBooks are created from existing picture books which we have licensed from children's book publishers and converted to the TumbleBook format. |
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